Democratic U.S. Rep. Yadira Caraveo of Thornton was ahead by 1.5 percentage points early Wednesday as she faced a Republican challenger in her bid to win a second term representing Colorado’s 8th Congressional District.
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Meet the Colorado Election Conspiracist and Jan 6 Participant Who Found Hidden SOS Passwords
Earlier today, a Denver judge denied a request by the Colorado Libertarian Party to stop all use of voting machines over an inadvertent password disclosure on the Secretary of State’s website. The judge ruled that the state’s rapid response to the incident by dispatching staff to change passwords, which are just one aspect of the multi-layer security process elections officials use to update voting machines, addressed the problem sufficiently to prevent bringing the state’s election to an immediate halt.
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REVIEW: The Latest ‘God’s Not Dead’ Film Aims to Turn Out Christian-Right Voters
The Christian film series “God’s Not Dead” has released five installments in the past ten years. (Most of my friends balked when I told them this.) The most recent, “God’s Not Dead: In God We Trust,” directs the series’ faith film scope towards national party politics – and its creators hope that their fictional narrative can create a real-world impact in this election.
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With Speakers Bureau Featuring Election Deniers, Republican Wants To Make Being a Conservative ‘Fun’ Again in Colorado
Colorado Republican leader Heidi Ganahl’s Rocky Mountain Voice (RMV) website offers “top speakers” who will make it “fun” to be a “conservative again in Colorado.”
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Republican Clerks Affirming Election Security Attacked by Their Own Party Leaders
Tomorrow, El Paso County Clerk Steve Schlieker will administer the election in Colorado’s most populous county. Last Thursday, Schlieker sent a letter to his election staff and the county’s bipartisan team of poll workers assuring them that tomorrow’s election is secure and that the recent password leak from Colorado Secretary of State Jen Griswold’s office will not impact vote counting.
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How the Denver Archdiocese Sees its Political Activism in Their Own Words
When the Colorado Times Recorder covered a eucharistic march around a Denver Planned Parenthood, we reached out to the Archbishop’s office for comment. Although Archbishop Samuel Aquila did not respond to the questions posed, the Director of Communications for the Archdiocese of Denver Kelly Clark did respond. You can find her answers on behalf of the Archdiocese below.
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The Transparency Gap in Denver Public Schools’ Upcoming Closure Plans
On November 7, the Denver Public Schools (DPS) Superintendent will announce a list of schools to be closed for the 2025-26 school year. During the next nine days, the school board and the Superintendent will meet with affected school communities to provide “counseling and care” as they explain how the closures will affect them. On November 21, the school board will vote on the Superintendent’s recommendations to close the named schools.
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Extremist Rewind – 11/02/2024
As part of our weekly roundup of articles on political extremism in Colorado, the Colorado Times Recorder is featuring Jason Salzman’s article documenting which candidates who have denied the results of the 2020 election through some form or another, Erik Maulbetsch’s coverage of the Colorado Chamber of Commerce not endorsing Republican Matt Burcham, who has pushed election conspiracy theories. We’re also featuring an article from Susan Green at Aurora Sentinel on Aurora City Councilor Danielle Jurinsky’s verbal abuse of her colleagues, and 9News’ Darren Whitehead’s on the sentencing of a Douglas County man who participated in the January 6 Capitol insurrection.
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Colorado Connections to Project 2025, Which May Guide a Second Trump Administration
A public relations consultant with the conservative Steamboat Institute is among the people and institutions in Colorado with connections to the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, which some say would provide a right-wing guide for a possible second Trump presidency.
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Denver Archbishop Leads March Around Planned Parenthood in Opposition to Abortion Rights Amendment
On a chilly November morning, the Archbishop of Denver Samuel Aquila led a Eucharistic procession around a Planned Parenthood health center in Denver’s Park Hill neighborhood ahead of the 2024 general election in which Coloradans will vote on enshrining the right to abortion in the state constitution.