WATCH: COLORADO POLITICKING | Candidate strength after campaign finance reports, plus a special hello
This week on Colorado Politicking, political correspondent Ernest Luning and host Pat Poblete break down who’s up, who’s down and who’s somewhere in between in the races for U.S. Senate and Congress after quarterly campaign finance reports gave the latest glimpse into candidate’s strength. New Colorado Politics reporter Hannah Metzger also stops by to introduce herself.
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Jason Crow rips Pentagon probe into Mark Kelly over video urging troops to refuse ‘illegal orders’
Ernest Luning
ernest.luning@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 25 minutes ago
Democratic U.S. Rep. Jason Crow on Monday accused President Donald Trump of trying to incite violence and intimidate critics after the Pentagon announced an investigation into Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly’s participation in a video produced with Crow and other Democratic...
Using AI analysis, campaign finance complaints lodged against Jena Griswold, Phil Weiser
Marianne Goodland
marianne.goodland@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 13 minutes ago
Using artificial intelligence as analytical tool, a resident of Longmont has filed complaints against two prominent Colorado Democrats, alleging multiple campaign finance violations. The complaints are among a growing number of campaign finance allegations against individuals running for some of...
Trump economic policies cost Colorado households more than $1,000 on average, national Democrats say
Ernest Luning
ernest.luning@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 15 hours ago
Colorado families had to shell out over $1,000 more on average to afford the same items in the first eight months of the Trump administration, according to an analysis of inflation data released Monday by the Democratic National Committee. The...
Communities across Colorado voted on ballot issues | Cronin and Loevy
Tom Cronin Bob Loevy
tom-cronin-bob-loevy@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 3 days ago
By Tom Cronin and Bob Loevy The results of the November 2025 odd-year elections are well known. Democrats easily won the Virginia and New Jersey governor elections and, in a number of other state elections, bested the Republicans. In Colorado, the big 2025 election news...
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia says she is resigning from Congress
Michelle L. Price
michelle.l..price@associatedpress.com
Updated 4 days ago
WASHINGTON — Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, a supporter of President Donald Trump who has become a critic, said Friday she is resigning from Congress in January. Greene, in a more than 10-minute video posted online, explained her decision,...
Colorado ballot measure for tougher fentanyl penalties moves forward
Marissa Ventrelli
marissa.ventrelli@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 4 days ago
A proposed measure that would increase penalties for fentanyl manufacturing, distribution and possession has collected enough signatures to qualify for the 2026 ballot, following several failed attempts by the state legislature to pass similar legislation. Backed by Advance Colorado, the...
Democrat Kubs Lalchandani kicks off campaign for open CU regent seat in Colorado’s 2nd CD
Ernest Luning
ernest.luning@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 7 days ago
Boulder Democrat Kubs Lalchandani, an attorney and serial entrepreneur, has thrown his hat in the ring for the open University of Colorado Board of Regents seat representing the 2nd Congressional District in next year’s election. The incumbent, Democrat Callie Rennison,...
Colorado Republicans call meeting to rein in chair Brita Horn, but state GOP says plans are ‘illegal’
Ernest Luning
ernest.luning@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 1 week ago
They’re at it again. For the second time in as many years, a group of Colorado Republicans are planning to convene a meeting of the party’s state central committee despite the state GOP insisting that the proposed meeting would be...
Why winning as an independent remains a long shot, despite Colorado voters fleeing the two major parties
Marissa Ventrelli
marissa.ventrelli@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 1 week ago
When Yemi Mobolade won the Colorado Springs mayor’s race in 2023, he made history as the city’s first independent leader — and gave new hope to voters frustrated with America’s two-party politics. But even as unaffiliated voters now make up...
Colorado’s Democratic senators slam deal to end shutdown, vow to fight for health care tax credits
Ernest Luning
ernest.luning@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 2 weeks ago
Colorado’s two Democratic U.S. senators voted against a bipartisan deal reached Sunday to end the longest federal government shutdown in history, blasting the package’s failure to extend some health insurance tax credits. The full Senate passed spending legislation late Monday...
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Jefferson County Republican Gregory Moore says the seeds of running for office were planted in the summer of 2020, when he returned to the United States after roughly a decade teaching political science at universities in China, though it wasn’t until a year ago in the wake of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. […]
Boulder judge ordered man's involuntary medication without letting him testify, appeals court finds
A Boulder County judge deprived a man of a fair hearing by refusing to let him testify before she ordered him to be forcibly medicated, the Court of Appeals ruled Thursday. District Court Judge Nancy W. Salomone initially found that a college student identified as T.L. had a mental health disorder and granted the government’s request for […]