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Colorado politics, homeschool dad. See AriArmstrong.com.

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Ari Armstrong @ariarmstrong.bsky.social · 18h
Wow I'd missed this story about Victor Marx (ht CO Pols): www.kvnf.org/news/2026-10...
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Victor Marx campaign uses unlicensed 2015 PBS NewsHour footage in video about his missions
Colorado GOP gubernatorial nominee Victor Marx used footage of a Yazidi teenager who survived captivity and trafficking by ISIS militants without permission from PBS NewsHour, who produced the intervi...
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Ari Armstrong @ariarmstrong.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Marx and Oltmann, Marx comment in context, election updates, ballot fiasco, Tina Peters, and more. My new Colorado News Miner, including a correction: ariarmstrong.com/miner-153.html
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Colorado News Miner 153
Marx and Oltmann, Marx comment in context, election updates, ballot fiasco, Tina Peters, and more.
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Ari Armstrong @ariarmstrong.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Completely disqualifying. This is disgusting.
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
NEW: GOP Gov nominee Victor Marx appeared Thursday on the podcast of Joe Oltmann, who has called for the execution by hanging of Marx's opponent, Phil Weiser. Oltmann says Weiser is part of a "Synagogue of Satan Jews" who run Colorado. Oltmann just endorsed Marx for governor.
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Ari Armstrong @ariarmstrong.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
CSU fraternity brothers colluded to drug, rape woman, lawsuit claims: www.westword.com/news/csu-fra...
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CSU fraternity brothers colluded to drug, rape woman, lawsuit claims
The university suspended the alleged perpetrator for one year in July, and denied his appeal last month.
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Ari Armstrong @ariarmstrong.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Jared Polis, who once called Atlas Shrugged a great book, today is learning its lesson, "In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit."
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Ari Armstrong @ariarmstrong.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Apparently a lot of Americans looked at their ballots in 2024 and thought "sure it'll be fun to live through a dystopian nightmare for the next four years." To review: rampant corruption, murder of citizens in the streets, innocents to foreign torture camps, mass-murder on the seas, streamed killing
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Ari Armstrong @ariarmstrong.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
On the CO fentanyl measure: "Debunking the damned lies around Prop 132 with CCJRC’s Kyle Giddings": www.getmoresmarter.com/p/debunking-...
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Debunking the damned lies around Prop 132 with CCJRC’s Kyle Giddings
Colorado Criminal Justice Reform Coalition’s Deputy Director joins us to talk substance use disorder, treatment and recovery, Advance Colorado’s lies, and switching from the GOP to the blue team
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
COMMENTARY: Colorado's latest election error doesn't appear to be the fault of SOS Jena Griswold, which is a refreshing change. But it doesn't inspire confidence in the Front Range Passenger Rail project. And it further hurts voters' trust in our elections.
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Ari Armstrong @ariarmstrong.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Fwiw I prefer Cowen's suggestion "Machine Intelligence."
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Great @cprnews.bsky.social piece examining where GOP Gov candidate Victor Marx is spending his huge fundraising haul. Makes a lot of sense if you subscribe to the idea that Marx is paying out friends/family and building an email list, rather than trying to win. www.cpr.org/2026/10/08/v...
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Victor Marx’s spending is as unusual as the rest of his campaign
The Republican candidate for Colorado governor has focused his cash on raising more cash, while minimizing traditional spending.
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Ari Armstrong @ariarmstrong.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I am beyond irritated with those Colorado Republican primary voters who invited this clown show. bsky.app/profile/kyle...
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Ari Armstrong @ariarmstrong.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
What an effing embarrassment.
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Ari Armstrong @ariarmstrong.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Love or hate Barb Kirkmeyer, she would have been an extremely tough debate opponent for Weiser. It's a shame Colorado voters cannot hear a real debate from candidates for the most important office in the state.
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
NEW: A source familiar with the Colorado Chamber of Commerce Gov forum says the candidates were provided with moderator Ed Sealover’s questions, word for word, in advance. GOP candidate Victor Marx is reading prepared answers, word for word, from a notebook on his lap.
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
NEW: As Colorado’s Tina Peters reportedly meets with President Trump to discuss an election “plan,” her attorney says the plan involves seizing ballots nationwide and discusses strategy for a potential civil war
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Ari Armstrong @ariarmstrong.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Important article critical of the CO "trafficking" measure: coloradotimesrecorder.com/2026/10/not-...
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‘Not Victim-Centered At All:’ Trafficking Survivors Slam Anti-LGBTQ Group’s Ballot Measure as Harmful to Victims
Anti-trafficking advocates and survivors of trafficking are raising concerns about Proposition 133, a ballot measure to heighten penalties for human trafficking. In interviews with the Colorado Times ...
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
NEW: GOP Gov nominee Victor Marx told backers on a Zoom call last night that he doesn't regret slamming his wife into a door to teach her a lesson about self-defense. "I'd do it again," Marx said. Marx says she fake cried and physicality is just the nature of their relationship.
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
NEW: Colorado's elections officials are scrambling to sort out an error that led the Front Range Passenger Rail project to be listed on the wrong voters' ballots across several counties. @marshallglasses.bsky.social reports:
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Ari Armstrong @ariarmstrong.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Don't let Trump and his goonsquad pretend they're the patriots. The MAGA movement is fundamentally anti-American. projects.propublica.org/american-cit...
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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Ari Armstrong @ariarmstrong.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Conservatives: "Respect the rights of parents!" Also conservatives: www.propublica.org/article/flor...
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They Didn’t Want to Have C-Sections. A Judge Would Decide How They Gave Birth.
Two Florida women had to attend virtual court hearings while in labor to argue for their right to choose their own medical care. As their state pushes to expand some types of medical freedom, it has a...
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Ari Armstrong @ariarmstrong.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Wow Westminster CO water really does smell and taste terrible - glad I have a filter!
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Ari Armstrong @ariarmstrong.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This sort of headline is shocking but not surprising, given Trump's moral degeneracy. "White House defends Trump comment to let Iran 'take out' LA and San Diego": www.bbc.com/news/article...
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White House defends Trump comment to let Iran 'take out' LA and San Diego
Gavin Newsom called the remarks "deranged", but the White House said Trump was warning of the risk of a nuclear Iran.
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Ari Armstrong @ariarmstrong.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Here is my concrete proposal to expand the size of the Colorado legislature to make it more democratic. completecolorado.com/2026/10/06/g... Also I want to exempt small-scale sellers from sales-tax compliance.
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Growing the Colorado legislature, shrinking the sales tax burden - Complete Colorado
Especially for small-scale sellers, Colorado's sales tax compliance hassles remain enormous.
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Ari Armstrong @ariarmstrong.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Just in case anyone needs to brush up on "The Scorpion and the Frog" tale these days... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sco...
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The Scorpion and the Frog - Wikipedia
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Ari Armstrong @ariarmstrong.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It surprises no one that Trump invited a foreign power to destroy two U.S. cities. It's just raw nihilism and seething hatred, cheered by a third of the country.
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Colorado GOP Gov candidate Victor Marx says he's not a domestic abuser. Marx says his recorded comments about slamming his wife into a door causing her to cry and throwing his toddler across a room have been taken out of context.
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Ari Armstrong @ariarmstrong.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
As ballots go out in Colorado, I want to again call people's attention to two especially badly written measures that would have unintended consequences: natural gas and trafficking. Gas: sentinelcolorado.com/opinion/arms... Trafficking: completecolorado.com/2026/01/06/p...
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ARMSTRONG: Prop 177's 'right' to buy energy couldn't be more wrong for Colorado - Sentinel Colorado
'The language doesn't say anything about restraining government. It talks only about creating an alleged "right" to purchase'
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Rob Tracinski @tracinski.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Irony is dead.
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Ari Armstrong @ariarmstrong.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Now watching (on Kanopy): The Librarians, a documentary about the insidious efforts to suppress books. thelibrariansfilm.com
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Homepage - The Librarians Film | Official Site
Librarians emerge as first responders in the fight for democracy and our First Amendment Rights.
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Ari Armstrong @ariarmstrong.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Ballots, Victor Marx and other candidates, Bhadesha on democratic socialism, Kirk Johnson coming to Denver, homeschool enrichment, and more. My new Colorado News Miner: ariarmstrong.com/miner-152.html
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Colorado News Miner 152
Ballots, Victor Marx and other candidates, Bhadesha on democratic socialism, Kirk Johnson coming to Denver, homeschool enrichment, and more.
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Ari Armstrong @ariarmstrong.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Immigration, AI in journalism, education, Ela Thier, the katechon and the antichrist, mattering, and more. My new Roundup: ariarmstrong.com/roundup-76.h...
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Self in Society Roundup 76
Immigration, AI in journalism, education, Ela Thier, the katechon and the antichrist, mattering, and more.
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Ari Armstrong @ariarmstrong.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Now we have to worry about a) AI-generated slop and b) human-generated slop purporting to be AI-generated slop.
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
NEW: GOP Gov nominee Victor Marx has been fined $57,647 for campaign finance violations, the largest such fine in state history. A hearing officer ruled that the Marx campaign intentionally took illegal contributions, writing: "the scale of the violations are without precedent."
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Ari Armstrong @ariarmstrong.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
New music from The Church: youtu.be/2Ckuef8WyOY
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The Church - Sky And Hill (Official Audio)
YouTube video by The Church
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Ari Armstrong @ariarmstrong.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yeah it would have been nice to see a real issues-based debate between two people who could actually competently manage the governor's office. Whatever one's politics.
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Ari Armstrong @ariarmstrong.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I don't know what's worse in Colorado: Marx on the ballot or Marx on the ballot.
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Ari Armstrong @ariarmstrong.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Barb Kirkmeyer was highly qualified to take the policy debate to Phil Weiser. But no. Republicans had to go with the religious zealot now trying to explain why him throwing his wife into a door was not spousal abuse. So stupid.
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
NEW: GOP Gov nominee Victor Marx says he'll respond today to domestic violence allegations - video/audio where he describes slamming his wife into a door and throwing his toddler across a room. Voters/reporters new to Marx may not realize he has a long history of justifying violence.
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Ari Armstrong @ariarmstrong.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Someone should do a story about how many times Victor Marx has made a comment that plausibly was an admission of a crime.
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Ari Armstrong @ariarmstrong.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Wow Kirk Johnson is coming back to the Denver Museum of Nature and Science! This is huge for the institution, the state, and the field of paleontology. www.dmns.org/press-room/p...
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Kirk Johnson Named President and CEO
The Board of Trustees has appointed Kirk Johnson as the Museum’s next president and CEO.
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Ari Armstrong @ariarmstrong.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Any decent Republican who hears Victor Marx's violent rhetoric - www2.thedailybeast.com/christian-wa... - and flatly misogynistic language - youtu.be/7TRRF3WIMjs - will demand that Marx drop out of the race for CO governor. This is shameful.
www2.thedailybeast.com
‘Christian Warrior’ Candidate’s Dark Past Revealed
Fresh videos and posts unearthed by the Daily Beast have placed the Republican under growing scrutiny as the midterms loom.
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
GOP Gov nominee Victor Marx was mentioned only once at Democratic nominee Phil Weiser’s town hall on 9NEWS. Weiser claimed Marx made a comment appearing to blame women for the domestic violence they suffer. We found the tape. Marx said it in 2014.
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Ari Armstrong @ariarmstrong.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I'm trying to get my head around the sort of many who regards Pete Hegseth as a strong man or a competent leader.
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Ari Armstrong @ariarmstrong.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I sincerely hope that Democrats absolutely destroy Republicans, electorally, this election season. But I hope Democrats don't confuse hatred of Trump with love of Democratic policies. I find pockets of the Democratic coalition as scary as MAGAism.
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Ari Armstrong @ariarmstrong.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
That is horrible. Look, I disagree with Yara about many things. But no one in or out of politics deserves to be talked about that way. Unexcusable.
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Ari Armstrong @ariarmstrong.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Future generations will be shocked when the read of the moral depravity of the United States ca. 2026. www.cnn.com/2026/09/28/p...
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Inside the Texas courtroom where toddlers face immigration judges | CNN Politics
Migrant children as young as 2 are showing up at immigration courts nationwide, many without attorneys, to try make their case to stay in the US and avoid deportation.
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Ari Armstrong @ariarmstrong.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I'm finally catching up on the "Hawks" vs "Hawkeyes" distinction and my god this timeline is so stupid.
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Ari Armstrong @ariarmstrong.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Colorado Republicans: You coulda had Barb Kirkmeyer explaining the boring details of tax policy. Instead you went for the guy who (he said!) slammed his wife in the door and made her cry. www2.thedailybeast.com/christian-wa...
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‘Christian Warrior’ Candidate’s Dark Past Revealed
Fresh videos and posts unearthed by the Daily Beast have placed the Republican under growing scrutiny as the midterms loom.
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Ari Armstrong @ariarmstrong.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
ChatGPT did a pretty good job of summarizing and analyzing C. Bradley Thompson's ridiculous screed against gay marriage. What an embarrassment for Objectivists. chatgpt.com/share/6abbe6...
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