Another Colorado name has surfaced in the Epstein files. www.denverpost.com/2026/02/12/c...

Pres Trump says he did not invite CO Gov Polis to NGA dinner and working meeting at WH over Tina Peter. Polis was the Chair of the NGA 2024-2025. #copolitics

Last year, a Democratic lawmaker readying a congressional run voted against a bill limiting state cooperation with ICE. This morning, the candidate, Shannon Bird, put out a plan to “hold ICE accountable.” On the shifting dynamics of Democrats’ immigration politics: www.denverpost.com/2026/02/08/c...

President Donald Trump "personally blocked" Colorado Gov. Jared Polis from receiving an invite to a White House dinner for the nations governors, per NYT www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/u... #copolitics #coleg

The murder of the Washington Post is devastating for journalism and for Americans’ ability to chronicle and understand our own society. Another case study of what happens when invaluable civic institutions fall into the hands of fundamentally uncivic billionaires.

Let’s remember Lummis owns $$$ worth of BTC. Of freakin’ course she wants the government to buy.

“In America, we do not arrest journalists for doing their jobs. The Minnesota journalism community stands united in defense of press freedom and the essential role reporting plays in holding power to account.”

Update: In a new statement - sent 12 hrs after publication - Gov. Polis' spokeswoman said the office is "taking this very seriously and (is) demanding that HCPF ensure it never happens again." "We are taking actions like requesting future audits ... and are working to ensure full transparency."

A jury found former Colorado state Sen. Sonya Jaquez Lewis guilty today of 3 counts of forgery and 1 charge of attempting to influence a public servant, all felonies that stemmed from allegations that the Longmont Democrat mistreated aides while in office // Story by @coltrain.bsky.social

In Colorado, ICE accused of leaving “death cards” in arrested immigrants’ abandoned cars. Via @sethklamann.bsky.social www.denverpost.com/2026/01/23/c...

Man shot by federal agents has died, police chief says www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

Protests are happening right now in Hudson over federal plans to reopen a shuttered prison for ICE detention. www.denverpost.com/2026/01/21/h...

BREAKING: Immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to enter homes without a judge’s warrant, a memo obtained by AP says.

New: Tina Peters was involved in a brief scuffle with a fellow inmate Sunday night, and video shows Peter grabbing and shoving the other woman as the other inmate tries to move a cart out of the way of closet door: www.denverpost.com/2026/01/19/c...

Gov. Jared Polis unilaterally stalled a specialized prison program aimed at rehabilitating and releasing people who have served decades for crimes committed as juveniles and young adults, @denverpost.com's Shelly Bradbury reports. After 2023, Polis stopped signing off on the early releases.

so former Rep. Doug Lamborn converted his campaign account to a PAC recently. Promoting American Values filed its year-end report and $7,500 of $8,245 spent went to the company owned by Lamborn's wife. #copolitics

NEW: A family member confirms to 9NEWS that Renee Good, the woman killed by ICE in Minneapolis today, was originally from the Colorado Springs area.

Kind of a wild story here. A mystery person took control of CU Boulder's student news outlet & turned it into AI slop. The students made a new website & lawyered up. But, it turns out, AI is a hard beast to fight. www.denverpost.com/2026/01/05/c... via @denverpost.com

Colorado requires many sex offenders to complete treatment before leaving prison. But a chronic shortage of providers means hundreds have languished past their initial parole date, while nearly 2,000 more - sex offenders under a different sentence - were released with no treatment: trib.al/LubH0ty

CFOIC's year in review: Coloradans fought for press freedom and freedom of information in 2025 in settings as small as the Eastern Plains town of Bennett and as big as the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C.

"Proceedings were delayed Friday morning after personnel at the detention center, which is privately run by the Geo Group, told reporters and supporters that they couldn’t enter the courtroom." // Story by @sethklamann.bsky.social

Colorado state Sen. Faith Winter was legally intoxicated and at fault for the November car accident in which she was killed, Arapahoe County investigators said Friday // Story by @sethklamann.bsky.social

U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse, a Democrat who represents Boulder, called the move to close NCAR “a deeply dangerous — and blatantly retaliatory action against Colorado — by the Trump administration.” // Story by @laurenpenington.bsky.social

Not a big deal in the grand scheme of things, but the Justice Department attorney who just filed the lawsuit against Colorado seeking voter records apparently didn't understand the district court's relevant rules for doing so:

President Donald Trump claimed to grant imprisoned former Colorado county clerk Tina Peters a “full pardon” tonight — a power constitutional law experts say he cannot wield for a person convicted of state-level crimes // Story by @coltrain.bsky.social

This story shows the lengths to which a private-equity landlord will go to quash its tenants’ union efforts, organizers allege, using aggressive tactics honed by employers in the days before the National Labor Relations Act. www.denverpost.com/2025/12/11/c...

“She has marks on her neck and wrist from where agents restrained her. Agents cut off her wedding ring and held her in leg shackles at Whipple Federal Building for about five hours.” Her crime: witnessing ICE, from a distance.

NEW: How allies of Sen. John Hickenlooper tried to ward off a progressive challenge in the primary by state Sen. Julie Gonzales. It didn't work. Read @sethklamann.bsky.social: www.denverpost.com/2025/12/09/c...

New: Colorado state senator launches progressive primary challenge of U.S. Sen. John Hickenlooper www.denverpost.com/2025/12/08/c... via @sethklamann.bsky.social

Gov. Polis tweets favorably about a writer (Hanania) who spent the earlier part of the century writing for white supremacist websites and more recently contributed to Project 2025 and, separately, called for “more policing, incarceration, and surveillance of black people.”

Great reporting from @bentebirkeland.bsky.social on Faith Winter’s courage in standing up against sexual harassment at the #copolitics Capitol. RIP 😓

folks, please be sure to support actual journalists! there's so many amazing newsrooms doing amazing work right now.

Shoutout to @elliottwenzler.bsky.social for getting "raccooncidents" in the @denverpost.com www.denverpost.com/2025/12/02/d...

“She believed in the work she was doing, believed in the power of friendship and connection and will always live on that way and certainly live on in my heart.” Colorado Sen. Faith Winter was killed Wed. in a crash on I-25. She was 45 years old. via @denverpost.com www.denverpost.com/2025/11/27/f...

Incredibly sad news: State Sen. Faith Winter, 45, died in a multi-car accident on I-25 near Dry Creek this evening. All of us at Colorado Politics mourn with her family, friends and those she served in Senate District 25. www.coloradopolitics.com/2025/11/26/c...

Denver nonprofits are turning down federal grants, locking doors and using encrypted messaging apps to avoid "unprecedented" ideological scrutiny by the Trump administration via @sethklamann.bsky.social (gift link)

The National Labor Relations Board has found Starbucks illegally fired workers in response to organizing, closed stores because of union votes and engaged in widespread unfair labor practices designed to quash workers’ efforts. www.denverpost.com/2025/11/23/s...

“(CU) has definitely been repressing student activists, which is already in itself a horrible thing for them to do … but repressing journalists is a new low for them, honestly.” Agreed. www.dailycamera.com/2025/11/20/c...

New: Colorado Independent Ethics Commission votes unanimously to advance the 17 ethics complaints filed against state lawmakers who serve in the Colorado Opportunity Caucus and who (with one exception) attended a private retreat in Vail last month, which was partially financed by a dark money group.

New: Federal officials formally requested that former Colorado county clerk Tina Peters be transferred to federal custody, the latest in a monthslong effort by the Trump administration to free the election conspiracy theorist from a state prison cell.

Despite White House pressure, Rep. Lauren Boebert stands firm on effort to release Epstein files www.cpr.org/2025/11/12/b... #copolitics

Sens Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper on their No votes to advance the package to reopen the government. But cited what was not included - an extension of the enhanced tax credit. #copolitics

After word of the complaints leaked yesterday, Colorado Common Cause was pressured to drop the idea because, Common Cause’s attorney said, it would reflect poorly on Democrats. The attorney declined to identify who had pressured his group to drop the ethics complaints.

“It is just as effective as us trying to plow a field with a fork," a legislative analyst said of Colorado's $10m kick-in to food banks. With @coltrain.bsky.social, @lizzy-hernandez.bsky.social speaks to the people affected by shutdown politics: www.denverpost.com/2025/10/31/s...

The Colorado Bureau of Investigation is investigating whether a federal agent seen on video throwing a demonstrator to the ground outside the ICE field office in Durango this week broke any state laws // Story by @katielang.bsky.social

ICE detained a Colorado teacher and her family during a routine check-in at a field office last week despite the educator having legal authorization to live and work in the United States, according to school officials // Story by @sethklamann.bsky.social

Surveillance in action: "You know we have cameras in that jurisdiction and you can’t get a breath of fresh air, in or out of that place, without us knowing, correct?” denverite.com/2025/10/27/b...

Per Fox News’ Bill Melugin, the head of Denver’s ICE field office has been removed and will likely be replaced with a Border Patrol official, as part of broader DHS reshuffle intended to further escalate arrests:

Colorado’s most valuable company, Palantir, is among the donors supporting Trump’s ballroom construction, according to a list released by the White House: www.denverpost.com/2025/10/24/c...

The entire Colorado journalism community actually doubles as a @jeffreyaroberts.bsky.social fan club for the amazing, relentless work he does to make our state more transparent.