Robert C. "Bob" Marshall (HD43 Rep/Candidate)

Gee, who could the Danish source be referencing and comparing as having put the European allies in such a situation: “We have not been in such a situation since April 1940,” a Danish defence source told DR. theguardian.com/world/2026/mar…

Yep. Needed just one GOP vote. But the "law & order" party looked victims, Sheriffs, DAs, and the mental health community in the eyes who said this has been a top priority FOR YEARS and sided with the alcohol lobby & spit in their faces. Asked victims if they noticed. They noticed...

BREAKING: HB26-1301 which would have asked voters for new taxes on alcohol and marijuana FAILS in committee! Big Government Bob Marshall strikes out! The vote was 6 to 5 to stop this bad bill! Rep. Hamrick who is in a swing seat voted yes...

HB26-1301: Did have a witness on the hospital funding bill send me a message which is cold comfort: "And I was invisible because that one guy said, “no one mentioned alcohol,” which was bullshit because my entire testimony was alcohol. And no one on the committee called him out or corrected him! Again, as always, victims are invisible. By the way, you were awesome. My husband happened to be in the room with me when you were speaking and his eyes got big and said, “he sounds like the real deal.” And he never says that about any politician."

HB26-1301: Today the GOP looked victims, the sheriffs, the DAs, and Colorado's mental health community in the eye and spit in their face and united in siding with the alcohol industry. We have the 49th lowest alcohol taxes in the nation which haven't gone up since 1982. But we will continue to spend millions of dollars in fines for housing mentally people in jails, or letting them out so they can harm others. The party of public safety and public order? No. The party of business and donors... leg.colorado.gov/bills/HB26-1301

HB26-1203 (Commissioner Elections) moved out of House today. On to Senate. Despite having a Republican Senate Prime sponsor and well-regarded former GOP Senator Lundberg endorsing the bill, not one Republican voted for it. Pointed out how they were kicking their civil rights heritage to the curb (the 1964 Civil Rights Act; 1965 Voting Rights Act; & 1968 Fair Housing Act were essentially written by GOP Congressman McCulloch and moved through with the help of Minority Leader Dirksen over the objections/filibusters of the Dixiecrats). Upset them and was gaveled down. Truth can sting...

OMG, SHUT DOWN DOGE: A DOGE official in his 20s testified today that he canceled federal research grants based on personal judgment. No peer review. No subject matter expertise. No formal process. Just him. And books he had read. He flagged a grant studying HIV in prisons during the Reagan and Clinton era — decades of academic research — as “one of the craziest” because it mentioned LGBTQ in the description. He flagged a grant examining the military service experiences of Black, Native American, female, and immigrant veterans as crazy. His qualification for making these calls: “A person can have enough judgment from reading books.” He was then asked if he regretted cutting programs that may have led to people dying. “No.” Did DOGE reduce the deficit? “No.” A person in their 20s. Reading books. Canceling peer-reviewed academic research. Deciding what knowledge the American government is allowed to fund. No experience. No regret. No results. Under oath.

U.S. Air Force officer adopted baby girl 53 years ago—now ICE wants to deport her to Iran. Being a Christian & daughter of U.S. military—sending her to Iran is a near certain death sentence. Her birth certificate names both legally adopted U.S. citizen parents—she has Real ID & social security card. Congress passed a law in 2000 to grant citizenship to people who were legally adopted from overseas—but it did not apply retroactively. "It just, to me, it's a broken promise to return somebody that two governments made an agreement to give an orphan a home," she said. "And I feel stateless. Iran was not my home. I left when I was 3 years old." The woman is awaiting her next court hearing later this month—where she will most likely be detained & deported. #DemsUnited

HD43 OP-ED. Some DP edits (e.g., never mentioned any names). But the point hopefully is getting across. We are cutting support to our most vulnerable across the state. But business subsidies never seem to be on the chopping block...for some strange reason. GOP and Dems seem to unite to support those as they allegedly "pay for themselves"...just like tax cuts... denverpost.com/2026/03/08/sun…

Only 31 out of 100!? We are talking secret detention centers!! Was told years ago there was a strong bipartisan civil rights caucus in the legislature. But now too many want to forget the most basic American values & heritage that come from Magna Carta, to the Constitution, to the Civil Rights Act. Very unAmerican. @MannyRutinel coloradotimesrecorder.com/2026/03/after-…

Moved HB26-1057 out of committee on a unanimous 10-0 vote. Would allow Disabled Veterans to receive the benefits of the DV license plate (free registration, parks access) without having to advertise their DV status to the world. They could choose a service plate or standard CO one. Interesting aside is that the first DV plate benefits started in 1949 and first DV plate issued 1954. So interesting that the benefits of the original personalized license plate are frequently denied the intended recipients. leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb26-1057

Neguse: Where is this company headquartered? Noem: I don’t know. Neguse: I don’t know either. We can’t find it. We did find an address that’s registered to a political operative. This company that received 143 million dollars was incorporated 8 days before this contract went out. You want the American people to believe that this is all above board, that $143 million of taxpayer money just happened to go to this one company that doesn't have a headquarters, doesn't have a website, has never done work for the federal government before and is registered apparently or attached to a residence from a political operative, and of course one of the subcontractors of that contract, as you know, is a political firm that's tied to, to you back when you were governor of South Dakota?

RALLY FOR IDD COMMUNITY (Intellectually and Developmentally Delayed). Surprised when told I was the only legislator who came out to meet the demonstrators. But always important to listen to people, especially in these situations. 6-8 minute interview but, of course, reporter took just a 10-12 second blurb from about 1:56. (But probably good did not broadcast everything I had to say...). koaa.com/news/local-new…

Small but satisfying victory. Eliminating an advisory board with Rep Gonzalez (R - Weld) that had run its course and no longer served any purpose. Cutting down bureaucracy rather than continuing a "temporary" program ad infinitum, which happens too frequently.

Commissioner Bill (HB26-1203) moved out of committee 8-3. First step on a hard slog to the floor and then over to the Senate where I know the counties are working overtime already to try and kill it. So still need to push. Good governance is never easy.

Town Hall this morning. About 16-20 people. But great questions as always.

@visegrad24 Unlikely. Like Iron Dome, I'm sure the system is set to intercept those that will hit targets and ignore those that won't to save expensive counter-measures.

BREAKING: U.S. soldiers filming an Iranian ballistic missile slamming into the ground very close to their position. The Patriot air defense system at the Al Udeid Airbase in Qatar failed to intercept the Iranian missile.

The CEO of the most advanced AI company in America just went on national television (Save this) Hours after his company was blacklisted by the US government. Here's what he said. Dario Amodei built the only AI deployed inside the Pentagon's classified networks. His company helped run military operations, intelligence, cyber defense. Then the government told him to drop all safety limits. He said no to two things. Just two. "One is domestic mass surveillance." He explained: the government can already buy your location data, your browsing history, your political affiliations from private companies. AI makes it possible to analyze all of it. On every American, all at once. "That actually isn't illegal. It was just never useful before the era of AI." "Case number two is fully autonomous weapons." Not the drones used in Ukraine and the remote-controlled systems. Weapons that select targets and fire without a single human pressing a button. "The AI systems of today are nowhere near reliable enough." "We don't want to sell something that could get our own people killed or that could get innocent people killed." He approved 98% of what the Pentagon wanted. "No one on the ground has actually run into the limits of any of these exceptions." The government wasn't fighting over something it needed. It was fighting over the right to have no limits at all. They gave him three days. He said no. So the President called his company "radical left woke." Then ordered every federal agency to stop using their technology. Then the Pentagon labeled them a national security risk. A designation that has only ever been used against foreign enemies. When asked if he'd received any formal legal action, he said this: "All we've seen are tweets from the president and tweets from Secretary Hegseth." No letter, filing or a legal document. "When we receive some kind of formal action, we will look at it, we will understand it, and we will challenge it in court." He said the Defense Secretary lied about the law. Hegseth tweeted that any company with military contracts can't do business with Anthropic "at all." Amodei: "That is not what the law said." "The nature of the tweet was designed to create fear, uncertainty, and doubt." Asked if this was an abuse of power, he paused. Then said: "This designation has never happened before with an American company." "It was made very clear that this was retaliatory and punitive." "I don't know what else to call it." Asked if Anthropic could survive, he didn't hesitate. "Not only survive it. We're gonna be fine." Then the final question. "If you had a moment with the President right now tonight, what would you say to him?" "We are patriotic Americans." "Everything we have done has been for the sake of this country." "The red lines we have drawn, we drew because we believe that crossing those red lines is contrary to American values." "Disagreeing with the government is the most American thing in the world." "And we are patriots." A CEO just went on national television and told the President of the United States: You can blacklist us. You can call us names. You can threaten our business through tweets. But we will not build machines that spy on Americans or kill without human hands.