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Colorado U.S. Senate candidates John Hickenlooper and Mark Baisley debated key issues including Trump, abortion bans, and Iran at Metropolitan State University of Denver.

Colorado lawmakers ended the 2026 legislative session with final votes on key bills including a measure requiring college health centers to provide abortion medication and a bill shifting transportation funding to counter a proposed constitutional amendment on road funding. Several notable bills died on the last day, including one regulating gun barrel sales and another enshrining federal workplace safety standards into state law.

Colorado's House passed House Bill 1335 requiring public and private colleges with health centers to provide abortion pills on campus, with the bill set to take effect August 1, 2027, unless a college claims religious exemptions or risks losing grant funding. The House also passed House Bill 1276 to increase transparency and inspections of immigrant detention centers in Colorado, including prohibiting ICE from entering nonpublic jail areas and imposing penalties on agencies that illegally share information with ICE.

The Colorado-based Cobalt Abortion Fund spent over $2.4 million in 2025 to assist nearly 4,000 abortion patients, with about 40% of the funds helping Texans facing strict antiabortion laws. Colorado's protective abortion laws and recent legal measures, including Amendment 79 and an expanded shield law, position the state as a key provider of abortion care and support for out-of-state patients.

Robert Dear, who killed three people and wounded nine others in a 2015 mass shooting at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, died from congestive heart failure and related medical conditions on November 22 at a federal prison medical center in Missouri. Dear was never convicted due to mental illness, and the federal case was dismissed after his death, while the state case remains open in Colorado.