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Colorado Libertarians ask national committee to decertify Presidential ticket
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Colorado Libertarians ask national committee to decertify Presidential ticket

By BRIAN PORTER | Rocky Mountain Voice In addition to the Colorado Libertarian Party deciding not to pursue placing the national party's presidential ticket on the ballot in Colorado, it will seek to have the national party decertify the ticket, an email to party membership presumedly from Chairwoman Hannah Goodman reads. The email was received from the Colorado Libertarian Party with the state party's heading. "[The Colorado Libertarian Party] has always stood firmly for liberty, principled opposition to overreaching government, and the promotion of individual freedoms," the email reads. "Our commitment to these values guides our decisions and actions." The state party's board, at its last meeting, passed a resolution affirming dedication to those principles and deciding not t...
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Kansas forced Colorado to stop irrigating 25,000 acres of farmland. Was it too soon to put them in the same room?
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Kansas forced Colorado to stop irrigating 25,000 acres of farmland. Was it too soon to put them in the same room?

By Tracy Ross | The Colorado Sun Agricultural producers, scientists and policymakers from Colorado and Kansas gathered near the Ogallala Aquifer in Burlington on Wednesday to air their concerns and share ideas for how to survive continued drought. But it was hard to escape the Republican River Basin-shaped elephant in the room.  The group convened at the behest of U.S. Sens. Michael Bennet, the Colorado Democrat who chairs the Conservation, Climate, Forestry, and Natural Resources subcommittee, and Roger Marshall, of Kansas, the ranking Republican member of the subcommittee.  The location was poignant because it’s in a region where farmers over recent years have had to shut down their wells and either switch to dryland farming or grazing or stop all agricultural activity...
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Not a toss-up: Polling guru Nate Silver gives Trump 66% chance of winning 2024 race
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Not a toss-up: Polling guru Nate Silver gives Trump 66% chance of winning 2024 race

By Valerie Richardson | The Washington Times Election prognosticator Nate Silver is no fan of Donald Trump, but he predicts that the former president will win the November election against President Biden, and what’s more, it won’t be particularly close. In his first 2024 presidential election model, the political-statistics guru gave the presumptive Republican nominee a 65.7% chance of winning the Electoral College vote versus 33.7% for the Democrat Biden. “The model gives Trump a 66 percent chance of winning the Electoral College, and Biden a 34 percent chance,” Mr. Silver said Thursday on the Silver Bulletin, his Substack account. READ THE FULL STORY AT THE WASHINGTON TIMES
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Kittle: Which Joe Biden will show up to debate Trump?
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Kittle: Which Joe Biden will show up to debate Trump?

By M.D. KITTLE | The Federalist It’s debate day. Insanely early (the contestants have yet to be nominated), but debate day nonetheless.  It’s Rocky versus Apollo. The rematch. Or more like Rocky versus Mickey — if Rocky’s elderly trainer had been reduced to a senile stooge in the throes of dementia, better suited for an assisted living facility than the boxing ring. But we’ve been told ad nauseam by President Joe Biden’s handlers and his corporate media public-relations firm that the Democrat is ready for the rhetorical fight with a bare-knuckle brawler. After all, young Joe Biden once went toe to toe with a Delaware gang leader. Corn Pop was a “bad dude,” Biden told us. A bad dude with a blade. But he backed down upon seeing Joe armed with ...
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U.S. House Republicans prioritize funding border security, defunding Mayorkas’ salary
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U.S. House Republicans prioritize funding border security, defunding Mayorkas’ salary

By Bethany Blankley | The Center Square The U.S. House of Representatives laid out a plan to prioritize funding border security and cut programs Republicans argue facilitate illegal immigration and national security threats when debating HR 8752, The Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2025. House Republicans also passed an amendment to the bill to defund Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas’ salary after they impeached him in February. House Republicans argue his policies facilitated the border crisis and escalated terrorist threats. Since January 2021, an estimated 12 million foreign nationals from more than 150 countries have illegally entered the U.S.; federal agencies, including DHS, have acknowledged they can’t locate millions of them, T...
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Wolves on the move in Colorado, but still haven’t crossed I-70
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Wolves on the move in Colorado, but still haven’t crossed I-70

By Spencer McKee | Colorado Politics Colorado Parks and Wildlife has released their monthly account of where the state's wolves have been detected, with the data coming from tracking collars on eight animals. Their recently published map shows what watershed areas wolves have been in at some point between May 21 and June 25. Overall, the range of the wolves over the past month was mostly similar to that of the month prior. Two key changes are that wolves appear to have moved to the northern side of Granby opposed to being closer to Winter Park and that wolves appear to be moving closer to a wider stretch of Interstate 70. With that I-70-related shift in mind, it's crucial to note that wolves have yet to cross I-70 to the south, despite some of the watershed areas displayed on t...
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NRCC will invest $2.327 million in 8th District ad buy to support Evans
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NRCC will invest $2.327 million in 8th District ad buy to support Evans

By BRIAN PORTER | Rocky Mountain Voice How much ad space will $2.327 million buy in the Denver market? If you reside in or near the 8th District, you are about to find out. The National Republican Congressional Committee, fresh off Gabe Evans 55-point win in the primary election, announced Thursday the reinforcements are coming in an effort to prevent Democrat Yadira Caraveo's re-election. The $2.327 million is third, falling behind NRCC investments of $2.5 million in Los Angeles, Calif., and $6/06 million in Portland, Ore. "In 2023, the NRCC set a goal to expand the House Republican Majority by recruiting top tiercandidates in Democrat-held seats, while at the same time shoring up our most vulnerable members," NRCC Independent Expenditure Director Tom Erickson wrote in a press...
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‘The numbers don’t lie’, Boebert victory was a landslide in 4th District
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‘The numbers don’t lie’, Boebert victory was a landslide in 4th District

By BRIAN PORTER | Rocky Mountain Voice WINDSOR -- There hasn't been an outcome in a race like this since 1973. Then, it was the soon to be legend Secretariat blowing away Sham and the field by 31 lengths to win horse racing's Triple Crown. Tuesday night, Lauren Boebert defeated all five Republican suitors in the 4th District's primary election for the U.S. House seat formerly held by ex-U.S. Rep. Ken Buck by 29.1% -- in a six-candidate race. It wasn't even close. "The numbers don't lie," said Drew Sexton, who manages the Boebert campaign. Boebert won 15 of the 21 counties in the district, and earned votes where it mattered to win. She took 24,277 votes in Douglas County, more than double the total of fellow frontrunner Deborah Flora in what had figured to be an area of steng...
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Colorado GOP endorsees lose in 14 of 18 primary races, many by big spreads
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Colorado GOP endorsees lose in 14 of 18 primary races, many by big spreads

By Sandra Fish and Jesse Paul | The Colorado Sun Fourteen of the 18 candidates endorsed by the Colorado GOP lost their primary elections Tuesday, most of them by double-digit margins. The results are adding to criticism of state party leadership, including chairman Dave Williams, who were already under fire for making the unorthodox decision to endorse in Republican primaries in the first place.  Williams was among the candidates endorsed by the party who lost their primaries Tuesday. He got walloped by conservative activist and commentator Jeff Crank in the 5th Congressional District.  State Rep. Richard Holtorf, an Akron Republican who lost Tuesday in the six-way GOP primary in the 4th District, said the losses are another sign that Williams needs to be re...
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Who voted in the primary? What a look inside the numbers tell us.
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Who voted in the primary? What a look inside the numbers tell us.

By BRIAN PORTER | Rocky Mountain Voice Younger populations, regardless of gender, left primary decisions to the older generations and three-fourths of the state left decisions to the other quarter Tuesday, according to data from the Secretary of State's office. Among the state's 3,872,503 active registered voters, about 25.9% participated in one of the state's primary elections, a total of 1,001,720 ballots returned statewide. The largest pool of voters were unaffiliated, totaling 1,881,080 registered and 360,794 casting ballots, a 19.2% turnout. Those ballots were almost equally split between the two major parties. There are 905,605 active registered Republican voters, and with 121,461 unaffiliated Republican ballots and an estimated 51,300 in process a fair estimate of Republica...
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