Protecting Colorado’s Children and the 1876 Constitution’s Liberty Legacy

On Tuesday, February 10, 2026, former state senator Kevin Lundberg and Athletes for Action co-founder Megan Burke rally support for Protect Kids Colorado’s three ballot initiatives in the final days of signature collection, while constitutional scholar Rob Natelson celebrates his 40th citation at the United States Supreme Court and Jon Boesen of Boesen Law discusses navigating insurance claims. Ballot Initiative Deadline Looms for Protect Kids Colorado Start listening at 19:24 – Hour 1 Kevin Lundberg, former Colorado state senator and Protect Kids Colorado board member, reports that over 2,000 volunteer circulators have gathered signatures for three ballot initiatives aimed at protecting children. With only days remaining before the petitions must be delivered to the Secretary of State, the organization needs just under 125,000 valid signatures and is racing to compile and notarize the forms. Colorado requires notarization of citizen initiative petitions, a more burdensome process than most states, but volunteers have risen to the challenge by earning notary certifications to streamline collection. Representative Scott Bottoms introduced legislative versions of all three initiatives using three of his five allotted bills, giving the Colorado General Assembly a final chance to act before voters decide in November. Lundberg says the legislature shows no signs of moving in that direction, and the current session is instead advancing legislation he calls “the worst bills.” Twenty-six states have already enacted similar protections for girls sports, and a group in Maine followed Colorado’s lead to qualify their own ballot measure. The petition drive has drawn both enthusiastic support and hostile pushback from opponents, but Lundberg says the overwhelming majority of Coloradans sign when they hear the plain facts. “We’re going to give them one last shot at doing the right thing before we put it before the people through these initiatives.” Kevin Lundberg, Former State Senator and Protect Kids Colorado Board Member A Champion Athlete’s Case for Safeguarding Girls Sports Start listening at 32:31 – Hour 1 Megan Burke, a 15-time Colorado state champion in track and cross country who earned a full scholarship to the University of North Carolina, brings firsthand athletic experience to the fight for fair competition. Burke co-founded Athletes for Action to provide young female athletes with community, education, and the confidence to speak up. She reports receiving weekly messages from parents whose daughters face boys competing in their leagues, from JV soccer to U9 softball, and has witnessed it personally as a youth soccer coach. Burke points to Paula Scanlan‘s experience at the University of Pennsylvania, where the swimmer had to change 18 times a week alongside a fully intact 6-foot-4-inch male competitor. Burke challenges the premise that placing biological males in girls’ categories qualifies as inclusion, arguing it actually excludes girls from their own spaces and opportunities. She cites data showing men jump 25 percent higher, are around 30 percent stronger, and punch 162 percent harder. At Denver’s East High School, she notes, the second floor has a boys’ bathroom and an all-gender bathroom with no dedicated girls’ facility. New Hampshire Governor Kelly Ayotte‘s veto of a ba...