What you can do to fight back this week (December 9)
Like these alerts? Click here to subscribe. Or, download the Beacon (formerly RiseUp) app and never miss an action. Colorado has a Nazi problem. Hate crimes in Colorado are on the rise. [1] Just a few weeks ago, a white supremacist was arrested in Pueblo while...
What you can do to fight back this week (December 2)
Like these alerts? Click here to subscribe. Or, download the Beacon (formerly RiseUp) app and never miss an action. As it stands now, Donald Trump is about to become only the third President in American history to be successfully impeached by the U.S. House. The...
What you can do to fight back this Thanksgiving
Like these alerts? Click here to subscribe. Or, download the Beacon (formerly RiseUp) app and never miss an action. We’re down to the last six weeks of 2019, but from Denver to D.C. there’s little sign of a slowdown for the holidays. Locally, progressive lawmakers are...
What you can do to fight back this week (November 11)
Like these alerts? Click here to subscribe. Or, download the Beacon (formerly RiseUp) app and never miss an action. As a progressive lucky enough to work full time fighting for the values I believe in—freedom for every person, equality, and equal opportunity for...
What you can do to fight back this week (November 4)
Like these alerts? Click here to subscribe. Or, download the Beacon (formerly RiseUp) app and never miss an action. Tomorrow is Election Day. Have you turned in your ballot? Doing your duty in every single election, even the so-called “off years,” is still the most...
What you can do to fight back this week (October 28)
Like these alerts? Click here to subscribe. Or, download the Beacon (formerly RiseUp) app and never miss an action. Keeping track of politics right now is a lot like trying to drink from a fire hose. Impeachment, Cory Gardner running away from accountability, the...
What you can do to fight back this week (October 21)
Like these alerts? Click here to subscribe. Or, download the Beacon (formerly RiseUp) app and never miss an action. After last year’s landslide victories for Colorado progressives and this year’s historic legislative session that started to address the backlog of...
What you can do to fight back this week (October 14)
Like these alerts? Click here to subscribe. Or, download the Beacon (formerly RiseUp) app and never miss an action. Last week, a group of local and national reporters working together finally cornered Sen. Cory Gardner and pressed him about the fast-moving impeachment...
What you can do to fight back this week (October 7)
Like these alerts? Click here to subscribe. Or, download the Beacon (formerly RiseUp) app and never miss an action. Next week, mail ballots for the 2019 elections will start arriving in the mailboxes of every Colorado voter! This year, we have two very major statewide...
What you can do to fight back this week (September 30)
Like these alerts? Click here to subscribe. Or, download the Beacon (formerly RiseUp) app and never miss an action. The past 10 days have dramatically and permanently altered the course of American politics. After President Donald Trump and his Republican enablers...
Gardner’s Betrayal Of American Values To Protect Trump Is Disqualifying (Again)
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEThursday, March 14, 2019Wednesday, September 25, 2019CONTACT: Ian Silverii, Executive Director at silverii@progressnowcolorado.org DENVER: Responding to Sen. Cory Gardner's second vote in the U.S. Senate today against a resolution disapproving of...
What you can do to fight back this week (September 23)
Like these alerts? Click here to subscribe. Or, download the Beacon (formerly RiseUp) app and never miss an action. On Friday, thousands of people took to the streets of cities across the world to peacefully demand better from the people in charge--increasingly, my...
What you can do to fight back this week (September 16)
Like these alerts? Click here to subscribe. Or, download the Beacon (formerly RiseUp) app and never miss an action. We’re winning. Last week, the organizers of two more misguided recall attempts against Colorado progressive lawmakers announced that their efforts have...
What you can do to fight back this week (September 9)
Like these alerts? Click here to subscribe. Or, download the Beacon (formerly RiseUp) app and never miss an action. Last Friday, the misguided attempt to recall Gov. Jared Polis ended in a humiliating defeat for the far right in Colorado. After wasting the time and...
Gardner Points Fingers While Trump Hurts Colorado Again
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEThursday, September 5, 2019CONTACT: Ian Silverii, Executive Director at silverii@progressnowcolorado.org DENVER: Sen. Cory Gardner responded today to news that millions of dollars in defense spending set to boost Colorado’s economy would be...
What you can do to fight back this week (September 3)
Like these alerts? Click here to subscribe. Or, download the Beacon (formerly RiseUp) app and never miss an action. Right now, thousands of health care professionals working for Kaiser Permanente are fighting for better conditions for workers and patients at Kaiser...
What you can do to fight back this week (August 26)
Like these alerts? Click here to subscribe. Or, download the Beacon (formerly RiseUp) app and never miss an action. For almost five years now, the people of Colorado have been trying to get Sen. Cory Gardner’s attention. After Gardner barely won his U.S. Senate seat...
What you can do to fight back this week (August 19)
Like these alerts? Click here to subscribe. Or, download the Beacon (formerly RiseUp) app and never miss an action. It’s the middle of the August recess. Do you know where your Senator is? Here’s the sad fact: Sen. Cory Gardner doesn’t want to face the voters of...
What you can do to fight back this week (August 12)
Like these alerts? Click here to subscribe. Or, download the Beacon (formerly RiseUp) app and never miss an action. Last Thursday, Sen. Cory Gardner showed up in Wheat Ridge for a rare public appearance. Gardner’s staff did their very best to under-publicize the...
What you can do to fight back this week (August 5)
Like these alerts? Click here to subscribe. Or, download the Beacon (formerly RiseUp) app and never miss an action. This past weekend, our nation was once again traumatized by mass gun violence directed against innocent people. In Dayton Ohio, a man clad in body armor...
What you can do to fight back this week (July 29)
Like these alerts? Click here to subscribe. Or, download the Beacon (formerly RiseUp) app and never miss an action. Last week, Special Counsel Robert Mueller gave what’s expected to be his final testimony to Congress about the Russian operation to sabotage the 2016...
What you can do to fight back this week (July 22)
Like these alerts? Click here to subscribe. Or, download the Beacon (formerly RiseUp) app and never miss an action. Earlier today, Vice President Mike Pence arrived in Colorado to host a fundraiser for Sen. Cory Gardner’s re-election in Windsor. Guess who didn’t show...
Five things you (probably) didn’t know about climate change
1.) Bhutan Did you know that though it is tucked between India and China (two of the most populous and populated countries in the world) the country of...
What you can do to fight back this week (July 15)
Like these alerts? Click here to subscribe. Or, download the Beacon app and never miss an action. Republicans announced two more recall attempts on Friday. These recalls are nothing more than a brazen attempt by a few extremists to overturn the will of the people....
What you can do to fight back this week (July 8)
Like these alerts? Click here to subscribe. Or, download the Beacon (formerly RiseUp) app and never miss an action. I hope you had a great long holiday weekend, because I’ve got some unpleasant news. Last November, Gov. Jared Polis was elected by an overwhelming...
What you can do to fight back this week (July 1)
Like these alerts? Click here to subscribe. Or, download the Beacon (formerly RiseUp) app and never miss an action. It’s a short holiday work week, as the nation celebrates its 243rd birthday on Thursday. For most of American history, we’ve struggled to define what...
What you can do to fight back this week (June 24)
Like these alerts? Click here to subscribe. Or, download the Beacon (formerly RiseUp) app and never miss an action. Last week, Sen. Cory Gardner failed Colorado again. Sen. Gardner sits on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Last week, the entire U.S. Senate voted...
What you can do to fight back this week (June 17)
Like these alerts? Click here to subscribe. Or, download the Beacon (formerly RiseUp) app and never miss an action. Yesterday, thousands of LGBTQ+ Coloradans, allies, family members, and political leaders marched in the 2019 Denver Pride Parade. Denver has had one of...
Colorado Republicans Cancel Misguided Sullivan Recall
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASETuesday, June 11, 2019CONTACT: Ian Silverii, Executive Director at silverii@progressnowcolorado.org DENVER: Responding to news today that Colorado Republican Party vice chair Kristi Burton Brown will end her campaign to recall freshman Rep. Tom...
What you can do to fight back this week (June 10)
Like these alerts? Click here to subscribe. Or, download the Beacon (formerly RiseUp) app and never miss an action. Yesterday, we were privileged to join Indivisible Front Range Resistance at Denver’s Barnum Park for a picnic and forum with nine candidates running for...
