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This weekend, a who’s-who of the far right gathered in Denver for the Western Conservative Summit. Attorney General Jeff Sessions and EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt, two of the most anti-Colorado members of the Trump administration, headlined an event that seems tailor-made to showcase the very worst in American politics today. As usual in the era […]

June 1 was my second anniversary as the executive director of ProgressNow Colorado. I wanted to take just a moment to talk about the experience. Since our founding in late 2003, ProgressNow Colorado has served as the state’s first line of response in support of progressive solutions to the problems our state and nation face. […]

Colorado’s economy is booming, but not everyone is sharing in the good times. With the cost of living in Colorado soaring, thousands of working families are forced every year to turn to unscrupulous “payday lenders” who charge incredibly high interest rates on small loans. Because of the high cost of borrowing from payday lenders, borrowers […]

Another terrible school shooting. Once again the debates over how to stop the carnage of mass shootings begin, the talking heads recite their talking points, and politicians weigh the cost/benefit of saving lives versus pleasing big donors. It’s a sad, predictable cycle that frustrates everyone except those who benefit from the deadly status quo. We […]

The 2018 session of the Colorado legislature is finally over. With your help, the progressive coalition of civic engagement groups, lawmakers, and concerned residents of Colorado just like you fought back against the far-right fringe, stopped terrible laws like abortion bans and drastic weakening of our state’s common-sense gun laws, and even made some progress […]

This week, the 2018 session of the Colorado legislature comes to a close. The political news headlines are almost always about the bad news and gridlock in Washington, D.C. In some years, our Colorado General Assembly stands in contrast to dysfunctional politics at the national level. Unfortunately, in 2018 we’ve seen repeated examples of partisan […]

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 […]