(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%
As the Minnesota Star Tribune’s Ryan Faircloth reports, a name well-known in Colorado politics after his years of involvement in the Tina Peters election fraud felony fiasco and close association with various fringe-right locals–also apparently notorious for not paying back money he’s borrowed from fellow Colorado election conspiracy theorists–is set to shake up the race […]
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, the Federal Government Shutdown enters its second-ish week and Democrats seem to have the upper hand, at least so far. Then, can puppy-killer DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and her masked goons defeat an army of grannies with ukeleles and people in inflatable costumes in war-raveged Portland, Oregon? Even though 2026 […]
As the Texas Tribune’s Renzo Downey reports, the Texas Republican Party is embarking on a purity purge of their own elected officials that would make former Colorado Republican Party chairman and would-be state purger-in-chief Dave Williams blush: The Republican Party of Texas’ governing board is set to meet in the state Capitol on Saturday to […]
As KTLA-5 Los Angeles reports, it’s the feel-good local politics story of the week: A Southern California mayor facing a recall effort is coming under fire after his suggestion to ending his city’s homelessness issue was “giving them all the fentanyl they want.” The comments were made by longtime Lancaster Mayor Rex Parris during a […]
In the latest edition of one of our longest-running features, “At Least They’re Not Your Legislator,” we take you to Texas, where a candidate for State Representative is only pretending to have children of her own. As The Texas Tribune explains, incumbent Republican Rep. Caroline Harris Davila is doing something kinda gross: For those who did […]
As Sara Wilson reported Tuesday for Colorado Newsline, the court trial to determine who is the rightful leader of the Colorado Republican Party is set to begin just over a month from now–not as far off as lawyers for embattled but still holding the office keys chairman Dave “Buh Bye Brandon” Williams were hoping for, […]
After the vote by a substantial faction of Colorado Republican Party Central Committee members this weekend to fire state party chairman Dave “Brandon Has Left The Building” Williams along with a pair of Williams’ executive loyalists, Williams remains defiant in a statement to the New York Times last night, stating as everyone already knew that […]
As The New York Times reports, we couldn’t even get through one day of summer without another mass shooting: Three people were killed and 10 others injured in a shooting on Friday morning at a grocery store in Fordyce, Ark., the police said. A shooter opened fire at the Mad Butcher grocery store in Fordyce in […]
In another edition of one of our longest-running features (“At Least They’re Not Your Legislator”), we take you to Vermont, where a Republican lawmaker named Mary Morrissey has publicly apologized for repeatedly dumping water onto a Democratic colleague’s personal items over the course of five months. As Boston.com reports: A Republican lawmaker publicly apologized to […]
In another edition of our long running series, “At Least They’re Not Your Legislator,” we take you to South Dakota, where… [Holy Christ, this is a real story?] …South Dakota Republican Gov. Kristi Noem, who may well end up as Donald Trump’s running mate, is a LITERAL PUPPY KILLER. As The Washington Post reports: South […]
As reporter Hannah Metzger writes for Westword today, one of Colorado’s most infamous conservative activists, former state Rep. Doug “Mr. TABOR” Bruce, is officially jumping into the CD-5 primary for retiring Rep. Doug Lamborn’s seat after signaling his intention to do so early this month: Rumors have swirled for weeks that Bruce could join the […]
The latest in our long-running “At Least They’re Not Your Legislator” series, Arizona Public Radio’s Bree Burkitt reports on a measure that Republican state Sen. Anthony Kern has introduced that would, if somehow approved by what would need to be extremely masochistic voters, allow the Arizona legislature to appoint presidential electors without worrying about pesky […]
AP reporting via National Public Radio on the scandal engulfing the Florida Republican Party as well as the nationwide right-wing movement of concerned Karens known as Moms For Liberty, as the Florida GOP chairman is stripped of his pay and responsibilities over allegations of sexual assault stemming from the failure of what the 1980s band […]
One of our longest running features at Colorado Pols is something we call, “At Least They’re Not Your Legislator,” where we detail a strange story that is normally about a politician from somewhere outside of Colorado. Sometimes, unfortunately, this feature applies to weirdos in our own state. State Rep. Scott “There is No” Bottoms, a […]
It’s time for another edition of one of our longest-running features at Colorado Pols: “At Least They’re Not Your Legislator.” Today we take you to South Dakota, where Republican State Rep. Joe Donnell — a close friend of Governor Kristi Noem — revealed that the true purpose of Mount Rushmore is to spread communism through […]
It’s time for another edition of one of our longest-running features: “At Least They’re Not Your Legislator.” For this installment, we take you to Texas for a story that really cements the idea that for Republicans, Every accusation is a confession. The Guardian newspaper provides the proper context for this story from the opening lede: A […]
As The Associated Press reports: A shooting Monday at a bank in downtown Louisville killed at least four people and wounded at least eight others, police said. The suspected lone shooter was also dead. Louisville Metro Police Department Deputy Chief Paul Humphrey told reporters officers who arrived on the scene “encountered active gunshots still being […]
NBC News reports on the shocking expulsion of two Black Democratic lawmakers by the GOP supermajority Tennessee House of Representatives yesterday, while the vote to expel a third white woman representative narrowly failed: Republican legislators in Tennessee voted Thursday to expel two Black Democrats from the state House over their protests on the chamber floor […]
Keeping the home fires burning in the culture wars, over in Arizona where election denialists went down in defeat at the top of the ticket but Republicans remain firmly in control of the state legislature, far-right lawmakers have turned to a stack of anti-LGBT and other wedge issue legislation to keep the faithful ginned up. […]
As the Philly Voice’s Michael Tanenbaum reports, defeated Pennsylvania GOP U.S. Senate candidate Mehmet Oz is finding his once-bankable star power has faded after Oz’s nasty and unsuccessful bid to hold Pat Toomey’s seat: “I can’t imagine ‘The Dr. Oz Show’ being rebooted at this point,” Robert Thompson, professor of television and popular culture at […]
UPDATE: Via the Colorado LGBTQ Legislative Caucus: Statement from Majority Leader Daneya Esgar, co-founder of the Colorado LGBTQ Legislative Caucus, and Majority Caucus Co-chair, Brianna Titone, Chair of the Colorado LGBTQ Legislative Caucus: “We are devastated. Club Q is a safe haven for LGBTQ Coloradans, and many of us have gone there over the years […]
At the desperate end of Colorado GOP gubernatorial candidate Hiedi Heidi Ganahl’s campaign, she returned once again to election conspiracy theorist and 2020 coup plotter Steve Bannon for a last-minute infusion of goodwill ahead of losing the race by somewhere close to 20 points one week ago. Bannon claimed based on what we now know were […]
As the New York Times’ Neil Vigdor reports, a Trump-endorsed QAnon-curious January 6th participant Republican congressional candidate’s campaign for Congress is careening out of control, after his self-professed record of military service turned out to be wildly overstated: J.R. Majewski, a Republican House candidate in northern Ohio, has frequently promoted himself as a combat veteran […]
It’s that time of the year in Colorado when politicians don funny-looking shirts and mingle at cocktail parties in support of the Denver Rustlers at the Colorado State Fair in Pueblo. If you’ve been browsing social media sites lately, you’ve no doubt seen seen the photos. Republican Senate candidate Joe O’Dea is among the candidates […]
Colorado Newsline’s Sara Wilson reports from a candidate forum held Sunday in Fort Collins by a group calling itself the “Colorado Conservative Patriot Alliance”–not quite as overtly threatening as “United American Defense Force,” but still all man–featuring a very interesting cross-section of Republican candidates for elected office in 2022 up and down the ballot: “Republicans […]
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