2026 Primary Election Endorsements

The Denver Area Labor Federation (DALF) represents over 80,000 working Coloradans, through over 114 affiliated unions. Our membership is diverse and includes everyone from teachers, firefighters, and home care workers to electricians and aerospace workers. We come together as the Denver Area Labor Federation because we believe in one simple idea: when working people stand together, we can create positive changes for everyone.

DALF votes to endorse candidates based on how they will impact not only our unions, but all working people in the Denver Area. We carefully consider how each candidate will help us fight for a more equal and secure economy where working people can build power, ensure economic justice for themselves and their families, and combat the influence of corporations and wealthy elites.

Voting is our chance as working people to support those who support us. Who you vote for is your personal decision, but we hope that you will take DALF’s endorsements into consideration as you fill out your ballot.

AS OF April 24th, 2026, THE DENVER AREA LABOR FEDERATION HAS ENDORSED THE FOLLOWING COUNTY CANDIDATES:

ADAMS COUNTY

Assessor: Thomas Swingle

Clerk & Recorder: Josh Zygielbaum

Commissioner District 3: Emma Pinter

Treasurer: Jason Anaya-Ledeboer

ARAPAHOE COUNTY

Assessor: PK Kaiser

Clerk & Recorder: Joan Lopez

Commissioner District 2: Jessica Campbell

Commissioner District 4: Leslie Summey

Sheriff: Tyler Brown

Treasurer: Michael Westerberg

DOUGLAS COUNTY

Assessor: Kara Garr

Commissioner District 1: Irene Bonham

JEFFERSON COUNTY

Assessor: Andy Kerr

Clerk & Recorder: Nicole Hensel

Commissioner District 3: Lisa Cutter

Coroner: Nick Lobello

Treasurer: Eric Proctor

2026 Primary Election Endorsements

Trump May Force 200,000 Salvadorans to Leave the U.S.

09 Jan, 2018

The Trump administration announced Monday that it will terminate the provisional residency permits of about 200,000 Salvadorans who have lived in the country since at least 2001, leaving them to face deportation. The administration said it will give the Salvadorans until Sept. 9, 2019, to leave the

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Northeast Semi-Supersonic Train to be Union Built

03 Jan, 2018

The developers of a train that would travel nearly half the speed of sound and get passengers from New York to Washington, D.C., in about an hour signed a memorandum of understanding to only use union labor on the project. Under the agreement, all work on the project will be done by members of

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Tax Plan’s Biggest Cuts Could Be in Living Standards

13 Dec, 2017

A decade ago or so, the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center and the liberal-leaning Center on Budget and Policy Priorities estimated that making the Bush tax cuts permanent — rather than letting them expire in 2010 — would increase the after-tax income of people earning $1 million or more up to 7 percent

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Bank Deregulation Bill Will Leave Taxpayers Holding the Bag

08 Dec, 2017

These days, it’s hard to keep straight all of Congress’ efforts to build plutocracy — the further consolidation of the power of the richest Americans at the expense of the rest of us. With the Senate passing a multi-trillion dollar job-killing giveaway of our tax dollars to the people and companies

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Washington State’s Innovative Aerospace Apprenticeship Program Touted

14 Nov, 2017

As National Apprenticeship Week kicks off, a new report from the Working for America Institute and Jobs With Justice Education Fund profiles a Washington state apprenticeship program as a successful example of a workforce intermediary partnership. These partnerships bring together unions and

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Democrats Have An Ambitious Plan To Help Rebuild Labor Unions

02 Nov, 2017

As a pillar of the Democratic Party, unions have wanted for years to see mainstream Democrats push for major reforms to the law that would rejuvenate the ranks of organized labor. At the press conference Wednesday, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka applauded the proposals, but also emphasized that

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AFL-CIO, Several Unions Send Volunteers to Puerto Rico

05 Oct, 2017

Some 275 volunteers – pilots, mechanics, flight attendants and other workers – took off from Newark International Airport on October 4 on a union-sponsored relief mission to hurricane-smashed Puerto Rico, the AFL-CIO announced. Some 50 unionized registered nurses, members of National Nurses United

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Students Work Together to Create Change at Nike

29 Sep, 2017

In a powerful illustration of the ability of grassroots activists to challenge corporate power, United Students Against Sweatshops, the nation’s leading student organization focused on issues of worker rights and economic justice, has just scored a crucial victory over the world’s biggest sports

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A Tax Plan That Works For the People, Not Wall Street

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A Radical Republican Proposal To Roll Back Worker Protections

20 Sep, 2017

Last week, the Republican-led House Committee on Education and the Workforce held a hearing on H.R. 3441, the so-called Save Local Business Act -- a bill that has almost nothing to do with saving small and local businesses. According to its sponsors, the legislation was introduced to overturn the

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Labor Unions Are Stepping Up To Fight Deportations

14 Sep, 2017

Yahaira Burgos was fearing the worst when her husband, Juan Vivares, reported to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in lower Manhattan in March. Vivares, who fled Colombia and entered the U.S. illegally in 2011, had recently been given a deportation order. Rather than hide, he showed up

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NNU Deploys Additional Nurses to Hurricane-Affected Areas

12 Sep, 2017 Read More >