Colorado Peak Politics was launched 14 years ago to call balls and strikes and record the absurdity of state politics. The goal was to nudge them towards sensible policies and lower taxes with a sense of humor, or a wrecking ball, whichever worked best. Journalists had already abdicated their role as government watchdogs, and Peak […]
Colorado Peak Politics was launched 14 years ago to call balls and strikes and record the absurdity of state politics.
The goal was to nudge them towards sensible policies and lower taxes with a sense of humor, or a wrecking ball, whichever worked best.
Journalists had already abdicated their role as government watchdogs, and Peak was there to do battle against the media’s unyielding bias against traditional western conservative values.
Those were the glory days of a Republican-controlled state House and later the Senate, when government checks and balances kept Democrats mostly in check and natives could still afford to live here.
We delivered the news with a heavy hand of snark that was ahead of its time, and over the years has been copied by many with little success.
Peak Politics has grown to a million readers annually, and thanks to social media the readership has exploded.
But there was a time the Biden administration’s censorship had Peak on the rocks, as Facebook shadow-banned posts that had once gone viral reaching hundreds of thousands readers, down into the single digits.
Then last year, the social media mafia finally sunk our Facebook account into cement shoes and dropped it into the middle of the ocean to sleep with the fishes.
Without any warning or explanation, and with only one community violation in our 14-year history, the Peak Facebook page disappeared without a trace in early March.
This was the last post that done us in.
We have no evidence that Jena Griswold was behind our sudden exile into oblivion, but it wouldn’t have been the first time her fingerprints were on other harassing actions against Peak.
Lawyers were hired, Facebook pretended the account never even existed, and the battle lines were drawn.
Then with just seven weeks before the November election, Facebook suddenly remembered where they hid us away, and boom! Peak just resurfaced out of the blue, like one of those soap opera characters brought back to life after being decapitated in a car wreck.
Our readership rebounded with a vengeance!
Meanwhile, Elon Musk had just acquired Twitter and so Peak turned to X to reach our audience, which doubled our number of followers in the first year.
Peak went on to expose and hammered Democrats for rigging state legislature elections through the vacancy board system that allowed party insiders to elect lawmakers instead of you, the voters.
Over the years, Peak has given voice to the state’s energy industry and its 150,000 workers when Democrats treated them like pariah as our energy costs skyrocketed.
Peak has tirelessly reported on the corruption of Democrats too numerous to count, their wild escapades, abuses of office, reckless spending of your tax dollars, and their ultimate downfalls.
Peak has informed on critical state ballot issues that have saved taxpayers money and warned when the will of the people was about to go sideways.
Peak played whack-a-mole with Democrats and their media comrades when they pretended there was no property tax crisis and that Bidenomics was a good thing.
Peak never wavered in our watchdog role during the entire COVID crisis, too much of which was of Polis’s own making.
When he wasn’t cussing out his constituency, the Polis administration was doing his dirty work to shutter businesses for good that dared open their doors just to pay their bills.
And PeakNation will never forget the nursing home deaths blamed on faulty COVID tests, that were awarded under a no-bid contract to an FOP, friend of Polis.
Peak has proudly served as the proverbial canary in the coal mine to warn when disaster was just around the corner and successfully blocked bad government ideas in its tracks.
And we did so for the benefit of our millions of readers over the years. Or maybe it’s just the same one million every year. Nevertheless, we love you all the same.
Happy anniversary!
