Author name: Joy Overbeck

Joy Overbeck is a Douglas County journalist whose work has appeared at Townhall.com, American Thinker, The Washington Times, Complete Colorado, The Federalist and elsewhere. Follow her on Facebook and on Twitter (X) @joyoverbeck1.

Overbeck: DougCo school board Conservative leadership delivers results – academic gains and parent power

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As soon as they were elected in 2021, the four new Conservative Douglas County School District (DCSD) directors were faced with the major issues of the time: the Covid pandemic, and the twisted woke movement to reduce parents’ influence by infecting students with leftist political ideologies. They began honoring their campaign promises on day one by keeping the Douglas County schools open, knowing that in-person classes instead of ineffective online lessons would lead to solid improvements in student achievement.

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Overbeck: What happens when Democrat Sec. of State Griswold’s office leaks secret election passwords?   Pretty much nada

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Just a few days before the Nov. 5 election, Colorado voters learned that Democrat Secretary of State Jena Griswold’s office had posted critical election machine passwords online, passwords that could make hundreds of Dominion voting machines in most of the state’s 64 counties vulnerable to outside meddling.

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Overbeck: Don’t align with teachers’ unions against Amendment 80 for school choice

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From the Strange Bedfellows Department: the Christian Homeschool Educators of Colorado (CHEC) have joined with the sworn enemies of school choice, including teachers unions, the National Education Association (NEA) the Colorado Educators Association (CEA), and the Colorado Democratic Party to work against School Choice (Amendment 80) on the ballot. 

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Overbeck: Ranked-choice (Prop. 131) is the scam that can erase your vote 

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Ranked-choice voting (RCV), Proposition 131 on Colorado’s November ballot, is such a drastic perversion of our nation’s 247-year election standard of one person/one vote that voting for it risks actually losing your vote.

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Overbeck: Transgender fans try to kill parent’s rights and girls-only sports ballot initiatives 

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The transgender craze infecting our schools and dumping many gender-confused young children headfirst into a bewildering pipeline of puberty-blocking drugs, hormone injections and eventually gender-mutilating surgery, is making progress in Colorado thanks to the legislature’s ruling Democrat majority. 

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