Many colleagues and I donated blood this morning after House floor work concluded. Donating blood can be a life-saving way to help others. Many blood banks are in short supply during the winter, so it’s a great time to help by donating whenever you can! #coleg #copols

The 2026 legislative session is officially here! This year we’re focused on:
- Lowering the cost of health care, housing, and child care.
- Investing in our schools & workforce to position Coloradans for success.
- Growing Colorado’s economy and investing in clean, affordable energy. #coleg #copols

Why are Democrats going to hand over the CU board to MAGA? (Opinion) Voters expected Democratic leadership rooted in Colorado values like transparency, inclusion, and accountability. However, CU Regent Callie Rennison chose to undermine that mandate.

Why would Democrats hand over control of our Flagship University to MAGA? I laid it out in today’s Denver Post. #copols #CD1 #skobuffs #wedeservebetter

www.denverpost.com/2026/01/13/c...

Happy Hanukkah! May each candle add a little more light, hope, and happiness to the season. #coleg #copols

My statement in response to the Brown University shooting and Bondi Beach attack. #coleg #copols

My Priorities - Peggy Kelly For School Board

This candidate for St. Vrain school board is anti-LGBT+ and specifically has anti-trans measures that she is fighting for. Spread the word.

#copols

www.peggycares4kids.com/my-priorities

Gang That Can't Rule Straight Spoils Wannabe Political Starlet's Debut | Colorado Pols As the Denver Post's Nick Coltrain reports, Republicans in Colorado House District 14 got a few days ahead of themselves in convening to appoint a replacement for suddenly resigned House Minority Lead...

READY, FIRE, AIM: Gang That Can't Rule Straight Spoils New Wannabe Political Starlet's Debut coloradopols.com/diary/216825... #copolitics #copols #coleg

Another Stupid Republican Recall Sputters Out | Colorado Pols As Cassandra Ballard reports for the Aurora Sentinel, Aurora's headline-hoarding far-right city councillor Danielle Jurnisky's latest cry for attention, a recall campaign she initiated against Arapaho...

Recalls have faded as a tool of political retribution in Colorado, as Aurora's nutty Danielle Jurinsky becomes the latest to learn the hard way.

coloradopols.com/diary/216790... #copolitics #copols #coleg

Republicans Play Weakest Ever Shutdown Blame Game | Colorado Pols As the Washington Post reports, we're twelve hours and counting down to another shutdown of the federal government, and President Donald Trump via Republican congressional leadership is showing no sig...

The Republican blame game over the shutdown set to begin at midnight is so transparent it's like they're not even trying. Everyone knows they're thrilled to shut down the government.

Voters always know who to blame. coloradopols.com/diary/216724... #copolitics #copols #coleg

On Saturday, I came together with Sen. Matt Ball for a town hall at Dora Moore Elementary to discuss Colorado’s most pressing issues and answer questions from constituents. Thank you to all the HD6 and SD31 residents who took time out of their morning to attend. #copols #coleg

Thank you so much to everyone who made it out to last night’s kickoff! Thank you as well to host committee members Karen & Jon Zazzaretti, Victoria Lopez, C.L. Harmer, R.D. Sewald, Josh Hanfling, and the Hon. Dylan Roberts. It was great to share my vision for HD6 and discuss key issues. #copols

Trump Holds Thousands More Federal Employees Hostage In Shutdown Standoff | Colorado Pols As NBC News reports, the White House has introduced a new and troubling potential consideration to the increasingly urgent debate over legislation to keep the government from entering another shutdown...

COLLATERAL DAMAGE: Trump Holds Thousands More Federal Employees Hostage In Shutdown Standoff coloradopols.com/diary/216592... #copolitics #copols #coleg

New Ad Campaign Wallops Gabe Evans On Trump Tariffs | Colorado Pols There isn't time in the news cycle to take note of every ad that goes up in America's hottest U.S. House race, Colorado's ultra-swing CO-08 featuring America's Most Vulnerable Incumbent™ Rep. Gabe Eva...

It's the economy, Gabe Evans. coloradopols.com/diary/216490... #copolitics #copols #coleg #co08

CO Libertarians Say New House GOP Leader Unconcerned by Their Exec Director’s Belief in Antisemitic Conspiracy Theory About Kirk’s Murder | Colorado Pols (It's not the Libertarian Party you remember -- Promoted by Colorado Pols) Originally posted at the Colorado Times Recorder The Libertarian Party of Colorado’s Executive Director Jim Wiley believes th...

Via the Colorado Times Recorder: CO Libertarians Say New House GOP Leader Unconcerned by Their Exec Director’s Belief in Antisemitic Conspiracy Theory About Kirk’s Murder coloradopols.com/diary/216456... #copolitics #copols #coleg

Busted On The Take, And Don't Call Tom Homan Safe Yet | Colorado Pols Over the weekend, MSNBC broke the latest problematic news for the "most transparent administration in American history"--a story that in any other administration would have ended in federal bribery ch...

Border czar Tom Homan got caught on the take for tens of thousands. Trump is standing by Homan today, but that might not last.

“As a former police officer,” Gabe Evans likes to begin, this should stink to high heaven. coloradopols.com/diary/216410... #copolitics #copols #coleg

Colorado, who do you want as Governor?

The Senator who voted for a disproportionate number of Trump nominees, or this guy ↓

#Courage #COpols #COpolitics

Colorado deserves a governor with principles who will fight to protect all of our rights.

Phil is that sort of person.

#COPolitics #COPols

Rep. Jeff Hurd Casts Deciding Vote To Save Ilhan Omar From Censure | Colorado Pols As Politico reports, another moment of high manufactured drama from the ever-melodramatic Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina fizzled out yesterday afternoon, as a resolution fast-tracked by Rep. Mace t...

Rep. Jeff Hurd cast the deciding vote to squash a censure motion targeting Rep. Ilhan Omar...then called Omar "crazy" and her remarks "evil."

This is par for the course for Hurd, who talked big about saving Medicaid before folding. coloradopols.com/diary/216292... #copolitics #copols

The Worst-Case Scenario For House Minority Leader | Colorado Pols UPDATE: Rep. Ken DeGraaf responds to your humble hosts: We feel like we're speaking for everyone when we say...okie dokie then. ----- Following the sudden resignation of Republican House Minority Lead...

Following the sudden resignation of Republican House Minority Leader Rose Pugliese, far-right Rep. Ty Winter's name is circulating to succeed her.

As bad as that sounds, it could get worse. Much worse.

coloradopols.com/diary/216249... #copolitics #copols #coleg

GOP House Minority Leader's Sudden Turnabout On Policing Speech | Colorado Pols In the nearly two days since the assassination on Wednesday of conservative activist Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University, mourning from conservatives over Kirk's death has been channeled into a nat...

In the aftermath of Wednesday's tragic murder of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, Colorado GOP House Minority Leader
@RoseforCO
has had a 180-degree turnabout on the matter of policing speech.

coloradopols.com/diary/216152... #copolitics #copols #coleg

My statement on the death of prominent far-right figure Charlie Kirk. #coleg #copols

My statement regarding the tragic shooting at Evergreen High School. #copols #coleg

Gabe Evans: Forget Medicaid Cuts, Hooray For Military Boondoggles! | Colorado Pols A seemingly out-of-the-blue message last night from America's Most Vulnerable Incumbent™ Rep. Gabe Evans invited us in for a closer look: This is Evans praising what he calls "innovative technology" a...

Worried about food stamp cuts?

Congressman Gabe Evans (R-Ft. Lupton) declares, "Let them eat fighter planes!"

coloradopols.com/diary/216034... #copolitics #copols #coleg

Barb Kirkmeyer's Sacrificial Lamb Gubernatorial Bid Launches Tomorrow | Colorado Pols A press advisory this morning directs interested parties to Historic Fort Lupton tomorrow evening, a notable venue as we'll explain, for the announcement we've been awaiting for months: not so much ou...

¯\_(ツ)_/¯: Barb Kirkmeyer's Sacrificial Lamb Gubernatorial Bid Launches Tomorrow coloradopols.com/diary/215955... #copolitics #copols #coleg #cogov

Gov. Polis Rejects Tina Peters Quid Pro Quo: "Justice Is Not For Sale" | Colorado Pols NEW: Gov Jared Polis (D) tells me he won't free President Trump's ally Tina Peters from prison to prevent more retaliation like Trump's removal of Space Command from Colorado. "Justice is not for sale...

Gov. Polis Rejects Tina Peters Quid Pro Quo: "Justice Is Not For Sale"

coloradopols.com/diary/215850... #copolitics #copols #coleg

Colorado's Chris Wright Takes Withering Scientific Fire | Colorado Pols As NPR's Julia Simon reports, while President Donald Trump's Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. faces brutal bipartisan questioning in the U.S. Senate after plunging his depart...

The RFK Jr. Of Fracking: Colorado's Chris Wright Takes Withering Scientific Fire coloradopols.com/diary/215883... #copolitics #copols #coleg

Colorado's Fiscal Starvation Diet: How About A Real Solution? | Colorado Pols After a difficult week of budget cuts and loophole closures to address the billion-dollar hole in Colorado's state budget opened by the passage of the federal "We're All Going To Die Act" budget bill,...

After learning once again a painful lesson about relying too much on the fickle federal government, Colorado progressive policy groups have a proposal to put an end to the state's perpetual fiscal starvation diet.

coloradopols.com/diary/215800... #copolitics #copols #coleg

Boebert Committing "Very Hostile Act" Against Trump Over Epstein Files | Colorado Pols With Congress back in session after a lengthy August recess made even longer by the premature adjournment of the U.S. House to forestall a vote to fully release the files from the case of deceased bil...

Don't look now, but Lauren Boebert may be committing a "very hostile act" against Trump over the #EpsteinFiles.

Though Boebert has caved before.

coloradopols.com/diary/215810... #copolitics #copols #coleg

HB25B-1004 was officially passed by the General Assembly yesterday afternoon on the last day of the 2025 Special Session. It's now on its way to the Governor! #coleg #copols

Rural hospitals are essential for so many #CO residents and I'm so happy to see Gov. Polis, UCHealth and CHCPF reach an agreement that will protect our state’s provider fee while supporting hospitals. #coleg #copols