The Mountain Minute: 5/29/2025

🎧 Mountain Minute – May 29, 2025
Election tampering, ICE defiance, and taxpayer outrage—here’s your unfiltered roundup from Team RMV.

Colorado News:
🔹 Arapahoe County CVR tampering alleged – Election integrity advocates held a Capitol press conference revealing changes to 2020 cast vote records. Despite alleged violations of federal law, no state investigation has been launched.
Read more: https://rockymountainvoice.com/2025/05/two-cvrs-one-pattern-arapahoe-county-rewrote-its-election-record-critics-say-and-no-ones-accountable/

🔹 El Paso County empowers deputies to work with ICE – Sheriff Roybal re-signed the 287(g) agreement, letting local law enforcement detain and report illegal immigrants charged with crimes—directly defying state-level sanctuary policies.
Read more: https://rockymountainvoice.com/2025/05/el-paso-county-defies-state-sanctuary-push-gives-deputies-ice-powers/

🔹 Polis’ $10M “bridge to nowhere” sparks backlash – The governor used taxpayer funds on a pedestrian bridge with no clear use. Critics and lawmakers are calling for accountability.
Read more: https://rockymountainvoice.com/2025/05/polis-10m-bridge-to-nowhere-sparks-public-backlash/

🔹 Ratepayer risk under Markets+ energy deal – A state law is forcing Xcel into a regional grid market. With $30M in upfront costs and no savings for years, Coloradans could be footing the bill.
Read more: https://rockymountainvoice.com/2025/05/ratepayer-risk-state-law-forces-xcel-into-costly-markets-grid-deal/

🔹 RMV launches new Fort Morgan newsroom – Rocky Mountain Voice is expanding! Our NE Colorado team is now live and publishing—encouraging locals to get involved in journalism and civic storytelling.
Read more: https://rockymountainvoice.com/2025/05/rmv-keeps-expanding-its-mission-to-inform-empower-and-engage/

National News:
🔹 $1B in home loans marketed to illegal immigrants – One company is promoting loans to those in the country illegally while citizens face record-high housing costs.
Read more: https://rockymountainvoice.com/2025/05/1b-in-home-loans-company-markets-mortgages-to-illegal-immigrants/

🔹 Garbo warns GOP: Fear is not a strategy – In a powerful op-ed, C. J. Garbo says the Republican Party is chasing purity tests instead of leading with boldness and clarity.
Read more: https://rockymountainvoice.com/2025/05/garbo-fear-is-not-a-strategy-and-its-killing-the-republican-party/

🔹 Don Jr. launches American Rights Alliance – The new organization will defend whistleblower Tina Peters and fight back against political prosecutions tied to election investigations.
Read more: https://rockymountainvoice.com/2025/05/don-jr-helps-launch-american-rights-alliance-to-fight-for-tina-peters/

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