Weekend Open Thread
“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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“Operation Aurora Is Coming,” Says Thrilled Aurora City Councilor
As the Aurora Sentinel’s Cassandra Ballard reports, despite half-hearted attempts by Aurora’s Republican Mayor Mike Coffman to combat rampant misinformation about the city spread in large part by Donald Trump in stump speeches throughout the country including just inside the boundaries of Aurora itself, a member of the GOP-controlled Aurora City Council, Danielle Jurinsky, who […]
Get More Smarter on Friday (Nov. 22)
President John F. Kennedy was assassinated on this day 61 years ago. 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… ► Former […]
Never Let ‘Em Tell You Every Vote Doesn’t Count
As Colorado Public Radio’s Dan Boyce reported over the weekend, the closest Colorado House race anyone can remember, and we’ve been checking so let us know, is headed for a mandatory recount after the final tally showed a mere seven votes separating incumbent Democratic Rep. Stephanie Vigil of House District 16 from her Republican challenger […]
Get More Smarter on Wednesday (Nov. 20)
To quote Laura Helmuth: “The moral arc of the universe isn’t going to bend itself.” 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… […]
Meet Your New Energy Secretary, Colorado Petro-Evangelist Chris Wright
UPDATE: 9NEWS’ Kyle Clark profiles Chris Wright’s “fracking evangelist” views such as the “fearmongering” of linking climate change to extreme weather events, the warm fuzzy upside of global warming, the non-existence of a climate “crisis” of any kind, and other boardroom bromides you’ll be excited to hear from the next Secretary of Energy: —– Among […]
Get More Smarter on Tuesday (November 19)
There are 35 shopping days until Christmas, so get your butt moving. 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 […]
Is Gabe Evans Okay With Trump Skipping Background Checks?
As CNN reports, in addition to demanding the U.S. Senate abandon its responsibility to confirm Cabinet nominees, Trump 2.0 is in several notable cases sidestepping the usual process of vetting nominees via background checks conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigations: President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team is bypassing traditional FBI background checks for at least some […]
The Big Line: 2026
NOTE: Percentages reflect Colorado Pols’ estimated chances of winning in the 2026 General Election in Colorado. Numbers are not intended to estimate final margin of victory. *Indicates incumbent LAST UPDATE: December 8, 2025 U.S. SENATE (D) John Hickenlooper* (80%) Colorado’s most recognizable political name has never lost an election. He won’t in 2026, either. (D) Julie […]
In Which We Discuss Quadfectas and Underwater Alien Bases
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast…The Big Orange Guy is assembling a rogue’s gallery of cabinet members to most likely destroy the entire federal government from the inside out, making people like us breathe a sigh of relief when comparative normies like Marco Rubio get appointed as Secretary of State. Next, two leading Colorado Democrats […]
Heidi Ganahl’s Confusing Affirmations on Budget Cuts
If Heidi Ganahl thinks you are doing something right, you really might want to reassess your plans. The 2022 Republican nominee for Governor, who lost to incumbent Democrat Jared Polis by nearly 20 points, is inarguably the worst statewide candidate in Colorado history. But rather than allow her ignominy to fade from memory, Ganahl can’t […]
Gov. Polis Partly Walks Back Ill-Advised RFK Jr. Love
Politico reported the latest gobsmacking announcement from the Trump 2.0 transition team yesterday you’ve probably already seen, failed spoiler presidential candidate and preeminent public health conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will be nominated to serve as Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services–the agency tasked with protecting the public from, among a […]
CO District Attorney Promises To ‘Find a Way’ To Sidestep Laws Forbidding Local Police From Helping Feds Arrest Migrants
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) Originally posted at the Colorado Times Recorder He says it’s “tricky,” but George Brauchler, who was elected last week as the district attorney for a newly created judicial district in Colorado, is promising to “find a way” to allow local law enforcement to work with federal officials seeking to arrest immigrants, […]
Lauren Boebert Has Heard Some Wild Stuff About Aliens
9NEWS reports from the GOP-controlled U.S. House Oversight Committee yesterday back in lame-duck action to tie up some loose ends before the holiday break. For Colorado’s carpetbagging controversy-seeking Congresscritter Rep. Lauren Boebert, that would appear to be getting answers to rumors she’s heard about…let’s let Boebert explain this one: “There are rumors that have come […]
Sen. John Thune Wins Majority Leader Post In Notable Snub To MAGA
As USA TODAY reports, Senate Republicans today elected GOP Sen. John Thune of South Dakota to serve as the next Senate majority leader, replacing Sen. Mitch McConnell to lead the upper chamber for the first two years of the second Donald Trump administration: Thune won in a secret-ballot vote of 29-24, beating out opposing candidates […]
Lauren Boebert’s Persistent Underperformance
It’s not us…it’s you. Republican Lauren Boebert moved across the state in late 2023 because it was clear that she would not have been re-elected to Congress in her home district of CO-03; in 2022, Boebert only managed to defeat Democrat Adam Frisch by 546 votes. Boebert’s cross-Colorado move paid off last week when she […]
Gabe Evans Is The New Cory Gardner, And That’s Not A Compliment
Republican Rep.-elect Gabe Evans, basking in the glow of his exceedingly narrow win over incumbent Democratic Rep. Yadira Caraveo in Colorado’s ultra-swing CO-08, held his first press conference since Caraveo’s concession yesterday to carefully word his way around the thornier aspects of returning President Donald Trump’s agenda–starting with Trump’s vow to initiate the largest deportation […]
How You Like Dave Williams Now, Colorado?
On the morning after the election last Wednesday, embattled-then-vindicated chairman of the Colorado Republican Party Dave “Brandon Forever” Williams sent out an email blast celebrating Donald Trump’s nationwide victory, side-stepping the obvious problem that Trump for a third consecutive election failed to carry the state of Colorado. Radical Democrats, and even sell out RINO’s like […]
Colorado Week in Review for November 10, 2024
awesome + uniting Colorado snow totals: More than 4 feet of snow recorded in parts of state Voters agree to remove same sex marriage ban from Colorado’s constitution How Colorado ‘bucked the trend’ amid 2024’s nationwide Republican wave awesome + controversy Coloradans Pass Abortion Protection Amendment, But Concerns Of Federal Threats Continue It’s not just […]
Rep. Caraveo Concedes Hard-Fought CO-08 Race
SUNDAY UPDATE: With the count failing to close a persistent gap of around 2,500 votes, incumbent Democratic Rep. Yadira Caraveo concedes the race to Republican challenger Gabe Evans: —– As Ernest Luning reports for the Colorado Springs Gazette’s political blog, the agonizingly slow count in the close-as-can-be CO-08 race, which as of this writing is […]
If There is Actual Election Fraud, It’s Always a Republican
Warning about non-existent “election fraud” has been almost a requirement for membership in the modern Republican Party. Everything is fraudulent…unless Republicans are winning, and then it’s fine. And as we found out again this week, whenever actual election fraud attempts take place, it is always — ALWAYS — a Republican who is involved. From The Colorado […]
What Happened
How did Harris lose to the most unqualified individual to ever hold the office of President? Ok, there are three main things I’m going to discuss: Why did Trump win? We have survived this before. What do we do now? Why Did Trump Win? I don’t know (I have my suspicions). No one knows, which […]
All Eyes On CO-08 As Rep. Yadira Caraveo Clings To Narrow Lead
As the Colorado Sun reports, one of the nation’s most competitive congressional races is neck-and-neck the morning after as ballots continue to be counted in two politically polar opposite counties in the swing CO-08 race, conservative Weld County versus the larger swing suburban Adams County, each breaking strongly for Republican Gabe Evans and incumbent Rep. […]
Evans’ Explanation for Skipping Gay Marriage Vote Puzzles His Colleagues
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) Originally posted at the Colorado Times Recorder by Jason Salzman and Erik Maulbetsch Embed from Getty Images Colorado congressional candidate Gabe Evans is saying that his strident opposition to gay marriage ended long ago. If that’s true, 9News fact checker Marshall Zelinger asked Evans Oct. 16, then why was the Ft. Lupton […]
Dems Close Ranks As Trump Tries To Exploit SoS Password Pickle
This morning, a joint press release from Gov. Jared Polis and Secretary of State Jena Griswold announced that the emergency operation to change every voting hardware password accidentally disclosed by the SoS office in a publicly-posted spreadsheet, which resulted in a major political embarrassment just days before the election despite posing little actual security threat […]