The Soapbox

Yet another vacancy committee of political party insiders has replaced Coloradans's votes and selected the third new state senator to serve in the legislative session that began (checks calendar) this week. For those keeping score, that brings the total number of...

Colorado Democrats voted in lockstep against the Laken Riley Act to detain illegal aliens who commit theft-related crimes and allow states to sue the feds on behalf of their citizens for not enforcing border laws. The bill passed the House on a 264-159 vote, with 48...

Build it and they will come. That’s what Peak Politics predicted when Denver Mayor Johnston pledged to spend a now estimated $155 million to establish a homelessness infrastructure of social workers and free temporary housing with benefits. Meanwhile, none of those...

Kyle Clark over at 9News kicked off the new year with a bizarre new tactic to villainize Republican lawmakers. Just hours after the new congressional session convened on Friday, Clark attacked newly elected U.S. Rep. Gabe Evans for “ducking questions” about a bill...

The mayors of Aurora and Denver are in a fascinating public feud over the Sanctuary City’s dumping of illegal migrants on its neighbor without warning that welfare and emergency services might be warranted. And in this case, both certainly have been in great demand....

Radical progressives succeeded in getting one of their own chosen to fill the term of a popular Arapahoe County state senator who resigned right after she was reelected in November. That’s how Democracy is practiced nowadays by Colorado Democrats; through the bait and...

Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold blessedly is term-limited; that’s the good news. The bad news is another Democrat of the same political mold announced her candidacy Monday to run for the seat in the 2026 election — Amanda Gonzalez, the current clerk and...

The Colorado congressional delegation has some fresh Republican blood coursing through the House of Representatives who voted on Friday for Mike Johnson as Speaker of the House on the first vote with only one Republican (form Kentucky) voting against him. The people...