“I’m John Padora - a working dad and manufacturing engineer who knows the struggle, not the privileged side of it. Colorado’s 4th deserves someone who won’t sell out to special interests and will fight for our jobs, our farmers, and our small towns.”

AN ECONOMY THAT WORKS FOR US - NOT THE POWERFUL

Rebuilding the American Dream for Working Families

• I believe in an economy where every family can stand on solid ground, not just the wealthy and well-connected. That starts with universal healthcare, subsidized college and trade education, universal childcare, student loan and medical debt forgiveness, and a social safety net that strengthens, not shames, working people.

• We must break up corporate consolidation in Big Ag, Big Insurance, Big Pharma, and Wall Street, and stop private equity giants like BlackRock from buying up our neighborhoods and turning the American Dream into a rental contract.

• It is time to pass a Second Bill of Rights for American Workers - the right to good jobs, fair wages, affordable homes, clean energy, and a dignified retirement. And we must rebuild American manufacturing in aerospace, medical devices, precision machining and advanced technologies so our kids inherit opportunity, not excuses.

A SAFER AMERICA AT HOME AND ABROAD

A Foreign Policy That Values Lives Over Profits

• For too long, America has been trapped in a foreign policy written by the military industrial complex, not by the people whose kids fight the wars. I am done letting defense contractors write the checks while working families pay the price.

• We must end the endless wars, the failed occupations in the Middle East, the bankrolling of genocide in Gaza, and the reckless imperial policies that have cost trillions of dollars and countless lives while driving us into 38 trillion dollars of debt for future generations.

• At home, we must dismantle the domestic surveillance state, stop Big Tech from weaponizing and selling our personal data, and restore the constitutional freedoms that Americans deserve.

• A stronger America does not come from more bombs - it comes from protecting civil liberties, rebuilding our economy, defending human rights, and showing the world what moral leadership truly looks like.

A DEMOCRACY WORTHY OF ITS PEOPLE

Power Back to the Voters - Not the Political Class

• America will not survive if we continue to let authoritarians, oligarchs, and corporatists buy our elections and silence our voices. I am fighting to stop the cancer of authoritarianism in Colorado and in Washington.

• That means publicly funded elections, proportional representation, ranked choice voting, expanding the size of Congress so every representative actually knows their district, and expanding the Supreme Court so it reflects the democracy it is meant to protect.

• We must get big money and dark money out of politics and stop pretending that democracy can survive while billionaires buy the outcomes.

• Real democracy means criminal justice reform, protecting human rights for all, and ensuring every voice - rural or urban, working class or struggling - is heard loud and clear.