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‘Freedom Is Maybe One Election Away From Extinction:’ Trump Supporters Rally in Greeley
Navarro Former President Donald Trump may be a long-shot bet to win Colorado, but you wouldn’t know it from the 100 energized Republicans who attended Sunday’s “Trump Rally” in Greeley.
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Anschutz’s Denver Gazette Stops Paying for Ads Promoting Falsehoods About Venezuelan Gangs in Aurora
UPDATE Sept. 25: Two of the Gazette’s four ads that stopped running Sunday, September 22, are “active” again, as of Tuesday, Sept. 24. One “active” ad states that a “Venezuelan gang used violence to seize an Aurora apartment complex.” This ad had disappeared from the Denver Gazette’s ad library on Facebook on Sunday. It’s now back in the library. Another ad, which quotes Aurora Mayor Mike Coffman calling the gang situation a “nightmare,” is labeled “active” on in the library today after being “inactive” on Sunday. Two other ads (“gangs taking over two Aurora apartment complexes” and “councilwoman promotes claims of Venezuelan gang takeover”) that became “inactive” on Sunday remain inactive today. Below you can see screenshots (taken Sunday) of the ads labeled as “inactive.” You can also see a screenshot (taken today) of the Coffman “nightmare” ad labeled “active” — as well as a screenshot taken today of the ad (“Venezuelan gang used violence to seize an Aurora apartment complex.”) that disappeared on Sunday but has now returned.
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Denver Gazette Paying for Ads With Falsehoods About Gangs Seizing an ‘Aurora Apartment Complex’
It’s now well established that Venezuelan gangs did not take over apartment complexes in Aurora, but the Denver Gazette, a conservative online newspaper owned by GOP billionaire Phil Anschutz, is still running Facebook advertisements falsely claiming that a “Venezuelan gang used violence to seize an Aurora apartment complex” and “New video seems to show Venezuelan gangs taking over two Aurora apartment complexes.” See these ads and other dubious ones here.
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Pledge Ensures That Evans Will Vote Against Any Background Check for Guns, Says Libertarian
Libertarian Party congressional candidate Eric Joss dropped out of Colorado’s most competitive congressional race last week after his Republican opponent Gabe Evans pledged to abide by a set of principles, including, for example, “I will vote to always protect and uphold the right to bear arms. I will oppose all unconstitutional gun laws.”
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Tammy Story Takes on Republicans and Democrats at the Capitol – If She Thinks It’s the Right Thing To Do
Evergreen Democrat Tammy Story doesn’t march in lockstep with fellow Democrats at the Colorado Capital — or reject Republicans. Or wilt when lobbyists knock at her door.
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Advocates Thank Caraveo for Pushing Bill To Lower Prescription Drug Prices
Caraveo Colorado Congresswoman Yadira Caraveo (D-CO) became a co-sponsor last week of a bill aimed at lowering the prices of prescription drugs.
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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.
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House Speaker Johnson, Who’s Headlining Gabe Evans’ Fundraiser Friday, Is One of Many MAGA Extremists Endorsing Evans
Speaker of the U.S. House Mike Johnson (R-LA), who led efforts to stop the certification of the 2020 presidential election and to ban abortion nationally, is dropping into Colorado Friday for a $500-per-plate fundraiser for Colorado congressional candidate Gabe Evans.
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Congressional Candidate Evans ‘Does Not Support’ Obamacare, Concludes Expert
When asked if he supports the Affordable Care Act (ACA), Colorado congressional candidate Gabe Evans has responded not with a yes-or-no answer but by suggesting that he wants a healthcare system “without all the ACA-imposed red tape.”