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DAVIS: Project 2025, Eleven Months In

·December 16, 2025

During the 2024 presidential race, it was difficult to consume much political news without coming across a reference to Project 2025: the right-wing establishment’s plan to use a second Trump administration to usher in a fundamental reorganization of American public life. Since Trump took office in January and the authoritarian project officially got underway, though, coverage of the initiative has fallen off. According to online journalism archive Newsbank, which tracks more than 12,000 outlets around the globe, Project 2025 was mentioned more than 50,000 times in 2024. Though one might expect mentions to increase as the project steadily becomes reality, journalistic references to Project 2025 have declined by more than 30% this year. 

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DAVIS: Centrists Warned Dems Against Supporting Trans Rights. They Were Wrong.

·December 10, 2025

In the 13 months since the Democratic Party reached its modern electoral low point in the 2024 Presidential election, a crowd of centrist Democratic consultants have proclaimed that they have a simple answer to the party’s woes: abandon support for transgender rights. “It’s what the polling says,” they insist while ignoring everything the polling says about the economy. “It’s just too extreme,” they say, as if that’s a normal way to frame a discussion of human rights. 

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DAVIS: The Plot to Take a Local School District to the Supreme Court

·December 3, 2025

If you look at some of the most significant Supreme Court cases on cultural issues coming out in the last three terms, where have they come from?” the attorney quizzed the crowd of activists, advocates, and elected officials gathered in an air-conditioned Colorado Springs event center in August. He answered his own question: “Colorado.” He meant it as good news, and the crowd of attendees at the 2025 policy summit of a small but influential organization named Colorado Leaders for Academic Success, or CLAS, took it as such.

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DAVIS: The Dark Fantasy on Display at a Republican Forum

·September 16, 2025

Four Republican candidates vying to be Colorado’s next governor came together over the weekend for the first official forum of the campaign to replace term-limited Jared Polis next year – and put on the strangest, bleakest performance I have seen in my decade-plus political career in the process. As the candidates took turns painting a vision of what they see as wrong with Colorado and how they hope to make it right again, each provided a glimpse into a dark fantasy world which bears little resemblance to our own.

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Invisible Hand: The Man Behind Colorado Schools’ Efforts to Ban Trans Athletes

and ·April 24, 2025

Last week, dozens of Colorado school board members and administrators issued an open letter to the Colorado High School Activities Association (CHSAA), making what they called “an urgent and resolute demand” that the organization “immediately adopt rules” to ban trans-identifying teens from participating in high school athletics in Colorado. Signed by 80 signatories representing 14 public school districts, ten charter schools, and one BOCES (Board of Cooperative Educational Services), the letter references President Trump’s February 5 Executive Order, “Keeping Men out of Women’s Sports,” and suggests that CHSAA will be subject to federal investigation if it does not comply with the letter’s demands.

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