You remember the ads from the 80s, right? “This is your brain [man holds up an egg]. This is ozone [he points to a hot skillet, cracks the egg into it, holds up the sizzling skillet]. This is your brain on ozone. Any questions?”
News Analysis
News Analysis
Extremist Rewind – 1/31/2025
January has come and gone and we here at the Colorado Times Recorder are restarting our weekly roundup of articles relating to political extremism in Colorado. Since it has been a while since our last rewind, we will be looking back at some published work from earlier in the month. Starting off, we have Heidi Beedle’s coverage of anti-abortion advocates celebrating the Trump presidency and the pardoning of individuals who vandalized and intimidated people at pregnancy resource centers. We also have an article by Washington DC correspondent for CTR Maria Tedesco documenting the Colorado GOP celebration of Trump’s inauguration where a January 6th rioter was lauded, Erik Maulbetsch’s recent article on Colorado GOP Chair Dave Williams derailing a recent Republican meeting with another attempted power grab and a column from Logan Davis on how policies from the now-infamous Project 2025 are being put in place at a national scale. Finally, we would like to draw attention to one of the first bills put forth by the Colorado GOP that targets trans people and gender-affirming care, reporting by James O’Rourke.
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2024 Review: Our Investigations Into Christian Nationalist Organizations
In 2024, columnist Logan M. Davis took deep dives into two different Christian nationalist organizations. In February, he wrote the first full accounting of the Narrowgate cult, which operated in the 1990s. Later in the year, Logan published an investigative series pulling back the veil of secrecy around a major Colorado-based ministry and revealing allegations of widespread abuse within. In the aftermath of that second investigation, the ministry’s long-time leader, Andrew Wommack, announced that he would be stepping down from his leadership position.
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2024 Review: The Colorado Times Recorder’s Impact Journalism — Resignations, a Cancellation, and More
Most journalism is compost for a community. The manure of words can be toxic for sure (e.g., FOX News), but if it’s done right, journalism lays the groundwork for debate, inspires new ideas, stimulates broader perspectives, and kills infectious societal diseases like misinformation, conspiracies, lies, inconsistencies, and more.
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Film Shows the Destructive Allure of White Supremacy
After 12 gunshots killed Jewish radio host Alan Berg in the driveway of his Denver townhouse in 1984, the FBI traced the weapon used to a white supremacist group called The Order that was behind a string of robberies and bombings designed to kill Jews and Blacks and usher in a white revolution against the U.S. government.
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Outgoing Aspen Climate Warrior Skewers Corporate Complicity in his Latest Book
In his new book, “Terrible Beauty,” Aspen’s outgoing senior vice president of sustainability, Auden Schendler, makes a compelling case for companies in the ski industry and far beyond breaking out of the collective malaise that’s coopting corporate climate activism and has been largely self-imposed – quite ingeniously — by the obfuscation efforts of the fossil fuel industry.
