Eastman The Benson Center has attracted national attention due to its association with John Eastman, the lawyer at the center of former President Donald Trump’s attempt to stage a coup after he lost the 2020 election.
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Virulent LGBTQ-Phobia Increasingly Darkens Conservative Discussions in Colorado
Colorado has made significant progress toward being a safe place for the LGBTQ community, but now that progress is challenged by reactionaries who are promoting misinformation and dusting off latent bigotry.
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CO Election Conspiracist Baselessly Complains of Journalist’s ‘Slanderous and False Characterizations’
While most of their activity only proves their misguidedness, they represent a danger to constitutional order and, indeed, people’s lives, so when the state’s primary election-denial organization unveils its biggest purported achievement, it warrants review.
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Stop posing with guns. It makes you look weak.
Glorification of firearms helps create a culture that allows routine slaughter It’s not hard to find photos of each one of the three Republicans in Colorado’s congressional delegation posing with guns.
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Coloradans Are National Leaders of Efforts to Deny Elections, Dismantle Democracy
Coloradans have shown repeatedly at the polls that by big margins they prefer Democrats in government, and Colorado government officials oversee what are widely viewed as “gold standard” elections. But the state since November 2020, when former Republican President Donald Trump engendered the lie that the election was stolen from him, has been especially fertile territory for “election integrity” conspiracy theories.
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Why Is Douglas County Such a Hotbed of Election Lies And COVID Denial?
Douglas County has long seemed intent on burnishing its reputation as a hotbed of conservative extremism.
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Colorado GOP Wants to Normalize Anti-Trans Hate
There is no more traditional value than love, but it is the one in which conservatives often seem least interested. When it comes to transgender people, for example, they are quick to sideline love for hate.
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Colorado’s Top 10 Most Dangerous Election Deniers
Detractors of American voting, driven by a cult leader who as president was inimical to democracy and as ex-president is a sworn enemy of it, have gone on the attack in Colorado in the form of proposed voting restrictions, threats against the secretary of state and county election officials, an election-system security breach in the Western Slope’s biggest county, the refusal by leaders of the Republican party to acknowledge President Joe Biden won in November, and organized efforts to instill doubt about election integrity.
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Tear Out Your Turf
In 2002, a drought hit Colorado. Conditions were severe, and water managers in several Front Range cities imposed mandatory restrictions on outdoor water use.
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Ken Buck Is No Hero of Democracy
Rep. Liz Cheney on Tuesday evening, a day before she was ousted from her No. 3 leadership position in the U.S. House Republican conference, gave a defiant speech on the House floor.