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Socalist Colorado congressional candidate Melat Kiros blamed Israel’s activity in the Middle East for inspiring attacks on Jewish people in other countries during an interview on Wednesday. Kiros is part of a wave of anti-Israel, far-left candidates gaining popularity in the Democratic Party. She won her primary in her Denver-area district this week, ousting longtime incumbent Diana Degette on the heels of far-left candidates winning their primaries in New York last month.

ASPEN, COLORADO — Billionaire Peter Thiel stunned a largely liberal audience Tuesday at the Aspen Institute's Ideas Festival with a warning that democratic socialists are taking over the Democratic Party. During a panel discussion about the direction of humanity, Thiel lamented the cultural, technological and economic "stagnation" that has taken place in recent years, something he considered to be "very destabilizing" in the long term. He argued that the "haywire" effects of that stagnation trickled into politics. "My generation was the first one where things felt really stuck," Thiel said. "I think millennials are doing less well than their boomer...

Manny Rutinel has just won the Democratic primary in Colorado's 8th Congressional District, and that should raise red flags for the people he hopes to represent. Why? Well, Rutinel has a long history of radical vegan activism, and animal agriculture is a massive economic engine in the district Rutinel hopes to represent. In fact, the 8th Congressional district is considered Colorado's agricultural capital. It is home to Weld County, the state's most agriculturally productive county, as well as some of the nation's biggest meat and dairy producers, the very companies Rutinel's vegan activism has targeted over the years. This includes...

Monday on “The Alex Marlow Show,” Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow talked about Melat Kiros. Marlow said, “If I had read that and told you that that was said by Usama bin Laden, not one of you in the audience would doubt me.”

Insurgent socialist candidate Melat Kiros defeated longtime Rep. Diana DeGette (D-Colo.) Tuesday in Colorado’s 1st District House primary, marking the latest blow to the establishment wing of the Democratic Party. Kiros came out on top of the incumbent, 49.3% to 43.5%, by the time the Associated Press called the race late Tuesday. Kiros’s win in the solidly blue district follows a string of victories by socialist and far-left candidates over incumbent and establishment-backed Democrats in New York in June, and it’s expected to tilt the political makeup of the House Democratic caucus even further to the left after the midterm...

After two Mamdani-backed, card-carrying members of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) political party won their respective House primaries last Tuesday in New York, all eyes turned to Colorado's 1st Congressional District Democrat primary, which featured longtime incumbent Rep. Diana DeGette facing off against DSA member Melat Kiros. The primary was Tuesday night, and, with 78 percent reporting as of this writing, Decision Desk HQ has called it for Kiros in what may be the biggest primary upset for an incumbent Democrat House member this midterm election cycle. DeGette, 68, is Colorado's longest-serving member of Congress, having been in office...

The Socialists aren't just taking over New York. This happened in Colorado. A 29-year-old Democratic Socialist ousted a longtime Democrat incumbent in Colorado's 1st District in Tuesday night's House primary. Far-left candidate Melat Kiros defeated 15-time incumbent Democrat Rep. Diana DeGette on Tuesday night. Kiros, who was born in Ethiopia, was backed by the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). 🚨 It's crunch time in Colorado 🚨 We have just ONE more day to send @MelatKirosCO to Congress! We made 110k calls on Friday, but we're not done yet... Join us tonight @ 6 PM MT/8 PM ET to break Friday's...

Colorado House Primary Results 2026 Longtime Democratic Rep. Diana DeGette faces an energetic challenge in her primary, with democratic socialist Melat Kiros winning prominent national endorsements and building a base of volunteers. Meanwhile, Democratic voters are also picking a candidate in Colorado’s most closely divided congressional district, the 8th District currently held by GOP Rep. Gabe Evans.

- So, Mehek, you look at the success that these candidates have had in New York City, here in Washington, D .C., a couple of weeks ago. Does that extend next to Colorado? Does that work in districts that are beyond big, very blue cities? - It does. This new Communist Party that is taking over is not just in New York. We've seen it expand in eight states. And this is where these communists are very... eight states, and this is where these communists are very sincere and clever they're talking like you said about kitchen table issues they're...

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A band of conservative hardliners on Tuesday blocked a procedural rule that would have teed up debate and final votes on a slate of legislation, dealing a blow to Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) as he aimed to advance the annual defense authorization bill this week. The lower chamber voted 198-224 to reject the rule, with 14 Republicans joining Democrats in opposing the measure due to objections about the SAVE America Act, the priorities of the House, and a niche pension issue. GOP Reps. Tim Burchett (Tenn.), Eric Burlison (Mo.), Eli Crane (Ariz.), Randy Fine (Fla.), Andy Harris (Md.), Anna Paulina...

Rep. Diana DeGette, a 15-term incumbent, is facing her most serious primary challenge yet from lawyer and PhD student Melat Kiros on Tuesday. Melat Kiros was born in 1997, the year her representative in the U.S. House, Democrat Diana DeGette, took office. On Tuesday, Kiros hopes to unseat her. The next frontier of the fight for the Democratic Party is in Denver, where DeGette, a 15-term incumbent and longtime progressive, is facing her most serious primary challenge yet from Kiros, a 29-year-old democratic socialist and first-time candidate. Democrats’ widespread dissatisfaction and anger with their party leadership and a push for...

The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) is setting its sights on Colorado. A handful of Tuesday's primaries in the Democrat-dominated Rocky Mountain state are the next battleground in the fight between the far left and the center-left establishment over the future of the Democratic Party. "Today, the East Coast, next week the Mountain West," the DSA wrote in a social media post last week, hours after their ballot-box victories in a handful of congressional primaries in New York City. The post came after DSA-aligned Darializa Avila Chevalier, a 32-year-old far-left community organizer, ousted incumbent Democratic Rep. Adriano Espaillat, chair of...

Tina Peters Whistleblower of fallen Navy SEAL @realtinapeters Colorado put me in prison to cover up their corruption. I can verify many felonies Jena Griswold has committed and AG WEISER and other officials have covered up. Read the Mesa County Reports at http://TinaPeters.usTRANSCRIPT BEGINS~~~Man #1: If I'm remembering correctly. There were several states involved.Questioner: And which time period are you referring to?Man #1: This was 2020.Questioner: Before or after the election?Man #1: During the election.Questioner: In your examination of any of these Dominion systems, have you seen any indication of non-election personnel remotely accessing a Dominion system?Man #2: Yes.Questioner: Can...

The insurgent left just shook New York. Colorado Democrats increasingly think they could be next. Democrats in the Centennial State are bracing for an anti-establishment earthquake of their own. Tuesday’s primary election will test the left’s momentum beyond the five boroughs — and whether the anti-incumbent fever will topple Sen. Michael Bennet and Rep. Diana DeGette, a pair of longtime fixtures of state Democratic politics. Bennet allies acknowledge his primary for governor race is far closer than they expected, a startling position for one of the state’s best-known Democrats, while DeGette is facing similar anti-Washington headwinds, as internal polling in...

CUSTER COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) - The Pueblo County Sheriff's Office (PCSO) has ordered mandatory evacuations due to the "Aspen Acres" fire, which is approximately 23,000 acres with 0% containment as of 5:24 p.m. PCSO says that due to 100-mph winds, air support is currently unavailable. Law enforcement says multiple homes have been affected, but an exact number is unavailable at this time. Officials report that 2,732 households have been asked to evacuate. According to PCSO, around 4,200 people are in the evacuation zone. Smoke from the fire covers most of Pueblo County and likely will spread across nearby counties east...

In two unanimous decisions Monday, the state Supreme Court ruled that the effort violated the “single subject” requirement in the state constitution The Colorado Supreme Court on Monday threw out a trio of ballot measures that aimed to redraw the state’s congressional map and give Democrats three more seats in the U.S. House of Representatives, removing Colorado from the nationwide battle over redistricting and delivering a victory to Republicans. The initiatives, funded by a group linked to U.S. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, a New York Democrat, would have temporarily paused the state’s independent redistricting process, which voters added to...

A former DNA analyst with the Colorado Bureau of Investigation changed her plea to guilty in court on Tuesday to four charges, as part of an agreement in which prosecutors dropped 100 other counts she was facing. Yvonne "Missy" Woods reached a plea agreement with prosecutors after she was accused of mishandling or manipulating data in dozens of criminal investigations, casting doubt on many cases in which she was involved. She pleaded guilty to one count each of cybercrime, perjury, attempt to influence a public servant and forgery. The case was tried in the First Judicial District, where CBI lab...

Former Colorado Bureau of Investigation (CBI) DNA analyst Yvonne "Missy" Woods pleaded guilty to four felonies (cybercrime, perjury, attempting to influence a public servant and forgery). She faces 8 to 16 years in prison, bringing an end to a scandal that impacted more than 1,000 criminal cases across the state. Woods was a forensic scientist with the CBI during the 1996 murder of 6-year-old JonBenét Ramsey and was tied to evidence files in the case. Unidentified foreign male DNA found on the child's clothing has historically been used to clear the Ramsey family, but has yet to identify a perpetrator....

The three Colorado Republicans running for governor defended their qualifications, described their visions for the state and traded jabs over each other’s character at an often contentious televised debate that routinely veered into unusual territory Tuesday night in Denver. The 60-minute debate at the University of Denver, sponsored by 9News, The Denver Gazette and Colorado Politics, featured state Rep. Scott Bottoms, state Sen. Barb Kirkmeyer and missionary leader Victor Marx. It stands to be the only primary debate to include Marx, a first-time candidate and the race’s fundraising leader, who has declined to participate in the GOP’s other gubernatorial debates,...