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The Colorado Republican Party sent an anti-LGBTQ+ email to supporters this week with a video that included an allusion to a virulently anti-gay religious organization, sparking criticism from Democrats and Republicans alike. Amid the backlash, the party then called for the burning of pride flags. Monday’s email, titled “God hates pride,” repeats anti-LGBTQ+ smears and includes a video from a pastor expressing similar views.

Digging for more money to inject into affordable housing, Denver Mayor Mike Johnston is considering asking the City Council to refer a sales tax increase to the November ballot, administration officials confirmed to The Denver Post. It’s too soon to say whether an affordable housing tax — the amount so far unspecified — will end up on what promises to be a lengthy Denver ballot in this presidential election year.

Protesters organized by a Colorado State University group staged a “die-in” demonstration over the weekend outside a Fort Collins company. They chanted, held signs accusing the company of having blood on its hands, and displayed fake body bags and red-stained dolls, according to a report by CSU’s student newspaper. What was behind the protest? Demonstrators were motivated by purported connections between the company, Woodward, and a component of a bomb dropped by Israel on a camp in Rafah, a city in the southern Gaza Strip, in late May. The Denver Post looked into the connections to the Fort Collins-headquartered aerospace and industrial manufacturer.

We get all the congressional representation. You get all the bills.

Death fears, regressive behavior, and mob scapegoating are all of a piece — and the Democrats are exploiting all of them.