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Your deliberately oversimplified glance at what happened in Colorado this week. Democrat Jared Polis defeats Republican Walker Stapleton in Colorado governor’s race Crow ousts Coffman in battleground congressional district Pueblo’s Garcia becomes first Hispanic state Senate president Prop 112 fails, but big vote total signals oil and gas setbacks will be headed to the statehouse […]

In the last week, we’ve witnessed horrible acts of political violence and intimidation across the nation. Bombs mailed to former Presidents and other critics of Donald Trump, a racially-motivated random shooting in Kentucky, and then the unthinkable killing of 11 people attending services at a Pittsburgh synagogue this past weekend. My grandparents survived the holocaust. […]

After nearly two years of resistance to the disastrous takeover of the federal government by Donald Trump and his disreputable enablers in the Republican Party, the time has finally come to strike back at the polls. In 2016, we saw what happens when progressives fail to take an election seriously, and let the perfect become […]

After almost two years of organizing to fight back against President Trump and the far right from Washington, D.C. to Denver, the 2018 midterms are finally here! Mail ballots go out to Colorado voters this week, and the whole world is watching to see how our state and nation will take action to reverse the […]

This past weekend was another terrible lesson that elections matter. Last week, a group of women including survivors of sexual violence from Colorado confronted Sen. Cory Gardner about Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court. Gardner told these brave women he was undecided, but it was a lie. Just a day later he voted […]

It’s a familiar sight after almost two years of Trump: crowds of protesters in front of Sen. Cory Gardner’s office. It’s happening almost every day now, as the battle over the nomination of accused rapist Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court grinds on. The message is simple: we’re watching, Sen. Gardner. And we won’t […]

Once again, Colorado is ground zero in a U.S. Supreme Court confirmation battle. Yesterday, an explosive new story from investigative journalist Ronan Farrow documents a second allegation of severe sexual misconduct committed by U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. [1] This latest allegation was leveled by a Colorado woman, Deborah Ramirez, who attended Yale University […]

A new poll from the New York Times confirms what many of you already know: this year, Rep. Mike Coffman of Aurora is in serious trouble. [1] After years of running away from his far-right record, reality may finally be catching up with “Teflon Mike.” If it happens, it will be because of thousands of […]

It’s eerily quiet out there for the middle of August. In previous years, August was a month for politicians to engage with the citizens they represent back home at public town hall events. That’s changed since Republicans took control of Congress, and last year you may recall that persuading Sen. Cory Gardner to come out […]

August will be a very important month for the resistance in Colorado. Traditionally, the month of August is a time for political leaders to return home from Washington to get feedback from their constituents about their agenda. But since Trump became President, Colorado Republicans have become just plain fearful of the very people they represent. […]