John Padora for Congress (CO-4)

Thank you!! I’ll let this video speak for itself. Today, my campaign for Congress comes to an end. To everyone who stood with us - who gave your time, your energy, your belief - thank you. You gave more than I can ever put into words. When I felt like quitting, it was you who kept me going. What we built mattered. The conversations, the miles, the fight we brought to a political establishment that too often shuts working people out - that was real. You inspired me. And I hope you remember that too - not just the outcome, but the movement, the moments, and the belief that something better is still possible. This isn’t the end. It’s just a change in direction. We keep going.

If there was ever a moment for mass, unified civil disobedience across political and ideological lines, it’s now. This is a reckless, illegal, unconstitutional march toward catastrophe - and the American people have a duty to disrupt it, reject it, and refuse compliance.

@TrackAIPAC Thank you for all the support!

@PadoraforCO Thank you for running, John! 🫡

Thank you!! I’ll let this video speak for itself. Today, my campaign for Congress comes to an end. To everyone who stood with us - who gave your time, your energy, your belief - thank you. You gave more than I can ever put into words. When I felt like quitting, it was you who kept me going. What we built mattered. The conversations, the miles, the fight we brought to a political establishment that too often shuts working people out - that was real. You inspired me. And I hope you remember that too - not just the outcome, but the movement, the moments, and the belief that something better is still possible. This isn’t the end. It’s just a change in direction. We keep going.

Delegates in Weld and Douglas Counties, This Saturday you will help decide whether my campaign earns ballot access in the CD4 Democratic primary. I’m asking for your support. I’m a 37 year old working dad and engineer raising three kids in Weld County. I come from the same world as machinists, welders, farmers, ranchers, teachers, nurses, and small business owners working every day to get by. Nearly 70 percent of Americans live paycheck to paycheck. We need candidates who come from the working class, understand agriculture, and can bridge the rural and urban divide. Our democracy is under strain. We need fighters willing to challenge the broken rules pushing our country toward autocracy. I’m asking for your trust and your vote at assembly so the voters of CD4 can decide this race in the June 30 primary.

Thank you @ProgressiveVic ✊🏼✊🏼

"No war with Iran. We’ve learned this lesson before. Stop repeating failed foreign policy."-@PadoraforCO

There are Democrats in Congress willing to support Trump’s illegal war in Iran. Over two-thirds are bankrolled by AIPAC and powerful lobby groups. My generation grew up watching friends go to war and not come home while trillions burned in Iraq and Afghanistan. Why should working Americans keep dying in wars that make oil companies and the Epstein class richer? I’m John Padora. I’m running for Congress to end the forever wars and reinvest in healthcare, housing, and people here at home.

This can’t be our congresswoman. Inflation isn’t complicated - prices keep rising while our money buys less. Groceries go up. Rent goes up. Gas goes up. But our paychecks don’t. Working families feel it every day. If someone in Congress can’t answer a basic question like that, they have no business making decisions about our economy. I’m John Padora - a working dad who can beat Lauren Boebert. This country belongs to working people. Let’s send her home.

This race isn’t about resumes or insiders. It’s about the fight for our future. For years we’ve been told cautious centrism wins. But hesitation and half-measures helped bring us to this moment while our country drifts toward autocracy. I am proudly progressive. That means affordable healthcare and housing, confronting wealth inequality, and ending the grip of corporate money on our democracy. I refuse the DC money pipeline. No defense contractors. No Big Pharma. No oil and gas lobbyists. No corporate cash. Right now we are fighting for ballot access through the caucus and assembly process. That fight requires real resources to organize, communicate, and win. If you believe working people deserve a real voice in Washington, chip in and help us carry this fight forward.

As the death toll rises in the middle east, I think about a soldier from Hamburger Hill who said: “Don’t send your sons to finish what politicians started.” My generation has known nothing but war. Iraq and the WMD lies. Twenty years and trillions in Afghanistan. Libya destabilized. Syria in ruins. Billions sent overseas while Americans struggle at home. Red or blue, the war machine keeps humming. And when we keep sending people to Congress who hold millions in defense contractor stocks, how can we expect unbiased votes on war and weapons? Profit driven conflict does not know party. It only knows objectives and how to achieve them. This is systemic. War is a business model. As long as conflict is profitable, it will continue. No more regime change. No more nation building. No more endless war. Reinvest in America. Stop sending our sons and daughters to pay for political failures.

I’m sick of politicians hiding behind “separation of powers” arguments like that’s the whole story. Yes, Congress must authorize war. That matters. But Americans are exhausted by something bigger. Decades of endless wars. Immense human suffering. Hundreds of billions of our dollars burned overseas. While families here can’t afford groceries, housing, or healthcare. The issue isn’t just procedure. It’s priorities. We are told there’s always money for bombs. But never enough for working people. That’s what Americans are sick of. #Iran

I’m John Padora, and I’m running for Congress to defeat Lauren Boebert and build a better future for our families. I’ve driven 150,000 miles across Colorado, holding town halls everywhere because you deserve a fighter who shows up. I’ll hold Trump accountable, overhaul our for-profit healthcare system, fight for Eastern Colorado farmers, and I’ll never take a dime of AIPAC or foreign lobby money. Boebert failed to carry our voices. I’m coming to take her job. Like. Share. Donate. Let’s win this together.

Colorado’s Fourth District is as diverse as it is strong - from Highlands Ranch and Loveland to Sterling, Fort Morgan, and my hometown of Severance. Like many of you, I wasn’t born here. I grew up in rural Pennsylvania - grandson of a farmer, son of a nurse and a carpenter. But Colorado shaped me. Summers in Rocky Mountain National Park. Rockies games with family. It always felt like home. Now it is. I’ve traveled this district and heard the same thing - working families feel ignored. Leaders talk. They don’t listen. I’m running to change that.

NO WAR WITH IRAN. Regime change has been a disaster everywhere it’s been tried. It destabilizes nations, costs countless lives, drains our treasury, and leaves working families here paying the price. We’ve learned this lesson before. Stop repeating failed foreign policy.

She’s using us for her own political gain. That shouldn’t surprise anyone. Lauren Boebert has shown us exactly who she is. We deserve a leader who actually knows us - our communities, our struggles, our working families - and who will fight for us in Washington instead of embarrassing us and blocking meaningful progress. That’s why I’m running for Congress. Hardworking families have been abandoned for far too long. We need real, equitable change - and I won’t stop fighting until we get it. #CO04

“This is the atrocity of our lifetime. How we respond will define how history remembers us.”-@PadoraforCO

I’m running to use politics as a tool to bring us together - not tear us apart. I’m focused on what we agree on: Lower taxes for working families. Affordable healthcare. Clean air and clean water. Protecting our land and our jobs. Broadband and real infrastructure. These are common sense priorities blocked by crooks in Washington who think we serve them. We don’t. I’m grateful to be here - and I’m ready to fight like hell for our community. I will never give up on us. #CO04

At 19, I survived a brutal car accident. Years later, I fell into opioid addiction. I thought my life was over. It wasn’t. It was the beginning. I rebuilt brick by brick - working with recovery centers, nonprofits, and fighting for second chance programs to keep nonviolent drug offenders out of jail. After seeing cannabis help my dad with MS, I fought to legalize it. If you’re struggling in silence - you are not alone. As the grandson of a farmer and son of a nurse and carpenter, I know rural Colorado is being left behind. Our stories matter. Our towns matter. And I’m fighting for both.