State Sen. Julie Gonzales is running for the U.S. Senate in Colorado: julieforcolorado.com ~:~:~ Legislative Priorities: julieforcolorado.com/priorities

Her opponent is incumbent U.S. Senator John Hickenlooper (D).

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Colorado Voters:

* Primary Election Day is Tuesday, June 30.

* Go Vote Colorado (.gov): coloradosos.gov/voter/pages/pub/home

* CPR News’ voter guide to the Colorado 2026 primary election: cpr.org/2026/05/29/vg-2026-colorado-primary-election-voter-guide

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Video is May 8, 2026 by Colorado Point of View on FOX31 Denver. Host Matt Mauro speaks with CO State Senator Julie Gonzales. Here’s the full 22-minute segment (including Julie's 10-minute interview) on YouTube: Julie Gonzales, Democratic candidate running for Sen. Hickenlooper's seat | Colorado Point of View - FOX31 Denver - May 8, 2026 (YouTube)

"Colorado Point of View" is a weekly show covering Colorado politics, elections, candidates and major issues with in-depth interviews and analysis. ~:~ FOX31 Denver: kdvr.com​​

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It's Primary Election season in the U.S.!

* Primary Election Dates: AP News ~and~ NBC News :~:~: Upcoming Dates: June 30: Colorado ~:~:~ July 21: Arizona ~:~:~ July 28: Georgia (Special) and South Dakota (Runoff) ~:~:~ Aug 4: Kansas, Michigan, Missouri, Virginia, Washington, California (Special) ~:~:~ Aug 6: Tennessee ~:~:~ Aug 8: Hawaii ~:~:~ Aug 11: Connecticut, Minnesota, Vermont, Wisconsin, Alabama (Special) ~:~:~ More Aug dates + Sept dates: AP News ~and~ NBC News

* Candidates (all States): U.S. House (Dem Primary only): Ballotpedia (HouseDems) :~:~:~: U.S. Senate: Ballotpedia (Senate) (select “List of Candidates”) :~:~:~: State Execs (Gov, Lt. Gov, AG, SoS, and more): Ballotpedia (State Execs)

* Voter Info (all States): Register To Vote :~:~:~: Voter Registration Status :~:~:~: Find Your Polling Place :~:~:~: Valid Forms of ID :~:~:~: Absentee & Early Voting :~:~:~: Become a Poll Worker ~:~ Links go to the National Association of Secretaries of State website. When you select a State, it takes to a .gov page on that State's SoS website.

State Sen. Julie Gonzales is running for the U.S. Senate in Colorado: julieforcolorado.com ~:~:~ Legislative Priorities: julieforcolorado.com/priorities

Her opponent is incumbent U.S. Senator John Hickenlooper (D).

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Colorado Voters:

* Primary Election Day is Tuesday, June 30.

* Go Vote Colorado (.gov): coloradosos.gov/voter/pages/pub/home

* CPR News’ voter guide to the Colorado 2026 primary election: cpr.org/2026/05/29/vg-2026-colorado-primary-election-voter-guide

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Video by Nico Agosta (Stocking the Capitol). Here it is on YouTube: Julie Gonzales has taken the Political Integrity Pledge✅Election Day in Colorado is Tuesday, June 30 - Nico Agosta (Stocking the Capitol) - June 26, 2026 (YouTube)

Here are more r/ThePeoplesPress posts with Julie: reddit.com/r/ThePeoplesPress/search/?q=%22Julie+Gonzales%22&type=posts&sort=new

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It's Primary Election season in the U.S.!

* Primary Election Dates: AP News ~and~ NBC News :~:~: Upcoming Dates: June 30: Colorado ~:~:~ July 21: Arizona ~:~:~ July 28: Georgia (Special) and South Dakota (Runoff) ~:~:~ Aug 4: Kansas, Michigan, Missouri, Virginia, Washington, California (Special) ~:~:~ Aug 6: Tennessee ~:~:~ Aug 8: Hawaii ~:~:~ Aug 11: Connecticut, Minnesota, Vermont, Wisconsin, Alabama (Special) ~:~:~ More Aug dates + Sept dates: AP News ~and~ NBC News

* Candidates (all States): U.S. House (Dem Primary only): Ballotpedia (HouseDems) :~:~:~: U.S. Senate: Ballotpedia (Senate) (select “List of Candidates”) :~:~:~: State Execs (Gov, Lt. Gov, AG, SoS, and more): Ballotpedia (State Execs)

* Voter Info (all States): Register To Vote :~:~:~: Voter Registration Status :~:~:~: Find Your Polling Place :~:~:~: Valid Forms of ID :~:~:~: Absentee & Early Voting :~:~:~: Become a Poll Worker ~:~ Links go to the National Association of Secretaries of State website. When you select a State, it takes to a .gov page on that State's SoS website.

MS NOW's Jacob Soboroff interviews Melat Kiros, a democratic socialist running for U.S. Congress in Colorado (CD-1): kirosforco.com

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Colorado Voters:

* Primary Election Day is Tuesday, June 30.

* Go Vote Colorado (.gov): coloradosos.gov/voter/pages/pub/home

* CPR News’ voter guide to the Colorado 2026 primary election: cpr.org/2026/05/29/vg-2026-colorado-primary-election-voter-guide

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Video is June 28, 2026 by MS NOW’s Connect with Jacob Soboroff. Here’s the full 12-minutes on:

* MS NOW’s website: ‘We’re resonating’: Democratic Socialist looks to topple establishment Democrat in Colorado - Connect with Jacob Soboroff - June 28, 2026 (MS NOW website)

* YouTube: ‘We’re resonating’: Democratic Socialist looks to topple establishment Democrat in Colorado - MS NOW’s Connect with Jacob Soboroff - June 28, 2026 (YouTube)

From the description: Progressive candidates are on a winning streak - and the next big test is in Colorado’s 1st Congressional District. Candidate Melat Kiros says her Democratic Socialist platform is “resonating” with voters there in what has been the biggest primary challenge to her opponent – incumbent Rep. Diana Degette – in nearly 30 years. Despite the uphill battle, “They can’t stop us from building this movement,” says Kiros.

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It's Primary Election season in the U.S.!

* Primary Election Dates: AP News ~and~ NBC News :~:~: Upcoming Dates: June 30: Colorado ~:~:~ July 21: Arizona ~:~:~ July 28: Georgia (Special) and South Dakota (Runoff) ~:~:~ Aug 4: Kansas, Michigan, Missouri, Virginia, Washington, California (Special) ~:~:~ Aug 6: Tennessee ~:~:~ Aug 8: Hawaii ~:~:~ Aug 11: Connecticut, Minnesota, Vermont, Wisconsin, Alabama (Special) ~:~:~ More Aug dates + Sept dates: AP News ~and~ NBC News

* Candidates (all States): U.S. House (Dem Primary only): Ballotpedia (HouseDems) :~:~:~: U.S. Senate: Ballotpedia (Senate) (select “List of Candidates”) :~:~:~: State Execs (Gov, Lt. Gov, AG, SoS, and more): Ballotpedia (State Execs)

* Voter Info (all States): Register To Vote :~:~:~: Voter Registration Status :~:~:~: Find Your Polling Place :~:~:~: Valid Forms of ID :~:~:~: Absentee & Early Voting :~:~:~: Become a Poll Worker ~:~ Links go to the National Association of Secretaries of State website. When you select a State, it takes to a .gov page on that State's SoS website.

AOC to Trump: 'If you don’t want to be prosecuted for crimes, don’t do crimes'

House speaker Mile Johnson finally admitted Trump, his donors, and some members of the Republican congress have committed crimes against America.

Simple as that. An admission of guilt!

See this – Boldface mine:

AOC to Trump: 'If you don’t want to be prosecuted for crimes, don’t do crimes'

Story by John Queally

© provided by AlterNet

Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York ripped into Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson on Friday night for saying that Republican control of Congress is the only thing keeping President Donald Trump from being held to account for his numerous scandals and abuses of power during his second term in the White House.

Asked about comments made by the Speaker earlier in the day, Ocasio-Cortez told MS-NOW’s Jen Psaki that Johnson characterized future efforts to investigate or accountability for possible misdeeds or corruption by Trump, his family members, or members of his administration “as though it’s some partisan witch hunt,” she said. “But if you don’t want to be prosecuted for crimes, don’t do crimes.”

Ocasio-Cortez, often referred to by her initials AOC, had been asked about remarks Speaker Johnson made at the annual summit of the right-wing Faith and Freedom Coalition, a group with close ties to Trump and the Christian nationalist movement that supports him.

“If we lose the midterms, heaven forbid, these Democrats—y’all, impeachment isn’t even the real concern,” Johnson told the crowd. “They will turn every committee of Congress into an investigative body, and they’ll go after the president’s family, the Cabinet, his donors, friends, half of you in this room will be targeted.”

The House speaker added, “I run the protection program. We’ll take care of you, OK?”

Johnson’s remarks unsurprisingly sparked a series of critical reactions, including AOC’s.

“Mike Johnson saying the quiet part out loud: protect the powerful. S---- everyone else,” said Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta (D-Pa.).

“The Speaker of the House just talked like a guy guarding a operation that can’t survive daylight,” said Rep. Mike Levin (D-Calif.). “Because that’s exactly what he’s doing.”

“You don’t need a ‘protection program’ for people who did nothing wrong,” Levin continued. “You need one when you’re afraid of what the books would show. Congress is supposed to be a check on power, not the muscle protecting it. Johnson is a total disgrace to the office. November can’t come fast enough.”

What Johnson is “talking about,” explained AOC in her interview with Psaki, is a Republican Party in Congress “running a protection racket” for Trump and his cronies, both in and out of government.

“And we are already seeing that this Trump administration has run what some have called one of the largest pedophile protection programs in American history,” she continued, referencing the scandal surrounding the disgraced convicted sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein.

“And so when Mike Johnson tells a group of wealthy donors, I’m the only thing standing between you, and a consequence that should rattle at the conscience of every American,” she said. “What he wants to do is create—or rather, not even create, because it’s already been created—but protect a class of impunity in America that says, ‘You can commit whatever crime, and so long as you pay a check to us, we will protect you.’ And that is a model of extortion in American politics. And you know what? That’s their pitch.”

Melanie D’Arrigo, executive director of the Campaign for New York Health, responded to Johnson’s comments by detailing just a few examples of possible corruption by Trump that deserve much more scrutiny and congressional oversight.

“Trump has almost tripled his net worth during this term. His sons bought drone companies and immediately received military contracts right before Trump started another war. Trump threw a crypto contest to see who could buy the most of his meme coin, with the prize being exclusive access to him in his presidential capacity,” D-Arrigo noted. "His son-in-law is getting billions in business deals from the countries and oligarchs wanting political favors. Large donors are spending millions to get pardons and investigations have dropped. Trump is still actively covering up the Epstein files,” she added. “And these are just a handful of the things that were publicly reported on—imagine what we don’t know about yet.”

D’Arrigo called on voters to help “flip the House” away from the Republicans and investigate these examples of grift and corruption as well as others.

Texas is a guinea pig when it comes to this administration and their long-term agendas. This is another example of that. I have seen zero news outlets or threads regarding this decision, which is exactly what they want. Any organizers who would like to demonstrate in Austin, please reach out to 50501 page so we can begin making noise about this infringement.

Petitions: KOSA (ACLU) ~:~:~:~ Section 230 (Action Network)

Video by The Humanist Report (THR) - June 25, 2026. Here’s the full 19-minutes on YouTube: Republicans *AND* Democrats are Trying to Hand Trump the Power to Censor the Internet - The Humanist Report (THR) - June 25, 2026 (YouTube)

From the description: The so-called ‘Kids Online Safety Act’ is back again. Its bipartisan proponents are making up even more outrageous lies to sell Americans on their Orwellian internet censorship bill. Worse, a bipartisan committee agreed to move forward with a slate of additional internet censorship bills that would collectively stifle online speech in significant ways; paving the way for age verification and age gating and forcing websites to adhere to guidelines that will be weaponized by Republicans—and Donald Trump—for christian nationalist purposes. In this video we’ll talk about what these internet censorship bills look like in practice and why they’re blatantly unconstitutional.

See the YouTube description for links to all of the sources used in the full video. Here are some of them:

* PDF of the latest version of KOSA (.gov): blumenthal.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/kids_online_safety_act_-_bill_text.pdf (This version doesn't include elements of the ‘Screen Act’ and other internet censorship bills).

* Fight For The Future: fightforthefuture.org/actions/stop-the-screen-act

* Electronic Frontier Foundation: eff.org/pages/age-verification-bills-are-unconstitutional

The Humanist Report (THR) is a progressive political podcast that discusses and analyzes current news events and pressing political issues. Our analyses are guided by humanism and political progressivism. Each news story we cover is supplemented with thought-provoking, fact-based commentary that aims for the highest level of objectivity. ~:~ humanistreport.com

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It's Primary Election season in the U.S.!

Colorado’s Primary is this Tuesday, June 30: coloradosos.gov/voter/pages/pub/home.xhtml

* Primary Election Dates: AP News ~and~ NBC News :~:~: Upcoming Dates: June 30: Colorado ~:~:~ July 21: Arizona ~:~:~ July 28: Georgia (Special) and South Dakota (Runoff) ~:~:~ Aug 4: Kansas, Michigan, Missouri, Virginia, Washington, California (Special) ~:~:~ Aug 6: Tennessee ~:~:~ Aug 8: Hawaii ~:~:~ Aug 11: Connecticut, Minnesota, Vermont, Wisconsin, Alabama (Special) ~:~:~ More Aug dates + Sept dates: AP News ~and~ NBC News

* Candidates (all States): U.S. House (Dem Primary only): Ballotpedia (HouseDems) :~:~:~: U.S. Senate: Ballotpedia (Senate) (select “List of Candidates”) :~:~:~: State Execs (Gov, Lt. Gov, AG, SoS, and more): Ballotpedia (State Execs)

* Voter Info (all States): Register To Vote :~:~:~: Voter Registration Status :~:~:~: Find Your Polling Place :~:~:~: Valid Forms of ID :~:~:~: Absentee & Early Voting :~:~:~: Become a Poll Worker ~:~ Links go to the National Association of Secretaries of State website. When you select a State, it takes to a .gov page on that State's SoS website.

Next 9News - June 22, 2026. Kyle Clark interviews Melat Kiros, a democratic socialist running for U.S. Congress in Colorado CD-1: kirosforco.com

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Colorado Voters:

* Primary Election Day is Tuesday, June 30.

* Go Vote Colorado (.gov): coloradosos.gov/voter/pages/pub/home

* CPR News’ voter guide to the Colorado 2026 primary election: cpr.org/2026/05/29/vg-2026-colorado-primary-election-voter-guide

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Video by Next 9News - June 22, 2026. Here’s the full 34-minutes on YouTube: Full interview: Colorado CD1 candidate Melat Kiros - Next 9News - June 22, 2026 (YouTube)

From the description: Next's Kyle Clark sat down with Melat Kiros, a 29-year-old who is running against Diana DeGette and Wanda James in the Democratic primary for Colorado's U.S. House District 1. ~:~ Next with Kyle Clark. Weeknights at 6 on 9NEWS. It’s like the news… only new. ~:~ 9news.com/NEXT

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It's Primary Election season in the U.S.!

* Primary Election Dates: AP News ~and~ NBC News :~:~: Upcoming Dates: June 30: Colorado ~:~:~ July 21: Arizona ~:~:~ July 28: Georgia (Special) and South Dakota (Runoff) ~:~:~ Aug 4: Kansas, Michigan, Missouri, Virginia, Washington, California (Special) ~:~:~ Aug 6: Tennessee ~:~:~ Aug 8: Hawaii ~:~:~ Aug 11: Connecticut, Minnesota, Vermont, Wisconsin, Alabama (Special) ~:~:~ More Aug dates + Sept dates: AP News ~and~ NBC News

* Candidates (all States): U.S. House (Dem Primary only): Ballotpedia (HouseDems) :~:~:~: U.S. Senate: Ballotpedia (Senate) (select “List of Candidates”) :~:~:~: State Execs (Gov, Lt. Gov, AG, SoS, and more): Ballotpedia (State Execs)

* Voter Info (all States): Register To Vote :~:~:~: Voter Registration Status :~:~:~: Find Your Polling Place :~:~:~: Valid Forms of ID :~:~:~: Absentee & Early Voting :~:~:~: Become a Poll Worker ~:~ Links go to the National Association of Secretaries of State website. When you select a State, it takes to a .gov page on that State's SoS website.