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Extremism Rewind – September 6, 2024
As part of the Colorado Times Recorder’s regular roundup, here are some of this week’s top headlines regarding extremism from CTR and beyond. This week’s coverage includes reporting from Heidi Beedle, Susie Glassman, and Erik Maulbetsch, as well as a report from Colorado Newsline regarding death threats that were made against the Vice Chair of the Colorado Republican Party.
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The Climate Is Changing. Workers Need Protection from Record-Breaking Heat
2,000 workers die from extreme heat every year. As temperatures rise, we need federal standards for water breaks, shade, and other basic protections.
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DAVIS: When Evangelicals Supported Abortion
There has been nervousness and hand-wringing in Christian nationalist circles this week, since Republican Vice Presidential nominee J.D. Vance commented in an interview that Donald Trump, if returned to the presidency, would veto a national abortion ban, and Trump himself posted that his administration “would be great for women and their reproductive rights.” The comments followed the softening of anti-abortion language in the Republican Party’s official platform.
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Erin Lee’s Transition From Concerned Mom to Anti-Trans Zealot
When I met Erin Lee and her husband in September 2022 at an event sponsored by the Independence Institute (which publishes a column of mine through Complete Colorado), the Lees generally were accepting of LGBTQ people. They believed that, in their specific case, an overzealous LGBTQ activist at school had convinced their daughter that she was transgender, when really she was just a confused and disaffected young girl. They didn’t think their case illustrated a general problem with LGBTQ people or with the LGBTQ movement.
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Extremism Rewind
Here’s the first of a new regular feature. A weekly list of the top extremism stories from the Colorado Times Recorder and beyond. All of this week’s articles are from CTR, but in the future, we’ll include the work of other news outlets too.