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Corey Hutchins @coreyhutchins.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Wow. Steph Vigil, a Democratic candidate for the the legislature in Colorado, called out the publication interviewing her for a lack of disclosure in a candidate Q-and-A: www.coloradopolitics.com/2026/10/05/f... The outlet obviously should be disclosing, but that's one way to get it in the outlet 🤣
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Colorado Times Recorder @coloradotimesrecorder.com · 01/10/2026
A Southern Colorado Republican running for the most competitive state Senate district tried to distance herself from the local Christian Nationalist group she helped launch.
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Erik Maulbetsch @erikm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Live look at the mailman delivering my Colorado election Blue Book today.
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Colorado Times Recorder @coloradotimesrecorder.com · 22/09/2026
An analysis of over 300 episodes of the Jeff Crank show, totalling over 800 hours, from 2011 thru 2021, shows Crank to be a MAGA trailblazer: favoring the repeal of Obamacare, military intervention, an abortion ban & the restriction of the rights of LGBTQ people. Like Trump, he promoted conspiracies
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The Jeff Crank Show: As a Talk Radio Host, Congressman Jeff Crank Embodied MAGA, Even Before It Existed
The congressional district surrounding Colorado Springs was created over 50 years ago, and a Democrat has never even come close to winning it. U.S. Rep. Jeff Crank (R-CO) took the...
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Erik Maulbetsch @erikm.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
He also claimed incorrectly that burning natural gas "is just producing CO2 as an effluent." Multiple studies show that indoor gas stoves produce other compounds that increase risks of asthma and cancer.
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Colorado Times Recorder @coloradotimesrecorder.com · 17/09/2026
Three weeks after the Sterling Ranch public school opened, it told a state authorizer it was at 70% of its enrollment target and told reporters 90%. The school nurse is now teaching science.
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Dougco Charter School John Adams Academy Lays Off 3 of 4 Middle School Teachers
Three weeks after the Sterling Ranch school opened, it told a state authorizer it was at 70% of its enrollment target and told reporters 90%. The school nurse is now...
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Erik Maulbetsch @erikm.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Congressman Gabe Evans continues to get credit for a position on ICE that he has flatly contradicted multiple times.
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AJ: A Mario Bava Film @ajmacready.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
if you can hear this GIF, you are my people
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Colorado Times Recorder @coloradotimesrecorder.com · 27/08/2026
The Douglas County Republican Party has a page on its website that promises to doxx all of the residents who signed the petition for the ballot question it opposes.
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20,000 Dougco Voters Signed a Ballot Petition Opposed by The County GOP, Now It Might Publish Their Addresses
This November, voters in Douglas County will decide whether or not to add two more commissioners to the county’s current three-person board. The Douglas County Republican Party, which opposes the...
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Erik Maulbetsch @erikm.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Cemetery Man
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Colorado Times Recorder @coloradotimesrecorder.com · 21/08/2026
The Big Beautiful Bill's cuts to Medicaid's budget will cause almost 12 million Americans to lose health insurance over the next 10 years — including tens of thousands in Evans’ district. The cuts mostly paid for tax cuts for wealthy people.
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Evans Again Makes Misleading Explanation About His Vote To Cut Medicaid and Take Away Health Insurance From Tens of Thousands of Coloradans
As Democrats step up their attacks on Republicans for voting to take away Medicaid health insurance from over 11 million low-income people, GOP lawmakers, like U.S. Rep. Gabe Evans (R-CO),...
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Colorado Times Recorder @coloradotimesrecorder.com · 20/08/2026
For the second time this summer, a local Republican activist, campaign worker and former candidate has been arrested and charged with multiple child sex felonies.
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Former Republican Candidate Charged With Child Sex Crimes Has Close Ties to GOP Legislative Leader
For the second time this summer, a local Republican activist, campaign worker and former candidate has been arrested and charged with multiple child sex felonies. Last week agents with the...
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Sean Beedle @beedle.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
A DougCo Deputy DA is running for House District 43. Is "tough on crime" campaign is kind of hampered by his history of shady conduct and incompetence: coloradotimesrecorder.com/2026/08/doug...
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DougCo Prosecutor's Missteps Undermine His Statehouse Campaign's Focus on "Accountability for Offenders"
An Douglas County Deputy District Attorney who is running for a statehouse seat has a long history of prosecutorial missteps and choices that appear to belie his campaign's tough-on-crime theme....
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Colorado Times Recorder @coloradotimesrecorder.com · 20/08/2026
ERBOCES' relentless stretching of legal limits in pursuit of its founders' religious right agenda finally caught up with it.
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End of an Era: A Look Back at Our Coverage of Colorado's Most Controversial Public Education Co-op: ERBOCES
Earlier this week, Colorado Springs School District 49 voted to officially dissolve Education ReEnvisioned BOCES (ERBOCES), after growing scrutiny by state education officials who raised concerns abou...
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Erik Maulbetsch @erikm.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Good news: Congressman Jeff Hurd is holding an actual public townhall today --right now-- in Glenwood Springs Bad news: He gave his constituents a whole SIX MINUTES' notice.
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Colorado Times Recorder @coloradotimesrecorder.com · 14/08/2026
The Republican candidate to be the next Secretary of State has a deeply unserious and entirely illegal plan: delete the voter rolls.
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Colorado Times Recorder @coloradotimesrecorder.com · 10/08/2026
One of his “first priorities” would be to delete Colorado’s voter rolls completely. Every voter in the state would have to re-register – in person – to be allowed to vote.
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GOP Candidate for State's Top Election Job Is an Election Denier Who Wants to Delete the Voter Rolls
The Republican nominee for Colorado Secretary of State, James Wiley, says one of his "first priorities" would be to delete Colorado’s voter rolls completely. Under his plan, every voter in...
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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
A major Trump donor's company has received more than $7 billion in contracts under his administration, including for the wall in Big Bend. Some of the contracts have been no bid or significantly higher than the government's typical price.
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Billions in border wall contracts are going to a Montana firm run by a Trump donor - High Country News
Barnard Construction’s leadership donated over $1 million to the president’s campaign. They’re among the administration’s top wall contractors.
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Colorado Times Recorder @coloradotimesrecorder.com · 05/08/2026
A podcast that explored the sexual misconduct of a CSPD officer is now a season of the Betrayal show on Hulu. Read our 2025 story about the podcast: coloradotimesrecorder.com/2025/07/podc...
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Podcast Examines CO Springs Police Officer's Sexual Misconduct
The most recent season of the true crime podcast “Betrayal” looks into the sexual misconduct of former Colorado Springs Police Department (CSPD) Lieutenant Joel Kern. According to Colorado’s Peace Off...
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Erik Maulbetsch @erikm.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
This scheme is similar to one I covered back during the pandemic. An MLM scam guy created "Primary the Ruling Class PAC" and sold yard signs for $39 each. coloradotimesrecorder.com/2021/06/co-r...
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CO Republican Promoting Avon-Like Multi-Level Marketing To Raise Money to Primary GOP Incumbents
Illustrating that the infighting among Colorado Republicans hasn't abated, despite a string of election losses, Colorado Republican National Committeeman and talk radio host Randy Corporon is promotin...
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Erik Maulbetsch @erikm.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
speaking of- it's happening right now- smaller and simpler than back in its Jeff Hunt heyday, but still just as conservative. Our Sean Beedle is posting all about it: bsky.app/profile/beed...
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Sean Beedle @beedle.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Good morning! I’m in Lakewood for Colorado Christian University’s Western Conservative Summit. It’s like a convention for every group I’ve covered in the last 5 years…
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Erik Maulbetsch @erikm.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
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Doughnuts the key to stopping Mitchell - UPI Archives
Bakers have learned something that pitchers have not, namely, you can slow Kevin Mitchell with chocolate doughnuts....
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Erik Maulbetsch @erikm.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Today: CO GOP gubernatorial nominee Victor Marx says he's skipping the Club 20 Western Slope candidate debate. 8yrs ago: the Republican Govs Association was furious over Polis' decision to do the same.
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Erik Maulbetsch @erikm.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
"Colorado and its cities and towns are not powerless. Hudson is not a bystander...” said Seligman. “The Town is being told to hand over the keys and ask no questions. But Hudson's obligation runs to the people, not to a billion-dollar prison company and its out-of-state landlord."
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Erik Maulbetsch @erikm.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
INBOX: Former AG candidate David Seligman's nonprofit law firm Towards Justice & faith advocates Together Colorado sue Hudson over new ICE facility- asking court to order town to require what it would normally: a permit & a public hearing. "The Town has the authority and the obligation to act.”
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Sean Beedle @beedle.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Good morning! I’m at the ENT Center for the Arts in Co Springs for today’s appeal hearing of the Project Taurus data center.
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Colorado Times Recorder @coloradotimesrecorder.com · 20/07/2026
Crank is now the third Republican member of Colorado’s delegation to publicly support the party’s controversial gubernatorial nominee.
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Congressman Crank Joins Victor Marx Unity Rally: 'We Have to Stick Together'
Colorado Springs Congressman Jeff Crank is now the third Republican member of Colorado's delegation to throw his support behind his party's controversial gubernatorial nominee, Victor Marx. In a tacit...
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Corey Hutchins @coreyhutchins.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Sheesh, this story: wetmountaintribune.com/2026/07/14/c... “While the Red County Blue Nation podcast has only a few dozen active listeners each week, the podcast has managed to become central to local politics.”
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Custer GOP leaders mock the death of firefighters in a spectacular tantrum over canceled fireworks show
During the evening on July 1, a towering pyrocumulonimbus cloud from the two-day-old Aspen Acres Fire appeared more like the top of a volcano blowing off to residents in the Wet Mountain Valley. As st...
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Colorado Times Recorder @coloradotimesrecorder.com · 09/07/2026
With the AP calling the Colorado GOP gubernatorial primary for Victor Marx, you may want to know more about the ministry leader turned first-time candidate. Check out @beedle.bsky.social's story from April:
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'Marxism' Muddles the GOP Governor Primary
The Republican gubernatorial primary is down to three candidates: Sen. Barb Kirkmeyer (R-Weld County), Rep. Scott Bottoms (R-CO Springs), and ministry leader Victor Marx. Kirkmeyer has already carved ...
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Sean Beedle @beedle.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Sooo… There is a Customs and Border Protection Job Fair in Co Springs today, and a protest by the loval Migra Watch Chapter.
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Erik Maulbetsch @erikm.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Sure the USMNT lost but hey, at least Lalas is still the critic's favorite to win a Rory.
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Erik Maulbetsch @erikm.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
INBOX: Far-right gun group RMGO claims credit for three CO statehouse wins (and a DougCo commish) by more conservative candidates. One race, HD60, isn't official yet. They cite over $2M in spending by "left-leaning mega donors," referring to establishment GOP dark money IECs.
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Erik Maulbetsch @erikm.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
As someone who pays excruciating attention to Republican election deniers, I can say that within the CO GOP, the "vote-in-person-on-election-day-only" block is not insubstantial. More of them will go to Bottoms than Marx, but very few will go to Kirkmeyer.
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Erik Maulbetsch @erikm.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
As Coloradans cast and count and report ballots (now over a million votes' worth), nearly all using mail ballots accurately tabulated on electronic voting machines, the state's most famous and least remorseful election denier visits the White House.
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Sean Beedle @beedle.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Freedom Fest Day 2! Smells like horse 💩
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Sean Beedle @beedle.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Good morning! I’m in Castle Rock for Day 1 of the Rocky Mountain Voice Freedom Festival.
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Erik Maulbetsch @erikm.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
They're running from Dog and his dog! The shepherd is cut off in the landscape version but you can see it in all its AI glory in the body of the article. I don't use AI to make art for CTR, but since Mr. Hunt had already gone to the trouble (and it was funny) I decided why not?
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Erik Maulbetsch @erikm.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Election denier Tina Peters is joining the RMV festival later this month. She's speaking the same day as Republican Attorney General candidate Michael Allen, who recently posted that as District Attorney, "we actively investigate and prosecute election fraud, and we’ve held bad actors accountable."
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Colorado Times Recorder @coloradotimesrecorder.com · 08/06/2026
Stephen Collier, the Republican chair of the HD43 Central Committee, has resigned from his position and from the Republican Party, citing Trump’s involvement in the primary against Thomas Massie and the controversy over the release of the Epstein files. coloradotimesrecorder.com/2026/06/prom...
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Prominent DougCo GOP Activist Quits Party Over Trump's Ousting of Massie
Stephen Collier, the Republican chair of the House District 43 Central Committee, has resigned from his position and disaffiliated from the Republican Party, citing President Donald Trump’s involvemen...
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Erik Maulbetsch @erikm.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
This really thorough deep-dive from @lawfaremedia.org into J6 participants' subsequent crimes features our CTR story on Tim Arvidson, whose post-J6 activities included running for office, leading a local election commission, and being arrested for murder.
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Colorado Times Recorder @coloradotimesrecorder.com · 05/06/2026
Later this month Energy Secretary Chris Wright will return home to Colorado to headline a far-right festival hosted by one election denier and featuring several others, including a QAnon promoter.
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Trump Cabinet Member to Headline Conservative Festival Featuring Multiple Election Conspiracists
Later this month Energy Secretary Chris Wright will return home to Colorado to headline a far-right festival hosted by one election denier and featuring several others, including a QAnon promoter....
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Colorado Times Recorder @coloradotimesrecorder.com · 27/05/2026
Tim Arvidson, a fomer GOP state Senate candidate who was arrested yesterday after allegedly shooting and killing a man in CO Springs, boasted on Facebook about taking part in the J6 riot, posting a photo of himself driving there, uploading a video of it, & later processing what he "experienced."
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'It Was Amazing!' CO Springs Murder Suspect Attended Jan. 6 Riot
Tim Arvidson, who participated in the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection and unsuccessfully ran as a Republican for Colorado Senate, was arrested yesterday after allegedly shooting and killing a man in...
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Colorado Times Recorder @coloradotimesrecorder.com · 16/05/2026
Election deniers across the country celebrated Governor Polis' decision to release Tina Peters from prison next month. They she did nothing wrong and some want her to run for elected office.
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Election Deniers Celebrate Governor Polis' Freeing of Tina Peters
Mike Lindell is busy running for governor of Minnesota, so he hadn’t heard about Governor Polis’ decision to free Tina Peters until contacted by the Colorado Times Recorder.  "Praise the Lord!...
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Erik Maulbetsch @erikm.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Learned some new (to me) #copolitics trivia today from Barb Kirkmeyer's during her interview on Peter Boyles. Twenty years ago, Bob Beauprez's infamous horse ad was filmed at her mom's farm.
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Erik Maulbetsch @erikm.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Attention grocery shoppers: the firm responsible for the fraud, Victor's Canvassing, is currently working on two ballot initiatives for Advance Colorado: 177 (Right to Natural Gas) & 232 (Income Tax Rate Cap).
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Indivisible Colorado @indivisible-co.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
www.whoisadvancecolorado.org @coloradotimesrecorder.com The Machine Behind The Ballot: How Advance Colorado Shapes State Politics
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Who is Advance Colorado?
Explore how Advance Colorado influences state politics through dark money networks, ballot initiatives, and media campaigns, shaping policy and public opinion.
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Erik Maulbetsch @erikm.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
This Berthoud Surveyor interview with Congressman Gabe Evans is from Wednesday. The gas price chart is today's. If Evans is to be believed, it would appear he hasn't filled up since sometime in March.
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Colorado Times Recorder @coloradotimesrecorder.com · 08/05/2026
Two Republicans (and one ex-Republican) running for #COGov took the stage in Parker Weds night to pitch mass deportations, jailing the attorney general, and abolishing property taxes. The GOP fundraising leader skipped the forum to do his own livestream, so we reported on that too. #copolitics
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Republican Governor Hopefuls Pitch Mass Deportations, Jail Threats
Fundraising frontrunner Victor Marx skipped the forum to stream a live event from his Black Forest training compound. This reporting incorporates his discussion of forum question topics throughout. By...
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Erik Maulbetsch @erikm.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
If I've ever cornered you with a long-winded rant about how conservatives do #copolitics in blue Colorado and how the Common Sense Institute aims for sound bites over sound research... would you like to hear more? Tuesday at 6:30pm MT, Sign up here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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