Enough Is Enough: O’Dea and Anderson Must Cut Ties With Election Conspiracy Theorists
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEWednesday, September 21, 2022CONTACT: Sara Loflin, Executive Director at [email protected] DENVER: New reports in the Colorado Times Recorder this week reveal that Republican candidates Joe O’Dea and Pam Anderson continue...
Joe O’Dea Must Fully Explain Position On Lindsey Graham’s Abortion Ban
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASETuesday, September 13, 2022CONTACT: Sara Loflin, Executive Director at [email protected] DENVER: Responding to the announcement today by Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina of new legislation in the U.S. Senate that...
NO WAY O’DEA: Time to get on the bus
For months we’ve been warning you about the danger of Joe O’Dea–a sleazy businessman with a record of hurting workers and putting his own greed above Coloradoans. It’s time to call him out for trying to have it both ways on the most important issues confronting...
“Sleazy” Joe O’Dea: when bad business hurts good people
Unsafe working environments. Age discrimination. Hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines levied by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). For too many of Joe O’Dea’s employees, working on “Joe’s Crew” was the worst mistake they ever made. That is...
Progressives Renew Call for O’Dea to Disavow Election Denier Ticket for Governor, Demand Anderson Join Him
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEThursday, August 11, 2022CONTACT: Sara Loflin, Executive Director at [email protected] DENVER: After a rally this week in Denver in which the entire slate of Republican candidates declared their “unity” heading into the 2022 midterm...
ProgressNow Colorado calls on O’Dea to stop deceiving voters on his support for Trump and insurrectionists
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEMonday, August 8, 2022CONTACT: Sara Loflin, Executive Director at [email protected] DENVER: Following last week's bizarre messaging debacle in which Colorado U.S. Senate candidate Joe O'Dea tried and failed to put daylight between...
Joe O’Dea Must Disavow Ganahl/Moore Ticket
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEMonday, August 1, 2022CONTACT: Sara Loflin, Executive Director at [email protected] DENVER: Last week, the Republican candidate for lieutenant governor of Colorado Danny Moore doubled down on election conspiracy theories in a guest...
Progressives Call on Heidi Ganahl to Drop Danny Moore and Election Denialism from Ticket
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEFriday, July 22, 2022CONTACT: Summer Nettles, Communications Director at [email protected] DENVER: On the day GOP gubernatorial nominee Heidi Ganahl held her first public event with running mate and election denier Danny Moore,...
Kellner’s Casual Noncompliance With Campaign Finance Law
ProgressNow Colorado files second complaint against AG candidate John Kellner. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEThursday, July 21, 2022CONTACT: Summer Nettles, Communications Director at 708-466-2914 DENVER, CO – ProgressNow Colorado, the state's largest multi-issue progressive...
Progressives Condemn Heidi Ganahl’s Racist, Senseless LG Pick
Choice of Danny Moore confirms worst fears about Ganahl’s fringe agenda FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEMonday, July 18, 2022CONTACT: Summer Nettles, Communications Director at [email protected] DENVER: After Republican gubernatorial nominee Heidi Ganahl announced...
Help us stop Team Trump Colorado
In 2016, 2018, and again in 2020, Colorado sent Team Trump packing. In 2022, it’s time to do it again. And we need your help. American politics have been changed forever by Donald Trump’s destructive presidency, and Trump’s continuing assault on American democracy...
Weak, Disorganized Colorado GOP Lurches Toward November Stuck On Trump
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASETuesday, June 28, 2022CONTACT: Sara Loflin, Executive Director at [email protected] DENVER: With the biggest races called in Colorado’s primary elections, ProgressNow Colorado, the state’s largest multi-issue progressive advocacy...
COLORADO REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH RIGHTS AND JUSTICE COALITION TO HOST SCOTUS DOBBS V. JWHO DECISION PRESS BRIEFING
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEJune 24, 2022 Contact: Aurea Bolaños Perea, [email protected] Chapin, [email protected] Lauren Stephenson, [email protected] Meltzer, [email protected] This press release is also available in Spanish here. COLORADO...
PROTECT DEMOCRACY: Shut Down The University of Colorado’s Benson Center
Last week, the U.S. House Select Committee investigating the plot by ex-President Donald Trump to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election zeroed in on John Eastman. Eastman, while serving as the University of Colorado’s “Visiting Conservative Scholar”...
ProgressNow Colorado calls for Jan Kulmann to withdraw from congressional race
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEThursday, June 16, 2022CONTACT: Sara Loflin, Executive Director at [email protected] DENVER: Announcing the launch of a new campaign The Kulmann Files, detailing the history of serious allegations of sexual harassment and...
PNC Welcomes Abortion and Reproductive Rights Director Kayla Frawley
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEWednesday, June 1, 2022CONTACT: Sara Loflin, Executive Director at [email protected] Frawley, Abortion and Reproductive Rights Director at [email protected] DENVER: As the struggle for abortion rights across...
A.G. Candidate John Kellner Accepted Illegal Donation From Lobbyist
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEFriday, May 20, 2022CONTACT: Sara Loflin, Executive Director at 303-349-1617 DENVER, CO – On Wednesday, ProgressNow Colorado, the state's largest multi-issue progressive advocacy organization, filed a complaint against District Attorney John...
Coloradans Demand Accountability for John Kellner’s Conflict of Interest
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEWednesday, May 18, 2022CONTACT: Sara Loflin, Executive Director at [email protected] DENVER: Awaiting word from the Colorado Independent Ethics Commission on their complaint seeking an investigation into professional misconduct by...
We stand in solidarity with the Black community
Good afternoon, Today, at ProgressNow Colorado, we rise in solidarity with the Black community. We condemn the violent and dangerous white supremacist ideology that motivated the attack in Buffalo, New York and mourn the passing of the ten lives taken:...
Winners and Losers of the 2022 Colorado legislative session
THE WINNERS Bodily Autonomy With abortion rights facing their greatest peril ever, Colorado lawmakers rose to the occasion to codify essential abortion rights protections into Colorado statute ahead of the possible repeal of Roe v. Wade later this year. The...
Progressives Demand Heidi Ganahl Apologize For John Eastman
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEWednesday, May 11, 2022CONTACT: Sara Loflin, Executive Director at [email protected] DENVER: The Denver Post has published a shocking new report [1] that reveals details of former University of Colorado Visiting...
Don’t let Joe O’Dea become the next Cory Gardner
Last night, word leaked that the U.S. Supreme Court has drafted its decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court ruling guaranteeing abortion rights to every American. Once this decision is official, everything we’ve taken for granted for generations...
Draft reversal of Roe v. Wade sparks bipartisan alarm
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASETuesday May 3, 2022 CONTACT: Sara Loflin, Executive Director at [email protected] Nettles, Communications Director at [email protected] DENVER: On January 22, 1973 a monumental decision guaranteeing women in the...
ROE V. WADE DECISION TO BE OVERTURNED ACCORDING TO LEAKED SCOTUS DOCUMENTS
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 2, 2022 Contact: Aurea Bolaños Perea, [email protected] Chapin, [email protected] Meltzer, [email protected] Stephenson, [email protected] ROE V. WADE DECISION TO BE OVERTURNED ACCORDING TO LEAKED SCOTUS...
The Results Are In: Nobody Likes “Heidi The Hypocrite”
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASESaturday, April 9 2022CONTACT: Sara Loflin, Executive Director at [email protected] DENVER: Responding to the results of the Colorado Republican Party state assembly in Colorado Springs today, ProgressNow Colorado, the state’s largest...
Call For Ethics Investigation of John Kellner’s Conflict of Interest
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEThursday, April 7 2022CONTACT: Sara Loflin, Executive Director at [email protected] DENVER: ProgressNow Colorado, the state's largest multi-issue progressive advocacy organization, has requested an investigation of District Attorney...
Release: Letter Calling for Investigation of District Attorney John Kellner submitted to Colorado Supreme Court
If the investigation finds that Kellner failed to disclose his conflicts then Kellner should be disbarred FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEWednesday, March 16, 2022CONTACT: Sara Loflin, Executive Director at [email protected] DENVER: This morning, Sara Loflin,...
Call for “Heidi The Hypocrite” Ganahl to condemn her party’s violent fringe
Sara Wilson/Colorado Newsline Second demand in less than one week FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASETuesday, February 22, 2022CONTACT: Sara Loflin, Executive Director at [email protected] DENVER: One week after calling on University of Colorado Regent Heidi Ganahl to...
Protect Colorado teachers against intimidation
In the last few weeks, we’ve witnessed another brazen right-wing assault on public education in one of Colorado’s largest public school districts. After a far-right majority took office in the 2021 off-year elections, Douglas County’s Board of Education has launched a...
Call for Heidi Ganahl to Immediately Condemn Threats of Violence Made Last Thursday Night Against Secretary of State Jena Griswold
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASETuesday, February 14, 2022CONTACT: Sara Loflin, Executive Director at [email protected] DENVER: ProgressNow Colorado demands Ganahl immediately publicly reject threats made last Thursday night by extremists in her own party including...
