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MyPillow CEO Lindell Claims Without Proof That ‘Many’ CO Clerks Shared Election Security Info With His Conspiracy Group
Across Colorado, county clerks are preparing for the first presidential election since former President Donald Trump denied the results of his 2020 loss. The conspiracy theories he and his supporters promoted ultimately led not only to the attack on our country’s Capitol, but to localized threats of violence against election officials nationwide as well as here in Colorado.
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In Praise of Lengthy Campaign Seasons
When Joe Biden and Donald Trump made their decision to run again for office, I was thinking “This is no good.” In fact, I was certain it was a terribly awful, horribly bad predicament we were facing. How had it come to this, that we were looking at a rematch of the aged – men who had long ago stopped putting in a full, hard day’s work, if ever, and who had clearly chosen to ignore what millions of us were thinking about their severely diminished fitness to hold that powerful position.
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Analysis: Anti-Gay Threads Run Through Congressional Candidate Gabe Evans’ Adult Life
“If gay marriages are allowed, the institution of marriage will have been redefined to include all of the perverted and immoral practices mentioned above.”
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How a Terrorism Exhibit in Colorado Distorts the Story of Jan. 6
When the CELL first opened in 2008, Melanie Pearlman, the executive director, remarked to a Denver Post reporter that the exhibit transcended partisanship. Everyone could agree, after all, that terrorism should be countered.
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Trump’s Call for ‘Remigration’ Is Another Sign That He Wants To Create Fascist America
The twice-impeached former president, Donald Trump, introduced a new word into political discourse last month: “remigration.”
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Letter to the Editor: Should a State Legislator Participate in an ‘Anti-Government Group?’
"Moms for Liberty and its nationwide chapters combat what they consider the 'woke indoctrination' of children by advocating for book bans in school libraries and endorsing candidates for public office that align with the group's views."
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DAVIS: Keeping Local Politics Local in Alamosa
An old adage insists that “all politics is local,” but it’s not true. The rapid advance of the internet age has flipped the adage on its head: these days, all politics is national. With Fox News, CNN, and Facebook blasting their signals into every corner of the once vast and untrammeled wilderness, truly local issues have fallen by the wayside. Now, local races are dominated by the headwinds of national political discourse, and local candidates are incentivized to rhetorically overextend themselves in service of signaling to the tribe. It is a politics of pantomime, with potholes and passing lanes supplanted by abortion and immigration as the issues du jour – in races for offices which will have no jurisdiction over either – and too few candidates speaking to the particulars and prerogatives of the positions they seek.
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BRIEF: Owners of Colorado Springs Indy Host Fundraiser for GOP Congressional Candidate
When the Pikes Peak Media Company, owned by JW Roth and Kevin O’Neil, bought the Colorado Springs Independent and the Colorado Springs Business Journal, they promised to continue the newspaper’s tradition of independent journalism.
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CO Springs Rep. ‘More Liberal than Elisabeth Epps’ Faces El Paso County Commissioner in Senate Race
In El Paso County’s Senate District 12, Colorado Rep. Marc Snyder (D-Manitou Springs) is running against El Paso County Commissioner Stan VanderWerf to replace Sen. Bob Gardner (R-Colorado Springs).