(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%
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, we can finally shut up about the shut down as it has met a rather anticlimactic end right in time for the holiday travel crunch, but, the only thing we care about is…WHO WON, and, hey, what the hell is going on with all those healthcare premiums anyway…and, […]
UPDATE: The U.S. Senate quickly followed suit and approved the Epstein Files Transparency Act, sending the bill to the desk of President Trump. —– House Speaker Mike Johnson kept the entire lower chamber away from Washington D.C. for 54 days in order to stall action on directing the Department of Justice to release the “Epstein […]
During President Trump’s first term in office, there was an oft-repeated phrase about his King Midas-esque impact on the world around him that went something like this: Everything Trump touches eventually turns to shit. Trump’s habit of turning things into fake gold was largely forgotten in the first half of 2025 as he rampaged through […]
As we noted last week, soon-to-be-former Aurora City Council member Danielle Jurinsky was casting around for her next elected office after a surprising defeat in her re-election campaign. With more time to ponder her political future, Jurinsky has apparently decided against running for an open seat on the Douglas County Board of Commissioners in District […]
The Colorado Republican Party is nothing if not utterly and hopelessly predictable. As Ernest Luning reports for the publication formerly known as the Colorado Statesman, the state party that POLITICO once said “would rather lose than change” is once again wrapped around its own axle: For the second time in as many years, a group […]
It’s the economy, stupid. That infamous line from Bill Clinton’s 1992 Presidential campaign is as relevant today as it was more than 30 years ago. As Seth Klamann reports for The Denver Post, the economy and affordability remain the most important issues for Colorado’s Latino community — even in the midst of unprecedented immigration raids […]
As 9NEWS’ Kyle Clark reported on Friday, the Trump administration’s goal of freeing the last incarcerated co-conspirator in once-and-again President Donald Trump’s failed quest to prove the 2020 presidential election he lost was decided unfairly shifted gears, with a formal request from the Justice Department for ex-Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters to be transferred to […]
Buried at the bottom of yesterday’s Unaffiliated newsletter from the Colorado Sun is an item Democratic insiders have been anticipating for some weeks, rumblings of an impending primary campaign challenging incumbent Democratic Sen. John Hickenlooper: Annie Orloff, managing partner at the Democratic political consulting firm the MAC Group, posted job descriptions on LinkedIn over the […]
As FOX 31’s Jacob Factor reports, now that the government has re-opened without a deal to prevent massive health insurance premium hikes mandated by the Republican “We’re All Going To Die” budget bill passed this summer, House Democrats are loading up a discharge petition to force a House vote on extending the premium subsidies like […]
We have been amused by “ministry leader” Victor Marx — the newest entry into the Republican field of candidates hoping to become Colorado’s next Governor — so much so that we were inspired to create a regular new feature on Colorado Pols. Marx has a robust social media following anchored by a podcast and regular speaking appearances on right-wing […]
Welp, there’s a headline we didn’t expect to see on this here website. But it is absolutely warranted for Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Windsor). President Trump and staffers tried not once…not twice…but thrice to convince Boebert to take her name off of a discharge petition that would force a vote in the House of Representatives on […]
Colorado Public Radio’s health policy reporter John Daley with the latest way the Trump administration is looking to undo crucial protections you enjoy not only as an American, but as a Coloradan–an example of the convenient flexibility of the Tenth Amendment for Republicans when it stands athwart well-monied special interests: The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau […]
As 9NEWS’ Jaleesa Irizarry reports, now that the federal government has re-opened without a deal to extend the health insurance premium tax credits that make coverage affordable for millions of Americans, negotiations over such an extension which in theory has enough bipartisan support to easily pass are getting underway. With Republicans aware they now have […]
Republicans lost damn near every race they contested in the 2025 election. Some in the GOP aren’t wasting time looking for somewhere else to fail in 2026. Aurora City Council member Danielle Jurinsky was one of the more notable losers from the 2025 election cycle. The nutball MAGA incumbent needed to be one of the […]
President Trump is totally not worried about the release of more information related to the Epstein files, so he and the White House are doing what totally not-worried people do in this situation… They’re freaking the fuck out. As we noted earlier today, Democrats released new information related to deceased billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, including […]
As NBC News’ Megan Lebowitz reports, House Democrats just dripped a large Nixonian drip in the continuing saga of deceased billionaire pedophile Jeff Epstein, with the House about to reach critical mass in support of the discharge petition to force a vote on the release of the potentially explosive full files from the investigation: Jeffrey […]
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, it’s 2017 all over again, but bigger, better, and BLUE-YER as Democrats from all sides of the spectrum ride an anti-Trump wave to huge win margins across the country that are sending Republicans into the long, dark teatime of the soul. We unpack the results of the 2025 […]
Denver7’s Dan Grossman reports on a new proposal from the Trump administration that they claim is intended to alleviate the nationwide housing affordability crisis in which our state is unfortunately a leading indicator. But the solution Trump is proposing sounds like heartbreaking news for everyone except mortgage lenders: The Trump administration is working on a […]
In Donald Trump’s first Presidential administration, he was often mocked for regularly claiming that the White House was two weeks away from unveiling a health care plan that would be cheaper and more effective and better tasting than the Affordable Care Act (ACA). During the 2024 Presidential election, Trump took that idea to a new […]
As Politico’s Kyle Cheney reports, Donald Trump’s quest to rewrite the sordid history of the 2020 presidential elections into martyrdom for himself and co-conspirators who abbeted his two-month temper tantrum over losing his bid for re-election took another step forward with pardons issued to a variety of marginal figures, including names Coloradans will recognize: President […]
As the Washington Post reports, and if you’re plugged into political news at all you’ve most likely already formed a strong opinion about: Seven Democrats and an independent senator who caucuses with them split with their party to vote for a deal that would pave the way to ending the longest government shutdown in U.S. […]
As 9NEWS reported last night, President Donald Trump’s refusal to fund SNAP food assistance benefits during the ongoing shutdown of the federal government, despite lower court orders to do so and initial moves the U.S. Department of Agriculture to comply with those rulings, was temporarily upheld by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson through […]
(Who in their right mind would loan “MyPillow Guy” money? Oh, wait. — Republished under Creative Commons license by Colorado Pols) by Chase Woodruff, Colorado Newsline November 5, 2025 Far-right Colorado podcaster Joe Oltmann is suing MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, a onetime ally in the national election conspiracy theory movement, alleging Lindell breached the terms […]
For the past ten days, a significant controversy has been brewing in the southwest Colorado town of Durango over an arrest by federal immigration agents of a father and his two school-age children on their way to class, an incident that provoked large protests and reported instances of violence against demonstrators, as well as allegations […]
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