(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%
In a Truth Social post today, which we’re supposed to refer to simply as a “Truth” but for self-evident reasons we decline, President Donald Trump issued the most direct threat yet against the state of Colorado over the incarceration of convicted felon former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters. Peters, as readers know, was sentenced to […]
One of the stranger stories of the 2024 election cycle involved an alliance of sorts between the Colorado Republican Party and the Colorado Libertarian Party to join forces like a Dollar Store version of Voltron in an effort to prevent Democrats from winning elections. That idea is back in 2026…and it’s gotten weirder yet. There […]
As Seth Klamann reports for the Denver Post, the nominal second priority of the special session of the Colorado General Assembly set to convene on Thursday after mitigating the effects of the billion-dollar hole in the state budget opened by the passage of the federal “We’re All Going To Die Act” budget bill is for […]
WEDNESDAY UPDATE: John Wenzel of The Denver Post has more on the proposed sale and reaches many of the same conclusions: A proposed merger between the parent companies of two of Denver’s top TV news operations could result in layoffs, consolidation and programming changes, according to media experts. Fox31 KDVR parent company Nexstar Media Group, […]
President Donald Trump’s lengthy Truth Social screed yesterday vowing to lead “a movement” to abolish mail-in ballots, which have proven to be secure and popular in Colorado for over a decade, took place in the context of a wave of federal scrutiny and alleged attempted illegal meddling against Colorado county clerks and Secretary of State […]
Brian Eason of The Colorado Sun has expanded on a story in last week’s “Unaffiliated” newsletter that we mentioned previously about the folly of cutting taxes as an effort to boost the economy and employment — particularly with Colorado’s unusual TABOR budgetary restrictions. This issue is popping up again ahead of Thursday’s special legislative session […]
We’re taking the rare step of posting the text of President Donald Trump’s wild and wacky screed early this morning presumably in response to a headline about Jeffrey Epstein he didn’t like, to ensure that search engines capture every word of it for posterity: I am going to lead a movement to get rid of […]
Lawmakers will reconvene next Thursday for a special legislative session in order to figure out how to make another $800 million dollars in cuts to the state budget necessitated by President Trump’s “big beautiful bullshit bill” enacted by Congress in early July. In the meantime, Colorado Republicans have been trying very hard to put their […]
As the Philadelphia Inquirer’s Julia Terruso reports, a Beltway-based conservative “dark money” group calling itself the Center for Individual Freedom spent several thousand dollars of their unaccountable cash running ads in Colorado thanking someone by the name of “Rep. Evans” for his vote in favor of the “We’re All Going To Die Act” Republican budget […]
It’s history that Colorado Republicans don’t like to get into these days, but those of us with intact long-term memories can recall a time when Donald Trump had not yet supplanted values to become the Colorado GOP’s personal object of veneration, and even resisted Trump’s hostile takeover of the Republican Party. Even before Donald Trump […]
Freshman Rep. Jeff “Bread Sandwich” Hurd (R-Grand Junction) is desperate to convince constituents, journalists — and perhaps, himself — that his two votes in favor of President Trump’s “big beautiful bullshit budget bill” won’t end up destroying rural hospitals in the third congressional district. As Marianne Goodland of the publication formerly known as the Colorado […]
As Michael Karlik reports for the Colorado Springs Gazette’s political blog, a lawsuit seeking to halt a consumer product safety law passed this year by state lawmakers failed in federal court this week: In June, Gov. Jared Polis signed House Bill 1161 into law, which requires retailers of gas stoves to affix a “yellow adhesive […]
UPDATE: Here’s the latest example of the “post truth” bubble Republicans are living in today: This simply isn’t true, folks. It has never been true, and in all probability never will be. But Republicans say catch them if you can. —– One of the more pernicious effects of the rise of Donald Trump and the […]
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, it’s a Special Session Special Episode Special! Again! And this time it’s not even our fault! As the effects of the Big Bullshit Bill come into focus, Colorado has to cut ANOTHER billion dollars from the state budget on top of the billion dollars TABOR forced us to […]
If Congress were like a poker game, freshman Rep. Gabe Evans (R-Ft. Lupton) would be in big trouble. That’s because Evans has an unshakable “tell” that gives him away every time. It’s quite simple: If Gabe Evans is talking, then he’s lying. Much like former Republican Sen. Cory Gardner — the last Republican to win […]
As ABC News reported yesterday, another U.S. Supreme Court precedent that millions of Americans have considered to be settled law for over a decade could once again be upended, as the court considers whether to consider a challenge to the 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges decision making marriage equality for same-sex couples the law of the […]
As the Colorado Springs Gazette’s Marianne Goodland reports, the ongoing internal conflict within the morally headless Colorado House GOP minority caucus escalated again yesterday with the filing of a campaign finance complaint against Rep. Ron Weinberg of Loveland, who is already beset by allegations of serial sexual harassment that scuttled his short-lived bid to serve […]
As state lawmakers prepare to reconvene for a special session later this month to address the budget shortfall created by the federal reconciliation budget bill that every Republican member of Congress from Colorado voted for and President Donald Trump signed into law, Colorado Republicans are fighting an uphill battle to shift the blame for the […]
Republicans such as Congressman Gabe Evans (R-Ft. Lupton) — who loves to remind anyone who will listen that he was once a police officer on the hardscrabble streets of Arvada — often go out of their way to scare constituents about the dangers of living in Colorado as a way to promote a shaky narrative […]
UPDATE: Rep. Jason Crow posts this update from outside the Aurora ICE detention center, where he and colleagues were apparently allowed in unlike previous visits: Today, I led a Congressional oversight visit to Aurora’s ICE facility. We will not be deterred from doing our jobs, and that’s exactly why we made this visit today. Ensuring […]
The creators of South Park (and owners of the famous Casa Bonita restaurant in Lakewood) returned this week with their second episode of the season, which continued skewering the Trump administration. The latest episode included an ICE raid at a “Dora the Explorer” concert at Ball Arena in Denver. The storyline centers largely on Homeland […]
Rolling Stone reports today on a new resolution introduced in the U.S. House by a trio of vulnerable Republicans including America’s Most Vulnerable Incumbent™ Rep. Gabe Evans that takes the denial and doublespeak following the passage of the historically unpopular “We’re All Going To Die Act” Republican budget bill to a credulity breaking point: Last […]
With Congress adjourned for the August recess, vulnerable Republicans like Colorado’s Rep. Gabe Evans are holding impromptu photo-ops with various institutions and stakeholders in their districts–since publicly announcing these events in advance would lead to protests–and in Evans’ case, trying to force a script on locals to avoid the hard questions about the policies of […]
Congressman Gabe Evans (R-Ft. Lupton) continues to claim — despite ludicrous amounts of evidence to the contrary — that 100% of immigrant detentions and deportations conducted by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) are justified because of the risks to public safety. Evans keeps going back to the same talking point: That the goal of new […]
UPDATE: 9NEWS’ Kyle Clark sums up the common problem with X and the Colorado House GOP: —– Longtime state house reporter Bente Birkeland at Colorado Public Radio brings us a story we’ve heard the periphery of but hadn’t yet been privy to the full nauseating details. If you think the state of interparty relations in […]
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