The candidate, backed by Jared Polis, has been boosted by over half a million dollars of dark money.
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DAVIS: Chekhov’s Gun, Christian Nationalism and the Supreme Court
If you say in the first act that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the third act it absolutely must go off,” reads one of the many versions of the narrative principle commonly known as “Chekhov’s gun”. Developed by 19th-century Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov, Chekhov’s gun was the playwright’s way of insisting that every element in a story must ultimately be necessary; that there can be no insignificant details, and, therefore, that every detail carries a sense of imminence with it. Through my years of studying, analyzing, and working in politics, I have come to believe that a similar principle applies in real life: the details, often unnoticed at the time of their emergence, have a way of coming back and turning the plot like Chekhov’s gun.
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Armstrong: The Colorado GOP’s Transgender Moral Panic
Those who have nothing productive to add to the political discourse often turn to hateful fearmongering and scapegoating against members of minority or unpopular groups.
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Blood Clots Gave Me a Nodding Acquaintance with the Grim Reaper
So less than two weeks ago, I developed a nodding acquaintance with the Grim Reaper, thanks to a couple of pulmonary embolisms that had taken up residence in my lungs.
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DAVIS: Demons, Assassinations & More as Christian Nationalist Leaders Respond to Trump Verdict
Last Thursday, Donald J. Trump was found guilty on all 34 felony counts levied against him by a jury of his peers in a New York courtroom, marking the first time in our 248-year history that a former President of the United States has been held accountable to the law. The exact consequences of that conviction, legally, culturally, and electorally are still unknown – our frayed social contract and crumbling institutions being what they are – but there is always righteousness in holding the mighty to the same standards as the meager.
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Justice Alito Should Take Accountability for Christian-Right Aligned Flags Flown at His Houses
At the very least, Justice Alito should recuse himself from cases involving the 2020 election.
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Readers Allege Inaccuracies in Colorado Times Recorder Report on Article V Convention
Editor’s note: The following op-ed alleges multiple errors in our April 26 article, “Three GOP Congressional Candidates Back Proposal That Could Deconstruct the U.S. Constitution.” We stand behind the facts in our original article and thus will not be making any corrections — aside from our agreement that the convention would be triggered by 34 states, not 38 as we initially reported. This correction has been made. The overarching reason for our decision against other corrections — aside from our rejection of inaccuracies based on word preferences such as “resolution” versus “application” — is the fact that there is a high level of uncertainty about what would transpire if there were an Article V Convention of the States, according to multiple analyses of it from different types of sources. The facts point to risky, unchartered waters for the country, if such a convention were to occur. For example, the view that the U.S. Constitution would definitely not be dismantled at a convention may or may not be true, in part because the role — if any — of the judiciary in the process is not clear. We believe it’s more factual, based on a range of views, to say it could be dismantled than to say it would not be dismantled or would be dismantled. Hence, the headline of our story used the verb “could be.” Other objections to our article in the op-ed below make declarative statements about convention issues that are uncertain. It is a factual matter to state that those uncertainties carry substantial and unpredictable risks for the U.S. Constitution and the governing structure it outlines.