The District
MA-06 is the entire American story compressed into Essex County.
In a single 532-square-mile arc of Massachusetts coast it holds a 17th-century fishing port, a 19th-century jet engine plant still building engines today, the largest Cambodian American community in the Northeast outside Lowell, the witch tourist capital of the world, the most exclusive prep school in the country, and the largest contiguous salt marsh in New England.
All of it is now sliding into the warming Gulf of Maine. It is Marblehead's million-dollar harbors fifteen miles from Lynn's triple-deckers, where the median household income is less than half. It is Phillips Andover's cupola seen from a Vietnamese refugee's kitchen window. It is the entire American story compressed into one congressional district.
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New · America 250
See how this district helped shape the country.
Interactive map of MA-06 covering 250 years of sourced history. The Marblehead Regiment, the Bread and Roses Strike, Garrison's Newburyport, Lynn's first jet engine. Every claim cited.
Open the experienceThe town with Phillips Andover's cupola, a refugee's window, and Tram's front door.
Andover holds one of the strongest public school systems in the state, the most exclusive prep school in the country, multiple pharma anchors, and a high concentration of community leaders. It is also where Tram lives.
Her FY25 State House budget cycle landed real money in Andover: a $50,000 Memorial Hall Library cupola design grant, the Andover Historical Society earmark, the Lovely Memorial Field accessibility funding. Four days after a fatal Route 125 crash on October 4, 2025, she co-signed a letter to MassDOT demanding a Wildwood Road traffic light.
The Vietnam War Memorial. Six servicemen the town lost. A $65,000 state grant.
Tram secured a $65,000 state grant for a memorial in North Andover honoring six servicemen the town lost in the Vietnam War. She spoke at the unveiling.
The connection is not abstract. Her father and her uncle served in that war alongside U.S. soldiers. Her father survived eight years in a Vietnamese re-education camp. Her family came to Massachusetts as political refugees.
“My father and my uncle served in the Vietnam War alongside U.S. soldiers, so this particularly means a lot to me, as someone who came here as a political refugee.”
On the picket line with the State Hospital nurses, with $815K of receipts.
After a patient stabbing at Tewksbury State Hospital, MNA and SEIU nurses picketed the public library on May 13, 2024. Tram joined the line.
The picket pairs with her receipts: an $815,000 FY24 budget package she secured for Tewksbury covering mental health, sidewalks, hospital transport, and first-responder wellness, plus a $100,000 appropriation in 2021 for hospital transport and beds. In March 2025 she set up a folding table at the senior center for walk-in office hours days before a town election.
The largest city in MA-06. Where the first U.S. jet engine was built. Where the new generation of refugees is now.
Lynn is the largest city in the district and its working-family center of gravity. The first U.S. jet engine was built at the GE plant here in 1942. Today 2,500 union workers, Cambodian, Salvadoran, Haitian, Dominican, Irish, Italian, still build them.
Lynn holds the largest Cambodian American community in the Northeast outside Lowell and a deep Vietnamese American community. Lynn City Councilor At-Large Hong Net is one of Tram's earliest local endorsers. The Vietnamese and Khmer-language outreach operation runs from here.
One million tourists, one in five residents Latinx, three city councillors and six school committee members on Tram's side.
Salem ran one of the most consequential trading economies in early America and now runs one of the most consequential civic cultures in MA. One million tourists pour in every October. One in five year-round residents is Latinx, most of them Dominican.
Three sitting Salem city councilors (Holappa, Hapworth, Varela) and six members of the Salem School Committee have publicly endorsed Tram. The North Shore small-business coalition is anchored here.
A Federalist brick downtown rescued from federal demolition by a single 1970s vote, now wrestling with its EMTs.
Newburyport saved its Federalist brick downtown from federal urban-renewal demolition by a single vote in the 1970s. That downtown is now one of the most photogenic in New England.
It is also one of the most expensive. The town now wrestles openly with whether the people who staff its EMS, fire, and schools can afford to live in it. Two sitting Newburyport city councilors (Hall, Callahan) have endorsed Tram.
The oldest working seaport in America, and a fleet competing with a sea heating faster than almost any body of water on Earth.
Gloucester is the oldest working seaport in the United States. The Crow's Nest is still pouring beers a block from State Fish Pier. The fleet that survived the Perfect Storm now competes with federal closures driven by a Gulf of Maine warming faster than almost any body of water on Earth.
Climate is not abstract here. Federal fisheries policy, coastal infrastructure investment, and grid-scale energy decisions all collide on the same docks. They need someone who chairs the Climate Action and Sustainability committee back home.
The largest contiguous salt marsh in New England, already losing.
From Ipswich and Essex through Rowley and Newbury and into Newburyport and Salisbury runs the Great Marsh, the largest contiguous salt marsh in New England. It is the climate frontline of the district.
Mass.gov data says climate change has already vaporized $200,000 to $300,000 of value from every coastal home in places like Salisbury Beach. The fishing economy, the tourism economy, and the coastal real-estate economy all sit on the same eroding shoreline. MA-06 has more saltwater coastline than almost any other district in the United States.
Massachusetts has the densest concentration of climate, energy, and clean-tech talent in the world. The buildout is the largest economic project of our generation. We should be running it.
Town profiles
Where the campaign actually shows up.
Click any town for the long profile. Tram has spent years showing up in these places, and the campaign is anchored in the same ones.
The geography test
A representative should live in the district they represent.
Public FEC filings show where every campaign’s donor base actually lives. Tram’s coalition is concentrated inside MA-06. Her opponent’s is overwhelmingly out-of-district, with a substantial Washington, D.C. metro cluster.
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32 cities and towns
Andover, North Andover, Tewksbury, Lynn, Salem, Beverly, Peabody, Danvers, Gloucester, Marblehead, Swampscott, Saugus, Lynnfield, Wakefield, Reading, Stoneham, Melrose, Boxford, Topsfield, Middleton, Hamilton, Wenham, Ipswich, Essex, Rowley, Newbury, Newburyport, Amesbury, Salisbury, Merrimac, Manchester-by-the-Sea, Rockport.
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