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Investigative reporter (and sometimes film critic)
@coloradotimesrecorder.com
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NPR
1 day ago
The bishops' decision formalizes a yearslong process for the U.S. church to address transgender health care. They also approved a special message on immigration, expressing concern over enforcement and conditions in detention centers.
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U.S. bishops officially ban gender-affirming care at Catholic hospitals
The bishops' decision formalizes a yearslong process for the U.S. church to address transgender health care. They also approved a special message on immigration, expressing concern over enforcement and conditions in detention centers.
https://n.pr/4hTblhM
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Jason Salzman
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@caitlynkim.bsky.social
reports that DeGette said that “Democratic party leaders are trying to get enough signatures for a discharge petition on a three-year extension of the premium enhanced tax credit.” Will CO GOP House delegation sign it especially Hurd who’s expressed support for the subsidies?
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Erik Maulbetsch
2 days ago
Where else you gonna find Denver DSA and Turning Point USA events in one place?
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samantha riedel
8 days ago
on Them today, my most room-temperature take of all time: democrats can, in fact, win elections without cynically abandoning trans civil rights at the first sign of trouble
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Election Night Proved Democrats Don’t Need to Abandon Trans People to Win
Mamdani, Spanberger and other wins tell Dems: you don’t need to cave on transgender rights to win an election.
https://www.them.us/story/2025-elections-democrats-trans-rights-mamdani-spanberger
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Erik Maulbetsch
9 days ago
Aurora Mayor Mike Coffman has apparently called the race, even if it's not official yet- He just congratulated the winners on Facebook.
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Colorado Newsline
9 days ago
NEW: Far-right Colorado podcaster Joe Oltmann is suing MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, a onetime ally in the national election conspiracy theory movement, alleging Lindell breached the terms of $3 million loan agreement. By
@chasewoodruff.bsky.social
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Far-right Colorado podcaster sues Mike Lindell, MyPillow over unpaid $3 million loan | Colorado Newsline
The suit alleges that Lindell secured a loan of $3 million from the plaintiffs in 2023 and has failed to make any payments since then.
https://coloradonewsline.com/briefs/far-right-colorado-podcaster-sues-mike-lindell-mypillow-over-unpaid-3-million-loan/
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Logan M. Davis
9 days ago
I have worked on just about every kind of race from dogcatcher to US Senate. None of them hit me half as hard as watching Woodland Park take back its school district last night. I have never seen so many tears shed at a victorious election night party, as folks realized the nightmare was over.
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Heidi Beedle
10 days ago
Shoutout to the VA for getting me my FOIA response *on* election day. Better late than never, I guess.
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CO Springs School Board Candidate has History of Complaints, Misconduct at VA
Eddie Waldrep, a candidate for the Academy School District 20 Board of Education, has touted his experience as clinical psychologist for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). His campaign website.....
https://coloradotimesrecorder.com/2025/11/co-springs-school-board-candidate-has-history-of-complaints-misconduct-at-va/74328/
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Colorado Times Recorder
14 days ago
Stepping up its involvement in anti-trans political campaigns, Colorado’s Catholic Bishops have directed parishioners to gather signatures at church to place initiatives on next year’s election ballot.
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Turning Catholic Churches into Campaign Hubs, Bishops Instruct Churches to Collect Signatures for Anti-Trans Ballot Initiatives
Stepping up its involvement in anti-trans political campaigns, Colorado's Catholic Bishops have directed parishioners to gather signatures at church to place anti-trans initiatives on next year's elec...
https://coloradotimesrecorder.com/2025/10/turning-catholic-churches-into-campaign-hubs-bishops-instruct-churches-to-collect-signatures-for-anti-trans-ballot-initiatives/74219/
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My latest for
@coloradotimesrecorder.com
: Colorado Catholic bishops, including Denver Archbishop Samuel Aquila, published a letter in August calling on parishes to host signature-gathering weekends for an anti-trans group's ballot initiatives.
coloradotimesrecorder.com/2025/10/turn...
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Turning Catholic Churches into Campaign Hubs, Bishops Instruct Churches to Collect Signatures for Anti-Trans Ballot Initiatives
Stepping up its involvement in anti-trans political campaigns, Colorado's Catholic Bishops have directed parishioners to gather signatures at church to place anti-trans initiatives on next year's elec...
https://coloradotimesrecorder.com/2025/10/turning-catholic-churches-into-campaign-hubs-bishops-instruct-churches-to-collect-signatures-for-anti-trans-ballot-initiatives/74219/
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Ashton Pittman
15 days ago
Trans people have warned for years that these anti-trans policies would hurt far more than just trans people.
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Colorado Times Recorder
16 days ago
Last week, two conservative Cherry Creek School Board candidates each received $5,000 donations from President Donald Trump's Secretary of Energy, Chris Wright, and his wife, according to state campaign finance records
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Trump Cabinet Member Donates $5,000 to Two Cherry Creek School Board Candidates
Last week, two conservative Cherry Creek School Board candidates each received $5,000 donations from President Donald Trump's Secretary of Energy, Chris Wright, and his wife, according to state campai...
https://coloradotimesrecorder.com/2025/10/trump-cabinet-member-donates-5000-to-two-cherry-creek-school-board-candidates/74110/
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Colorado Times Recorder
16 days ago
Fremont County Republican Stephanie Luck says she won't run for reelection to the statehouse, but hinted at a possible run for a different, perhaps bigger office. She also called one declared candidate a liar, while endorsing a new one.
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State Legislator Won't Run For Final Term, Calls Opponent a Liar While Endorsing New Candidate
Colorado state Rep. Stephanie Luck (R-Penrose) will not run for reelection next year. Speaking at the Fremont County GOP monthly meeting last night, Luck cited the need to spend more...
https://coloradotimesrecorder.com/2025/10/state-legislator-wont-run-for-final-term-calls-opponent-a-liar-while-endorsing-new-candidate/74122/
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Colorado Times Recorder
18 days ago
Rep. Gabe Evans (R-CO) is staying silent on the Trump Administration’s decision to cancel two Department of Energy (DOE) projects, totaling over $33 million, in his district.
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Evans Remains Silent on Trump's Cancellation of Two Energy Projects in His District
Rep. Gabe Evans (R-CO) is staying silent on the Trump Administration's decision to cancel two Department of Energy (DOE) projects, totaling over $33 million, in his district. Evans According to...
https://coloradotimesrecorder.com/2025/10/evans-remains-silent-on-trumps-cancellation-of-two-energy-projects-in-his-district/74003/
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Heidi Beedle
22 days ago
My latest on the D49 Board of Education race:
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Conservatives Clash in CO Springs School Board Race
Two members of El Paso County School District 49’s (D49) conservative board majority are up for re-election this year. Should either Jamilynn D’Avola or Lori Thompson lose their race, the...
https://coloradotimesrecorder.com/2025/10/conservatives-clash-in-co-springs-school-board-race/73931/
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Colorado Times Recorder
30 days ago
Chaos and fear reign in an underfunded, under-staffed school district, where nearly a dozen teachers told writer
@loganmdavis.bsky.social
with absolute certainty that they would be fired if they spoke on the record for this piece.
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Bully: The Crisis of Leadership in Montezuma-Cortez Schools
The phone call came through around 9pm while Cyndi Eldredge was watching television with her husband. On the other end of the line was her boss, Montezuma-Cortez School District superintendent...
https://coloradotimesrecorder.com/2025/10/bully-the-crisis-of-leadership-in-montezuma-cortez-schools/73503/
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Colorado Times Recorder
about 1 month ago
New Fever Swamp Review! CTR takes a look at candidates in D49 and D11, discussing prevailing issues in both districts, including the recent strike in D11.
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Fever Swamp Review Podcast: School Boarding 2: Elections
CTR takes a look at candidates in D49 and D11, discussing prevailing issues in both districts, including the recent strike in D11. https://youtu.be/lZvKGVzY3wA Also available on Spotify and Apple Podc...
https://coloradotimesrecorder.com/2025/10/fever-swamp-review-podcast-school-boarding-2-elections/73588/
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Heidi Beedle
about 1 month ago
I’m at Acacia Park for today’s rally. A lot of people here.
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Melissa Gira Grant
about 2 months ago
I also spoke to
@jmberger.com
about what such a designation might mean: he said it will allow the FBI “to group together, prioritize, and probably fund investigations into trans people.” Even if it will mainly be an administrative tool, it is “almost certain to be abused by this administration.”
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The Right​’s Baseless​ Project to ​Link Trans People​ With Extremism
A campaign for the FBI to adopt a new designation of “transgender ideology–inspired violence and extremism” is less about law enforcement than politics.
https://newrepublic.com/article/200816/fbi-baseless-project-trans-extremism
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Vivian McCall
about 2 months ago
Earlier this month, three trans women were beaten by a group of young men in Seattle's gay neighborhood. According to the county prosecutor's office, there's been at least four more group beatings since June 2024. In one case, strangers joined in. The kicker?
www.thestranger.com/news/2025/09...
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Seattle Area Trans Women Are Being Attacked by Groups of Men
Warning: This story contains descriptions of violence. “Go to Pony, go to Pony, go to Pony—there’s more people there,” said a frantic woman as she approached Madison Carstens and her friends next to t...
https://www.thestranger.com/news/2025/09/23/80249464/seattle-area-trans-women-are-being-attacked-by-groups-of-men
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Henry Carnell
about 2 months ago
For years, medical professionals and transgender advocates have been saying the "Society for Evidence-based Gender Medicine" was not following the principles of evidenced-based medicine. Now the "godfather" of evidence-based medicine is leveraging the same claim against them. (1/)
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Trans health care "skeptics" lost a key ally—now they're having a meltdown
The godfather of evidence-based medicine on rejecting anti-trans "misuse" of his work.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/09/guyatt-transgender-care-youth-medicine-evidence-segm
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans)
about 2 months ago
another case of people reading a headline and either not reading or misreading an article. the actual reporting does not say anything like "all trans people are being classified as terrorists" i understand why people are scared. i also feel like reading comprehension is at an all time low
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Colorado Times Recorder
about 2 months ago
New Fever Swamp Review! Amid continuing gun violence, CTR attends Dragonman’s 33rd Annual Freedom Shoot and talks with attendees about gun policy, also a visit to Raw Tools, a nonprofit that turns guns into garden tools.
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Fever Swamp Review Podcast: Guns, Nerds, and Steel
Amid continuing gun violence, CTR attends Dragonman's 33rd Annual Freedom Shoot and talks with attendees about gun policy, also a visit to Raw Tools, a nonprofit that turns guns into...
https://coloradotimesrecorder.com/2025/09/fever-swamp-review-podcast-guns-nerds-and-steel/72940/
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Chase Woodruff
2 months ago
At LibsofTikTok's direction, Colorado Republicans are organizing to call for the firing of this state employee, who says nothing in this post that could be construed as celebrating Kirk's death or supporting violence. A retaliatory purge for political speech underway.
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Jo Yurcaba
2 months ago
Part of the statement from the
@transjournalists.org
on reporting details of the the Charlie Kirk shooting investigation. Full statement here:
www.transjournalists.org/tja-urges-ca...
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Eliot Higgins
2 months ago
Glad the WSJ didn't rush to report inflammatory claims backed by no evidence whatsoever at an incredibly sensitive time.
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Logan M. Davis
2 months ago
As a reminder, a politically motivated conservative murdered two Democratic lawmakers in Minnesota two months ago. These commentators are following a playbook to legitimize violence, not condemn it. Clutching their pearls is just part of it.
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Kyle Clark
2 months ago
UPDATE: JeffCo Sheriff's Office says three students have been shot at Evergreen High School. St A's Hospital says all are in critical condition. Our live coverage here:
www.9news.com/article/news...
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https://www.9news.com/article/news/local/colorado-news/evergreen-high-school-police-activity/73-5cd88208-53b6-461c-96d3-f10ae4c7d1fe
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Maria Bustillos
2 months ago
I'd like to live in a world where nobody got shot, ever
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Jeff Sharlet
2 months ago
If I have any credibility with you from 20 years of reporting on rightwing & fascist movements, please listen when I beg you not to celebrate Charlie Kirk getting shot. Leave aside morality: this isn’t a match in dry grass, it’s a torch. We do not want what this could ignite & we would not win.
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jael holzman
2 months ago
alert: potential ban on federally-funded hospitals providing any trans health care is in the house hhs funding bill
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Kyle Clark
2 months ago
A US President threatening to use the military against civilians in an American city is not normal and journalists who choose to ignore or normalize this should explain their choice to the communities they serve.
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Parker Molloy
2 months ago
The administration: Hey, we're looking into whether or not we can exclude trans people from the Bill of Rights! Hope no one minds! Our Democratic "allies": *silently wait for consultants to tell them what to say, if anything*
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Evan Urquhart
2 months ago
Strongly agreeing with this. Losing 2A rights would be bad enough on its own, but all of us being declared criminally mentally ill would be a crystal clear sign of even worse to come. That they are even entertaining it is spine-tingling.
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Charlie Warzel
2 months ago
In the days after last week's Minneapolis shooting, I've been continually haunted by the shooter's video and the nihilistic contagion that seems to spread in mass shooter fandom communities. I spoke to
@alexbnewhouse.bsky.social
about how to process this terrible phenomenon w/o helping perpetuate it
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The Mass Shooters Are Performing for One Another
The goal of these attacks is to join a lineage of infamous killers.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/09/minneapolis-church-shooting-influencers/684083/?gift=bQgJMMVzeo8RHHcE1_KM0bWId92v3SX1IIN6O4Grv0s&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
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Erin Reed
2 months ago
1. Denver Public Schools is doing what some prestigious universities and hospitals refuse to do: Standing up for trans students and refusing to capitulate to Trump's anti-trans demands. "We will fight," says the superintendent, despite funding threats. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Denver Schools Defies Trump Trans Bathroom Ban: "We Will Protect All Of Our Students From This Hostile Admin"
The Trump administration is promising to withhold federal funding from the school district unless it implements a trans bathroom ban.
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/denver-schools-defies-trump-trans
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Seth Klamann
3 months ago
New: Rep. Armagost, the legislator facing the censure vote, has resigned, effective immediately. He was already set to leave the legislature on Sept. 1, but he’s now moved that up to avoid the censure vote.
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Jesse Aaron Paul
3 months ago
Republican state representative resigns, sparing him from censure by Democrats in Colorado House
coloradosun.com/2025/08/21/r...
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Republican state representative resigns, sparing him from censure by Democrats in Colorado House
State Rep. Ryan Armagost, R-Berthoud, was already set to leave the legislature on Sept. 1 to pursue a job and personal relationship in Arizona
https://coloradosun.com/2025/08/21/ryan-armagost-resigns-ahead-of-censure/
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Corey Hutchins
3 months ago
Colorado has one remaining alternative-weekly newspaper left after the humiliating catch-and-smother of the Colorado Springs Indy and the messy collapse of Boulder Weekly. Westword is still letting everyone know it's an alt with this headline, "Hey Dickheads"
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Colorado Times Recorder
3 months ago
EXCLUSIVE: In this our investigation into CO’s largest GOP dark money machine, CTR unveils millions of dollars of cash animating Advance Colorado’s operations – as well as their ties to Russian oligarchs, extremist militias, and Colorado’s wealthiest man.
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The Redprint: How Advance Colorado and Anonymous Donors Shape the Political Landscape
The Republican Party wields no official power at the state level in Colorado. Since 2020, the GOP has been shut out of every statewide office and control of either chamber...
https://coloradotimesrecorder.com/2025/08/the-redprint-how-advance-colorado-and-anonymous-donors-shape-the-political-landscape/72168/
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Heidi Beedle
3 months ago
Good morning, I’m in Aurora where U.S. Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO) is hearing from Jack Teter of Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains about the impact of Medicaid funding ban on Planned Parenthood. He describes it as an “existential threat to the organization.”
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"[Rich] praised groups like SFTC, while nodding to the one reporter present, saying 'the media is not on our side.'" Pretty wild stuff.
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Mark Joseph Stern
3 months ago
Recent panic that the Supreme Court might soon overturn marriage equality is unwarranted—the justices are highly unlikely to take up the case that has people worried. And this freak-out risks diverting attention away from the court's subtler, ongoing attack on gay rights.
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The Sudden Panic That SCOTUS Might Overturn Marriage Equality Misses the Real Threat
Kim Davis’ case will not be the vehicle the court uses to eradicate the equal dignity of same-sex couples.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/08/supreme-court-analysis-panic-gay-marriage-equality.html
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Kevin M. Kruse
3 months ago
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Chase Woodruff
3 months ago
Bennet voted to send more bombs and assault rifles to Netanyahu's government eight days ago
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Elizabeth Hernandez
4 months ago
Who is DoBetterDNVR? Meet 3 women feeding information to Denver’s loudest social media critic
www.denverpost.com/2025/08/01/w...
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Who is DoBetterDNVR? Meet 3 women feeding information to Denver’s loudest social media critic
The account routinely excoriates Denver’s current leaders for the way the city approaches addiction and homelessness.
https://www.denverpost.com/2025/08/01/who-is-do-better-denver-dobetterdnvr/
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Erik Maulbetsch
4 months ago
Among the Colorado GOP
#coleg
members who signed a letter calling Denver's climate change campaign "an insult" and lacking "respect," is Rep. Ron Weinberg, who faces multiple allegations of sexual harassment and bullying from Republican women.
#copolitics
denverpost.com/2025/07/29/ron
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Jon Bois
4 months ago
i'm not surprised to see the nfl in the news. the nfl is a million-dollar business – and everyone wants a piece of the pie
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Chase Woodruff
4 months ago
Colorado Republican Rep. Gabe Evans has centered his pro-Trump political identity — and his support for mass deportation — on the story of his Mexican-American grandfather, who he has repeatedly said immigrated “the legal way.” Documents show that isn’t true.
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U.S. Rep. Gabe Evans misrepresented family’s immigration history | Colorado Newsline
U.S. Rep. Gabe Evans of Colorado has mischaracterized the story of how his Depression-era ancestors immigrated to America.
https://coloradonewsline.com/2025/07/22/u-s-rep-gabe-evans-misrepresented-familys-immigration-history/
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Colorado Times Recorder
4 months ago
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"Call it what it is," says columnist @loganmdav about ICE's rampage through the country. "It's an ethnic cleansing." #fyp #foryoupage #Colorado #media #news #journalism #politics #Trump #immigration #...
TikTok video by Colorado Times Recorder
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