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It’s a short but very busy week for the resistance in Colorado. Let’s get right to it. Tonight, Rep. Mike Coffman is holding a town hall meeting at Cherry Creek High School in Greenwood Village. After Republicans in Washington once again failed to pass immigration reform last week, Coffman has a lot to answer for. […]

This week marks a very important anniversary. The 25th, in fact. In 1993, then-President Bill Clinton signed the Family Medical Leave Act into law. Since then, American workers have used the protections in the FMLA some 200 million times to take time off from work to care for themselves and their family without worrying about […]

The 2018 session of the Colorado legislature is underway right now! And unlike the gridlock and finger-pointing in Washington, there’s hope of actually getting some good things accomplished at the state level this year. The Colorado House’s top priority this year is called FAMLI: the Family Medical Leave Insurance Program. Almost everyone at some point […]

For weeks leading up to this past Saturday, the pundits crowed about the second Women’s March. There’s no way it would be anywhere near as big as last year’s, they said. The resistance is petering out, they said. Tax cuts for the wealthy bought off America, they said. They were wrong. An estimated 150,000 people […]

Holding the powerful accountable and fighting for the rights of everyone is not always the easy choice. Here in Denver, a city considered progressive and innovative by so many yardsticks, there’s a conflict brewing between new growth occurring in the urban core of the city and the communities that thrived here for decades before it […]

After almost a year of Trump in the White House, the resistance is shifting: not away from Trump, but toward every conservative politician who helped elected him and has enabled his disastrous first year as President of the United States. We’ve proven successful at slowing down Trump’s agenda, and stopping much of it in its […]