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What’s really true?
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What’s really true?

By Mark Salley | Guest Commentary, Rocky Mountain Voice It’s not uncommon to hear someone say “live your truth” or “that’s my truth.” But, is their “truth” really true? The bible doesn’t teach — nor does common sense allow — that everyone can have and live by their own truth. Yet, many seem to have fallen into that pit. If someone’s “truth” tells them it’s okay to drink and to drive drunk…is it really true?  Of course not. If someone’s “truth” tells them a biological boy can transition to become a girl…is it really true? Again…of course not. In the past (sadly still today) many people have been captured by believing false things to be true.  What’s the harm in believing things that aren’t true, yet pretending they are?  For st...
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From ethics complaint to felony conviction: How forged letters ended a Colorado lawmaker’s career
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From ethics complaint to felony conviction: How forged letters ended a Colorado lawmaker’s career

By Jen Schumann | Rocky Mountain Voice The investigation that ended former Colorado Sen. Sonya Jaquez Lewis’ political career did not begin with police or prosecutors. It began inside her own office. It ended in a Denver courtroom. There, jurors found the former lawmaker guilty on four felony counts tied to letters submitted during a legislative ethics investigation. The workplace dispute had become a criminal case. No prison sentence followed. The judge handed down two years’ probation, 150 hours of community service and a $3,000 fine. Months earlier, aides had begun raising complaints about how Jaquez Lewis ran her office. They accused her of mistreating staff and assigning work unrelated to legislative duties. Those complaints quickly reached S...
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Declassified Cold War CIA Files Detail Secret Government Mind Control Experiments
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Declassified Cold War CIA Files Detail Secret Government Mind Control Experiments

By Stacy Liberatore | Daily Mail A newly released CIA document reveals a chilling blueprint to manipulate minds through covert drugging experiments. The report, added to the CIA's reading room in 2025, details the government's once top-secret Project Artichoke that ran from 1951 to 1956, focusing on behavior control, interrogation techniques and psychological manipulation. The seven-page document, titled 'Special Research for Artichoke,' with an attachment labeled 'Suggested Fields for Special Research Relative Artichoke,' outlines proposals to develop chemicals capable of altering human behavior. It discusses drugs designed for both immediate effects, like truth serums and long-term influence, potentially administered through food, water, alcohol...
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FBI Quietly Planned for Disputed 2020 Election Long Before Capitol Riot
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FBI Quietly Planned for Disputed 2020 Election Long Before Capitol Riot

By John Solomon and Steven Richards | Just the News What did they know, and when did they know it? The memos from 2020 recently turned over to Congress by FBI Director Kash Patel also warned that foreign enemies like Iran and China were likely to foment domestic violence on U.S. soil. The FBI conducted a tabletop exercise in summer 2020 that imagined what sort of violence might ensue in a contested presidential election that year, devising strategies like undercover informants and mass prosecutions for minor crimes that it would later use with the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, documents obtained by Just the News show. FBI Director Kash Patel turned over the long-secret memos to Congress last week, providing fresh evidence that federal law enforcement was acutely con...
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RTD Accountability Panel Calls for Smaller Board and Structural Reforms
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RTD Accountability Panel Calls for Smaller Board and Structural Reforms

By Colette Bordelon | Denver7 DENVER — Over the course of roughly four months, where 12 meetings totaled to 43 hours, a group designed to hold a major Colorado public transit agency accountable produced 31 recommendations they presented to state lawmakers on Wednesday. The Regional Transportation District (RTD) serves eight counties along the Front Range. Problems like crime and drug use have plagued the public transportation system, which has also suffered from low ridership numbers. "I believe in a robust, reliable, safe, environmentally conscious RTD system," said Maria Garcia Berry, the Chair of the RTD Accountability Committee. "Right now, RTD has one of the lowest riderships of all its peers, and it's not recovered from the pandemic." The&...
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Lawmakers press agencies as SMART Act hearings expose budget growth and policy shifts
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Lawmakers press agencies as SMART Act hearings expose budget growth and policy shifts

By Colleen Enos | Commentary, Christian Home Educators of Colorado The hearings were billed as SMART. The answers raised harder questions. The last two weeks have been full of SMART Act (State Measurement for Accountable, Responsive, and Transparent Government) hearings at the Capitol with a smattering of committee work on bills. The Joint Judiciary Committee met for three days, and the Joint Health and Human Services Committee met for two. Here are some of the highlights from the hearings. Attorney General Phil Weiser presented to the Joint Judiciary Committee on behalf of the Department of Law (DOL). During his presentation, he stated that Colorado, at his direction, has filed 51 lawsuits against the Trump Administration for a cost of approximatel...
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Medicaid billing error cost Colorado tens of millions, officials acknowledge
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Medicaid billing error cost Colorado tens of millions, officials acknowledge

By Cory Gaines | Commentary, Colorado Accountability Project HCPF really did accidentally pay millions in Medicaid claims. In an earlier op ed about Colorado's Medicaid expansion (see the first link below) and how that puts our state at higher risk of fraud, waste, and/or abuse, I asked the Colorado Division of Healthcare Policy and Financing, HCPF, the state unit which adminsiters Medicaid, about what they do to prevent or stop such problems.Their spokesperson responded with:“We constantly look out for fraud, waste and abuse (FWA) across all services & programs, but some programs or services are more susceptible to FWA than others. We have various processes/procedures in place for ‘high risk’ services to prevent inappropriate payments from going out the door. Tho...
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Federal Fraud Probe And Climate Lawsuits Puts Minnesota AG Keith Ellison Under Scrutiny
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Federal Fraud Probe And Climate Lawsuits Puts Minnesota AG Keith Ellison Under Scrutiny

By Emma Colton | Fox News Ellison has defended partnerships with NYU and Sher Edling for climate litigation. A sweeping fraud scandal is putting Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison in the spotlight, reviving questions about his controversial ties to progressive environmental causes. Ellison, who has served as attorney general since 2019 after more than a decade in Congress, has long-drawn conservative criticism for aligning his office with left-wing priorities, from climate litigation to political fights over immigration enforcement. Now, with a federal investigation underway into what prosecutors allege was a massive scheme to siphon taxpayer funds meant to feed children during the COVID-19 pandemic, Ellison is facing intensified atte...
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The Age of Gaslighting Is Ending
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The Age of Gaslighting Is Ending

By C. J. Garbo | Guest Commentary, Rocky Mountain Voice You don’t get to do this again. You don’t get another George Floyd. You don’t get another COVID. You don’t get another “mostly peaceful” summer of chaos. You don’t get another shutdown. You don’t get another censorship campaign. You don’t get another government-media narrative that collapses the moment questions start getting answered. You don’t get another election season soaked in fear, confusion, and rule changes. You don’t get to burn trust to the ground and demand we clap for it. You don’t get to excuse violence when it benefits you, then act righteous when it doesn’t. We’ve watched fraud scandals, institutional coverups, and politically convenient “trut...
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