Project 2025 is on the Colorado ballot

Remember Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation’s playbook for remaking the federal government? Coloradans may be surprised to find its ideas on their own ballot this November. Read the details on these ballot measures carefully and vote no if you value privacy and freedom like I do. 

Project 2025 calls for pulling local police into immigration enforcement and punishing “sanctuary” communities. Amendment 81 would write mandatory reporting to federal immigration authorities into our state constitution, before a person is even found innocent or guilty.

Project 2025 calls for gender discrimination in school sports and ending gender-related medical care for minors. Propositions 134 and 135 would do the same here, and the Heritage Foundation has publicly cheered on the group behind them.

Project 2025 calls for lower corporate taxes and more fossil fuels. Proposition 136 would cap state income tax rates, including for corporations. Amendment 82 would put an unnecessary “right to natural gas” in our constitution, where it would be nearly impossible to undo.

Then add new ID requirements on mail ballots (Amendment 84) and much harsher fentanyl sentencing (Proposition 132). The pattern is hard to miss. A national agenda that Colorado lawmakers have refused to adopt has been slipped onto ballots, hidden behind friendly ballot titles.

Many of the measures on the ballot this year come from Advance Colorado, a group that doesn’t disclose its donors. When sponsors won’t say who’s paying, voters should look closely at what’s being bought.

Read the fine print before you fill in those ovals. I’m voting no on these invasive national priorities that don’t reflect Colorado values.