The Colorado Sun

Election 2018

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Here’s how much the oil and gas industry spent on the 2018 election in Colorado

A Democratic group topped the list, but majority of top corporate and nonprofit donors were energy interests

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Super PAC money dominated 2018 election and Democrats controlled the cash race

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Colorado political committees owe $2.3 million in fines. But the state collects little.

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Armstrong: How Colorado Republicans can rebuild

By Ari Armstrong Opinion

Opinion: Colorado conservatives should pick themselves up and look to Abraham Lincoln

By Lucius O’Dell Opinion

“It revealed to me this is what I can do”: Tom Sullivan’s son was killed in the Aurora theater shooting — and now he’ll be a state representative

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Democrats in the mix for a 2020 presidential run — Michael Bennet among them — are already eyeing Iowa staff

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Colorado Republicans, reeling from 2018 losses, wonder: Is it us or is it Trump?

Two competing viewpoints about what went wrong in the midterms dominate as Colorado GOP conducts an election autopsy

Opinion: A Costa Rican visitor’s first snow, and other beasts that came in from the cold in Colorado

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Carman: Make Thanksgiving great again – no gloating allowed

Opinion

Nicolais: The First Step Act represents overdue legal reform

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Colorado’s final election 2018 results are even worse for Republicans

Democrat Jared Polis won the governor's race over Republican Walker Stapleton by about 10 points

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Here’s why Colorado’s unaffiliated voters overwhelmingly picked Democrats in 2018. The story starts with Donald Trump.

Four in 10 unaffiliated voters polled by Magellan Strategies said a vote for Democrat Jared Polis in the governor’s race was a statement against President Donald Trump

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The new Democratic majority in Colorado needs money for their ambitious agenda. Here’s where they could find it.

Colorado voters rejected tax increases but voted into office a slate of Democratic candidates promising big, and expensive, policies

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Three graphics that explain the 2018 election and Colorado’s political future

In the era of President Donald Trump, the GOP is seeing declines in key Colorado counties, a new analysis by The Colorado Sun shows

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Across Colorado, taxpayers granted Gallagher tax relief to a record number of fire protection districts

“I think this shows that things are not functioning as they were intended,” Pueblo state Rep. Daneya Esgar, a Democrats, says