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Like these alerts? Click here to subscribe. Or, download the Beacon (formerly RiseUp) app and never miss an action. The 2019 legislative session is over, and a summer of organizing before the crucial 2020 election season lies ahead. Over the past two and a half years, Colorado’s progressive grassroots has evolved far beyond mere resistance […]

I hope your holiday season was was wonderful and you enjoyed some quality time with your friends and family. The week, the new progressive Colorado legislature gets to work with a huge backlog of important legislation to consider. Tomorrow, the state’s new Governor Jared Polis will be sworn in, and then the fight is on […]

Two years ago this week, Colorado progressives watched in horror as a minority of American voters elected Donald Trump to be our next President. Colorado never supported Donald Trump. Trump didn’t win the Republican caucus, and he didn’t win the general election in our state, either. In 2016, Colorado progressives grew the state house majority, […]

In the last week, we’ve witnessed horrible acts of political violence and intimidation across the nation. Bombs mailed to former Presidents and other critics of Donald Trump, a racially-motivated random shooting in Kentucky, and then the unthinkable killing of 11 people attending services at a Pittsburgh synagogue this past weekend. My grandparents survived the holocaust. […]

Brett Kavanaugh. Vladimir Putin. Donald Trump. Walker Stapleton. This past weekend, resistance events across Colorado set the stage of the biggest summer of organizing ahead of a major election in at least a decade. Conservatives like Walker Stapleton and Cory Gardner tried to assure the party faithful that all is well and Donald Trump is […]

Last weekend, thousands of Coloradans marched in downtown Denver, in solidarity with protests occurring in cities around the nation. After the Trump administration’s disastrous policy of separating families at the border broke down under international condemnation, hundreds of children remain separated from their parents—and Trump’s inhumane persecution of asylum-seekers and families coming to America for […]

THE WINNERS Colorado’s Kids This year’s state budget had a little more room for funding for our public schools, and lawmakers did what they could to support education after years of painful cuts. The fight to properly fund public education at every level took center stage late in the session when thousands of teachers and […]

In America today, no institution is more crucial to our success and at the same time vilified than our public education system. Without education, Americans can’t compete. But, here in Colorado our teachers lack the most essential resources they need to carry out their responsibilities in the classroom—and when teachers go home at night they […]

“A hate-inspired group?” As Colorado’s largest online progressive advocacy organization, we at ProgressNow Colorado get a lot of requests from progressive activists and grassroots groups for assistance with organizing and promoting events. With an up-to-date press list and tools for broadcasting press releases and news alerts (like this one) to thousands of people with one […]