(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%
The Aurora Sentinel’s Cassandra Ballard reports today on the fallout over Tuesday night’s address by President Donald Trump to a joint session of Congress, in which the long-debunked and reborn falsehoods about the supposed “takeover” of the city of Aurora by migrant gangs continued to flow freely from the presidential piehole: During his speech to […]
While Democrats like Rep. Jason Crow host capacity crowd town halls full of constituents angry over the Trump 2.0 administration’s bulldozing of the federal government since taking office in January, Republicans have been advised by their leadership to avoid in-person events where the public can ask unscripted questions–or at least switch to telephone-based town halls, […]
Economic news continues to darken faster than JD Vance’s eyeliner. As CNN reports today: The Trump administration’s massive federal cuts and swelling feelings of economic uncertainty helped fuel a recession-level spike in layoff plans last month, new data showed Thursday. US-based employers last month announced plans to slash 172,017 jobs, a 103% increase from a […]
As the Washington Post’s Jacob Bogage reported yesterday evening, the Congressional Budget Office has rendered its judgment on the budget resolution narrowly passed by the U.S. House last week–and despite the promise by Republicans from President Donald Trump to Colorado’s most vulnerable Republican Rep. Gabe Evans to protect funding for bedrock social safety nets like […]
UPDATE: After some six hours of testimony, today’s circus hearing has concluded. As Kyle Clark reports for 9News, not much happened: Colorado Republicans were THIRSTY for viral moments from today’s hearing, but none of them (Boebert, Crank, and Evans) were able to come up with anything memorable. Congressman Jeff Hurd left the proceedings without speaking. […]
As AP’s Lisa Mascaro reports via 9NEWS, an outburst last night from a Democratic member of Congress during President Donald Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress could lead to further punishment by the GOP-controlled House against Rep. Al Green of Texas: As Green rose to speak, shaking his walking cane at the president, […]
In a statement earlier today, Rep. Diana DeGette of Denver says she’ll be skipping tonight’s address by President Donald Trump: “Trump’s childish and shameful actions in the Oval Office towards Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, as well as his barrage of illegal attacks against public servants and vulnerable groups, have disgraced and embarrassed our country. His […]
President Trump will deliver a joint address to Congress tonight in which he will likely lie his ass off about a whole bunch of topics. One subject he will have trouble avoiding is the increasingly-worrisome state of the economy. From The New York Times: Global stocks tumbled on Tuesday as investors’ concerns over the future […]
As Colorado Public Radio’s Andrew Villegas reported late last night, an Acting Assistant Attorney General issued a “Statement of Interest” in the appeal filed by former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters, who is currently serving the first months of a nine-year sentence after her conviction last August on 7 charges including official misconduct, attempting to […]
FOX 31’s Greg Nieto reported Friday on a controversy brewing in the far northeastern Colorado town of Severance, located in carpetbagging crusader Rep. Lauren Boebert’s new district, in which a resident family claims to have received a threatening letter about MAGA merch on display in the family’s front yard: A Severance family says they recently […]
We wrote earlier today about the day of reckoning coming for Republican Members of Congress in tough districts who supported a Republican budget proposal that seeks to decimate funding for Medicaid — something that one of every five Coloradans relies upon for health coverage and/or nursing home care. As soon as Freshman Rep. Gabe Evans […]
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast…we already make the joke about the actor Jeff Bridges in the intro to the interview but we’ve got the Chairman of Colorado’s powerful Joint Budget Committee — State Senator Jeff Bridges — on the show to explain the insane math problem that is the Colorado state budget. The economy is rolling […]
Following the passage last week of the Republican framework budget resolution setting the stage for massive cuts to funding for a broad range of vital government services like Medicaid, Colorado Public Radio’s John Daley took a detailed look at the impact of the expected cuts on individual congressional districts across the state. And as we’ve […]
(Saine is in — Promoted by Colorado Pols) Originally posted at the Colorado Times Recorder Former Weld County Commissioner Lori Saine plunged into the race to be the next leader of the Colorado Republican Party last night, saying that “America-First policies” will put Republicans back in power here. “I’m Lori Saine and I am running […]
To the extent that the capacity for outrage still exists in Washington, D.C. today as Donald Trump’s second term leaves jaws agape on a fatiguingly continuous basis, the historic-in-a-bad-way meeting today between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and President Trump with Vice President J.D. Vance riding shotgun has once again left literally everyone in the world […]
As Cassandra Ballard reports for the Aurora Sentinel, last night Democratic Rep. Jason Crow of Aurora hosted an in-person town hall that by all accounts greatly exceeded turnout expectations, with an estimated 1,500 showing up to express their dismay and demand action after Trump 2.0’s calamitous first month back in office: At the biggest town-hall […]
As Ali Longwell reports for Grand County’s Sky-Hi News, the current and prospect of many more layoffs as part of the Trump administration’s Elon Musk–engineered reduction in force of federal employees, many of them seemingly without regard to the important responsibilities of these workers leading in some cases to their rehiring, continues to cause alarm […]
Former Colorado State House Speaker Crisanta Duran has decided to seek the Democratic nomination for Attorney General in 2026. But as The Colorado Sun reports, she’s going to need to make a lot of new introductions: Duran hasn’t been in the political spotlight in Colorado for several years. She served as speaker from 2017 to […]
We’ve written a couple of times since the start of the legislative session in January about the branding initiative from the GOP minority in the Colorado General Assembly around a package of dead-on-arrival bills that would supposedly “save Coloradans $4,500” through a variety of means, including construction deregulation and the repeal of various fees passed […]
As Colorado Public Radio’s Bente Birkeland reports, the first Democrat we’d consider a serious contender for the Colorado Treasurer nomination in 2026, term-limited state Rep. Brianna Titone, formally jumped in the race this morning: Democratic State Rep. Brianna Titone of Arvada, who is term-limited at the statehouse, is running to be the next Colorado State […]
Late on Tuesday evening, the House of Representatives narrowly approved a budget proposal that would drastically cut critical services, such as Medicaid, in order to pay for President Trump’s promised tax cuts for the rich. As The Washington Post reports: House Republicans narrowly approved a framework Tuesday for President Donald Trump’s legislative agenda, setting off […]
President Trump’s mass deportation promise has thus far not lived up to its fantastical billing, and Trump is reportedly growing upset about the “numbers” being reported back to the White House. As Reuters explains: President Donald Trump deported 37,660 people during his first month in office, previously unpublished U.S. Department of Homeland Security data show, […]
Pieces are starting to fall into place as candidates make decisions about the 2026 election, in which all major four statewide offices (Governor, Attorney General, Secretary of State, State Treasurer) are open seats waiting to be filled by someone new. One of those pieces settled into position today with the announcement that Boulder District Attorney […]
UPDATE: Colorado Sen. John Hickenlooper has a warning that Evans and other Republicans would be wise to heed. Via POLITICO: Sen. John Hickenlooper said Tuesday that the Trump administration’s broad cuts to federal programs will come to hurt farmers, veterans and food stamp recipients — and Republicans will come to regret it. “If these cuts […]
UPDATE: Statement from Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser: Attorney General Phil Weiser issued the following statement on today's unanimous ruling by the Colorado Supreme Court ordering the Weld County Board of County Commissioners to adopt a district map that follows state redistricting statutes. pic.twitter.com/8g60dpNlvk — Colorado Attorney General (@COAttnyGeneral) February 24, 2025 —– A press […]
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