A Western Slope Republican statehouse candidate who posted a racist cartoon on Facebook initially stood by his decision to share the image. A few minutes later, he called back to say he had reconsidered and would update his post with an apology, which he did, while also claiming that he “didn’t notice the ethnicities” of the people when originally posting the cartoon.
An out of control Oklahoma superintendent is trying to brainwash kids — and personally enrich former President Trump.
By now, ballots have been sent out to all registered voters in Colorado. To help you make sense of the numerous ballot issues and see where the candidates stand on the issues, the Colorado Times Recorder has put together a list of voter guides put out by the state and media outlets — as well as guides released by both left and right-leaning organizations/individuals.
The Leadership Program of the Rockies (LPR), Colorado’s premier conservative training course, has announced their 2025 participants. The list includes prominent activists, school board members, conservative think-tank employees.
I will rescue Aurora and every town that has been invaded and conquered,” the authoritarian aspirant tweeted, following his Friday rally at the Aurora Gaylord. “We will put these vicious and bloodthirsty criminals in jail or kick them the hell OUT OF OUR COUNTRY.” Over the rest of the three-paragraph screed, he promised to use the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to expel migrants, a law which was last used to intern 120,000 Japanese-Americans during World War II.
The most notable moment from last week’s 9News debate between Congresswoman Yadira Caraveo and state Rep. Gabe Evans (R-Ft. Lupton) was on a topic few observers expected to be discussed at all: child abuse. Moderator Kyle Clark asked Evans about his membership in Heritage Defense, a legal organization that defends Christian homeschoolers against allegations of child abuse.
This mugshot was used by both the Gazette and the Trump campaign to illustrate their messages. On the same day that former President Donald Trump came to Aurora and dropped mind-boggling misinformation about immigrants in Colorado (e.g., Aurora has been “invaded and conquered”), The Denver Gazette released five Facebook advertisements promoting some of the same exaggerations and falsehoods that the former president did — and generally supporting the climate of anti-immigrant hysteria that Trump is fomenting in his presidential campaign.
Editor’s note: This was originally published before Trump’s campaign stop in Aurora on Friday.
by Claire Cleveland On a bustling street corner one recent afternoon outside the offices of the Harm Reduction Action Center, employees of the education and advocacy nonprofit handed out free naloxone kits to passersby. Distributing the opioid reversal medication is essential to the center’s work to reduce fatal overdoses in the community. But how long the group can continue doing so is in question. The center depends on Colorado’s Opioid Antagonist Bulk Purchase Fund, also known as the Naloxone Bulk Purchase Fund, which now lacks a recurring source of money — despite hundreds of millions of dollars in national opioid lawsuit settlement cash flowing into the state.
