ASHE IN AMERICA — OPINION
As I write this it’s early. It’s the day after election day, and Colorado Republicans appear absolutely decimated according to the official results.
It seems possible that Democrats will take all eight congressional seats in the Centennial State, and likely that it will be a seven to one best case for the grand ol’ party.
The Governor’s race was even more comical. Kyle Clark posted on socials:
“Victor Marx raised/spent an astonishing $4.5M to lose by 27% in the 5th largest blowout for Gov in Colorado’s 150 yr history. Marx spent $5.69 per vote received. GOP US Senate candidate Mark Baisley spent $0.14 per vote. And Baisley got 45k more votes than Marx. Put another way, US Sen candidate Mark Baisley (R) spent $110,837 to get the bare minimum GOP support (35%) in Colorado at $0.14/vote. Victor Marx spent 40X that amount to finish 45k votes BELOW that Republican baseline.”
Marx was never a viable candidate, and he made it worse by disrespecting voters and refusing to debate and engage in unscripted forums. When he did speak, like in that clown world 9 News debate, his net effect was to remind voters why he wasn’t a viable candidate.
Governor-elect Phil Weiser and Jena “The Law” Griswold play musical chairs but retain decision rights. The General Assembly expanded their seats in both chambers. Again, it’s still early. But yikes.
The DSA agenda is accelerating.
Note that I didn’t say, “we’re going to get the DSA agenda.” That refrain is circulating the nation, but we already have it here. The Colorado Democrats employed vacancy appointments for years to install their socialist change makers and move the Overton Window to make DSA candidates publicly palatable. To make them electable.
At the same time, however, that same legislature has been passing those ideas – the taxes, the guns, the kids – despite that agenda’s supposedly unelectable brand. The DSA ideas have been the Democrat agenda in Colorado since they claimed executive power in 2018. They just needed to wear down the public mind.
The 2026 Colorado Midterm Election official results imply that window shift is complete.
The only bright spot from November 3 is that the Protect Kids Colorado Propositions (133, 134, 135) look like they will win. 133 is called, the others are leading. These are ballot measures that were necessary because the Colorado General Assembly, a super majority of the Democrats’ Socialists of America, refused all legislative attempts on these issues.
That alone is curious.
According to the official results, Colorado voters that decided to punish child sex traffickers with life in prison and ban the mutilation of children also decided to double down on the executives and legislature that made the propositions necessary – by expanding their power.
So, the agenda will accelerate, and Republicans around the state are wondering if anything can be done. Should we move? With Jena as “The Law,” it’s reasonable to consider moving. You can’t vote your way out of communism, right?
I think the answer lies in that bright spot.
Erin Lee became a driving force for change after her child was groomed with gender nonsense. They called it “art club,” and they were trying to psychologically confuse and manipulate her beautiful, healthy daughter. By “they,” I mean government schools.
If I were Erin Lee, I might have left. Maybe even probably. The quest that Lee was about to embark on would have seemed insurmountable at that moment, and in many other moments in the years that followed. I would have rationalized that my children are too valuable to risk a head-to-head fight with the demons trying to claim their bodies and souls.
But Erin didn’t leave. She mobilized the state to fight those demons and, as I write this, it appears she prevailed. You must understand that getting these ballot measures on the ballot at all was a miracle, the work of thousands of volunteers and advocates around the state delivering hundreds of thousands of signatures – without party machinery or big-dollar backing.
The People still have power.
It might seem insurmountable in Colorado. It’s certainly easier to flee. But you can’t deny that change is possible.
I am grateful for the example – the model – that Protect Kids Colorado gave us all. The DSA agenda is here already and about to accelerate on most fronts; but their agenda for the children has been crippled. By the People. Colorado parents demanded mandatory minimums for people that buy and sell children for sex, and their demands were ignored or opposed by the DSA agenda. Now, buying and selling children for sex will earn those monsters life without parole.
The People did that. Maybe the People can do it again.
I say “maybe” because there is still the matter of elections. While I’m happy about these specific results, I still can’t verify them. If access is prioritized at the expense of accuracy, and democracy is administered inside an opaque box you can’t question or examine, I will continue to believe elections are little more than pageantry. These measures allegedly passed, but no one can verify it any more than they can verify if Jena Griswold won (any of her elections).
If elections aren’t real, then the “sole foundation of the legitimacy of public power” is not constituted.
“…the sovereign will of the citizens — freely expressed at the ballot box and formalized by the competent electoral authorities — constitutes the sole foundation of the legitimacy of public power.” — US State Department, Shield of the Americas
On cue, Governor-elect Weiser is acting squirrely about the propositions’ implementation.
“It’s important that we recognize that sometimes, something is passed and it is incomplete. It is not administrable,” Weiser said, continuing, “I don’t believe it would be acceptable to Colorado to have every student athlete to have to go through full-body examinations or other invasions of privacy. So, we need to figure out what we do given the decisions last night.”
It remains to be seen if the People’s sovereign will, as expressed will be honored on the PKC ballot measures. But maybe the People can do it again.
I believe in the People. I hope they believe in themselves sufficiently for what’s coming in January.
Ashe Epp is a local writer, host, and activist. Find all her work at linktree.com/asheinamerica.
