Our Major Platform Issues
Platform Adopted September 30, 2026
Our platform recognizes the diverse needs of our varied populations, and with it, we strive for opportunities to help our populations be heard.
We support candidates and initiatives aimed at improving:
AFFORDABILITY, including:
- Housing, both rental and ownership, as well as groceries and utilities,
- Multi-modal Transportation and Related Energy costs,
- Public Education,
- Communication (internet and cellphone access),
- Healthcare Premiums, Out-of-Pocket and Prescription costs,
- Income Inequality/Wage Disparities,
- Services for Colorado citizens by modernizing our tax code,
- The role of organized labor in supporting living wages and improving workplace safety.
HEALTHCARE, including:
- Access to procedures in the interests of Physicians and Patients/Families,
- Rural access equal to suburban access with extra transportation covered,
- Universal healthcare for Physical (including dental, vision, hearing, reproductive, disability mitigation, and gender-affirming care), and Mental Health.
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LOCAL COMMUNITIES, including:
- Preservation of Public lands and resources,
- Humanitarian, Immigration, Senior, and Veterans Services,
- Ethical investment of public assets, and/or divestment from violators, including countries that violate the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
DEMOCRACY, including:
- Protection of voting rights,
- Expanded civic education at all levels,
- Accountability for criminal politicians, law enforcement, and surveillance abuse.
Walking the Talk
"We’re proud to be a Big Tent party, and right now that means standing in solidarity with people with whom we might not share every viewpoint, but who also believe in free speech, due process, and the rule of law. Standing alongside groups like 50501, Indivisible, Democratic Socialists of America and others, we show what solidarity looks like."
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"We, the Democrats of Larimer County, elect Democrats to public office; enhance an understanding of the political process and of the Democratic Party among current and new members; provide an effective and representative Party organization; promote the Democratic Party’s Platform; sustain the human and constitutional rights of all persons; provide a mechanism for making our political institutions responsive and accountable to the aims and needs of our Citizens; promote individual freedom in the framework of a just society and political freedom in the framework of a meaningful participation by all citizens."
A big tent party
It's not easy, it's worth it.
In our party, we bring together a wide and diverse coalition of people, perspectives, and priorities under one umbrella. Rather than standing for a narrow ideology, we embrace a spectrum of views ranging from progressive to centrist to moderate. This inclusivity allows us to unite urban and rural voters, communities of color, women, LGBTQ+ individuals, organized labor, environmental advocates, business leaders, faith-based groups, and more—around our shared values of equality, fairness, opportunity, and democratic governance.
Our Big Tent approach recognizing that our strength lies in our diversity. We know that internal debates and disagreements are part of the democratic process, shaping policies that reflect the needs of a broad base of Americans. In practice, our Big Tent strategy makes the Democratic Party a home for anyone committed to advancing social progress, protecting rights, expanding economic opportunity, and ensuring government works for the people, by the people.
We are in the arena doing the hard work to solve real problem for everyday Americans. So, roll up your sleeves and join us, we’ve got room and you’re needed.
In the Arena
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”