Colorado — 1st District

Melat Kiros

Advocates holistic community public safety

Kiros defines public safety as the presence of community stability and opportunity rather than heavy policing. She opposes criminalizing poverty or mental health and supports violence prevention, community response teams, and restorative justice.

• Invest in community-based emergency response teams and violence prevention programs
• Support restorative justice programs rather than carceral policies
• Address root causes of crime through investments in housing, mental healthcare, and jobs

“Public safety isn’t just the absence of crime, it’s the presence of opportunity, stability, and community. We cannot arrest our way out of poverty or criminalize mental illness.”

Christy Peterson

Supports full police funding and tough-on-crime policies

Peterson identifies restoring safety in Denver as her top campaign priority to revitalise local businesses and communities. She calls for fully funding police departments and eliminating soft-on-crime policies, linking urban crime to higher property and auto insurance rates.

• Provide 100% full funding for police departments and law enforcement officers
• Eliminate soft-on-crime policies and clean up inner-city lawless behavior
• Link reduction in urban crime directly to lowering property and auto insurance costs

“Making our cities safe again is my top priority. Issues like crime and soft on crime policies have eroded the safety and well being in our big cities.”

“I back supporting and FULL 100% FUNDING our POLICE.”

Melat Kiros

Supports abolishing ICE and expanding immigration pathways

Kiros calls for abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and ending street raids and detentions. She advocates for building a humane immigration system centered on dignity and creating accessible pathways to citizenship.

• Abolish ICE and halt masked agent street raids and detention practices
• Create accessible pathways to citizenship for undocumented immigrants
• Establish an immigration system grounded in dignity and reject political scapegoating

“We must Abolish ICE. Masked agents kidnapping innocent people off the streets and disappearing them into ICE facilities does not make us safer or protect American jobs.”

Christy Peterson

Opposes sanctuary cities and demands strict border enforcement

Peterson links undocumented immigration to municipal budget shortfalls, rising consumer costs, and increased crime. She advocates ending sanctuary city policies and requiring local authorities to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement to deport illegal entrants.

• End sanctuary city policies and require local cooperation with federal immigration agencies
• Deport non-citizens who entered unlawfully or committed criminal offenses
• Attribute rising housing, medical, and insurance expenses to undocumented immigration

“Municipalities that harbor illegal immigrants that broke the law to enter America, are hurting Americans!”

“The Democrat Biden administration left open borders which caused the chaos of undocumented illegals in America.”

Melat Kiros

Supports Housing First and federal housing subsidies

Kiros views housing as a fundamental human right essential for economic mobility and health. She advocates for a federal Housing First model, wraparound mental health and addiction services, and federally subsidizing 30% of new housing developments to ensure affordability.

• Implement a federal Housing First strategy treating homelessness as a public health issue
• Federally subsidize 30% of all new housing developments to guarantee affordability
• Invest in wraparound support services for mental illness and addiction

“When people have a place to call home, everything else becomes possible, it's time we prioritize housing as a basic human right.”

Christy Peterson

Supports free-market growth and tax reductions

Peterson focuses on reducing consumer costs by eliminating government waste, lowering taxes, and creating incentives for business growth. She contends that curbing crime and illegal immigration will naturally lower property, auto, and housing expenses.

• Create incentives for businesses to establish, grow, and expand employment
• Oppose state personal income tax and promote fiscal conservative spending
• Reduce government waste and audit federal programs for dependency

“I will create incentives for businesses to establish, grow and flourish. This will create jobs and further enhance our US economy.”

“No to state personal income tax”

Melat Kiros

Supports an arms embargo and diplomatic foreign policy

Kiros calls for an arms embargo on Israel, characterizing U.S.-funded military operations in Palestine as genocide. She advocates shifting foreign policy away from military intervention toward diplomacy, while reallocating defense funding to domestic housing, healthcare, and education.

• Implement an arms embargo and end military aid to Israel
• End blank checks for endless foreign wars and reduce military spending
• Reallocate defense resources to domestic healthcare, housing, and public education

“At $30 billion, our tax dollars have funded what nearly every human rights organization in the world, including the United Nations, has called a genocide in Palestine.”

“We need to end the blank checks for endless war and reallocate that funding towards diplomacy abroad and housing, education, and healthcare here at home.”

Christy Peterson

Supports peace through strength and alliance with Israel

Peterson supports an America First foreign policy grounded in peace through strength and an enduring alliance with Israel. She opposes foreign involvement in endless wars while barring anti-Semitic individuals from serving in American governance.

• Maintain defense, protection, and strong alliance with Israel
• Oppose forever wars while supporting a peace-through-strength stance
• Exclude anti-Semitic individuals from holding positions in American government

“Yes to the protection, defense & alliance with Israel”

“Low taxes, limited government, peace through strength, strong families, individual rights, common sense and opportunity for all”

Melat Kiros

Supports Medicare for All

Kiros considers healthcare a basic human right and advocates for replacing private insurance with Medicare for All. She contends a single-payer system will eliminate medical debt, guarantee coverage for all residents, and lower net health expenses.

• Enact Medicare for All to cover every American citizen
• Eliminate medical debt and health-related personal bankruptcies
• Ensure access to preventive and mental healthcare without financial barriers

“Access to healthcare is directly linked to longer life expectancy, better mental health, and greater economic productivity.”

“It's time we pass Medicare for All.”

Christy Peterson

Opposes federal health mandates and promotes functional wellness

Peterson opposes mandatory government health insurance, citing her opposition to the Affordable Care Act's individual mandate as unconstitutional. She supports natural and functional medicine wellness education and personal health freedom.

• Opposed Obamacare individual mandate penalties as unconstitutional
• Promote natural and functional medicine wellness education
• Support individual health choices and limited federal government intervention

“In 2013 when Obamacare was planning to fine citizens for not buying their health insurance, she knew it was unconstitutional.”

Melat Kiros

Supports campaign finance and ethics reform

Kiros makes removing money from politics her top structural priority. She proposes congressional term limits, a ban on stock trading by members of Congress, a five-year lobbying ban for former lawmakers, and expanding voting rights.

• Pass congressional term limits and a 5-year lobbying ban for former members
• Ban members of Congress from owning or trading individual stocks
• Create a national donor-matching program and expand voting rights

“Get big money out of politics by passing campaign finance reform, lobbying reform, and congressional term limits.”

“And because elected officials should work for the people rather than profit from insider information, banning them from owning or trading individual stocks would eliminate a clear conflict of interest”

Christy Peterson

Supports election integrity measures and spending audits

Peterson advocates for strict election integrity laws, including hand-counted paper ballots, same-day voting, and the SAVE America Act. She also supports government audits through DOGE to eliminate waste and dependency.

• Implement same-day voting with hand-counted paper ballots and pass the SAVE America Act
• Audit federal spending and programs via DOGE to eliminate waste and dependency
• Prohibit dual citizens from serving in American government positions

“Yes to election integrity, the Save America Act, paper ballots, same day voting & hand count.”

“Reducing bloated government waste, fraud and abuse is important to keeping integrity.”

Melat Kiros

Supports tuition-free public education and teacher pay

Kiros supports tuition-free public education from preschool through college. She calls for fully funding early childhood education, paying public school teachers a living wage, and reversing school privatization.

• Provide free, high-quality public education from preschool through college
• Pay public school teachers a living wage
• Fully fund early childhood education and public universities while ending privatization

“From preschool through college, every child deserves free, high-quality public education regardless of their zip code.”

Christy Peterson

Supports traditional curriculum and classroom safety

Peterson emphasizes returning public education to basic academic subjects, practical skills, and trade training. She prioritizes protecting classrooms from violence and removing ideological indoctrination from curricula.

• Focus curricula on core academic subjects, trades, and practical life skills
• Protect classrooms from violence and safety threats
• Eliminate ideological indoctrination from public school instruction

“Back to the basics reading writing math science history philosophy gym sports farmland training agriculture business training practical skills”

“PROPER CURRICULUM WITHOUT INDOCTRINATION”

Melat Kiros

Supports the Green New Deal and zero-emissions grid

Kiros treats climate change as an urgent existential crisis requiring aggressive decarbonization. She supports enacting a Green New Deal, transitioning to a zero-emissions grid, ending fossil fuel subsidies, expanding public transit, and holding polluters accountable.

• Transition to a 100% zero-emissions energy grid and enact the Green New Deal
• End fossil fuel subsidies and hold polluters financially responsible
• Expand public transit systems and build climate-resilient infrastructure

“No generation has faced an existential crisis as urgent and all-encompassing as climate change. The science is undeniable: we are out of time.”

Christy Peterson

Supports energy independence and opposes weather modification

Peterson prioritizes achieving domestic energy independence as a key economic goal. She also explicitly opposes chemical trails and toxic weather modification practices.

• Achieve full domestic energy independence
• Oppose chemical trails and toxic weather modification programs
• Promote natural resource management and local stewardship

“no to chem-trails toxic weather modifications”

“ENERGY INDEPENDENCE & WEALTH for our American Citizens.”

Melat Kiros

Supports universal childcare and eldercare

Kiros views caregiving as essential economic infrastructure and advocates for universal publicly funded childcare and eldercare. She argues that universal care enables parents to participate fully in the workforce without facing second-rent financial burdens.

• Establish universal publicly funded childcare and eldercare programs
• Treat caregiving as essential economic infrastructure
• Relieve parents from excessive childcare costs

“Universal childcare flips that script by treating caregiving as essential infrastructure so every child has a safe place to learn and grow, and every parent has the freedom to work, plan, and thrive.”

Christy Peterson

Supports strong families as core conservative principle

Peterson emphasizes strong families as a core conservative principle for building safe communities. Her platform focuses on traditional family values and limited government intervention rather than state care programs.

• Promote strong families as a foundational conservative value
• Support traditional family structures and local community safety
• Foster economic opportunities to empower working parents

“Low taxes, limited government, peace through strength, strong families, individual rights, common sense and opportunity for all- are some principals that everyone can see the value in, not just Republicans.”

Melat Kiros

Supports the Equality Act and Trans Bill of Rights

Kiros advocates for full federal statutory protections for LGBTQIA+ individuals by passing the Equality Act and a Trans Bill of Rights. She opposes state-level restrictions targeting trans youth and gender-affirming medical services.

• Pass the federal Equality Act to prohibit anti-LGBTQIA+ discrimination
• Support a Trans Bill of Rights and safeguard access to gender-affirming care
• Oppose state legislative actions targeting trans youth

“We need to pass the Equality Act to protect LGBTQIA+ individuals from discrimination in schools, workplaces, and public life.”

Christy Peterson

Opposes gender-affirming procedures for minors

Peterson strongly opposes gender-affirming surgeries or medical alterations for children, asserting that adults manipulate youth into undergoing such procedures.

• Prohibit medical transition procedures for children
• Ban adults from manipulating or encouraging minors to undergo physical alterations
• Protect children from youth body modification

“no to mutilizing innocent childrens' body parts, no to adults who manipulate children to mutilize.”

Melat Kiros

Supports gun violence prevention policies

Kiros lists gun violence prevention as a key focus of her platform, treating firearm violence as a major community safety and public health issue.

• Pass federal gun violence prevention legislation
• Address firearm violence through public health and safety frameworks

“GUN VIOLENCE PREVENTION”

Christy Peterson

Opposes gun control and supports Second Amendment

Peterson stands firmly for protecting Second Amendment rights, opposing federal restrictions on firearm ownership.

• Protect Second Amendment gun rights without government infringement
• Oppose new federal firearm regulations or restrictions

“Yes to protecting free speech, bear arms & America First!”

“Yes to protecting the 2nd amendment; right to bear arms without infringement”

Melat Kiros

Supports regulatory oversight and food access

Kiros advocates for codifying access to nutritious food as a basic human right while breaking up corporate food monopolies. She calls for reinvesting in the FDA and USDA to enforce safety rules and restrict marketing to children.

• Reinvest in the FDA and USDA to eliminate corporate influence
• Enforce stricter safety, labeling, and marketing regulations on food corporations
• Break up food monopolies and treat nutritious food as a basic human right

“A just food system focuses on feeding the people, not turning a profit.”

Christy Peterson

Supports domestic farmland and agricultural training

Peterson supports revitalizing U.S. farmlands to bolster domestic food production and assist local farmers and ranchers. She also advocates incorporating agricultural and farmland training into public school curricula.

• Revitalize American farmlands to support domestic food production, farmers, and ranchers
• Include farmland and agricultural practical skills in public school education

“Yes to revitalizing our US farmlands to support farmers, ranchers and food production here”

Melat Kiros

Supports federal codification of abortion rights

Kiros treats reproductive freedom as a constitutional human right and supports codifying abortion access into federal law. Her platform guarantees access to contraception, maternal healthcare, and comprehensive reproductive healthcare nationwide.

• Codify abortion access into federal law
• Protect access to contraception and maternal health services
• Establish reproductive freedom as a fundamental constitutional right

“That means codifying the right to abortion in federal law and protecting access to the full spectrum of reproductive care: from contraception to maternal health to gender-affirming services.”

Melat Kiros

Supports public oversight and democratizing AI

Kiros advocates for democratizing Artificial Intelligence to ensure transparent and publicly accountable development. Her platform calls for open-access research, worker protections against automation, and oversight to prevent discrimination and surveillance.

• Democratize AI development with strong public oversight and transparency
• Implement federal worker protections against job displacement caused by automation
• Establish regulatory oversight to prevent algorithmic discrimination, exploitation, and surveillance

“If we democratize it and ensure its development is transparent, equitable, and publicly accountable, we can unlock its potential to solve massive problems.”