The battle for control of the Colorado Republican Party is coming at a measurable cost to its fundraising, both at the state and local level.
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The Current COVID Spike: Questions & Answers — and What’s Expected in the Coming Months
Here are some answers to questions about COVID as cases appear to be spiking in Colorado.
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DAVIS: When Evangelicals Supported Abortion
There has been nervousness and hand-wringing in Christian nationalist circles this week, since Republican Vice Presidential nominee J.D. Vance commented in an interview that Donald Trump, if returned to the presidency, would veto a national abortion ban, and Trump himself posted that his administration “would be great for women and their reproductive rights.” The comments followed the softening of anti-abortion language in the Republican Party’s official platform.
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Denver Chamber Signs On to Conservative Groups’ Special Session Demands, Then Tries to Clarify
Colorado’s legislature reconvened this week for a special session called for a single purpose: removing Initiatives 50 & 108 from this November’s ballot. The measures, backed by anonymous right-wing donors, would slash taxes so drastically that a bipartisan coalition of dozens of statewide groups wrote a letter to Governor Jared Polis two weeks ago, pleading with him to call the Legislature back to deal with the “significant and very real threat to all communities.”
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El Paso County School District Limits Access to Books, Bans Pride Flags
By default, middle school students in El Paso County’s Academy District 20 schools can no longer access school library materials until a parent or guardian signs a form granting permission to use library resources through the district’s parent portal.
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In Wake of CTR Report, Sheriff Backs out of Children’s Story Hour Reading of Conspiracist Posobiec Book
Following a Colorado Times Recorder story on Thursday, Eagle County Sheriff James van Beek canceled his children’s story time reading of a book by far-right extremist and “Pizzagate” conspiracy theorist Jack Posobiec, which had been set for Saturday at the Eagle Library.
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Extremism Rewind
Here’s the first of a new regular feature. A weekly list of the top extremism stories from the Colorado Times Recorder and beyond. All of this week’s articles are from CTR, but in the future, we’ll include the work of other news outlets too.
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Trump Ally Flynn Won’t Substantiate CO Election Conspiracist’s Alleged Antifa Call
This weekend, MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell will address the El Paso County GOP as the keynote speaker for their annual Lincoln Day Dinner. Lindell, who is facing a defamation lawsuit from former Dominion Voting Systems executive Eric Coomer, is one of the handful of election conspiracists still pushing claims that the 2020 election was stolen from former Donald Trump.
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Sheriff to Read Book by Antisemitic Conspiracy Theorist to Kids at Eagle Library
The Eagle County Republican Party twice in the last week has promoted the reading of Posobiec’s “The Island of Free Icecream [sic]” as a political event in email blasts to constituents.
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DAVIS: A Colorado Christian Nationalist Looks Back at January 6th
Last week, a sentence was handed down in a case that has taken more than three years to conclude. Rebecca Lavrenz – perhaps the most prominent of the 17 Coloradans arrested for participating in the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol – will not face jail time. Lavrenz, who has been dubbed the “J6 Praying Grandma” in right-wing social media circles, was convicted in April on four misdemeanor counts stemming from her participation in the Capitol attack. Instead of incarceration, the 72-year-old was sentenced to one year of probation, six months of house arrest, and a $103,000 fine. The judge also barred Lavrenz from using the internet during her six months of house arrest.