The Colorado Times Recorder has been debunking conspiracies and disinformation since our launch in 2017, and this year was no different. Ever since the 2020 presidential election, conservative conspiracists have focused most of their energy on election denialism, so we’ve done the same.

From Durango to Denver, Colorado Times Recorder reporters covered over a dozen state legislative races this year. We focused largely, but not exclusively, on the smaller set of competitive races where our reporting could help inform voters. The stories touch on policies ranging from Uber drivers to oil drilling, LGBT rights to … eating bugs. Seriously.

In the wake of an election that saw Colorado Republicans win a tossup congressional district, flip three competitive statehouse seats, and move six-figure sums from and to pro-Trump campaign entities, leaders within the party are still arguing over who deserves credit.

Republican legislators from across the county gathered in Washington, D.C. last week for the American Legislative Exchange Council’s States and Nation Policy Summit. Heading Colorado’s delegation was state Sen. Mark Baisley (R-Roxborough Park), who appears to be considering a run for governor in 2026, and serves as one of ALEC’s Colorado State Co-Chairs.

Earlier this week conspiracist filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza publicly apologized for the false claims in his election fraud conspiracy movie 2000 Mules.

Colorado Republicans first email after this year’s election had a simple message: “We Won!!” The Colorado Republicans’ first event after this year’s election has speakers with a simple message: we can’t trust Colorado’s election results.

Earlier today, a Denver judge denied a request by the Colorado Libertarian Party to stop all use of voting machines over an inadvertent password disclosure on the Secretary of State’s website. The judge ruled that the state’s rapid response to the incident by dispatching staff to change passwords, which are just one aspect of the multi-layer security process elections officials use to update voting machines, addressed the problem sufficiently to prevent bringing the state’s election to an immediate halt.

Tomorrow, El Paso County Clerk Steve Schlieker will administer the election in Colorado’s most populous county. Last Thursday, Schlieker sent a letter to his election staff and the county’s bipartisan team of poll workers assuring them that tomorrow’s election is secure and that the recent password leak from Colorado Secretary of State Jen Griswold’s office will not impact vote counting.