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Fever Swamp Review Podcast: The [De]Trans Agenda
We share highlights from a recent event in Northern Colorado featuring author James Lindsay and local anti-trans activists while discussing potential ballot initiatives. Stay to the end for a special message from the host.
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Analysis: Conservative Dark Money Group Dominates Colorado’s Ballot Initiative Process for 2026
Of the 87 ballot initiatives listed on the website for the Colorado Title Board, which manages the state's ballot initiative process, Advance Colorado president Michael Fields is listed as a proponent for 61 of them.
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Fever Swamp Review Podcast: School Boarding 2: Elections
CTR takes a look at candidates in D49 and D11, discussing prevailing issues in both districts, including the recent strike in D11.
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Has ‘Rancher’ Gabe Evans Reduced His Cattle Herd From Three to One?
I’ve been reporting on how Colorado Congressman Gabe Evans promotes himself as a “rancher” in his rural district — despite criticism that he’s “all hat, no cattle,” since he owns just three cows, which he’s put in the care of a neighbor, reducing the number of Longhorns he’s actually raising to zero.
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Fever Swamp Review Podcast: Guns, Nerds, and Steel
Amid continuing gun violence, CTR attends Dragonman’s 33rd Annual Freedom Shoot and talks with attendees about gun policy, also a visit to Raw Tools, a nonprofit that turns guns into garden tools.
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Don’t Strike Down Law Banning Therapy Aimed at Making LGBTQ Kids Straight, Say LGBTQ Advocates in Court
A group of Colorado and national LGBTQ+ advocacy organizations filed an amicus brief this week defending Colorado’s 2019 law banning conversion therapy for minors in a case challenging the law before the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Fever Swamp Review Podcast: Bad, Bad, Beautiful Bill
Heidi talks about the recent special session as a result of President Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill,” the fallout of the bill for Planned Parenthood, and Representatives Jeff Crank and Gabe Evans responding to the bill.
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Fever Swamp Review Podcast: Sex, Guys, and Screenshots
Heidi reviews a number of recent political sex harassment scandals — Ron Weinberg, the attacks against Yara Zokaie, Weston Imer’s leaked photos, Mitch LaKind’s alleged comments, Steve Lebsock, Tay Anderson, etc. etc.
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Fever Swamp Review Podcast: ICE, ICE Baby
Heidi takes you inside a recent El Paso County Commissioner meeting where residents expressed concerns over a potential ICE facility coming to the region.