New Mountaineer Survey: Boebert Remains Weak, Unpopular, Dead Heat vs. Adam Frisch 45-45%
The results of new Mountaineer Research polling released by ProgressNow Colorado and Global Strategy Group focused on Colorado’s Third Congressional District show that embattled Rep. Lauren Boebert is paying a price for ignoring the issues most relevant to her...
Trump Judge’s Decision on Mifepristone Further Evidence Republicans Are Aiming for a National Abortion Ban
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEFriday, April 7, 2023 CONTACT: Sara Loflin, Executive Director at [email protected] or Kayla Frawley, Legislative Director at [email protected] DENVER: With the decision of a Trump-appointed judge in...
Today’s Attack on Obamacare by a Right-Wing Judge Will Cost Lives
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEThursday, March 30, 2023CONTACT: Sara Loflin, Executive Director at [email protected] DENVER: Responding to the decision by a conservative federal judge today striking down no-cost access to preventive care services Americans have...
Senate Passes ‘Safe Access to Protected Health Care Package’ Critical to Ensuring Abortion Access & Gender Affirming Care, Shielding Coloradans from Out of State Bullies
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEWednesday, March 22, 2023CONTACT: Sara Loflin, Executive Director at [email protected] or Kayla Frawley, Legislative Director at [email protected] DENVER: Progress Now Colorado today applauded final passage of the ‘Safe...
Safe Access to Protected Health Care Package Critical to Ensuring Abortion Access & Gender Affirming Care, Shielding Coloradans from Out of State Bullies
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEThursday, March 9, 2023CONTACT: Sara Loflin, Executive Director at [email protected] or Kayla Frawley, Legislative Director at [email protected] Denver: Progress Now Colorado today applauded the introduction of the...
Failure of Anti-Abortion Legislation on Bad Bill Friday Proves Republicans Learned Nothing in the Midterms
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEFriday, February 17, 2023CONTACT: Sara Loflin, Executive Director at [email protected] or Kayla Frawley, Legislative Director at [email protected] DENVER: Three anti-abortion bills failed on a party-line vote in the Colorado...
RELEASE: Outrageous Racism From Colorado Gun Lobby Must Be Rejected
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASETuesday, February 7, 2023CONTACT: Sara Loflin, Executive Director at [email protected] DENVER: Yesterday afternoon in the Colorado House State, Veterans, and Military Affairs Committee, a witness testifying on behalf of Rocky...
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...