(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%
It would be nearly impossible to list all of the different ways that President Trump has critically damaged the United States — not just now, but for years to come. Assuming that this country still exists in a few years, we may well look back on this week as a tipping point for the Trump […]
As NPR’s Julia Simon reports, while President Donald Trump’s Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. faces brutal bipartisan questioning in the U.S. Senate after plunging his department into chaos leading to mass calls for his resignation, another of Trump’s Cabinet Secretaries is similarly being called out for breaking with the science that […]
UPDATE: The Denver Post editorial board comes to the same conclusion: Trump isn’t the first president to make a politically motivated decision like this, but he is the first to gloat openly about using his power to punish a state for not supporting his re-election. The message the president is sending is clear — get […]
After a difficult week of budget cuts and loophole closures to address the billion-dollar hole in Colorado’s state budget opened by the passage of the federal “We’re All Going To Die Act” budget bill, the Denver Post’s Nick Coltrain and Seth Klamann report that a coalition of progressive advocacy groups is kicking off a campaign […]
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 […]
(Hope is in the Tanc — Promoted by Colorado Pols) Originally posted at the Colorado Times Recorder This week, former Congressman Tom Tancredo (R-CO) announced he is backing former Colorado GOP Vice Chair Hope Scheppelman, who’s challenging freshman Congressman Jeff Hurd in the 2026 Republican Primary election for Colorado’s 3rd District. Tancredo, never one to […]
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 […]
As FOX 31’s Brooke Williams reports, the climate of fear the Trump administration has deliberately cultivated among the nation’s millions of undocumented immigrant residents, the overwhelming majority of whom are law-abiding and contributors to their communities and the economy, is resulting in a not new but now more urgently persuasive form of exploitation: threatening to […]
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 […]
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 […]
TUESDAY UPDATE: The stupid…it burns… Here’s Rep. Ken “Dildo” DeGraaf (R-Colorado Springs) arguing that the State of Colorado should begin doing genetic identification of post-abortion remains in order to identify the responsible male so that he can repay the state somehow: Or, if you prefer, here’s Rep. Larry Don Suckla (R-Montezuma County) telling a […]
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 […]
(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, […]
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 […]
UPDATE: Rather than face a censure vote, the Colorado Sun’s Jesse Paul reports that Rep. Ryan Armagost has resigned effective immediately: State Rep. Ryan Armagost, R-Berthoud, was already set to leave the legislature Sept. 1 to pursue a job and personal relationship in Arizona. His resignation spares him the embarrassment of being censured by Democrats […]
WEDNESDAY UPDATE: John Wenzel of The Denver Post has more on the proposed sale and reaches many of the same conclusions: A proposed merger between the parent companies of two of Denver’s top TV news operations could result in layoffs, consolidation and programming changes, according to media experts. Fox31 KDVR parent company Nexstar Media Group, […]
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 […]
As the Colorado Springs Gazette’s Marianne Goodland reports, the ongoing internal conflict within the morally headless Colorado House GOP minority caucus escalated again yesterday with the filing of a campaign finance complaint against Rep. Ron Weinberg of Loveland, who is already beset by allegations of serial sexual harassment that scuttled his short-lived bid to serve […]
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