(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: As The Colorado Sun reports in its “Unaffiliated” newsletter, State Party Vice Chair Hope Scheppelman is also hoping for a job in the Trump administration and is surely hoping nobody fact checks her application for employment: Scheppelman is taking credit for Republican gains in the state House and in the 8th Congressional District in an […]
If it is true, as former President John F. Kennedy once said, that “victory has a thousand fathers,” it looks like the MAGA movement is in for a long paternity battle. As Aaron Blake explains for The Washington Post: The MAGA movement has always been a loosely stitched-together confederation led by a man with relatively […]
Congresswoman Brittany Pettersen (D-Lakewood) is a few weeks away from becoming just the 14th woman to give birth while serving as a Member of Congress. Before that happens, she and a bipartisan group of colleagues are pushing for a common sense resolution that Republican leadership basically ignored in 2024. As Punchbowl News explains: A bipartisan group […]
The 2025 Colorado legislative session kicked off today with many of the same dumb problems from previous sessions, thanks in part to the “Unambiguously Lame Duo” of Colorado Springs Republican Reps. Ken “Dildo” DeGraff and Scott “There is No” Bottoms. As The Denver Post explains: After the early pomp and circumstance, plus a land acknowledgement […]
“No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man’s permission when we ask him to obey it.” –Theodore Roosevelt
“Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson
As the AP reports from the unbesieged U.S. Capitol on this day of calendrical infamy, the usually routine process of certifying the state-by-state results of the 2024 presidential election took place true to the peaceful historical norm, with the defeated Democratic nominee Vice President Kamala Harris affirming without reservation her loss to once and future […]
AP reports via CNN on an incident the week before Christmas involving a reporter for Grand Junction’s KJCT-TV, who was reportedly chased for miles and violently assaulted outside the station’s studios for the crime of being a reporter in “Trump’s America.” A Colorado man is facing possible bias-motivated charges for allegedly attacking a television news […]
CNN reports today on the release by the House Ethics Committee of their investigative report into allegations of years of sexual misconduct by now-former Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida, who was abortively nominated by President re-elect Donald Trump to serve as perhaps the most unqualified Attorney General ever to presume worthiness to serve as the […]
A simmering controversy in arch-conservative Weld County is playing out mostly under the radar of preoccupied local media, as the county perhaps best known for being the center of an ill-fated attempt to secede from the rest of Colorado a decade ago defends a county commission redistricting plan that not only divides and reduces the […]
FRIDAY UPDATE #2: CNN reports after a tumultuous day that in the end saw Democrats rally to the rescue of House Speaker Mike Johnson to pass a continuing resolution without Trump’s spurious demand for a hike in the debt limit: The House has voted to pass a stopgap funding bill just hours before a midnight […]
“When tempest tossed, embrace chaos.” –Dean Koontz
Colorado’s temporary member of Congress Rep. Greg “Please Don’t Google Me” Lopez, elected in June to serve out the remainder of ex-Rep. Ken Buck’s term without posing a primary threat to carpetbagging sensation Rep. Lauren Boebert, is wrapping up his brief foray in office by glomming onto the incipient and much-hyped campaign by billionaire Elon […]
It’s not your fault; you haven’t been bad. House Republicans are scrambling (again) to figure out a way to fund the government (again) before an end-of-week deadline. As The Hill newspaper reports: Congressional negotiators are struggling to reach a deal to keep the government’s lights on past Dec. 20. Text of a continuing resolution (CR) […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) Originally published at the Colorado Times Recorder Rep. Matthew Soper, a state representative from Colorado’s Western Slope region, took to X (formerly Twitter) arguing for an end to birthright citizenship. Soper (R-Delta) wrote on X on Dec. 9: “It is time the U.S. evolve our legal system from one of jus soli to […]
There are 12 shopping days left until Christmas. Wait…what? Crap. 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. FIRST UP… ► Democratic State Rep. […]
Axios reports on the looming threat of President re-elect Donald Trump’s promised campaign of mass deportations to begin when he retakes office on January 20th, in particular how it could effect the nation’s vital and immigrant labor-dependent meatpacking industry–which could directly affect the conservative Colorado city of Greeley, home to thousands of such workers staffing […]
We haven’t heard much from Congressman-elect Jeff Crank since he defeated Colorado Republican Party Chair Dave Williams in the June Primary for the GOP nomination in CO-05 (Colorado Springs). As expected, Crank had no trouble winning the General Election for the right to replace retiring Rep. Doug Lamborn, and now he’s starting to speak up…though […]
UPDATE: Colorado Democratic Party chairman Shad Murib agrees that Rep. Stephanie Luck’s role in this incident raises questions: So eager to stick it to the Secretary of State that Rep. Luck broke the law herself? It’s looking more like the Tina Peters case all the time. —– We wrote last Monday about a luncheon event […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) Originally published at the Colorado Times Recorder A Christian nationalist college founded by one of the country’s top anti-gay and anti-abortion conservatives is celebrating U.S. Rep.-elect Gabe Evans (R-CO) as its “first-ever graduate to be elected” to Congress. The undergraduate institution, called Patrick Henry College (PHC), doesn’t hide its alignment with […]
Happy Krampusnacht; 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. FIRST UP… ► As talk of mass deportations in the next […]
As CNN reports, after two weeks of “outreach” to skeptical Republican U.S. Senators, the nomination of Fox News host Pete Hegseth to serve as the nation’s Secretary of Defense is hanging by a pube: Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for defense secretary, told CNN “no” he’s not dropping out despite facing a tough path […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) As published at the Colorado Times Recorder “Pro-family” activists worked hard to elect Donald Trump and other GOP candidates this fall. The nonprofit Family Policy Alliance, which partners with Colorado Springs-based Focus on the Family, says it mobilized voters through 12 million emails in swing states and brought 850,000 new Christian voters to the polls. […]
The 2024 election cycle in Colorado is almost complete, with just one significant recount still underway for control of a State House seat in Colorado Springs. Once that outcome is final, it will be time for Republicans to do some financial accounting for 2024…and the numbers won’t look very good at all. Should Republican Rebecca Keltie […]
“When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.” –Edmund Burke
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