Together Colorado is a nonpartisan, multi-racial and multi-faith community organization working to place human dignity at the center of public life in Colorado.
Faith drives us to organize for a better world for our children and our children's children. Leaders with Together Colorado organize to create a society where everyone can thrive, without exception.
We desire a world where all people live a life of dignity, one where all people have the freedom, the ability, and the right to flourish physically, emotionally, and spiritually.
We desire a merciful, rehabilitative justice system that maintains the hope and human dignity of every person within it, on all sides of the law.
Our children deserve to learn in an environment that nurtures their growth and wholeness.
We have a moral obligation to provide equal access to affordable health care for all people.
Our various faith traditions compel us to love, care for, and seek justice for the stranger among us.
Did you know that the Colorado Constitution still allows slavery?
Article II, Section 26 states: "There shall never be in this state either slavery or involuntary servitude EXCEPT as a punishment for crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted." - Colorado Constitution, July 1, 1876
We Coloradans have the opportunity to be the 1st state in our nation to remove this deeply offensive language from our Constitution.
Our vote will change our state constitution to say: "There shall never be in this state either slavery or involuntary servitude." PERIOD.
Colorado’s investment in education is lagging behind other states. In the 2017-18 school year alone, Colorado schools were underfunded by nearly $830 million.
When we fail to provide the education people need to grow and thrive, we limit their full human dignity and all of us are harmed.
Payday lenders still trap Coloradans in outrageously high-cost debt. The average interest rate for a payday loan in 2016 was 129%! We cannot allow usury like this to continue.
Proposition 111 would cap the interest rate and fees on payday loans at 36% APR.
Amendments Y and Z create fair and competitive congressional and legislative districts. They will make Colorado a national model for putting effective representation of voters at the forefront of redistricting efforts.
Currently, there are not many competitive districts in Colorado due to gerrymandering. Elected officials who often do not represent the majority of Colorado voters and our values are safe from competition. Amendments Y and Z will transform our political sphere to prioritize the voice of Colorado voters by allowing for more competition between our elected officials.
Somehow I made it this far in life without knowing about Stanislav Petrov, the man who may have saved the world from nuclear annihilation. Petrov was a lieutenant colonel in the Soviet Air Defense Forces in 1983, when he received a warning from the computerized Soviet early warning system of an imminent nuclear attack from […]
