By Chase Woodruff | deputy editor
“I’ve always voted for a person, not a party. I changed my party because my view of what the parties represented changed.”
— Eileen Laubacher, 4th Congressional District candidate
By Sara Wilson
U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert and her Democratic challenger, first-time candidate and retired rear admiral Eileen Laubacher, faced off Monday night in their only scheduled televised debate before the Nov. 3 midterm elections. Boebert is running for her second term in the district and her fourth term as a representative from Colorado.
By Marcus Baram
Data centers and gas pump prices have dominated the energy story in this midterm cycle. But a second tier of climate and energy battles is running through campaigns in Colorado, where the Trump administration has ordered Craig Unit 1, a coal-fired power plant in Moffat County, to keep operating through at least Christmas Day, a full year past its retirement date.
Security stands outside ICE headquarters during a Congressional Hispanic Caucus rally on Feb. 3, 2026 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Heather Diehl/Getty Images)
By Sara Wilson
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security flagged Colorado as a state to monitor for “vulnerabilities in upholding election integrity” ahead of the June primary this year, according to internal documents obtained through a records request and released by a pro-democracy group earlier this month. Colorado was one of 15 states flagged by Homeland Security Investigations to watch, a June 1 document from the agency’s Election Integrity Investigations shows.
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