Nicole Hunt, an analyst and spokesperson for conservative Christian powerhouse Focus on the Family, argues that the spending gap between pro- and anti-abortion groups is one of the contributing factors to the success of abortion ballot measures this year.
Colorado Rep. Gabe Evans (R-Fort Lupton) is challenging U.S. Rep. Yadira Caraveo in one of the most-watched elections this year. Colorado’s Congressional District 8 could decide control of Congress, and competing PACs have poured more than $15 million into the race. Like many Republicans running since the overturn of Roe v. Wade, Evans has been trying to walk a fine line on abortion, an issue that has proven to be overwhelmingly electorally popular.
The third highest-ranking official in the federal government has done little to conceal the extent of his Christian nationalism. House Speaker Mike Johnson has decried American culture as ‘dark and depraved.’ He has compared himself to Moses. He has called the separation of church & state “a misnomer.” And this weekend, he was in Colorado, stumping for Gabe Evans in the seat which Johnson says may decide control of the U.S. House of Representatives in November.
An old adage insists that “all politics is local,” but it’s not true. The rapid advance of the internet age has flipped the adage on its head: these days, all politics is national. With Fox News, CNN, and Facebook blasting their signals into every corner of the once vast and untrammeled wilderness, truly local issues have fallen by the wayside. Now, local races are dominated by the headwinds of national political discourse, and local candidates are incentivized to rhetorically overextend themselves in service of signaling to the tribe. It is a politics of pantomime, with potholes and passing lanes supplanted by abortion and immigration as the issues du jour – in races for offices which will have no jurisdiction over either – and too few candidates speaking to the particulars and prerogatives of the positions they seek.
Pueblo City Councilor Regina Maestri is considering introducing an anti-abortion ordinance. Again.
During an Aug. 24 appearance on NBC News’ “Meet the Press,” Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio), former President Donald Trump’s running mate, said Trump would veto a federal abortion ban. In 2018, during his last term, Trump supported a 20-week abortion ban. During a March radio interview, Trump seemed to support a 15-week abortion ban.
Last week, the Pueblo Board of County Commissioners approved a $650 payment to sponsor a 10-person table at A Caring Pregnancy Center’s annual fundraiser next month. On July 8, the Pueblo City Council voted 5-1 to spend $1,500 to sponsor the event.
This Saturday, just blocks away from Rep. Gabe Evans’ (R-Fort Lupton) newly-opened CD8 campaign “battlestation,” the Colorado Organization for Latina Opportunity and Reproductive Rights (COLOR) held a campaign launch to mobilize Latines in Colorado to turn out to vote and enshrine abortion rights into the state constitution.
This week, the Republican National Committee voted on the first new Republican platform since 2016. Eight years ago, the GOP’s platform — a hefty 58-page document outlining the party’s principles, goals, and positions on domestic and foreign affairs — laid out detailed policies for issues like abortion and marriage, but the most recent draft of the 2024 platform has both conservatives and progressives concerned. Is this latest version softening the party’s stances on social issues for political gain, or is it merely cloaking the same policies — or even more aggressive ones — in more opaque language?
Yesterday the U.S. Supreme Court ruled to temporarily preserve emergency care for pregnant people under the Emergency Medical Treatment & Labor Act (EMTALA), a nearly 40-year-old federal law which requires hospitals to not turn away patients.
