(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%
Happy Hastings Banda’s Birthday. Please celebrate responsibly. Let’s Get More Smarter! If you think we missed something important, please include the link in the comments below (here’s a good example). If you are more of an audio learner, check out The Get More Smarter Podcast. Warm Up Those Brains… ► As Republicans barrel toward […]
Readers will recall a controversy last year after the Jefferson County Republican Party led at the time by chair Nancy Pallozzi announced a fundraising event starring then-South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, who now serves as the Secretary of Authoritarian Cosplay Homeland Security under President Donald Trump based on qualifications that have never been precisely articulated. […]
Enjoy the sun today before it cools off a bit later in the week. Although, with so many federal job cuts at NOAA and the National Weather Service, who the hell knows? Let’s Get More Smarter! If you think we missed something important, please include the link in the comments below (here’s a good example). […]
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast…the 2025 legislative session has adjourned ‘Sine Die,’which is latin for “a lot of things that happened this year made us want to die.” We check in with the Trump Trainwreck as tariffs, trust, and traitors start to weigh heavy on the regime. Then, Colorado’s future one-term Congressman […]
As Politico’s Grace Yarrow reports, while Colorado’s Rep. Gabe Evans and the House Energy and Commerce Committee put the finishing touches on their bill to throw almost 9 million Americans off of Medicaid coverage over the next decade, the Republican-controlled House Agriculture Committee is working on squeezing hundreds of billions of dollars out of food […]
Colorado Republicans love to talk about crime and how our state (particularly Denver) is a hellhole of crime and violence thanks to Democrats and other heathens. To the thinking of these Republicans, if you haven’t already been stabbed by the time you finish reading this, you should consider yourself lucky. Unfortunately for Republicans — but […]
UPDATE: Speaking tonight with Denver7, Rep. Gabe Evans assumed full ownership of legislation that will strip almost 9 million Americans of their health coverage including thousands in his district: “This bill follows through on Republicans’ promises to cut waste, fraud, and abuse while protecting coverage for Colorado’s most vulnerable populations,” said Colorado Congressman Gabe Evans, […]
We wrote last week in our “Losers” section from the 2025 Colorado legislative session about Colorado Springs freshman Republican Rep. Rebecca Keltie, who appeared on a Libertarian podcast a few days before the end of the session and declared that all of her Democratic colleagues at the State Capitol building were corrupt and that “the […]
awesome + uniting Nuggets bounce back, outlast Thunder in OT to take Game 3 Jeffco “clean iron” plant gets inaugural $8 million Colorado decarbonization tax credit Colorado, Union Pacific sign agreement leading to mountain regular passenger rail service awesome + controversy Here are 5 key bills the Colorado Legislature passed this year ProgressNow Colorado’s Winners […]
“If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.” –George Bernard Shaw
The 2025 legislative session officially came to a close on Wednesday night, which means it’s time for our annual “Winners and Losers” assessment. We wrote about our “Winners” on Thursday, so now it’s time for the “Losers”: Losers House Republican Communications The press and media operation for House Republicans made a lot of silly […]
With Colorado at a crossroads due to uncertainty looming at the federal level, the 2025 session of the Colorado General Assembly concluded with wins on housing affordability, education, abortion rights, voting rights, and reducing gun violence. Lawmakers responded to new threats to funding and personal freedom from the Trump administration with a strong slate of […]
The 2025 legislative session officially came to a close on Wednesday night, which means it’s time for our annual “Winners and Losers” assessment. We’ll start today with our “Winners” list: Tom Sullivan In his sixth year at the State Capitol, Sen. Tom Sullivan (D-Centennial) continues to shepherd smart gun violence prevention measures through the […]
(Wait, what? — Promoted by Colorado Pols) Originally posted at the Colorado Times Recorder As the legislative session comes down to its final days, one freshman Republican has harsh words for her Democratic colleagues. State Rep. Rebecca Keltie (R-Colorado Springs) in a Sunday evening interview on a libertarian podcast called her fellow legislators evil, soulless, […]
As Marianne Goodland reports for the Colorado Springs Gazette’s political blog formerly known as the Colorado Statesman, former state Sen. Jerry Sonnenberg has been appointed by President Donald Trump to be the next executive director of the state’s Farm Service Agency–a cornerstone of administering agricultural policy responsible for relief, insurance conservation, and crop subsidy programs […]
Yesterday evening, a development we’ve been anticipating ever since Donald Trump won a second term as President last November: Trump personally weighed in on the case of convicted Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters, who is serving a nine year sentence in Colorado state prisons for her role in a failed scheme to hack voting machines […]
If you like rain and snow, then boy do we have the day(s) for you! Mountain areas could see 20 inches of snow, while lower elevations might get as much as four inches of rain today. Let’s Get More Smarter! If you think we missed something important, please include the link in the comments below […]
As the Trump administration continues its quest to cut funding for programs that help keep Americans alive, Congresswoman Brittany Pettersen (D-Lakewood) is making a specific request to preserve overdose prevention programs that are on the chopping block. As John Aguilar reports for The Denver Post: Pettersen implored U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy […]
Amid the daily deluge of disheartening news about the effects of mass layoffs of federal workers and the slashing of funding for crucial public safety and health programs across the nation, here’s a particularly unsettling story from AP medical reporter Lauran Neergaard about the abrupt end of a Denver-area study hoping to chip away at persistently […]
Over at the Get More Smarter Podcast, we’ve been regularly running a segment we call “Trump Time” that is intended to keep our listeners up to date on the more important/ridiculous developments in the administration of President Donald Trump. We’re adding a different version of this segment to Colorado Pols. Enjoy! His Idiocy Donald the […]
Our deliberately oversimplified glance at what’s happening in Colorado. awesome + uniting Photos: World’s biggest passenger jet makes first scheduled Denver landing as Lufthansa begins service NBA playoffs: Nuggets cap grueling series with Game 7 blowout over Clippers, set up showdown with OKC, matchup of MVP finalists Colorado lawmakers pass bill that would codify voter […]
Colorado’s long-ousted but still not forgotten Sen. Cory Gardner appeared on the Fox News Channel earlier today to praise President Donald Trump’s agenda and chastise Democrats for “calling half of the country traitors” and “telling people to eff off when they disagree”–the premise being these are things that Democrats do and not, you know, Donald […]
If you’ve been following Colorado politics over the past few years, at one time or another you’ve probably run across information supplied by the conservative Common Sense Institute, an advocacy group with ties to Republican political strategist Josh Penry through his politically connected spouse Kristin Strohm known for pumping out lengthy “studies” invariably leading to […]
Republicans have long used “mental health” as a bogeyman whenever the issue of gun violence prevention enters the discussion. But whenever they have an opportunity to do something to improve mental health resources…they refuse. From The Washington Post: The Education Department this week began cutting about $1 billion in mental health-related grants created in response […]
Former Congresswoman Yadira Caraveo announced earlier this month that she would once again seek the Democratic nomination in CO-08 after narrowly losing to Republican Gabe Evans in 2024. Caraveo’s odds of winning back her seat got a bit more difficult with some new reporting today from The Colorado Sun. We noted Caraveo’s return to the […]
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