Gasoline and diesel prices continue to rise as the Iran War drags on. Since the Trump administration has no idea how to fix these problems, they decided to go ahead and make things worse. As The New Y...

Victor Marx's improbable march to the Republican nomination for governor of Colorado has been one of the wildest rides in recent local political history, a fabulist storyteller with a "high-risk" nonp...

Campaign ads don't generally rate a mention unless there's something particularly special about them: whether it's John Hickenlooper jumping out of a plane to sell a TABOR timeout, politicians popping...

Follow the law wherever it takes you...unless you don't like the law and who might be punished as a result. Michael Allen is the El Paso County District Attorney and the Republican nominee for Attorne...

Congressman Jeff Crank (R-Colorado Springs) is on the verge of becoming the first Republican -- ever -- to lose a seat in the fifth congressional district. Apparently this fear justifies doxxing his o...

Polling data in recent months has shifted dramatically toward Democrats, particularly on the all-important issue of the economy. And as The New York Times reports, the economic news keeps getting wors...

According to our non-scientific but often accurate Big Line, Republican Victor Marx has a 5% chance of becoming Colorado's next governor. This might be a bit too optimistic for Marx, but we do love a ...

Back in 2022, the Republican nominee in the race for governor of Colorado Heidi Ganahl became obsessed in the waning days of her losing campaign with the alleged threat to public school students posed...

This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, the voters -- they are voting! Just not in Colorado, quite yet! As the bluenami potentially turs into a Bluicane or a Bluenado or another, more intense azure...

Health insurance is getting more expensive (again) in 2027 thanks to Congressional Republicans and the Trump administration...and that's if you are even allowed to have health insurance anymore. First...

President Trump continues to push the boundaries of executive power and the United States Constitution, and when he runs into problems with his bizarre visions, he increasingly goes back to the same w...

Jesse Paul at the Colorado Sun brings us a new poll this morning of what's considered the most competitive congressional race not just in Colorado but the entire country in this year's midterm electio...

We forgot to run this poll in August, so we figured we had better roll out another version. As always with our totally unscientific reader polls, we want to know what you THINK is going to happen — no...

Last week the Secretary of State's office concluded a three-day hearing on alleged campaign finance violations facing Republican gubernatorial candidate Victor Marx (violations that didn't even includ...

As the Grand Junction Sentinel reports, former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters will remain a convicted felon with all of the restrictions accompanying that status after her appeal to the Colorado Suprem...

It was just a few weeks ago that the Colorado Sun reported on Republican homicidal high-risk missionary gubernatorial nominee Victor Marx telling a crowd at a campaign rally how his fellow Republican ...

Something astounding and vitally important to the very heart of the United States of America happened today. As The New York Times reports: Major television networks on Monday agreed to suspend their ...

As Robert Tann reports for the Denver Post, Colorado lawmakers on Friday were...the correct word is not treated, more like forewarned, of another massive budget deficit awaiting the next General Assem...

A pair of late-breaking stories we're in receipt of this Friday afternoon, both pertaining to alleged moral turpitude on the part of well-known Republican lawmakers with a reputation for high drama--t...

Republican gubernatorial candidate Victor Marx seems to have reached the stage where he just wants this whole thing to be over with so that he can return his focus to his "ministry leader" grifting. M...

As the Aspen Times' Ryan Spencer reports, although word had been spreading over the past few weeks of the loss of this Colorado natural treasure: St. Mary’s — a perennial snowfield that scientists say...

Yesterday, Colorado Democrats resurfaced an interview with the Republican nominee for Colorado attorney general, El Paso County DA Michael Allen from January in the immediate aftermath of the killing ...

Jerry DiTullio isn't very good at politics. DiTullio is the Jefferson County Treasurer who spent two years running for State Treasurer only to fail to even make it onto the Democratic Primary Ballot i...

"Ministry leader" and Republican gubernatorial candidate Victor Marx has a whole bunch of problems on his hands, ranging from massive campaign finance violations to potential investigations of outrigh...

We noted earlier this month that the 119th Congress is on track to finish as one of the least productive sessions in American history. House Speaker Mike Johnson keeps laughably claiming the exact opp...

Last month Rep. Gabe Evans (R-Ft. Lupton) held a disturbing press conference with Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins following some sort of obscure "roundtable discussion" with Colorado agriculture ...

This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, Donald Trump is trying to bribe voters with $5,000 checks if Republicans win the House and the Senate in the midterms, which we should point out, is very ill...

The Trump administration is nothing short of an abject disaster, fumbling every major issue from the economy to immigration -- to the point that voters now trust Democrats more than Republicans on eve...

James Wiley, the former Libertarian who switched to the GOP to run for that party's nomination for Secretary of State, has no realistic chance of winning the general election in November against Jeffe...

Ever since President Donald Trump launched his voluntary war against Iran at the end of February, driving oil prices sky high and obliterating Republican promises to deliver affordability to American ...

National Republican money is starting to flood into Colorado in a last-ditch effort to protect GOP incumbents in Congress. For what is almost certainly the first time ever, a big chunk of that money i...

If you are explaining, then you are losing. Nobody is proving that political truism more in 2026 than Republican gubernatorial candidate Victor Marx. On Monday, the Colorado Secretary of State's offic...

As Bente Birkeland reports for Colorado Public Radio, the U.S. Supreme Court finally got around to doing what they could have done some weeks ago with a large savings of effort and grief: denying for ...

The front-page story in Sunday's Denver Post by reporter Seth Klamann takes a closer look at one of the most important political developments for Colorado conservatives in recent years, as the Colorad...

Cajun Karate Master Victor Marx, the actual Republican nominee for Governor of Colorado, is a hot mess of grift and cringe. Despite being an admitted killer and unscrupulous weirdo, Marx still finds a...

As Elise Schmelzer reports for The Denver Post, Colorado Reps. Brittany Pettersen (D-Lakewood) and Joe Neguse (D-Boulderish) are pushing to expand compensation options for Coloradans exposed to radiat...

We wrote last December about Republican Aurora Mayor Mike Coffman's continuing dilemma, as the President who wrecked his congressional career continues eight years later to run roughshod over all of M...

In a breathtaking display of bribery, President Trump said on Wednesday that he would “issue a dividend to every adult citizen in the United States of America for $5,000” if Republicans win both the H...

President Trump has directed the Department of Justice to re-re-focus on finding examples of voter fraud ahead of the 2026 election. We found one. As The Hill newspaper reports from Thursday's mid-ter...

This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, We’re now 8 weeks from the most consequential election of our lives, so we’ve got some updates on the ballot as the huge list of 2026 ballot initiatives is f...

Last night at the Republican Party's pseudo-convention in Dallas convened for the sole purpose of lashing the party even tighter to the brand of historically unpopular President Donald Trump, a Presid...

Following up the story from the long holiday weekend of a protest by high school students against Trump administration immigration policies last Friday that turned rowdy after adult "counterprotesters...

The latest statewide fundraising numbers are now available. It's a sad look for Colorado Republicans. As you can see from the chart below, statewide Republican candidates in Colorado aren't doing much...

As NBC News reports, and we'll forgive the sense of deja vu because you really have seen this headline repeatedly: The price of oil breached the $100 threshold Wednesday for the first time since July,...

In case you thought that there might be at least one topic in which President Trump wouldn't use a lie to add himself to the story... Trump claims he was basically lifted out of the rubble on 9/11: "T...

Congressman Gabe Evans (R-Ft. Lupton) released a new TV ad today that is a little too on-the-nose...and not in a good way. The ad focuses on Three Cow Gabe's "ranch" in Weld County, attempting to use ...

President Trump's two day Republican midterm convention thing kicks off tomorrow in Dallas, where (probably) hundreds of Republicans will pay huge sums of money in order to...listen to Trump talk, mos...

Last week, news outlets across the state including the Denver Post reported on a statewide walkout of high school students to protest against the Trump administration's mass deportation campaign set f...

As Colleen Slevin reports for the Colorado Sun, what may have been a small work of treachery within the Colorado Libertarian Party has been thwarted, greatly relieving fewer than half a dozen people: ...

If you're planning on taking a drive this Labor Day Weekend, you probably know it's going to be a pain in the wallet. In fact, you're going to pay more -- on average -- for a gallon of gasoline than y...