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...
What you can do to fight back this week (August 10)
Like these alerts? Click here to subscribe. It’s very simple. One side wants to help. The other side thinks you’re getting “too much help.” Americans have been waiting for months now for Senate Republicans to take action on another badly needed economic stimulus...
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...
