(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%
President Trump underwent the first known physical examination of his second term last week. As you might expect, Trump got a glowing bill of health from the White House “doctor.” As BBC explains without cracking a smile: As a part of Friday’s nearly five-hour medical examination at the Walter Reed hospital in Bethesda, Maryland, Trump […]
Hi there. I’m a mom of two amazing kids. Like any parent, I worry about what they see online, who they’re talking to, and how technology is shaping their world. So, when I first heard about Colorado’s SB25-086—marketed as a way to “protect kids online”—I thought, great! Finally, someone’s taking steps to keep children safe. […]
“We’re all very good at faking things that we have no competence with.” –John Cleese
UPDATE: Via David A. Graham of The Atlantic, this is even more confounding than you thought: This afternoon, President Donald Trump announced a partial pivot on social media. On the one hand, he ratcheted up tariffs on China to 125 percent. On the other hand, he announced that he was reducing tariffs on “more than […]
Yesterday, the U.S. House debated but then postponed a vote on a bill known as the No Rogue Rulings Act (NORRA), sponsored by California’s Rep. Darrel Issa in response to numerous adversarial judicial rulings since Donald Trump retook office in January that have significantly slowed Trump’s controversial agenda. FOX News touted the measure yesterday: The […]
“Everyone wants to demagogue everyone else. That may be good politics, but it’s awful policy.” –Chris Christie
Republicans control the White House, the U.S. Senate, and the U.S. House of Representatives. Here in Colorado, Republicans haven’t won a statewide election since 2014 (unless you count Heidi Ganahl winning a CU Regent race in 2016…which we don’t) and have been exiled to micro minority status in the state legislature. Yet somehow Colorado Republicans […]
CNN reports this morning and continues to update as markets pinball Monday on misinformation and continued fears of a new Great Depression gripping the global economy: US stocks were extremely volatile Monday — tumbling, surging and then bouncing around in every direction, as traders searched for any sign that President Donald Trump’s tariffs could be […]
CNBC reporting today on a massive market selloff provoked by President Donald Trump’s announcement just after markets closed yesterday of sweeping tariffs taking effect against basically every nation in the world including our closest economic partners and allies. Despite some hope that Trump’s so-called “Liberation Day” tariffs would be more lenient than the worst fears, […]
As the Washington Post’s Aaron Blake writes today following yesterday’s special elections in Wisconsin and Florida, the steady turn of public opinion against Donald Trump and the MAGAfied Republican Party after two months of rule by chaos manifested in one ominous defeat and two equally troubling narrower-than-expected holds for the GOP: The first big elections […]
As CBS News reports, today is a day dreaded from the start of Donald Trump’s second administration, the announcement of a sweeping new scheme of “reciprocal” tariffs meant to force other economies to either drop their own trade barriers or move the manufacturing of their products to the U.S. Trump has declared today “Liberation Day,” […]
As Ernest Luning reports for the Colorado Springs Gazette’s political blog formerly known as the Colorado Statesman, the Colorado Republican Party ended the tumultuous era of chairman Dave Williams on Saturday, now a relic of history along with the “Let’s Go Brandon” slur Williams tried to use as his middle name for ballot purposes. Williams’ […]
As Heather Willard reports for FOX 31 on the explosive controversy over a chat between top Trump administration officials discussing then-upcoming military action against Yemen using the unauthorized Signal app, a major breach of operational security and records retention laws made immeasurably worse by the accidental inclusion in the chat of…the editor of The Atlantic, […]
As Colorado Public Radio’s Bente Birkeland reports, normally the Colorado General Assembly would be starting debate this week on what’s known as the “Long Bill,” the state’s general fund budget appropriating thousands of spending line-items that fall within the legislature’s control. But this year, faced with the unpleasant task (for one side of the aisle, […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) Originally posted at the Colorado Times Recorder The Trump Administration has made sweeping changes to American public policy over its first two months, from shuttering the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to downsizing the Department of Agriculture (USDA), and instigating a trade war with Canada, Mexico, China, and other […]
The Colorado Republican Party is such a cartoonish disaster that it would need to undergo a deep cleaning just to be able to call itself a “mess.” It’s no wonder that the GOP is having a hard time finding a venue willing to get in the mud along with the rest of the party faithful. […]
When the 2026 General Election comes around, it will mark 12 years since the last time that a Colorado Republican was elected to a major statewide office (Republican Heidi Ganahl won a statewide race for CU Regent in 2016, but that doesn’t fit under our definition of “major”). That drought is not likely to end […]
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast…new polling shows Americans are already sick of Trump 2.0; will shutting down FiveThirtyEight so nobody can get a good polling average help or hurt the 45th and 47th president and his flagging ratings? The White House is controlled by Republicans. The senate is controlled by Republicans. The […]
With no shortage of bad news to keep us down, it’s refreshing to have something unassailably positive to mention like Friday’s brief story from Ernest Luning of the Colorado Springs Gazette’s political blog acknowledging the continuing success of Colorado’s highest-ranking U.S. House Democrat, Assistant Minority Leader Joe Neguse of Boulder–who continued to deliver results in […]
The Trump administration and Prime Minister Elon Musk have fired roughly 103,452 federal workers thus far in 2025. Somewhere in the neighborhood of 21,000 of those fired employees were let go while on “probationary” status. President Trump on Wednesday claimed to be very sad about the American families whose lives have been upended by the […]
Reuters reports via USA TODAY that massive job reductions at the Department of Veterans Affairs as part of the Trump 2.0/Musk administration’s gutting-in-force of the federal workforce, far beyond the elimination of some 1,000 probationary VA employees and other examples of what human resource bean-counters call “low-hanging fruit” that already took place last month, will […]
As Aldo Svaldi reports for The Denver Post, there is no grievance too small for retribution in Donald Trump’s Republican Party: The U.S. Small Business Administration confirmed Thursday that it would pull regional offices from Denver and five other large “sanctuary cities” over their unwillingness to cooperate with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. [Pols emphasis] […]
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 […]
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 […]
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