A Colorado high country neighbor and mentor spent eighteen years living rurally, building his home from surrounding woods, before telling Rachel Suh the real construction project is rebuilding a free Colorado. Suh takes to the soapbox this week at HCA.
Colorado’s second-largest county walked out of the state’s election establishment. El Paso County Clerk Steve Schleiker resigned as vice president of the Colorado County Clerks Association after being excluded from executive meetings — exclusion the Secretary of State’s office denied authorizing. HCA’s three-part CCCA series documents the pattern: the executive director holds a concurrent consulting contract with CISA, his predecessor landed on the board of the Zuckerberg-funded Center for Tech and Civic Life, and the Democratic Party’s general counsel sits on the same advisory body as the CCCA president.
Colorado also emerged at the center of the national license plate reader fight. Denver is dropping Flock after the company concealed ICE data-sharing from city officials. The Supreme Court takes up geofence warrants in April. A state bill requiring warrants for license plate reader data advances to Appropriations.
For the third straight year, four Colorado Senate Democrats killed a bill mandating prison time for felony sexual assault on children. Vince Phillips names them.
Harry Hoxsey built a 17-state herbal cancer clinic network in the 1950s before the FDA shut him down. His story — and the financial interests behind the persecution — is this week at HCA.
Also this week: Dominion scanners edited ballot images in Chaffee County in 2022. And your 401(k) funds the Wall Street consolidation emptying Main Street.
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