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In the end, the threats couldn’t hold them back. This weekend, students gathered at the Colorado State Capitol to march in support for reducing gun violence across America. Part of a nationwide March on the NRA, they joined thousands of students and other Americans concerned about gun violence to call for real solutions instead of […]

August will be a very important month for the resistance in Colorado. Traditionally, the month of August is a time for political leaders to return home from Washington to get feedback from their constituents about their agenda. But since Trump became President, Colorado Republicans have become just plain fearful of the very people they represent. […]

This past weekend, a strange political convention came to town. Democrats for Life of America (DFLA), an anti-choice organization claiming to be the “pro-life voice and wing” of the Democratic Party, hosted its inaugural conference in Denver ahead of the 2018 elections. Representative Jovan Melton, Representative Leslie Herod, and Senator Rhonda Fields joined ProgressNow Colorado, […]

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 […]

Last week, the Trump administration’s incompetent and hateful policy of family separations at the southern border fell apart as outrage from the overwhelming majority of Americans forced the President to do something he swore only hours before that he couldn’t. Public officials from all stripes traveled to Texas this weekend to show their support for […]

As I write this message, a humanitarian crisis is unfolding on the nation’s southern border. Thousands of children are being forcibly separated from their parents and housed in facilities that meet the literal and moral definition of internment camps. Taking innocent children from their families and placing them in internment camps is wrong. What is […]