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Colorado Times Recorder @coloradotimesrecorder.com · 13h

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 · 15h

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 · 18h

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 · 1d

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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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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 5d

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 · 5d

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 · 5d

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

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Colorado Times Recorder @coloradotimesrecorder.com · 6d

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 · 6d

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.”
#copolitics

Colorado Times Recorder @coloradotimesrecorder.com · 6d

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 · 7d

“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 · 7d

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 · 8d

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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Colorado Times Recorder @coloradotimesrecorder.com · 8d

Last week, Aurora City Councillor Danielle Jurinsky and her slate of Republican-backed candidates held a rally attended by about 50 people at the Stampede Bar & Grill. The speeches were steeped in right-wing talking points, ending with one implying that leftists murdered Charlie Kirk. #copolitics

Aurora City Council Campaign Rally Embraces Right-Wing Rhetoric

Municipal elections in Aurora are supposed to be non-partisan, but while Aurora’s elections are many things, non-partisan is not one of them. Last week, Aurora City Councillor Danielle Jurinsky and...

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Colorado Times Recorder @coloradotimesrecorder.com · 9d

"The elephant in the room when it comes to discussions of political violence," columnist @loganmdavis.bsky.social writes, "is what we don’t include in the definition."

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DAVIS: What Commentators Get Wrong About Political Violence

I was around 15 years old the first time I was forced to think about political violence, when I realized that the stick poking me awake as I slept in...

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Colorado Times Recorder @coloradotimesrecorder.com · 9d

A monday morning timeline cleanse: CTR resident poet Art Goodtimes opines on the virtues of a mushroom harvest.
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Erik Maulbetsch @erikm.bsky.social · 11d

After 5 hours of shouting, booing, and endless points of order, the CO GOP Central Committee vote to opt-out of the 2026 open primary failed, 226-196. It got a majority of those present, but it needed to get 75% of the total body, a threshold that is disputed, to say the least. #copolitics

Colorado Times Recorder @coloradotimesrecorder.com · 12d

Candidates for the Academy School District 20 Board of Education took part in a forum at Liberty High School in Colorado Springs this week, discussing issues ranging from budget issues to transgender athletes and book bans.
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School Board Candidates Field Culture War Questions at CO Springs Forum

Candidates for the Academy School District 20 Board of Education took part in a forum at Liberty High School in Colorado Springs this week, discussing issues ranging from budget issues...

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Colorado Times Recorder @coloradotimesrecorder.com · 12d

"Bribes-R-Us" by Clay Jones
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Cartoon: Bribes-R-Us

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Colorado Times Recorder @coloradotimesrecorder.com · 12d

Via @highcountrynews.org: The Trump Administration is dismantling the Forest Service. The public comment period ends Sept. 30.
Speak up!
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The Dismantling of The Forest Service

In the 1880s, giant cattle companies turned thousands of cattle out to graze on the “public domain” — i.e., the Western lands that had been stolen from Indigenous people and...

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Colorado Times Recorder @coloradotimesrecorder.com · 13d

KOA radio hosts repeatedly asked Rep. Gabe Evans why Rep. Jeff Hurd didn't join Evans and two other Republican members of Colorado's congressional delegation in signing a letter blasting Gov. Jared Polis. Evans directed them to ask Hurd coloradotimesrecorder.com/2025/09/stil... #copolitics

Still No Answer to Question of Why One Republican Didn't Join the Rest of the GOP Congressional Delegation in Letter to Polis

Last Thursday, KOA radio hosts repeatedly asked U.S. Rep. Gabe Evans (R-CO) why U.S. Rep. Jeff Hurd didn't join Evans and two other Republican members of Colorado's congressional delegation in...

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Colorado Times Recorder @coloradotimesrecorder.com · 13d

OPINION: It’s unusual these days to find damn near universal public support for anything, but the Roadless Rule is an exception.
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Support For Roadless Rule, Which Protects Colorado Public Lands, 'Damn Near Universal'

Colorado’s hunting seasons are in full swing, and while many of us are chasing bugles, glassing high basins, or scouting drainages, the work to protect wild places doesn’t stop. Although...

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