Here's the case for Phil, and we want you to hear it all the way through if you're on the fence as many of our progressive friends are.

#1 Before any policy difference, look at how these two are running their campaigns. That's the clearest tell for what kind of politics they'll promote in office.

Phil has visited every county in Colorado. He's running on individual donors, grassroots organizers, and the painstaking work of asking real people for their votes one at a time. Bennet is meeting with billionaires and corporate executives in back rooms to sell his Senate seat as part of the same deal that buys him the governorship. Even if you can't see a big policy difference between them, ask yourself: do you want to encourage more candidates like Phil who campaign in the open, in front of voters? Or more like Bennet, the definition of making deals in a smoke filled backroom that has been failing working people for forty years?

We know our answer.

#2 Phil will lead an effort to overturn Citizens United. Bennet is the candidate of Citizens United.

As Attorney General, Phil has built his career on the idea that concentrated power, whether a monopoly jacking up grocery prices or an algorithm setting your rent, distorts democracy and squeezes working people. He has gone to court against that concentration and won for workers and the people.

Bennet's super PAC has pulled in over $7 million, more than half of it from billionaires and the dark money groups they fund. Michael Bloomberg alone has dropped $2.5 million into it, plus millions more through his networks. And here's the part that should make every Coloradan furious: Bloomberg isn't just buying Bennet the governor's race. He's buying it as a two-for-one. If Bennet wins, he vacates his Senate seat, and the new governor gets enormous influence over who fills it. Bloomberg writes one set of checks and gets a governor and a Senate seat to shape. Open corruption, in plain sight on our ballot.

#3 Phil has plans and real proof of fighting Trump. Bennet has a barely outlined set of goals and has bent the knee to MAGA.

On housing: modular construction, permitting reform, real numbers on starter homes. We watched both of them on stage at the YIMBY forum. One came with specifics. The other refused to hold up the yes/no paddle on the HOME Act until the crowd booed him into it. On Trump: Phil is the only candidate in this race who has actually fought the Trump administration in court, 65+ times, while Bennet was casting yes votes for the cabinet officials. 

To be clear, we're to Phil's left and we disagree with him on some important things, including the continued funding of Israel. Two things on that. First, the Governor's office has little to do with foreign policy. Second, we deeply appreciated Phil showing up to the Colorado Muslim Vote forum that Michael Bennet skipped, where he took hard questions and demonstrated a real willingness to move on policy. If Phil wins, we'll be one of many voices to his left pushing him to build a Colorado for all of us. 

This is one of the most important races on your ballot. Treat it that way. Don't skip it.

We're going to be honest with you, this race was the one we wrestled with the longest. We've had three of the four candidates on the show. We like three of them as people, so this isn't a hit job. We just want to walk you through how we landed where we did. 

Hetal Doshi (LITA 14) is a serious, accomplished antitrust lawyer who would be an excellent attorney general. She's done real work breaking up monopolies and fighting for the working class. If she wins this, Colorado is in great hands.

Michael Dougherty (LITA 8) is a thoughtful, principled prosecutor who's fought hard to protect the rule of law and can lead the office well. He's endorsed by people we respect and has built a real coalition.

Jena Griswold is a harder conversation. On March 28, seven former senior staffers from her Secretary of State office went public. They described a hostile workplace, bullying and retaliation, NDAs used to silence former employees, taxpayer money spent on personal political branding (which the legislature ultimately had to pass a law to stop), and the use of disappearing-message apps to evade public records requirements. They said the six who couldn't speak under their own names were afraid of what she'd do to their careers if she became Attorney General. Deep wrote about it publicly the day the statement dropped. 

David Seligman has spent his entire career as the lawyer for the people in this state who don't have one. As executive director of Towards Justice, he's fought corporate landlords colluding on rent algorithms. He's sued companies using black-box AI to set wages, deny housing, and screen tenants. He's gone after the people who profit from poverty, and he's won. When we sat with him on LITA 11, the through line was clear: David sees the rule of law collapsing because elites and corporations have made themselves untouchable, and he wants to be the lawyer who makes them touchable again.

The next AG is going to spend a lot of time fighting an administration that's using federal power to crush working people. David has spent his whole career on the receiving end of that asymmetry, without a state agency behind him. Imagine what he does with one.

We're voting David Seligman.

Amanda has been running large-scale elections in Jefferson County since 2023 and built her career writing the laws that protect voting rights in Colorado. She won the assembly 63-37. She has the endorsements. She has the experience. She is who we send into a fight against an administration that is actively trying to dismantle election infrastructure.

Jeff is the only Democrat on the ballot. He chairs the Joint Budget Committee. He knows the state's books cold. He'll do the job well.

Kubs is going to make the Board of Regents a more progressive place, and the CU system better for students, staff, and the community. He has the perspective the board needs and he's not afraid to take on the federal government when it comes for CU students. Kubs is exactly the kind of fighter CU is going to need as the Trump administration uses federal funding to bend universities to its will. He also has the backing of Boulder Progressives and the endorsement of Congressman Ro Khanna.