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Something is happening. We don't know how long it will last. Or how big it might get. Or whether it will make any difference, at least,...

¯_(ツ)_/¯, call your office

Something is happening. We don't know how long it will last. Or how big it might get. Or whether it will make any difference, at least,...

Did a broader backlash to Obamacare repeal just spark in Colorado?

  The scene could not have been more damaging for a public official: A TV camera rolling as Congressman Mike Coffman ducks out a side...

Jeffco’s conservative school board majority’s last hurrah

Last week, during the last hurrah for the current Jefferson County Board of Education, the ousted conservative majority, Julie Williams, Board ro-resident Ken Witt...

JeffCo voters were pro-recall but not sure where they’re headed

Jefferson County voters cared more about kicking out three conservative school board members than about who replaced them. Recent voter turnout numbers showed that more...

The past is never dead. It’s not even past.

The movie Selma, which was mostly overlooked by members of the Oscar-awarding academy, is about the 1965 protests in Alabama led by Martin Luther...

Wiretap: Gardner won by tossing over the tea party. How will...

Tom Edsall writes that Cory Gardner became the Republican model by tossing over the Tea Party baggage. Can he live up to his role...

DemocracyNow! on Colorado’s top two election races, featuring Mike Littwin

Colorado politics is U.S. politics in miniature and not at all pleasant. Yet! Littwin and Goodman manage to make the state of affairs interesting and entertaining.

Rep. Lamborn urging generals who disagree with Obama to resign

Colorado U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn said that "behind the scenes" he and other Republican members of Congress were encouraging military officers to resign in...

Bob Beauprez’s last eight years: Conservatism at its extremes

Bob Beauprez has wandered far from the mainstream since he ran for governor in 2006 as a mainstream Republican.
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