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This may really be the most important election of your lifetime. Too bad your vote doesn’t count

As you may have heard, the upcoming presidential election is the most important in our lifetime. They say that every four years, of course. But this time, it’s probably true. I mean, if both...

DATE: Sep 7, 2024 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Was Tina Peters’ conviction a warning or a trend? The next election will tell us

It turns out, as expected, that the question of Tina Peters’ guilt was never really a question at all. Even Peters herself, according to testimony, knew that once her election-security breac...

DATE: Aug 17, 2024 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Biden searching for vaccine that would keep RFK Jr. off as many presidential ballots as possible

In case you missed it, the anti-vaxxer, conspiracy-theorist scion of the totally embarrassed Kennedy family was in Colorado recently to launch his bid to appear on the Colorado ballot for pr...

DATE: May 25, 2024 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Conservative Supreme Court justices are asking us to stop calling them partisan hacks

You may have noticed that an unusual number of Supreme Court justices have taken to publicly defending themselves – my favorite is Amy Coney Barrett’s we’re-not-partisan-hacks defense – as c...

DATE: Oct 8, 2021 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Mike Littwin: Polis didn’t need Trump to make him a virus foil

The wartime president is back. It took Donald Trump only a few days to realize that wishing away the novel coronavirus wasn’t going to work. It might have sunk in with the news that America ...

DATE: Apr 3, 2020 | CATEGORY: Mike Littwin

Colorado GOP is on a lengthening losing streak

Everyone knew, and many predicted, that the effort to recall Gov. Jared Polis effort would end not just in failure, but in spectacular failure. But what I didn’t predict was that ...

DATE: Sep 13, 2019 | CATEGORY: Mike Littwin

Mike Johnston: No good answer to why-not-Hick

The only thing that surprises me about Mike Johnston’s decision to leave the U.S. Senate race is that it happened so quickly. The pool is now open for which candidate drops out ne...

DATE: Sep 6, 2019 | CATEGORY: Mike Littwin

Hickenlooper, not own best messenger, stumbles

The Politico headline pretty much says it all: “Hickenlooper campaign in shambles.” Politico reported first that former Gov. John Hickenlooper’s senior staff advised him in May to drop out o...

DATE: Jul 8, 2019 | CATEGORY: Mike Littwin

A textbook case of Colorado political ineptitude

For those who wonder why Republicans keep losing in Colorado, we give you the latest GOP fail, in which Kristi Burton Brown, vice-chair of the state Republican Party, officially ended her do...

DATE: Jun 16, 2019 | CATEGORY: Mike Littwin

And then they came for the victim’s dad

I didn’t know how things could possibly get worse for Colorado Republicans after their disastrous showing in the 2018 midterms, but I guess I underestimated them. All it took was ...

DATE: May 17, 2019 | CATEGORY: Mike Littwin

Gov nixes vaccination legislation

If you’re among the overwhelming majority of Coloradans who believe in medical science, you know that the loud backlash to the oh-so-moderate immunization bill that was making its way throug...

DATE: May 4, 2019 | CATEGORY: Mike Littwin

Hickenlooper: Can he really pull this off?

Now that John Hickenlooper has officially joined the presidential race, he has, let us say, just a few challenges to overcome. 1. Money. It should be noted that several candidates...

DATE: Mar 9, 2019 | CATEGORY: Mike Littwin