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“The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.” –Hannah Arendt
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Gabe Evans: Forget Medicaid Cuts, Hooray For Military Boondoggles!
A seemingly out-of-the-blue message last night from America’s Most Vulnerable Incumbent™ Rep. Gabe Evans invited us in for a closer look: This is Evans praising what he calls “innovative technology” and the importance of “investing” your tax dollars in making our military “the strongest in the world.” Making this point about how awesome American military […]
Trump Tariffs are Crippling Businesses in Colorado and Across the Country
In less than eight months, President Trump has driven a strong American economy right off of a cliff thanks mostly to his unpredictable, nonsensical, and probably illegal tariff policies. Unemployment numbers are at their highest levels in more than four years — in June, the United States saw its first month of job losses since […]
New Libertarian-GOP Group ‘Chainsaw Caucus’ Hosts Call With Islamophobic Speaker
(Very fine Libertarians — Promoted by Colorado Pols) Originally posted at the Colorado Times Recorder Leaders of the Colorado Republican and Libertarian parties held a joint public discussion on the Twitter Spaces platform last week. Billed as a “Special Session Recap,” the online event drew a few hundred listeners curious to hear the state chairs […]
Colorado’s Chris Wright Takes Withering Scientific Fire
As NPR’s Julia Simon reports, while President Donald Trump’s Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. faces brutal bipartisan questioning in the U.S. Senate after plunging his department into chaos leading to mass calls for his resignation, another of Trump’s Cabinet Secretaries is similarly being called out for breaking with the science that […]
This Is Why We Keep On Protecting Everyone
As FOX 31’s Brooke Williams reports, the climate of fear the Trump administration has deliberately cultivated among the nation’s millions of undocumented immigrant residents, the overwhelming majority of whom are law-abiding and contributors to their communities and the economy, is resulting in a not new but now more urgently persuasive form of exploitation: threatening to […]
Plugging The Big Bad Billion-Dollar Budget Hole Wasn’t Easy, Fun, Or Permanent
As Marianne Goodland reports for the Colorado Springs Gazette’s political blog, yesterday Colorado lawmakers wrapped up a special session of the Colorado General Assembly primarily focused on overcoming the usual GOP minority delay tactics, and closing the billion-dollar hole opened in the state’s formerly balanced budget by the passage of the “We’re All Going To […]
Rose Pugliese: Real Leadership Means Excuses, Insincerity, and Victimhood
The special legislative session called to address a massive budget hole in Colorado caused by President Trump’s big beautiful bullshit bill (OBBB) came to a close on Tuesday, but not before some late fireworks in the House chamber regarding the conduct of one now-former Republican member. In the process of this discussion, House Minority Leader […]
Colorado Republicans Use Special Session to Prove Just How Unserious They Are About Everything
TUESDAY UPDATE: The stupid…it burns… Here’s Rep. Ken “Dildo” DeGraaf (R-Colorado Springs) arguing that the State of Colorado should begin doing genetic identification of post-abortion remains in order to identify the responsible male so that he can repay the state somehow: Or, if you prefer, here’s Rep. Larry Don Suckla (R-Montezuma County) telling a […]
Barb Kirkmeyer’s Campaign For Governor Is All But Launched
Four years ago, then-Republican gubernatorial candidate Heidi Ganahl was on the run from inquiring reporters after a questionably lengthy campaign “pre-launch” period, during which the independent expenditure campaign operating on Ganahl’s behalf could money up while Ganahl carried out a “podcast tour” of the state that served as a campaign tour in all but name. […]
Even Goofier Libertarian “Pledge” Returns for Colorado Republicans in 2026
One of the stranger stories of the 2024 election cycle involved an alliance of sorts between the Colorado Republican Party and the Colorado Libertarian Party to join forces like a Dollar Store version of Voltron in an effort to prevent Democrats from winning elections. That idea is back in 2026…and it’s gotten weirder yet. There […]
What Trump’s Loony Swipe At Mail-In Ballots Really Means
We’re taking the rare step of posting the text of President Donald Trump’s wild and wacky screed early this morning presumably in response to a headline about Jeffrey Epstein he didn’t like, to ensure that search engines capture every word of it for posterity: I am going to lead a movement to get rid of […]
Sorry Gabe, You’re Just Another Evans
As the Philadelphia Inquirer’s Julia Terruso reports, a Beltway-based conservative “dark money” group calling itself the Center for Individual Freedom spent several thousand dollars of their unaccountable cash running ads in Colorado thanking someone by the name of “Rep. Evans” for his vote in favor of the “We’re All Going To Die Act” Republican budget […]
Friday Open Thread
“As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.” –Christopher Dawson
Jeff Hurd Keeps Pretending He Didn’t Kill Rural Hospitals
Freshman Rep. Jeff “Bread Sandwich” Hurd (R-Grand Junction) is desperate to convince constituents, journalists — and perhaps, himself — that his two votes in favor of President Trump’s “big beautiful bullshit budget bill” won’t end up destroying rural hospitals in the third congressional district. As Marianne Goodland of the publication formerly known as the Colorado […]
Knives Out For Rep. Ron Weinberg, Crazy Campaign Spending Edition
As the Colorado Springs Gazette’s Marianne Goodland reports, the ongoing internal conflict within the morally headless Colorado House GOP minority caucus escalated again yesterday with the filing of a campaign finance complaint against Rep. Ron Weinberg of Loveland, who is already beset by allegations of serial sexual harassment that scuttled his short-lived bid to serve […]
More New Crime Data Lands Another Blow to Republican Narratives
Republicans such as Congressman Gabe Evans (R-Ft. Lupton) — who loves to remind anyone who will listen that he was once a police officer on the hardscrabble streets of Arvada — often go out of their way to scare constituents about the dangers of living in Colorado as a way to promote a shaky narrative […]
Remembering the Main Thing About the Mesa County Immigration Story
Congressman Gabe Evans (R-Ft. Lupton) continues to claim — despite ludicrous amounts of evidence to the contrary — that 100% of immigrant detentions and deportations conducted by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) are justified because of the risks to public safety. Evans keeps going back to the same talking point: That the goal of new […]
House GOP’s Vile Signal Chats Exposed To “Boxwine Brandi’s” Dismay
UPDATE: 9NEWS’ Kyle Clark sums up the common problem with X and the Colorado House GOP: —– Longtime state house reporter Bente Birkeland at Colorado Public Radio brings us a story we’ve heard the periphery of but hadn’t yet been privy to the full nauseating details. If you think the state of interparty relations in […]
Polis Calls Special Session to Fix What Republicans Broke
UPDATE: Jesse Paul of The Colorado Sun makes the same point about unserious Republicans in the legislature: —– We knew it was coming after Congressional Republicans passed President Trump’s “big, beautiful, bullshit budget bill” last month, and here it is: Another special legislative session. As Seth Klamann reports for The Denver Post: For the third […]
Americans For Potholes Just Makes Stuff Up
Colorado’s leading high-budget Republican astroturf group, the Koch-funded Americans For Prosperity, is running an outreach campaign following the passage of President Donald Trump’s “We’re All Going To Die Act” budget bill–not trying to win over public opinion on this historically unpopular piece of legislation, but demanding that the Colorado legislature not convene a special session […]
RFK Jr. repeats false vaccine claims in meeting with governors in Colorado Springs
(Republished by Colorado Pols under Creative Commons license) by Andrew Fraieli, Colorado Newsline July 26, 2025 Governors from across the country played host to a variety of health conspiracy theories in Colorado Springs on Saturday, as Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. expounded on his “Make America Healthy Again” initiative in a […]
Linda McMahon’s Education Funding Bodyslam Averted, For Now
As 9NEWS’ Marshall Zelinger reports from this weekend’s meeting of the National Governors Association (NGA) meeting at the Phil Anschutz-owned Broadmoor international swank zone in Colorado Springs, there’s good news and bad news to report on the matter of millions of dollars in education funds recently frozen by the Trump administration, who questioned whether the […]
Weekend Open Thread
“In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.” –Thurgood Marshall
Epilogue: The Jeff Small “Shakedown” Story Isn’t Over
Embed from Getty Images A major story that broke last week in the Washington Post and then significantly expanded upon by the Denver Post last Friday has gone mostly quiet this week, but that could just be temporary as questions continue to swirl about Jeff Small, a principal with the Republican consultant firm 76 Group […]