(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%
Now that President Trump has signed his “big, beautiful, bullshit bill” into law, we’re getting a better sense of just how bad things are going to get as a result of cutting hundreds of billions of dollars from social safety net programs so that rich people can finally get a nice tax break. There is […]
Longtime political observers, and readers of Colorado Pols, are probably familiar with what is (sadly) one of the more common dumb mistakes that campaigns can make in Colorado: Highlighting a mountain range in campaign materials that is not actually a landmark found in our state. Using a geographically-incorrect image of a random mountain range is often […]
As Ernest Luning obligingly reports for the Colorado Springs Gazette, a Republican you may have heard of, though you’d be excused if you hadn’t, has filed to run for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate to face incumbent Sen. John Hickenlooper in November of 2026. Though we’d be surprised if perennial loser and former state […]
We took note on Monday of the Colorado House Republican caucus election that resulted in the elevation of Rep. Carlos “Who?” Barron as the new House Minority Whip for the GOP micro-minority. The fact that the House GOP elevated someone who just completed his first legislative session to its #3 leadership position is a curious […]
As Nick Coltrain reports for The Denver Post, lawyers for pillow salesman and 2020 election fraud conspiracy enthusiast Mike Lindell maybe weren’t taking all that seriously his doomed defense in a defamation case brought by a former employee of Dominion Voting Services: A judge fined two attorneys for MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell $3,000 apiece Monday for […]
In a deliberate effort to minimize the political damage in the upcoming midterms from the cuts in the Republican budget bill signed into law last week by President Donald Trump, some of the most painful retail-facing provisions of the bill like the new reporting requirements to qualify for and retain Medicaid health coverage were written […]
The passage last week of the Republican budget bill they insist on calling the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” while public opinion polls say it should be called something more profane has created a huge electoral liability for that party going into the 2026 midterms. The question is not whether but how much damage Republicans […]
There has been a lot of shuffling of deck chairs recently among the House and Senate Republican caucuses in the state legislature — both of which have been mired in minority status for years. Last week, a Republican vacancy committee in Colorado Springs replaced Senate Minority Leader Paul Lundeen with a nutball named Lynda Zamora Wilson. You might […]
Yesterday, Axios broke the news currently roiling the MAGA world who would rather be celebrating the passage of the “We’re All Going To Die Act” budget bill signed with excessive fanfare by President Donald Trump on July 4th: after months of delay following a teasing non-release by Attorney General Pam Bondi of what was purported […]
As Caitlyn Kim reports for Colorado Public Radio, what may be the greatest act of political self-sabotage of our lifetimes is headed to President Donald Trump’s desk to be signed into law, as the Senate’s even more pernicious version of the Trump reconciliation budget bill given the Orwellian official name “The One Big Beautiful Bill […]
Today is the 183rd day of the year, which means we are officially more than halfway through 2025. 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. […]
This morning, America’s Most Vulnerable Freshman™ Rep. Gabe Evans removed any lingering doubt about his unswerving support for President Donald Trump’s budget reconciliation megabill known as the “We’re All Going To Die Act,” even after certain aspects of the legislation including cuts to Medicaid and renewable energy were made even more harmful by the Senate […]
We wrote last week about an appearance by Colorado’s harmonic convergence of carpetbagging controversy Rep. Lauren Boebert on the Glenn Beck TV Prime Time with Alex Stein Show, in which Boebert expressed support for the pardoning of fellow reality TV star Joe “Tiger King” Maldonado, currently serving federal prison time for his murder-for-hire plot against […]
As The Washington Post reports, the big, beautiful, bullshit bill (BBBB) narrowly made it through the U.S. Senate today: The Senate on Tuesday narrowly approved massive tax and immigration legislation that Republicans hope will become the centerpiece of President Donald Trump’s second term, dramatically reorienting the role of the federal government and unwinding many of […]
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, oh no! The big bullshit bill has hit some serious roadblocks! Wait, sorry, OH YAY! The big bullshit bill had hit some serious roadblocks! And by “some serious roadblocks” we mean “the opinion of the vast majority of voters” How does it play in Paonia? Then, it turns […]
Throughout the debate and especially after voting for what polls say is the most unpopular major legislation in decades, America’s Most Vulnerable Freshman™ Rep. Gabe Evans has resolutely defended the bill’s cuts to Medicaid funding, which Evans duplicitously insists are not cuts at all–and only aimed at eliminating “wasteful” coverage handed out to undocumented immigrants […]
State Rep. Ryan Armagost (R-Berthoud) is resigning his seat in the legislature and dancing his way down to Arizona, which leaves a “leadership” hole in the House micro-minority that could create a whole new set of problems for the GOP. As The Colorado Sun reports: House Minority Whip Ryan Armagost of Berthoud, a fierce gun […]
As an antidote to the overwhelmingly negative press about America’s Most Vulnerable Freshman™ Rep. Gabe Evans’ work in Washington, Evans has leaned heavily photo ops at places around the district under the guise of “learning” about nonprofits and businesses who drive the economy in his swing congressional district and meet the basic needs of residents. […]
From the blurry border between politics and show business where both President Donald Trump and Colorado’s cantankerous carpetbagger Rep. Lauren Boebert do the voodoo that they do, Newsweek reports that Boebert is serving as an intercessor with the Dear Leader in the case of reality TV star Joe Maldonado, immortalized by the 2020 Netflix miniseries […]
The right-wing Alliance Defending Freedom announced in May the lawsuit on behalf of Camp IdRaHaJe near Bailey over new Colorado Department of Early Childhood policy promoting gender equality, with all the fire and fervor of religious freedom endangered by the “woke” agenda to turn John into Jill some afternoon while they’re at school: Alliance Defending […]
In the 2024 election, former radio host Jeff Crank became just the fifth different person to represent the Colorado Springs-centered fifth congressional district. Just like the other four people who preceded him, Crank is a Republican. As Colorado has become a solidly-blue state over the last 10+ years, CO-05 is the one congressional district has […]
As the Grand Junction Sentinel’s Sam Klomhaus reports, a former U.S. Postal Service worker in Grand Junction was sentenced to five years in the Colorado state hoosegow for her part in a crackpot scheme to “test” the state’s election security by stealing and voting 19 ballots that didn’t belong to her–otherwise known as election fraud: […]
Newsweek reports on the latest defining slip-up from former Senate Majority Leader and intermittently reanimated cadaver Mitch McConnell, who gave his most honest if heartless assessment about public opinion on the Republican budget proposal that will deprive millions of Americans of their Medicaid health coverage including one in three residents of McConnell’s native Kentucky: Republican […]
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr is diligently working on making Americans more deader (more MAMD than MAHA), and he continues to pursue his anti-logic policies while completely ignoring requests for more information from Congress. On Tuesday during a hearing of the Subcommittee on Health of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, ranking […]
As Colorado Public Radio’s Stephanie Wolf reports, a ballot question put before Douglas County voters in a special election yesterday that would have granted the conservative bastion “home rule” status has failed by a lopsided margin that can only be interpreted as a humiliation for the county’s politically activist all-GOP board of commissioners: Voters in […]
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