The fight for progress continues this week: January 23, 2023
It’s a new year with new challenges and opportunities. The Colorado General Assembly is back in session with a progressive supermajority and a powerful mandate from Colorado voters for bold progressive solutions to the problems faced by Colorado families and...
What’s on your 2023 Wish List for the Opening Day at the Legislature?
Once again, Happy New Year, and welcome to the 2023 session of the Colorado legislature! Did you cheer with me as Colorado progressives in the State House and Senate broke barriers and records? Today, we have the most diverse general assembly (more women, BIPOC,...
Boebert Drags Rural Colorado Into Yet Another Disgrace
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEThursday, January 5, 2023CONTACT: Sara Loflin, Executive Director at [email protected] DENVER: As the U.S. House began its third day of dysfunction with Republicans unable to agree on who should lead their miniscule majority for the...
Progressives Condemn Shocking Racism On Aurora City Council
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEWednesday, December 21, 2022CONTACT: Sara Loflin, Executive Director at [email protected] DENVER: As the controversy grows over newly-unearthed videos of Aurora City Councilman Steve Sundberg mocking and disparaging a wide array of...
Racism Meets Misogyny as Colorado Republicans Attack Reproductive Rights at the Border
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEThursday, December 15, 2022CONTACT: Sara Loflin, Executive Director at [email protected] DENVER: Responding to new legislation introduced by far-right Rep. Lauren Boebert and co-sponsored by fellow Colorado Republican Reps. Doug Lamborn...
Colorado Progressives Celebrate Another Night of Historic Victories
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASETuesday, November 8, 2022CONTACT: Sara Loflin, Executive Director at [email protected] DENVER: As election returns in Colorado indicate another historic landslide victory for progressives, ProgressNow Colorado, the state’s largest...
Pam Anderson Must Condemn Heidi Ganahl’s Last-Minute Attacks On Election Integrity
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEMonday, November 7, 2022CONTACT: Sara Loflin, Executive Director at [email protected] DENVER: Responding to Colorado gubernatorial candidate Heidi Ganahl's appearance Monday on election conspiracy theorist Joe Oltmann's program, calling...
TAKE ACTION NOW: Stop Barb Kirkmeyer’s Outright Lies
On Monday, ProgressNow Colorado called for a new ad released by Republican congressional candidate Barb Kirkmeyer to be removed from circulation for falsely claiming that her opponent and the Democratic majority in the Colorado legislature “legalized fentanyl.” [1]...
Release: Colorado Women Gather To Say No To John Kellner
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASETuesday, November 1, 2022CONTACT: Sara Loflin, Executive Director at [email protected] From top left to lower right: ProgressNow Colorado executive director Sara Loflin, Dani Newsum of Cobalt, Claudia Perez of Planned Parenthood Votes...
Call For Media Outlets To Pull Blatantly False Kirkmeyer Ad From Broadcast
False campaign ad claims “Democrats legalized fentanyl” FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEMonday, October 31, 2022CONTACT: Sara Loflin, Executive Director at [email protected] DENVER: Responding to a new television ad released by Republican congressional candidate Barb...
From Lies To Violence: GOP Pipeline of Misinformation Must Stop
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEFriday, October 28, 2022CONTACT: Sara Loflin, Executive Director at [email protected] DENVER: Responding to the news of a violent assault on Paul Pelosi, the husband of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi in San Francisco this...
Release: Joe O’Dea’s Embrace of Rick Scott Today Exposes His Lies About Social Security and Medicare
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASESunday, October 23, 2022CONTACT: Sara Loflin, Executive Director at [email protected] DENVER: With the announcement that candidates Joe O’Dea, Barb Kirkmeyer, and Heidi Ganahl are welcoming NRSC Chairman Rick Scott to Thornton for...
Coloradans agree: Joe O’Dea must let the victims speak
Just over a week ago, ProgressNow Colorado launched our campaign calling on Joe O’Dea to release everyone who received settlement money attached to a nondisclosure agreement (NDA) from O’Dea’s company Concrete Express during the company’s long history of worker...
AVAILABLE NOW: The Colorado 2022 Progressive Voters Guide
It's election season once again! In Colorado, mail ballots are on the way to all active voters this week. Every election feels like "the most important election of our lifetime." After the far right's attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential elections,...
Tell Joe O’Dea: let the victims speak
Last week, ProgressNow Colorado held a press conference in front of the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment in downtown Denver with a long list of cases from injured parties—more than 20 different parties—that have filed lawsuits against O’Dea’s company...
Demand for Joe O’Dea to release victims from Non-Disclosure Agreements
More than 20 injured parties ranging from Discrimination, Hostile Work Environment to InjuriesFormer Employees and other victims not allowed to talk FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEThursday, October 6, 2022CONTACT: Sara Loflin, Executive Director at [email protected]
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”...
