{"id":30,"name":"Karen Breslin","first_name":"KAREN","last_name":"BRESLIN","middle_name":null,"suffix":null,"bioguide_id":null,"fec_candidate_id":"S6CO00408","ocd_person_id":null,"govtrack_id":null,"opensecrets_id":null,"votesmart_id":null,"office_id":1,"party":"Democrat","status":"candidate","photo_url":null,"website":null,"campaign_url":"https://WWW.BRESLINFORCOLORADO.COM","email":null,"phone":null,"social_twitter":null,"social_facebook":"https://facebook.com/BreslinforColorado","social_instagram":"breslinforsenate","social_youtube":"https://youtube.com/@BreslinforUSSenate","state":"CO","district":"00","city":null,"assumed_office":null,"term_end":null,"born":null,"source":"fec","source_url":"https://api.open.fec.gov/v1/candidate/S6CO00408/","source_updated":"2026-08-19 08:01:43","first_seen":"2026-05-09 07:51:35","last_seen":"2026-06-19 11:24:35","created_at":"2026-05-09 07:51:35","updated_at":"2026-06-19 11:24:35","canonical_id":null,"fec_checked_at":"2026-09-12 06:31:53","contact_email":"info@breslinforcolorado.com","contact_source_url":"https://WWW.BRESLINFORCOLORADO.COM","contact_captured_at":"2026-07-07T12:23:12.607Z","office_name":"U.S. Senator","level":"federal","branch":"legislative","office_chamber":"senate","positions":[{"topic":"Healthcare","stance":"ECONOMIC FAIRNESS & HEALTHCARE","detail":"Middle income Americans have lost ground economically in the last 50 years while the billionaire class has enjoyed enormous gains. They use their wealth to rig the system. That needs to stop. We need: Medicare for All to reduce the considerable burden of health care expenses on working families, especially lower income Americans . A Financial Transaction tax on trades of stocks and bonds for individuals with incomes of more than $300,000. A Wealth tax comparable to Elizabeth Warren’s 2 percent annual tax on individuals with a net worth of $50 million or more. Antitrust enforcement to break up and halt consolidation of big banks, large tech companies and others that have excessive control over the market. Increase in the minimum wage to $15 an hour. Permanently expand the Child Tax Credit to reduce childhood poverty.","source_url":"https://WWW.BRESLINFORCOLORADO.COM/priorities","source_date":"2026-07-21"},{"topic":"Housing","stance":"FIGHTING CORPORATE POWER","detail":"Our current constitutional crisis is the inevitable outcome of obscene concentrations of wealth in the hands of a few. You can’t have deep income inequality and highly concentrated economic power and a democratic system of government. Monopoly capitalists want it all: all the wealth, and our democratic government, too. I will never play along. I will term limit myself after one term, leaving the greed-obsessed without leverage over me. And I will never take corporate PAC money. When the mega-corporations push for actions that hurt us, like ending the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, I will confront those companies and rally resistance to those actions.","source_url":"https://WWW.BRESLINFORCOLORADO.COM/priorities","source_date":"2026-05-12"},{"topic":"Immigration","stance":"IMMIGRATION","detail":"Provide a prompt path to citizenship and the end of detentions for detainees who have not otherwise violated the law (beyond entry into the U.S.) or pose a security risk or a risk to the public. Ensure that US immigration policy complies with the US Constitution and international human rights law, i.e., no detentions or deportations without due process, humane treatment of detainees and respecting the rights of asylum seekers. Provide an accelerated path to citizenship for DACA recipients and those with temporary protected status.","source_url":"https://WWW.BRESLINFORCOLORADO.COM/priorities","source_date":"2026-05-12"},{"topic":"Climate","stance":"PROTECTING OUR RIGHTS","detail":"No Appeasement. No collaboration. No conciliation. Not now. Not ever. Trump is hellbent on destroying the rights and freedoms our Constitution secures for us. I would counter Trump and his gang of Constitution-hating sycophants with the ferocity of Al Green, Bernie Sanders, Chris Murphy, and AOC. Tyrants like Trump must be confronted, not indulged. Americans need to understand the depth of this crisis. Congressional Democrats are failing to get that point across.","source_url":"https://WWW.BRESLINFORCOLORADO.COM/priorities","source_date":"2026-05-10"},{"topic":"Economy","stance":"FIGHTING CORPORATE POWER","detail":"Our current constitutional crisis is the inevitable outcome of obscene concentrations of wealth in the hands of a few. You can’t have deep income inequality and highly concentrated economic power and a democratic system of government. Monopoly capitalists want it all: all the wealth, and our democratic government, too. I will never play along. I will term limit myself after one term, leaving the greed-obsessed without leverage over me. And I will never take corporate PAC money. When the mega-corporations push for actions that hurt us, like ending the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, I will confront those companies and rally resistance to those actions.","source_url":"https://WWW.BRESLINFORCOLORADO.COM/priorities","source_date":"2026-05-10"},{"topic":"Healthcare","stance":"ECONOMIC FAIRNESS & HEALTHCARE","detail":"Middle income Americans have lost ground economically in the last 50 years while the billionaire class has enjoyed enormous gains. They use their wealth to rig the system. That needs to stop. We need:   Medicare for All to reduce the considerable burden of health care expenses on working families, especially lower income Americans . A Financial Transaction tax on trades of stocks and bonds for individuals with incomes of more than $300,000.  A Wealth tax comparable to Elizabeth Warren’s 2 percent annual tax on individuals with a net worth of $50 million or more.  Antitrust enforcement to break up and halt consolidation of big banks, large tech companies and others that have excessive control over the market.   Increase in the minimum wage to $15 an hour.  Permanently expand the Child Tax Credit to reduce childhood poverty.","source_url":"https://WWW.BRESLINFORCOLORADO.COM/priorities","source_date":"2026-05-10"},{"topic":"Climate","stance":"CLIMATE CHANGE & ENVIRONMENT","detail":"We need legislation and a political movement to protect our bodies and our environment from microplastics, pesticides and herbicides and air and water pollution. We need to incentivize carbon reduction and protect natural landscapes including forests and plains that function as carbon sinks as well as defend biodiversity.","source_url":"https://WWW.BRESLINFORCOLORADO.COM/priorities","source_date":"2026-05-10"},{"topic":"Education","stance":"SUPPORT K-12 & HIGHER EDUCATION","detail":"We need to protect the Department of Education and ensure robust federal funding of K-12 education. We need to use federal funds to close achievement gaps across geographic, racial and other demographics. We need to defend teachers from right-wing attacks and restore the Office of Civil Rights.","source_url":"https://WWW.BRESLINFORCOLORADO.COM/priorities","source_date":"2026-05-10"},{"topic":"Abortion","stance":"REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS","detail":"Oppose life at conception legislation or any other that enshrines fetal personhood into law. Repeal the Hyde Amendment. Support the Women’s Health Protection Act, sponsored by Rep. Hakeem Jeffries.","source_url":"https://WWW.BRESLINFORCOLORADO.COM/priorities","source_date":"2026-05-10"},{"topic":"Taxes","stance":"IMAGINE IF CONGRESS PUT WORKING PEOPLE FIRST.","detail":"Email Address Sign Up ➤ Thank you!