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.
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On Campaign Trail, Evans Endorsed Trump’s Plan To Deport All Undocumented Immigrants & Then He Voted for It. Now, As Polls Shift, So Does He, Say Profs
After campaigning on a hard promise to push for Trump’s plan to deport every immigrant who entered the United States illegally, no matter how long they’d been here, and then voting for a bill to implement mass deportations, U.S. Rep. Gabe Evans (R-CO) has now cosponsored a bill — which has little chance of passing — that creates a path to temporary legal status for some undocumented immigrants.
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News Analysis: Evans & Fellow Republicans Likely Responsible for the Death of a Clean-Energy Plant in Evans’ District
A clean energy company pulled the plug on a $190 million battery facility in the district of U.S. Rep. Gabe Evans (R-CO) in early May, a few weeks before Evans and fellow House Republicans voted for the first version of the so-called Big Beautiful Bill, which removed federal tax credits for clean energy projects.
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An Update on Aurora City Council Races
Aurora’s municipal elections are underway. The last update CTR had on the election was back in April.
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DAVIS: When Spiritual Warfare Becomes Christian Terrorism
Around 3:30 a.m. on Saturday, June 14, a man dressed as a police officer knocked on the door of a home in New Hope, Minnesota. When the inhabitants, a married couple in their 50s, opened the door, he shot them to death. His target was the woman, Democratic Speaker Emerita of the state House of Representatives, Melissa Hortman. An hour earlier, the killer had shot another couple, that time targeting the man, Democratic state Sen. John Hoffman. In the killer’s car, police later found a target list including information on other Democratic lawmakers, abortion rights activists, and a Planned Parenthood clinic.
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DOGE Has Cut Nearly $16 Million From Gabe Evans’ District; He Calls It ‘Right-Sizing Government’
“For the first time in decades, we are going back to the idea of right-sizing government,” said Congressman Gabe Evans, when asked by a conservative news host for his thoughts on the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). The headlines about the misleadingly named budget-slashing project may be winding down since Elon’s retreat from D.C., but the real-world impacts of his tech bros’ firing sprees and funding freezes are being felt across the country, including in Evans’ own district.