(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%
UPDATE: NBC News reporting, President Donald Trump says Colorado’s mail ballot election system was a “big factor” in his decision to move Space Command to Alabama, because that’s how we do business in America now apparently: “The problem I have with Colorado, one of the big problems, they do mail-in voting, they went to all […]
“How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell.” –Johnny Cash
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) is in turmoil this week after President Trump — at the request of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — fired CDC Director Susan Monarez less than a month into the job because of her apparent reluctance to base policy decisions on whatever the worm in […]
Congressperson Lauren Boebert (R-Windsor) has never been interested in “facts” when she has an opportunity to spout right-wing rhetoric, but her latest diatribe about transgender Americans leading a rise in violent attacks is particularly absurd. Boebert posted this on ‘X’ on Wednesday after the alleged attacker from a Minneapolis school shooting was identified by federal […]
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 […]
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 […]
The special legislative session in Colorado — called by Gov. Jared Polis to address an $800 million budget hole caused by President Trump’s big beautiful bullshit bill (OBBB) — is nearing its conclusion, with most of the focus now centered around how to move forward on a second issue related to delaying the implementation of […]
A story from several days ago in the Colorado Springs Gazette’s political blog formerly known as the Colorado Statesman by veteran reporter Ernest Luning covers what is on the surface not major news, President Donald Trump’s endorsement of GOP freshman Rep. Jeff Crank for re-election to his relatively safe Republican seat in CO-05: President Donald […]
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. […]
(Don’t want to be the next Kathleen Sgamma — Promoted by Colorado Pols) After the Colorado Times Recorder reported yesterday that he did not believe the 2020 election was stolen, a Trump official quickly announced that he had changed his opinion. “I now believe there was massive fraud in 2020, especially concerning Russia Gate and ballot harvesting,” tweeted John Fabbricatore, […]
Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, cutting taxes is bad, actually, and the State Legislature is about to go cut another billion dollars from the state budget because of it. Then, do you enjoy friend of the pod Kyle Clark’s innovative evening news show, microgiving campaigns, and refusal to let the […]
Following yesterday’s momentary drama that culminated in the sudden resignation of the already-outgoing GOP Rep. Ryan Armagost, who was facing a censure resolution after circulating what he considered to be an unflattering photo of a female Democratic lawmaker, GOP House Minority Rose Pugliese is on the defensive and prolonging the already-embarrassing story by disputing the […]
“Tomorrow is a satire on today, and shows its weakness.” –Edward Young
In a Truth Social post today, which we’re supposed to refer to simply as a “Truth” but for self-evident reasons we decline, President Donald Trump issued the most direct threat yet against the state of Colorado over the incarceration of convicted felon former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters. Peters, as readers know, was sentenced to […]
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 […]
As Seth Klamann reports for the Denver Post, the nominal second priority of the special session of the Colorado General Assembly set to convene on Thursday after mitigating the effects of the billion-dollar hole in the state budget opened by the passage of the federal “We’re All Going To Die Act” budget bill is for […]
President Donald Trump’s lengthy Truth Social screed yesterday vowing to lead “a movement” to abolish mail-in ballots, which have proven to be secure and popular in Colorado for over a decade, took place in the context of a wave of federal scrutiny and alleged attempted illegal meddling against Colorado county clerks and Secretary of State […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) Originally posted at the Colorado Times Recorder The top Republican in the Colorado House says she wants to roll back Medicaid to its pre-Obamacare levels, a move that would kick approximately 367,000 Coloradans off their healthcare. During a July 31 interview on KNUS’ Jeff and Bill radio show, Colorado House Minority […]
Brian Eason of The Colorado Sun has expanded on a story in last week’s “Unaffiliated” newsletter that we mentioned previously about the folly of cutting taxes as an effort to boost the economy and employment — particularly with Colorado’s unusual TABOR budgetary restrictions. This issue is popping up again ahead of Thursday’s special legislative session […]
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 […]
Lawmakers will reconvene next Thursday for a special legislative session in order to figure out how to make another $800 million dollars in cuts to the state budget necessitated by President Trump’s “big beautiful bullshit bill” enacted by Congress in early July. In the meantime, Colorado Republicans have been trying very hard to put their […]
It’s history that Colorado Republicans don’t like to get into these days, but those of us with intact long-term memories can recall a time when Donald Trump had not yet supplanted values to become the Colorado GOP’s personal object of veneration, and even resisted Trump’s hostile takeover of the Republican Party. Even before Donald Trump […]
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 […]
As Michael Karlik reports for the Colorado Springs Gazette’s political blog, a lawsuit seeking to halt a consumer product safety law passed this year by state lawmakers failed in federal court this week: In June, Gov. Jared Polis signed House Bill 1161 into law, which requires retailers of gas stoves to affix a “yellow adhesive […]
UPDATE: Here’s the latest example of the “post truth” bubble Republicans are living in today: This simply isn’t true, folks. It has never been true, and in all probability never will be. But Republicans say catch them if you can. —– One of the more pernicious effects of the rise of Donald Trump and the […]
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