The Mountain Minute: 6/5/2025

🎧 Mountain Minute – June 5, 2025
Power grabs, pandemic flashbacks, and border blind spots—Colorado and the country are facing major turning points. Here’s your sharp, unfiltered roundup from Team RMV.

Colorado News:
🔹 Douglas County Home Rule Vote Looms – On June 24th, voters will decide whether to form a charter commission to draft a new local government framework. A second vote in November would finalize the plan. Our exclusive covers both sides of the debate.
Read more: https://rockymountainvoice.com/2025/06/write-your-own-rules-douglas-county-voters-to-decide-if-its-time-for-home-rule/

🔹 COVID Double Standard Exposed – In the latest COVID Chronicles, we revisit May 2020 when state officials cracked down on churches and businesses—but allowed mass protests. The credibility damage still lingers.
Read more: https://rockymountainvoice.com/2025/06/covid-chronicles-may-24-31-2020-when-peaceful-protests-overruled-pandemic-policy-and-unleashed-chaos/

🔹 Boulder Firebomb Fallout Continues – A federal judge has blocked the deportation of terror suspect Mohamed Soliman’s family. Soliman, who overstayed his visa, allegedly plotted the attack for over a year—highlighting failures in U.S. immigration enforcement.
Article #1: https://rockymountainvoice.com/2025/06/boulder-terrorist-case-reveals-immigration-enforcement-blind-spot-overstayed-visas/
Article #2: https://rockymountainvoice.com/2025/06/boulder-terrorist-case-reveals-immigration-enforcement-blind-spot-overstayed-visas/

National News:
🔹 75+ Officials Targeted in Swatting Scheme – A Romanian national has pled guilty to a nationwide emergency call hoax, showing how foreign actors are exploiting U.S. systems.
Read more: https://rockymountainvoice.com/2025/06/weaponizing-911-romanian-national-pleads-guilty-to-swatting-75-public-officials-in-multi-year-plot/

🔹 Federal Land Power Called Out – Greg Walcher says 700 million acres of federal land are a bigger threat than foreign farmland buyers. His op-ed calls for state pushback and Congressional reform.
Read more: https://rockymountainvoice.com/2025/06/walcher-its-not-just-chinese-farmland-its-unchecked-federal-control-over-700-million-acres/

🔹 Trump-Era Law and Order Shows Results – The U.S. murder rate has dropped nearly 20%. Data points to the success of policing policies—raising questions about continued calls to defund.
Read more: https://rockymountainvoice.com/2025/06/law-and-order-works-u-s-murder-rate-plunges-20-under-president-trump/

🔹 Musk Slams Congressional Spending – Elon Musk rips the “Big Beautiful Bill” as bloated, corrupt, and taxpayer-hostile—despite bipartisan support in D.C.
Read more: https://rockymountainvoice.com/2025/06/musk-rips-house-passed-big-beautiful-bill-disgusting-abomination/

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