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No endorsement

The race

One state House seat is at stake in Colorado's House District 23, for a two-year term, on November 3, 2026. The seat is open: the incumbent, Monica Duran (D), is not on the general-election ballot. The confirmed general-election roster, from Ballotpedia — Colorado House of Representatives elections, 2026, is: Alexis Hoffkling (Democratic Party); Ross Metler (Libertarian Party). No published district-level competitiveness rating was located for this district at this sourcing depth, and none is presented as one.

Incumbency note: Ballotpedia's general table marked no incumbent for this district. Wikipedia's 75th Colorado General Assembly roster names Monica Duran as the district's representative, and Monica Duran is not on the general-election ballot, so the seat is treated as open; the correction is recorded in the research file.

Alexis Hoffkling (D), nominee. Alexis Hoffkling appears on the confirmed general-election roster for this district (Ballotpedia — Colorado House of Representatives elections, 2026, accessed October 25, 2026). No detailed voting-record, biography, or signature-claim file for this candidate was verified at this sourcing depth, and none is invented here.

Pros: A willing nominee giving the district's Democratic voters a choice on the ballot. Cons: No documented break with the Democratic Party toward this publication's values was located in the compiled record — no Manchin-test break. The organizing vote adds to a Democratic caucus whose program this publication opposes; that caucus weight is lighter in the House than in the Senate, but it does not create an exception where no break exists. The flaw, plainly: Enabler class, not extremist — a reliable party-line vote, which is the standing reason the exception for a Democrat is not earned here.

Ross Metler (Libertarian Party), nominee. Ross Metler appears on the confirmed general-election roster for this district (Ballotpedia — Colorado House of Representatives elections, 2026, accessed October 25, 2026). No detailed voting-record, biography, or signature-claim file for this candidate was verified at this sourcing depth, and none is invented here.

Pros: An additional choice on the ballot under the Libertarian Party label, as listed by the source. Cons: No record was verified at this sourcing depth, and no Manchin-test file — which in any event requires a documented in-service break — was located for this candidacy. The flaw, plainly: None proven was located in the compiled record; no endorsement is made for a non-Republican candidacy without the documented break the doctrine requires.

OUR CALL

No endorsement. No Republican is on the general-election ballot in this district, and no Democrat on it passes the Manchin test on any record located — no documented in-service break with the Democratic Party toward this publication's values was verified. No extremist classification is made for any candidate here: no documented DSA membership, self-described democratic-socialist identification, or authored socialist program was located for any candidate on this ballot, and enabler is not extremist. A lean is not issued on a record this thin.

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Sources

Election result — November 4, 2026

Result pending. No verified call (Associated Press or official) as of November 4, 2026. This page will be updated when the race is called or certified. The original article above is unchanged.

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