John Thune, the evangelical Christian elected to the U.S. Senate 20 years ago from South Dakota with the help of right-wing Christian James Dobson, who founded Colorado Springs-based Focus on the Family, announced he wants to succeed Mitch McConnell as Senate GOP leader after McConnell retires later this year.
With its teachers union contract up for renewal, Colorado Springs School District 11 (D11) has spent $118,000 on attaining additional legal counsel and communications support for upcoming interest-based bargaining (IBB) sessions with the Colorado Springs Education Association (CSEA). This is a new move for the district, which has not utilized legal counsel during the annual IBB sessions in the past.
“We want to give people a little sense of what it is to be trans, the struggles of being trans, and who we are as people,” said state Rep. Brianna Titone.
One of the most audacious efforts in the history of American politics is currently being planned, not in smoke-filled rooms, but out in the open. It’s named Project 2025, and, if it succeeds, it promises to remake American government and civic life for decades.
The Center for Colorado Women’s History will present "Rumors of Bloomers," an exhibition opening on March 29 that explores the evolution of women's undergarments and their impact on society.
When it comes time for a party led by election deniers to count ballots, trust is inevitably hard to come by. Chairman Dave Williams, along with former state Rep. Ron Hanks, a fellow election fraud conspiracist whom Williams has appointed Chair of the party’s Ballot & Election Security Committee, are in a tough spot. They must placate the anti-machine majority (in which they claim to include themselves) who insist on hand-counting only, while at the same time attempt to administer a functional election and tabulation process involving thousands of ballots and dozens of candidates, resolutions and committee positions. Their task is made even more difficult in the wake of their last assembly tabulation disaster in 2022, when numerous candidates accused then-Chairwoman Kristi Burton Brown of rigging the electronic vote clickers.
In the race for Congress, U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) stated her anticipation of victory on June 25, the state primary, following an endorsement from former President Donald Trump.
Republican candidates vying for spots on Colorado’s House, Senate, County Commissioner, and U.S. House district primary ballots this June invoked prayer, politics, and patriotism to rile up El Paso County’s Republican delegates during their March 23 assembly at Vista Ridge High School in Colorado Springs.
State Rep. Gabe Evans has been running for Colorado’s newest congressional seat since September, but despite being the most prominent Republican in the race, he’s mostly avoided bringing up the name of his party’s standard bearer, former President Donald Trump.
The national libertarian youth activism organization, Young Americans for Liberty (YAL), has assembled a network of extreme conservative state legislators as part of its Hazlitt Coalition. Pulling its members from legislatures across the country, the Hazlitt Coalition’s Colorado delegation includes Reps. Scott Bottoms (R-Colorado Springs), Ken DeGraaf (R-Colorado Springs), Brandi Bradley (R-Littleton), and Stephanie Luck (R-Penrose).
