At a campaign stop at Prodigy Cafe in Denver on Saturday, Greg Lopez explained why he’s running as an independent candidate for governor: “What I recognized in watching Congress, and in watching what was happening here in the state of Colorado, was that both parties no longer care about the struggles of people.”
Gabe Evans is making a habit of staging photo ops at businesses in his district, claiming he’s championing them in Congress. But Evans’ eight votes in favor of Trump’s tariffs, among other priorities of the president, have hurt or disrupted the industries Evans says he’s helping.
A local conservative activist group that has worked with the Trump administration to attack Jeffco Schools over its transgender inclusion policies, and which recently brought a top Trump official to speak at its annual gala, is the same legal entity as a dark money group that helped conservatives claim a brief majority on Jeffco’s school board more than 10 years ago.
As more communities wake up to the danger of mass surveillance, the solution isn’t trading one brand of camera for another. It’s regulating the whole industry.
Before ICE agents killed Renee Good and Alex Peretti in Minneapolis this past January, most people in the bustling mountain town of Glenwood Springs, Colorado, were not even aware that an ICE field office and temporary detention center had been operating in their community for over 20 years.
Colorado Republicans’ election of Victor Marx as their gubernatorial nominee was far from unanimous, and the ongoing debate over his fitness for office is hard to miss, both online and in the media. It is creating problems for local party officials, who, once elected, must abide by county and state party bylaws that require them to support their party’s nominee.
Last month, Kristi Burton Brown, executive vice president of the conservative policy organization Advance Colorado, appeared on a conservative radio show to discuss the alleged dangers of the graduated income tax, as proposed in ballot initiative 195, while also promoting Advance Colorado’s ballot initiative 232, which would cap the state’s tax rate at its current level of 4.4%.
According to data from the Federal Election Commission (FEC), U.S. Rep. Gabe Evans (R-CO) received $5,000 in donations from the political action committee tied to the congressman at the heart of a growing domestic violence scandal.
Below are protests and political events scheduled across Colorado over the next week. If you know of any upcoming public events in Colorado, please let us know at [email protected]
