(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%
As FOX 31’s Ashley Michels reports–while most of Congress is wrestling with the ongoing shutdown of the federal government, and pressing issues from the faltering Trump economy to Schrödinger’s Epstein Files competing for the attention of voters, Colorado’s carpetbagging cornucopia of crazy Rep. Lauren Boebert just dropped another distraction into this most distracted of news […]
Republican George Brauchler, the former Arapahoe County District Attorney turned radio host turned back into a District Attorney in a new district is making an effort to drum up interest [snort] in a potential run for Governor [guffaw] in 2026. A story from conservative “writer” Chris Dorsey was somehow published by Forbes magazine without anybody […]
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, the shitdown shutshow or the shutdown shitshow or whatever you want to call it is officially on as Democrats and Republicans in Washington DC fail to reach an agreement on temporary funding and Mike Johnson and Donald Trump are just lying about it everywhere. Then, the hands-down winner for “least self aware […]
As Colorado Newsline’s Lindsey Toomer reports, the Trump administration’s campaign of retaliation by all available means against blue states like Colorado ramped up last week following the federal government’s shutdown, with the punitive cancellation of hundreds of millions of dollars of clean energy project funds on top of the reductions in the “We’re All Going […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) Originally posted at the Colorado Times Recorder On Wednesday, a panel of top Colorado healthcare executives warned that federal cuts to Medicaid, under the so-called Big Beautiful Bill, will affect not only Medicaid recipients but Colorado’s wider health care system, pushing up costs and the number of uninsured people across the […]
Politico reports that despite an ongoing government shutdown and a backlog of pressing business, the U.S. House will not do anything next week: Johnson said at a news conference earlier Friday that “the House will come back into session and do its work as soon as Chuck Schumer allows us to reopen the government,” referring […]
Last week, the Boulder County Republican Party announced their keynote speaker for their upcoming annual fundraiser known as the Make-Lincoln-Turn-Over-In-His-Grave Dinner–and for all the deliberately provocative names local Republicans regularly fly in to headline their fundraisers, their choice in this locale is what the experts call a real doozy: John Eastman, as readers who haven’t […]
The first federal government shutdown since 2018 entered its second full day today. It will continue (at least) through tomorrow because the Senate is on recess until Friday in honor of Yom Kippur. We’ll provide regular shutdown updates as the news warrants, so let’s get to it… 54,000 Colorado Workers Stuck “In Limbo” As […]
The Republican field of candidates for a race they can’t possibly win continues to grow. The latest GOP contender to join the race for Governor in 2026 is Congresswoman Lauren Boebert’s handpicked candidate: A “ministry leader” named Victor Marx who seems to spend most of his time staring off contemplatively into the distance. In addition […]
As the Denver Post’s Nick Coltrain reports, Republicans in Colorado House District 14 got a few days ahead of themselves in convening to appoint a replacement for suddenly resigned House Minority Leader Rose Pugliese, and by breaking the rule requiring ten days’ notice before doing the deed, they’ve imperiled the accession of gun rights advocate […]
The government shutdown does have at least one political benefit for President Trump: At least he won’t have to explain more terrible job numbers. As NBC News reports, employment is heading in the wrong direction: U.S. companies shed 32,000 jobs in September, according to the payroll processing company ADP, a surprising decline that adds to […]
Republicans and President Trump are trying really, really hard to blame Democrats for the government shutdown that began at 12:01 am today. The Trump administration, in fact, is violating the “Hatch Act” in an attempt to sway public opinion. As CBS News reports: Ahead of Wednesday’s government shutdown, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development on […]
(Nonpartisan no more — Promoted by Colorado Pols) Originally posted at the Colorado Times Recorder Municipal elections in Aurora are supposed to be non-partisan, but while Aurora’s elections are many things, non-partisan is not one of them. Last week, Aurora City Councillor Danielle Jurinsky and her slate of Republican-backed candidates held a rally at the […]
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, despite polling showing that Colorado voters have soured on Democrats, they have not sweetened up to Republicans — we explain why in a new segment called “Which is Worser.” Then, Colorado braces for a recession as prices keep rising everywhere, the job market looks like it’s really starting […]
As the Washington Post reports, we’re twelve hours and counting down to another shutdown of the federal government, and President Donald Trump via Republican congressional leadership is showing no sign of concession to Democrats in the U.S. Senate they need to pass a continuing resolution: Republicans have proposed keeping the government funded at current levels […]
As the Greeley Tribune’s Tyler Duncan reports, it’s another case of America’s Most Vulnerable Incumbent™ Rep. Gabe Evans making an astonishing claim that left us momentarily speechless: “Energy security is national security,” Evans said. “Energy security fuels our economy, which fuels our ability to manufacture and make things. That fuels our position as the global leader […]
As we’ve long documented in this space, the Colorado Republican Party may theoretically exist for the purpose of defeating Democrats, but its members truly love nothing more than a messy internal fight. The latest bout of nonsense (pun intended) took place in Aurora on Saturday. As Ernest Luning reports for the publication formerly known as […]
Back in 2022, GOP Sen. Barb Kirkmeyer was running for Congress in Colorado’s then brand-new and closely divided CO-08 with no apologies about one of the wackier points in her long record in elected office representing deep red Weld County, helping organize in 2013 a proposal for Weld and several other lightly-populated rural Colorado counties […]
As 9NEWS’ Jeremy Jojola reports, there’s been a new development in an ongoing case out of Weld County that, since we discussed the political misuse of this case previously, we are obliged to also update: Two weeks after the release from jail of a man whom law enforcement called dangerous, that man is back in […]
House Republicans in Colorado selected freshman Rep. Jarvis Caldwell (R-Monument) as their new Minority Leader last Saturday, surely hoping that he could do a better job than Rose Pugliese, the previous “Leader” who threw a tantrum and resigned from the legislature 10 days ago. The early returns are not encouraging. Pugliese was an absolute mess […]
State Senator Barb Kirkmeyer (R-Brighton), now a Republican candidate for Governor in 2026, has been dubbed “Both Ways Barb” for her tendency to offer conflicting opinions on a variety of subjects. Kirkmeyer showed again recently how a selective memory of her own political and policy positions continues to get her in trouble. In a recent […]
On Monday, our friends at the Colorado Times Recorder put out a story detailing some decidedly non-mainstream views held by the Colorado Libertarian Party’s Secretary and 2026 Secretary of State candidate James Wiley regarding the recent assassination of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk–alleging and then apparently standing by under pressure his belief that Kirk was killed […]
“A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.” –Dwight D. Eisenhower
Late night television host Jimmy Kimmel returns to “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” tonight on ABC after parent company Disney reversed course on last week’s “indefinite” suspension amid a flood of protests from activists, celebrities, and production studios. Kimmel marked the occasion by posting a photo on Instagram posing with the late Norman Lear, a longtime television […]
As Nick Coltrain reports for The Denver Post, Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign promises to lower inflation and the cost of goods have been ignored. Instead, Colorado and the rest of the country on the brink of a recession: Colorado state government faces a continuing dim fiscal picture heading into next year as a slowing economy, […]
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