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Your generosity is amazing. $35,000+ raised since last night to feed seniors in need in the Denver Metro Area. The non-profit Benefits in Action delivers food boxes. Current need exceeds their funding. I'll match the next fifty $5 donations here: www.coloradogives.org/story/01kg2f

COMMENTARY: Trump was on the ballot in Colorado

Colorado Republicans' strategy to rebuild through school board races collapsed on Election Day with sweeping wins for candidates endorsed by teachers unions. The CEA estimates it won 80% of its races. Jennifer Meckles reports:

Colorado's most diverse city gave progressives a clean sweep after decades of Republican leadership. @marshallglasses.bsky.social reports:

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COMMENTARY: Trump was on the ballot in Colorado

NEW: Aurora City Councilwoman Danielle Jurinsky has conceded. A stunning defeat for a MAGA media fixture who built a national profile on claims of a "complete gang takeover" of Aurora that led President Trump to visit and falsely proclaim the city "conquered" by an immigrant gang

Incredibly proud of and happy for Next producer Mallory Harris who moved in front of the camera to co-anchor 9NEWS+ streaming Election Night coverage. Nailed it with insight and deep knowledge. Watching our team stretch and grow to serve the community is so much fun.

Aurora, Colorado's most diverse city, has largely been run by the GOP for decades. Many if not most were fairly moderate. 2025's clean sweep by progressives may reflect Aurora's dim view of MAGA and local ringleader Danielle Jurinsky's turn-it-to-11 style, on display here:

Congratulations to whichever consultant convinced Michael Bloomberg to spend a Denver municipal record $5M to win the flavored tobacco ban by 40+ pts It’s gonna be a squeaker, boss. $1M more should do it

Denver Mayor Mike Johnston told me Monday that his $1B Vibrant Denver Bond wasn’t a referendum on his administration as his leadership faces criticism. As voters delivered him an overwhelming 20+ pt win on Election Night, I asked him if he wanted to amend that. #copolitics

MIDNIGHT UPDATE: Union-backed school board candidates in Durango, Colo. are beating their conservative opponents by 40 pt margins. Conservatives, including anti-furry fmr Gov candidate Heidi Ganahl, have made Durango the center of education culture war issues lately. #copolitics

MIDNIGHT UPDATE: Moderate/Dem-backed candidates are currently sweeping every school board race in conservative Douglas County, Colorado (home to a famous school voucher experiment). Would give moderates total 7-0 control of the school board. #copolitics

UPDATE: Dems lead every city council race in Aurora, Colorado - and could flip a 7-3 GOP majority into a 6-4 Dem edge - including what would be a shocking upset of MAGA media star Danielle Jurinsky, whose claims of a "complete gang takeover" led Trump to call Aurora "conquered." #copolitics

Colorado's shock of the night if this holds, but Republican firebrand Danielle Jurinsky narrowly trails in her Aurora City Council re-elect bid. Jurinsky built a national profile on immigration via Fox News and the Trump campaign, but she trails two Dems in a pick-two race. #copolitics

Colorado Republicans had targeted school board races as their best opportunity in 2026 but teachers union and Democrat-backed candidates lead in Denver, Jefferson County, Cherry Creek, and even conservative Douglas County, per 9NEWS' Jennifer Meckles. #copolitics

7PM UPDATE: Denver's flavored tobacco ban leads by an enormous margin 73%-27%. The effort to keep the ban received nearly $5M from Michael Bloomberg, Denver's largest political donation for a municipal race. #copolitics

7PM UPDATE: Denver Mayor Mike Johnston's nearly $1B Vibrant Denver Bond is passing by a wide margin in early returns (pre Election Day voting). All five parts of the bond are passing by at least 20%. #copolitics

“Go vote; it makes you feel big and strong.” Legendary CBS newsman Bob Schieffer passing along his mother’s wisdom always comes to mind on Election Day. Grateful to live in a place where voting is easy, secure, and convenient.

COMMENTARY: Choose people over politics in helping our neighbors through the government shutdown

@denverite.bsky.social examines another false/misleading claim from Denver Mayor Mike Johnston. We've explored three on 9NEWS recently. All four claims deal with public safety as the Mayor positions himself as tougher on crime than progressives on City Council. denverite.com/2025/11/04/d...

Denver Mayor Mike Johnston says he doesn't view the nearly $1B Vibrant Denver Bond vote as a referendum on his leadership. I asked him how voters should register disapproval other than by voting against the bond. #copolitics

Thank you for trying to model the beautiful community through your platform, Kyle. Driving through Weld County today, I know there’s a lot of people who view the world differently than me - but they are people, just like I am a person, and I think our shared humanity should transcend division.

COMMENTARY: Why I'm raising money for a food bank in a deep red, pro-Trump area during the government shutdown

Thank you for addressing the issue of donating when people don’t look like, pray like, or vote like us on Next tonight.

@kylec.bsky.social out here making me cry tonight!!! Yes we feed everyone! Colorado family values rock! #heynext

Food lines were 2X normal this morning at the Weld Food Bank, which told me 2/3rds of their visitors said they were impacted by the SNAP food benefit freeze. Our microgiving campaign has raised $50,000 for Weld Food Bank so far. Even $5 helps: weldfoodbank.org/wordofthanks/

Just insane.

Thank you @staceywoelfel.bsky.social for the kind words about our @nexton9news.bsky.social team’s work in this piece reimagining how national news could work. staceywoelfel.substack.com/p/if-i-were-...

Trump Praises ‘Great Person’ Bari Weiss Taking Over CBS: ‘Greatest Thing’ to Happen to ‘Free and Open’ Press

This game makes me want to get back into baseball again

Politicians are playing games with SNAP benefits while food banks are overwhelmed with need. Screw politics. Let’s just help people. I’ll match the next fifty $5 donations to the Weld Food Bank: weldfoodbank.org/wordofthanks/

Halloween costume for kids’ trick or treating : KPop Demon Hunter Manager Bobby, at the request of my Rumi Halloween costume for the adult party: Coors’ 1988 anti-union effort. Keep Coors Yours

Politicians are playing games with SNAP benefits while food banks are overwhelmed with need. Screw politics. Let’s just help people. I’ll match the next fifty $5 donations to the Weld Food Bank: weldfoodbank.org/wordofthanks/

There's a bipartisan push by some in Colorado's congressional delegation to free a father and children seized by ICE on their way to school in Durango. ICE has not suggested the father committed any crime.

There's a bipartisan push by some in Colorado's congressional delegation to free a father and children seized by ICE on their way to school in Durango. ICE has not suggested the father committed any crime.

Colorado Governor Jared Polis (D) is condemning ICE for "snatching up children and breaking up families" after two children were detained and ICE rejected offers by local law enforcement to reunite the kids with their pleading mother. #copolitics

600,000 Coloradans are about to lose SNAP food benefits. 300,000 of them are children. @marshallglasses.bsky.social reports on Colorado's poorest county preparing to hand out MREs.

A small town police force bragged that citizens "can't get a breath of fresh air in or out without us knowing" thanks to Flock surveillance cameras. They used the cameras to wrongly accused a woman of a crime, forcing her to find other surveillance video to prove her innocence.

A small town police force bragged that citizens "can't get a breath of fresh air in or out without us knowing" thanks to Flock surveillance cameras. They used the cameras to wrongly accused a woman of a crime, forcing her to find other surveillance video to prove her innocence.

Colorado Governor Jared Polis (D) is condemning ICE for "snatching up children and breaking up families" after two children were detained and ICE rejected offers by local law enforcement to reunite the kids with their pleading mother. #copolitics

600,000 Coloradans are about to lose SNAP food benefits. 300,000 of them are children. @marshallglasses.bsky.social reports on Colorado's poorest county preparing to hand out MREs.

Donors have raised $30,000 for Weld Food Bank in one hour. Amazing. Thank you. Even $5 helps: weldfoodbank.org/wordofthanks/

Our weekly Word of Thanks microgiving campaigns are pivoting, effective immediately, to feeding Coloradans in need as SNAP food benefits lapse. We'll continue this effort each week for the foreseeable future. Our first campaign kicks off on tonight's program. Details to follow.

Let’s support military families through the financial uncertainty of the government shutdown. I’ll match the next fifty $5 donations to Home Front Military Network, providing emergency financial assistance and long-term navigation support to military families: www.coloradogives.org/event/8pwnag

Protesters swarmed an ICE facility in Durango, CO demanding two children detained with their father be released to their mother. Durango Police say they also offered to help reunite the kids with their mother. They were unsuccessful.

Denver voters are weighing a change to how at-large city council members are elected. Centrist Dems backing 2G say it'll ensure majority support for winning candidates. Progressives say it's designed to help big-money candidates beat grassroots leftists. Angeline McCall reports:

Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest.

Denver Mayor Mike Johnston is advocating for Flock surveillance cameras, sometimes using false or misleading claims. His claim that Flock cameras solved a missing woman's murder is not true. Her mother tells our @spencersoicher.bsky.social she is "shocked and appalled" by the Mayor's claim.