Most campaigns spend money telling you about themselves. This one spends it fixing things.
Special election
November 3, 2026
Fix Crew Saturdays run every Saturday morning through October, somewhere in Denver. Anyone can work one. We rent the dumpster and buy the paint, you bring a morning, and something on a block is different by lunch. Bring the kids and bring the dog.
Every fix this campaign has to its name started with a note from a neighbor. We go stand on the corner, file it with the city by name and number, and put what we find on camera. Five have gone in that way, and the city has already closed three.
The address or the corner, and the thing that keeps getting missed.
Send a noteIt's always good to hear from a neighbor. Give us a call and press 1 to leave your note on our voicemail.
Call 720-790-9025
The $10,000 hole Street tree wells, citywide More than 100,000 views. Watch it 
The stop the city calls finished W 11th Ave at N Galapago St Denver 311 case 11510394. Closed. Watch it 
The trash can nobody will own 2800 block of N Downing St Denver 311 case 11509970. Closed. Watch it 
Two crosswalks, no light, no stop sign Knox Ct at W 2nd Ave and W 12th Ave Denver 311 cases 11506873, 11506894. Still open. Watch it Denver's Fair Elections Fund matches the first $50 of a qualifying contribution from a Denver resident at 9 to 1.
I have no interest in turning your $50 into $500 for high-priced consultants, social media spam, and mailers headed for the recycling bin. Denver gets enough of that every election.
We'll put as much of the match as the rules allow into work Denver can see. Denver people get hired, and the receipt goes public when the job is done.
None of it turns on until 100 different Denverites have each given $5 or more. Five dollars counts toward that hundred exactly as much as $415 does.
The campaign takes no corporate or PAC money and answers to Denverites.
The work happens whether or not we win.
Give $50Or five dollars, which counts the same toward the hundred. ActBlue takes the card, and it asks for your address because the city checks that you live in Denver.
I grew up the only kid of a single mom who did the best she could against a stacked deck. When I moved here at 19, it was because Denver had promise for a kid who didn't have all the answers.
I started writing about Denver in 2010, then spent a decade running event operations where a bad plan fails in public.
I'm running because City Hall should have to pass the same test.
More about JakeDenver's refund skips working renters. Open it to them, judged on your own paycheck, never your roommates'.
↗ 02 Doubled rent at renewal shouldn't close a business.Pay landlords to keep Denver's legacy businesses, and when a landlord pushes a steady business out at renewal, the landlord pays the move.
↗ 03 Keep a storefront dark for a year, and the owner starts paying for it.A yearly fee that climbs until there's a tenant.
↗ 04 You paid the fee. The work shows up, or the fee doesn't.When the city cuts pickups, every bill drops the same month, automatically.
↗ 05 No AI watching us while we drive or while we work.No vote for a surveillance contract until Denver requires a public impact report and a council vote.
↗ 06 Denver shouldn't make money off your heat.Denver charges 5.15 cents on every dollar of home heat on the Xcel bill. One ordinance ends it.
↗ 07 Visitors should chip in a little more.Send voters a 3-point lodging tax increase, hotel rooms and Airbnbs alike. Still below Austin.
↗ 08 Homelessness we don't see isn't homelessness that's solved.Publish the returns count again, and no new shelter contract without it.
↗ 09 No data center permit until the water, power, and noise are on the record.Keep the pause until council writes the rule that replaces it.
↗ 10 If you work in this city, you should be able to afford to live here.Build where nobody sleeps: parking lots, emptied offices, stadium land.
↗A neighbor and a lobbyist see the same form and the same open times. If you lobby, build, or hold a city contract, our meeting gets published within 48 hours.
Jake Browne, for Denver City Council At-Large. At-Large means the seat represents the whole city, not one district.
See who else is runningTuesday, November 3, 2026. It's a special election, on the same ballot as the November general election. Ballots mail October 5.
More about the special electionSarah Parady stepped down from the seat on August 5, 2026. This election fills the rest of her term. One seat, whoever gets the most votes wins, no runoff.