A New Year's MessageThe Honey Badger’s New Year’s Reckoning: Goodbye 2025, Buckle Up for 2026

Well, patriots, there it goes… 2025 is now in the rearview mirror. Some years you celebrate with champagne, others you cry into your whiskey. Some you push out the door with a boot and a warning not to come back. What was 2025 for you?

Let’s review the tape.

Parker, once a fairly normal town, decided to experiment with electing a coffee shop mayor while letting socialist council members cling to power like barnacles. What is happening in Parker? That’s not a rhetorical question anymore — it’s a cry for help. In Douglas County, we watched Lora Thomas drift away to the Republican Party to work with the dark side, locking arms with Bob Marshall and Democrats to kneecap Home Rule, because nothing screams “local control” like siding with the people who hate it most.

Statewide, we endured the usual Republican establishment sermon: unity, unity, unity, always delivered right before they stab the true grassroots conservatives in the back. We saw “Establishment Republicans” work overtime to protect the open primary scam. We watched Weld County dutifully protect its iron grip of Establishment Republicans by voting down PCP volunteers and leaving the vacancies open. The Elected Colorado Officials rose up and seized the Colorado GOP chairmanship for Brita Horn, proving once again that failure, if persistent enough, is rewarded.

Meanwhile, Tina Peters spent another year behind bars for championing election integrity. Douglas County suffered a scorched-earth school board loss thanks to mismanagement so bad it should be studied by FEMA. And in CD8, Representative Gabe Evans decided the best way to represent conservatives was to co-sponsor the Dignity Act, amnesty for illegal aliens, with better branding, directly opposing President Trump. Completely unforgivable.

Add in Representative Jeff Hurd, a Republican in CD3, partnering with Senators Hickenlooper and Bennet, to team up for one of the largest land grabs in Colorado history under the GORP Act. A federal government shutdown that was a complete yawner, and progressives holding “No Kings” rallies in a country that literally does not have a king, and you’ve got the complete clown show that was 2025.

But 2025 wasn’t all bad.

President Trump was inaugurated and immediately did what he always does: worked. While Democrats and the media gasped for air, he hit the ground running, signing winning executive orders, establishing multiple peace agreements around the world, blowing up drug boats, restoring order, and reminding Washington what real leadership looks like. The introduction of Senate Bill 1151 — E-Verify for everyone sending the open-borders crowd into full panic mode. And we saw new conservative blood emerge: Jake Bockenfeld stepping into the Douglas County commissioner race for the retiring Abe Laydon in District 1.

Now, we look to 2026 — and yes, it matters.

November 2026 will determine control at both the state and federal levels for the House and the Senate. CD4 will re-elect Lauren Boebert. CD8 must oust Gabe Evans and replace him with an actual conservative like Adam DeRito (Mr. Yellow tie). CD3 needs Jeff Hurd to be shown the door, by Hope Scheppelman. The governor’s race is already completely insane (that’s putting it mildly), with Joe Oltmann entering the picture a few days ago. Colorado Republicans continue auditioning twenty-plus candidates because apparently if you breathe and have an internet connection, you are qualified to run for governor in Colorado.

What we don’t have yet is a clear conservative standard-bearer for Secretary of State or Attorney General (what is up with that?), and that’s a problem that needs to be solved fast. We also need to start planning now for Brita Horn’s eventual removal from the Colorado GOP chair, because true grassroots conservatives and the rest of the Colorado GOP State Central Committee are done being managed by a complete loser in Brita Horn and her sidekick, Russ Andrews (the guy who sends profane texts to Colorado GOP members).

Parker Town Council has three seats opening up. Let’s stop surrendering them to automated drones that vote the same way 99% of the time. Will the Douglas County Commissioners bring back Home Rule vote in 2026?

So, let’s do what Honey Badgers do best: dig in, stay loud, stay relentless, and refuse to surrender Colorado to the people actively trying to ruin it.

No apologies. No retreat. And Happy New Year!