Jordan Berg Powers, Jonathan Cohn, and Anna Callahan chat about Massachusetts politics. You’re listening to Incorruptible Massachusetts.  Our goal is to help people understand state politics: investigate why it’s so broken, imagine what we could have here in MA if we fixed it, and report on how you can get involved. In this episode, we talk about how much more we should expect from our veto-proof super majority of Democrats.Check out the video of this episode on YouTube. Sign up to get updates.Many Massachusetts voters don't feel they need to pay attention state politics, thinking that since "Democrats" have veto-proof supermajorities in both the State House and Senate, the progressive policies we all favor are sure to pass. And many say they are fine with having a Republican governor to "balance" this Democratic supermajority legislature. Yet, progressive bills that have overwhelming support among voters die silent deaths behind closed doors in House committees: our overwhelming Democratic supermajorities aren't even progressive majorities.Anna, Jordan, and Jonathan discuss what it'd really mean if Massachusetts actually had veto-proof supermajorities of progressive legislators.

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