(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%
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) Originally published at the Colorado Times Recorder WASHINGTON – In November, U.S. Rep. Gabe Evans (R-CO) narrowly flipped a swing congressional seat. To do so, he waged a campaign to appeal to Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians, and independent voters. His actions in Congress will reflect how he responds to pressure from his […]
THURSDAY UPDATE: Readers may recall then-state Rep. Gabe Evans discussing the ins and outs of background checks based on his service overseeing subordinate National Guardsmen during legislative debate, a subject that has come up repeatedly with respect to President re-elect Donald Trump’s shady selections for key Cabinet posts. The New Yorker’s Jane Mayer reported Monday […]
Democrats in the State Senate held a 23-12 majority in the state legislature from 2023-24. Republicans weren’t able to change that disadvantage in the last election — the margin remains 23-12 — so they’re taking a different approach toward legislating in 2025. On Tuesday, Senate Minority Leader Paul Lundeen convened a press conference at the […]
As the Colorado Sun’s Olivia Prentzel reports–after the voters of Colorado Springs passed a ballot measure in November to allow recreational marijuana sales within city limits by the same shops who currently sell weed to the city’s medical marijuana patients, and at the same time rejected a measure referred by the City Council that would […]
House Republicans are hard at work this week in Washington D.C. cutting the price of eggs and other critical household items by barring transgender athletes. As The New York Times reports: A divided House on Tuesday approved legislation that aims to bar transgender women and girls from participating in school athletic programs designated for female […]
Gun rights groups in Colorado are absolutely freaking out over legislation (SB25-003) that is intended to put some teeth into an extended magazine ban passed in Colorado in 2013 that is rarely enforced. The “sky is falling” reaction is the same sort of over-the-top attack that we have come to expect from groups like the […]
UPDATE: As The Colorado Sun reports in its “Unaffiliated” newsletter, State Party Vice Chair Hope Scheppelman is also hoping for a job in the Trump administration and is surely hoping nobody fact checks her application for employment: Scheppelman is taking credit for Republican gains in the state House and in the 8th Congressional District in an […]
If it is true, as former President John F. Kennedy once said, that “victory has a thousand fathers,” it looks like the MAGA movement is in for a long paternity battle. As Aaron Blake explains for The Washington Post: The MAGA movement has always been a loosely stitched-together confederation led by a man with relatively […]
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast…the 2025 legislative session begins dies initii, which is not a thing but we’re going to make it a thing; with hundreds of millions in TABOR Budget Cuts looming, a big bill making it easier for workers to form a union setting up a showdown with the first floor, and […]
As part of their profile of newly sworn-in freshman members of Congress, MSNBC’s Sofia Hamilton profiled Republican Rep. Jeff “Bread Sandwich” Hurd, observing what’s it’s like to fill the shoes of his carpetbagging rival-turned-colleague Rep. Lauren Boebert: For Colorado’s 3rd District, Hurd will surely be a breath of fresh air. The district was most recently […]
Over the summer as the issue of migrant gangs in the city of Aurora, Colorado became a national political flashpoint, co-opted by now President-elect Donald Trump as part of his election-year narrative of a city, state, and imminently nation on the brink of destruction, the Republican Mayor of Aurora former Rep. Mike Coffman has proven […]
As The New York Times reports: After months of delay, President-elect Donald J. Trump’s New York criminal case culminated on Friday with the nation’s former and future president avoiding jail, but becoming a felon. “Never before has this court been presented with such a unique and remarkable set of circumstances,” the trial judge, Juan M. […]
Freshman Rep. Gabe Evans (R-Adams County) was officially sworn-in to Congress last week and cast his first official vote as the representative from Colorado’s eighth congressional district. That vote — a key ‘YES’ in support of House Speaker Mike Johnson — demonstrates the difficulty the man we call “Gabe-ish” will have in winning re-election in […]
The Hill’s Sarah Fortinsky reports from Washington, where Colorado’s favorite carpetbagging chaos agent Rep. Lauren Boebert is kicking off the new session of Congress with legislation to abolish the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, better known by its sinister three-letter acronym ATF: Reps. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) and Eric Burlison (R-Mo.) introduced a bill […]
Congresswoman Brittany Pettersen (D-Lakewood) is a few weeks away from becoming just the 14th woman to give birth while serving as a Member of Congress. Before that happens, she and a bipartisan group of colleagues are pushing for a common sense resolution that Republican leadership basically ignored in 2024. As Punchbowl News explains: A bipartisan group […]
The 2025 Colorado legislative session kicked off today with many of the same dumb problems from previous sessions, thanks in part to the “Unambiguously Lame Duo” of Colorado Springs Republican Reps. Ken “Dildo” DeGraff and Scott “There is No” Bottoms. As The Denver Post explains: After the early pomp and circumstance, plus a land acknowledgement […]
Unless you’re above the socioeconomic majority of Colorado consumers who shop for your own groceries, and we most certainly are not, you’re probably aware that the price of fresh eggs in particular has increased dramatically in recent months. The continuing increases of the price of food and other must-buy consumer products have made it harder […]
UPDATE: President-elect Trump is already claiming the scalp, as The Washington Post reports: Trump said Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg “probably” ended the company’s fact-checking program because of the threats Trump had made against the company. Speaking at his news conference in Palm Beach, Florida, Trump said the decision was very “impressive.” —– As The New […]
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast…it’s 2025, so why does it feel like 1861? At least one of us is coming to you live on tape from our Nation’s Capitol where a very different kind of storming of the Capitol is happening on this election certification day, and in case you’re just waking […]
As the AP reports from the unbesieged U.S. Capitol on this day of calendrical infamy, the usually routine process of certifying the state-by-state results of the 2024 presidential election took place true to the peaceful historical norm, with the defeated Democratic nominee Vice President Kamala Harris affirming without reservation her loss to once and future […]
As Quentin Young at Colorado Newsline reports, Jefferson County Clerk Amanda Gonzalez is first off the line in what’s expected to be a lively primary for the Democratic nomination to succeed term-limited Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold in 2026: “I want to give myself time to talk to as many people as I can,” […]
As The Washington Post reports, the New York state felony conviction against once and future President Donald Trump has been upheld by presiding judge Juan Marcan, and Trump will pending some unforeseen development take office on January 20th as the first President of the United States so besmirched: President-elect Donald Trump will be sentenced on […]
In an announcement this morning, Democratic Attorney General Phil Weiser gets the jump on what’s expected to be a strong slate of primary contenders for the 2026 gubernatorial nomination, with his January 2 announcement confirming his long-expected entry into the race: As your Attorney General, I have taken on big fights for the people of […]
WEDNESDAY UPDATE: As the Grand Junction Sentinel’s Nathan Deal reports, Rep. Matt Soper is once again very sorry: The Daily Sentinel reached out to Soper for comment and received a text from Soper late Tuesday morning, reading: “My only comment will be that my Tweet/X was in poor taste and while I am not a […]
UPDATE: From Sen. Michael Bennet: President Jimmy Carter campaigned on telling the truth to the American people, and he kept his promise. He was a devoted family man, principled statesman, and champion for rural communities. His post-presidency set a global standard for dignity and selflessness. Susan and I join Colorado in mourning his loss and […]
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