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Logan M. Davis

Logan M. Davis is a progressive researcher and writer based in Denver, specializing in the threat posed by right-wing extremism. He is also a political communications consultant. He is a proud member of Denver NewsGuild and co-founder of the Political Workers Guild of Colorado.

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DAVIS: An Unexpected Calm in Woodland Park’s School Board Saga

·October 2, 2025

A lot of ink has been spilled about the unusual happenings in the Woodland Park School District over the last four years. The dramatic conservative takeover in 2021, the immediate Open Meetings Law violations, the controversial chartering of a new school, the even more controversial hiring and tenure of superintendent Ken Witt. The American Birthright curriculum. The nexus with the growing trend of Christian nationalism and the troubling ties to the charismatic Seven Mountains Mandate. Despite the desperate wishes of locals, the district has not seen many dull moments since the current crop of seniors were in eighth grade.

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DAVIS: What Commentators Get Wrong About Political Violence

·September 29, 2025

I was around 15 years old the first time I was forced to think about political violence, when I realized that the stick poking me awake as I slept in my seat near the back of the bus was not a stick at all, but the barrel of a rifle. Fabrique Nationale, bullpup style, held by a man in a balaclava demanding to see my passport. Suddenly, I was wide awake and wondering if this mission trip to the mountains of Peru was about to take a dire turn. Thankfully, it did not: the armed men – members of the Shining Path insurgency, I figured out later, based on when and where we encountered them – were maintaining a checkpoint in their ongoing struggle against the central government, and we had blundered into the middle of it. Eventually, they let us go on our way, but I have never forgotten waking up to the barrel of a rifle.

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DAVIS: The Dark Fantasy on Display at a Republican Forum

·September 16, 2025

Four Republican candidates vying to be Colorado’s next governor came together over the weekend for the first official forum of the campaign to replace term-limited Jared Polis next year – and put on the strangest, bleakest performance I have seen in my decade-plus political career in the process. As the candidates took turns painting a vision of what they see as wrong with Colorado and how they hope to make it right again, each provided a glimpse into a dark fantasy world which bears little resemblance to our own.

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DAVIS: School Board Races are Kicking Off. These are Some Districts to Watch.

·September 10, 2025

School board elections are gearing-up around the country right now, set to take center stage on an off-off-year ballot . Here in Colorado, there will be no statewide races sucking up time and attention, there will be no statewide ballot initiatives flooding the airwaves with advertisements. School board races will get top billing. And, if the past is any indicator, that means things in districts around the state are about to get…rowdy. 

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DAVIS: When a Second Civil War Almost Started Over Labor Rights in Colorado

·September 2, 2025

The fire took hold in the camp around 7 P.M., set by the anti-union militias working alongside the National Guard to crush the mine strike. As women and children attempted to flee, gunfire from the troops surrounding the camp forced them back into the flames. By the time the chaos subsided, 19 civilians were dead: 12 children, two women, and five of the striking miners. More would die in the coming days, in a conflict which the U.S. Congress’ Commission on Industrial Relations said sparked “danger of a national revolution.”

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DAVIS: Your Questions About ‘The Redprint,’ Answered

·August 27, 2025

Last week, we published a first-of-its-kind investigation into the right-wing dark money network exerting immense influence over Colorado politics. Called “The Redprint: How Advance Colorado and Anonymous Donors Shape the Political Landscape,” the piece looked at Advance Colorado’s opaque funding and tightly knit cluster of organizations which, together, allow it to drive dominant political narratives in ways which benefit their donors’ agendas. 

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The Redprint: How Advance Colorado and Anonymous Donors Shape the Political Landscape

·August 20, 2025

The Republican Party wields no official power at the state level in Colorado. Since 2020, the GOP has been shut out of every statewide office and control of either chamber of the state Legislature. Despite the party’s ouster from official authority, though, one group of Colorado Republicans has figured out how to work within the new reality, and has succeeded in driving conservative issues forward at the state level without a governor, attorney general, or state Legislature on their side.

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DAVIS: Everything in Moderation, Including Moderation

·August 6, 2025

Unlike columnist Eric Sondermann, I have rarely been referred to as a “radical moderate.” And, unlike Eric Sondermann, I’m not sure I would take it as a compliment if I were. Last week, the Colorado Politics columnist penned an ode to the merits of political moderation, starting it with a nod to the “radical moderate” label bestowed upon him by anti-gun control advocate Dave Kopel. 

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DAVIS: What Do We Do Now?

·July 30, 2025

There’s this kind of frightening but flattering thing that happens when you do the work that I do, when you spend a lot of time writing and reading about and working against the forces undermining a better society, when your friends and loved ones are aware that you are hopelessly impaled upon a fascination with the beliefs and mechanisms which are constantly creating and destroying our world. People ask you questions they might not have ever asked out loud before. Questions like, “is it really as bad as it seems?” and “is there any way out of this?” and “for the love of god, what do we do?”

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DAVIS: The Ethnic Cleansing of America

·July 15, 2025

Living through history, the kind of history that you know will make it into the textbooks, is a surreal thing. The threats can be seen approaching for years on end, the parallels to other times in history can be perfectly obvious, and yet there can remain a thin, persistent membrane of unreality between us and the belief that what happened in those other times, those other places, can actually happen to us here. 

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