By Quentin Young | editor
“And so, when Tina Peters, you know, famous Colorado clerk, was in the Oval Office today just two hours ago talking about this question, the president’s taking it seriously.”
— Ed Martin, former Justice Department official, on the administration’s election plans
Then-Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters attends the Western Conservative Summit in Aurora on June 4, 2022. (Chase Woodruff/Colorado Newsline)
By Lindsey Toomer
A former U.S. Department of Justice attorney said Monday that former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters met with President Donald Trump at the White House to discuss “election integrity” and plans for upcoming elections. Ed Martin, who left his position with the Justice Department to take on legal work related to upcoming elections, told Real America’s Voice that Peters, a Republican who was convicted of multiple felonies for her role in a security breach of her office’s election equipment, met with Trump to talk about federal involvement in the November midterm elections.
Sky and Amanda Roberts, brother and sister-in-law of Virginia Roberts Giuffre, speak at a press conference Monday alongside Jessica Killin, a Democrat challenging Republican U.S. Rep. Jeff Crank in the 2026 election. The Roberts, who live in the 5th District, said Crank repeatedly declined to meet with them to talk about releasing the Epstein files. (Photo courtesy of Jessica Killin's campaign)
By Lindsey Toomer
Family members of one of the most prominent survivors to speak out about late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein denounced U.S. Rep. Jeff Crank after he declined to meet with them. Sky and Amanda Roberts, brother and sister-in-law of Virginia Roberts Giuffre, live in Colorado’s 5th Congressional District. They said at a press conference Monday in support of Crank’s Democratic challenger, Jessica Killin, that Crank, a Colorado Springs Republican, repeatedly ignored their requests to discuss the Epstein files and policy reforms to support survivors of human trafficking and sexual abuse.
An aerial view of the Black Hollow Sun Solar Complex in Severance, Colorado, 2026. (Photo courtesy of Platte River Power Authority)
COMMENTARY
By Allen Best
One chapter ended and another began last week in Colorado’s transition from coal combustion to renewable generation of electricity. With the opening of an enormous solar complex in Severance, Platte River Power Authority expects to produce more than 80% non-carbon energy by 2030.
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