(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 week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, the Federal Government Shutdown enters its second-ish week and Democrats seem to have the upper hand, at least so far. Then, can puppy-killer DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and her masked goons defeat an army of grannies with ukeleles and people in inflatable costumes in war-raveged Portland, Oregon? Even though 2026 […]
Over the summer, America’s Most Vulnerable Incumbent™ Rep. Gabe Evans developed a routine of holding photo-ops at locations in his district that were directly affected by adverse votes Evans himself took, principally with the passage of the “We’re All Going To Die Act” federal budget bill, as well as retaliation by the Trump administration against […]
Every election cycle brings its share of gadfly candidates, from the inexplicable first-timers to those who have run again and again (we’re looking at you, Greg Lopez). Thus far the 2026 election cycle has dozens upon dozens of candidates seeking all manner of political office. If history is any guide, 75% of these candidates will […]
As the ongoing shutdown of the federal government’s effects are felt across the economy, the Trump administration has responded in part by directing normally non-political government agencies to name and blame Democrats as political retribution that they hope the public will echo–which hasn’t happened so far, with the public overwhelmingly blaming Republicans for the shutdown, […]
As FOX 31 Denver’s Alliyah Sims reports, a most unusual spectacle played out yesterday afternoon on the West Steps of the Colorado State Capitol: Loved ones lost, cases dismissed and dangerous criminals walking free. Families and lawmakers across the state are demanding immediate change to a 2024 law they say is putting lives at risk. […]
Back in June, we took note of an announcement from the Commerce Department reported by Ernest Luning of the Colorado Springs Gazette’s political blog that former Colorado Republican Party chairman Dave Williams had been appointed a “senior advisor” at the International Trade Administration–ostensibly due to his experience in importing containerloads of trinkets from China […]
We take you to the streets of Portland, Oregon, where we’re told the once-beautiful City of Roses is burning to the ground as the Antifa domestic terrorist onslaught continues unchecked: Hold on, folks, we must be running the wrong tape, because as KGW-TV in Portland reports, the situation is so bad that local police are…yes, […]
The first federal government shutdown since 2018 will enter double digits by reaching Day 10 tomorrow, with no apparent end in sight. That doesn’t mean there isn’t shutdown-related news to discuss. Here’s the latest in our weekly-ish shutdown updates, starting with the latest polling from Navigator Research: Republicans Getting Hammered for Shutdown…By Republicans We’ve […]
(They don’t call it the “Kirkmeyer Competency Act” for nothing — Promoted by Colorado Pols) Originally posted at the Colorado Times Recorder With 19 Republicans running for the 2026 gubernatorial nomination, the candidates, many of whom are true MAGA patriots, will have to compete to set themselves apart from one another. And while GOP candidates like […]
(Republished under Creative Commons license by Colorado Pols) by Lindsey Toomer, Colorado Newsline October 9, 2025 Colorado Democrats in Congress called on Republicans to negotiate a bipartisan funding bill that extends health insurance tax credits to reopen the federal government. In a press call Wednesday, the lawmakers said the government is shut down solely because […]
As the federal government shutdown extends into its second week, there are signs that President Trump is beginning to waver on his commitment to this chaos. The Republican lie that Democrats want to fund health care for undocumented immigrants is going nowhere. Democrats, meanwhile, continue to dominate the narrative by keeping Republicans on the defensive […]
As FOX 31’s Ashley Michels reports–while most of Congress is wrestling with the ongoing shutdown of the federal government, and pressing issues from the faltering Trump economy to Schrödinger’s Epstein Files competing for the attention of voters, Colorado’s carpetbagging cornucopia of crazy Rep. Lauren Boebert just dropped another distraction into this most distracted of news […]
Retired Rear Admiral Eileen Laubacher notched a massive fundraising haul in CO-04, raising nearly $2.5 million and finishing Q3 with about $2 million in the bank. According to a press release, Laubacher has now raised $4.4 million from more than 10,000 Coloradans, with an average donation of $24 dollars. We can’t definitively say that a […]
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, the shitdown shutshow or the shutdown shitshow or whatever you want to call it is officially on as Democrats and Republicans in Washington DC fail to reach an agreement on temporary funding and Mike Johnson and Donald Trump are just lying about it everywhere. Then, the hands-down winner for “least self aware […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) Originally posted at the Colorado Times Recorder On Wednesday, a panel of top Colorado healthcare executives warned that federal cuts to Medicaid, under the so-called Big Beautiful Bill, will affect not only Medicaid recipients but Colorado’s wider health care system, pushing up costs and the number of uninsured people across the […]
Last week’s announcement that “high-risk missionary” Richard Victor Marx will run for the Republican nomination for governor in 2026 was bad news for two current candidates: the first being fellow pastor and state Rep. Scott Bottoms, who while running in the same general MAGA religious-right lane as Marx has a massive charismatic deficit by comparison. […]
Politico reports that despite an ongoing government shutdown and a backlog of pressing business, the U.S. House will not do anything next week: Johnson said at a news conference earlier Friday that “the House will come back into session and do its work as soon as Chuck Schumer allows us to reopen the government,” referring […]
The government shutdown does have at least one political benefit for President Trump: At least he won’t have to explain more terrible job numbers. As NBC News reports, employment is heading in the wrong direction: U.S. companies shed 32,000 jobs in September, according to the payroll processing company ADP, a surprising decline that adds to […]
Top brass from every branch of the United States military flew in from all over the world to attend a lecture in Virginia today in which Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense, or War (or whatever) called them fat and President Trump rambled about a bizarre proposal to conduct military training in American cities while demanding […]
(Nonpartisan no more — Promoted by Colorado Pols) Originally posted at the Colorado Times Recorder Municipal elections in Aurora are supposed to be non-partisan, but while Aurora’s elections are many things, non-partisan is not one of them. Last week, Aurora City Councillor Danielle Jurinsky and her slate of Republican-backed candidates held a rally at the […]
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, despite polling showing that Colorado voters have soured on Democrats, they have not sweetened up to Republicans — we explain why in a new segment called “Which is Worser.” Then, Colorado braces for a recession as prices keep rising everywhere, the job market looks like it’s really starting […]
Back in 2022, GOP Sen. Barb Kirkmeyer was running for Congress in Colorado’s then brand-new and closely divided CO-08 with no apologies about one of the wackier points in her long record in elected office representing deep red Weld County, helping organize in 2013 a proposal for Weld and several other lightly-populated rural Colorado counties […]
House Republicans in Colorado selected freshman Rep. Jarvis Caldwell (R-Monument) as their new Minority Leader last Saturday, surely hoping that he could do a better job than Rose Pugliese, the previous “Leader” who threw a tantrum and resigned from the legislature 10 days ago. The early returns are not encouraging. Pugliese was an absolute mess […]
As NBC News reports, the White House has introduced a new and troubling potential consideration to the increasingly urgent debate over legislation to keep the government from entering another shutdown on October 1st–a threat to permanently fire employees who would normally only be furloughed in a shutdown and then reinstated with back pay: The White […]
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