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The American Independent reports: House Republicans on Wednesday elected Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado to a leadership role in which she will advise them on policy. Boebert, a right-wing extremist who has often created a spectacle on Capitol Hill, including flashing firearms during committee hearings and refusing to follow Capitol security procedures, will serve on the Republican Policy Committee, a …

“I have been accused of just about every mass shooting there has been since the Left has learned of my name. “Whether it’s Uvalde, or the King Soopers shooting in Boulder, Colorado, or the Buffalo, New York shooting. “Or even Paul Pelosi getting hammered. I have been blamed for all of that. I think the Left is pissed I won …

Denver’s CBS News affiliate reports: The razor-thin race that kept Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District on its toes for more than a week has reached an end. Democratic challenger Adam Frisch has conceded to incumbent Republican Lauren Boebert. In a short press conference via Zoom on Friday morning, the Aspen councilman announced that he had conceded the election via a phone …

The Associated Press reports: Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert, a renowned conservative firebrand whose combative style helped define the new right, is likely headed to an automatic recount in her bid to fend off a surprisingly difficult challenge by a Democratic businessman from the ritzy ski town of Aspen. The Associated Press has declared the election in Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District …

CNN reports: Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert remained in a tight race Friday morning against Democrat Adam Frisch after redistricting made her bid for reelection to her Colorado seat more competitive. Boebert, who has expressed confidence about her chances, was ahead of Frisch by 1,122 votes as of 1 p.m. ET Friday. Boebert suggested to CNN on Thursday that a lack …

NPR reports: Two days after Election Day, many eyes are on Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert, who is trailing Democratic challenger Adam Frisch by the narrowest of margins: just 64 votes, giving Frisch a lead of 50.01% of the vote to Boebert’s 49.99%. That’s as of late Wednesday night, when election workers last updated the tally. Extremely tight races like this …

From the Denver Post editorial board: We beg voters in western and southern Colorado not to give Rep. Lauren Boebert their vote. Boebert has not represented the 3rd Congressional District well. Almost exclusively, she has spent her time and efforts contributing to the toxic political environment in this nation. The good people in this district are not angry and abrasive; …

Newsweek reports: Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) has sparked anger online after she referred to women as a “lesser vessel” when compared to men. The politician spoke with conservative comedian Brad Stine on the Brad Stine Has Issues podcast. Before making her controversial comments, Boebert had been speaking about transgender participation in sports and gender identity. She added: “We are created …

“I’m so happy to be in Knox County. Thank you so much, Congressman Burchett, for inviting me, my husband here. I want to start really with two words: ‘Let’s go, Brandon.’ “It is something else to be serving in our nation’s capital right now. In all seriousness, there is a calling on each and every one of you to be …

The Insider reports: House Rules Committee Chairman Jim McGovern created a “new rule” on his committee for people like Rep. Lauren Boebert, the gun-toting far-right firebrand from Colorado. When one of her “flurry of nonsensical amendments turned out to be reasonable,” McGovern, a Massachusetts Democrat, blocked it from going to the House floor and a Republican committee member wanted to …

First, a report from Colorado Politics: The Republican state lawmaker who lost a primary challenge to U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert is backing the Democratic nominee for the seat. Calling Boebert the “poster child” for the dangers of excessive partisanship, state Sen. Don Coram, R-Montrose, on Wednesday said that while he differs with Democrat Adam Frisch on plenty of issues, he …

NBC News reports: At a luncheon for Republican women in Mesa County, Colorado, last week, Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., warned that educators “are putting litter boxes in schools for people who identify as cats.” The week before, on Sept. 29, Minnesota GOP gubernatorial nominee Scott Jensen asked during a campaign stop, “Why do we have litter boxes in some of …

Axios reports: Republican firebrand Rep. Lauren Boebert is dangerously close to being upset by a little-known Democratic rival, a new poll in Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District shows. By the numbers: Boebert received support from 47% of likely voters, while Democrat Adam Frisch landed at 45% — making the race a statistical tie within the plus-or-minus 4.4-percentage-point margin of error. 7% …

The Texas Tribune reports: The worship space at Grace Woodlands church was peppered with red MAGA hats on Saturday, as young adults gathered to hear from leading conservatives often seen on Fox News. They were there for the fourth annual Texas Youth Summit, a two-day conference in which teenage and young adult Texans convened with politicians, ideologically aligned companies and …

The Colorado Newsline reports: In a raucous speech at a Christian conference in Woodland Park on Friday, U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert called for conservative churchgoers to put “God back at the center of our country” and defeat “the enemy” that she said is destroying it from within. “God is on our side. The blood has been applied,” Boebert told the …

The Denver Post reports: Garfield County Sheriff’s deputies decided to let neighbors of U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert settle a dispute between themselves and the congresswoman’s husband after he reportedly threatened them and destroyed their mailbox. But 911 calls from the incident, obtained by The Denver Post, show just how upset and nervous the neighbors were over their run-in with Boebert’s …

Newsweek reports: Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert has said the same-sex marriage bill that passed the House last week “undermined masculinity.” Boebert made the remarks on Charlie Kirk’s podcast that was recorded during Turning Point USA’s Student Action Summit over the weekend. Boebert slammed the legislation as an “assault on America’s traditional values” on Kirk’s podcast. “I think the federal government …

Denver’s NBC affiliate reports: For years, downtown Rifle’s restaurant scene was furnished with one of the only places in the U.S. you could order a cheeseburger from a server packing a 9mm pistol on her hip. The establishment — Shooters Grill — was the brainchild of now-U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert. Today, the Silt Republican officially closed the doors to her …

Talking Points Memo reports: New arrest documents in a criminal case over leaked voting machine data make repeated allegations about the involvement of Sherronna Bishop, Rep. Lauren Boebert’s (R-CO) former campaign manager. Bishop is a major voice in the election conspiracy theory scene in Colorado, and she’s a confidante of Tina Peters, the clerk of Mesa County who now faces …

The right wing Washington Examiner reports: In her new book My American Life, the Colorado Republican dives into detail about some of her pre-congressional brushes with law enforcement and an arrest that led to unflattering headlines about her husband, Jayson. Reports have suggested Jayson Boebert boasted to two young women at a bowling alley of a tattoo on his genitals …