What you can do to fight for progress this week (May 24)
Like these alerts? Click here to subscribe. We’re down to the last critical few weeks of the 2021 session of the Colorado legislature. And just like most years, many of the most important priorities we want to get passed this year are coming down to the final days and...
What you can do to fight for progress this week (May 3)
Like these alerts? Click here to subscribe. Two years ago, Gov. Jared Polis signed into law a comprehensive roadmap to reduce greenhouse gas emissions—a crucial step in making sure Colorado does our part with the rest of the world to meet the ambitious goals of the...
#CoClimateWeek: What you can do to fight for progress this week (April 19)
Like these alerts? Click here to subscribe. This week, the Colorado General Assembly kicks off debate over some of the most important bills they’ll consider all year: to commit Colorado to ambitious goals for slashing greenhouse gas emissions, and to give communities...
ADVISORY: Two-Ton “Melting World” Ice Sculpture & Climate Bill Rollout Press Conference At The Colorado State Capitol
FOR PLANNING PURPOSESFriday, April 16, 2021CONTACT: Fawn Bolak, Communications Director at [email protected] DENVER: In an effort to vividly depict the urgency of the global climate crisis on the day of the first committee hearing of Colorado...
What you can do to fight for progress this week (April 12)
Like these alerts? Click here to subscribe. It’s been a difficult year+, and the anxiety from the compounded effects of the COVID-19 pandemic rippling across society and the damaged economy have created new challenges on top of the pre-existing struggles faced by...
What you can do to fight for progress this week (April 5)
Like these alerts? Click here to subscribe. Last week, President Joe Biden announced the next transformative piece of his agenda: The American Jobs Plan. Building on the economic relief passed just a few weeks ago and now making its way into the economy, the American...
What you can do to fight for progress this week (March 29)
Like these alerts? Click here to subscribe. Today, Gov. Jared Polis made what could be the most important announcement since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. This coming Friday, everyone in Colorado aged 16 and up will be eligible to receive the COVID-19...
PNC is Hiring a New Executive Director
Apply Here For more than a decade, ProgressNow Colorado has been the leading progressive voice online and in the press in Colorado, acting as the public relations shop for the progressive movement and infrastructure in our state. We have supported the...
Criminal justice reform: the work goes on
While we mourn the victims of this week’s tragic mass shooting in Boulder, Colorado, this week in the Colorado General Assembly there are important criminal justice reform issues up for debate. It’s very important that we not lose focus on taking actions that will...
Responding to this week’s tragedy in Boulder
Our hearts are heavy today as we process yesterday’s devastating massacre of yet another 10 Coloradans at the hands of a gunman. These were our neighbors, our friends, our family. No one deserves to have their lives cut short, in terror, with the finality of a...
What you can do to fight for progress this week (March 15)
Like these alerts? Click here to subscribe. Last week, a fellow member of Congress called on the House Ethics Committee to open an investigation into Rep. Lauren Boebert’s role in inciting the January 6th insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. In her letter to the chair...
What you can do to fight for progress this week (March 8)
Like these alerts? Click here to subscribe. Help is on the way. On Saturday morning after an all-night obstruction campaign from the right, the U.S. Senate passed the American Rescue Plan. This legislation represents not just economic relief to Americans hard hit by a...
What you can do to fight for progress this week (March 1)
Like these alerts? Click here to subscribe. With Congress moving quickly on President Biden’s agenda in Washington and the Colorado General Assembly in full swing in Denver, opportunities to help enact lasting change are everywhere! After four years of broken...
What you can do to fight for progress this week (February 22)
Like these alerts? Click here to subscribe. This week in the Colorado legislature, far-right Republicans are trying to undo Colorado’s best-in-the-nation election system–a system that became a much-praised example last year for safely and securely holding an election...
What you can do to fight for progress this week (February 16)
Like these alerts? Click here to subscribe. Today, the Colorado General Assembly got back to business after taking five weeks off to keep safe during the worst of the pandemic. Now it’s time to get to work one of the most ambitious agendas Colorado’s progressive...
What you can do to fight for progress this week (February 8)
Like these alerts? Click here to subscribe. After nearly five years at the helm of ProgressNow Colorado, the state’s largest multi-issue progressive advocacy organization, today I announced I’ll be stepping down in the coming months pending the hire of a new executive...
Ian Silverii Moving On After Historic Success At ProgressNow Colorado
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEMonday, February 8, 2021CONTACT: Ian Silverii, Executive Director at [email protected] DENVER: After nearly five years at the helm of ProgressNow Colorado, the state’s largest multi-issue progressive advocacy organization,...
What you can do to fight for progress this week (February 1)
Like these alerts? Click here to subscribe. To the families of the victims and the survivors of mass school shootings in America, gun violence is no laughing matter. But last week, Rep. Lauren Boebert callously mocked one of the survivors of the mass shooting at...
What you can do to fight for progress this week (January 25)
Like these alerts? Click here to subscribe. In just a few days in office, President Joe Biden has taken swift action to begin unwinding the last four years of neglect and corruption in Washington under Donald Trump. Nowhere has this been more true than taking action...
What you can do to fight for progress this week (January 19)
Like these alerts? Click here to subscribe. Tomorrow morning at 10:00AM Mountain Time, America will say the two words Donald Trump has had coming for four years. Tomorrow’s inauguration to swear in Joe Biden as President of the United States comes at a terrible price:...
#ResignBoebert: What you can do to fight for progress this week (January 11)
Like these alerts? Click here to subscribe. In Washington D.C. today, the recovery effort from the failed insurrection against the U.S. Capitol continues. But for Republican lawmakers who helped incite last week’s deadly violence like Colorado’s Reps. Lauren Boebert...
Sign the petition: Reps. Lauren Boebert and Doug Lamborn must resign
On Wednesday, a violent assault on the U.S. Capitol by extremist supporters of outgoing President Donald Trump resulted in the deaths of five people, and the first violent breach of the U.S. Capitol since the War of 1812. Thankfully, this unprecedented attack on...
Over 60 Organizations, Community Leaders Call For Reps. Boebert, Lamborn To Resign
DENVER: One day after an unprecedented violent assault on the U.S. Capitol by extremist supporters of outgoing President Donald Trump resulted in the deaths of four people and the first violent breach of the U.S. Capitol since the War of 1812, an unprecedented...
What you can do to fight for progress this week (January 4)
Like these alerts? Click here to subscribe. Congratulations on making it through one of the most difficult and tumultuous years in American history. 2020 was full of moments to forget, but even in these worst of times Coloradans showed that the common ground that...
Colorado Gives Day and more ways to fight for progress this week (December 7)
It’s been a year most of us would have rather slept through, but 2020 is finally coming to a close. The events of this past year have tested the fundamentals of what holds our society together like nothing we’ve experienced in our lifetimes. Today, with the end of the...
What you can do to fight for progress this week (November 30)
Like these alerts? Click here to subscribe. I hope you had a restful Thanksgiving holiday at home with your household, and were able to connect virtually with family and friends. Today, the Colorado General Assembly is convening a special session to address what...
What you can do to fight for progress this week (November 23)
Like these alerts? Click here to subscribe. After the most contentious and hard-fought election of our lives so far, the incredible staff at ProgressNow Colorado took a couple of weeks off to rest and recharge. I hope you too have had some time to pause and...
The home stretch: what you can do to fight back this week (November 2)
Like these alerts? Click here to subscribe. After four tumultuous years of resistance, the day we’ve been looking forward to is finally upon us! Take a deep breath, pat yourself on the back, and continue to call and text voters until polls close at 7pm on Election...
Eight days: what you can do to fight back this week (October 26)
Like these alerts? Click here to subscribe. We’re kicking off the final week of the most important election season of our lives. Here in Colorado and across the nation, record-setting early voter turnout is building anticipation of an historic landslide victory...
Protect the results: what you can do to fight back this week (October 19)
Like these alerts? Click here to subscribe. We’re two weeks and a day from the most anticipated and most important election of our lifetimes. The polls say this election will not be close. Across the country and here in Colorado, voters are turning out in massive...
