By Chase Woodruff | deputy editor
Our voter guide gives you everything you need to cast a ballot in the 2026 general election. The guide offers a look at candidates and their positions. It describes ballot measures in plain language. It explains how to register to vote, and how to vote. It also contains two special features:
Build-your-own-ballot: Just just enter your address, and the tool will display the candidates and measures on your ballot, wherever you live in Colorado.
Colorado Tradeoffs: Understand not just what’s on the ballot, but what could happen afterward. Test your choices, see the budget implications, and decide how you would respond.
Phil Weiser, the Colorado attorney general, speaks to supporters during his primary election night watch party for his campaign for governor, in Denver at Ace Eat Serve on June 30, 2026. (Photo by Andrew Fraieli/Colorado Newsline)
By Chase Woodruff
Ken Buck, the former five-term Republican member of Congress from Colorado and onetime chair of the state GOP, endorsed Democrat Phil Weiser for governor Wednesday alongside more than a dozen other state and local GOP officials. “I’m supporting Phil Weiser because I know Phil,” Buck said in a video released by the Weiser campaign.
Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser speaks about social media safety policy on Oct. 13, 2026 in Denver. (Photo by Sara Wilson/Colorado Newsline)
By Sara Wilson
Parents of children harmed by social media and artificial intelligence chatbots called for Colorado to pass stronger protections into law next year, while standing beside the Democrat who could become the state’s next governor. “When we hear young people are struggling because they’re feeling disconnected and lonely, we’ve got to do something about it,” Attorney General Phil Weiser said.
A mother and her son hold hands on a swing set. (Photo by Troy Bennett/Maine Morning Star)
By Lindsey Toomer
Colorado’s most effective tool for reducing child poverty is a state-level family tax credit that’s in jeopardy for the current tax year, according to a new report from a Colorado nonprofit that aims to improve the wellbeing of children. The Colorado Family Affordability Tax Credit, created by the state Legislature in 2024, pulled 22,500 children out of poverty in its first year of implementation, researchers estimated.
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