On New Year’s Day, a Tesla Cybertruck pulled up to the entrance of the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas, where the driver triggered a device consisting of fuel canisters and fireworks, detonating the vehicle. He claimed no lives but his own, whether or not he intended to.
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SD-31 Vacancy Committee: Please Choose Matt Ball as Our Next State Senator
The voters of Senate District 31 will never have to question where Matt stands in his support for reproductive rights and access to abortion.
Colorado Voters Put Our Shared Abortion Rights Values Into Action with Amendment 79
This election day, Coloradans resoundingly reaffirmed our shared values on abortion rights across geographic and partisan lines. Coloradans voted YES on Amendment 79 by an overwhelming 62% of the vote, enshrining abortion rights in our state’s Constitution and removing a discriminatory ban on insurance coverage for abortion care.
2024 Review: The Colorado Times Recorder Goes to the Movies
In 2024, the Colorado Times Recorder branched out its coverage of conservative media into a new sphere: movies, often with a right-wing or conspiratorial bent. Here, you can read all the reviews from this year.
Trump Is Stocking His Administration with Self-Dealing Billionaires
Instead of corporate powers having to lobby regulators to get special favors, corporate officials will become the regulators.
REVIEW: Kirk Cameron’s Christmas Movie is a Conservative Holiday Fever Dream
“You know, what’s next, are they going to tell us hot chocolate is bad for us? That the Druids invented it?”
How Religion Influenced the Colorado Klan and Other Hateful Groups
This year marks the one-hundredth anniversary of the Ku Klux Klan’s sweep of political power in Colorado. In 1924, voters elected numerous Klan supporters, including Governor Clarence Morley and U.S. Senator Rice Means. Senator Lawrence Phipps won reelection with Klan help. “The Klan also won a majority of positions in the state House of Representatives and the state Senate as well as multiple other positions all the way down to various school boards,” Northern Colorado History reminds us. Denver’s Klan-friendly mayor, Benjamin Stapleton, won his seat the year before.