These times require more courage from state lawmakers
The 2026 legislative session left a bitter taste among those of us who spent 120 days with lawmakers under the gold dome advocating for policies to improve the lives of working folks. For Latino advocacy organizations like mine, Voces Unidas Action Fund, the session was largely defined by missed opportunities, watered-down protections and a profound failure of political courage at the highest levels of state leadership. Since 2021, Voces Unidas has graded the votes of all 100
Alex Sánchez
Jul 64 min read
Colorado must stand against Trump’s unchecked ICE force
Truth, we have learned, is short-lived. Facts can be fleeting. Reality is easily distorted. This is the world in which we live, the nation where the president threatens “the day of reckoning and retribution” and then proclaims innocence when it arrives with deadly certainty. Twice. Still, we have our own eyes. And the cameras are everywhere. So we know better than to believe that Alex Pretti, the man murdered by federal agents in the streets of Minneapolis last month, was a “
Alex Sánchez
Feb 195 min read
Voces Unidas: RFSD earns a D- on new community report card
Among the many lessons public education offers are those that come not from textbooks, but from sharing the classroom with peers from every walk of life. One lesson, often learned slowly, is that we all live our own reality. Despite appearances, not everyone’s circumstances are the same. Sharing the same hallways, classrooms and cafeterias with the same students day after day, year after year, it’s easy to assume everyone’s experience is similar. We’re all “Rams,” or “Demons”
Alex Sánchez
Oct 20, 20253 min read