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The Colorado Times Recorder is a progressive news outlet focusing on Colorado politics and culture. Opinion submissions welcome. Contact: [email protected]

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Colorado Times Recorder @coloradotimesrecorder.com · 18h

CTR regularly publishes political cartoons by Clay Jones. We have learned that Mr. Jones recently suffered a stroke. If you’ve enjoyed seeing his work on our site, read the link below to learn more and consider donating to support him during his recovery.
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Help needed after Clay Jones suffers stroke - AAEC

Clay Jones, who last month was awarded the 2025 Babin Award for local cartooning, suffered a stroke last week that has partially paralyzed his right side, which includes his drawing hand. Like many ot...

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Colorado Times Recorder @coloradotimesrecorder.com · 19h

The Colorado Springs City Council approved a resolution honoring the U.S. Senate’s designation of October 14, 2025, as the National Day of Remembrance for Charlie Kirk, the conservative activist and founder of Turning Point USA.
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CO Springs Passes Resolution Honoring Charlie Kirk

The Colorado Springs City Council approved a resolution honoring the U.S. Senate’s designation of October 14, 2025, as the National Day of Remembrance for Charlie Kirk, the conservative activist and.....

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Colorado Times Recorder @coloradotimesrecorder.com · 22h

The Shomer: Israel’s choice to wade into the digital propaganda battle at this point is foolhardy at best—and represents the kind of hubris that appears to be a hallmark of the Netanyahu administration. coloradotimesrecorder.com/2025/10/the-...

The Shomer: The War Of Words Is A Losing Fight For Israel

On Oct. 4, 2025, the Times Of Israel published an article revealing an in-depth examination of the Israeli Foreign Ministry’s efforts to engage on what PM Benjamin Netanyahu called the...

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Colorado Times Recorder @coloradotimesrecorder.com · 1d

OPINION: For the first time in his career, climate activist Bill McKibben says he is now optimistic.

Time For Some Good News

Trying to keep up with the continuous Trump assaults on the Constitution, Latinos and Blue cities facing military occupations, is a little like taking a sip of water from an...

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Colorado Times Recorder @coloradotimesrecorder.com · 2d

Via @kffhealthnews.org: Anticipating the federal rollback of science-based vaccine policy, Colorado’s leadership has been clearing the way for more autonomy for months.

Wary of RFK Jr., Colorado Started Revamping Its Vaccine Policies in the Spring

by John Daley, Colorado Public Radio, via KFF Health News As Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s dismantling of federal vaccine policy continues to roil the Centers...

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Colorado Times Recorder @coloradotimesrecorder.com · 4d

Via @insideclimatenews.org: The Colorado River, which provides water for seven states, 30 tribes, & 40 million people, is on the verge of collapse.

As Colorado River Nears Collapse, Environmentalists Warn of Leadership, Transparency ‘Crisis’

By Wyatt Myskow This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here....

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Colorado Times Recorder @coloradotimesrecorder.com · 4d

"Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them" by Clay Jones
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Cartoon: Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them

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Colorado Times Recorder @coloradotimesrecorder.com · 5d

Yesterday, Democratic members of Colorado’s congressional delegation held a press conference where they discussed the government shutdown and what they describe as Republicans’ failure to pass a government funding bill that lowers healthcare costs. coloradotimesrecorder.com/2025/10/colo...

Colorado Democrats Call Out Republicans for 'Lying' About the Government Shutdown

Yesterday, Democratic members of Colorado’s congressional delegation held a press conference where they discussed the government shutdown and what they describe as Republicans’ failure to pass a gover...

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Teachers in Colorado Springs School District 11 took part in a one-day strike yesterday, picketing at 34 schools in the city’s third-largest school district and ending with a rally in Acacia Park.
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CO Springs Teachers Strike for First Time Since 1975

Teachers in Colorado Springs School District 11 took part in a one-day strike yesterday, picketing at 34 schools in the city’s third-largest school district and ending with a rally in...

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Colorado Times Recorder @coloradotimesrecorder.com · 6d

While GOP candidates like to quote Reagan's so-called 11th Commandment, "Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican," in this crowded field, the reality is that another revised biblical mandate applies: "do unto others before they do unto you."
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Republicans Bash Barb on Crime Bill

With 19 Republicans running for the 2026 gubernatorial nomination, the candidates, many of whom are true MAGA patriots, will have to compete to set themselves apart from one another. And...

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Colorado Times Recorder @coloradotimesrecorder.com · 6d

DEGUIRE: Here's a closer look at how wealthy pro-charter donors and political networks are steering Denver’s 2025 school board elections, and what that means for the future of public education.
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Outside Money, Inside Influence: The Network Shaping Denver’s School Board Race

Dark money is once again pouring into Denver’s school board elections. As of the September 29 filing deadline, the independent expenditure (IE) committee Better Leaders, Stronger Schools reported over...

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Colorado Times Recorder @coloradotimesrecorder.com · 7d

A list of protest and political events scheduled across Colorado over the next week. If you know of any upcoming events that are open to the public in Colorado, please let us know. coloradotimesrecorder.com/2025/10/in-t...

In the Streets: Upcoming Political Protests and Events in Colorado - October 7, 2025

Below are protest and political events scheduled across Colorado over the next week. If you know of any upcoming events that are open to the public in Colorado, please let...

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Colorado Times Recorder @coloradotimesrecorder.com · 7d

Some ideas at the Denver Press Club's GOP #COGov forum weren't traditional Republican policies- one wants to “redirect all our marijuana tax into a state sovereign wealth fund.” Also: a pipeline from the Gulf to CO that would “solve all our water problems."
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Crowded Republican Governor Forum Features First-Timers and Familiar Faces

The Denver Press Club was packed with Republican gubernatorial candidates on Thursday evening, and despite a lineup of suits that stretched nearly half the length of the narrow upstairs meeting...

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Colorado Times Recorder @coloradotimesrecorder.com · 7d

ARMSTRONG: "I'm not here to make campaign promises," Marx assured his supporters during his announcement speech; "I'm not even here to talk much about the problem." He was there to be a leader called by God.
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Gov. Candidate Offers No Campaign Promises, Instead Pitches 'Unseen War' with 'Demons'

The first thing to know about Victor Marx — a Republican candidate for governor in Colorado, a black belt martial artist, and a former Marine — is that he claims...

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Colorado Times Recorder @coloradotimesrecorder.com · 8d

32 Colorado churches and two Christian colleges are among the targeted locations for "the largest Christian Church geofencing campaign in U.S. history," as proposed by a PR firm's foreign influence operation on behalf of the Israeli government.
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Israeli Influence Operation Targeting Colorado Churches

Israel has hired a California-based conservative Christian marketing firm to run a foreign influence operation targeting Christians in four states, including Colorado. First reported by The Times of I...

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Colorado Times Recorder @coloradotimesrecorder.com · 8d

Top CO healthcare execs warned Wed that federal cuts to Medicaid will affect not only Medicaid recipients but Colorado's wider health care system, pushing up costs and the number of uninsured people across the state coloradotimesrecorder.com/2025/10/medi...

Medicaid Cuts Will Increase Healthcare Costs for All Coloradans, Say Experts on Greeley Panel

On Wednesday, a panel of top Colorado healthcare executives warned that federal cuts to Medicaid, under the so-called Big Beautiful Bill, will affect not only Medicaid recipients but Colorado's wider....

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Colorado Times Recorder @coloradotimesrecorder.com · 11d

Despite party leadership and multiple lawyers, including the Sec. of State, stating that a vote to opt the Republican Party out of next year's primary failed, many other local GOP leaders believe the opt-out vote won, and some are going to court to prove it.
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Colorado Republicans' Primary Concern: Will There Be One?

The Colorado Republican Party’s State Central Committee (SCC) met last Saturday, Sept. 28, in Aurora, that much is certain. As is the fact that Anschutz Medical Campus police had to...

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Colorado Times Recorder @coloradotimesrecorder.com · 11d

The personalized Challenge Coin is the Colorado congressman's latest in a string of bovine promotions depicting him as a "rancher" in his rural district -- despite raising only a handful of cattle as a hobby coloradotimesrecorder.com/2025/10/has-...

Has 'Rancher' Gabe Evans Reduced His Cattle Herd From Three to One?

I've been reporting on how Colorado Congressman Gabe Evans promotes himself as a "rancher" in his rural district -- despite criticism that he's "all hat, no cattle," since he owns...

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Colorado Times Recorder @coloradotimesrecorder.com · 11d

"Weaponized Justice Escalated" by Clay Jones
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Cartoon: Weaponized Justice Escalated

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Colorado Times Recorder @coloradotimesrecorder.com · 12d

BRIEF: Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser last week joined AGs from seventeen other states in sending a letter to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) criticizing it over its plans to investigate providers of transgender healthcare.
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BRIEF: Weiser Joins Letter Slamming Trump Admin's Attack on Trans Healthcare

Weiser Header image by Meg on Unsplash. Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser last week joined AGs from seventeen other states in sending a letter to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)...

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Erik Maulbetsch @erikm.bsky.social · 12d

Tonight: Colorado Republicans gather in Aurora to hear Lara Logan, a former 60 Minutes journalist whose descent into QAnon led to her getting fired from Newsmax for saying that the world’s elites “want us eating ... cockroaches” while they “dine on the blood of children.”
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Colorado Times Recorder @coloradotimesrecorder.com · 13d

Columnist @loganmdavis.bsky.social has followed the drama of the Woodland Park school board for the last four years. "At no point amidst all that drama," he says, "did anyone expect the town’s 2025 school board races to look like they currently look."

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DAVIS: An Unexpected Calm in Woodland Park's School Board Saga

A lot of ink has been spilled about the unusual happenings in the Woodland Park School District over the last four years. The dramatic conservative takeover in 2021, the immediate...

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Colorado Times Recorder @coloradotimesrecorder.com · 13d

“Immigrant chefs and cooks consistently persevere in the face of systems marked by racism, unfair labor practices, and erasure of culture. Yet, despite these challenges, they bring forth beauty, flavor, and joy through their craft.”
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'It’s Not Easy': Denver's Immigrant Chefs Share Stories of Passion and Pain in New Cookbook

Manny Barella left his home in Monterrey, Mexico, about 14 years ago to pursue his dream of becoming a chef. He’s lived in more than a dozen cities across the...

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Colorado Times Recorder @coloradotimesrecorder.com · 13d

In the midst of rising vitriol targeted against the transgender community by conservative media figures and government officials, One Colorado is launching a new organizing campaign aimed at shifting the conversation around trans rights.
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LGBTQ Advocates Launch Fall Grassroots Campaign to Push Back on Anti-Trans Misinformation

In the midst of rising vitriol aimed at the transgender community by conservative media figures and government officials, One Colorado, the state’s largest LGBTQ advocacy organization, is launching a ...

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Colorado Times Recorder @coloradotimesrecorder.com · 14d

A recently published report by Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) analyzes the “cascading harms” resulting from abortion bans.
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New Study Analyzes 'Cascading Harms' of States' Abortion Restrictions

A recently published report by Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) analyzes the “cascading harms” resulting from abortion bans. The report is based on 33 semi-structured interviews with physicians from ...

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