Welcome to the Muppet Show: Colorado GOP Edition Where the Zoom doesn’t work, the votes go missing, and the arrogance is thicker than a Polis’s skull.

Spoiler Alert: This is a long one, and I lost...

Patriots of Colorado’s true grassroots conservative army, grab your popcorn and settle in, because last night’s Colorado GOP Vice Chair vote wasn’t just a meeting. It was a clown car pileup so spectacular it could’ve been directed by Bozo himself, and Mad Magazine penning the script. If you managed to survive the Zoom call, or braved the cringe-fest YouTube livestream, you witnessed firsthand what political malpractice looks like.

Let’s set the scene: the State Central Committee met virtually because in-person was just too inconvenient to choose a new Vice Chair (I was one of the candidates). What we experienced instead was a Banana Republic cosplay session, minus the military uniforms but with all the corruption. The credentialing process? Imagine a security system run by toddlers (anyone get the reference here?). It took me an hour to move from the digital purgatory of the “waiting room” into the main event. And that, tragically, was peak efficiency. A few honest conservatives reported being credentialed without ever showing an ID. Nothing. Nada. Just a cheerful, “Come on in, here let’s put a “C” after your name for good measure!” Who else slipped through? No one knows. And under this administration, no one ever will. Transparency in today’s Colorado GOP is about as common as winning Powerball.

Our Chairwoman, delivering lines like a puppet mid-audition for a Jim Henson reboot. Every time Gregory Carlson whispered sweet nothings, she repeated them verbatim, as if she was just waiting for his hand to appear on her back and start moving her lips. The purple camera tint only added to the aesthetic; at any moment, I expected Cookie Monster to call for a motion and Elmo to demand a point of order.

SCC members tried to speak. They raised their hands. They waved signs. They begged to be acknowledged. People like Raymond Garcia were completely ignored, as if they were extras in the political Hunger Games. Motions? Too late. Clarifications? Denied. “Sorry,” the Chairwoman chirped. “We’ve moved on.” Better luck next time, Patriots.

Now look, this isn’t sour grapes. It’s common sense. I fell just 11 votes short, how convenient, especially in a race where votes (people) seemed to have gone missing. But here's the twist: if they’d let me win, I’d be buried in their bureaucratic mess, too busy trying to clean up their incompetence to speak the truth. Instead, they set me free. This would’ve been the perfect time to silence me to stop the relentless attacks on our milk-toast Republicans who sell out our conservative values and principles. Their own arrogance blinded them from seeing the right political move. And because of that, they made their worst mistake, because now I get to build the army that’s coming for their jobs in 2027.

You see, what these ivory tower RINOs don’t understand is the long game (bad eyesight I guess). They're so high on their own supply of self-importance, they’ve lost all connection to the true grassroots. They think “grassroots” means a few hand-picked loyalists nodding along with their bogeyman Dave Williams.

Meanwhile, I’ve been on the phone with hundreds of outstanding conservatives from Grand Junction to Pueblo, who are starving for real leadership. The kind that doesn’t bend the knee to anyone. The kind of in-your-face leadership that calls out nonsense and isn’t afraid of a fight. And that’s exactly what we’re building.

Parker Conservatives and We the People Network are expanding across the state. We’re not asking for permission; we're taking territory. We’re reaching out to county chairs. We’re engaging disillusioned Republicans. We’re speaking to the silent majority tired of being ignored as the state drifts further left, because our so-called leaders are too busy listening to the establishment and forgetting one-half of the Republican base — YOU!

So, here’s the deal: don’t mourn this disaster, celebrate it, I AM! It exposed the rot. It woke up more of the base. And it lit a fire under a movement that no Zoom Muppet Show can stop.

Come 2027, when that chairmanship is up for grabs, we won’t just be ready, we’ll be everywhere. Our true grassroots machine will be so strong, so loud, and so unstoppable that their purple-tinted Zoom rooms will look like the dress rehearsal of Night of the Living Dead.

We’re not here to manage the decline of the Colorado GOP. We’re here to take it back.

Mark Hampton

Founder of Parker Conservatives and the We the People Network

And no, I’m not done. Not even close. Stay tuned. It’s going to be HUGE!