The White Rose Resistance is a national anti-abortion group led by conservative podcaster and author Seth Gruber. White Rose’s Colorado chapter has focused on protesting Boulder’s RISE Collective, leading the clinic to contact the Boulder Police Department over concerns for staff and patient safety. Today, one of White Rose’s national board members, Katie Zacharia, made her debut as the new White House Press Secretary.
In the run-up to the November election, newly formed activist group Athletes for Action has joined Protect Kids Colorado to promote Proposition 134, the effort to ban transgender athletes from participating in sports. This week, Athletes for Action has launched a statewide video ad urging Colorado voters to vote for Proposition 134 in the November 3 election. The ad lists Jennifer Sey, the Colorado-based founder of XX-XY athletics, as the group’s registered agent, although, as of publication, Colorado’s campaign finance disclosure website, TRACER, shows no record of the group.
On Monday, the Colorado Rapid Response Network (CORRN), alongside the Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition (CIRC) and the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), presented their 2025-2026 Community Report, “Mapping La Migra and Building Resistance in Colorado,” a compilation of new data on ICE activity and detention trends.
A Southern Colorado Republican running for the most competitive state Senate district tried to distance herself from the local Christian Nationalist group she helped launch.
Former Colorado Representative Steph Vigil is running to retake her House District 16 seat. Rep. Rebecca Keltie (R-Colorado Springs) narrowly defeated Vigil in 2024 by just three votes, after Vigil beat Republican Colorado Springs City Councilor Dave Donelson by a margin of just 710 votes in 2022. This year, Vigil is hoping the voters will swing back to her side in one of the most contentious districts in Colorado.
Over 100 residents — Colorado Springs Education Association members, teachers, parents, students, and community members — picketed the Colorado Springs School District 11 Board of Education meeting last night. The event comes after a lawsuit from D11’s ombudsperson, Natasha Bullard Kaonohi, against D11 Deputy Superintendent Brandan Comfort and Superintendent Michael Gaal, alleging that Comfort stole confidential files from her office at Gaal’s direction.
Democrats in El Paso County are once again hoping to flip a seat on the Board of County Commissioners, which has been solidly Republican since the Nixon administration. Former Colorado Springs City Councilor Yolanda Avila is running against incumbent Commissioner Lauren Nelson, who previously served on the Colorado Springs School District 11 Board of Education.
Two of Colorado Springs School District 11’s newly elected board members — LeAnn Baca Bartlett and Charles Johnson — have responded to the lawsuit filed by D11 Ombudsperson Natasha Bullard Kaonohi against D11 Deputy Superintendent Brandan Comfort and Superintendent Michael Gaal, alleging that Comfort stole confidential files from her office at Gaal’s direction.
Colorado Springs School District 11 Ombudsperson, Natasha Bullard Kaonohi, filed a lawsuit last week against D11 Deputy Superintendent Brandan Comfort and Superintendent Michael Gaal, alleging that Comfort stole confidential files from her office at Gaal’s direction. As ombudsperson, Kaonohi is responsible for assisting D11 staff members, students, parents, and community members with confidential, impartial, and independent informal and formal complaint and conflict resolution. The lawsuit, released on Facebook by the parents group D11 Echo, alleges that Comfort used a master key to enter Kaonohi’s office and remove three to five confidential files.
Jefferson County Republicans gathered at the Mount Vernon Canyon Club in Golden on Sunday evening to hear from candidates up and down the ballot, including gubernatorial candidate Victor Marx.
