Voter Guide
Our endorsements for the candidates and measures on your Boulder ballot.
The 2026 General Election will be held on November 3rd.
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Our Strongest Slate Ever
Boulder Progressives is proud to announce our endorsements for Mayor and Boulder City Council: the strongest slate we've ever supported for a city council election, and one we believe is the strongest the city has seen in recent memory.
For Mayor
Aaron Brockett
Endorsed · Incumbent, Seeking Re-Election
Boulder Progressives is proud to endorse Aaron Brockett for Mayor again! Mayor Brockett's leadership and vision align with our commitment to a more affordable, sustainable, and inclusive Boulder. Aaron is Boulder's first directly elected mayor, capping a decade of service that began on the city's Planning Board and continued through eight years on City Council.
Mayor Brockett has championed climate resilience, housing affordability, and public engagement. He's running for re-election to keep pushing on the city's budget challenges, homelessness, and wildfire resilience, and to build a Boulder that can pass the test of time.
Ranked Choice Voting: Should you choose to rank additional candidates, we encourage you to consider Taishya Adams.
For City Council
Six Outstanding Council Candidates
Boulder Progressives is supporting six excellent candidates, but you can only VOTE FOR FIVE!
They represent a broad spectrum of lived experience and bring an impressive depth of understanding and solutions-driven ideas to the issues facing Boulder today.
Ryan Schuchard
Endorsed
Incumbent, Seeking Re-Election
A climate leader completing his first term on Boulder City Council after two decades advancing climate solutions across the country. Ryan has championed reliable transit, wildfire protection, and workers' wages while serving on the city's Long-Term Financial Strategies committee. A father of two raising his kids in BVSD schools, he brings a hands-on commitment to making Boulder work for families today and generations to come.
Tina Marquis
Endorsed
Incumbent, Seeking Re-Election
Tina has a long history of leadership in Boulder, including eight years on the BVSD Board of Education (six as board president) before her first term on City Council. Her strong commitment to transparency and government accountability is a breath of fresh air. Tina has been a deciding vote on many important progressive issues, and has a long record as a champion of trans rights, women's rights, and the LGBTQIA+ community.
Jamillah Richmond
Endorsed
Jamillah has extensive experience serving on BVSD's District Accountability Committee and executive team, on the City of Boulder's BVCP Community Assembly focused on accessibility, and on several nonprofit boards. She's passionate about education, affordable housing, a more accountable city government, and meaningful community outreach and conversation.
Sam Fuqua
Endorsed
Sam brings decades of Boulder public service: eight years on the BVSD board, two as president; service on the Boulder Library Commission and District Board of Trustees; and over two decades at KGNU Community Radio, from news director to station manager. Affordable housing tops his priorities: it let him raise his kids in Boulder, and he wants today's young families to have that same chance. Sam is committed to a Boulder that works for everyone.
Rachel Rose Isaacson
Endorsed
Rachel is running to become Boulder's first Gen Z City Council member, bringing a fresh voice to the table. A renter and barista at South Side Walnut Café, she is an advocate for workers' rights and renter protection. Rachel's experience navigating tipped wage work, rental housing, and co-op housing, and her understanding of the challenges facing Boulder's young people, would be valuable to our council.
Jill Adler Grano
Endorsed
Jill is Boulder's first-ever openly LGBTQ councilmember. As lead staffer for Congressman Joe Neguse's "Housing Our Communities" legislation, and with years as a residential real estate broker before that, her experience on housing issues makes her an even more insightful leader than before. She's a strong advocate for city policies that put people first and make Boulder more welcoming for everyone.
Help Us Get Them Elected
These seven candidates represent the breadth of progressive politics in Boulder, and bring unmatched experience and knowledge. Boulder Progressives will keep mobilizing volunteers and resources across the city through Election Day.
Statewide & Regional
Vote Democratic, Up and Down the Ballot
Boulder Progressives believes strongly in the importance of voting Democratic up and down the ballot, especially in light of the ever-growing threats facing our immigrant communities, our LGBTQIA+ communities, and our communities of color. We hope you will join us in voting for every Democrat on your ballot.
There are six candidates for state and regional office who we believe are truly progressive champions and forces for good. We are proud to endorse them and to stand with them in this election.
Joe Neguse
US House, District 2
Phil Weiser
Governor of Colorado
Amanda Gonzalez
Colorado Secretary of State
Junie Joseph
Colorado State House, District 10
Molly Fitzpatrick
Boulder County Clerk
Jack Rosenthal
RTD Director, District O
In addition to these six endorsements, Boulder Progressives encourages a vote for every Democrat on your ballot.
Ballot Measure Recommendations
Our positions on the statewide, county, and city measures on your 2026 ballot.
Ballot Measures
Colorado Statewide Ballot Measures
State of Colorado Amendment 81: Law Enforcement Communication with Federal Immigration Authorities
Would turn local police into an arm of federal immigration enforcement, requiring them to report people to federal authorities based on a mere charge, before anyone is convicted of anything. This erodes trust between immigrant communities and local law enforcement and makes everyone less safe.
Click Here for More →State of Colorado Amendment 82: Constitutional Right to Purchase and Sell Natural Gas
Would lock a fossil fuel into Colorado's constitution, making it far harder for the state and local communities to transition to cleaner, more affordable energy and undermining hard-won progress on climate action.
State of Colorado Amendment 83: Constitutional Right to Hunt and Fish
Would enshrine hunting and fishing as the constitutionally preferred method of wildlife management, tying the hands of professional wildlife biologists and making it harder to adapt management practices to protect vulnerable and endangered species in the future.
State of Colorado Amendment 84: Mail Ballot Voter Identification
Would pile a new identification requirement onto mail voting, Colorado's most popular and secure way to cast a ballot, creating fresh opportunities for eligible ballots to be flagged, delayed, or rejected over simple paperwork mismatches.
Click Here for More →State of Colorado Amendment 85: Plain Language Ballot Titles
Would lock rigid, one-size-fits-all language rules into the constitution for something better left to ordinary statute, limiting the legislature's future ability to write clear, accurate ballot titles without a constitutional fix every time.
Click Here for More →State of Colorado Amendment 86: Requirements for Off-Cycle Congressional Redistricting
Would lock new constitutional hurdles into place for any mid-decade congressional map change, requiring independent commission approval, state Supreme Court sign-off, and public hearings. Bankrolled by national Republican money, it would tie Colorado's hands if other states keep redrawing maps mid-decade to pad their own majorities — while doing nothing to stop them.
State of Colorado Amendment 87: Graduated Income Tax
Would replace Colorado's flat income tax with a fairer, graduated structure, so those with greater means contribute a greater share, generating vital new funding for education, health care, and early-childhood programs.
Click Here for More →State of Colorado Proposition NN: Keep and Spend Money for Education and Other Purposes
Would let the state keep and invest revenue that would otherwise go out as small individual TABOR refund checks, directing real, meaningful new dollars into Colorado's K-12 classrooms instead.
State of Colorado Proposition 132: Increase Penalties for Fentanyl Crimes
Would lean on harsher mandatory prison sentences rather than the treatment and public-health investments that are proven more effective at actually reducing overdose deaths and addiction.
Click Here for More →State of Colorado Proposition 133: Penalties for Human Trafficking of a Minor
Would mandate an extreme, one-size-fits-all life-without-parole sentence, stripping judges of the ability to weigh the specific facts of each case.
State of Colorado Proposition 134: Male and Female Participation in School and Collegiate Sports
Would write discrimination against transgender student-athletes into state law, excluding kids from school sports and the community those teams provide.
Click Here for More →State of Colorado Proposition 135: Prohibit Surgery on Minors in Response to Perception of Sex or Gender
Would insert politicians into private medical decisions between families and their doctors, restricting access to care that major medical associations recognize as safe and appropriate for some transgender youth.
Click Here for More →State of Colorado Proposition 136: Income Tax Rate Limit
Would permanently lock in a flat tax rate regardless of future needs, undercutting funding for schools, health care, and other priorities, and stands in direct conflict with the fairer graduated-rate approach in Amendment 87.
Click Here for More →State of Colorado Proposition 137: Direct Sporting Goods Sales Tax Revenue for Conservation
We strongly support wildfire mitigation and conservation, but this measure is poorly written: with no clause limiting it to years above the TABOR cap, it would pull funding straight from the General Fund that otherwise goes to schools, transportation, and health programs.
Click Here for More →Ballot Measures
Boulder County Ballot Measures
Boulder County Ballot Issue 200: County Commission Expansion
Would expand the Board of County Commissioners from three members to five, adding real capacity and representation but also real added cost to a county already cutting its budget and laying off staff — a close call we aren't taking a position on.
Click Here for More →Boulder County Ballot Issue 201: Commission Election Structure (Conditional)
Would decide how an expanded commission gets elected; we support keeping two seats countywide so every voter keeps a say in three commissioners instead of just one, and countywide problems like housing and wildfire prep still get a countywide voice at the table.
Click Here for More →Boulder County 1A: Early Childhood Care and Education Mill Levy Increase
For about $115 a year on a typical Boulder County home, this measure would make child care more affordable for local families, provide additional compensation opportunities for early childhood educators, and open up badly needed capacity to shrink long waitlists.
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City of Boulder Ballot Measures
City of Boulder Issue 2J: Vacancy Excise Tax
Would encourage owners of long-vacant homes to bring them back into use as actual housing for Boulder residents, while generating an estimated $6 million a year to support city services.
Click Here for More →City of Boulder Issue 2K: Recreation and Safety Bond ("Building Boulder Together")
Would finally modernize the aging, essential public infrastructure Boulder residents rely on every day, our recreation centers, fire stations, and 911 dispatch, through a responsible, voter-approved investment.
Click Here for More →City of Boulder Issue 2L: Charter Change for Collective Bargaining for Firefighters
Would guarantee Boulder's firefighters a real voice in decisions about their own safety, wages, and working conditions, bringing the city in line with peer fire departments across Colorado.
City of Boulder Issue 2M: Debt Limit Increase
Would modernize an outdated charter formula so Boulder's borrowing capacity is calculated the same way most other Colorado cities and the state already do, giving the city practical room to invest in the infrastructure residents need.
Ballot Measures
Regional Ballot Measure
Issue 7A: Front Range Passenger Rail District
Would fund a modern passenger rail connection along the Front Range, cutting traffic congestion and emissions and finally giving Coloradans a real alternative to I-25.
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