Melat Kiros is a Democratic 2026 House candidate in Colorado's 1st Congressional District whose current repository footprint is anchored in OpenFEC candidate and committee identifiers, campaign-site biography and issue material, April Quarterly 2026 aggregate totals, visible OpenFEC line-item pulls, ballot-access evidence, Denver DSA endorsement evidence, and an April 16, 2026 Instagram Live transcript showing her anti-corporate, progressive campaign positioning.
Kiros is now part of the repository's tracked federal-candidate set because OpenFEC resolves her as candidate H6CO01273, a Democratic House candidate in CO-01, with principal committee KIROS FOR CONGRESS (C00909481). The campaign-source layer is now stronger than in the first tracking pass: her campaign site supplies biography, issue priorities, and endorsement context.
Existing captured Colorado reporting identifies Kiros as challenging Diana DeGette in the 2026 Democratic primary, places her in local Democratic organizing context, and quotes her campaign critique of big-money politics. A new source pass adds Colorado Democratic Party and Denver Gazette ballot-access support plus explicit Denver DSA endorsement evidence. The current repo still does not have a full comparative CO-01 primary memo.
1st Congressional DistrictH6CO01273KIROS FOR CONGRESS (C00909481)2026-04-20: APRIL QUARTERLY 2026 is the latest returned report, with $379,411.83 in receipts, $261,156.83 in disbursements, $118,255.00 cash on hand, $1,100.00 debts, and zero rows returned by Schedule E, communication-cost, and electioneering aggregate checksCongressional District 1; Denver Gazette reporting says she and DeGette both made the June 2026 primary ballot through the district assembly608 unique visible receipt rows totaling $229,846.04; Schedule B pull returned 97 visible disbursement rows totaling $141,809.66; both visible line-item layers currently stop at 2025-12-31raw/datasets/openfec/2026-federal-candidates-refresh-2026-04-17/overview.md and raw/datasets/openfec/2026-federal-candidates-refresh-2026-04-20/overview.md: resolve Kiros in the tracked federal-candidate refresh, preserve candidate ID H6CO01273, principal committee C00909481, April Quarterly 2026 top-line totals, and zero-row aggregate outside-spending checks.raw/video/2026-04-16 melat-kiros-instagram-live-raw-video.md: records a user-supplied April 16, 2026 Instagram Live MP4, checksum, media metadata, and deferred transcript/review status.raw/video/2026-04-16 melat-kiros-instagram-live-raw-video-transcript.md: preserves the MLX Whisper machine transcript and raw ASR output link for the April 16, 2026 Instagram Live video.wiki/summaries/melat-kiros-instagram-live-campaign-positioning-2026-04-16.md: analyzes the Instagram Live transcript, including Kiros's money-in-politics frame, issue positions, Palestine remarks, war-powers argument, and contrast with DeGette's seniority case.wiki/summaries/melat-kiros-instagram-live-claim-check-2026-04-17.md: independently checks factual claims flagged from the transcript analysis, including campaign donor figures, district-age and PVI claims, MIT living-wage figures, housing-shortage estimates, Tigray death-range estimates, prediction-market volume, the Golden war-powers vote, and DeGette's Health Subcommittee role.raw/articles/2026-04-17T083000-0600 melat-kiros-campaign-site-ballot-dsa-source-pass.md: preserves the campaign-site biography and issue layer, Colorado Democratic Party ballot-access page, Denver Gazette assembly report, and Denver DSA endorsement post.wiki/summaries/melat-kiros-campaign-site-ballot-dsa-and-openfec-line-items-2026.md: compiles the Kiros campaign-site, ballot, DSA, and visible line-item OpenFEC findings.wiki/summaries/federal-candidate-openfec-refresh-2026-04-16.md: maintains the durable tracked-candidate aggregate summary that now includes Kiros.raw/articles/2026-04-11T155513-0600 ctr-74522-whats-next-young-democrats-discuss-the-future-of-their-party.md: places Kiros in a local Democratic Party discussion as a U.S. House candidate.raw/articles/2026-04-11T155513-0600 ctr-74571-davis-which-member-of-colorados-congressional-delegation-is-mentioned-in-the-epstein-email.md: identifies Kiros as challenging DeGette and preserves direct quoted campaign framing about big-money politics.2025-12-31, while the aggregate committee totals now include an APRIL QUARTERLY 2026 report through 2026-03-31.