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Who is going to win CO-03, CO-05, and CO-08 in 2026? #copolitics www.coloradopols.com/diary/219686...
Who Will Win Colorado's Big Congressional Races in 2026? (12/25) | Colorado Pols
We kicked off our 2026 election reader polls on Monday with questions about the Democratic nominee for Governor and the race for Attorney General. Now we're shifting to the big races for Congress in 2...
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December 30, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Who is going to win CO-03, CO-05, and CO-08 in 2026? #copolitics www.coloradopols.com/diary/219686...
Colorado's next Attorney General won't be a Republican, but which of these four Democrats will be next? #copolitics www.coloradopols.com/diary/219671...
Who Will be Colorado's Next Attorney General? | Colorado Pols
We kicked off our 2026 election reader polls with a question about the Democratic nominee for Governor. Let's keep things moving down the ballot in the race for Attorney General. There is no plausible...
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December 29, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Colorado's next Attorney General won't be a Republican, but which of these four Democrats will be next? #copolitics www.coloradopols.com/diary/219671...
Let's get a head start on 2026! First up: The race for Governor in Colorado. #copolitics www.coloradopols.com/diary/219664...
Who Will be the Democratic Nominee for Governor in 2026? | Colorado Pols
The year 2025 is (finally) coming to a close and the 2026 election cycle is heating up, so it's time to start asking Colorado Pols readers to predict the future! As always with our totally unscientifi...
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December 29, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Let's get a head start on 2026! First up: The race for Governor in Colorado. #copolitics www.coloradopols.com/diary/219664...
El Paso County Commissioners joined an amicus brief APPLAUDING President Trump for screwing over their community in relocating Space Command HQ from Colorado Springs. #copolitics www.coloradopols.com/diary/219610...
Colorado Springs Politicians Still Happy to Get Screwed by Trump | Colorado Pols
We took note earlier this month of yet another bizarre decision by the Colorado Springs City Council to actively root against their own best interests -- part of a pattern of the Republican-led counci...
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December 23, 2025 at 7:25 PM
El Paso County Commissioners joined an amicus brief APPLAUDING President Trump for screwing over their community in relocating Space Command HQ from Colorado Springs. #copolitics www.coloradopols.com/diary/219610...
Happy birthday to us! Thank you for helping to make Colorado Pols the most influential and widely-read political website in the entire state. #copolitics www.coloradopols.com/diary/219600...
Happy Drunk! Let's Get Birthday! | Colorado Pols
On this day in 2004, ColoradoPols.com published its very first post on the internet tubes. That makes us 21 years old, which is like 437 in blog years. Today we can finally (legally) consume alcohol, ...
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December 23, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Happy birthday to us! Thank you for helping to make Colorado Pols the most influential and widely-read political website in the entire state. #copolitics www.coloradopols.com/diary/219600...
RETALIATION NATION: Donald Trump is President of only some of the United States. coloradopols.com/diary/219595... #copolitics
Welcome To Life On Donald Trump's Shit List | Colorado Pols
As Colorado Newsline's Lindsey Toomer reported yesterday--when President Donald Trump threatened Colorado with "harsh measures" for continuing to incarcerate former Mesa County Clerk and fellow electi...
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December 23, 2025 at 6:27 PM
RETALIATION NATION: Donald Trump is President of only some of the United States. coloradopols.com/diary/219595... #copolitics
In less than one year in Congress, Rep. Gabe Evans (R-Ft. Lupton) has somehow managed to alienate virtually everyone. It's a bold strategy for re-election in 2026. #copolitics www.coloradopols.com/diary/219566...
Everybody Hates Gabe Evans | Colorado Pols
Many politicians have unique abilities that allow them to ascend to higher office... Those same abilities can also cause them to quickly descend from lofty political heights. Republican George Santos,...
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December 22, 2025 at 8:08 PM
In less than one year in Congress, Rep. Gabe Evans (R-Ft. Lupton) has somehow managed to alienate virtually everyone. It's a bold strategy for re-election in 2026. #copolitics www.coloradopols.com/diary/219566...
Every Colorado Republican in Congress, especially Rep. Lauren Boebert, has paid lip service to full disclosure of the Epstein files.
If any of them give the Trump administration a pass today, skeptical voters will know they never meant it. coloradopols.com/diary/219511... #copolitics
If any of them give the Trump administration a pass today, skeptical voters will know they never meant it. coloradopols.com/diary/219511... #copolitics
It's Epstein Files Day, And The Joke Is On America | Colorado Pols
Politico reports on what was supposed to be the big day, but we're sorry to disappoint: The Department of Justice will not be releasing all of its files on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein by Fr...
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December 19, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Every Colorado Republican in Congress, especially Rep. Lauren Boebert, has paid lip service to full disclosure of the Epstein files.
If any of them give the Trump administration a pass today, skeptical voters will know they never meant it. coloradopols.com/diary/219511... #copolitics
If any of them give the Trump administration a pass today, skeptical voters will know they never meant it. coloradopols.com/diary/219511... #copolitics
State Treasurer Dave Young bows out of race for Congress in CO-08, citing family health issues. #copolitics www.coloradopols.com/diary/219515...
Dave Young Exits Race in CO-08 | Colorado Pols
And then there were three... State Treasurer Dave Young (D-Greeley) announced today that he is ending his campaign for Congress in the eighth congressional district, where he had hoped to win the Demo...
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December 19, 2025 at 5:36 PM
State Treasurer Dave Young bows out of race for Congress in CO-08, citing family health issues. #copolitics www.coloradopols.com/diary/219515...
Donald Trump is making it very clear that if you live in a blue state, he is not YOUR President. So when will Republicans like Rep. Gabe Evans stand up for Colorado? #copolitics www.coloradopols.com/diary/219464...
Yes, President Trump is Directly Attacking Colorado | Colorado Pols
We've been taking note in this space of the various attacks on Colorado perpetuated by President Trump as part of his apparently never-ending retribution tour masquerading as a Presidency. There is no...
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December 18, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Donald Trump is making it very clear that if you live in a blue state, he is not YOUR President. So when will Republicans like Rep. Gabe Evans stand up for Colorado? #copolitics www.coloradopols.com/diary/219464...
On Tuesday, Lauren Boebert slammed Xcel Energy’s disaster prevention plan as “California-style insanity imported by leftists.”
Last night, downed power lines burned 40,000 acres in Boebert's district.
Has Boebert no shame? (don't answer that)
coloradopols.com/diary/219459... #copolitics
Last night, downed power lines burned 40,000 acres in Boebert's district.
Has Boebert no shame? (don't answer that)
coloradopols.com/diary/219459... #copolitics
At Long Last, Has Lauren Boebert No Shame? Yuma Fires Edition | Colorado Pols
As 9NEWS reports this morning, although precautions taken by Xcel Energy to prevent a repeat of the devastating Marshall Fire of December of 2021 along the Front Range foothills during yesterday's 100...
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December 18, 2025 at 5:15 PM
On Tuesday, Lauren Boebert slammed Xcel Energy’s disaster prevention plan as “California-style insanity imported by leftists.”
Last night, downed power lines burned 40,000 acres in Boebert's district.
Has Boebert no shame? (don't answer that)
coloradopols.com/diary/219459... #copolitics
Last night, downed power lines burned 40,000 acres in Boebert's district.
Has Boebert no shame? (don't answer that)
coloradopols.com/diary/219459... #copolitics
Trump made right-wing Americans feel like he was saying the quiet part out loud about Democrats. Now he’s saying it about them, too, and Republicans are getting sick of it. #copolitics www.coloradopols.com/diary/219314...
Indiana Republicans Tell Trump to Get Bent on Redistricting Threats | Colorado Pols
While President Trump was pondering his "Turkey Pardon" of Tina Peters on Thursday, Indiana Republicans handed him a significant defeat that could well mark a turning point in Trump's rapidly-declinin...
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December 12, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Trump made right-wing Americans feel like he was saying the quiet part out loud about Democrats. Now he’s saying it about them, too, and Republicans are getting sick of it. #copolitics www.coloradopols.com/diary/219314...
President Trump's "Turkey Pardon" of convicted felon Tina Peters is just another silly chapter in his big book of nonsense. #copolitics www.coloradopols.com/diary/219279...
Trump Pardons Tina Peters (But Not Really) | Colorado Pols
President Trump is really feeling the Holiday season in 2025. A few weeks after symbolically pardoning a couple of turkeys in the annual pre-Thanksgiving event at the White House, Trump did it again o...
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December 12, 2025 at 5:15 PM
President Trump's "Turkey Pardon" of convicted felon Tina Peters is just another silly chapter in his big book of nonsense. #copolitics www.coloradopols.com/diary/219279...
GOTCHER LEFT: Elizabeth Warren Throws Down Bigly For Hick coloradopols.com/diary/219276... #copolitics #cosen
Elizabeth Warren Throws Down Bigly For Hick | Colorado Pols
Just days after state Sen. Julie Gonzales of Denver announced her challenge to incumbent Democratic Sen. John Hickenlooper while at the same time sort-of renouncing her ties to the Democratic Socialis...
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December 12, 2025 at 5:14 PM
GOTCHER LEFT: Elizabeth Warren Throws Down Bigly For Hick coloradopols.com/diary/219276... #copolitics #cosen
"Affordability" is a hoax. Prices are down. Health insurance is cheap. #copolitics www.coloradopols.com/diary/219216...
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December 11, 2025 at 7:17 PM
"Affordability" is a hoax. Prices are down. Health insurance is cheap. #copolitics www.coloradopols.com/diary/219216...
Colorado's Eastern Plains need a voice in Washington.
Instead, they get TMZ headlines.
coloradopols.com/diary/219212... #copolitics
Instead, they get TMZ headlines.
coloradopols.com/diary/219212... #copolitics
Boebert's Entourage Denied Entry To George Santos Holiday Bash | Colorado Pols
Once again, the representative of Colorado's most culturally sleepy rural backwater Rep. Lauren Boebert, having traded the state's picturesque Western Slope for the rolling depopulated prairie of the ...
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December 11, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Colorado's Eastern Plains need a voice in Washington.
Instead, they get TMZ headlines.
coloradopols.com/diary/219212... #copolitics
Instead, they get TMZ headlines.
coloradopols.com/diary/219212... #copolitics
Trump administration is spending a ridiculous amount of time and money trying to free a convicted felon. #copolitics www.coloradopols.com/diary/219181...
If At First You Don't Succeed in Freeing a Convicted Felon... | Colorado Pols
President Trump has been on a rampage in recent weeks about his inability to spring former Mesa County Clerk and Recorder Tina Peters from jail in Colorado, where she is currently serving a nine-year ...
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December 10, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Trump administration is spending a ridiculous amount of time and money trying to free a convicted felon. #copolitics www.coloradopols.com/diary/219181...
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THIS WEEK on our Colorado Politics Podcast:
🏔️Colorado lost a giant, RIP Senator Winter
🪖The Secretary of War [Crimes] is earning his moniker
🗳️Trump is trying to pardon another criminal he legally can't
💸Is "affordability" a "hoax"?
🤫A GOP State Rep says the quiet part out loud
🎧LISTEN UP🎧
🏔️Colorado lost a giant, RIP Senator Winter
🪖The Secretary of War [Crimes] is earning his moniker
🗳️Trump is trying to pardon another criminal he legally can't
💸Is "affordability" a "hoax"?
🤫A GOP State Rep says the quiet part out loud
🎧LISTEN UP🎧
Pete Hague-Seth and the Affordability Hoax - The Get More Smarter Podcast - A Weekly Show About Colorado Politics
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, the state of Colorado lost a giant after State Senator Faith Winter tragically passed in a car accident, leaving a huge orange and blue void in the State Cap...
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December 10, 2025 at 5:05 PM
THIS WEEK on our Colorado Politics Podcast:
🏔️Colorado lost a giant, RIP Senator Winter
🪖The Secretary of War [Crimes] is earning his moniker
🗳️Trump is trying to pardon another criminal he legally can't
💸Is "affordability" a "hoax"?
🤫A GOP State Rep says the quiet part out loud
🎧LISTEN UP🎧
🏔️Colorado lost a giant, RIP Senator Winter
🪖The Secretary of War [Crimes] is earning his moniker
🗳️Trump is trying to pardon another criminal he legally can't
💸Is "affordability" a "hoax"?
🤫A GOP State Rep says the quiet part out loud
🎧LISTEN UP🎧
Right-wing efforts to buy up Denver TV stations intensify with Sinclair bid for Denver7. #copolitics www.coloradopols.com/diary/219135...
Denver TV News Could Soon Be Fox 31, CBS 4...and That's It | Colorado Pols
If right-wing news drivel is your thing, then you've got plenty to be excited about in Colorado. We've been paying close attention to efforts by right-wing media outlet Nexstar Media Group to buy Tegn...
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December 9, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Right-wing efforts to buy up Denver TV stations intensify with Sinclair bid for Denver7. #copolitics www.coloradopols.com/diary/219135...
Julie Gonzales’ decision to eschew the DSA brand is a wise strategic concession that Colorado is not New York City.
As Sen. John Hickenlooper has said for years.
coloradopols.com/diary/219132... #copolitics #cosen
As Sen. John Hickenlooper has said for years.
coloradopols.com/diary/219132... #copolitics #cosen
Julie Gonzales Softly Disowns Democratic Socialists | Colorado Pols
NEW: Progressive State Sen. Julie Gonzales is dropping her Democratic Socialist affiliation as she challenges Sen. John Hickenlooper (D-CO). Gonzales told me she is no longer a member of the DSA. pic....
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December 9, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Julie Gonzales’ decision to eschew the DSA brand is a wise strategic concession that Colorado is not New York City.
As Sen. John Hickenlooper has said for years.
coloradopols.com/diary/219132... #copolitics #cosen
As Sen. John Hickenlooper has said for years.
coloradopols.com/diary/219132... #copolitics #cosen
Once again, Rep. Lauren Boebert shows that campaign finance rules only apply to other people. #copolitics www.coloradopols.com/diary/219109...
Lauren Boebert Living The Kid Rock High Life On Campaign Cash | Colorado Pols
As veteran local political reporter Susan Greene writes for the UK Daily Mail, Colorado's carpetbagging cavalcade of checkbook chicanery Rep. Lauren Boebert is at it again, caught spending donor cash ...
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December 9, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Once again, Rep. Lauren Boebert shows that campaign finance rules only apply to other people. #copolitics www.coloradopols.com/diary/219109...
Should you stay or should you go? Resigning from legislature in order to focus on seeking higher office has become increasingly rare in Colorado. #copolitics www.coloradopols.com/diary/219113...
Resigning from Legislature While Seeking Higher Office is More Unusual Than You Might Think | Colorado Pols
State Rep. Shannon Bird (D-Westminster) announced this week that she is resigning from the state legislature in order to focus on her campaign for Congress in CO-08. Bird’s decision isn’t as common a...
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December 9, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Should you stay or should you go? Resigning from legislature in order to focus on seeking higher office has become increasingly rare in Colorado. #copolitics www.coloradopols.com/diary/219113...
For nearly a year, Rep. Gabe Evans has been repeating the line that immigration enforcement is targeting "gangsters, not grandmas." One story after another keeps proving this to be a complete lie. #copolitics www.coloradopols.com/diary/219076...
Ruh-Roh, Gabe Evans: It's Grandmas, Not Gangsters | Colorado Pols
As NBC News reported over the weekend, there's new data that once again completely contradicts messaging from the Trump administration and lackeys like Rep. Gabe Evans (R-Ft. Lupton) regarding the tar...
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December 8, 2025 at 8:43 PM
For nearly a year, Rep. Gabe Evans has been repeating the line that immigration enforcement is targeting "gangsters, not grandmas." One story after another keeps proving this to be a complete lie. #copolitics www.coloradopols.com/diary/219076...
Donald Trump is big mad that Gov. Jared Polis won't let him spring Tina Peters from jail. #copolitics www.coloradopols.com/diary/218991...
Trump Lashes Out At Gov. Polis As Tina Peters Supporters Call For Violence | Colorado Pols
As FOX 31's Heather Willard reports, following the refusal over the holiday weekend by Colorado officials to honor the request by the Department of Justice to transfer convicted felon former Mesa Coun...
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December 4, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Donald Trump is big mad that Gov. Jared Polis won't let him spring Tina Peters from jail. #copolitics www.coloradopols.com/diary/218991...
Colorado Republicans: Vote for us and we'll do nothing! #copolitics www.coloradopols.com/diary/218997...
"I Have No Legislative Agenda; I'm Shutting Down Bills" | Colorado Pols
Imagine, if you will, that you are in charge of hiring a new salesperson for your widget company in Colorado. As part of the hiring process, you bring in a few potential candidates for job interviews ...
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December 4, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Colorado Republicans: Vote for us and we'll do nothing! #copolitics www.coloradopols.com/diary/218997...