Many of the issues brought to light in Peters' trial paint the narrative portrayed by “Selection Code” in a much more clearly negative way.
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High-End Democrat Donors Target a Progressive Antitrust Champion
We’ve recently learned about Project 2025, the GOP’s scheme to let corporate agents take over our government. But there’s also a less visible effort by some donors to also make Democrats install corporate-subservient officials to expand their monopoly power.
How To Find the Vaccination Rate in Your Kid’s School. It’s on a State Database
By Ann Schimke, Chalkbeat
Colorado Lawmaker Leads Anti-LGBT Hate Group Amid Reelection Campaign
Colorado Republican Rep. Brandi Bradley recently announced her plans to lead a new Moms for Liberty chapter in Douglas County. Bradley was elected in 2022 to House District 39, which includes parts of Highlands Ranch, Lone Tree, and other rural parts of the county and is currently running for reelection.
Ballot Initiatives 50 & 108: Ready Colorado Protests Too Much
In a rare display of bipartisanship, advocacy groups from across the political spectrum joined together to call on Gov. Jared Polis (D-CO) to convene a special session of the state Legislature to negotiate the end of a pair of tax-cutting ballot initiatives that would gut the state’s budget so severely that even most conservative groups are opposed to them. Club 20? Not a bunch of libs. Neither are the Colorado Contractors Association, or NAIOP Colorado, which is the state chapter of the Commercial Real Estate Development Association.
Colorado Dropped Medicaid Enrollees as Red States Have, Alarming Advocates for the Poor
by Rae Ellen Bichell, Kaiser Health News Colorado stands out among the 10 states that have disenrolled the highest share of Medicaid beneficiaries since the U.S. government lifted a pandemic-era restriction on removing people from the health insurance program.
DAVIS: The GOP’s Gabe Evans Problem
The national Republican Party’s path to maintaining its majority in the House of Representatives this November runs straight through Colorado’s 8th Congressional District (CD-8). It’s a new district, created by the 2021 redistricting process, and this year’s contest will mark only the second time it has appeared on local ballots. Despite currently being represented by Democrat Yadira Caraveo, CD-8 also has the unique distinction of being one of the most evenly balanced districts in the country: of 435 seats in the House, Cook Political Report ranks Colorado’s 8th as the 221st most conservative.
GUILTY: Election Conspiracist and Former Mesa County, Colorado, Election Official Faces Years in Jail
A Mesa County jury found Tina Peters guilty Monday on 7 of 10 criminal charges related to a security breach that occurred in the spring of 2021 in the elections office she oversaw as the Mesa County clerk and recorder.