The Chair of the Wyoming Republican Party says he’s heard “indirectly” that U.S. House Republicans were waiting for support from the Republican National Committee (RNC) before taking more aggressive actions against fellow Republicans, like Wyoming Congresswoman Liz Cheney, who criticized Trump, participated in a House investigation of the Jan. 6 insurrection, or spoke out on other matters.
Colorado gubernatorial candidate Heidi Ganahl’s posture of not commenting on the legitimacy of the last presidential election softened a bit last week when she stated her concern about “rules being weakened before the election in some states.“
If you attend U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert’s (R-CO) Feb. 17 fundraiser with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago, you can get your photo taken with the former president for $11,600.
“I thought it was a great, great meeting,” said Kristi Burton Brown, the leader of Colorado’s Republican Party, when asked Saturday about a GOP meeting in Salt Lake City where national Republican leaders voted that the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol was “legitimate political discourse.”
Some analysts say that the biggest threat to American democracy isn’t the new restrictions to voter access — though they are a problem — but the prospect that election deniers will be elected to offices that actually oversee vote counting and could have the power to alter election results based on conspiracies.
In a Jan. 19 interview, state Rep. Ron Hanks (R-Cañon City) took aim at Democrats — as well as fellow state House Minority Leader Tim Geitner — for, respectively, their votes and failure to vote on a House resolution thanking Hanks for attending last year’s attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Colorado’s Jenna Ellis, a former assistant professor at Colorado Christian University, is among four Trump lawyers subpoenaed — along with Rudy Giuliani and two others — Tuesday by the U.S. House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
Despite clear proof that getting a COVID vaccination is the best way to stay out of the hospital and the morgue if you get the disease, Colorado Republican leader Randy Corporon continues to rail against COVID vaccinations, saying evidence increasingly shows that “so-called vaccines” don’t protect you from anything and that unproven drugs, like Ivermectin, work.
Asked what he makes of the wild success of “Don’t Look Up,” Colorado-based journalist David Sirota, who was a co-creator of the Netflix film, told Krystal Ball, co-host of the YouTube Show Breaking Points, that the movie reveals a “pent-up demand” for all types of media addressing climate change, arguing that instead of being treated as a “special topic area,” climate and science should get “day-to-day” coverage.
Today, on the one-year anniversary of the insurrection of the U.S. Capitol by a violent mob, about 30 people gathered at the Colorado Capitol to mark the event and to resolve to fight to prevent another attack like the Jan. 6 insurrection from happening again.
