I will rescue Aurora and every town that has been invaded and conquered,” the authoritarian aspirant tweeted, following his Friday rally at the Aurora Gaylord. “We will put these vicious and bloodthirsty criminals in jail or kick them the hell OUT OF OUR COUNTRY.” Over the rest of the three-paragraph screed, he promised to use the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to expel migrants, a law which was last used to intern 120,000 Japanese-Americans during World War II.
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.
Right-wing conservative influencer and political pundit Charlie Kirk held an event at the University of Colorado Boulder just hours before last week’s second presidential debate of the 2024 election.
VAIL, Colo. — Colorado Gov. Jared Polis on Thursday, following the launch of a state-funded geothermal project here, took on the Trump-aligned Project 2025 plans for rolling back renewables and exploiting public lands with a massive surge in fossil fuels.
If the 2024 presidential election were held today, Donald J. Trump would win it. He would not have to sic his followers on Congress again, nor would he need to rely on his followers in Congress to approve false electors, or tamper in any way with the certification of the vote. He would win outright.
State Rep. Gabe Evans has been running for Colorado’s newest congressional seat since September, but despite being the most prominent Republican in the race, he’s mostly avoided bringing up the name of his party’s standard bearer, former President Donald Trump.
A Denver-based community initiative led by Andrea Ryall and the Facebook group Highlands Moms and Neighbors is making significant strides in connecting Venezuelan and South American migrants with community support and employment opportunities.
Immigration policy dominated the discussion among five of the Republican candidates vying to win Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District primary election in June, and it included some eyebrow-raising statements.
This weekend, immigration activists took part in a 60-mile pilgrimage from Denver to Greeley to urge U.S. Rep. Yadira Caraveo (D-CO) and Senators Michael Bennet (D-CO) and John Hickenlooper (D-CO) to support creating a pathway to citizenship by updating the federal registry law.
El Paso County Commissioner Longinos Gonzalez and Colorado Springs City Councilor Dave Donelson appeared Monday on the Richard Randall Show (KVOR-AM) to discuss their commitment to keeping immigrants out of southern Colorado.
