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...
VOTE and other ways you can fight back this week (October 12)
Like these alerts? Click here to subscribe. Last Friday, ballots went into the mail for millions of Colorado voters. I got my ballot the day after my county clerk mailed it! By now many of you have also received your ballot, and most Colorado voters will have...
Coalition of Leading Advocacy Organizations Release Colorado Progressive Voters Guide
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEFriday, October 9, 2020CONTACT: Ian Silverii, Executive Director at [email protected] DENVER: After months of research and collaboration with a broad coalition of leading public interest groups, ProgressNow Colorado, the state's...
ProgressNow Colorado Projects “Fire Pendley” on Sen. Cory Gardner’s Office
He’s Been Demoted, But He’s Still Dangerous FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASETuesday, October 6, 2020CONTACT: Ian Silverii, Executive Director [email protected] DENVER: Yesterday evening, ProgressNow Colorado, the state's largest multi-issue progressive advocacy...
2020 Colorado ballot quick reference and more ways to fight back this week (October 5)
Like these alerts? Click here to subscribe. Election season is finally upon us! County clerks will begin sending out mail ballots at the end of this week. In 2020, Colorado voters have a lot on our plates: the presidential election, Colorado’s red-hot U.S. Senate...
What you can do to fight back this week (September 28)
Like these alerts? Click here to subscribe. This week, the biggest October of our lives so far kicks off. In Colorado, the top objective is holding Sen. Cory Gardner accountable for his long record of opposing our state’s best interests on every issue. This past...
What you can do to fight back this week (September 21)
Like these alerts? Click here to subscribe. Last weekend, on the eve of Rosh Hashanah, we lost one of America’s foremost protectors of equality and civil rights. Our remembrance of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is both a celebration of the immense...
DA Dave Young Deals Out Justice, But Not For Elijah McClain
DENVER: Responding to reports of the arrest of several individuals who participated the recent protests in Aurora seeking justice for Elijah McClain, who was killed by Aurora police just over one year ago, ProgressNow Colorado, the state’s largest multi-issue...
Colorado Mourns RBG, Demands Consistency From Cory Gardner
DENVER: Learning this evening that iconic U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died, ProgressNow Colorado, the state’s largest multi-issue progressive advocacy organization, celebrated the legacy of one of America’s foremost protectors of equality and...
Latest Colorado polling and what you can do to fight back this week (September 14)
Like these alerts? Click here to subscribe. We’re 50 days out from the election, and we’ve got the latest poll numbers on the biggest races and issues of 2020 in the latest edition of The Mountaineer: In this fourth edition of ProgressNow Colorado’s collaborative...
What you can do to fight back this week (September 8)
Like these alerts? Click here to subscribe. This morning a cold front blew the smoke away, but the last few weeks of air quality in our beautiful state have been awful. It took a combination of factors to produce air quality as poor as it has been recently, but...
What you can do to fight back this week (August 31)
Like these alerts? Click here to subscribe. Of all the crazy misinformation that’s come out since Donald Trump became President, the “QAnon” conspiracy theory is one of the wildest pieces of fiction you’ll ever hear. These are Trump supporters who believe a...
What you can do to fight back this week (August 24)
Like these alerts? Click here to subscribe. Last week and this week, Americans are seeing two opposite visions of the future of this country. And in November, we’ll have a choice: of another four years of incompetence, division, and chaos, or to come together in...
What you can do to fight back this week (August 17)
Like these alerts? Click here to subscribe. Seven years ago, Colorado passed a landmark new law to send mail ballots to every active registered voter in the state. Part of a package of major reforms to Colorado election law, The Voter Access & Modernized...