Mainstream Republicans and other business-oriented conservatives are again endorsing GOP candidates in Colorado who promote election conspiracies or outright deny that President Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election.
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Another Gabe Evans Supporter’s Shockingly Antisemitic Posts
For the second time this month, a supporter of Republican congressional candidate Gabe Evans has been found to be promoting racist and antisemitic content online.
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MyPillow CEO Lindell Claims Without Proof That ‘Many’ CO Clerks Shared Election Security Info With His Conspiracy Group
Across Colorado, county clerks are preparing for the first presidential election since former President Donald Trump denied the results of his 2020 loss. The conspiracy theories he and his supporters promoted ultimately led not only to the attack on our country’s Capitol, but to localized threats of violence against election officials nationwide as well as here in Colorado.
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Colorado Republican Party Briefly Supported and is Now Neutral on Protecting Gay Marriage
For a few hours this week, the Colorado Republican Party supported gay rights, or at least gay marriage.
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CO Congressional Candidate Evans Fires Political Director Following Times Recorder Reporting on Antisemitic & Violent Posts
Republican congressional candidate Gabe Evans fired his political director yesterday, following the Colorado Times Recorder’s report on her extensive record of antisemitic, conspiratorial, and violent posts on Facebook.
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GOP Candidate’s Political Director Posts Antisemitism, Conspiracies & Calls for Violence
Gabe Evans’ Political Director Jessica Spindle has been working to get him elected to office for years, ever since his first run for statehouse in 2022. Evans is now challenging Congresswoman Yadira Caraveo for Colorado’s 8th Congressional District, in a race that’s expected to be one of the nation’s most competitive contests. She’s been on staff as Evans’ political director for his congressional campaign since April, but she’s been a relentless sharer of antisemitism, conspiracy theories, and calls for political violence for much, much longer.
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Dueling Meetings & Disputed Votes: Colorado GOP Chair Doubles Down on Defiance
Defiance defined Saturday’s meeting of some members of the Colorado Republican Party’s Central Committee. Comprised almost exclusively of supporters of Dave Williams, the meeting was essentially a MAGA celebration for the former state representative, who insists he is still in charge.
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High-Dollar MAGA Donors Cutting Off Colorado GOP Over Infighting
The battle for control of the Colorado Republican Party is coming at a measurable cost to its fundraising, both at the state and local level.
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Denver Chamber Signs On to Conservative Groups’ Special Session Demands, Then Tries to Clarify
Colorado’s legislature reconvened this week for a special session called for a single purpose: removing Initiatives 50 & 108 from this November’s ballot. The measures, backed by anonymous right-wing donors, would slash taxes so drastically that a bipartisan coalition of dozens of statewide groups wrote a letter to Governor Jared Polis two weeks ago, pleading with him to call the Legislature back to deal with the “significant and very real threat to all communities.”
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GOP Congressional Candidate Puts His Training at a Far-Right Christian College Into Action
On the campaign trail, congressional candidate Gabe Evans talks a lot about his experience in the military, police force, and Colorado Legislature.