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GOP Super PAC Invests $5 Million in 8th Congressional District Race Amidst Fierce Contest
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GOP Super PAC Invests $5 Million in 8th Congressional District Race Amidst Fierce Contest

By Rocky Mountain Voice Staff A GOP-affiliated super PAC has earmarked $5 million for advertising in Colorado’s hotly contested 8th Congressional District race. This financial commitment underscores the significance of this district in the 2024 elections. The district, which is seen as a critical battleground, will likely see intensified campaign efforts as both parties vie for control. The substantial ad reserve by the GOP-aligned group indicates a strategic move to sway voters and secure a victory in this pivotal race. One of the candidates, Gabe Evans, is a conservative State Representative with a history of running towards challenges. With twelve years in the US Army and Colorado Army National Guard as a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter pilot and company commander, Evans has completed...
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American Confidence in Elections: Preventing Noncitizen Voting and Other Foreign Interference
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American Confidence in Elections: Preventing Noncitizen Voting and Other Foreign Interference

By Hans von Spakovsky | Heritage Foundation We should provide both access and security in the election process. We want to ensure that every eligible citizen is able to vote and that those votes are not diluted, voided, or stolen due to unlawful registration and voting by aliens who have no right to participate in our political and election process and by the unfair and unjust inclusion of aliens in the apportionment of the House of Representatives, as well as the drawing of boundary lines for political districts at the federal, state and local level. Individual aliens and foreign entities and governments should also not be able to interfere in recall elections and ballot-issue referenda. That is essential in convincing the public that they can and should turn out to exercise the franch...
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Cooper: Colorado May Have A Problem with 12,000+ Disappearing Undeliverable Ballots
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Cooper: Colorado May Have A Problem with 12,000+ Disappearing Undeliverable Ballots

By Bob Cooper | Guest Contributor The Colorado Open Record Act (CORA) allows citizens to examine public records of payments via invoices as well as a long list of election records for every election.  CORA enables state and county officials to provide transparency for citizens, so they have access to and confidence in our governance. It is a valuable resource especially considering the national concern over our election systems. The information for this article is based on CORA information from 11 Colorado counties. Undeliverable ballots are a vital election record in every election. States with mail in voting systems, like Colorado, mail out millions of ballots at the start of an election. The USPS delivers ballots to voters based on the mailing address in the voter registratio...
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The Biden effect? Border Patrol has lost a quarter of workforce since 2020 election
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The Biden effect? Border Patrol has lost a quarter of workforce since 2020 election

ByAnna Giaritelli | Washington Examiner The U.S. Border Patrol has lost nearly a quarter of its workforce since Democratic candidate Joe Biden beat incumbent Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election, and some agents say it is no coincidence. More than 4,000 federal agents have left the Border Patrol since October 2020. Twice as many agents have chosen to retire early compared to retirement rates during the Obama and Trump administrations. In recent years, Border Patrol agents have lamented that the Biden administration’s immigration policy has caused a crisis that has sunk morale, but the new data provided by U.S. Customs and Border Protection confirmed that far more agents are choosing to leave than normal. “The administration is so bad for ...
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Nikki Haley says she will vote for Donald Trump following their disputes during Republican primary
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Nikki Haley says she will vote for Donald Trump following their disputes during Republican primary

By MEG KINNARD | The Gazette Nikki Haley said Wednesday that she will be voting for Donald Trump in the general election, a notable show of support given their intense and often personal rivalry during the Republican primary calendar. But Haley also made it clear that she feels Trump has work to do to win over voters who supported her during the course of the primary campaign and continue to cast votes for her in ongoing primary contests. “I will be voting for Trump,” Haley, Trump’s former U.N. ambassador, said during an event at the Hudson Institute in Washington. “Having said that, I stand by what I said in my suspension speech,” Haley added. "Trump would be smart to reach out to the millions of people who voted for me and continue to support me and not as...
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National House Democrats’ PAC books $4 million in TV ads in Denver market for congressional races
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National House Democrats’ PAC books $4 million in TV ads in Denver market for congressional races

By Ernest Luning | Colorado Politics A national group that works to elect Democrats to the House of Representatives has booked nearly $4 million worth of general election TV advertising in the Denver market, pointing to the party's commitment to protect a vulnerable incumbent in Colorado's swingiest district while trying to flip another, Republican-held seat. While the House Majority PAC won't decide how to allocate its ads until closer to the November election, a spokesman noted in an email to Colorado Politics that the Denver media market reaches voters in the state's competitive 3rd and 8th congressional districts, both of which have been listed among the PAC's top targets. The massive initial nationwide ad reservation by the super PAC, which is aligned with House Minority Lead...
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RFK, Jr. kicks off Independent petition drive to get on Colorado ballot at Aurora rally
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RFK, Jr. kicks off Independent petition drive to get on Colorado ballot at Aurora rally

By Ernest Luning | Colorado Politics Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told supporters at a rally in Aurora on Sunday that his candidacy can unite a deeply divided country by focusing on what unites Americans. "Do you want a president who's going to make Americans forget that they're Democrats and forget that they're Republicans, and remember that we are all Americans?" Kennedy asked a cheering crowd of more than a thousan people, who packed a converted airplane hangar at Stanley Marketplace. "That's why you're here today. I'm going to do that for this country." The environmental attorney and scion of one of the country's most famous political families said that reelecting either President Joe Biden or former President Trump to another term won't bring the c...
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Alice Stewart, veteran of GOP campaign trail and ’16 Ted Cruz comms director before CNN, has died
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Alice Stewart, veteran of GOP campaign trail and ’16 Ted Cruz comms director before CNN, has died

By Matt Vespa | TownHall.com CNN was rocked by the news of the tragic passing of Alice Stewart on Saturday. Stewart was one of the few conservative voices on the network. Though she had voted for the former president, she wasn't a die-hard Trump supporter, often described as a straight-shooter, civil, professional, and kind among her colleagues. Stewart was a veteran of political campaigns, serving as communications director for Michele Bachman, Rick Santorum, and Mike Huckabee’s presidential campaigns. Her most recent gig on the campaign trail was for Ted Cruz’s 2016 bid. Around that time, she was hired as a commentator for CNN and co-hosted a podcast with noted liberal Maria Cardona. Ms. Cardona expressed shock at the loss of her friend, adding that they were scheduled to record...
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Ballot initiatives seek to ban biological boys in girls’ sports, require schools to notify parents over ‘gender incongruence’
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Ballot initiatives seek to ban biological boys in girls’ sports, require schools to notify parents over ‘gender incongruence’

By Marianne Goodland | Denver Gazette A parent who sued the Wellington School District over an LGBTQ middle-high school club is seeking to put a measure in front of voters in November that would require schools to notify parents when their child expresses "gender incongruence." Another ballot initiative would prohibit biological males from participating in girls' sports at the K-12 level. The group collecting petition signatures for the two measures is called "Protect Kids Colorado," which is led by former state Sen. Kevin Lundberg, R-Berthoud, and Erin Lee, a Fort Collins parent who earlier said her 12-year-old daughter was invited by an art teacher to an after-school art club that was really about gender and sexuality. READ THE FULL STORY AT THE DENVER GAZETTE
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Eight measures expected to make November ballot, dozens more possible
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Eight measures expected to make November ballot, dozens more possible

By Hannah Metzger | Westword The list of ballot measures awaiting Colorado voters in November is growing. State lawmakers voted to send five measures to the ballot before the Colorado Legislature adjourned on May 8, adding to two citizen-initiated measures that had already officially qualified for the ballot: an effort to include economic impact statements before the questions on ballot measures, and another to cap property tax revenue increases at 4 percent each year. The five legislative ballot proposals would let the state keep all sports betting tax revenue to fund water projects; create an excise tax for gun and ammo purchases to fund victim services; remove the ban on same-sex marriage from Colorado's constitution...
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