Dr. Lisa Calderón

We Love Denver Celebration: Lisa Calderón Mayoral Campaign Kick Off Party Feb 11 5:30 PM at Su Teatro.

Let's take our city back for working people, families, and small businesses by building a Denver that works for all of us.

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Lisa Calderón for Denver Mayor Everywhere I go, people tell me the same thing — Denver needs leadership that works for all of us. Despite the promises Mike Johnston made to voters, the cost of living keeps rising, our city’s financial challenges continue to worsen, and homelessness has only been pushed out of sight instead of truly addressed. When residents have spoken up, too many have been ignored, and some even retaliated against. Denver deserves better. Many of you have shared your concerns about the direction of our city, and I hear you. Our city’s future is too important to leave unchallenged. I came within 2% of making the runoff in the last mayoral race — running a grassroots campaign powered by people, not billionaires. Together, we proved that a community‑driven movement can compete against massive outside spending. I am proud of the campaign we ran in 2023 and excited to announce that the team is back — along with some new community leaders! All together, we can finish what we started. The final push that brought me into this race was the mayor’s decision to lay off city employees — a move that disproportionately harmed women, older workers, and people of color. As a former city employee myself, I stood with workers and unions to oppose these unprecedented layoffs and helped connect impacted employees with legal support when due process was ignored. Standing up for working people isn’t just a campaign promise for me — it’s who I am. My life’s work has been about empowering people and fighting for a city where everyone can thrive. It’s time to change the face of City Hall — but I can’t do it alone. You can help power this change in two important ways.

Let's finish what we started! We Love Denver — and we’re building a city that loves us back with safety, deeply affordable housing, and good union jobs.

A city that cares for children, protects workers & renters, and invests in safe transit is a city that works for its people.
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Alex Pretti helped "a woman who had just been shoved to the ground for recording police activity. Moments later, he was dead."

His murder by ICE "begins with...the casual erosion of constitutional rights. If we want accountability, we must confront what happened before the trigger was pulled."

Damn proud of Minnesota.

You know Alex Pretti & Renee Good—the 2 white people ICE killed.

ICE has also killed Keith Porter, a Black man, Parady La, a Cambodian man, & 5 Latinos—Heber Sanchaz Domínguez, Victor Manuel Diaz, Luis Beltran Yanez-Cruz, Luis Gustavo Nunez Caceres, and Geraldo Lunas Campos.

9 TOTAL.

ABOLISH ICE.

Traffic deaths surge in Denver It's one of the deadliest years on record for the city's roads.

If Mayor Mike Johnston cared as much about reducing traffic deaths as he does about building stadiums & a DNC convention bid, lives would be saved.

Lane and speed reductions work.

Listen to the community — not billionaires. Reinstate the Alameda plan.

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Denver Auditor: Office of Social Equity and Innovation risks mismanaging, or losing, taxpayer money - NewsBreak Denver’s Office of Social Equity and Innovation has yet to implement half of the 14 recommendations made by auditors in 2024, leaving the city and the Colo

Maybe Denver’s equity office could get into compliance if its leaders stopped discriminating against Latinas, stealing community ideas & retaliating against critics.

Equity isn't targeting women of color who challenge power. Johnston turned this office into a joke
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What Denver Mayor Mike Johnston wants to accomplish in 2026 For the first-term mayor, this year is all about "delivering."

Mayor Johnston promised a vibrant, affordable & safe Denver—but the cost of living outpaces wages. What's “vibrant” for tourists isn't vibrant for residents, including laid-off City workers.

Growth w/o affordability & safety w/o stability = gentrification

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Denver eviction cases hovered near record highs in 2025 Eviction filings were nearly identical to 2024, a record year.

Mayor Johnston says he’s solving homelessness but Denver evictions are still too high.

If he put the same "over my dead body" energy into rent stabilization & lowering costs as he does into stadium deals, more Denverites could actually afford to live here.

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Our trained progressive candidates swept the last election statewide.

Politicians who break their promises, fail to deliver & love billionaires more than working people need to be replaced.

There are about 450 days until Denver's next primary election.
Get ready.

Join us to support Chela Garcia Irlando for SD34! Chela spent her career fighting for Denver working families—leading in Colorado’s nonprofit sector, advocating for economic & social justice, & building people-powered policy solutions.

Hear her vision & help power her campaign.

The City of Denver & the Metro Chamber have similar toxic work cultures:

☑️ Powerful men given top roles
☑️ Women punished for speaking out
 ☑️ Layoffs used to remove critics
☑️ Discrimination ignored
☑️ Sexism defended

Different buildings. Same system.

Encouraging progressives to run against each other to cancel each other out is a tactic used by establishment Dems.

Hickenlooper, Bennett, Polis & Johnston are in the same toxic rich boys club to keep each other in power — & use surrogates to do their dirty deeds. It won't work.

🎉 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!

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Denver mayor declares victory on $950 million Vibrant Denver bond package Denver Mayor Mike Johnston declared victory on all five ballot measures that make up the city’s $950 million Vibrant Denver bond Tuesday night, securing a win in an off-year election.

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.

Who’s funding the effort to change Denver’s at-large elections? They've played a big role in other local elections.

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!

NO on Denver 2G Denver Referred Measure 2G is a half-baked, nonsensical measure that creates far more problems than it solves. 2G is opposed by the Democratic Party of Denver, unions and other progressive groups. It ...

❌ Bad Timing, Bad Priorities:
With Denver facing a budget shortfall, layoffs, and election office cuts, Measure 2G would waste money on unnecessary, costly changes to a system that already works.

Learn more: www.handsoffdenverelections.org

❌ Rushed and Divisive Process:
Measure 2G was pushed through Council without community consultation or expert input, passing by only one vote.

❌ Doubles Big Money Influence:
It would require At-Large candidates to win TWO elections — a general and a runoff — making races more expensive and giving big donors and dark money influence, like the $15 million 2023 mayor’s race.

❌Targeted at Progressives:

Measure 2G is designed to push out progressive At-Large Councilmembers like Serena Gonzales-Gutierrez & Sarah Parady — who are vocal against Flock, and hold Mayor Johnston accountable — and block future grassroots candidates.

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.

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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.

Join us for a town hall to demand: Major Mike Johnston TURN FLOCK CAMERAS OFF! Denver says no to mass surveillance. Community Town Hall 10/22 6:00 pm 2650 E 40th Ave.

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.

"[Lisa Calderón] would like the city to fully staff the jail, expand funding for mental health treatment, reentry programs and homelessness services, and do a better job listening to deputies, inmates and their families about safety and service issues in the jail."

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!

His Cheyenne ancestors were pushed out of Colorado in the 1800s. Now he’s among the leaders of Colorado’s Indigenous land back movement Hundreds of years after most of Colorado’s Indigenous tribes were forcibly removed from the state, a movement emerges to bring them home.

Rick Williams doesn’t just want your land acknowledgement.

Does the AI boom threaten local air quality? A north Denver neighborhood is about to find out A new data center campus is currently under construction in Elyria-Swansea — a neighborhood already struggling with pollution from major highways and Colorado’s only oil and gas refinery.

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