The most notable moment from last week’s 9News debate between Congresswoman Yadira Caraveo and state Rep. Gabe Evans (R-Ft. Lupton) was on a topic few observers expected to be discussed at all: child abuse. Moderator Kyle Clark asked Evans about his membership in Heritage Defense, a legal organization that defends Christian homeschoolers against allegations of child abuse.
This mugshot was used by both the Gazette and the Trump campaign to illustrate their messages. On the same day that former President Donald Trump came to Aurora and dropped mind-boggling misinformation about immigrants in Colorado (e.g., Aurora has been “invaded and conquered”), The Denver Gazette released five Facebook advertisements promoting some of the same exaggerations and falsehoods that the former president did — and generally supporting the climate of anti-immigrant hysteria that Trump is fomenting in his presidential campaign.
by Claire Cleveland On a bustling street corner one recent afternoon outside the offices of the Harm Reduction Action Center, employees of the education and advocacy nonprofit handed out free naloxone kits to passersby. Distributing the opioid reversal medication is essential to the center’s work to reduce fatal overdoses in the community. But how long the group can continue doing so is in question. The center depends on Colorado’s Opioid Antagonist Bulk Purchase Fund, also known as the Naloxone Bulk Purchase Fund, which now lacks a recurring source of money — despite hundreds of millions of dollars in national opioid lawsuit settlement cash flowing into the state.
As part of our weekly roundup of articles about political extremism in Colorado, the Colorado Times Recorder is featuring Erik Maulbetsch’s coverage of former CU Regent Heidi Ganahl’s press conference where she both called into question the results of the election she lost and announced a plan to recruit volunteers taken with election conspiracy theories to ‘monitor’ ballot boxes in the upcoming general election. We are also showcasing Jason Salzman’s and Maulbetsch’s analysis of mainstream Republicans endorsing election conspiracists in their races, Heidi Beedle’s coverage of posts from Lauren Boebert’s campaign manager that indicate the congresswoman had been in contact with Tina Peters ahead of her plan to undermine Mesa County’s election safety, and Owen Swallow’s coverage of a rally held by Gays Against Groomers, a group connected to other extremist groups like Moms For Liberty, and the counterprotests that outnumbered them. Take a look out for our coverage of yesterday’s Trump rally in Aurora.
Following through on his announcement, former President Donald Trump held a rally in Aurora today at the Gaylord Rockies Resort.
In 2019, facing growing pushback from environmental groups and activists like the Chittoors, the state mandated that regulators consider the public health and environmental impacts of oil and gas development.
Three decades after Christian conservatives sought to rouse voters’ fears of a “radical gay agenda,” Republicans are spending $65 million on election advertising about a “radical trans agenda,” according to The New York Times and other outlets.
Next week, as Coloradans start filling out their ballots, many will vote via the hundreds of secure drop boxes found at libraries and municipal buildings throughout the state. If former gubernatorial candidate Heidi Ganahl’s latest plan is successful, voters may encounter election fraud conspiracists camped out nearby. Her volunteers, should any appear, will be on the lookout for signs of ballot stuffing, an unproven crime alleged by Dinesh D’Souza’s debunked movie 2000 Mules, and for which the film’s publisher was forced to publicly apologize after pulling the film.
According to a social media post from “America’s Mom,” Sherronna Bishop, U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) had prior knowledge of Mesa County Clerk and Recorder Tina Peters’ plan to breach the security of Mesa County’s Dominion Voting machines.
Last Saturday, a rally by Gays Against Groomers (GaG), a group that believes any form of gender-affirming healthcare is child abuse or ‘grooming’, was met with counterprotests. GaG, which was founded by a pro-Trump, conservative media specialist with ties to the ‘Stop the Steal’ movement, has held similar events, which it calls the “Stop the War On Children” rally, in Colorado before and across the country.
