What you can do to fight back this week (August 3)
Like these alerts? Click here to subscribe. After Cory Gardner promised that unemployment benefits would be extended, today hundreds of thousands of Coloradans still don’t know how they’re going to make ends meet. In Washington, Sen. Cory Gardner and Republicans...
What you can do to fight back this week (July 27)
Like these alerts? Click here to subscribe. On Saturday, the extended unemployment benefits passed by Congress to help Americans weather the COVID-19 pandemic expired. The CARES Act unemployment benefits expired because Republicans in the U.S. Senate couldn’t...
Cory Gardner, Ivanka Trump Live It Up While Coloradans Face Disaster
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEFriday, July 24 2020CONTACT: Fawn Bolak, Communications Director, [email protected] DENVER: After a joint appearance in Greenwood Village today by Sen. Cory Gardner and Ivanka Trump, just hours after Senate Republicans failed...
“Play-In” at Greenwood Village City Hall, and more ways you can fight back this week (July 20)
As you’ve probably heard by now, after the passage by the City of Greenwood Village of Resolution 40-20, an ordinance to shield Greenwood Village Police officers from civil liability for misconduct in protest of a new police accountability law in Colorado, nationally...
RELEASE: Musicians and Fans to March on Greenwood Village
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASESunday, July 20 2020CONTACT: Sophia Hacket, [email protected] DENVER: After the passage by the City of Greenwood Village of Resolution 40-20, an ordinance to shield Greenwood Village Police officers from civil liability for misconduct...
What you can do to fight back this week (July 13)
Like these alerts? Click here to subscribe. Donald Trump says Cory Gardner is with him 100%—”no waver.” Last Friday, Trump commuted the sentence of his close associate Roger Stone, who was convicted of a felony for lying to Congress in order to protect Trump....
What you can do to fight back this week (July 6)
Like these alerts? Click here to subscribe. The primary election is over. In just four months, the chance we’ve waited for ever since the disaster of the 2016 presidential election to restore America’s credibility and leadership in the world will finally be here....
What you can do to fight back this week (June 29)
Like these alerts? Click here to subscribe. Dear {{ user.first_name|default:”Friend”|title }}, In the last few weeks, thousands of people have contacted us demanding justice for Elijah McClain of Aurora. Elijah was murdered last August after being stopped by...
What you can do to fight back this week (June 22)
Like these alerts? Click here to subscribe. This weekend, Donald Trump let the terrible truth slip out. At a rally in Tulsa on Saturday, referring to testing more Americans for COVID-19 in order to control the pandemic, Trump said, “When you do testing to that...
Colorado Elected Officials & Candidates MUST Commit to Anti-Oppression Education
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:June 18th, 2020CONTACT: Fawn Bolak, Communications Director at [email protected] DENVER: In response to troubling statements and disappointing records on racial justice issues of multiple Colorado U.S. Senate candidates, ProgressNow...
What you can do to fight back this week (June 15)
Like these alerts? Click here to subscribe. It seems like an eternity ago, but it was only in mid-March that the Colorado General Assembly adjourned to keep members and the public safe from the global COVID-19 pandemic. On May 26, the legislature reconvened to...
Statement on Colorado Supreme Court Investigation Into Rep. Ken Buck’s Misconduct
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEThursday, June 11, 2020CONTACT: Ian Silverii, Executive Director at [email protected] DENVER: Responding to disclosure in news reports that the Colorado Supreme Court Office of Attorney Regulation Counsel has begun a formal...
YOU DID IT: What you can do to fight back this week (June 8)
Like these alerts? Click here to subscribe. Over the last few days, a remarkable change for the better has taken place in the streets of Denver. Police appear to have backed off of their initial aggression against protesters, and the crowds have responded with...
Resources to Support the Black Lives Matter Movement
This is by no means an exhaustive list of resources. If you have more resources you would like to see posted on this page, please suggest them in the Google Form embedded at the end of this list or linked here: https://forms.gle/pJb6kdUpoRDU4Zbj8 Bail Funds &...
Colorado Lawmakers Must Pass Legislation to Hold Police Accountable
We, the undersigned, strongly condemn the appalling violence and use of force perpetrated at the hands of law enforcement in Colorado. Beginning May 28th, Coloradans from across the state gathered in Denver to peacefully mourn the murder of George Floyd and to demand...
What you can do to stay healthy, fight back, and demand justice this week (June 1)
Like these alerts? Click here to subscribe. In the few days since we last wrote, another terrible crisis has struck our nation. This isn’t a new virus. It’s age-old inequality, horrific police violence, and an explosion of outrage from communities who feel cut...
What you can do to stay healthy and fight back this week (May 26)
Like these alerts? Click here to subscribe. Today, the Colorado General Assembly reconvened to finish the work of the 2020 legislative session… In a different universe. When lawmakers adjourned in March to wait out the pandemic, Colorado’s economy was roaring and...
What you can do to stay healthy and fight back this week (May 18)
Like these alerts? Click here to subscribe. We’ve got the latest numbers. They’re bad for Cory Gardner and Donald Trump. In ProgressNow Colorado’s second collaborative effort with Global Strategy Group, today we’re releasing a new Rocky Mountaineer poll...
What you can do to stay healthy and fight back this week (May 11)
Like these alerts? Click here to subscribe. After everything we’ve been through in the past six weeks, the greater tragedy would be if the sacrifices we’ve made together to slow the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic are undone by a tiny fringe who refuse to accept...
Colorado Week in Review (5/10/20)
awesome + uniting A new system in Adams County can clean up to 80,000 N-95 masks a day. Colorado dairy farmers donate 30,000 gallons of excess milk to local food banks. The Broncos are set to start their season on Monday Night Football against the Tennessee Titans....
ProgressNow Colorado asks Colo. Supreme Court to revoke Congressman Ken Buck’s Law License after Election Fraud Scandals Plague Colorado GOP
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEFriday, May 8, 2020CONTACT: Ian Silverii, Executive Director at [email protected] DENVER: Responding to the Denver Post’s exposure of egregious misconduct by Rep. Ken Buck, chairman of the Colorado Republican Party and an...
What you can do to stay healthy and fight back this week (May 4)
Like these alerts? Click here to subscribe. The last six weeks have been very hard on everyone, but the measures we took in Colorado to slow the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic are working. [1] The proof is in the curve we flattened and the lives we...
What you can do to stay healthy and fight back this week (April 27)
Like these alerts? Click here to subscribe. There are hopeful signs that the hard six weeks we’ve been through are indeed slowing the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, thanks in large part to our in-state leadership, with no thanks to Trump and his political...
Enough: Cory Gardner Must Call Out Donald Trump’s Dangerous Misinformation About Coronavirus
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEFriday, April 24, 2020CONTACT: Fawn Bolak, Communications Director at [email protected] DENVER: Responding to President Donald Trump’s White House press briefing yesterday afternoon, in which the president suggested injecting...
Urge Gov. Polis To Protect Coloradans Experiencing Homelessness
Everyone in Colorado is hurting as we struggle to get through the COVID-19 pandemic. But some of our neighbors are suffering disproportionately. Right now, Colorado’s burgeoning population experiencing homelessness is facing every aspect of this crisis, from the...
Sign the petition: House Minority Leader Patrick Neville must go
Less than two weeks ago, we wrote asking you to contact Colorado House Minority Leader Patrick Neville, and tell him to stop putting Colorado lives at risk during the COVID-19 pandemic with his outrageous and irresponsible rhetoric: openly encouraging resistance to...
What you can do to stay healthy and fight back this week (April 13)
Like these alerts? Click here to subscribe. Just like you, we’re doing our best to stay productive during this difficult period, and making sure that when the stay-at-home order is lifted we’re healthy and ready to get back to full steam. I’m incredibly proud of...
UPDATE: Demand Cory Gardner stop lying to protect Donald Trump
Like these alerts? Click here to subscribe. On Monday, we asked you to call Sen. Cory Gardner’s Washington, D.C. office and tell him to investigate the alleged co-opting of 500 ventilators the state of Colorado tried to buy to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic by...
What you can do to stay healthy and fight back this week (April 6)
Like these alerts? Click here to subscribe. First of all, I hope this message finds you and your loved ones in good health and good spirits. In just a few short weeks, the entire world has been plunged into a crisis that, while dreaded for many years, we’ve...
TAKE ACTION NOW: Protect essential workers keeping us all fed
The global coronavirus pandemic is making heroes in places you wouldn't expect. I hope you're weathering the current emergency safely, and doing your part to help reduce the spread of COVID-19 by staying home except when absolutely necessary. But if you're like me,...
