State AGs aren't backup they are The antimonopoly force today
David Seligman is one of my favorite candidates in the country
He's running for Colorado Attorney General with absolutely no fear of criticizing the Democratic Party when they sell working people out. (By name, like Governor Polis). Last weekend, in the first real vote of the 2026 Democratic primary, he came out on top. 38% to 36% over the perceived frontrunner, in a straw poll of delegates elected at caucuses held across Colorado by actual Democratic voters.
Before we get to the race, let's talk about why this job matters more right now than it ever has.
Our federal enforcers, including the Department of Justice's Antitrust Division are being systematically corrupted by the Trump administration. Trump settled with Ticketmaster and is pretending the Paramount deal is legal when it looks like part of a corrupt deal to get Trump to control CNN content.
State attorneys general are sometimes an afterthought in the fight against monopoly power, but they are actually the key, the whole ballgame right now: Bonta says he's investigating Paramount, and it’s the states that are still litigating Ticketmaster, determined to break up their illegal monopolization efforts. It’ll be the states that will have to lead in taking on BigTech and private equity and the concentrations of wealth and power that are destroying the country.
It is critical to have state AGs who are imaginative, serious, and driven by a desire for fairness to stop rampant white collar illegality. That's Seligman. It's not just that he has good politics. He’s been doing the work for years, standing up in court on behalf of working people–building the bold, imaginative legal theories to take on the largest corporate landlord in America for illegally overcharging tenants, the meatpacker JBS for systematically injuring workers on the line and treating them as disposable, Uber and Lyft for using algorithms to control their drivers while also cheating them out of pay.
And when Colorado's own Democratic Governor tried to cooperate with ICE to hand over the private information of immigrant workers — without a court order, in violation of state law — Seligman didn't stay quiet. He and his team helped bring the lawsuit to stop him, while he was running for attorney general.
This is not a politician who discovered that working people exist six months before an election. He has spent his entire career in the courtroom and in state legislatures across the country fighting for people who couldn't fight back alone.
His most prominent opponent in this race is Jena Griswold, Colorado's current Secretary of State. She's better known, better funded, and has spent months telling anyone who will listen that she's the inevitable frontrunner, which is clearly not true.
This race is massively important, for Colorado, and for people across the country. Seligman can pull off the upset here. We see that now. But especially as he gains more ground, corporate interests are going to pay even more attention to this race — including corporate interests that he’s taken on directly.
We have to get him as much help as we can.
If you support him, I promise you you'll feel a part of enormous pride when he brings the most innovative, aggressive, serious antitrust cases in the country. Want Lina Khan back? Support incredible candidates for AG.
Hope you're well and I've got some more soon,
Zephyr Teachout
