In recent years, conservative culture warriors have attempted to demonize the LGBTQ community, with a special focus on transgender people, in the hopes of using these attacks to win over voters. This took multiple forms in Colorado this year, from battles in Colorado’s legislature to hot-button issues in some of this election’s most pivotal races.
Colorado Times Recorder’s 2024 reproductive justice coverage was focused largely on efforts to pass Amendment 79 and coverage of congressional candidates, particularly Jeff Crank in CD5 and Gabe Evans in CD8. Additionally, we reported on municipal efforts to ban abortion in Pueblo, and how municipalities like Pueblo are funding anti-abortion centers, and how school districts like Woodland Park are using anti-abortion centers to teach sex ed.
After 12 gunshots killed Jewish radio host Alan Berg in the driveway of his Denver townhouse in 1984, the FBI traced the weapon used to a white supremacist group called The Order that was behind a string of robberies and bombings designed to kill Jews and Blacks and usher in a white revolution against the U.S. government.
In the wake of an election that saw Colorado Republicans win a tossup congressional district, flip three competitive statehouse seats, and move six-figure sums from and to pro-Trump campaign entities, leaders within the party are still arguing over who deserves credit.
Instead of corporate powers having to lobby regulators to get special favors, corporate officials will become the regulators.
