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🎧 Mountain Minute – November 20, 2025
Colorado faced chaos on campus, budget battles, major ethics probes, and a high-speed chase — while national headlines raised even bigger questions about power, truth, and accountability. Here’s your sharp, unfiltered rundown from Team RMV.

Colorado News:
🔹 CU Denver Erupts Over Pro-Hamas Event – A “Gaza: Two Years On” panel devolved into open hostility, with an Israeli professor heckled for showing Oct. 7 footage. Attendees were told not to record the public event, and critics say CU Denver is protecting extremism while silencing dissent.
Read more: https://rockymountainvoice.com/2025/11/19/cu-denver-puts-its-pro-hamas-hate-on-full-display/

🔹 Medicaid Cuts Spark Outcry – Facing a $1.2B revenue hit, Gov. Polis ordered $250M in cuts, followed by another $537M. Medicaid — one-third of the state budget — faces $79M in reductions. Families protested at the Capitol, warning vulnerable residents could be devastated.
Read more: https://rockymountainvoice.com/2025/11/19/advocates-urge-state-leaders-to-protect-vulnerable-residents-from-budget-reductions/

🔹 Griswold Pushes Back on Federal Voter-Data Demand – The Secretary of State joined other Democrats opposing DOJ and DHS requests for full, unredacted voter rolls, including birthdates, driver’s license numbers, and partial SSNs — especially after Colorado’s 2022 mistake mailing 30,000 non-citizens registration postcards.
Read more: https://rockymountainvoice.com/2025/11/19/griswold-leads-democratic-secretaries-of-state-pressing-doj-and-dhs-over-federal-use-of-voter-data/

🔹 Ethics Commission Investigates 17 Democrats – A $25,000 payment that covered lodging for a Vail retreat triggered a unanimous vote to investigate 17 Democratic lawmakers for potentially illegal contributions.
Read more: https://rockymountainvoice.com/2025/11/19/colorado-ethics-commission-probes-17-democrats-over-vail-retreat-contributions/

🔹 Denver PD Seeks $11M Overtime Boost – DPD is requesting millions to cover surging overtime tied to protests, “No Kings” demonstrations, officer-involved shootings, and staffing shortages. The city has logged 38 major demonstrations so far this year.
Read more: https://rockymountainvoice.com/2025/11/19/denver-seeks-11-million-boost-to-cover-police-overtime-and-staffing-strains/

National News:
🔹 Still No Answers on Trump Assassination Attempt – Over a year later, key questions remain: Did the shooter act alone? Why didn’t the FBI catch his violent posts? The White House says Americans “deserve answers.”
Read more: https://rockymountainvoice.com/2025/11/19/americans-still-waiting-for-answers-in-trump-assassination-attempt/

🔹 Sierra Club Collapses Under Ideological Shift – Once the powerhouse of environmental advocacy, the group has lost 60% of its membership and faces a $40M deficit after embracing divisive, non-environmental activism.
Read more: https://rockymountainvoice.com/2025/11/19/unsolicited-advice-the-sierra-club-probably-wont-take-but-should/

🔹 Epstein Coverage Exposes Media Bias – A new commentary argues the press hides Epstein’s connections to powerful elites while weaponizing selective pieces. With missing logs, missing tapes, and no “clients” prosecuted, major questions remain.
Read more: https://rockymountainvoice.com/2025/11/19/the-press-has-become-the-enemy-of-truth-and-the-epstein-pattern-proves-it/

🔹 Democrats Tell Troops to “Refuse Illegal Orders” – Six Democratic lawmakers released a video urging military and intel personnel to reject unlawful commands — a message widely viewed as a preemptive warning against Trump’s enforcement agenda.
Read more: https://rockymountainvoice.com/2025/11/19/video-from-six-democrat-lawmakers-warns-troops-against-unlawful-commands/

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