Candidate · November 3, 2026

Dan Koh

On the ballot for U.S. House · Massachusetts's 6th District

DemocraticOpen seat
raised through Oct 14, 2026
$5.4M
cash on hand
$1.1M
issues with public statements
23
outside spending for or against
$1.8M

§1On the ballot

Why this matters: This is exactly how the candidate appears on your ballot, from the state's official candidate list.

OfficeU.S. House · Massachusetts's 6th District1,2
Party on the ballotDemocratic1,2
StatusOpen seat — no incumbent is running for this seat.
Also on the ballot

§2Who they are

Why this matters: Background and experience help you judge how someone might do the job. These come from public records and the candidate's own materials.

Drafted by AI from the public sources cited. Each sentence links to its source.

His campaign website says he held multiple senior roles in the White House during the Biden-Harris administration and was Chief of Staff to the U.S. Department of Labor.3 It says he was Chief of Staff to Boston Mayor Marty Walsh and served on the Andover Select Board.3 It says he was chief operating officer of the technology company HqO and chief of staff of The Huffington Post Media Group.3 It says he holds a B.A. from Harvard College and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.3

Why they say they're running

His campaign website says he is running to fight back against the Trump administration, defend democracy, protect rights, reduce the cost of living and stand up for families and communities.3

Websites and accounts

§3What they've said on the issues

Why this matters: These are positions the candidate has stated publicly — on their campaign website or in public statements — summarized in plain words with a link to where they said it. Issues they haven't spoken about publicly are left out.

Drafted by AI from the public sources cited. Each sentence links to its source.

Each issue has its own range of views. A position is marked on that range only when the candidate's own statement clearly matches one option; there is no overall left–right score.

Health Care

His campaign website says he supports universal healthcare and a Medicare for All system that enrolls all Americans by default and preserves private insurance if desired.5

His campaign website says the country needs to reinstate the Affordable Care Act subsidies that millions of Americans rely on.5

Economy, Jobs and Trade

His campaign website says that if elected he would be a champion of the PRO Act.6

  1. Make it easier to form a union (for example, the PRO Act)
  2. Keep current rules
  3. Add requirements such as a secret-ballot election before every union is recognized
Marked: the option their statement matches.

Energy and Climate

His campaign website says the country must re-join the Paris Climate Accords.7

  1. Rejoin the Paris Agreement and the UN climate treaty, and set new emissions goals
  2. Join only agreements that bind major emitters, such as China and India, to similar cuts
  3. Stay out of international climate agreements
Marked: the option their statement matches.

His campaign website says he will introduce legislation to reinstate the benefits of the Inflation Reduction Act, including its tax credits for home energy efficiency and electric vehicles.7

  1. End the remaining clean energy credits
  2. Keep the credits as the 2025 law left them
  3. Restore the credits the 2025 law ended or cut back
Marked: the option their statement matches.

Abortion and Reproductive Health

His campaign website says he will support legislation, such as the Women's Health Protection Act, that codifies the abortion protections once enforced by Roe v. Wade, so that people can decide about their bodies no matter what state they live in.8

  1. A national law making abortion legal in every state, at least until viability, as under Roe v. Wade
  2. Leave abortion law to each state
  3. A national law limiting abortion (for example, after 15 weeks of pregnancy)
Marked: the option their statement matches.

His campaign website says he will support legislation that codifies the abortion protections once enforced by Roe v. Wade.8

  1. Legal only to save the pregnant woman's life
  2. Legal only in cases of rape or incest, or to save the woman's life
  3. Legal early in pregnancy only, up to a limit such as 6, 12 or 15 weeks
  4. Legal until about 24 weeks, as under Roe v. Wade, and later to protect the woman's life or health
  5. Legal at every stage, with no limit based on weeks of pregnancy
Marked: the option their statement matches.

Guns

His campaign website says he supports an assault weapons ban.9

  1. Ban the sale of these rifles
  2. Keep sales legal, with added limits such as a minimum buying age of 21
  3. No bans or added limits on these rifles
Marked: the option their statement matches.

His campaign website says he supports universal background checks.9

  1. Require checks for all gun sales, including private sales (with exceptions such as gifts between family members)
  2. Require checks for private sales at gun shows and online, but not other private sales
  3. Keep current law, with checks required only for sales by licensed dealers
Marked: the option their statement matches.

His campaign website says he supports red flag laws.9

  1. Adopt more red flag laws, including a national one
  2. Leave the choice to each state
  3. Repeal existing red flag laws and adopt no new ones
Marked: the option their statement matches.

Family and Social Policy

His campaign website says he supports marriage equality.10

  1. Keep same-sex marriage legal in every state
  2. Let each state decide whether to allow it
  3. Recognize only marriages between one man and one woman
Marked: the option their statement matches.

His campaign website lists a goal of no more than $10 a day for childcare in his plan for North Shore families.11

  1. Make child care free, or cap what families pay at a set share of income (such as 7%), paid for with new public funding
  2. Expand help for lower- and middle-income families through grants and tax credits
  3. Keep current child care funding and tax credits
  4. Lower costs mainly by easing rules on providers, not with new federal spending
Marked: the option their statement matches.

His campaign website says his plan for North Shore families includes a restored Child Tax Credit paid monthly, along with universal school meals.11

Elections and Government Reform

His campaign website says he will vote for the Democracy for All Amendment, which it says would overturn Citizens United, and that he refuses corporate PAC money.12

  1. Limit spending by outside groups, including by amending the Constitution to overturn Citizens United
  2. Keep spending unlimited but require groups to name their major donors
  3. Keep current rules
  4. Raise or remove limits on donations to candidates and parties
Marked: the option their statement matches.

His campaign website says he will vote to ban stock trading in Congress.12

  1. Ban members and their spouses and dependent children from owning or trading individual stocks
  2. Ban members themselves from trading individual stocks
  3. No ban; keep the reporting rules, with stronger penalties for late reports
Marked: the option their statement matches.

His campaign website says he is in favor of the Freedom to Vote Act, which it describes as including a mandate for mail-in ballots in every state, expanded early voting and automatic, same-day and online voter registration.12

Immigration

His campaign website lists abolishing what it calls Trump's ICE among his top priorities.13

His campaign website says that at the border he supports hiring immigration judges and asylum officers to process claims humanely and efficiently, and that people should not be deported without due process.14

His campaign website says he strongly opposes attacks on legal pathways to citizenship and supports expanding new avenues for immigration.14

Crime, Policing and Prisons

His campaign website's Racial Justice page says President Trump is using federal power to target people of color, and names the deployment of the National Guard, along with what it calls unlawful ICE operations, among the most visible abuses.15

Infrastructure and Transportation

His campaign website says the country must keep investing in public transportation and that he strongly opposes efforts to cut mass transit funding from the Highway Trust Fund.16

Housing

His campaign website says he will support legislation that makes it easier to secure permits to build housing and will advocate for zoning changes that allow smaller, more affordable housing options.17

Courts, Rights and Civil Liberties

His campaign website says he will fight back against what it calls conservative attacks on DEI programs and against efforts to make federal funding depend on policies it calls discriminatory.18

  1. Ban DEI offices, training and hiring goals in government, public colleges and federal contractors
  2. Allow DEI programs, but bar any that favor people by race or sex
  3. Keep DEI programs, and restore those ended in 2025
Marked: the option their statement matches.

§4Money

Why this matters: Campaigns report where their money comes from and how much they have left. Outside groups that spend on their own, without coordinating with the campaign, report that too.

Reported to the Federal Election Commission for the 2025–2026 election cycle, through October 14, 2026.19

Raised$5,383,421
Spent$4,302,770
Cash on hand$1,081,991
Debts owed by the campaign$234,000

Where the money came from

Individual donors$4.9M · 90%
PACs and other political committees$180K · 3%
Political party committees$300 · 0%
The candidate's own money (gifts and loans)$260K · 5%
Transfers from the candidate's other committees$68K · 1%
Other receipts (other loans, refunds, interest)$11K · 0%

Outside spending

Groups spending independently reported $1,760,631 supporting and $69,680 opposing Dan Koh this cycle, primary and general combined, in the 24- and 48-hour reports the law requires for larger expenditures, filed through October 23, 2026.20

Largest independent spenders, as named in their FEC filings.
GroupSupportingOpposing
New Leadership PAC$1,055,319—
THINK BIG$705,313—
Guardrails Alliance—$35,000
UNITED FUTURE PAC—$34,680

Smaller expenditures that appear only on a group's regular monthly or quarterly report aren't in these totals, so the full amounts can be somewhat higher. When a group amends a report, only its latest version is counted.

§5Financial disclosures

Why this matters: Federal candidates and members of Congress must report their assets, income, debts and outside jobs, and members must report stock trades. These filings show possible conflicts of interest.