7350 E. 29th Avenue #300, Denver, CO 80238
7350 E. 29th Avenue #300, Denver, CO 80238
The be well Health and Wellness Initiative (be well) is a grassroots movement of communities coming together to take charge of their health and wellness. We work to provide measurable and visible improvements among Colorado residents and businesses in six key Denver and Aurora Neighborhoods coined the “be well zone”: Northeast Park Hill, Greater Park Hill, East Colfax, Northwest Aurora, Montbello, and Central Park and across the state. The mission of be well is to effect programs, policies, and practices to create health equity and access for all people. be well’s vision is for a culture in which all people have an equitable opportunity to achieve the health they desire, regardless of any social circumstance.
Central Park Recreation Center
9651 East Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd
Hiawatha Davis Jr Recreation Center
3334 North Holly Street
CPMCA Administrative Offices
8351 Northfield Blvd
Montclair Recreation Center
729 North Ulster Way
Montbello Branch Library
12955 Albrook Drive
Montbello Recreation Center
15555 East 53rd Avenue
Moorhead Recreation Center
2390 Havana Street
Martin Luther King Jr. Library
9898 East Colfax Avenue
Aurora Motor Vehicle Office
3449 North Chambers Road
Anschutz Health & Wellness Center
12348 East Montview Blvd.
Colfax & Kingston
1585 Kingston Street
Tuesday, October 13:
Last day to register through a voter registration drive.
Monday, October 19:
Drop boxes open for completed ballots and stay open through Election Day.
Monday, October 26:
Last day to register online, by mail, or at a driver’s license office and still get a ballot in the mail.
Tuesday, November 3 – Election Day:
Polls are open 7:00 AM to 7:00 PM.
Your ballot must be received by your county clerk by 7:00 PM. A postmark is not enough, so use a drop box if it’s close to the deadline.
Democratic
Inflation and Cost of Living: Focuses on lowering consumer prices, investing in workers and fighting illegal tariffs.
Housing: Promotes housing affordability legislation and ongoing investments in clean energy and infrastructure.
Immigration: Wants to overhaul the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and introduce legislation that prohibits masked agents and mandates clearer identification while keeping enforcement away from schools and hospitals.
LGBTQ+ Equality: Co-sponsors the Equality Act, which expands federal civil rights protections to sexual orientation and gender identity.
Reproductive Rights: Wants to protect abortion access and reproductive freedom.
Republican
Inflation and Cost of Living: Focuses on lowering consumer prices, investing in workers and fighting illegal tariffs.
Housing: Promotes housing affordability legislation and ongoing investments in clean energy and infrastructure.
Immigration: Wants to overhaul the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and introduce legislation that prohibits masked agents and mandates clearer identification while keeping enforcement away from schools and hospitals.
LGBTQ+ Equality: Co-sponsors the Equality Act, which expands federal civil rights protections to sexual orientation and gender identity.
Reproductive Rights: Wants to protect abortion access and reproductive freedom.
Democratic
Affordable Housing: As his primary focus, Weiser wants to add 40,000 attainable, owner-occupied starter homes by working with local governments to cut permitting feed and red tape rather than using heavy-handed mandates.
Healthcare: Weiser pushes for expanding access to free primary care and building upon the state’s healthcare frameworks.
Corporate & Consumer Oversight: Vows to protect consumers, enable privacy safeguards and pursue legal settlements against major corporate practices that harm communities and children.
Federal Resistance & Accountability: Committed to push back against federal overreach and potential Trump administration policies, protecting elections and safeguarding reproductive and LGBTQ+ rights.
Environment & Energy: Wants to focus on solar and battery initiatives while navigating oil and gas industry concerns regarding economic impacts and environmental regulations.
Republican
Government Accountability & Transparency: Wants to restore public trust and limit government control. He wants to focus on implementing comprehensive government audits, strengthen protections for state employees who report government wrongdoing and expand data accessibility to track state spending.
Affordability, Housing and Tax Reform: Marx wants to address rising costs impacting families through his focusing on deregulation and tax reductions. He wants to propose property tax caps, conducting regulatory reviews to encourage affordable housing development and strictly adhering to Colorado’s Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights (TABOR).
Public Safety & Law and Order: As a pro-law enforcement candidate, Marx focuses heavily on crime and drug policies. He supports ending “catch-and-release” practices for violent criminals and implementing risk-based bail reform. Additionally, he supports increasing funding for law enforcement staffing and strengthening enforcement against fentanyl distribution while establishing infrastructure for mental health and detox treatment.
Economy & Industry: Supports a business-friendly environment built on traditional market principles such as eliminating environmental, social and governance standards. Furthermore, Marx wants to provide state incentives for outdoor and technology manufacturing sectors while also expanding professional apprenticeship opportunities aside from traditional higher education.
Democratic
Standing Up to Ice: Griswold wants to protect Coloradans and communities from illegal ICE action and the Trump administration by using her office to investigate, prosecute and hold federal officials and iCE accountable if they violate the law.
Protecting Our Rights and Freedoms: Jena is committed to defending Coloradan’s rights and freedoms by standing up to Donald Trump’s policies and actions. Furthermore, she will work to protect access to reproductive health care and attempts to restrict it. Additionally, she will work to protect all Colordans’ regardless of sex, race, religion, sexual orientation or gender identity.
Standing Up for the Colorado Way of Life: She will safeguard Colorado’s natural resources, climate and fight for the working class. If elected, she will work to hold big corporations accountable to protect Coloradans from unfair practices and exploitation. Additionally, she will strive to defend Colorado’s environment by holding corporate polluters accountable.
Fighting for Justice: She will provide resources and support for victims by working to reduce Colorado’s rap kit backlog, ban assault weapons, invest in programs that prevent crime, improve mental health and reduce recidivism.
Republican
Crime and Public Safety: Allen wants to reverse policies that he believes have weakened the criminal justice system, and focus heavily on law enforcement rather than going after the federal government in “political lawsuits”. He vows to implement laws that put victims and their families first, and that criminals are persecuted to the fullest extent.
Organized Crime and Fentanyl: Wants to strategically target fentanyl trafficking rings, drug cartels and multi-jurisdictional motor vehicle and retail theft networks.
Cost of Living & Crime: He connects high crime rates and ongoing economic pressures facing every Coloradan. He wants to work with officials to lower crime, which in turn will offer economic relief to Colorado families.
Consumer Protection: Allen aims to overhaul and improve the responsiveness of the attorney general’s consumer protection division. He will use his position to ensure the office does a thorough job investigating and resolving consumer fraud and scams targeting vulnerable populations.
Democratic
Protecting Every Vote: As an election attorney and administrator, she will use her experience to spot threats early, fight them in court and work to keep eligible voters registered and ballots secure.
Democracy for the People: Working to remove barriers that keep eligible voters from participating whether that is due to language, disability, geography or general lack of understanding of the system.
Republican
Assembling a Coalition: Wants to restore free and fair elections by locking public records on blockchain and make it easier for residents in Colorado to start and run a business.
Restore Trust in Elections: Wants to rebuild Coloradan’s trust within the local government. He aims to deliver transparent, tamper-proof elections that all voters can trust.
Blockchain the Public Record: Vows to place all Colorado public records on an immutable blockchain ledger: voter registrations, property and county records, business fillings, charities and notaries.
Capitalist Champion: In an effort to save local businesses, Wiley proposes slashing red tape, digitizing and automation wherever blockchain helps, and make it faster and cheaper to launch and grow a business.
Democratic
In-State Investments: Will work to ensure Colorado offers adorable housing options that work for people like nurses, teachers and firefighters. Additionally, he will use the $15-$20B portfolio to finance childcare facilities and utility lowering clean energy.
Taxpayers Bill of Rights: Criticizes annual state spending caps under TABOR, deeply impacting public funding and supports raising spending limits to create economic and sustainable conditions for K-12 education.
Unclaimed Property Fund: Opposes using the unclaimed property fund for general state programs or Medicaid dental gaps.
Republican
Affordability and Safety: Wants to maximize taxpayer dollars in the state’s investment portfolio and build efforts to minimize Colorado families struggling through the affordability crisis.
Unclaimed Property Fund: Grantham wants to prioritize putting the money back into the hands of its rightful owners, and not allow it to be misused by the legislature.
State Retiree Protections: Plans to protect state workers that have entrusted their retirements to the state. This means managing risk while also achieving a strong rate of return to reduce liability.
Democratic
Gun Violence Prevention: Vows to protect Colorado communities and Second Amendment rights, while also reducing gun violence. He wants to pass common-sense gun safety laws that help keep all local community members safe.
National Security: Crow is working to support Buckley Space Force Base, and strengthening Colorado’s aerospace economy to solidify the state as a global aerospace leader.
Lower Costs: Create more equitable opportunities for working families by lowering the costs of health care, prescription drugs, housing, groceries and energy.
Fight Corruption: Believes that the government should work for the people. He is working to crack down on dark money in politics, restore ethics and work to rebuild the community’s trust in government.
Republican
Affordability: Wants to reduce the cost of rent, education and health care for Coloradans. Believes the current system has become too unsustainable, so he will work the rising costs.
Reduce Crime: Plans to go after criminals and clean up Colfax Avenue.
Jobs Across Colorado: Plans to embrace entrepreneurs, embrace small business owners and work with developers.
Democratic
In-State Investments: Will work to ensure Colorado offers adorable housing options that work for people like nurses, teachers and firefighters. Additionally, he will use the $15-$20B portfolio to finance childcare facilities and utility lowering clean energy.
Taxpayers Bill of Rights: Criticizes annual state spending caps under TABOR, deeply impacting public funding and supports raising spending limits to create economic and sustainable conditions for K-12 education.
Unclaimed Property Fund: Opposes using the unclaimed property fund for general state programs or Medicaid dental gaps.
Republican
Immigration: Believes that the cost of living in Denver is due to the open borders. In her role, she vows to address every angle possible to reduce costs for legal citizens.
K-12 Public Schools: Wants to keep the educational system to the basic fundamentals – reading, writing and math. She vows to keep schools from being integrated with curriculum indoctrination.
Independent
Affordable, Accessible Healthcare: Through his perspective as a doctor, he wants to create a more equitable healthcare system that is more dependable and accessible for every Denver family.
Lower Cost of Living: Wants to implement policies that help ease the squeeze of rising rent, groceries and everyday bills impacting Denver families.
Working Families & Childcare: Wants to implement better childcare options that help create better access for parents to engage with their children. In turn, he believes that building a better childcare system will lead to stronger families, and ultimately leads to a better city.
Immigration: Wants to secure the border while also building a more efficient legal immigration system.
Democratic
Budget: Aims to pass a ballot initiative that ensures adequate and equitable funding for public education while also reducing federal dollars.
Transparency in Education: Working to develop systems that connect K-12 data to post graduate outcomes.
Equity in Action: Plans to incorporate equity in education in an effort to acknowledge historical and systemic inequities. Escarcega plans to do this by challenging systemic barriers, centering historically marginalized voices and investing in whole-child service programs such as nutrition programs and after-school enrichment.
Workers Rights: Plans to advocate for every worker in the education system by not lowering the certification standards for educators or school staff. Additionally, she wants to fight for fair, liveable wages by ensuring staff have the support, resources and materials.
Republican
Economy: Wants to equip students for high paying career wages through workforce pathways and financial literacy.
Stability: Creating schools where students and teachers know what is expected of them and can focus on learning.
Resilience: Making school safety and the ability to overcome challenges a priority.
Affordable Transit: Wants to keep fares affordable, and plans to fight for discounted passes for students, seniors and working families
Accessible Services: Ensure buses, trains and stations are accessible for seniors, parents, people with disabilities and every resident in the community.
Reliable Transportation: Advocate for on-time service, cleaner stations and better routes on top of more frequent buses and trains.
Republican
Improve Service: Wants to make daily public transit reliable, frequent, clean and safe so that people choose to ride.
Affordability: Proposes building mixed-income housing and jobs instead of large parking lots, and lowering overall living and transit costs.
Leadership: Opposes service cuts during budget shortfalls, favoring efficiency, new revenue from station land development and more overall governmental accountability.
Democratic
Civil Rights & Body Autonomy: Vows to protect Colorado’s first amendment rights, combatting racial and profiling as well as protecting bodily autonomy by ensuring access to abortion, birth control and gender-affirming care.
Housing Affordability: Wants to create an aggressive plan to make Colorado more affordable such as modifying exclusionary zoning laws, banning the use of price-fixing and banning private equity ownership of single-family unit homes.
Affordable Healthcare: Vows to fight for a health care system that protects coverage from pre-existing conditions, funding for mental health and substance use conditions and investing in public health infrastructure.
Environmental Justice: Vows to protect water resources, reduce urban heat temperatures, reduce fossil fuel use and close coal-powered plants as well as banning fracking.
Republican
Kathleen Angel is the Republican candidate for Colorado House District 6 in the November 3, 2026 general election. As of October 8, 2026, publicly available candidate profiles do not identify a campaign website or detailed policy platform for Kathleen Angel. Specific positions on housing, healthcare, education, economic development, public safety, and other legislative matters could not be independently verified
Democratic
Social and Environmental Justice: Aims to support equitable funding, testing teacher and school performance matters that best serves the community.
Educational Impact: Aims to go after bad policy that directly impacts vulnerable communities. Additionally, she wants to invest in early intervention and mental health support and reform for the criminal justice system.
Affordability: Wants to create a stronger legislature and ensure access to quality, affordable healthcare for all.
Democratic
Education: Supports access to Social & Emotional Learning (SEL) for all children in Colorado. This teaches students how to manage their emotions, build healthy relationships, solve problems, and develop confidence and resilience
Mental Health: Supports making Aurora as the primary location for Colorado’s state mental health hospital.
Affordability: Plans to focus on practical, people-first solutions that reduce financial pressure, strengthen household stability, and help families stay rooted in the communities they call home
Economic Development: Vows to protect and expand state investment in community-based arts and cultural spaces.
Democratic
Child Welfare: Wants to improve Colorado’s child welfare system by prioritizing the recruitment and retention of high family-based settings for kids in foster care, so that children can remain with their families.
Gun Violence Prevention: Supports community-driven prevention initiatives that curb youth violence and pursue avenues that reduce firearm accessibility and banning assault weapons.
Affordable Housing: She supports safeguarding renters’ rights and striving to make the aspiration of homeownership an attainable reality for every Coloradan.
Education: She believes in fostering an inclusive classroom environment that nurtures learning and growth for all students. This will be done by involving parents, teachers, and the community to create policies aligned with everyone’s needs.
Republican
Carolyn Barnes is the Republican candidate for Colorado House District 8 in the November 3, 2026 general election. As of October 8, 2026, no official campaign website or detailed public policy platform was identified. Available voter education resources do not document her specific positions on housing affordability, healthcare, education, taxation, public safety, or economic development. A published candidate questionnaire also lists no responses from Barnes on several policy issues
Democratic
Affordable Housing: Wants to create a more safe and affordable place to live for Coloradans by advocating for tenant protections, fair land-use laws and more programs dedicated to first-time home ownership.
Environmental Protection: Proposes the implementation of fire and flood mitigation strategies throughout all communities and not just the affluent communities.
Lower Healthcare Costs: Prioritize the protection of abortion rights and affordable care while also increasing access to mental services – especially for lower income communities.
Defend Voting Rights: Advocates to combat voter suppression and intimidation while also pushing for increased ballot drop off locations and expanding accessibility options for disabled Colordans, so that all communities have easier access to vote.
Republican
Homelessness: Wants to work and address the homelessness crisis facing the city by creating opportunities for the city to provide resources for residents experiencing homelessness.
Data Center: Wants to hold off on building data centers, and focus more on initiatives that support the community.
Cost of Living: Supports working families and provides livable wages to ease the pressures of local families.
Homelessness: Wants to keep the door open to the unhoused community and to the immigrant community living in Colorado.
Affordable Housing: Supports housing solutions where all Colordans can build a future.
Public Safety: Invest in public safety and city services to help all neighborhoods feel secure and connected.
Affordable Housing: Work with city officials to address the rising cost of housing.
Universal Childcare: Wants to work with city officials to establish universal childcare, so that families are not pouring their entire salaries into their child’s care.
Affordable Housing: Supports creating affordable housing initiatives that combat residential displacement and the development of attainable and sustainable housing options.
Transportation: Wants to improve public transit and create areas that will increase overall foot traffic within the community.
Affordability: Wants to stand with unions and fight for liveable wages and strong benefits for Colorado families.
Public Safety: Wants to invest in young people, mental and crisis response initiatives, so that all communities feel safe no matter where they are – work, school, the park, etc.
Affordability: Wants to create a more affordable Demver by prioritizing Denver’s small businesses and funding pathways to home ownership and establishing affordable childcare.
Public Safety: Wants to invest in initiatives that prevent harm and prioritize training that equips emergency responders with the skills and resources to serve the communities they serve.
Affordability: Wants to create protections that combat displacement and pathways to homeownership for working families.
Youth Opportunity & Family Support: Wants to invest in after-school programs and mentorship opportunities that will ultimately work to prevent violence before it occurs in the community.
Affordability: Wants to convert empty office buildings into housing opportunities for the community as well as building more accessible housing near transit areas.
Homelessness: Create permanent housing opportunities for the local community, and tie shelter and provider contracts to measurable outcomes. From there, taxpayers will have visibility in whether people stay housed.
Affordable Housing: Wants to address the housing crisis by implementing a faster review of site plans that fit a pre-approved model while also working to ensure new builds remain up to code.
Homelessness: Supports funding to Support Team Assisted Response (STAR) and the Department of Housing Stability’s (HOST) outreach programs so that mental health professionals and outreach specialists who know how to approach persons
