Tracking what's destroying Colorado
A curated collection of bills, news, and resources about Colorado politics and policy
A curated collection of bills, news, and resources about Colorado politics and policy
Colorado HB26-1309 redefines “coercive control” as domestic violence in custody and separation cases. The broad new language includes patterns of “regulating everyday behavior,” limiting “liberty or freedom,” or interfering with a child’s “bodily integrity” and “sense of self.” Critics say this turns routine parenting—tracking a kid’s phone for safety, grounding them from toxic friends, taking away devices, refusing middle-school birth control, discouraging abortion, or telling a child they’re too young for irreversible gender procedures—into potential “abuse.” If a court finds “domestic violence” by a mere preponderance of the evidence, there’s a presumption against that parent receiving custody or decision-making rights. The bill passed the House Judiciary Committee yesterday on a party-line vote.
This is textbook leftist tyranny dressed up as “protecting children.” Democrats in Colorado aren’t fighting real domestic violence—they’re weaponizing family court to punish parents who dare to raise their kids with traditional values. Tracking your own child’s location? That’s responsible parenting, not “coercive control.” Setting rules, confiscating a phone, or saying “no” to a middle-schooler’s birth control or chemical castration isn’t abuse; it’s called being a dad or mom. The radical left hates the nuclear family because it stands in the way of their gender-ideology cult and their desire to turn every kid into a ward of the state.
By expanding “domestic violence” to include common-sense discipline and moral guidance, this bill hands activist judges and bitter ex-spouses a loaded gun to strip conservative parents of their God-given rights. It’s the same crowd that cheers “my body, my choice” for abortion but suddenly thinks a 12-year-old has the maturity to decide on hormones and surgery—unless Mom or Dad objects. Then it’s “abuse.”
Parents, not bureaucrats or blue-haired activists, are the best judges of what’s best for their children. This bill is another brick in the wall of the nanny state that believes kids belong to the government. Colorado families deserve better than politicians who want to criminalize love, boundaries, and biological reality. Kill this bill, restore parental rights, and send a clear message: our kids are not your experiment.