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LeBron James Once Used Our Video of a Colorado Protest To Take a Shot at Media Coverage of Black Lives Matter
Editor’s note: With LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers in town to battle the Denver Nuggets in the NBA playoffs, we’re looking back at a moment from three years ago when the basketball legend took note of Colorado. Below is an article, reposted from 2020, about LeBron James’ criticism of the news media’s coverage of Black Lives Matter protests.
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Boebert Promotes Seth Rich Conspiracy Via News Site Owned By Alex Jones, Who Claimed Sandy Hook Massacre Never Happened
U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) continued her pattern of retweeting discredited news outlets, retweeting a link this morning from National File, a site founded by Alex Jones to circumvent Facebook’s 2019 ban of Infowars, which is Jones’ better-known propaganda site.
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Democrats Capitalize on Election Win With New Laws on Guns, Abortion, and Climate
Colorado Democrats are distributing a list of new laws as proof that their big majorities at the Capitol paid legislative dividends this year.
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Proud Boys’ Ties to Colorado: Boebert, Other Republicans, a Trump Rally in CO Springs, and More
In Colorado, the Proud Boys, a white nationalist group, have been visible and active since Trump ran for president. Four national leaders of the Proud Boys were convicted of seditious conspiracy yesterday, but a former Colorado Proud Boy calls the verdict “political theater.”
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Guess Who’s ‘Not Sure’ He Sees a Distinction Among CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News? The Editor of Colorado’s Anschutz Media Empire
Sounding like former President Donald Trump equating people on both sides of the white supremacist march in Charlottesville in 2017, Vincent Bzdek, the executive editor of Republican billionaire Phil Anschutz’s media outlets in Colorado, said earlier this month that he’s “not sure” he sees a distinction among CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News.
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Colorado Republican Accuses Democrats of Creating ‘Abortion Tourism’ As Residents of States That Ban Abortion Come to Colorado for Care
A Colorado lawmaker accused Democrats this week of “intentionally running” legislation to “create abortion tourism,” going so far as to say visitors to Colorado can “go skiing for a week and then on the way home they can get their abortion.”
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Colorado Christian University Leader Says Secular Colleges Are ‘So Woke’ and ‘So Godless,’ They ‘Harm Your Children’
An executive at Colorado Christian University said last week that colleges and universities are “so woke, so broken, so godless” that they are doing “harm” to students.
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DeSantis’ Embrace of an Abortion Ban Digs CO Republicans Deeper Into Irrelevancy
DeSantis Shortly after the Republicans’ mind-altering loss last year’s election, Trump-hating Republican pundit Dick Wadhams wrote in Colorado Politics that if Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis runs in 2024, “Colorado might be in play.”
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The Trump Base Is Blamed for GOP Woes in Colorado, But Powerful Conservative Institutions Promote the Same Conspiracism and Trump Extremism. Here’s a List.
When it comes to explaining why conservatives lose so many elections in Colorado, what we see is establishment Republicans — exemplified by hopping-mad GOP strategist Dick Wadhams — blaming their own powerlessness on the election deniers and Trump supporters, including those who control the Colorado Republican Party.