During a committee meeting at the state Capitol Tuesday, state Rep. Brandi Bradley, a Douglas County Republican, firmly pushed back against accusations from several witnesses that she was using a sweeping gun-control repeal bill as a PR stunt.
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‘If It’s War She Wants:’ GOP Lawmaker Vows To Defeat Primary Challenger
Yet another state legislator has drawn a primary challenger in a House district where the outcome of the general election isn’t really in doubt. Rep. Brandi Bradley (R-Highlands Ranch) is running for reelection in Douglas County’s deep-red HD39. She won her last election by 20 points and, even in a year where most experts predict high turnout among Democrats, an incumbent Republican would expected to win that seat comfortably in November.
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BRIEF: CO Republicans Attack Evans for ‘No’ Vote on Trans Youth Healthcare Felony Ban
Adam DeRito, who announced this month that he is challenging Evans for the Republican nomination in 2026, said he would have voted ‘yes’ on the bill.
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Christian Right Representatives Launch Group to ‘Flip Colorado Legislative Seats’
Three of the most conservative Republican legislators in Colorado, along with a few activists, have founded a new political action committee called “We the Parents.” State Reps. Brandi Bradley (R-Roxborough Park), Stephanie Luck (R-Penrose), and Ken DeGraaf (R-CO Springs) announced the launch in a press release on Friday, titled “New Effort Launched to Flip Colorado Legislative Seats.”
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DAVIS: The Worst Bills of the Year (2025)
About ten years ago, when I was working in the Colorado legislature, one of my brothers made an observation. “All of the craziest people in the country are state legislators,” he said. He didn’t mean that all state legislators are crazy, or that all crazy people are state legislators, but that each legislature has among its ranks a handful of its state’s craziest citizens. In my ongoing work with state legislatures around the country, I’m reminded of the quip at least once a week – because it turns out my brother was right.
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Legislators Address Moms for Liberty Town Hall
Colorado Representatives Jarvis Caldwell (R-Monument) and Brandi Bradley (R-Littleton) took part in a panel discussion with Kate Anderson of Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) and Laura Hanford of the Heritage Foundation during Moms for Liberty’s Aurora town hall on Colorado’s House Bill 1312.
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Fever Swamp Review Podcast: Divorced Dads, Mama Bears, and HB1312
Heidi takes a look at the controversy and opposition around HB1312, Colorado’s latest trans rights bill.
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Republican Lawmakers, Pastors, LGBTQ Group Raise Concerns About Trans Rights Bill
Colorado Republican legislators and pastors gathered at the Capitol yesterday to oppose House Bill 25-1312, the Kelly Loving Act, named after one of the victims of the 2022 Club Q shooting in Colorado Springs. The bill would require courts to consider deadnaming, misgendering, or threatening to publish material related to an individual’s gender-affirming health-care services as types of coercive control when making custody decisions; protect transgender patients and their parents from out-of-state actions; allow students to choose between sex-based dress code options; and define deadnaming and misgendering as discriminatory acts in the “Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act.”
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DAVIS: Brandi Bradley Doth Protest Too Much
A state representative threatened to sue the Colorado Times Recorder last week, in a screed laced with misspellings, delusions of grandeur, and an apparent misunderstanding of the very thing she hopes to sue us for. In other words, exactly the kind of fare we have come to expect from Douglas County’s Brandi Bradley.
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BRIEF: CO Republicans Kick Off Legislative Session With First Anti-Trans Bill of the Year, Targeting Insurance for Gender-Affirming Healthcare Providers
The bill has been assigned to the House Health & Human Services Committee for review.