For everyday Americans, the average family now spends over $1,800 a year on swipe fee-related price increases. The problem has simply become too large for business owners to hide.
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EXCLUSIVE: 2,800 Individual Journeys Through ICE Hold Rooms, Mapped
It was a temperate spring Tuesday in Grand Junction, Colorado on May 20, 2025, when a 36-year-old Colombian woman was taken into custody by Immigration & Customs Enforcement officers. Her first stop in detention was the Grand Junction ICE hold room, followed by the Glenwood Springs hold room, a little ways down Interstate 70, before being taken to the major GEO Group detention facility in Aurora. Over the next four weeks, she was shuttled between 10 separate detention facilities — both official and ad hoc, from Colorado to Arizona to Louisiana — before ultimately being deported.
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Evans First Blames Democrats for Blocking Airport Security Funds, Then He Blames Fellow Republicans
During an appearance Thursday on KNUS’ Ryan Schuiling Live, U.S. Rep. Gabe Evans (R-CO) placed the blame for delays at airport security checkpoints directly on Democrats in the Senate — as he’d been doing for weeks. “We have a statement from one of our two U.S. senators in Colorado where he says, ‘I voted against the DHS funding bill,’” he said. “When you go look at facts, it is the Democrats who refuse to vote to fund the Department of Homeland Security.”
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The Dignity of Work: Workers Should Be Paid for Their Labor
As we talk about affordability in Denver, we should also recognize that every dollar earned by a worker preserves that worker’s basic dignity and ability to survive.
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PHOTOS: No Kings Protesters Spread Across Downtown Denver and Colorado
Tens of thousands rallied and marched in downtown Denver today, joining “No Kings” demonstrators who hit the streets to protest against Trump and his policies in cities across the state and country.
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Evans Wins Vote To Be the GOP Nominee in State’s Most Competitive Congressional Race
As thousands of anti-Trump protesters gathered in Greeley, Denver, and elsewhere for “No Kings” rallies, U.S. Rep. Gabe Evans stood in front of hundreds of fellow Republicans in a Brighton church, boasted about being the “two-time Donald Trump-endorsed candidate,” and asked them to choose him as the GOP candidate for Colorado’s most competitive congressional district, located north of Denver.
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Joe Oltmann Drops Out of CO Governor’s Race, Pivots to Running For State Party Chair
Conservative podcaster Joe Oltmann is dropping out of the Republican primary race for Governor in order to pursue a different challenge: leading the Colorado GOP as its next Chairman. He made the announcement today at the Road Church in Colorado Springs which is hosting the Republican Party’s Fifth Congressional District Assembly.
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Evangelical and Catholic Leaders Differ Over Trump’s Iran War
“Americans’ opinions [on Trump's war in Iran], with all due respect, don’t really matter,” said an article by the evangelical Family Research Council. “The why of the administration’s action should never be in question."
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Did Congressman Evans Spend Taxpayer Dollars Boosting Anti-Trans Ballot Measures?
At the Colorado Republican Party’s county assemblies last weekend, U.S. Rep. Gabe Evans (R-CO) took credit for a local hospital pausing gender-affirming care for trans youth. He also claimed that he and his office had worked to ensure anti-trans ballot measures would qualify for the 2026 ballot.