At a campaign stop Saturday, Colorado congressional candidate Gabe Evans touted his combat record as part of the reason people should vote for him, and he said the U.S. military is having a “hard time recruiting the next generation of warfighters” because it’s “too busy pushing a political agenda on people who should be actually training on, what are we going to do if we have to go toe-to-toe with the pier- or near-pier athletes.”
“Dr. James Dobson has joined President Donald J. Trump in supporting Chairman Dave Williams.”
A conference in Denver this weekend featuring right-wing Republicans, conservative leaders, and election conspiracists, lists prominent corporations as sponsors, including Google, Microsoft, and the Coca-Cola Company.
Caving to a coordinated effort by anti-trans groups and right-wing politicians — including current U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO), who is running for election in the district that includes Douglas County — to spread fear and misinformation about regulations that provide greater clarity around schools’ obligations under Title IX, the Douglas County School Board voted 4-3 this month to delay its planned discussion on an update to its nondiscrimination and sexual harassment policies.
On a right-wing station KHOW June 18, host Ryan Schuiling asked Congresswoman Lauren Boebert (R-CO) to respond to a misquote from Rebecca Traister’s New York Magazine article, “How Did Republican Women Get Like This?”
On June 14, Conservative Daily podcaster Joe Oltmann vented about treasonous Republicans In Name Only (RINOs), a federal Department of Justice that is acting above the law, and all the January 6 patriots who are being abused by the legal system. Oltmann praised the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision that dropped the ban on bumpstocks, which convert semi-automatics into a close approximation of a machine gun. Whether he was joking or not, he said he’d like to buy 5,000 bumpstocks and give them away.
Colorado congressional candidate Jeff Hurd, a Republican, said last week in Pueblo that he would vote against a national 15-week abortion ban.
Last week, U.S. Magistrate Judge Kathryn Starnella recommended that Douglas County podcaster and gun store owner Joe Oltmann be held in contempt of court for fleeing a June 6 deposition.
I arrived at Radiance Church in Commerce City shortly before noon on Tuesday and took up a parking space in the thin band of midday shade cast by the trees at the small parking lot’s far edge. I was nervous in a way I had not expected to be. I have handled plenty of hostile interviews as a reporter, and even enjoyed them from time to time, but this was different.
A panel of Colorado election security experts Monday attempted to persuade an audience of officials and residents in Custer County, a hotbed of election skepticism, that elections can be trusted.
