New TV Ad: Seth Moulton is “Consistently Wrong for Massachusetts”
July 7, 2026 — Commonwealth Together PAC today released a new TV ad that highlights Senate candidate Seth Moulton’s consistent record of opposing what’s right for Massachusetts.
Titled ‘Consistent,’ the ad highlights three key areas where Seth Moulton’s record is out of touch with Massachusetts values: Medicare for All, taxing billionaires, and opposing ICE.
“One thing about Seth Moulton is consistent: his record of opposing what’s best for the people of Massachusetts. On the most important issues facing working families, like healthcare, economic fairness, and standing up to ICE, Seth Moulton has a consistent record of opposing Massachusetts values,” said George Bachrach, former president of the Environmental League of Massachusetts and senior advisor to the Commonwealth Together PAC backed by unions and environmental leaders. “Time and time again, when it really counts, Seth Moulton has proven that he’d rather chase attention by trashing progressive Democrats as ‘socialists’ than vote with them to deliver the change we need to fix a broken system. Now, private equity and crypto executives from across the country are spending millions to elect Moulton, who’s voted repeatedly to deregulate financial markets and weaken consumer protections. If he gets to the Senate, Moulton will continue to vote with his private equity and crypto donors, even when it’s against Massachusetts values. We just can’t trust Seth Moulton to do what’s right.”
The ad is backed by a statewide broadcast and cable TV media buy that will last for at least two weeks. It’s the third ad in an ongoing multi-million-dollar ad campaign by the Commonwealth Together PAC, which was organized earlier this year to support Senator Ed Markey’s reelection and oppose Seth Moulton’s candidacy. The PAC’s prior ads, titled ‘Run’ and ‘Chameleon’ aired on digital channels, connected television, and social media platforms earlier this year.
The PAC is backed by major labor unions including 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East and the Massachusetts Teachers Association, as well as local environmental leaders and other supporters of Senator Markey’s leadership in the U.S. Senate.
The Commonwealth Together PAC regularly files FEC disclosures showing all money raised and spent. That’s a major contrast to MA Progress Action, the pro-Moulton dark money group that, despite its blatant electioneering, isn't revealing any information about its donors or spending. That means voters don't know how much Seth Moulton's private equity backers are pouring into this race, or who exactly is spending potentially millions of dollars to elect him. Earlier this year, the Campaign Legal Center, the DC-based nonpartisan voting rights & election integrity group, filed an FEC complaint alleging that MA Progress Action is violating federal independent-expenditure reporting requirements and campaign finance laws with its political ad attacking Sen. Ed Markey. And of the $1.295 million in fundraising reported to the FEC to date by the separate pro-Moulton Advance Progress PAC, nearly all comes from private equity donors, with more than half coming from outside of Massachusetts.
The facts:
Seth Moulton opposes Medicare for All. While Ed Markey is an original co-sponsor of the Medicare for All Act introduced in 2017, Seth Moulton opposes Medicare for All and has criticized single-payer healthcare as a “socialized government system” that would be “too far left.” A majority of Democrats in Congress support Medicare for All — but not Seth Moulton.
Seth Moulton trashed Bernie Sanders’ billionaires tax. After Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren first proposed a federal wealth tax on billionaires in 2019, Moulton said they wanted to "punish the rich" and that the proposals were “un-American.” Ed Markey, in contrast, was an original co-sponsor of Warren’s proposal. Now that Moulton is running for Senate, he claims he supports taxing billionaires, but as recently as April 2025, Moulton said that campaigning to tax the rich ‘instigate[d] class warfare” and is “great for Democrats if we want to continue losing.”
Seth Moulton voted with Republicans in Congress to express gratitude to ICE. Months after Donald Trump took office in 2025 and masked, untrained ICE agents began terrorizing communities across the country, Moulton voted with Republicans to express gratitude to ICE for “protecting the homeland,” even though most Democrats voted no. At the time, J Street called the resolution, which also condemned antisemitism, ”exactly the kind of resolution you’d expect when MAGA hardliners hijack concerns about antisemitism to push their longstanding anti-immigrant, anti-democracy agenda.” The full text of the resolution Moulton voted for is available here.
Now that Seth Moulton is running for Senate, he’s vocal about ‘abolishing and prosecuting ICE.” But Moulton was late to that position. In 2018, Ed Markey called for ICE to be “dismantled and reconstructed,” making him one of only three members of the U.S. Senate at the time to support the outright dismantlement of Trump’s ICE. In contrast, Seth Moulton said at the time that he didn’t support “willy-nilly” calls to abolish the agency. Moulton said that ICE “does important work for our country” and that “I don’t think that just going out and defunding them is necessarily the right approach.”
The June 9 vote is not the only time Moulton has voted with Republicans to thank the agents of Trump’s deportation agenda for their work. On July 24, 2019, as Trump’s Border Patrol was being widely criticized for holding unaccompanied children and families in migrant border camps under harsh conditions, Moulton was the only Massachusetts congressperson to vote with Republicans for language ‘commending’ Border Patrol agents.
Seth Moulton has a long history of siding with private equity, banks and crypto companies at the expense of protecting consumers, even when it means splitting with Democrats and the Massachusetts delegation. In 2018 Moulton repeatedly sided with Republicans, the Trump administration and wealthy investors to support a package of legislation easing regulatory oversight of risky investments, voting at least seven times to roll back portions of Dodd-Frank protections that were adopted after the 2008 economic collapse. Moulton was often the only member of the Massachusetts congressional delegation to support these bills.
In December 2025 Moulton voted YES for the INVEST Act of 2025, which stripped protections for small investors and eased regulations on capital fundraising by startups and private equity companies. The Congressional Progressive Caucus, Americans for Financial Reform and unions including NEA, SEIU, UAW, AFL-CIO, AFSCME, AFT and CWA all blasted the bill because it "advances key priorities from Project 2025" by taking away financial information that helps investors understand if an investment is safe. And in 2025, Moulton supported both the Genius Act and the Clarity Act, bills legitimizing and expanding market opportunities for digital currencies without what critics – including Sens. Markey and Warren, labor and consumer groups — consider adequate protections for investors, retirees and the U.S. financial system.
Script:
Say what you want about Seth Moulton…but the man’s consistent.
For years, he’s fought against almost everything we stand for.
Moulton’s against Medicare For All and blasted Elizabeth Warren for supporting it.
He trashed Bernie Sanders’ billionaires tax. Moulton said it unfairly “punishes the rich.”
And just last year Moulton voted with Republicans in Congress to express gratitude for ICE.
Seth Moulton. Consistently wrong for Massachusetts.
The new ad can be viewed at www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmL_a9mNNYE.
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The Commonwealth Together PAC was formed by unions representing more than a quarter million Massachusetts workers, along with environmental and progressive leaders across the state, to support Ed Markey's reelection and ensure that Massachusetts voters understand the clear choice they face this September.