The 2025 race for Colorado GOP Chair is heating up. Last week, Brita Horn, a former Routt County treasurer, announced intentions to challenge incumbent Dave Williams for the role, and today the Colorado GOP’s director of special initiatives, Darcy Schoening, announced her candidacy.
Yesterday was the launch of Colorado’s 2025 legislative session, and Democrats and Republicans are both focused on affordability, housing, and mental health this year. But they disagree on what should be done.
While conservatives are celebrating the victory and impending inauguration of Donald Trump, they are also preparing for 2025’s school board elections. Recent media appearances from some of Colorado’s most vocal conservative education activists indicate that the playbook for 2025 will focus on three tried and true issues — diversity programs, transgender people, and unions.
This year the Colorado Times Recorder focused more on County Commissioner races in Colorado, particularly in El Paso County. We built on our existing coverage of the El Paso County Board of County Commissioners (BOCC), which has seen Commissioner Carrie Geitner lead efforts to deny federal grant funding to “progressive” nonprofits and take public stances against immigration. In our coverage of county commissioner races, we highlighted the efforts of the Colorado Democratic Party’s County Comeback Initiative and profiled competitive races in the state.
Colorado Times Recorder’s 2024 reproductive justice coverage was focused largely on efforts to pass Amendment 79 and coverage of congressional candidates, particularly Jeff Crank in CD5 and Gabe Evans in CD8. Additionally, we reported on municipal efforts to ban abortion in Pueblo, and how municipalities like Pueblo are funding anti-abortion centers, and how school districts like Woodland Park are using anti-abortion centers to teach sex ed.
The Colorado Springs School District 11 (D11) Board of Education voted Wednesday to allow the master agreement with the Colorado Springs Education Association (CSEA) to expire. After nearly an hour and a half of public comment from pro- and anti-union speakers, the board voted 6-1 to end the contract, the only master agreement in El Paso County, which has been in place for over 50 years.
Conservative Christian activist group Forging Pueblo held a “Jericho Walk for D70 Schools” in Pueblo Saturday.
Students at Woodland Park High School are getting their sex education instruction from Choices, an anti-abortion “pregnancy resource center” with ties to Andrew Wommack’s ministry.
Democrats in El Paso County were hopeful that during this election cycle, the first since redistricting in 2023, they would get at least one candidate onto the El Paso County Board of County Commissioners. Their hopes did not materialize, as both Democratic candidates Naomia Lopez and Detra Duncan were defeated by their Republican opponents.
Nicole Hunt, an analyst and spokesperson for conservative Christian powerhouse Focus on the Family, argues that the spending gap between pro- and anti-abortion groups is one of the contributing factors to the success of abortion ballot measures this year.
