(D) J. Hickenlooper*
(D) Julie Gonzales
(R) Janak Joshi
80%
40%
20%
(D) Jena Griswold
(D) M. Dougherty
(D) Hetal Doshi
50%
40%↓
30%
(D) Jeff Bridges
(D) Brianna Titone
(R) Kevin Grantham
50%↑
40%↓
30%
(D) Diana DeGette*
(D) Wanda James
(D) Milat Kiros
80%
20%
10%↓
(D) Joe Neguse*
(R) Somebody
90%
2%
(R) Jeff Hurd*
(D) Alex Kelloff
(R) H. Scheppelman
60%↓
40%↓
30%↑
(R) Lauren Boebert*
(D) E. Laubacher
(D) Trisha Calvarese
90%
30%↑
20%
(R) Jeff Crank*
(D) Jessica Killin
55%↓
45%↑
(D) Jason Crow*
(R) Somebody
90%
2%
(D) B. Pettersen*
(R) Somebody
90%
2%
(R) Gabe Evans*
(D) Shannon Bird
(D) Manny Rutinel
45%↓
30%
30%
DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
80%
20%
DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
95%
5%
If you had spent any time at all trying to think up something that would make the 2024 election cycle for Colorado Republicans even more bizarre, this is probably what you would have come up with… As Ernest Luning reports for the publication formerly known as the Colorado Statesman: Doug Bruce, the author of Colorado’s […]
UPDATE: Marshall Zelinger at 9News has more on the Republican opposition to a Black History Month resolution: Post by @kyleclark9news View on Threads —– The new House Minority Leader at the state legislature apparently has no more control of the grandstanding imbeciles in her micro-minority than did the previous head clown. Last week, […]
(Where they go one, oh forget it — Promoted by Colorado Pols) Several well-known Colorado conservatives including the chair of the Jefferson County Republicans signed a U.S. Supreme Court amicus brief submitted by a QAnon-promoting conspiracy theorist. Among the nearly fifty amicus briefs submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court by those hoping to influence the […]
The American economy is doing really, really, really well. The stock market keeps reaching new heights, with the S&P 500 hitting a new record five days in a row over a period that ended on Friday. We have the strongest GDP growth in the developed world; consumer spending keeps rising; gas prices keep falling; and inflation […]
Nine Republican candidates seeking the open seat in CO-04 being vacated by the retirement of Rep. Ken Buck participated in a candidate forum on Thursday evening sponsored by the “Women of Weld” (WOW). You can watch the entire 90-minute debate on Facebook, or keep reading for one of our infamous “Debate Diaries.” In the […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) by Heidi Beedle and James O’Rourke During a Spunky Patriots meeting on Oct. 17, 2023, members of the conservative activist group practiced resisting arrest at Brave Church, formerly Fervent Church, in Colorado Springs. “They are coming to arrest your brothers and sisters,” said podcast host, election conspiracist, and defamation defendant Joe […]
Tonight at 6:00 pm, the “Republican Women of Weld” (WOW) and The Lincoln Club of Colorado will host the most consequential political debate Colorado has seen in years: The first big verbal showdown between the gazillion candidates running for the congressional seat in CO-04 being vacated by the retirement of Rep. Ken Buck. [*Note: WOW […]
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, there was so much news between the last time we recorded and today that we had to throw out a whole episode and start over! First, the ClusterBuck in Colorado’s 4th Congressional District gets more cluster-er as Colorado House Minority Leader Mike Lynch cops to a DUI […]
Back when Lauren Boebert was still a relatively-unknown aspiring politician hoping to unseat incumbent Republican Rep. Scott Tipton, about the only thing that anybody seemed to know about her was that she liked to pair a handgun with high heels and was a big fan of QAnon conspiracy theories. Boebert has never given up the […]
On Friday at the State Capitol, Rep. Richard Holtorf (R-Akron) lit himself on fire with a bizarre speech about his own experiences with abortion rights. Over the course of the following 24 hours, Holtorf attempted to douse those flames by pouring gasoline over his head. Repeatedly. If you missed what kicked all of this off, […]
Today is “Confederate Heroes Day” or “Confederate Memorial Day” in southern states including Texas, Florida, and Tennessee (other states, such as Alabama and Mississippi, observe a similar “holiday” on the third Monday of January). Let’s Get More Smarter. If you think we missed something important, please include the link in the comments below (here’s a good […]
“You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.” –Wendell Phillips
We swear we’re going to get back to doing these updates more regularly. Let’s Get More Smarter. If you think we missed something important, please include the link in the comments below (here’s a good example). If you are more of an audio learner, check out The Get More Smarter Podcast. And don’t forget to find us […]
The Expanded Child Tax Credit (ECTC) has long been one of Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet’s signature issues. The program was actually implemented for a brief period of time and proved to be incredibly successful. Nationwide, the child poverty rate more than DOUBLED less than a year after the CTC expired at the end of 2021. […]
On this Friday before the federal holiday Monday commemorating civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the Colorado House passed its customary resolution honoring Dr. King with lots of specification on both sides. In previous years, this resolution has witnessed more than its share of controversy, from the “sponsorship boycott” last year in which […]
THURSDAY UPDATE: Yet another troubling headline from The Washington Post: As Tony Romm writes: Some of the roughly 5 million families who receive rental assistance from the U.S. government could see sharp cuts to their benefits — and even the threat of eviction — unless lawmakers in Washington can craft a budget deal that fully funds […]
UPDATE #2: Looks like Rep. Lauren Boebert is off the hook, says 9NEWS’ Kyle Clark: —– UPDATE: Via Carol McKinley of the Colorado Springs Gazette, some insight on the new charges against Jayson Boebert. Unpleasant stuff: Arrest records obtained by The Denver Gazette show that the Boeberts’ teenaged son, who has a nine-month-old child, called […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) Just because it’s 2024 doesn’t mean 2020 isn’t still up for debate. Last Thursday night in the southeastern corner of the state, election denialism and January 6 revisionist history were hot topics with Lauren Boebert and the other congressional hopefuls trying to out-Trump one another. Baca County Republicans held the first […]
As Colorado Public Radio’s Paolo Zialcita reports, police were called Saturday night to the Miner’s Claim restaurant in Silt by Jayson Boebert, the ex-husband of Colorado’s ever-bubbling cauldron of controversy Rep. Lauren Boebert, after dinner between the exes deteriorated into the Congresswoman from Garfield County somewhere in Eastern Colorado TBD allegedly punching Jayson repeatedly: Silt […]
Congressman Doug Lamborn’s retirement announcement means that for the first time that we can remember, all of Colorado’s Republican-held Congressional seats will be open in the same election cycle. There will likely be at least two dozen Republicans running in a GOP Primary in “safe” Republican districts in CO-03, CO-04, and now CO-05. But why […]
Over the past few months and intensifying significantly in recent weeks, tens of thousands of migrants who arrived at the southern U.S. border seeking humanitarian asylum and better economic opportunity have been transported to Denver by the government of Texas, leaving the city to manage the expense of caring for migrants who are in most […]
This year’s roundup of the biggest lies in American politics compiled by FactCheck.org, thicker than ever in 2023 from Hunter Biden to Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., features two separate dishonorable mentions for Colorado’s factually antagonistic Rep. Lauren Boebert–the first being the President’s self-confessed failson: Involvement in Hunter Biden’s business deals. Immediately after Hunter Biden’s former […]
Trent Leisy, one of the growing gaggle of Republican candidates vying to succeed retiring Rep. Ken Buck in Colorado’s crimson-red CD-4, announced before the holiday what he’s calling the “MAGA Never Surrender Convoy” set to roll this Saturday from Fort Collins to Colorado Springs–protesting what Leisy calls the “treasonous” decision by the Colorado Supreme Court […]
Colorado, you know who loved this worst Congress in history that we have all just barely endured, the one just ended, the session of chaos and incompetence in which Republican members ate each other on live TV and shat on each other behind closed doors and did nothing of substance for the American people? You […]
In the 36 hours since the Colorado Supreme Court announced their ruling disqualifying ex-President Donald Trump from the 2024 ballot in this state under the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution’s prohibition of individuals who engaged in insurrection from running for elected office, there’s been an explosion of anger and threats on social media such […]
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