(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%
“Qui cum canibus concumbunt cum pulicibus surgent.” If you don’t speak Latin — and there’s really know reason you should — you might not recognize that this is a statement that should seem quite familiar. The English version is often attributed to Benjamin Franklin: “He that lieth down with dogs shall rise up with fleas.” […]
UPDATE: A reader helpfully notes that the Tavern 1301 is in the same building as the Historic Cow Palace Inn, which in theory would provide the accommodations needed to sleep off a night of hard celebrating getting off probation instead of racing the cops back home. Drink up, we guess? —– If you find yourself […]
As the Washington Post reports, the jury in the New York criminal trial against ex-President Donald Trump on charges of falsifying business records to conceal a “hush money” payment to porn star Stormy Daniels is now deliberating the historic case: The jury in Donald Trump’s hush money trial began deliberating Wednesday morning in the first criminal […]
We’ve often joked in this space that some politicians who act particularly crazy — usually those on the far right — have had their brains eaten by social media, or the internet, or whatever. As it turns out, this might actually happen. According to various reports, including from The New York Times, Independent Presidential candidate […]
Some of you might end up in Kansas if these winds keep up. 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 […]
On Sunday, the Colorado House passed Senate Concurrent Resolution 24-003, referring a statewide constitutional amendment to voters this November to repeal the state’s constitutional prohibition on same-sex marriage–a provision that hasn’t been enforced since the U.S. Supreme Court’s Obergefell v. Hodges decision making marriage equality the law of the land, but would suddenly become a […]
The 2024 Colorado legislative session is set to come to a close in less than two weeks (May 9). Democrats, who maintain majority control in both chambers, are scrambling to finish up some top legislative priorities. Republicans, who have no real ideas or policy aspirations of their own, continue to focus their efforts on wasting […]
Republicans in the state legislature continue to obey their idiot masters at the NRA and RMGO in opposing any and all gun violence prevention legislation. It matters not whether these proposals are straightforward and obvious concepts; if Democrats suggest so much as limiting someone’s access to owning a combination machine gun and flamethrower, Colorado Republican […]
Republicans in the state legislature are not serious people. They have demonstrated this time and time again during the last two legislative cycles (and well before then). Republicans spend well more than their fair share of time yammering about one thing or another in order to grind legislative happenings to a halt. When that strategy […]
The current session of Congress is well on its way to going down in history as perhaps the single most ineffective two years in American history. Think about that for a moment: This is the 118th session of Congress. None of the previous 117 sessions were as useless as this current version overseen by a […]
While Colorado Republicans are busy leaving their firearms unattended in public places, President Joe Biden is fulfilling a promise to close the gun-show loophole. As The New York Times reports: The Biden administration has approved the broadest expansion of federal background checks in decades in an attempt to regulate a fast-growing shadow market of weapons […]
As part of their long-running efforts to prove that they are absolutely not serious people interested in useful discussions about anything, House Republicans will today waste a few hours of everyone’s time in a pointless quest to impeach Secretary of State Jena Griswold. What for? Let’s dig in… When and Where Will this Circus […]
In documents filed yesterday before the State Bar Court of California, former University of Colorado “conservative scholar” and central player in the scheme to overturn the 2020 presidential election John Eastman is requesting a stay of the decision inactivating Eastman’s license to practice law, citing a number of cases around the country Eastman remains involved […]
Republican legislators demonstrated for the gazillionth time on Tuesday that they are only interested in “mental health” as an argument against doing anything about gun violence prevention. We’ve seen it time and time again: Republicans say that the real problem with gun violence is mental health and that any attempts to discuss legislation about the guns […]
As we have long known, former President Donald Trump is a YUGE fan of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Whether or not Putin shares a fondness for Trump is unclear, but the Russian dictator certainly prefers to deal with the obsequious orange guy when it comes to relations with the United States. Putin knows that Trump […]
As the Washington Post’s Philip Bump reports, though the word is spreading excitedly throughout Christendom: On Tuesday, [Donald Trump] announced a promotion that might endear him even further to the central Christian text: a “God Bless the USA” Bible, some of the proceeds of which will flow back to him… The promoted Bible has not […]
Happy Day of the Union of Bessarabia with Romania. 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 on Facebook and Twitter. […]
Colorado Rep. Joe Neguse (D-Boulderish) has officially ascended to the #4 position in Democratic leadership in Congress. From a press release: Today, Congressman Joe Neguse was elected to serve as the Assistant Democratic Leader in the United States House of Representatives. The 39-year-old Colorado lawmaker was elected to succeed Rep. Jim Clyburn in the role, […]
Today on the Get More Smarter Podcast…we have a special interview-only episode with the man who was the first guest on the original show way back in May 2016. You know him as Denver’s Mayor, Colorado’s Governor, and now a United States Senator: John Hickenlooper is back on the pod! You don’t want to miss […]
The Colorado legislature is discussing several gun violence prevention (GVP) bills this session after passing a handful of important changes in 2023. We could point you toward polling data showing how the issue of gun violence has changed in Colorado since Colorado’s “no compromise” gun rights group, Rocky Mountain Gun Owners (RMGO), helped lead a […]
President Biden delivered a passionate State of the Union (SOTU) speech on Thursday that was more political than most but appeared to hit all of the right notes. As The Hill newspaper reported on Sunday, even former Biden detractors were applauding his SOTU remarks: New York Times columnist Ezra Klein walked back his previous demands […]
Is there any idea that is just too stupid and ridiculous for Colorado House Republicans to attempt? We can now definitively answer that question with a resounding “No.” On Wednesday, the micro-minority caucus of House Republicans drafted a letter demanding that Democrats in the House bring their resolution to the floor to impeach Secretary of […]
We know, we know: It totally does seem like Republican Ron Hanks has been around FOR-EV-ER. But his 2024 campaign for Congress in CO-03 is only his third campaign in the last three election cycles (State House in 2020, U.S. Senate in 2022). Hanks has been doing some real thinking since we last saw him […]
UPDATE: Fields responds to this post by effectively saying, In order to prove my original argument, here is more of the same argument! —– Republicans in Colorado and across the country are using immigration reform as one of their top issues as they campaign for public office in 2024. These Republicans know that fear-mongering and fist-shaking […]
How many times can Colorado’s oil and gas industry be totally and completely destroyed? Quite often, it would seem. Republican State Rep. Gabe-ish Evans, who is also running for Congress in CO-08, is upping the rhetoric dial to 100 on a new oil and gas bill in the Colorado legislature: Democratic State Rep. Jenny Wilford […]
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