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Democrat Adam Frisch on Wednesday afternoon conceded to Jeff Hurd in the race to fill the seat of outgoing Rep. Lauren Boebert in Colorado's 3rd Congressional District. Hurd is a Republican from Grand Junction who spent his working life as both an attorney and small business owner before deciding recently to become a politician. ... CD3 covers much of Colorado's Western Slope as well as parts of southern Colorado, including the city of Pueblo. After a very close race for U.S. House there 2 years ago, Boebert decided to change districts. She moved east and was successful in her campaign...

Voters across the country weighed in on ranked choice voting ballot initiatives Tuesday, with a vast majority rejecting the system amid an intensifying debate over its effects on elections. RCV, which allows voters to rank candidates by preference rather than selecting only one, has faced mounting opposition at both state and local levels. This year’s election results featured a mixed outcome, with state-level ballot measures predominantly failing but some cities voting to adopt or maintain RCV. Here are the major takeaways from RCV ballot initiatives from the 2024 election:Measures to implement RCV in Oregon and to introduce RCV and open...

Pro-life experts have sent out their final warnings to the 10 states that have abortion-related initiatives on the ballot. Family Research Council has put together a Life on the Ballot resource to help educate voters about what these measures entail in Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Maryland, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New York, and South Dakota. “[W]hat’s so critical about these,” guest host and former Congressman Jody Hice stated, is that they “are constitutional referendums” that enshrine abortion as a fundamental right in these state’s constitutions. “[C]ertainly,” he added, “all Bible-believing Christ followers in those states [need] to go out and vote...

A Denver cardiologist has been sentenced to 158 years in prison for drugging and raping several Colorado women he met on dating apps. The sentencing judge castigated 36-year-old “narcissistic monster” and former doctor Stephen Matthews at his Friday hearing for luring 10 women to his west Denver townhouse, spiking their drinks and then raping eight of them between 2019 and 2023, according to CBS News. “Evidence in this case is overwhelming,” Judge Eric Johnson said, addressing the convicted creep directly. “You have diminished this world.” Former cardiologist-turned-serial rapist Stephen Matthews has landed life behind bars. Matthews’ victims and their families...

With just days to go before the general election, the Colorado secretary of state is facing a lawsuit over the leak of sensitive election system passwords that were inadvertently left exposed for months on her office’s website. The lawsuit, filed Friday in Denver District Court by the Libertarian Party of Colorado and James Wiley, the Libertarian candidate for Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District seat, names Jena Griswold, the Democratic secretary of state, and Chris Beall, the deputy secretary of state, as defendants. Hannah Goodman, the Libertarian Party state chair, is also named as a plaintiff. The suit had not yet appeared...

Secretary of State Jena Griswold refuses to take responsibility for any of the numerous mishaps in her office including the posting of critical voter system passwords that remained online for months. However, the civil servant served up by Griswold as the scapegoat she says is responsible for the leak no longer works in that office. No, the buck does not stop with Griswold for the black eye on Colorado’s alleged golden election system. She’s also blaming the Democrat-controlled state legislature for refusing to give her all the taxpayer dollars she demanded for personal security budget increases. That won’t serve her...

An opinion piece by a retired neonatologist recently published in The Denver Post highlights some of the dangers of the extreme pro-abortion amendment the state’s voters will see on the ballot next week. In the piece, Dr. Elizabeth H. Thilo warns that Amendment 79 would allow abortion all the way up to birth, even though infants born in the late second and third trimesters are capable of surviving outside the womb — a dichotomy she invites readers to consider. “There is no question in my mind, or in the medical literature, that premature infants who are 23 weeks or 24...

DENVER — The Trump-Vance campaign has sent a letter to Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold demanding that the processing of many mail-in ballots in the state be temporarily halted. The letter, posted on Donald Trump’s campaign website, cited the recent incident where partial passwords connected to the state’s voting systems were posted on the Secretary of State’s website. “This disclosure directly violates the law and undermines the integrity of our elections,” the demand on the Trump campaign website said. The letter demanded that Griswold’s office immediately identify the counties that were affected and order a new trusted build. This...

Gold Star Mom Tina Peters has been sentenced to potentially die in prison for preserving election files that were ordered to be illegally deleted by Jena Griswold Meanwhile, Jena Griswold has “accidentally leaked” all the voting machine passwords and nothing happens Injustice. ... Gold Star Mom Tina Peters sacrificed her freedom to expose election fraud in Colorado Now that she’s been sentences to 9 years in prison, she’s released her election fraud findings It shows they deleted files Her incredible work needs to be publicized, analyzed, and amplified

DENVER (KDVR) — Colorado’s Republican party accused the Colorado Secretary of State’s Office of “quietly” removing a publicly accessible spreadsheet from the office’s website that “contained BIOS passwords for election systems in 63 of the 64 counties in Colorado.” The GOP said in its release that there were over 600 “BIOS” passwords that were not encrypted or protected, and were open to the public for anyone who knew where to look. BIOS, or Basic Input/Output System, is how a computer’s operating system knows how to operate.... The Colorado Republican Party called on the Secretary of State’s Office to provide a...

Jorgenys Robertson Cova is an illegal alien from Venezuela who entered the U.S. two years ago.. Authorities have arrested a confirmed Tren de Aragua gang member, after he allegedly recruited students from two Houston middle schools to join the Venezuelan gang. According to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Jorgenys Robertson Cova—an illegal alien from Venezuela—entered the United States two years ago. Cova is suspected to have recruited students from Jane Long Academy and Las Americas—both of which are located in the Houston Independent School District. He was arrested last week after being wanted in Pearland for theft and was accused...

The Venezuelan prison gang known as Tren de Aragua (TdA) eyed Denver as its headquarters in the U.S., according to internal communications within the Aurora Police Department. The internal communications were citing federal intelligence reports. “Intelligence from ICE is that TdA has decided to make Denver their headquarters in the U.S. and will be violent toward anyone who encroaches on their territory,” one police bulletin from October 2023 said. The reason? Denver’s status as a sanctuary city. In response to questions from The Denver Gazette, the Denver Police Department said it was aware of a tip regarding the “possibility” of...

AURORA, Colo. (AP) — Starting seventh grade at her first American school, facing classes taught entirely in English, Alisson Ramirez steeled herself for rejection and months of feeling lost. “I was nervous that people would ask me things and I wouldn’t know how to answer,” the Venezuelan teen says. “And I would be ashamed to answer in Spanish.” Outside the classrooms, it’s a different story. While that school system is striving to accommodate more than 3,000 new students mostly from Venezuela and Colombia, the city government has taken the opposite approach. City Council has tried to dissuade Venezuelan immigrants from...

Thousands of ballots that have already been cast in Mesa County, Colorado are being examined for evidence of fraud after election officials identified at least a dozen fraudulent ballots. On Thursday, Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold announced in a press conference Thursday that a criminal voter fraud probe was being opened in the county. “It appears that as of now approximately a dozen voters in Mesa County had their ballots intercepted before they arrived to them and cast without their knowledge,” she said. The fraud was discovered when election workers were going through the signature verification process. Staffers compared...

We wanted to share the following information with you from our friends at Right to Know Colorado. We wanted to make certain that you, your friends, and your neighbors would be aware of this very critical information. Colorado’s General Election is right around the corner, and there is an amendment on the ballot (Amendment 79) that would enshrine a “right” to abortion in Colorado’s constitution and repeal the constitutional ban on public funding of abortion. See below for more information about Amendment 79 and vote NO on this amendment on November 5th! We encourage you to join Right to Know...

CV NEWS FEED // In a shift that has stunned the pro-abortion community, Dr. Forrest Smith, a veteran abortion provider, is now calling on voters across the nation to reject all 10 state abortion amendments on the ballot in the upcoming election. Having performed thousands of abortions over his long career, Dr. Smith has undergone a profound change of heart and now advocates for ending abortion, especially for viable babies. “There is no need to kill viable babies,” he declared, urging the nation to consider alternatives. Dr. Smith, who has also delivered thousands of babies over his 54-year career as...

Dozens of people across the U.S. have contracted E. coli traced to ingredients in McDonald's Quarter Pounders, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said Tuesday. So far, 49 people from 10 states have fallen ill with a strain known as E. coli O157:H7, which causes a severe intestinal infection in humans. Most of the cases have been in Colorado, which has 27 reported cases, and Nebraska, which has nine reported cases, according to the CDC. MORE: Listeria recall expands to nearly 12 million pounds of meat, hits US schools Ten people have been hospitalized, including a child with...

In the last month of the presidential campaign, former President Donald Trump is doubling down on his promise to carry out the largest mass deportation effort in American history. In Reading, Pennsylvania, last week, Trump drew fervent applause from a rally crowd after saying he would "get these people out" and "deport them so rapidly." In Aurora, Colorado, on Friday, Trump told rallygoers he would "rescue Aurora and every town that has been invaded and conquered." Immigration researchers, lawyers, and economists have pointed to immense constitutional, humanitarian and economic problems posed by Trump's oft-repeated pledge. But beyond the anticipated damage...

Terrifying new research has laid bare how notorious Venezuelan super gang Tren de Aragua's criminal tentacles have spread across America. Members of the violent migrant gang TdA have crept into the US hidden among the one million Venezuelan migrants who have entered the country during the Biden administration.

The proof of Tren de Aragua’s violence in Aurora, Colo., is written in blood. A fed-up landlord in the Denver suburb has shared a bloody photo of one of its workers after the man was allegedly beaten to a pulp by members of the brutal Venezuelan prison gang for refusing to let them stay in a vacant apartment they had taken over. The Brooklyn-based company claimed that the gang effectively stole entire apartment complexes out from under it by threatening employees and tried to extort it for a cut of the rent in exchange for being allowed to keep operating...