Evergreen Democrat Tammy Story doesn’t march in lockstep with fellow Democrats at the Colorado Capital — or reject Republicans. Or wilt when lobbyists knock at her door.
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Congressional Candidate Evans ‘Does Not Support’ Obamacare, Concludes Expert
When asked if he supports the Affordable Care Act (ACA), Colorado congressional candidate Gabe Evans has responded not with a yes-or-no answer but by suggesting that he wants a healthcare system “without all the ACA-imposed red tape.”
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CO Congressional Candidates Boebert and Evans Promote Their Trump Endorsements and MAGA Stances To GOP Base Voters
In today’s primary election, U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert and state Rep. Gabe Evans are both leaning hard on their Colorado endorsements from Donald Trump — and both are using the former president’s thumbs-up to attract Republican voters.
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In Interviews, Congressional Candidate Evans Says He Supports Mass Deportation — But Only If Interviewers Ask Him Twice
Gabe Evans has been asked at least three times whether he supports the mass deportation of immigrants, and in each case, he didn't answer the question on the first try.
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Signs Point to MAGA Extremist Williams Losing the GOP War in Conservative CO Springs
When most people in Denver think about “Colorado Springs Republicans,” what comes to mind is gay-hating, Trump-loving, election-denying, abortion-banning, modernity-rejecting, circular-firing-squadding extremists. It’s the brand, right, with the city’s history of Focus on the Family, the Colorado Springs Gazette’s screaming red editorials, the Christian nationalist churches, and more, even the military.
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GOP’s Griswold Impeachment Hearing Dominated by Insurrection Debate and Election Deniers
Colorado House Republicans’ attempt to impeach Secretary of State Jena Griswold last week predictably failed. And while the outcome wasn’t a surprise, the arguments and tactics that GOP lawmakers and witnesses employed were unexpected to say the least.
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Why Did Boebert Switch Races? Signs Pointed to Her Losing — And Republicans May Still Lose Her District, Say Experts
During her first debate in the race for her new congressional seat, Lauren Boebert was asked by a rival candidate why she had switched districts in December.
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Colorado Pastor Turned Legislator Has Promoted Christian Nationalism From The Pulpit For Years
“The church is not more powerful in Colorado than Satan is. I mean, think about what I’m saying. If that was different, wouldn’t we be able to do something about this?”
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Health Misinformation on Social Media – Here’s What It Does, Why It Spreads, and What People Can Do About It
By Monica Wang — The global anti-vaccine movement and vaccine hesitancy that accelerated during the COVID-19 pandemic show no signs of abating.
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Is a Right-Wing-Pastor Turned-Legislator the GOP’s State House Leader, As He Claims to Be?
After state Rep. Ken DeGraaf (R-Colorado Springs) nominated his GOP colleague Scott Bottoms to be speaker of the Colorado state House in January, Bottoms – who, like DeGraaf, had only just been sworn in for his first term in the Legislature that morning — startled some in the chamber by speaking up and seconding his own nomination.