(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%
Two new stories out this Friday, one from one of Colorado’s most reliable conservative-leaning TV reporters, frame the predicament America’s Most Vulnerable Freshman™ GOP Rep. Gabe Evans finds himself in as an enthusiastic supporter of legislation advanced this week in the U.S. House that will, according to every responsible analysis, result in millions of Americans […]
Yesterday, Colorado’s freshman GOP Rep. Jeff Hurd of Grand Junction appeared on CNN’s Situation Room to talk about, among a number of subjects, President Donald Trump’s recently-announced plans to accept a luxury 747 private jet from the State of Qatar, a hereditary absolute Persian Gulf monarchy who has flitted in and out of favorability with […]
Today is Peace Officer Memorial Day; Governor Jared Polis has ordered all flags to be flown at half-staff until sunset. 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 […]
This afternoon, the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee advanced on a party-line 30-24 vote their contribution to President Donald Trump’s “big beautiful bill” seeking hundreds of billions of dollars in cuts to essential programs like Medicaid in order to pay for the permanent extension of Trump’s first-term tax cuts. This politically noxious legislation, opposed […]
Happy Hastings Banda’s Birthday. Please celebrate responsibly. 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. Warm Up Those Brains… ► As Republicans barrel toward […]
Readers will recall a controversy last year after the Jefferson County Republican Party led at the time by chair Nancy Pallozzi announced a fundraising event starring then-South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, who now serves as the Secretary of Authoritarian Cosplay Homeland Security under President Donald Trump based on qualifications that have never been precisely articulated. […]
Enjoy the sun today before it cools off a bit later in the week. Although, with so many federal job cuts at NOAA and the National Weather Service, who the hell knows? 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). […]
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast…the 2025 legislative session has adjourned ‘Sine Die,’which is latin for “a lot of things that happened this year made us want to die.” We check in with the Trump Trainwreck as tariffs, trust, and traitors start to weigh heavy on the regime. Then, Colorado’s future one-term Congressman […]
As Politico’s Grace Yarrow reports, while Colorado’s Rep. Gabe Evans and the House Energy and Commerce Committee put the finishing touches on their bill to throw almost 9 million Americans off of Medicaid coverage over the next decade, the Republican-controlled House Agriculture Committee is working on squeezing hundreds of billions of dollars out of food […]
Colorado Republicans love to talk about crime and how our state (particularly Denver) is a hellhole of crime and violence thanks to Democrats and other heathens. To the thinking of these Republicans, if you haven’t already been stabbed by the time you finish reading this, you should consider yourself lucky. Unfortunately for Republicans — but […]
UPDATE: Speaking tonight with Denver7, Rep. Gabe Evans assumed full ownership of legislation that will strip almost 9 million Americans of their health coverage including thousands in his district: “This bill follows through on Republicans’ promises to cut waste, fraud, and abuse while protecting coverage for Colorado’s most vulnerable populations,” said Colorado Congressman Gabe Evans, […]
We wrote last week in our “Losers” section from the 2025 Colorado legislative session about Colorado Springs freshman Republican Rep. Rebecca Keltie, who appeared on a Libertarian podcast a few days before the end of the session and declared that all of her Democratic colleagues at the State Capitol building were corrupt and that “the […]
Freshman GOP Congressman Gabe Evans of Colorado’s ultra-competitive 8th Congressional District is the center of attention in Colorado politics right now for a very good reason: after winning what he thought was a plum appointment to the prestigious House Energy and Commerce Committee right after taking office, Evans is now one of a select few […]
As Seth Klamann reports for the Denver Post, yesterday Gov. Jared Polis confirmed as expected that he will veto Senate Bill 25-005, legislation to ease the especially difficult burden on union organizing in Colorado involving two separate elections in order to begin negotiating with an employer. Those who have been following the debate over this […]
The 2025 legislative session officially came to a close on Wednesday night, which means it’s time for our annual “Winners and Losers” assessment. We wrote about our “Winners” on Thursday, so now it’s time for the “Losers”: Losers House Republican Communications The press and media operation for House Republicans made a lot of silly […]
The Washington Post reports on the global news dominating the day today, the election in Vatican City of the first American Pope, Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo the 14th. Pope Leo replaces the recently deceased Pope Francis, whose political engagement on behalf of the poor, migrants, prisoners, and others at the bottom of the social […]
The 2025 legislative session officially came to a close on Wednesday night, which means it’s time for our annual “Winners and Losers” assessment. We’ll start today with our “Winners” list: Tom Sullivan In his sixth year at the State Capitol, Sen. Tom Sullivan (D-Centennial) continues to shepherd smart gun violence prevention measures through the […]
As readers know, freshman GOP Rep. Gabe Evans serves on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, which is in the national spotlight today as the committee charged with enacting a targeted $880 billion in budget cuts that experts say will overwhelmingly need to come from Medicaid funds that tens of thousands of constituents in Evans’ […]
As Marianne Goodland reports for the Colorado Springs Gazette’s political blog formerly known as the Colorado Statesman, former state Sen. Jerry Sonnenberg has been appointed by President Donald Trump to be the next executive director of the state’s Farm Service Agency–a cornerstone of administering agricultural policy responsible for relief, insurance conservation, and crop subsidy programs […]
Yesterday evening, a development we’ve been anticipating ever since Donald Trump won a second term as President last November: Trump personally weighed in on the case of convicted Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters, who is serving a nine year sentence in Colorado state prisons for her role in a failed scheme to hack voting machines […]
If you like rain and snow, then boy do we have the day(s) for you! Mountain areas could see 20 inches of snow, while lower elevations might get as much as four inches of rain today. Let’s Get More Smarter! If you think we missed something important, please include the link in the comments below […]
As the Trump administration continues its quest to cut funding for programs that help keep Americans alive, Congresswoman Brittany Pettersen (D-Lakewood) is making a specific request to preserve overdose prevention programs that are on the chopping block. As John Aguilar reports for The Denver Post: Pettersen implored U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy […]
Amid the daily deluge of disheartening news about the effects of mass layoffs of federal workers and the slashing of funding for crucial public safety and health programs across the nation, here’s a particularly unsettling story from AP medical reporter Lauran Neergaard about the abrupt end of a Denver-area study hoping to chip away at persistently […]
Over at the Get More Smarter Podcast, we’ve been regularly running a segment we call “Trump Time” that is intended to keep our listeners up to date on the more important/ridiculous developments in the administration of President Donald Trump. We’re adding a different version of this segment to Colorado Pols. Enjoy! His Idiocy Donald the […]
Colorado’s long-ousted but still not forgotten Sen. Cory Gardner appeared on the Fox News Channel earlier today to praise President Donald Trump’s agenda and chastise Democrats for “calling half of the country traitors” and “telling people to eff off when they disagree”–the premise being these are things that Democrats do and not, you know, Donald […]
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