Building a Political Home: The COLOR Action Fund Field Guide to People Power

Documenting a Latina Reproductive Justice Model for building long-term community power.
Who is with the people and who is on notice

When the legislative session concluded, we reviewed every score, every vote, and the broader patterns they revealed. We reflected not only on legislative outcomes, but on who centered the community, who governed through relationship rather than transaction, who remained accountable to directly impacted people, and who led in ways that reflected collective values.
Our 2026 Legislative scorecard is here

Each year, COLOR Action Fund evaluates members of the Colorado General Assembly using our Legislative Scorecard. Our methodology combines vote counting on our legislative priorities with an assessment of values alignment and accountability to our community.
They Overturned Roe, We Built Power.
Through years of organizing, storytelling, coalition-building, and turning our community’s power into political action, Colorado became a national example of what’s possible when our communities lead.
Some Candidates Want Our Votes. Not Our Questions.

What six months of candidate interviews, endorsements, and Community Power Town Halls taught us about accountability in Colorado politics.
Whiteness and Proximity to Authoritarianism should never ease access to clemency

Governor Polis pardoning Tina Peters is not a disconnected “moderate” decision floating outside the reality of this political moment.