Despite Congress being on recess until next Tuesday, U.S. Rep. Gabe Evans (R-CO) has had a busy week. He spent Wednesday in Denver hanging out with his former statehouse colleagues, before heading to Houston, Texas for a fundraiser today with an organization whose leader has promoted numerous antisemitic conspiracy theories on social media.
Erin Lee's political crusade has largely targeted transgender youth, but when pressed, she said that students are indoctrinated or pressured into assuming other identities, too. She says that the victims of this pressure are "straight white kids," who only claim an LGBTQ identity to be "cool."
At the Colorado Republican Party’s county assemblies last weekend, U.S. Rep. Gabe Evans (R-CO) took credit for a local hospital pausing gender-affirming care for trans youth. He also claimed that he and his office had worked to ensure anti-trans ballot measures would qualify for the 2026 ballot.
Last week, a set of anti-trans initiatives was approved for Colorado’s 2026 ballot. The Colorado Times Recorder has been tracking these initiatives, and the anti-LGBTQ activist group Protect Kids Colorado that has pushed them with help from conservative politicians and religious ministries, for over two years. Here’s all the news you might have missed.
Barry Arrington, a lawyer who has worked with the Alliance Defending Freedom and other right-wing groups, has been tapped for a role in the U.S. Department of Justice. Here's what you should know.
"We thought there was a professional funder who was going to run a parallel effort for these initiatives, and that fell through. Because all of the big money around the country said, 'Colorado, no, we're not going to do this there.'"
An anti-LGBTQ organization pushing to get initiatives on the 2026 ballot has previously gathered signatures exclusively through volunteers. But with just days left to qualify, the group has now hired a professional firm.
To most people, the word ‘plague’ conjures images of widespread infectious disease and death. It’s also the word that former GOP lawmaker Kevin Lundberg used to describe the transgender rights movement in Colorado, as his organization Protect Kids Colorado seeks enough petition signatures to put anti-trans initiatives on the 2026 ballot.
“Secular homeschooling embraces mainstream science, including evolutionary biology, and is inclusive of people of whatever background, sexual orientation, gender expression, or neurodiversity,” reads the homepage of Secular Homeschoolers of Colorado (SHOC).
A Colorado administrative law judge has ruled that a Republican political committee created to raise money for Congresswoman Lauren Boebert (R-CO) as well as several state and local Republican candidates, violated multiple laws and campaign finance rules. The administrative court has scheduled a hearing for Feb. 2 to determine the appropriate number and amount of fines to be assessed.
