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Protesters plan to greet Mike Pence in ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ garb at Focus on the Family speech in Colorado Springs
Some of the protesters planning to welcome Vice President Mike Pence to Colorado Springs on Friday will be wearing red robes and white bonnets from the dystopian novel “The Handmaid’s Tale,” which depicts a fundamentalist society that treats women as property, organizers told Colorado Politics. “It’s our way of making kind of a shocking statement,”…
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#GetTrumpTeamToTheSummit is Centennial’s latest call to action
The Centennial Institute – the conservative advocacy arm of Colorado Christian University in Lakewood – scored a coup last year with its campaign to lure then-presidential candidate Donald Trump to its annual Western Conservative Summit. #GetTrumptotheSummit was the rallying cry on Twitter, and it succeeded in getting Trump to make his first campaign speech in the state when he addressed the summit…
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In Depth: Perlmutter joins Lakewood legislators for jam-packed town hall
Next week, a Czech ensemble, Cirk La Putyka, brings its contemporary take on the circus to the stage, blurring the lines between acrobatics, dance, puppetry and music, and a couple of weeks after that it’s the boisterous “Hello, Dolly!” musical that’ll be filling the theater’s seats for a two-week run. But Saturday, Feb. 18, it…
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Trump pledges ‘new chapter of American greatness’ in speech to joint session
Heralding a “new chapter of American greatness,” President Donald Trump stood before Congress for the first time Tuesday night and issued a broad call for overhauling the nation’s health care system, significantly boosting military spending and plunging $1 trillion into upgrading crumbling infrastructure. Striking an optimistic tone, Trump declared: “The time for small thinking is…
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Hickenlooper wants to hear Trump talk jobs in congressional address
Gov. John Hickenlooper said he’s hoping President Donald Trump will focus on job-creation in his address to Congress Tuesday night in a brief interview with the hosts of MSNBC’s early morning talk show Morning Joe. “Most Democratic governors – I think all governors – are really focused on, in our states, good jobs, and how…
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Political protests seem at all time high, but do they work?
Protests, email and letter writing campaigns targeted at members of Congress and packed town hall meetings have seemingly become the norm since Donald Trump assumed the presidency. Opposition is nothing new to anyone who’s sat in the Oval Office – or in any elected office for that matter – and tried to carry out new…
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Bennet, Gardner split votes predictably on DeVos
Colorado’s two U.S. Senators stood with their fellow party members in the historic Tuesday, Feb. 7, tie vote on President Donald Trump’s nomination of Betsy DeVos for secretary of education. All 48 Democratic senators voted against DeVos, along with two Republicans, U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan Collins of Maine. The remaining 50…