Today is Nov. 20, 2023, and here’s what you need to know:

The Democrats’ proposal to offer relief from soaring property taxes won party-line approval after a lengthy debate in the Senate on Sunday.

The measure is headed off to the House.

Meanwhile, lawmakers also sent the first two of seven bills expected to win approval to Gov. Jared Polis, who convened the legislature into a special session following the defeat of Proposition HH.

The House Transportation, Housing and Local Government Committee reviewed the main property tax measure on Sunday afternoon, including an amendment that will require Senate approval, which is likely to happen on Monday.

Senate Bill 1 would exempt $50,000 from residential and multi-family residential properties’ tax liability calculation and reduce the assessment rate on those properties to 6.7%, down from 6.765%.

The protests were cheered by several lawmakers, including Rep. Tim Hernandez, D-Denver, who said in a post on X, the site formerly known as Twitter, that he is “standing in strong solidarity with Coloradans who bravely stood up and disrupted our job this morning calling for a Ceasefire in Gaza. Over a majority of Americans now support a Ceasefire. I urge my colleagues to listen.”

Hernandez also replaced the U.S. flag on his desk Saturday with a Palestinian flag. He was among a group of Democratic lawmakers, including Reps. Iman Jodeh (who is Palestinian-American), Javier Mabry, Andrew Boesenecker, Jennifer Bacon and Sen. Nick Hinrichsen, who met with the protesters after they were removed from the gallery.

The disruption did not go unnoticed by Jewish lawmakers, and Sunday, Rep. Yaron “Ron” Weinberg, R-Loveland, issued a statement condemning the protests and calling them “anti-Semitic.”

“There is no place for anti-Semitism. The comments by these protestors will not deter me from my duty to stand up and share the truth about Israel. We came here today for a very different purpose, to discuss much-needed property tax relief in our state. After comments by some of my fellow representatives and the intrusion of these protestors into the proceedings of this body, I am calling on all of my fellow state representatives to fully, publicly, and unequivocally condemn Hamas as the terrorist organization they are and the atrocities they have committed.”

A Denver judge on Friday found Donald Trump remains eligible for the state’s 2024 presidential ballot even though he engaged in an insurrection, joining courts elsewhere that have rejected attempts to disqualify the leading Republican candidate.

District Court Judge Sarah B. Wallace determined the provision of the 14th Amendment barring insurrectionists from holding office does not apply to presidents and, therefore, does not disqualify Trump.

“To be clear, part of the Court’s decision is its reluctance to embrace an interpretation which would disqualify a presidential candidate without a clear, unmistakable indication that such is the intent,” she wrote in a Nov. 17 order.

Nonetheless, the 102-page order offered a damning critique of Trump’s conduct leading up to the Jan. 6, 2021 assault on the U.S. Capitol, and Wallace concluded Trump did, in fact, incite an insurrection to halt the certification of President Joe Biden’s victory.

Gov. Jared Polis of Colorado and Gov. Spencer Cox of Utah have embarked on a project to rescue American politics from what they believe is a path that will lead, at its worst, to the destruction of democratic institutions.

Their pitch? Disagree better.

The way the two governors put it, to “disagree better” doesn’t translate to being “nice” or giving up one’s principles. It means engagement in the political discourse with a sense of humility – that perhaps one does not hold all the answers and, therefore, listening to the other side is not only laudable but ultimately necessary.

Colorado State University President Amy Parsons joined the two governors in this interview following a forum the three of them hosted at CSU Fort Collins on Nov. 15.