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This is Not How to Do Police Reform

The Denver City Council will hold its regular weekly meeting tonight, where one City Council member hopes to force a vote on a massively-consequential proposal that she hasn’t even sketched out herself. As Conrad Swanson reported last week for The Denver Post: Denver City Councilwoman Candi CdeBaca wants to place a measure on the city’s […]

Wayne Williams Turns Idiot On Mail Ballots

CBS4 Denver: A new week of politics in Colorado is beginning with more defense of Colorado’s mail-in voting system, as President Donald Trump says he doesn’t want to slow down the mail. Colorado’s top Democrats held a news conference first thing Monday morning to denounce efforts that they feel could hamper or prevent mail-in voting […]

Trump Yanks Pendley, Except Not Really

Colorado Public Radio reports on what could be considered an admission of defeat by the Trump administration, the announcement this weekend that interim Bureau of Land Management director William Perry Pendley will not be formally nominated for the position–but news that Pendley will continue to run the BLM in the interim capacity he has controversially […]

Even for Cory Gardner, This is Despicable

UPDATE: It’s been more than 10 days. Still no bill text: —– Politicians can do craven, gutless, despicable things when they are worried about their own re-election. Colorado Sen. Cory Gardner (R-Yuma) is on another level entirely. Today marks the one-week anniversary of the introduction of legislation that Gardner has not talked about other than […]

UNMASKED: The Dumbest Book Preview Video You’ll See Sunday

From the high-commission conservative fundraising site Freedomfy–that’s right, kids, Jon Caldara has a piece of the action–comes a preview of an upcoming Very Important Self-Published Book™ written by a hefty group of Republican lawmakers and hard-right local activists just in time for the 2020 election season: UNMASKED2020: Colorado’s Radical Left Turn and a Warning to […]

Gardner Shovels Red Meat To GOP Base On Mail Ballots

As readers know, Sen. Cory Gardner is generally reported by the press as being “in support” of Colorado’s mail ballot system. It would be weird if he wasn’t, since he was elected to the U.S. Senate in a mail ballot election in 2014, and Republican Secretary of State Wayne Williams has become a leading advocate […]

Senate Republicans Fail Americans for At Least Another Month

For the fourth consecutive week, we are discussing on a Friday the failure of Senate Republicans to make any movement whatsoever on another coronavirus stimulus bill. As CNBC reports, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has adjourned the Senate for a month-long recess while the rest of America stares back dumbfounded: The Senate is officially adjourned […]

Get More Smarter on Friday (August 14)

You’ve probably noticed that the air quality along the Front Range is less than optimal. But on the plus side, it will be a lot harder for anyone to notice that you haven’t showered since Monday. Let’s Get More Smarter. If you think we missed something important, please include the link in the comments below […]

WATCH: The Ad Cory Gardner Doesn’t Want Colorado To See

UPDATE: Yeah, right. .@CoryGardner's reelection campaign says they did not purposefully exclude Colorado from this Facebook ad buy. "Facebook's algorithms are just optimizing based on people who engage with similar content." #copolitics https://t.co/3dBlryojc7 — Jesse Aaron Paul ☀ (@JesseAPaul) August 14, 2020 —– Amanda Terkel at Huffington Post reports: Sen. Cory Gardner (R-Colo.) is running […]

The Get More Smarter Podcast: Deja Vu All Over Again and Again

This week on The Get More Smarter Podcast… Americans are still struggling from the effects of the coronavirus pandemic, which has surpassed 5 million cases in the U.S. alone and claimed the lives of 162,000 Americans. The economic impact from the pandemic continues to grow amid Senate Republican inaction; President Trump signs executive orders that […]

It’s Official: CD-3 Is Slipping Away From The GOP

As the Denver Post’s Justin Wingerter reports on a new poll that, if accurate, shows Republicans in deep trouble in a congressional district that was held easily by ousted incumbent GOP Rep. Scott Tipton for a decade: The survey of 400 likely voters in the 3rd Congressional District found Diane Mitsch Bush, a Democrat, with […]

SoS Griswold Goes To Bat For Ballot Boxes

NPR reported yesterday that mail ballot collection boxes, which have proven highly popular among Colorado voters–and that’s before President Donald Trump started monkey-wrenching the U.S. Postal Service coincidentally just a few months before an election he insists without factual basis will be defraudulated by mail ballots: Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett…told the U.S. Senate […]

GOP State House Candidate All In For Quackery Over Microchips

Samantha Koch, the Republican nominated to unseat Rep. Sue Lontine in southwest Denver’s House District 1, wants you to know that she has got this whole coronavirus thing figured out: Once again, the rule of “we’d ignore it if they weren’t a Republican candidate for the legislature” applies! There’s a lot to unpack here, more than […]

Get More Smarter on Wednesday (August 12)

The Glorious Twelfth! 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. And don’t forget to find us on Facebook and Twitter.   BECAUSE CORONAVIRUS… *Colorado Coronavirus info: CDPHE […]

Kanye, Kushner, Ivanka Glampout In Colorado (Yup)

UPDATE: ABC News thickens the reality TV plot, and not in a good way: NEW: The same day GOP operative Rachel George was actively working to get @kanyewest on Colorado’s ballot, she was also working for @TheJusticeDept as a fill-in public affairs spokesperson for US Attorney Jason Dunn. More below. ⁦@ABCPolitics⁩ @abc https://t.co/C8NlCBWP23 — Clayton […]

The “Phony” War On Rural Colorado Is Still Not Real

(Promoted by Colorado Pols) Senator Sonnenberg, President Pro Tempore of the Colorado Senate, has a new piece up in Colorado Politics decrying Governor Polis’s appointment of Ellen Kessler to the State Board of Veterinary Medicine.  The basis of his complaint: Ellen Kessler posted on her social media that “4-H clubs teach children that animal lives […]

Joe Biden’s Running Mate Is…Kamala Harris

UPDATE #2: It’s California Sen. Kamala Harris! Don’t ever doubt Colorado Pols readers.   I have the great honor to announce that I’ve picked @KamalaHarris — a fearless fighter for the little guy, and one of the country’s finest public servants — as my running mate. — Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) August 11, 2020 ——- UPDATE: Per […]

Cory Gardner’s JBS Testing Fiasco Isn’t Going Away

As the Denver Post’s Shelly Bradbury reports: U.S. Senator Michael Bennet on Monday called for an investigation into the federal government’s response to the spread of the novel coronavirus in meatpacking plants across the country. In a Monday letter to the inspector generals at the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Department of Labor, Bennet […]

Club 20 Lashes Out Like Jilted Lover

It’s been almost two weeks since the campaign for Democratic U.S. Senate candidate John Hickenlooper made it clear that it would not be participating in the annual “Club 20” debate on the Western Slope of Colorado. Club 20 is apparently having trouble moving on. On Monday, Club 20 did the political equivalent of posting a […]

Polis Keeps Eviction Balls Juggling While DC Dawdles

As the Denver Post’s Alex Burness reports, Gov. Jared Polis took action yesterday to extend the limited protections that have been in place giving renters in Colorado more notice of impending eviction proceedings–short of the full eviction moratorium affordable housing and civil rights advocates are calling for, and as a result not pacifying the growing […]

What you can do to fight back this week (August 10)

Like these alerts? Click here to subscribe. It’s very simple. One side wants to help. The other side thinks you’re getting “too much help.” Americans have been waiting for months now for Senate Republicans to take action on another badly needed economic stimulus bill to keep the country going as the battle against the COVID-19 […]

Forget Muslim Ban; Trump Considering American Ban

As The New York Times reports: President Trump is considering new immigration regulations that would allow border officials to temporarily block American citizens and legal permanent residents from returning to the United States from abroad if authorities believe they may be infected with the coronavirus. In recent months, Mr. Trump has imposed sweeping rules that […]

Fort Collins Police Disown “Back The Blue” Thugs

Video of a violent assault against a group of Black Lives Matter counter-protesters who showed up at a large “Back The Blue” rally outside Fort Collins, Colorado police headquarters on Saturday is making national headlines today, with media outlets left and right rushing to impart their desired spin on what appears from a straight examination […]

Trump’s Executive Order/Memo “Band-Aid” Won’t Stick

UPDATE #2: Gov. Jared Polis says there’s no way Colorado can sustain the additional burden imposed by Trump’s unemployment executive order, which results in a one-third cut to the benefit even if we do: On the president’s unemployment executive order, Gov. Jared Polis says, “The State would not be able to (provide the $100 match) […]

“Back The Blue” Attacks Black Lives Matter In Fort Collins

Trigger warning: this video depicts another violent attack in Colorado on Black Lives Matter protesters. UPDATE #2: The Denver Post’s Shelly Bradbury confirms three arrests and one citation issued by police: A video livestreamed on the Facebook page for a far-right Colorado podcast shows members of the pro-law enforcement crowd walking toward counter protesters in […]

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