(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%
(This is who they are now — Promoted by Colorado Pols) When Colorado Republicans elected two first-time party leaders last month, Chairman Dave Williams made the biggest headlines with his brazen election denialism, but he isn’t the most extreme new party officer. That title goes to GOP Secretary Anna Ferguson of Adams County, who shares […]
Comedian Conan O’Brien turns 60 years old today. 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. And don’t forget to find us on Facebook and Twitter. FIRST […]
Let’s kick off the week with some big news. Last week, ProgressNow Colorado and our partner Global Strategy Group released our latest Rocky Mountaineer Research poll focused on Colorado’s Third Congressional District. The results are clear: Rep. Lauren Boebert is paying a price for ignoring the issues most relevant to her constituents, and is locked […]
The Republican House Majority in Congress surpassed its first 100 days in power last week. Silly sloganeering and partisan rhetoric aside, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy doesn’t have a whole lot to boast about after the first three months of Republican control in the lower chamber of Congress. As The Associated Press explained on Friday: As […]
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, House Republicans continue to filibuster without wanting anything; will they do it for the next 15 days or so? Your hosts Jason Bane and Ian Silverii ponder the point of doing nothing when you should be doing anything. The title of this show, the Get More Smarter Podcast, is […]
awesome + uniting Colorado Senate OKs strengthening Equal Pay for Equal Work Act Making, possessing and selling “ghost guns” will likely soon be illegal in Colorado Lauren Boebert and Democratic challenger Adam Frisch in dead heat, new poll shows awesome + controversy Colorado’s big land-use bill, explained Magic mushroom board convenes in Colorado for first […]
The 2023 legislative session in Colorado’s House of Representatives is not unlike a typical first grade classroom. Most of the kids in the room are excited to be there – to learn new things and make new friends and sing new songs. Some of the kids have trouble playing nice with others, and they […]
(There are no “voices of reason” anymore — Promoted by Colorado Pols) When it comes to explaining why conservatives lose so many elections in Colorado, what we see is establishment Republicans — exemplified by hopping-mad GOP strategist Dick Wadhams — blaming their own powerlessness on the election deniers and Trump supporters, including those who control […]
We were forwarded this strange advertisement recruiting members for something called “Elbert County Community Response,” being organized to “withstand any challenge that may come” the county’s way–as long as they’re challenges you can address with guns: The Neighborhood Reliance Network (NRN) is about building strong self-reliant Elbert County neighborhoods. It’s about people – and their […]
As Colorado Newsline’s Jennifer Shutt reports, Colorado’s two most stridently anti-abortion congresspersons, Reps. Doug Lamborn and Lauren Boebert, joined 67 of their congressional and U.S. Senate colleagues who signed a letter supporting the controversial decision by Trump-appointed Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk that the widely-used drug mifepristone was wrongly approved by the Food and Drug Administration: A […]
Happy Birthday to David Letterman. 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. And don’t forget to find us on Facebook and Twitter. FIRST UP… ► […]
Colorado is the only state in the country that has intentionally handcuffed itself on fiscal policy, which it did in 1992 when voters passed the so-called “Taxpayers Bill of Rights” (better known as TABOR). Two former Republican lawmakers in Colorado are now warning Arizona not to make the same mistake. Former Republican legislators Don Marostica […]
Brian Porter at the Fort Morgan Times put out a story late last week bizarre enough that no matter how it ends, it’s worth a mention in this space on grounds of sheer absurdity: [Phillips] County Commissioner Garold Roberts initiated the concern over “the red helicopter” Wednesday during a Northeastern Colorado call with U.S. Rep. […]
(America’s most vulnerable? — Promoted by Colorado Pols) The results of new Mountaineer Research polling released by ProgressNow Colorado and Global Strategy Group focused on Colorado’s Third Congressional District show that embattled Rep. Lauren Boebert is paying a price for ignoring the issues most relevant to her constituents, and is locked in a tied race […]
As you’ve probably read in the news by now, there’s an important bill making its way through the Colorado legislature to increase the supply of affordable housing across the state. The reality is that Colorado isn’t keeping up with the demand for new housing. The shortage of housing is hurting everyone, and if we don’t […]
As the Grand Junction Sentinel’s Charles Ashby reports, former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters was sentenced this morning after her conviction of obstruction in one of the cases on the periphery of the larger investigation into the theft of proprietary election data in her failed quest to prove Donald Trump should still be President. As […]
As The Associated Press reports: A shooting Monday at a bank in downtown Louisville killed at least four people and wounded at least eight others, police said. The suspected lone shooter was also dead. Louisville Metro Police Department Deputy Chief Paul Humphrey told reporters officers who arrived on the scene “encountered active gunshots still being […]
awesome + uniting Avalanche Have 91% Chance of Home-Ice in Round One; Best Chances and Schedules Mobolade faces Williams in Springs mayoral runoff Here’s how Colorado plans to slow global warming using carbon capture awesome + controversy Democrats pass 3 bills strengthening abortion rights in Colorado Bills raising the age to buy a gun to […]
As Colorado Springs’ KRDO-TV reports, narrowly (but not that narrowly) eliminated mayoral candidate Sallie Clark is inquiring about the cost of a recount of her loss to former Colorado Secretary of State Wayne Williams, who in turn lost by a much bigger margin to political newcomer Yemi Mobolade: A candidate in the race to be […]
(¯\_(ツ)_/¯ — Promoted by Colorado Pols) It would be hard to name someone who knows Colorado’s conservative training program, the Leadership Program of the Rockies (LPR), better than Heidi Ganahl. After graduating from LPR in 2013, she joined its Advisory Board, a position she still holds today. Following her election as a statewide Regent for […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) Every second Saturday of the month at its headquarters on 17th Avenue, the Independence Institute hosts a “Barter Market,” ostensibly for freedom-loving citizens to exchange goods and avoid sales tax. Items listed as either on offer or requested at the monthly gathering include organic local food items, homemade candles and guitar […]
Tuesday was a huge election night in Colorado, particular in Denver and Colorado Springs. But there were other big races across the country that can tell us more about how things might look in 2024. Let’s start with the big headlines: Denver Mayor and Public Financing It appears that Mike Johnston and Kelly Brough […]
UPDATE: 34 felony charges, the Washington Post reports: In the city that made him famous, under extraordinary courtroom security, Donald Trump pleaded not guilty Tuesday to 34 felony counts related to payments to silence an adult film actress during his 2016 presidential campaign. He is the first former or sitting U.S. president to be criminally charged. The […]
As Colorado Public Radio’s Bente Birkeland reports, the Democratic majority in the Colorado General Assembly is on the cusp of passing the most substantial package of gun safety reform laws, since at least 2019’s “red flag” law, and rivaling the landmark 2013 legislative session that saw the passage of Colorado’s universal background checks and magazine […]
Tomorrow is Election Day for a number of municipal governments across the state, including some of Colorado’s biggest cities like Denver, Colorado Springs, and Grand Junction. Voters in these locations received a mail ballot, and the reports from clerks say turnout is quite low so far. That’s your opportunity to make an even bigger impact! […]
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