Morgan County CO Democrats

01/24/2023

The Morgan County Democratic Dispatch: January 2023 Edition - Special Reorg Edition - https://mailchi.mp/d1c07e1944af/the-morgan-county-dispatch-3-reorg-edition

01/09/2023

SAVE THE DATE!
February 11 at 10AM

Morgan County CO Democrats are electing new county party officers and looking for Democrats across Morgan County to join our committees.

Add your voice to the Party!

If you are interested in attending please RSVP using this form: https://forms.gle/4YtXbWxHDYqPGTXE7

12/22/2022

2022 accomplishments

https://fb.watch/hAlfR3sPcX/?mibextid=6aamW6

11/30/2022

Hakeem Jeffries elected to lead House Dems, will become 1st Black party leader in Congress

Congratulations!!!!
https://news.yahoo.com/hakeem-jeffries-elected-to-lead-house-dems-will-become-1st-black-party-leader-in-congress-172910908.html

The 52-year-old Brooklyn native will become the first Black and first nonwhite party leader in Congress. He will be joined in new leadership roles by Reps. Kat...

The 52-year-old Brooklyn native will become the first Black and first nonwhite party leader in Congress. He will be joined in new leadership roles by Reps. Katherine Clark of Massachusetts and Pete Aguilar of California.

11/20/2022

UPDATE: This is the link Club Q Colorado Springs has shared for those wanting to donate - https://www.coloradogives.org/donate/COHealingFund

(You can learn more about the Colorado Healing Fund here: https://www.coloradohealingfund.org/)

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Our hearts are heavy this morning, on an already somber day. Every November 20th, we take time to remember the lives of all the transgender people lost to senseless violence. Today that violence was inflicted on the wider q***r community in our own state in a deadly shooting at Club Q in Colorado Springs.

As details emerge, it is overwhelmingly clear that this was a targeted attack, and a direct result of the escalating rhetoric that has become commonplace on the political Right. These noxious lies, harmful fabrications, and willful ignorance are intended to foster brutal violence against our community. Last night’s attack is a reminder that no matter how soundly we defeat anti-LGBTQ+ hate, bigotry, and fascism at the ballot box, those corrupted with such evil will continue to target us and seek to do us harm.

Make no mistake - we will not defeat homophobia and transphobia with votes alone. We can only defeat these regressive falsehoods with forces more powerful than the weapons wielded against us last night - sharing ideas that spread compassion and understanding, replacing tolerance with inclusion, and celebrating q***r and trans joy in all its forms. To this end we revive the battle cry of our forebears - Speak up, Act out. Even in the face of horrific violence, we must remain resilient. We will continue building communities founded on love and joy and raising the families that will witness a brighter future.

We will add resources and ways to help support our Colorado Springs community as the days progress.

If you need support please reach out to any of these resources:

National Victims of Violent Crimes, 1-202-467-8700
Colorado Crisis Services, 1-844-493-TALK (8225)
Crisis Text Line, Text HOME to 741741
Trevor Project, Text START to 678-678
Trans Lifeline, call (877) 565-8860

In solidarity,

The Stonewall Democrats of Colorado

11/13/2022

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Before I was like well I still make money selling books on Twitter so I'll stick it out for a bit. Now I'm all oh s**t this thing is going down in a Bon Jovi blaze of glory with all these "verified" parodies and I want to ride it all the way to the bottom.

Speaking of my books, get both volumes of ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY S**T WENT DOWN at JamesFell.com/books.

11/09/2022

Congratulations to our new State Board of Education at Large Member!

11/09/2022

Do you know all the ways recycling can benefit our community? Do you know what recycling options you have available to you?

Check it out here! https://cms9.revize.com/revize/brushco/news_detail_T33_R223.php

Call the City of Brush! at 970-842-5001 with any questions!

11/09/2022

Congratulations Governor Jared Polis on your re-election!!!

Congratulations Senator Michael Bennet on your re-election!!!

Congratulations Attorney General Phil Weiser on your re-election!!!

Congratulations Secretary of State Jena Griswold on your re-election!!!

Congratulations Treasurer Dave Young on your re-election!!!

11/07/2022

The only way to make our democracy stronger is if we fight for it.

And that starts by electing people who know you, who see you, and who understand what you’re going through.

So vote for Democrats up and down the ballot on Election Day.

11/04/2022

Last Chance to See Total Lunar Eclipse Until 2025! – Watch the Skies

Lunar eclipse before polls open on election day.

Last Chance to See Total Lunar Eclipse Until 2025! For the second time in 2022, stargazers will have the opportunity to view a total lunar eclipse on Nov. 8. At least a portion of the phenomenon will be visible throughout eastern Asia, Australia, the Pacific, and North America. The previous total lu...

10/25/2022

Vote Kathy Plomer for Colorado State Board of Education.

Vote Kathy Plomer for Colorado State Board of Education.

10/22/2022

Gia — the best bus tour buddy as we visit with Coloradans across the state 🐶

10/18/2022

Voters, it’s time to start watching your mailbox! Counties will mail ballots this week to voters.

You can check to see if your county has mailed your ballot at colorado.ballottrax.net or www.GoVoteColorado.gov

10/01/2022

Jimmy Carter celebrates 98th birthday

Happy birthday President Jimmy Carter!!! 98 years looks good on you.

Former president turns 98

09/08/2022

Photos from Michelle Obama's post

09/04/2022

Come out for some grub and meet Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold.
When: Sat 9/10 1 PM
Where: Riverside Park
RSVP. https://bit.ly/3TvRE3j

09/02/2022

Come out for some grub and meet Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold.
When: Sat 9/10 1 PM
Where: Riverside Park
RSVP. https://bit.ly/3TvRE3j

08/14/2022

Hang out with the Logan County Democrats August 27th

07/12/2022

Yesterday, we had the opportunity to connect with Governor Jared Polis as he toured the Kevin Poss family farm south of Hugo. In addition to sharing a little about our families' farms and ranches, we invited him and his family to the Lincoln County Fair. We even sent him home with two pool noodle stick horses for his kids along with information about the Stick Horse Rodeo. Thank you Governor Polis for taking the time to learn more about our rural lifestyle!

07/12/2022

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=415024587322581&id=100064451303271&sfnsn=mo

Meet our statewide candidates!
Jena Griswold for Secretary of State
Dave Young for Colorado State Treasurer
Phil Weiser for Attorney General
Jared Polis for Governor
Kathy Plomer for State Board of Education - At Large
Michael Bennet for US Senate

07/07/2022

We celebrate the courage and effort of the men and women who act as heroes in our lives.

07/04/2022

We wish everyone a happy and safe Independence Day

06/27/2022

Congratulations to the Colorado Avalanche, winners of the 2022 Stanley Cup!!!!

06/25/2022

Fundamental Freedoms

https://fb.watch/dSljTi4Dk1/

06/24/2022

STATEMENT: Colorado Democrats Blast Republicans for Overturning Roe, Casey and Installing Far-Right Agenda — coloradodems

https://www.coloradodems.org/cdp-press-releases/statement-colorado-democrats-blast-republicans-for-overturning-roe-casey-and-installing-far-right-agenda

Colorado Democrats respond to Supreme Court decision to overrule Roe v Wade

06/20/2022

June 19, 2022 (Sunday)

Tomorrow is the federal holiday honoring Juneteenth, the celebration of the announcement on June 19th, 1865, in Texas that enslaved Americans were free.

On April 9, 1865, General Robert E. Lee had surrendered his Army of Northern Virginia to General Ulysses S. Grant of the U.S. Army, but it was not until June 2 that General Edmund Kirby Smith surrendered the Confederacy’s Trans-Mississippi Department, the last major army of the Confederacy, to the United States, in Galveston, Texas. Smith then fled to Mexico.

Seventeen days later, Major General Gordon Granger of the U.S. Army arrived on Galveston Island with about 2000 U.S. troops. On June 19, Granger issued General Order Number 3, informing the formerly enslaved inhabitants of Texas that they were free.

“The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free,” it read. “This involves an absolute equality of personal rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves, and the connection heretofore existing between them becomes that between employer and hired labor.”

The order went on: “The freedmen are advised to remain quietly at their present homes and work for wages. They are informed that they will not be allowed to collect at military posts and that they will not be supported in idleness either there or elsewhere.”

General Order Number 3 informed formerly enslaved people that they were freed from enslavement and the suffocatingly circumscribed lives, restricted movement, corporal punishment, and stunted lives to which the American system of human slavery had previously confined them. It urged them to join the free labor economy the North championed, working for wages and seamlessly shifting their former relations with their former enslavers to ones of employee and employer.

The news arrived in a state consumed by chaos. During the war, white men had gone east to join the Confederate armies as planters had rushed west from Louisiana with their enslaved people to try to preserve the institution of slavery. Mexicans and Comanches had launched raids against the unsettled population, and the long-horned cattle, bottled up in Texas as the United States blockaded southern ports and the railroad lines degraded, had multiplied until observers estimated there were eight cattle for every one person in Texas, and the animals threatened those who ventured too close to them.

The fall of the Confederacy meant the collapse of whatever order remained in the state, and former Confederates were demoralized and angry. “It looked like everything worth living for was gone,” cattleman Charles Goodnight later recalled. Planters furious at the death of their cause and desperate to get crops in refused to tell the enslaved people in the fields of the dramatic change in their circumstances with the surrender of the last major Confederate army.

Against this backdrop, Granger’s men read General Order Number 3 to formerly enslaved Texans in Galveston. They heard the news and celebrated in the streets. The order was no magic bullet for the state—on far-flung plantations, some enslavers tried to hold enslaved people at work until after the harvest—but the news of freedom on June 19 provided a focus and a rallying point for Black Americans to celebrate freedom that stood out and apart from the chaos and anger around them.

A year later, the Thirteenth Amendment abolishing enslavement except as punishment for a crime had been added to the U.S. Constitution, and on June 19, 1866, Texas freedpeople gathered to celebrate the coming of their freedom with prayers, speeches, food, and socializing.

By the following year, the federal government encouraged “Juneteenth” celebrations, eager to make sure Black citizens had an opportunity to discuss the voting rights that had been put in place by the Military Reconstruction Act in early March 1867, and the tradition of Juneteenth began to spread to Black communities across the nation.

Beginning there in Texas, the Black Americans celebrating Juneteenth emphasized that emancipation in the United States meant not just freedom from enslavement, but also freedom to shape the nation’s future.

06/20/2022

Celebrate Juneteenth!

06/20/2022

Morgan County Dems celebrate golden anniversary at Big 10 Dinner

https://www.fortmorgantimes.com/2022/06/19/morgan-county-dems-celebrate-golden-anniversary-at-big-10-dinner/

The Morgan County Democrats had multiple reasons to celebrate when they gathered Saturday, June 11 for their annual Big 10 dinner. After two years of virtual events due to the COVID-19 pandemic, th…

06/09/2022

Look what 10 US Bucks gets you!!!
Big Ten menu:
Smoked brisket, sliced
Smoked pulled pork and chicken
Buns or tortilla
Farmers baked beans
Cole slaw
Potato salad
Garden salad - choice of dressing
Cheesy biscuits
Dessert - Anniversary Cake
Drinks - Iced tea, lemonade, coffee, water

Not to mention the satisfaction that 10 US Bucks can help defeat Ken Buck and other Republicans, re-elect our statewide office holders, and elect our Congressional District 4 candidates such as Ike McCorkle to replace Kenny! Give Buck the Boot, attend the Big Ten this Saturday June 11 4PM Q&A, 5 pm conversational social hour and 6 pm dinner and speeches! Where you ask? The Event Center at the Morgan County Fairgrounds, 300 Ellsworth, Brush Colorado