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Colorado Gave Free Healthcare to Illegal Immigrants – Now the Governor is Admitting It’s Not Sustainable

In the coming months, we are going to hear a lot of Democrats talking about ‘Medicare for all.’ This is one of their top issues. Bernie Sanders has been talking about it for years and the left thinks their moment has finally arrived.

Unfortunately for them, there are plenty of examples of why this doesn’t work and would actually be a disaster.

In Colorado, Governor Jared Polis was hailed by the left for offering ‘free’ healthcare to illegal immigrants back in 2022. He is now admitting that the program is unsustainable and is recommending hundreds of millions in cuts.

The Washington Free Beacon reports:

Colorado Gov Moves To Gut Health Care Coverage for Illegal Immigrant Children Amid Spiraling Medicaid Costs

Colorado Democrats and immigration activists cheered after Gov. Jared Polis (D.) signed a signature 2022 health care law providing coverage to children and “pregnant persons” living in the United States illegally. Four years later, Polis, now a lame duck, is calling to gut the Cover All Coloradans program in his final budget proposal in an attempt to address the state’s spiraling Medicaid costs, and left-wing groups aren’t happy.

Polis released his budget on the eve of the midterm elections—one day after the legally mandated deadline to do so—and proposed $600 million in state Medicaid cuts. He called Medicaid’s growth “unsustainable” and told reporters it was on track to “crowd out everything else, including education.”

Buried in the proposal is a section calling to “replace Cover All Coloradans” by redirecting funds to a separate program, the Primary Care Fund, which offers financial assistance to low-income, uninsured residents for health care. Illegal immigrant children are eligible for that benefit but would lose the comprehensive insurance plan provided by Cover All Coloradans. A fact sheet notes that Polis aims “to end Cover All Coloradans coverage for children,” but “coverage for pregnant and postpartum adults would continue.”

Polis’s budget would strip some $10 million from Cover All Coloradans, with about half of that going to the Primary Care Fund.

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Surprise! Muslim elected to American state legislature demands intern applicants be MUSLIM!

Social media has labeled the actions of a newly elected Democrat Colorado state legislator as clearly illegal and called for an investigation immediately.

This after Iman Jodeh, newly elected in the midterms and preparing to take her office in January, posted an opening for an internship that requires the applicants to be Muslim.

Or North African.

Colorado, of course, already is an extremist state, having Democrat control of the governor’s office, both houses of the legislature and the state Supreme Court, which exhibited its blatant partisanship by trying to ban President Donald Trump from the 2024 election ballot.

There, too, Phil Weiser, who is to be governor in a few months, is demanding that he has the authority to change ballot issues on which citizens voted, and approved.

They deal with banning “gender” body mutilations on children and requiring boys to be on boys athletic teams, and not in girls locker rooms.

He is insisting they’ll have to be fixed, so he’ll be working on changing what the voters actually approved.

A report on Jodeh’s agenda at the Daily Caller said she “announced a paid internship at the state capitol with qualifications requiring that candidates identify as Muslim or descend from predominantly Muslim regions of the world.”

Jodeh posted, “”Gain first-hand experience at the Colorado Capitol in Sen. Jodeh and Rep. Zokaie’s offices!”

The first requirement is applicants must “Identify as a Muslim and/or as Middle Eastern, North African, or South Asian.”

It is being offered under the “Middle Eastern, North African, South Asian (MENASA) & Muslim Joint Legislative Caucus.”

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits hiring or firing based on national origin and religion, among other immutable characteristics. Colorado state law also prohibits discrimination against employees based on protected classes such as religion and national origin.

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CBS News Invites Dem Who Kicked Trump Off The Ballot To Spread ‘Election Denier’ Garbage

Bari Weiss’s CBS News had Jena Griswold on to lecture Americans about threats to their elections in an interview on Sunday. The Colorado secretary of state tried to kick President Donald Trump off the Colorado ballot in the 2024 election, oversaw the leak of hundreds of election system passwords, and sent tens of thousands of postcards encouraging voter registration to noncitizens.

Griswold joined 60 Minutes seemingly just to denounce former Mesa County clerk Tina Peters. Peters was sentenced to a nine-year prison term after Griswold worked with state Attorney General Phil Weiser to prosecute Peters for effectively questioning the 2020 election results and preserving election data.

As Mike Davis reported in these pages, opponents of Peters “falsely alleged she illegally colluded with Lindell’s associate, Conan Hayes, to steal and misuse the ID badge of a Mesa County employee named Gerald Wood to access the county’s election system and to save a copy of the hard drive before a new system was installed.”

Notably, a jury acquitted Peters of identity theft and actually accepted her account that Wood consented to the use of his credentials, as Davis reported. An appeals court also found that the sentencing judge’s “comments about Peters’ beliefs were improper,” as described by Courthouse News, and vacated the sentence. (Before she could be resentenced, Gov. Jared Polis issued a commutation letter and shorted her sentence so that she would be released on parole. Jared cited the appeals court’s reasoning.)

In an interview with CBS News’ Bill Whitaker, Griswold said Peters “was elected by her county to uphold the elections. Instead — she attacked the elections from within.”

“Tina Peters ordered that her video surveillance cameras be turned off and then took images of the voting equipment and shared it with a network of election deniers,” Griswold said.

Peters has maintained that she sought to preserve election records before a state-mandated voting-system update. As Davis wrote in these pages, “Colorado law permitted Peters to access and archive the hard drive, but she went about things the wrong way.” As Davis also noted, Peters changed no ballots or results.

“What was harmed by her actions?” Whitaker followed up.

“Voting equipment, confidence in Colorado elections and American elections, and election workers,” Griswold argued.

But Whitaker failed to ask how any of those things were actually harmed. Further, Whitaker failed to ask whether there is a legal basis for a clerk saving data (there is, as Davis wrote in these pages, but Peters may not have done so properly). He also declined to question Griswold about her own election security failures.

Griswold’s own office posted passwords to statewide voting systems online. The secretary’s office put an Excel file online with a “hidden” page of 600 passwords to voting systems for nearly every single county in the state, as reported in these pages. The leak came while Colorado voting was already underway, seemingly posing a clear danger to the integrity of Colorado’s elections, though Griswold insisted there was no “immediate security threat.”

But Griswold is not in jail, nor has she been charged in relation to that security breach.

Griswold also sent out 31,000 postcards to foreign nationals on how to register to vote for the 2022 midterms. Her office used data from the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC). ERIC pulls data from agencies such as the department of motor vehicles, and in Colorado foreign nationals can obtain driver’s licenses. Griswold then refused to cooperate with county officials to see whether any of the ineligible residents illegally voted in the 2022 midterms.

Griswold’s record goes beyond administrative failures. The official CBS News invited to lecture Americans about election confidence also supported using lawfare to deny voters the chance to vote for Trump.

Left-wing activist group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) backed a challenge by Colorado voters to disqualify Trump under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, which was written to bar previous Confederate insurrectionists from holding office. Six Colorado voters asked the court to order Griswold to keep Trump’s name off the ballot. The left-leaning Colorado Supreme Court ruled 4-3 that Trump was ineligible to appear on the ballot. Griswold then filed a brief with the Supreme Court arguing states can keep Trump off the ballot and said that Trump should not get a “get out of jail free” card.

The Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision vetoing Griswold’s lawfare efforts, ruling states do not have the constitutional authority to kick Trump off the ballot.

Griswold said she was “disappointed” when the high court rebuked her attempt to kick a candidate off the ballot and said it was “concerning that federal candidates, at this point, can engage in insurrection and then face no accountability for ballot access.”

CBS could have asked Griswold how her own warnings about election confidence cohere with her support of an unconstitutional attempt to kick Trump off the ballot or how Griswold’s own failures to keep elections safe damage the trust she accused Peters of damaging. Instead, the 60 Minutes interview gave Griswold a free pass to smear Peters while evading scrutiny of her own failures.

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More Than 18,000 Children Vaccinated Under Anesthesia At Children’s Hospital Colorado Since 2020, Report Says

More than 18,000 children, including children with neurocognitive conditions, have received vaccines while they were under anesthesia or sedation at Children’s Hospital Colorado since 2020, according to a report by independent journalist Jon Fleetwood.

Fleetwood reported Thursday that a March 2026 article in AAP News, the publication of the American Academy of Pediatrics, confirms the figure. The article, co-authored by Dr. Caroline Pasquariello of Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and Dr. Kim Strupp of Children’s Hospital Colorado, promotes the administration of vaccines during surgical and procedural care, he wrote. Fleetwood quoted the article as saying “additional vaccinations are administered” particularly to “children with neurocognitive conditions who are unable to tolerate vaccination without sedation.” This report follows his story a day earlier that Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia injected 2,054 children with flu vaccines under anesthesia.

The Colorado program began in October 2020. In 2021, Healio reported that the “best practice alert” for children scheduled for “elective general anesthesia” was activated, and 25 weeks later 1,063 children had been vaccinated, with “very few concerns” from families, according to Dr. Tyler Morrissey, the University of Colorado anesthesiologist who initiated the program. According to Healio, only 30 vaccinations were given in a six week period prior to the best practice alert, so the 1,063 represented an increase of roughly 3,500 percent. “No vaccine-related complications were reported,” Healio wrote.

As The High Wire noted, Children’s Hospital Colorado had administered more than 7,000 doses of vaccine to children under anesthesia between 2020 and February 2024. Fleetwood’s figure of more than 18,000 children since 2020 is more than double that number, though one figure counts doses and the other counts children.

Dr. Madhava Setty, a board-certified anesthesiologist, called the practice “stunningly irresponsible” on X, The High Wire reported. About 11 to 16% of kids who receive the flu vaccine will develop a fever, and about 1% will develop a rash, according to The High Wire, and telling a vaccine reaction from an anesthetic drug reaction is harder in a sedated child. “Vaccinating children undergoing procedures with anesthesia is malpractice,” said Dr. Peter McCullough on the platform.

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YOU CAN’T MAKE THIS UP: Democrat Janelle Stelson Canvasser Busted HALF-NAKED With Genitals Exposed in Family Neighborhood — Told Cops He Didn’t See the Problem — Indecent Exposure Charge Then VANISHES

A political canvasser tied to Pennsylvania Democrat Janelle Stelson’s bid to unseat Republican Rep. Scott Perry was caught with his pants down, literally, in a Mechanicsburg neighborhood full of kids, dog-walkers, and a public park, according to court records reported by WHP 580.

East Pennsboro Police say they were sent shortly after 3 p.m. Sunday to Delwood Drive near the Acri Road intersection after an unknown man had been sitting in his vehicle for several hours.

When officers made contact, 25-year-old Chimaobim Adedayo Igbojekwe of Aurora, Colorado, opened the door of his silver Ford SUV wearing only a shirt, with his genitals exposed.

He told police he was waiting to hand out flyers for Stelson’s campaign and pointed to the literature in the SUV.

Then, according to the same court records, he said he did not understand why it was a problem for him to have his genitals exposed while parked in a residential neighborhood.

Police noted residents were already in the area: a man walking his dog and children on bicycles. The SUV was parked close to a public park and next to a sidewalk.

Igbojekwe was originally charged with indecent exposure, a second-degree misdemeanor, and a summary count of disorderly conduct. Magisterial District Judge Jonathan R. Birbeck set bail at $49,000. He was held at Cumberland County Prison after he could not post it.

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Foreign Actors Disrupt 2 Colorado Water Systems: Governor’s Office

Foreign actors gained access to computer systems at two small private water utilities in Colorado in late August, changing equipment controls before operators restored normal operations, according to the governor’s office.

Ally Sullivan, a spokeswoman for Gov. Jared Polis, said the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment followed up with the providers to confirm the issues had been resolved. The governor’s office said it was unable to confirm which foreign actors and did not identify the utilities.

“The two water utilities impacted are small, private water providers that serve fewer than 200 people,” Sullivan said in a statement to media outlets.

“The providers acted promptly and there was no impact to public safety or water services. We cannot confirm what foreign actors may have been involved, but we are aware of ongoing efforts across the nation by an Iranian-backed group to access drinking water and wastewater systems, as per the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.”

Sullivan did not immediately return a request for comment from The Epoch Times.

Treatment processes and water quality were not affected at either provider, according to the governor’s office.

The Colorado incidents occurred weeks after a series of cyberattacks impacted water and wastewater systems in multiple states. Federal agencies had already flagged the threat.

In an Aug. 19 advisory, the FBI, National Security Agency, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and other agencies warned of an active cyber threat to Siemens S7 Series programmable logic controllers (PLC) used in water systems and other critical infrastructure.

The advisory said unnamed threat actors were conducting reconnaissance and capability development against the U.S.-based Siemens PLC installations, using AI-generated exploitation scripts disguised as legitimate monitoring tools. It noted that the hackers sought internet-connected PLCs running outdated software or that were otherwise poorly protected.

“The U.S. critical infrastructure sectors most targeted by this threat activity include Critical Manufacturing, Energy, Water and Wastewater, Chemical, Food and Agriculture, and Commercial Facilities,” the advisory stated.

“This is not a theoretical risk – it is an active threat.”

The advisory came amid reports of incidents targeting local water systems in several states in the preceding weeks. The FBI said that from July 27 to July 30, water and wastewater utility companies in seven states reported security-related incidents.

Michigan was among those states. Dale George, director of communications for the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy, said that the state received the FBI’s notice warning of attempts to tamper with operational technology at water systems.

“All systems continued to operate safely, issues were addressed by local operators, and there are no known impacts that posed a public health concern,” George said.

Earlier in July, more than 30 community water systems in Minnesota reported a coordinated cyberattack. CISA urged water entities of all sizes to protect operational technology against activity targeting PLCs.

Attackers had targeted internet-facing Rockwell Automation and Allen-Bradley MicroLogix controllers, changing passwords and IP addresses. Some effects included loss of pressure. Federal officials warned that a significant pressure drop can allow untreated groundwater to enter drinking water pipes.

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Denver Socialist Mayoral Candidate Says Prior Arrest for Theft of Food Stamp Benefits ‘Actually Qualifies’ Her to Hold Office 

Shontel Lewis, a Democratic Socialist running in the Denver mayoral election, has a unique spin on her prior arrest for the theft of food stamps. She says it makes her more qualified to hold office.

In 2008, while she worked at the Department of Human Services East Food Stamp Office, Lewis used that job to take public benefit money that belonged to other people.

According to the police affidavit reported by the Denver Post, she searched EBT systems for inactive accounts that still had money and reissued benefit cards from those accounts.

She then gave cards to a roommate to use for food and cash benefits.

Investigators tied her to at least five to seven cases accessed over about five months starting in March 2008.

Although she initially denied wrongdoing, she later admitted it and said she was struggling financially. Initially, she was charged with more serious counts, but pleaded guilty to misdemeanor theft. A felony theft count was deferred and later dismissed in 2011.

She served 18 months of probation and was ordered to pay more than $6,000 in restitution.

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CHAOS IN COLORADO: Anti-ICE Student Walkout ERUPTS IN VIOLENCE — Counterprotester Kicked on Ground, Man Struck in Head with Metal Bottle, Three Hospitalized

Schools let hundreds of kids walk out Friday to protest enforcing the law. What followed was a shouting match, flying water bottles, a metal bottle to the head, and total disorder at a Denver park.

A coordinated anti-ICE student walkout descended into violence Friday after hundreds of Colorado students abandoned their classrooms and gathered at La Alma-Lincoln Park in Denver.

What organizers promoted as a youth demonstration against President Trump’s immigration-enforcement agenda reportedly produced five assaults or altercations, sent three people to the hospital, and resulted in two graffiti citations.

According to Denver7 reporter Danielle Kreutter, a counterprotester recording the demonstration was knocked to the ground, kicked, and shoved after his camera was apparently knocked from his hand.

Another man carrying a pro-ICE sign was surrounded and chased by student demonstrators. Video showed a metal water bottle being thrown at the man’s head. The bottle struck him, and he fled with students still pursuing him.

Independent journalist @jorgeshottakis on X wrote:

Students throwing frozen water bottles and and physically attacking journalists on the ground. This was a riot.

[…]

I was also attacked by the mob about 10 minutes after this. I seem to have lost my A-cam footage of it and they stole my GoPro. If you have footage of my assault please send it to me. I saw multiple people with cameras around.

This was not harmless “youth activism.” It was mob behavior.

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Colorado college drops charges against student journalists, but speech restrictions remain uncertain

The Community College of Aurora closed its conduct case against student journalists this month, finding them “not responsible” due to unclear rules, after restricting the reporters from interviewing and publishing without prior approval and charging them for continuing those activities.

The student newspaper, FoxTalk, is led by CCA student Andrew Green, who told The College Fix via email that the decision, “is a big step forward.” 

He added that he still doesn’t “know whether the restrictions on interviews, reporting and publishing have actually been lifted.”

“I want the earlier warning reconsidered, and a clear answer about whether we are free to interview students, report and publish. I would much rather spend my time building the newsroom than fighting the college,” he said.

He added that he believes the school and newspaper can have a “good relationship” moving forward, “while FoxTalk still does independent journalism.” 

Green also said he is “working with the Student Press Law Center’s New Voices team to explore legislation around protections for college student journalists in Colorado,” he said. 

“Even if FoxTalk and CCA resolve everything, I would like the next student journalist to have clearer rules than I did,” Green told The Fix. 

A free speech group called the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression continues to press the college. 

Program Manager for FIRE’s Student Press Freedom Initiative Marie McMullan said the group is “assessing next steps” and that “until the ban on publication and student disciplinary measures are rescinded, our concerns remain.”

She also said that this “kind of blanket ban on student journalism can’t remain in place, and we continue pushing CCA to change its course.” 

FIRE had sent a demand letter this month to CCA Vice President Reyna Anaya, calling on the school to “drop the charges against any student who chooses not to comply with such unconstitutional demands, and forego further censorial practices.” 

The group alleges that CCA’s directives violated the First Amendment through prior restraint, prior review, compelled speech, and restrictions on associational freedom.

Reached for comment, CCA Executive Director of Communications and Special Initiatives Courtney Butler told The College Fix that the school is still reviewing the matter and is unable to provide additional comment.

FoxTalk was registered under the college on March 13th. In April, Green asked CCA administrators “to confirm whether FoxTalk could seek comment from CCA faculty and staff in their personal capacities without going through Butler’s office,” according to FIRE’s demand letter. 

Dean of Student Success Julie LaRock then informed Green that the newspaper would need to “receive staff approval before identifying themselves as FoxTalk staff, accessing non-public spaces, beginning work on each month’s stories, and publishing any content whatsoever.”

LaRock further advised Green to hold off on additional work until structural coordination with the administration and faculty was established.

On June 3, Green questioned the order to stop FoxTalk from publishing, saying the group still planned to cover the June 30 primary election, including a debate at the University of Denver. 

After an administrator said FoxTalk only had to follow regular student-organization rules, Green assumed they could publish again and wrote to confirm. The administrator replied that the ban was still in place until FoxTalk’s structure was fixed, and also criticized the activities of three members.

On July 14, Green was charged with interviewing students, posting on the FoxTalk website, contacting employees, and ignoring earlier orders. On July 23 he was charged again for not following a college official’s directives. 

McMullan told The Fix that CCA’s rationale for restricting the students is not very common compared to what the group has seen in the past. However, several other schools have similarly tried to restrict student journalists. 

“Repeatedly … universities and colleges subjecting student journalists to investigations, hearings, and punishments for basic newsgathering and publishing, or attempting to wholesale stop students from publishing,” she said.

Morgan State University, for example, implemented a policy that restricts student journalists’ ability to gather news directly, requiring media inquiries to go through the Office of Public Relations and Strategic Communications, The College Fix previously reported. 

McMullan previously told The Fix this policy is a “blatantly” illegal “gag order.”

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JUST WOW: This Is Who Colorado Democrats Are Running Against Conservative Rep. Brandi Bradley — Arrested Mid-Campaign and Hogtied in a Police Van

Video circulating online reportedly shows Colorado Democrat Christian Schilder restrained in the back of a police transport vehicle following his arrest in Texas, an incident that occurred while he was actively campaigning for the state legislature.

Schilder is the Democratic candidate challenging Republican State Rep. Brandi Bradley in Colorado House District 39. The general election is scheduled for November 3, 2026.

Official Colorado campaign records show Schilder filed his candidate affidavit in November 2025 and continues to maintain an active campaign.

According to a published Brazos County booking record, Schilder was booked on May 8, 2026, on reported charges of:

  • Public intoxication, first offense
  • Resisting arrest, search, or transport

The record lists bonds of $300 and $6,000, respectively. Brazos County provides an official online jail-record search portal for public records.

Douglas County Campaign Watch published a graphic that it said reproduced an account from arresting Officer Jonathan Wynn.

According to the officer narrative presented by the organization, Schilder allegedly refused to walk to the patrol vehicle and had to be physically carried by three officers.

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