The Mountain Minute: 4/30/2025

🎧 Mountain Minute – April 30, 2025
With just one week left in Colorado’s legislative session, lawmakers are dodging hard votes, churches are stepping in, and national power plays are shaking up immigration, guns, and the 2028 race.

Colorado News:
🔹 Social Media Censorship Bill Dies – Lawmakers declined to override Governor Polis’s veto of a bill that would’ve allowed elected officials to sue platforms for suppressing content tied to illegal activity. Critics say lawmakers gave Polis a free speech win without real reform.
Read more: https://rockymountainvoice.com/2025/04/clock-runs-out-on-social-media-bill-lawmakers-shield-themselves-and-polis-from-historic-override/

🔹 HB1312 Hits Judiciary Today – The “Kelly Loving Act” faces a critical vote in the Senate Judiciary Committee today at 1:30pm. The bill could criminalize parents, teachers, and counselors who don’t affirm gender transitions. Even Colorado Southern Baptists are urging legislators to oppose it.
Read more: https://rockymountainvoice.com/2025/04/southern-baptist-group-urges-colorado-pastors-members-to-oppose-transgender-rights-bill/

🔹 FEMA Funds Pulled from Denver – The Trump administration terminated $32 million in federal grants for Denver’s immigrant shelter programs, citing the city’s sanctuary policies.
Read more: https://rockymountainvoice.com/2025/04/fema-cuts-32-million-from-denvers-immigrant-shelter-grants-under-trump-directive/

🔹 SB3 Under Legal Scrutiny – GOP lawmakers and law enforcement leaders are requesting an investigation into Colorado’s new semiautomatic firearms ban, arguing it infringes on constitutional rights.
Read more: https://rockymountainvoice.com/2025/04/colorado-gop-lawmakers-and-sheriffs-press-ag-bondi-to-examine-sb3-for-2a-infringements/

National News:
🔹 Trump Signs Executive Order Targeting Sanctuary Cities – The new order directs the DOJ to publish a list of non-compliant jurisdictions and threatens to withhold federal funds or pursue legal action.
Read more: https://rockymountainvoice.com/2025/04/trump-signs-executive-order-cracking-down-on-sanctuary-cities-threatens-their-federal-funding/

🔹 Left-Wing “Urbanist Party” Emerges – Led by Bernie Sanders, AOC, and David Hogg, the new movement is appealing to Gen Z with city-centric policies—potentially fracturing the Democratic base as Harris struggles to gain traction.
Read more: https://rockymountainvoice.com/2025/04/new-urbanist-party-sanders-aoc-hogg/

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