New Bedford community organizer Craig Swallow is challenging long-time congressman Rep. Bill Keating, D-Mass., he announced Jan. 28, becoming the latest Democrat to launch a 2026 primary campaign against an incumbent in Massachusetts.
Swallow, who was born and raised in New Bedford, Massachusetts, is the co-leader of Indivisible "Do Something" South Coast New England, a grassroots community group. The national Indivisible group has been behind many of the anti-Trump protests over the past year.
Keating has represented Massachusetts’s 9th Congressional District, which encompasses Cape Cod and the Islands, the South Coast and the South Shore, since he was first elected in 2010. Swallow will be his first primary challenger since 2018.
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