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Wiretap: Trump’s late night tweet on DACA confuses everything and everyone

This won't surprise you, but Donald Trump was back at the Twitter machine and was once again undercutting a day's worth of policy. After...

Littwin: If Trump told the truth, he’d admit to crushing 800,000...

The first thing to know about Donald Trump's cruel and gratuitous decision to end the DACA program is that he did not do it...

Littwin: After 100 days, it’s not all Trump’s fault (just mostly)

As we hit the 100-day mark for the historic failure that is the Trump presidency, the question we should be discussing is not whether...

Mike Coffman is a slippery target at an angry town hall...

AURORA — The last time Mike Coffman faced angry constituents, he ducked out a back door early. This time, during a much-anticipated town hall...

US Rep. Mike Coffman of Colorado: Russia didn’t change the outcome...

While Republican Congressman Mike Coffman of Aurora sees Russia as a big threat to national security, he doesn’t think the Russians altered the outcome...

Trump calls education ‘the civil rights issue of our time’ —...

“Education is the civil rights issue of our time,” President Donald Trump said Tuesday night. The line inserted a bit of boilerplate — and bipartisan...

Littwin: Trump plays a grown-up; enemies of the people swoon

For an hour or so, Donald Trump acted like a normal adult. The nation was shocked, and much of the media was all aswoon....

CO’s Congressional reps kept a low profile in February. March isn’t...

By 7:30 p.m. Friday night, a smiling cardboard cutout of Republican Sen. Cory Gardner was a little worse for wear, plastered with a sign...

In Cory Gardner’s Yuma

YUMA, Colorado  — If you want to see the American political divide up close, pull up a chair around noon to the bar of...

Will Mike Coffman hold his planned town hall in a ‘very...

  With calls and e-mails clogging congressional phone lines and inboxes, and protestors waving signs outside regional congressional offices as part of a broad backlash to...