Republican U.S. Senate candidate Janak Joshi was excited to announce on a right-wing podcast last week that he scored the endorsement of former GOP Senate candidate and influential Colorado conservative Bob Schaffer.
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Rep. Evans Campaigned on Being ‘Respectful,’ But Now Says Democrats Are ‘Pro-Bubonic Plague’
When he ran for Congress in 2024, U.S. Rep. Gabe Evans (R-CO) promised repeatedly to be civil toward Democrats, saying, for example, “I fight hard, but I fight fair, and I fight respectful.”
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Organizers Target CEO of the Real Estate Company That Owns Proposed ICE Jail
At a rally and news conference in downtown Denver today, protesters called on Robert J. Lange, the CEO of Highlands REIT, a real estate company, to “put people over profits” and refuse to rent his company’s detention center northeast of Denver to ICE.
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BRIEF: For First Time, Top Democratic Group Puts CO Springs House Seat on Target List
For the first time since congressional Democrats set up an organization to oust vulnerable Republicans in key districts, Colorado Springs is on the target list.
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Colorado Catholics Move to the Left? Pope Leo Replaces Right-Wing Archbishop Samuel Aquila
After months of speculation, the Denver Catholic Archdiocese announced this morning that Pope Leo replaced right-wing Denver Archbishop Samuel Aquila with Bishop James Golka, who was elevated to bishop by Pope Frances in 2021 and appears to embrace the more moderate politics that Francis and Leo have promoted for the church.
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GOP Senate Candidate Blames ICE Protesters for Violence, Says ICE ‘Effectively Rescued’ 5-Year-Old Boy, Who Was Arrested
Speaking at the Colorado Capitol last week, State Sen. Mark Baisley (R-Woodland Park) blamed protesters for the violence in Minneapolis, calling it a “horrible idea” for protesters to “get involved in legal law-enforcement activity.”
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Evans Claims His Bill Would Help Immigrants Like His Grandfather. But His Grampa Wouldn’t Have Qualified for Help Under Evans’ Bill
Last year, Colorado Newsline reported that, contrary to U.S. Rep. Gabe Evans’ claims that his grandfather immigrated “the legal way,” Evans’ grandfather actually was an undocumented Mexican immigrant with a criminal record (attempted burglary) when he got his American citizenship in 1946, after a law was passed allowing immigrants with criminal records to do so.
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Did Pressure From Journalists Prompt an Anschutz-Owned Newspaper To Publish a Disclosure, Albeit a Weak One?
After being called out by journalists for failing to disclose ties between Phil Anschutz’s family and a key player in a story covered by the Denver Gazette, which Anschutz owns, the Denver Gazette included the following disclosure in its Jan. 9 and Jan. 21 articles about a campaign to change a near-final plan for lane modifications along Alameda Avenue in Denver.
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Rally Signals Support for Starbucks Workers and the Colorado Labor Movement
Workers from a variety of unions and their allies rallied today in Civic Center Park in support of Starbucks Workers United (SBWU) and Colorado’s labor movement.
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‘Simply the Rule of Law:’ Colorado Congressman Blames Renee Good for Her Own Death in Minneapolis
U.S. Rep. Jeff Crank (R-CO) is blaming Minneapolis resident Renee Good for her own death after she was shot in the head by ICE agent Jonathan Ross in Minneapolis last week.