🎉 It’s time to celebrate! Progressives had big wins across Colorado—we beat back dark money, MAGA Republicans and corporate Dems. Join me on 11/12 to celebrate & support CD-1 candidate Melat Kiros, a bold fighter for the people! RSVP: secure.actblue.com/donate/nov12mk

Don't get it twisted. Denver residents voted to pass the bond package not because we like Mayor Mike Johnston, but because we love Denver. Denver voters are generous and want much-needed improvements to our city. It was not his comeback — it was voters cleaning up his mess.

Councilman Kevin Flynn— a sponsor of 2G — said “so what?” to the flood of dark money backing it to defeat progressives in At-Large city council races. Maybe corporate interests, Republicans and One Main Street buying Denver elections isn’t a big deal to him — but it is to voters. Vote NO on 2G!

Vote NO on 2G. It's a costly, unnecessary proposal to push out City Council At Large progressives, doubling campaign costs & dark-money influence. Rushed through City Council by a single vote, 2G would make elections more expensive when Denver is facing budget cuts and layoffs.

Measure 2G = More $$$, Less Fairness 2G would make it harder for grassroots progressives to run for At-Large Denver City Council — and easier for big-money candidates to win. Our elections work. We don’t need more expensive, confusing & corporate races. www.handsoffdenverelections.org

Hundreds in Denver demanded turning off Flock cameras. Takeaways: Mayor Johnston lied. DPD Chief lied. Flock lied. They lied that mass surveillance data was safe from ICE & TX abortion trackers. It wasn't. They lied they had safeguards. They didn't. Our privacy & public trust isn't for sale.

Here's our updated progressive voting guide! Thanks to the Colorado Working Families Party staff and State Committee Members for vetting these issues and candidates.

TONIGHT: Denver residents are uniting to call for real community safety, not more surveillance. Join us at 6PM as we tell Mayor Johnston: End the Flock contract. Listen to the people.

Denver’s jails are in crisis. People are dying—2X as many before the pandemic. Mayor Johnston increased policing to jail more people while cutting crime prevention jobs. Instead of joining DPD to reduce oversight, the Sheriff should fix his own mess.

Join me and Xóchitl 'Sochi' Gaytán - Denver School Board District 2 Director — a proven community grassroots champion for public schools, teachers and students. We must do with people what billionaire-backed candidates do with money. Plus we'll have a lot of fun!

Rick Williams doesn’t just want your land acknowledgement.

The roots of heavy industry stretch back more than a century in Elyria-Swansea.

📣 Tonight: Latino Community Forum on Police Discipline While crime prevention programs are cut, DPD's budget keeps growing—& the Chief is trying to weaken civilian oversight through his new plan. With policing being militarized nationally, now is not the time to go backwards.

Our State Director, @wjhowell.bsky.social's, full statement on the legislative retreat that took place in Vail this past weekend: #copolitics #coleg

Disillusioned with the Democratic Party? You’re not alone. Meet Melat Kiros — daughter of Ethiopian immigrants, attorney, barista, scholar, & unapologetic progressive. She’s taking on a 30-year incumbent to fight for working people in CD1 🗓️ Oct 16 — join us #MelatForCongress

If Mayor Mike Johnston loves AI so much to replace Denver City workers, he should start with himself. 🤖 Here’s a list of things AI would handle better than Johnston:

Join us this Wed 9/24 for my house party for our friend Amie Baca Oehlert, former head of Colorado Education Association & candidate in CD8—one of the most competitive seats in the country! Let's send a teacher & labor leader to Congress to represent working people. RSVP bit.ly/924hp

Mayor Johnston is nominating an unqualified ally to run Denver’s most powerful safety agency with the largest budget. Political cronyism erodes public trust when we need accountability most. We need experienced, accountable leadership that protects our communities, civil liberties & tax dollars.

As the new Co-Chair of the Colorado Working Families Party, I'm excited for our progressive endorsements! These powerhouse candidates made it through our competitive process & represent our values of advancing racial, social, and economic justice through grassroots organizing & electoral action.

Denver City workers are rising up & fighting back! They're filing appeals, speaking out, and organizing after being unjustly targeted in mass layoffs under Mayor Mike Johnston. This is just the beginning—and they’re not alone. We're meeting this week with even more of them. 1/

Not surprised. Colorado’s corporate Dems are boring & out of touch—propped up by billionaires as families face job losses, soaring rents, & rising costs—while remaining silent about genocide in Gaza. We deserve better. We need fighters for working people. 🧵

I'm old enough to remember when Mayor Johnston denied that Flock camera data is accessible to ICE for immigration enforcement purposes, stating the system was not designed to support such activities. Either he was lying or completely clueless about DPD's data security failures.

There's nothing "compassionate or competent" about forcing workers to pay the price for Johnston's overspending & mismanagement. He initially stripped away seniority as a factor in layoffs until unions protested. The mayor's race starts next year. Voters will remember.

Good riddance. A "nice guy" who covered up bad acts by top leaders. With few exceptions, Denver’s safety managers have been products of cronyism and the Peter Principle. The community has always had to fight for input and transparency in mayoral appointments—and we will again.

"Learned hopefulness" is a curious phrase to use when addressing Denver's budget crisis & economic distress. When I worked with domestic violence survivors we used it to explain why abusive relationships persist, believing that things will get better. It's a form of gaslighting.

This press event will address Mayor Johnston's ongoing refusal to turn off mass surveillance Flock cameras and release the audit logs, and his denial that Denver’s Flock data has been misused and shared with ICE and others. It will occur hours before his State of the City event.

I'm proud to endorse @melatkirosco.bsky.social! She's the bold visionary we need in Congress. Rooted in community, she's not beholden to the establishment. She's a fighter for working people. Melat is the future of our movement and our democracy. Launch party RSVP bit.ly/4eRA7h5

Let's do this! It's so refreshing to see the next generation of leadership stepping up. We need a fighter in CD1 who's in touch with the daily economic struggles of working people.

No wonder Denver City workers' morale is so low: they didn't know that Mayor Johnston's overspending on his failed homelessness plan would not only cause many of them to lose their jobs, but potentially face homelessness themselves. Nobody voted for that. bit.ly/44q3vGl

“Mr. Mayor, here comes the union!” ~ Ronnie Houston, ret. Teamster

It's time to give Mayor Mike Johnston his halfway mark scorecard from Denver voters. He got failing grades on my scorecard by breaking campaign promises, including changing the City's toxic culture. Now voters will have their say — and it will be brutal. www.denverpost.com/2025/06/26/d...

1/ If Justice Barrett thinks we need to go back to what the Founding Fathers intended, I’ve got news for her. Their biggest concern was avoiding tyranny. So they created 3 branches of gov’t & divvied up the power the people (that’s us) were allowing the gov’t to use to create order for all of us.

Public land shouldn’t be used to build vanity projects for billionaires — including Gov. Polis and his wealthy friends. The proposed pedestrian bridge is wasteful, unnecessary, and ugly. Join the movement in opposing it: sign @HistoricDenver’s petition bit.ly/4nBJHbV

Establishment Democrats should be terrified. This isn’t just a win for Queens — it’s a signal to working people everywhere. Corporate-backed politics is crumbling because communities are rising up. Denver, we can and must be next. #RiseUpDenver

Zohran Mamdani’s victory proves what we’ve known all along — when we organize, build coalitions, and speak truth to power, we can beat the machine. Denver deserves the same kind of fearless, people-first leadership. #DenverDeservesBetter

Former mayoral candidate Lisa Calderón, who was once employed by the city, said adding years of service as a consideration is not the same as maintaining seniority protections. “What that did was it just galvanized Denver city workers,” she said.

The 2025 CO Legislative Session is over — and Polis’s veto pen was busy. So what’s next for progressives? Join us Sat, June 14, 9:30–11 AM for a convo w/ Reps. Ricks, Joseph & Stewart on what’s next. RSVP calendar.google.com/calendar/eve...

A whistleblower lawsuit has revealed that Gov Polis may have illegally ordered state workers to share the personal data of immigrant children with ICE, in direct violation of CO law. Our union siblings at ColoradoWINS are bravely standing up to expose this betrayal. We’re proud to have their backs.

"...None of us are safe unless all of us are safe." 70+ Jewish and Immigrant Rights Leaders came together across Colorado today to issue this joint statement. View the growing list of signers and add your name here: bit.ly/unitedagains... (1/2)

Megabill would cost poorest households $1,600 a year, boost richest by $12K, according to Congress’ nonpartisan scorekeeper.

NEW FROM CBO: brutal distributional analysis of House GOP "Big Beautiful Bill" On avg the bottom 30% of households get poorer under the GOP bill Avg gets little - and are worse off if you include tariffs This'd be the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single law in history

Tanks in DC Troops in LA. A military parade on his birthday. Trump is done pretending. This is what authoritarianism looks like in America. My latest on why we must speak out now — before silence becomes complicity. adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/authoritar...

If you’re not angry, you’re not paying attention. 🎥: Time, 💬 Greta Thunberg

David Hogg has been forced out of his role as vice chair of the DNC. His departure follows months of intense infighting, and as Hogg told us, anger with his plan to oust what he called "asleep at the wheel" incumbents in primaries around the US. 🎧 Listen to Hogg on More to the Story 🎧

People are just starting to show up for the #NoIce protest at the Denver Capitol!

Good evening! I’m at the capitol for today’s anti-ICE protest. Pretty good crowd, all the usual orgs out tabling.

Look familiar? Denver has paid out nearly $20 million on settlements related to the George Floyd protests since 2020. And that's not counting the appealed $14 million jury verdict award for Epps, et al. v. City and County of Denver, challenging the use of “less lethal” weapons against protesters.

They've come for immigrants. They've come for trans folks. Now they're coming for union leaders. As someone who is two out of three, if you love me, don't look away. And, for the love of god, speak up. Silence is complicity. www.kcra.com/article/seiu... #unionstrong #1u #solidarity #copolitics