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If Governor Polis gives in to violent threats about releasing Tina Peters to DOJ custody, it would set a catastrophic precedent that would give credence to abhorrent rhetoric. #copolitics www.coloradopols.com/diary/218838...
Governor Polis Can't Give In to Increased Threats About Tina Peters | Colorado Pols
As we noted over the weekend, Governor Jared Polis is hearing from a bipartisan group of county clerks and prosecutors who want him to refuse requests from the Justice Department to take federal custo...
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November 25, 2025 at 7:42 PM
UPDATE: Fox News breaks the news this morning that the FBI is investigating Democrats who participated in a video about the law pertaining to obedience to illegal orders, including Colorado’s Rep. Jason Crow coloradopols.com/diary/218808... #copolitics
Trump Apparently Serious About Punishing Dissident Democrats | Colorado Pols
TUESDAY UPDATE: Fox News breaks the news this morning that the FBI is investigating Democrats who participated in a video about the law pertaining to obedience to illegal orders, including Colorado's ...
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November 25, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Even outgoing Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene recognized that the loss of health insurance premium credits would be devastating to her constituents.

But not Gabe Evans. coloradopols.com/diary/218835... #copolitics
It's Hurd vs. Evans With Your Health Care In The Balance | Colorado Pols
As Colorado Public Radio's Caitlyn Kim reports, fresh GOP Rep. Jeff Hurd is working to pass his bipartisan legislation that would extend the health insurance premium subsidies he previously voted to c...
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November 25, 2025 at 7:00 PM
If you are an attorney with ties to Colorado considering doing work for Donald Trump...maybe just don't. #copolitics www.coloradopols.com/diary/218788...
Another Trump Lawyer from Colorado Fails as Comey and Leticia James Cases Dismissed | Colorado Pols
There's big news today breaking in two cases in which President Trump was seeking to punish his enemies through ham-handed legal efforts. As The New York Times explains: A federal judge tossed out sep...
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November 24, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Xcel Energy wants to raise electric rates for consumers by 10%. The 2025 election proved that opposing big rate increases to fund infrastructure buildout for data centers is just good politics. #copolitics www.coloradopols.com/diary/218759...
Opposing Big Electric Rate Increases is Smart Politics in 2026 | Colorado Pols
Xcel Energy in Colorado submitted a request for a 10% rate increase on Friday. Xcel was no doubt hoping to avoid too much negative publicity by making the move  on the front end of what is a long holi...
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November 24, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Once upon a time, elected officials on BOTH sides of the political aisle would be quick to praise a successful law enforcement operation anywhere in Colorado. This is not that time. #copolitics www.coloradopols.com/diary/218636...
When Spin Fails, Colorado Republicans Focus on Outright Lies | Colorado Pols
Colorado Republicans are trying so hard to promote their nonsense narrative about unchecked crime in our state that they are refusing to even acknowledge the good work of state and local law enforceme...
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November 20, 2025 at 8:08 PM
EMILY's List's endorsement of Shannon Bird in the swing #CO08 race was a fait accompli after other women pulled out of the race.

But it will help level the field in this red-hot Democratic primary.

coloradopols.com/diary/218627... #copolitics
EMILYs List Opens The Money Spigot For Shannon Bird | Colorado Pols
Axios' John Frank with...he calls it a scoop, we'd say it's more of a scooplet but definitely worth a mention: Emily's List, a key Democratic organization that promotes women in politics, announced it...
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November 20, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Nothing to see here, folks, just the President of the United States calling for the literal death of a Colorado congressman.

#25thamendment time yet?

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Just POTUS Calling For A Colorado Congressman's Death | Colorado Pols
As Politico reports, a video recorded by Democratic lawmakers with military service experience reminding members of the military of their legal obligation to refuse illegal orders has exploded into so...
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November 20, 2025 at 8:07 PM
This week on @getmoresmarter.com, we recap the shutdown of the shutdown and the Epstein Files morass, and "Pollster of the Pod" Andrew Baumann joins us to shed more light on the 2025 election and some interesting new data in CO-05. #copolitics www.coloradopols.com/diary/218593...
Wow, What a Story! (feat. Andrew Baumann) | Colorado Pols
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, we can finally shut up about the shut down as it has met a rather anticlimactic end right in time for the holiday travel crunch, but, the only thing we care ...
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November 19, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Why does the Department of Homeland Security want Colorado's voter registration data? #copolitics www.coloradopols.com/diary/218598...
Hey, Leave Our Voter Data Alone | Colorado Pols
As The Associated Press reports, Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold is among 10 others across the country asking the Department of Justice, "WTF?" Ten Democratic secretaries of state, including...
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November 19, 2025 at 6:01 PM
The House of Represenatives votes 427-1 to ask the Department of Justice to release the Epstein files. #copolitics www.coloradopols.com/diary/218575...
House Votes 427-1 to Release Epstein Files | Colorado Pols
House Speaker Mike Johnson kept the entire lower chamber away from Washington D.C. for 54 days in order to stall action on directing the Department of Justice to release the "Epstein Files." On Tuesda...
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November 18, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Whoops! Trump's efforts to gerrymander a Republican majority are backfiring in a big way after judges nix Texas redistricting. #copolitics www.coloradopols.com/diary/218549...
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November 18, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Defeated Aurora City Council member Danielle Jurinsky will NOT attempt to take her "talents" to Douglas County. #copolitics www.coloradopols.com/diary/218535...
Danielle Jurinsky Will Go Gently Into that Good Night After All | Colorado Pols
As we noted last week, soon-to-be-former Aurora City Council member Danielle Jurinsky was casting around for her next elected office after a surprising defeat in her re-election campaign. With more ti...
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November 18, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Tina Peters is one of the last remnants of accountability for Trump’s attempt to steal the 2020 presidential election.

That's why this case has always been about more than Tina Peters. coloradopols.com/diary/218482... #copolitics
Make No Mistake, Trump Is Moving To Spring Tina Peters | Colorado Pols
As 9NEWS' Kyle Clark reported on Friday, the Trump administration's goal of freeing the last incarcerated co-conspirator in once-and-again President Donald Trump's failed quest to prove the 2020 presi...
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November 17, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Feeling emboldened after the shutdown standoff, Republicans have a new demand in exchange for the tax credits millions of Americans need to afford health coverage.

A back-door assault on abortion rights in Colorado.

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And Now, A Back-Door Assault On Colorado's Abortion Rights | Colorado Pols
As 9NEWS' Jaleesa Irizarry reports, now that the federal government has re-opened without a deal to extend the health insurance premium tax credits that make coverage affordable for millions of Americ...
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November 13, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Here's the latest way the Trump administration is looking to undo crucial protections you enjoy not only as an American, but as a Coloradan. #copolitics coloradopols.com/diary/218401...
Introducing The Consumer Financial Predation Bureau | Colorado Pols
Colorado Public Radio's health policy reporter John Daley with the latest way the Trump administration is looking to undo crucial protections you enjoy not only as an American, but as a Coloradan--an ...
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November 13, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Lauren Boebert stood strong on the discharge petition over the Epstein Files despite heavy lobbying from President Trump himself. Bravo. #copolitics www.coloradopols.com/diary/218408...
Bravo, Lauren Boebert | Colorado Pols
Welp, there's a headline we didn't expect to see on this here website. But it is absolutely warranted for Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Windsor). President Trump and staffers tried not once...not twice...but...
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November 13, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Ousted Aurora City Council member Danielle Jurinsky may be looking to pull a Lauren Boebert in 2026. #copolitics www.coloradopols.com/diary/218351...
Danielle Jurinsky Looking for New Race to Lose in 2026 | Colorado Pols
Republicans lost damn near every race they contested in the 2025 election. Some in the GOP aren't wasting time looking for somewhere else to fail in 2026. Aurora City Council member Danielle Jurinsky ...
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November 12, 2025 at 10:15 PM