Zvonek “I’m a lifelong Republican, and I vote for Republicans,” Aurora Councilman Dustin Zvonek said on a right-wing radio show last month.
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Tina Peters & Two Other Election Deniers Join Race For Colorado GOP Chair
The race to be the next leader of the Colorado Republican Party just got a lot more crowded and no less conspiratorial.
Boebert Challenger Frisch Raises $500k in 3 Days After Announcing 2nd Run
Adam Frisch, the Democrat who came within 546 votes of making Lauren Boebert a one-term Congresswoman, announced an eye-popping fundraising haul of over half a million dollars… since Tuesday, when he announced his intent to run again next year.
The Shomer: Jews Attacked on DU Campus; Ye’s Antisemitism Sparks More Jew-hatred
Earlier this week I woke up to news about a spate of antisemitic incidents on campus at the University of Denver, where some cowardly individual or group targeted three Jewish students over the last week. According to a report from Jewish rights organization StandWithUs: “The incidents, which occurred between February 9 – 12, included pork left on the doorstep and smeared on the dorm room door of one Jewish student and mezuzahs ripped off the doorways of the rooms of two other Jewish students. The sacred scrolls in the Mezuzahs were tampered with, one of which was destroyed. The students are all identifiable Jews or Jewish leaders on campus.”
Brauchler Promises To Vote for Trump Again if Trump Is the 2024 GOP Nominee
In her Denver Post column yesterday, Krista Kafer is correct when she says that the Colorado Republican Party needs to “elevate” leaders who aren’t tainted by Trump.
Jesus and John Wayne Author on Christian Nationalism and Evangelical Influence
Kristin Kobes Du Mez, the author of Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation, is speaking at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs on Feb. 23. Du Mez is a historian of religion, gender, and politics and a professor of history at Michigan’s Calvin University. Her book, Jesus and John Wayne, charts the rise and influence of evangelical Christianity and the history of white evangelical masculinity as it is intertwined with militarism.
Eastman Involved in Setting up Oltmann’s Meetings With Trump Officials, Says Oltmann
Former Trump attorney John Eastman is Colorado’s most prominent election denier, having authored the coup memo while employed by the University of Colorado’s Benson Center for Western Conservative Thought. In a Dec. 12 court deposition, Joe Oltmann, perhaps the state’s second-most infamous conspiracist, says Eastman was involved in setting up his Jan. 6 meetings with Oltmann and various Trump Administration officials, including a senior official in Trump’s State Department.
Colorado Libertarians Learn How To Win Elections
Sixteen Libertarians learned how to run an effective election campaign at the free 2023 Libertarian Party of Colorado Candidate Training. They gathered on Saturday at the libertarian-leaning Independence Institute in Denver’s Capitol Hill neighborhood.
Schools, Medical Debt, Prisons, Black History: CO Springs Legislators Hold Community Discussion
Sen. Tony Exum (D-CO Springs) and Rep. Regina English (D-CO Springs) moderated a panel discussion on the importance of Black history and offered constituents a legislative update during a town hall event at the Chinook Center in Colorado Springs on Saturday.
DougCo Clerk Says It’s Aware of Oltmann’s Potential Voter Fraud And Is Cooperating With Colorado Secretary of State
“Sign in the presence of an election judge,” reads the Douglas County Voter Signature Card, a document that every in-person voter must sign before casting a ballot on Election Day. Like thousands of other voters in the conservative county, election fraud conspiracist Joe Oltmann signed one on Nov. 8 last year. The statement on the card is unequivocal: