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🎧 Mountain Minute – November 19, 2025
Colorado saw chaos, confrontation, big policy shifts, and major community moments this week. Here’s your sharp, unfiltered roundup from Team RMV.

Colorado News:
🔹 Colorado’s Auto Theft Reckoning – Years of downgraded penalties turned older family cars into “easy targets,” pushing Colorado to No. 1 in the nation for auto theft. Lawmakers reversed course in 2023, but state troopers say the crisis was self-inflicted — and victims are still paying the price.
Read more: https://rockymountainvoice.com/2025/11/17/colorados-auto-theft-reckoning-a-crisis-we-built-a-crisis-we-can-fix/

🔹 1.7 Million Fentanyl Pills Seized – A Highlands Ranch man opened a newly purchased storage unit and found a massive cartel stash: 1.7 million fentanyl pills, fentanyl powder, and meth. DEA officials say this single seizure represents “thousands of lives saved.”
Read more: https://rockymountainvoice.com/2025/11/18/dea-seizure-of-1-7-million-fentanyl-pills-shocks-highlands-ranch-community/

🔹 Chaos at Fort Lewis College – After student government reversed its denial and approved a TPUSA chapter, celebrations exploded into shouting, a physical assault, and a professor emeritus screaming “Nazi” and “fascist” at students. Witnesses say campus police did little as the confrontation escalated.
Read more: https://rockymountainvoice.com/2025/11/18/tpusa-approval-sparks-chaos-at-fort-lewis-college-assault-reported-after-professor-emeritus-erupts/

🔹 State Land Board Approves La Jara Deal – After years of negotiation, Colorado’s State Land Board approved selling 46,000 acres in La Jara to federal and state agencies to permanently protect open space critical to local agriculture.
Read more: https://rockymountainvoice.com/2025/11/18/colorado-state-land-board-approves-la-jara-deal-aimed-at-protecting-open-space/

🔹 Land Board “Revenue Experiment” Raises Concerns – A separate RMV commentary warns that the board’s recent Lake Fork Ranch purchase signals a shift away from agriculture and toward revenue-driven experiments — recreation, biodiversity credits, carbon markets — leaving rural Coloradans skeptical.
Read more: https://rockymountainvoice.com/2025/11/18/colorados-land-board-swaps-agriculture-for-a-revenue-experiment/

🔹 Colorado’s Uranium Comeback – With uranium reclassified as a “critical mineral,” Colorado mining entrepreneur George Glasier is pushing to reopen mines and build a new processing plant — part of a national move toward nuclear energy independence.
Read more: https://rockymountainvoice.com/2025/11/18/colorados-uranium-prospects-return-as-america-seeks-reliable-fuel-sources/

🔹 A Colorado Mom Defines Courage – A school board candidate shares her journey through harassment, vandalized signs, and personal attacks — and why she refuses to apologize for defending parental rights, protecting girls’ sports, and fighting ideological creep in classrooms.
Read more: https://rockymountainvoice.com/2025/11/18/colorado-mom-shows-what-courage-and-conviction-looks-like-on-the-campaign-trail/

National News:
🔹 Birthrates & America’s Political Future – New data suggests conservatives have more children and transmit values more effectively — meaning birthrates, not campaigns, may quietly reshape the political map for decades.
Read more: https://rockymountainvoice.com/2025/11/18/why-birthrates-might-quietly-reshape-americas-political-future/

🔹 EPA Moves to Clarify Water Rules – After years of confusion under Obama’s “significant nexus” test, the EPA is advancing clearer, narrower water regulations to protect farmers and landowners from federal overreach.
Read more: https://rockymountainvoice.com/2025/11/18/epa-moves-to-clarify-water-rules-after-years-of-costly-confusion-and-federal-overreach/

🔹 New Comey Notes Surface – DOJ filings reveal that Comey was briefed on the CIA’s “Clinton Plan” intel — contradicting his past testimony. Newly uncovered notes now strengthen obstruction arguments in the ongoing case.
Read more: https://rockymountainvoice.com/2025/11/18/newly-found-notes-undercut-comey-as-doj-ties-clinton-plan-intel-to-obstruction/

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