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‘Pure Horsesh*t.’ — Election Deniers Come to Custer County

Heidi Beedle·May 3, 2024

The Custer Board of County Commissioners held a special meeting Wednesday evening to hear from prominent election conspiracy advocates who urged county officials to remove the county’s Dominion voting machines. Speakers during Wednesday’s special BOCC meeting included MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, Douglas County podcaster and defamation defendant Joe Oltmann, former Lauren Boebert campaign manager and “America’s Mom” Sherrona Bishop, Jan. 6 rioter Shawn Smith, and Park County Commissioner Amy Mitchell, who is also a proponent of the Dominion Voting conspiracy.

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San Luis Valley GOP Hosting Election Conspiracists

Erik Maulbetsch·July 18, 2023

Colorado Republicans just can’t quit about election conspiracies. Tonight in Monte Vista, six county GOP groups that comprise the San Luis Valley Republicans will host a quartet of election conspiracists, all of whom have promoted the debunked theory that the 2020 election was rigged in favor of Joe Biden.

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The Shomer — Redpilled in Aspen: Chabad JCC Hosts Election Fraud Attorney

David Flomberg·July 20, 2022

In his play The Tempest, William Shakespeare wrote, “Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.” Sometime in the 19th Century, the quote morphed into the proverb, “Politics makes strange bedfellows.”It strikes me a deeply apropos in some cases when it comes to today’s GOP and how politically conservative Jews seem okay with their proximity to the far-right. This isn’t to say the left is free from antisemitism — far from it. It’s the paradox of being a Jew in the United States today; we see antisemitism across the political spectrum.

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FACT CHECK: Did U.S. Senate Candidate Ron Hanks Hack Voting Machines?

Logan M. Davis·May 12, 2022

In a move rarely advised by campaign consultants, a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate may have confessed to a serious crime.

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CO Election Conspiracist Baselessly Complains of Journalist’s ‘Slanderous and False Characterizations’

Quentin Young·March 24, 2022

While most of their activity only proves their misguidedness, they represent a danger to constitutional order and, indeed, people’s lives, so when the state’s primary election-denial organization unveils its biggest purported achievement, it warrants review.

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CO Election Conspiracy Group Working With CO GOP Also Attacking Republican Clerks

Erik Maulbetsch·September 8, 2021

For nearly two hours last night, Fremont County Clerk & Recorder Justin Grantham patiently explained the election process to a packed house of around 90 constituents.

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