(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%
Colorado’s eighth congressional district is the very definition of a toss-up race. In 2024, Republican Gabe Evans defeated Democratic Rep. Yadira Caraveo by less than one percentage point (49.0 – 48.2). National Democrats almost immediately declared CO-08 as a top pickup opportunity for 2026, when Republicans are expected to be heavy underdogs to maintain majority […]
Hi there. I’m a mom of two amazing kids. Like any parent, I worry about what they see online, who they’re talking to, and how technology is shaping their world. So, when I first heard about Colorado’s SB25-086—marketed as a way to “protect kids online”—I thought, great! Finally, someone’s taking steps to keep children safe. […]
Yesterday afternoon, Gov. Jared Polis signed what will go down as one of the most noteworthy pieces of legislation of the 2025 session, a bill that establishes new education requirements for the purchase of certain semiautomatic firearms like the AR-15 class of “assault weapons” used in some of the deadliest mass shootings in recent American […]
There is a remarkable video clip making the rounds on social media today of President Trump asking and answering the question that has been on every American’s mind for months: How could you be THIS STUPID and still end up as President of the United States? Here’s President Trump in his own words on Wednesday, […]
A major development with local and national implications reported by the Colorado Sun’s Jason Blevins this morning, Kathleen Sgamma, the longtime Colorado-based oil and gas booster nominated by President Donald Trump with the support of fellow Coloradan Energy Secretary Chris Wright to lead the Bureau of Land Management, suddenly withdrew from the confirmation process: The […]
UPDATE: Via David A. Graham of The Atlantic, this is even more confounding than you thought: This afternoon, President Donald Trump announced a partial pivot on social media. On the one hand, he ratcheted up tariffs on China to 125 percent. On the other hand, he announced that he was reducing tariffs on “more than […]
Republicans control the White House, the U.S. Senate, and the U.S. House of Representatives. Here in Colorado, Republicans haven’t won a statewide election since 2014 (unless you count Heidi Ganahl winning a CU Regent race in 2016…which we don’t) and have been exiled to micro minority status in the state legislature. Yet somehow Colorado Republicans […]
As the Colorado Sun reported last week, and we wanted to note for the record so that future generations might understand what life was like before… Joking, of course, unless we fatefully are not: House Bill 1040, which adds nuclear energy to the state’s list of clean energy resources, was signed into law Monday by […]
CNN reports this morning and continues to update as markets pinball Monday on misinformation and continued fears of a new Great Depression gripping the global economy: US stocks were extremely volatile Monday — tumbling, surging and then bouncing around in every direction, as traders searched for any sign that President Donald Trump’s tariffs could be […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) Originally posted at the Colorado Times Recorder When Steve Bannon took the stage to raucous applause at last Friday’s fundraising gala for the Colorado Republican Party, he wasn’t just the keynote speaker, he was also the third convicted felon to address the crowd. The lineup began with a jailhouse call from […]
As Sam Klomhaus reported Tuesday for the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel, the Trump 2.0 administration’s attempt to bigboot its way into the state criminal conviction of former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters, who is settling into a nine-year sentence to the Colorado Department of Corrections for her role in a security breach of Dominion Voting […]
CNBC reporting today on a massive market selloff provoked by President Donald Trump’s announcement just after markets closed yesterday of sweeping tariffs taking effect against basically every nation in the world including our closest economic partners and allies. Despite some hope that Trump’s so-called “Liberation Day” tariffs would be more lenient than the worst fears, […]
As CBS News reports, today is a day dreaded from the start of Donald Trump’s second administration, the announcement of a sweeping new scheme of “reciprocal” tariffs meant to force other economies to either drop their own trade barriers or move the manufacturing of their products to the U.S. Trump has declared today “Liberation Day,” […]
As Politico reports, the announcement yesterday of sweeping job cuts at the federal Department of Health and Human Services under new Secretary Robert F. “Leatherface” Kennedy Jr. set off the latest round of panic as the Trump 2.0 administration’s Great Leap Forward bulldozes its way through institutions most of us take for granted…along with not […]
As the scandal over the use of an unauthorized commercial app by top Trump administration officials to discuss war plans regarding military action against Yemen last week continues to escalate in Washington, Colorado Public Radio’s Caitlyn Kim has gotten all of Colorado’s congressional delegation on the record with two freshman Republican exceptions: Reps. Jeff Crank […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) Originally posted at the Colorado Times Recorder WASHINGTON D.C. — U.S. Rep. Gabe Evans (R-CO) questioned the affordability and reliability of different types of energy in a congressional hearing on Tuesday. Evans “Can you just speak to the complexities of managing the grid and understanding that not all power is created […]
That’s the head-scratching takeaway from this report from The Hill’s Ashleigh Fields via FOX 31: Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) urged lawmakers to stop making fun of President Trump’s decision to rename the Gulf of America, suggesting the nation’s capital could undergo the same change. “I would caution my colleagues on the other side of the […]
As a third day dawned on the rapidly escalating scandal consuming Washington, D.C. after top Trump administration officials used a commercial chat app to discuss highly classified plans for impending military against against Yemen while inadvertently including the editor of The Atlantic in the discussion, despite valiant attempts by President Donald Trump and a phalanx […]
As Heather Willard reports for FOX 31 on the explosive controversy over a chat between top Trump administration officials discussing then-upcoming military action against Yemen using the unauthorized Signal app, a major breach of operational security and records retention laws made immeasurably worse by the accidental inclusion in the chat of…the editor of The Atlantic, […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) Originally posted at the Colorado Times Recorder The Trump Administration has made sweeping changes to American public policy over its first two months, from shuttering the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to downsizing the Department of Agriculture (USDA), and instigating a trade war with Canada, Mexico, China, and other […]
UPDATE: Colorado’s other U.S. Senator John Hickenlooper sounds more conciliatory about Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s future, via Axios: “I think it’s time for Democrats to stop pointing fingers at each other and doing the circular firing squad,” Hickenlooper told us when pressed about whether he would support a leadership change. This too is a […]
We woke up this morning to news that a well-known local immigrant rights activist, named by TIME Magazine as one of America’s 100 most influential figures when she first made headlines early in Donald Trump’s first administration, has been arrested by federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in Aurora–reportedly acting without a deportation order. […]
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast…new polling shows Americans are already sick of Trump 2.0; will shutting down FiveThirtyEight so nobody can get a good polling average help or hurt the 45th and 47th president and his flagging ratings? The White House is controlled by Republicans. The senate is controlled by Republicans. The […]
As the Grand Junction Sentinel’s Nathan Deal reports, Colorado Mesa University, which in addition to being Grand Junction’s finest institution of higher learning has also long served as a job placement service for Republican operatives including the school’s president John Marshall, is hosting in the interest of the 2025 definition of “diversity” one of America’s […]
awesome + uniting Thousands in green line the streets for 58th annual Denver St. Patrick’s Day Parade Colorado State slams Boise State to win first Mountain West title since 2003 Colorado School of Mines dangles “golden ticket” of guaranteed admission for Jeffco STEM students awesome + controversy Polis welcomes Canadian Consul General for first annual […]
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