CIRC Action 2025 Annual Report
A Word from Our Co-Executive Directors
Dear Community,
In 2025, immigrant communities across Colorado faced an increasingly hostile national political climate, with rising anti-immigrant rhetoric and coordinated attacks on the policies and leaders who defend immigrant families. In response, CIRC Action Fund focused on strengthening the political power needed to meet this moment. Even in an off-cycle municipal election year, we invested in building relationships with voters and preparing immigrant communities to shape the critical elections ahead.
Our team conducted targeted voter outreach across communities in the Denver metro area, helping deliver important local victories. In 2025, seven candidates endorsed by CIRC Action Fund won their races across Aurora and Westminster, demonstrating the growing influence of immigrant communities and our allies in shaping local leadership. These wins reflect years of organizing and the power of connecting local issues – such as housing, economic opportunity, and public safety – to the broader fight for immigrant justice.
Our voter engagement was also strategically focused on immigrant communities and voters of color in Colorado’s most competitive congressional district. We knocked on nearly 5,000 doors within Colorado’s Congressional District 8 and initiated hundreds of conversations with voters about the importance of electing leaders who stand with immigrant families. These conversations helped lay the groundwork for stronger civic engagement in one of the most competitive districts in the country, where immigrant and New American communities will play a decisive role in the elections ahead.
As we look toward 2026, we know the political threats facing immigrant communities will only intensify. Anti-immigrant forces are already advancing ballot initiatives designed to criminalize immigrants and roll back protections, including proposals such as ballot measure 95. Meeting this moment will require building a strong statewide campaign that engages voters around both these threats and the leaders who will stand with immigrant communities. Our focus remains clear: expanding civic participation, strengthening community leadership, and ensuring immigrant communities have the power to elect leaders who will defend dignity, opportunity, and justice for all.
In solidarity,
Gladis Ibarra & Henry Sandman