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Yesterday the Colorado House passed House Bill 24-1095, legislation to increase penalties on employers who violate child labor law. From a House Democratic majority press release: “Over the years, Colorado has made important progress to improve child labor laws – but we must ensure violators are held accountable for their actions,” said Rep. Sheila Lieder ..read more
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We’ve gone through the four big Congressional Primary races that will be decided on June 25 (CO-03, CO-04, CO-05, and CO-08). Now it’s time to hear from you. Readers of Colorado Pols have traditionally been weirdly accurate at predicting the outcomes of big races in Colorado, and we’re asking you to do it again. We’ll ..read more
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As the Washington Post’s Yvonne Wingett Sanchez reports, a grand jury in our neighboring state of Arizona has returned felony indictments against a number of members of former President Donald Trump’s “Elite Strike Force” legal team, which plotted the overturning of the 2020 elections in multiple states including in Georgia where felony convictions in a ..read more
Colorado Pols
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Colorado will have four major Congressional Primary races in June (CO-03, CO-04, CO-05, and CO-08). Now that the assembly and petition processes for ballot access are complete, it’s time to assess how each of these three races will look on June 25th… Click below for our breakdowns of other Congressional Primary races in 2024: CO-03 ..read more
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“Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess.” –Charles Dickens ..read more
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Republicans in the state legislature continue to obey their idiot masters at the NRA and RMGO in opposing any and all gun violence prevention legislation. It matters not whether these proposals are straightforward and obvious concepts; if Democrats suggest so much as limiting someone’s access to owning a combination machine gun and flamethrower, Colorado Republican ..read more
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The first witness in the trial currently underway over former President Donald Trump’s alleged falsification of business records to conceal a “hush money” payment to porn star Stormy Daniels, former National Enquirer publisher and longtime Trump business associate David Pecker, only had a few minutes to preview yesterday the full extent of his role in ..read more
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This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, Ian is/was coming in from Our Nation’s Capitol, Washington DC, where the GOP Micro-Majority is getting sick and tired of threats and shenanigans coming from…other members of the GOP Micro-Majority. Then, we check in on the smaller, more golden-domed capitol building in the centennial state where lawmakers ..read more
Colorado Pols
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Over the weekend, the U.S. House passed three separate foreign aid bills appropriating billions of dollars to support allies in Taiwan, Ukraine, and Israel. House Speaker Mike Johnson’s decision to allow votes on these three separate bills, each with its own bipartisan majority coalition available to pass, has outraged the hard right led by Rep ..read more