Purplish
By Colorado Public Radio
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Purplish is CPR News' weekly podcast about state politics, state government, Colorado policy, and political identity. This season the show is hosted by public affairs reporters Bente Birkeland and Andrew Kenney. Each week while the legislature is in session, they'll break down the latest developments, look ahead to what's next, and dive into the bigger picture of what it all means.
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The human toll of Colorado’s sexual assault evidence backlog
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Mar 07, 2025 |
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Vacancy appointments get lots of lawmakers to the capitol. Is it time for a change?
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Feb 28, 2025 |
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Life as a new state lawmaker
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Feb 21, 2025 |
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The billion-dollar budget hole
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Feb 14, 2025 |
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An assault weapons ban by any other name...
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Feb 07, 2025 |
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The embattled Labor Peace Act
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Jan 31, 2025 |
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What are SMART Act hearings?
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Jan 24, 2025 |
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New Congress, old normal (for now?)
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Jan 17, 2025 |
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A bipartisan tradition fades in the CO House, while Democrats preview both ambitions and fault lines
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Jan 14, 2025 |
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Budget cuts on tap for Colorado
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Jan 03, 2025 |
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How it all went down
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Nov 08, 2024 |
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What will make the difference in this election?
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Nov 01, 2024 |
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How Colorado secures the vote
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Oct 25, 2024 |
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All. The. Ballot. Questions. All of them.
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Oct 18, 2024 |
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The Colorado congressional races to know about
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Oct 11, 2024 |
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Will ranked-choice voting rewrite Colorado's elections? Prop. 131 explained.
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Oct 04, 2024 |
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Coming soon: Purplish's 2024 election season
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Sep 27, 2024 |
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Assessing the primary as the dust settles
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Jun 28, 2024 |
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GOP rifts in the Congressional Districts 5 and 8 primaries
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Jun 21, 2024 |
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The primary fight for Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District
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Jun 14, 2024 |
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In eastern Colorado, a primary and a vacancy election
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Jun 07, 2024 |
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What are Colorado voters worried about?
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May 31, 2024 |
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Ending on a high note
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May 11, 2024 |
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Drinking at the Colorado Capitol
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May 03, 2024 |
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The new oil and gas war
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Apr 19, 2024 |
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Is Colorado really about to commit to passenger rail?
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Apr 05, 2024 |
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Lawmakers’ $1.5B tax credit battle royale
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Mar 22, 2024 |
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Is Colorado’s medical aid in dying law too hard to use?
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Mar 08, 2024 |
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What do all the new immigrant arrivals mean for Colorado?
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Feb 23, 2024 |
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The first month of session, down
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Feb 08, 2024 |
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Inside the fight to keep Space Command in Colorado
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Jan 29, 2024 |
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Tina Peters is headed to trial – how did we get here?
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Jan 23, 2024 |
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The legislature returns: what lies ahead?
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Jan 10, 2024 |
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Could this Colorado case determine Trump’s political future?
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Nov 16, 2023 |
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What’s up with Prop. II?
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Oct 20, 2023 |
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What’s up with Prop. HH?
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Oct 17, 2023 |
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Colorado Springs’ next mayor is a man few thought would win. What happened?
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Jun 02, 2023 |
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Land use, property taxes and party conflicts — how the legislature wrapped up
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May 11, 2023 |
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The legislature’s spending dance
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May 04, 2023 |
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The year that could change how Colorado grows
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Apr 21, 2023 |
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Colorado’s blockbuster filibuster (and why it matters)
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Apr 06, 2023 |
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Xcel’s winter of discontent
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Mar 24, 2023 |
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Disability rights at center stage
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Mar 11, 2023 |
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Rent control in Colorado?
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Mar 03, 2023 |
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How Colorado’s gun laws have changed from frontier days to today
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Feb 10, 2023 |
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The Polis Agenda
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Jan 20, 2023 |
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The legislature is back: what do they want to do?
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Jan 13, 2023 |
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Is Colorado a blue state now?
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Nov 11, 2022 |
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What we’re watching for on Election Day
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Nov 04, 2022 |
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What keeps our elections safe?
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Oct 28, 2022 |
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All your 2022 ballot measures explained (plus a few weird ones from history)
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Oct 22, 2022 |
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Housing on your ballot
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Oct 14, 2022 |
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Colorado’s Latino voters and the 2022 races
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Sep 29, 2022 |
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Moderates in the Midterm
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Sep 15, 2022 |
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What did we learn from the primary?
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Jun 30, 2022 |
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Unaffiliated Voters — the big question mark
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Jun 25, 2022 |
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The GOP Divide
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Jun 17, 2022 |
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What lawmakers did with their time
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May 14, 2022 |
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With mental health, can Colorado achieve ‘transformative’ change?
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May 05, 2022 |
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The fight to ban Menthols and flavored vapes
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Apr 22, 2022 |
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Who’s on the primary ballot?
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Apr 14, 2022 |
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Colorado at the eye of an election conspiracy storm
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Apr 07, 2022 |
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The past, and future, of abortion in Colorado
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Mar 24, 2022 |
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Crime is rising in Colorado – is justice reform to blame?
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Mar 11, 2022 |
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Lawmakers’ brewing labor battle
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Feb 25, 2022 |
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Serving in the statehouse while running for Congress
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Feb 10, 2022 |
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The housing crisis comes home to the Capitol
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Jan 27, 2022 |
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Back to work at the Capitol
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Jan 17, 2022 |
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Remembering the January 6th Capitol Riot
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Jan 06, 2022 |
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What’s ahead when the legislature returns?
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Dec 09, 2021 |
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Hey, did you hear there was an election?
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Nov 05, 2021 |
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Colorado Has A Map — If The Court Approves
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Sep 30, 2021 |
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Redistricting Deadline Looms
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Sep 24, 2021 |
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Competition Vs Commonalities — A Conundrum For Redistricting
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Sep 10, 2021 |
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Colorado’s Got A Brand New Map (But It’s Not The Final Map – Yet)
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Sep 08, 2021 |
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Communities Urge Redistricting Commission To Consider The Ties That Bind
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Sep 03, 2021 |
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A Road Trip Through Colorado’s (Maybe) 8th District
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Sep 01, 2021 |
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Redistricting Highlights Challenges To Latino Representation
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Aug 27, 2021 |
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Colorado ‘Nonpartisan’ Redistricting Process Is Still Plenty Political
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Aug 25, 2021 |
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Redistricting: What You Need To Know To Learn The Things You Need To Learn
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Aug 20, 2021 |
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Get ready for Purplish: The Great Redraw
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Aug 19, 2021 |
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That’s All, Folks!
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Jun 10, 2021 |
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The Chopping Block
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Jun 04, 2021 |
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Into The Whirlwind
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May 28, 2021 |
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The Big Money Episode
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May 21, 2021 |
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Race, Politics and Racial Politics
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May 14, 2021 |
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Where Are They Now?
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May 07, 2021 |
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Justice Reform, A Year After George Floyd
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Apr 30, 2021 |
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Hot At The Legislature: Housing And Immigration
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Apr 23, 2021 |
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What The Heck Is The Public Option?
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Apr 16, 2021 |
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Maps, Data And Drama, Drama, Drama
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Apr 09, 2021 |
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Big Changes, Little Attention
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Apr 02, 2021 |
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Gun Laws After Boulder
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Mar 26, 2021 |
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BONUS: Meet The Jared Polis And Anthony Fauci Of 1918
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Mar 23, 2021 |
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Capitol Warming
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Mar 19, 2021 |
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1.9 Trillion Is An Awfully Big Number
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Mar 12, 2021 |
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Polis’s Pandemic Year
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Mar 05, 2021 |
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Everything You Need To Know About Transportation Reform
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Feb 26, 2021 |
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The State of the State is…
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Feb 19, 2021 |
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On With The Show
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Feb 12, 2021 |
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Two Capitols, One Wild Week
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Jan 15, 2021 |
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BONUS BONUS EPISODE: An Extraordinary Session
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Dec 04, 2020 |
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BONUS EPISODE: Digesting Colorado’s Election Outcomes With Two Colorado Politics Insiders
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Nov 13, 2020 |
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What The Heck Just Happened?
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Nov 06, 2020 |
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What We’re Watching For
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Oct 30, 2020 |
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On Voter Turnout, And Attempted Voter Turn-Offs
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Oct 23, 2020 |
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Election Grab Bag
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Oct 16, 2020 |
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So Many Ballot Measures. Like, SO MANY
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Oct 09, 2020 |
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The One About Debates
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Oct 02, 2020 |
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Ground Game, Grounded?
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Sep 25, 2020 |
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Mail Ballot Blues
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Sep 18, 2020 |
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Purplish Returns: The Election Season
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Sep 11, 2020 |
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BONUS: The Democrats Competing To Take On Cory Gardner
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Jun 19, 2020 |
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The End Is Near
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Jun 12, 2020 |
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Protests, Policing, And Education Cuts
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Jun 05, 2020 |
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The Legislature Strikes Back
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May 29, 2020 |
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You Can’t Kiss Babies Over Zoom
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May 22, 2020 |
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Budget Cuts and Building Rules
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May 14, 2020 |
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W(h)ither The Big Bills?
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Apr 16, 2020 |
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Justice — And Many Other Things — Delayed
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Apr 10, 2020 |
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Partisan Politics vs. Pandemic Politics
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Apr 03, 2020 |
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The ‘Stay At Home’ Order, Discussed By Three People Staying In Their Homes
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Mar 27, 2020 |
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Politics, Policy, and the Pandemic
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Mar 21, 2020 |
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Legislation In The Time Of Coronavirus
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Mar 14, 2020 |
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Super Tuesday Might Not Mean What You Think In Colorado…
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Mar 06, 2020 |
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Sausage In The Making
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Feb 29, 2020 |
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Out Of The Statehouse, Into The National Spotlight
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Feb 22, 2020 |
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Family Matters
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Feb 15, 2020 |
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Big Ideas Incoming
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Feb 08, 2020 |
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The Matter Of Life And Death
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Feb 01, 2020 |
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The Political Is Personal
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Jan 25, 2020 |
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Things Democrats Disagree About
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Jan 18, 2020 |
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Trailer: Purplish Reborn
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Jan 11, 2020 |
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ALL OF THE BILLS!!!!
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May 09, 2019 |
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The First Fractivist
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Apr 06, 2019 |
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Electoral College Dropouts
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Mar 02, 2019 |
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Could Colorado Fix Congress?
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Feb 02, 2019 |
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BONUS: Hick At High Noon
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Jan 04, 2019 |
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BONUS: What’s Next for Pur-plish?
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Dec 06, 2018 |
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Blue Avalanche
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Nov 10, 2018 |
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The Holdouts
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Nov 02, 2018 |
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You Can’t Hack Paper
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Oct 27, 2018 |
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The Prisoner Voting Dilemma
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Oct 19, 2018 |
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Purple State Blues
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Oct 12, 2018 |
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Gerryman-don’t
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Oct 06, 2018 |
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The Forgotten State Of Southern Colorado
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Sep 28, 2018 |
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Walker Stapleton’s Family
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Sep 21, 2018 |
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Jared Polis’ Money
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Sep 14, 2018 |
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The Signature Wars
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Sep 07, 2018 |
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Introducing ‘Purplish’: A Podcast About Colorado Politics And The Forces That Shape It
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Aug 30, 2018 |