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Opinion

The founders’ deepest right was ownership, and the Declaration’s lineage proves it

On a Kim Monson Show Independence Week broadcast, First American State Bank founder Jay Davidson argues that the right to ownership underlies every other liberty. As the Declaration turns 250, the founding record from John Locke to George Mason shows how deeply property ran through the rights the founders set out to secure.

Liberty & Economy · Kim Monson Newsroom · Jun 30, 2026
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Analysis

The Founders wrote sound money into the Constitution. We have spent fifty years unwinding it.

A dollar tied to gold and silver was written into the Constitution after the Continental dollar collapsed. Historian Lawrence W....

Liberty & Economy · 1d ago
A traveling replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial wall, its black chevron-shaped panels lined with engraved names, with American and U.S. military service flags rising above it on a green lawn. Featured image for Kim Monson Newsroom: Wall That Heals Vietnam memorial replica makes its only 2026 Wyoming stop in Star Valley

Wall That Heals Vietnam memorial replica makes its only 2026 Wyoming stop in Star Valley

A three-quarter-scale replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial will stand free and open around the clock July 9 to 12...

National · 4d ago
A hand drops a stamped envelope marked with an American-flag stamp into a mailbox. Featured image for Kim Monson Newsroom: In its 50th year, the Colorado Union of Taxpayers grades lawmakers ahead of the June 30 primary
Analysis

In its 50th year, the Colorado Union of Taxpayers grades lawmakers ahead of the June 30 primary

CUT president Kim Monson read the highest and lowest 2026 scores in both chambers and tied the ratings to a...

Colorado · 4d ago
Combat boots at the foot of a bare barracks bunk with an American flag. Featured image for Kim Monson Newsroom: Constitutional rights stay with service members in uniform, Brad Miller says as 'Duty to Disobey' opens nationwide
Analysis

Constitutional rights stay with service members in uniform, Brad Miller says as ‘Duty to Disobey’ opens nationwide

The documentary Duty to Disobey opens in theaters across the country on Tuesday, June 30. Brad Miller, who resigned his...

National · 5d ago
A voter slides a sealed ballot envelope into an official drop box outside a county building in autumn. Featured image for Kim Monson Newsroom: Two November ballot measures take aim at TABOR and Colorado's flat income tax
Analysis

Two November ballot measures take aim at TABOR and Colorado’s flat income tax

The Colorado Union of Taxpayers is sounding the alarm on a referred K-12 funding measure and a proposed graduated income...

Colorado · 5d ago
An automatic license plate reader surveillance camera mounted on a slim metal pole beside a quiet suburban arterial road, with Front Range foothills and residential homes in the distance under a soft late-afternoon sky. Featured image for Kim Monson Newsroom: Fort Collins drops Flock, but the license-plate cameras keep spreading

Fort Collins drops Flock, but the license-plate cameras keep spreading

The city voted 6-1 to cancel its Flock Safety contract and pull 15 cameras, yet it still runs Axon's AI...

Colorado · 6d ago
High-voltage steel transmission towers and power lines marching in a long row across wide-open golden shortgrass prairie rangeland under a vast sky, with a barbed-wire fence line in the foreground and distant low bluffs. Featured image for Kim Monson Newsroom: Little Bighorn at 150: a rancher draws a line from broken treaties to today's land fights
Analysis

On Little Bighorn’s 150th anniversary, a rancher sees the same fight over land

On the sesquicentennial of the battle the Lakota call the Greasy Grass, rancher Trent Loos told The Kim Monson Show...

National · 6d ago
A voter in a jacket stands at an official blue ballot drop box on a Colorado downtown sidewalk in warm late-afternoon light, mountains in the distance. Featured image for Kim Monson Newsroom: Outside money floods Colorado's June 30 statehouse primaries
Analysis

Outside money floods Colorado’s June 30 statehouse primaries

Sportsbook cash and undisclosed donors are pouring into Colorado's primaries to beat insurgent candidates in both parties. Ballots are due...

Colorado · 1w ago
A city transit bus moves through an urban street, illustrating bus rapid transit. Featured image for Kim Monson Newsroom: Colorado Boulevard bus plan could double commutes as state overrides local vote
Analysis

Colorado Boulevard bus plan could double commutes as state overrides local vote

CDOT could pick a design this summer for a seven-mile bus rapid transit project on Colorado Boulevard, a state highway,...

Colorado · 1w ago
A modest older sedan parked at the curb of a quiet American residential street under overcast light. Featured image for Kim Monson Newsroom: How Colorado's unenforced insurance mandate lands on drivers who pay
Analysis

How Colorado’s unenforced insurance mandate lands on drivers who pay

State Farm agent Roger Mangan told Kim Monson Show listeners that uninsured/underinsured motorist coverage is now the single biggest line...

Colorado · 1w ago
Macro photograph of an engorged adult blacklegged deer tick (Ixodes scapularis), the species that transmits Lyme disease. Featured image for Kim Monson Newsroom: HHS launches a federal plan to combat long-neglected Lyme disease

HHS launches a federal plan to combat long-neglected Lyme disease

Health and Human Services has stood up a dedicated Lyme disease program, prize-funded diagnostics, and updated clinical guidance for an...

National · 1w ago
A quiet suburban residential street in southeast Aurora, Colorado at golden hour with the Front Range behind. Featured image for Kim Monson Newsroom: Danielle Lammon seeks GOP nod to challenge Sen. Tom Sullivan in Senate District 27

Danielle Lammon seeks GOP nod to challenge Sen. Tom Sullivan in Senate District 27

The Aurora nonprofit founder and small-business owner is running in a contested June 30 Republican primary against Darryl Gibbs for...

Colorado · 2w ago
A desktop 3D printer mid-print, its nozzle building up a small dark polymer part on the build plate in a dim workshop. Featured image for Kim Monson Newsroom: Tighter gun rules and other new Colorado laws take effect July 1
Explainer

Tighter gun rules and other new Colorado laws take effect July 1

A batch of new Colorado laws takes effect July 1, 2026, led by two firearms measures on retail ammunition and...

Colorado · 2w ago
Overhead view of residents seated in a public meeting hall, listening attentively at a civic forum. Featured image for Kim Monson Newsroom: Lakewood council drops citywide rezoning for incremental changes after repeal

Lakewood council drops citywide rezoning for incremental changes after repeal

At a June 15 study session, the council set aside the comprehensive rewrite voters rejected in April for a set...

Colorado · 2w ago
An established residential neighborhood of single-family homes on a tree-lined autumn street at golden hour. Featured image for Kim Monson Newsroom: Pfiffner warns two November measures would curb TABOR refunds and end Colorado's flat tax
Analysis

Pfiffner warns two November measures would curb TABOR refunds and end Colorado’s flat tax

On the Kim Monson Show, TABOR Foundation chairman Penn Pfiffner said a referred K-12 funding measure and a graduated-income-tax initiative...

Colorado · 2w ago
A lawn sprinkler waters a green suburban front lawn with dry brown patches at the edges as a resident holds the hose, a single-family home behind. Featured image for Kim Monson Newsroom: Arvada council delays drought surcharge that would have left out multifamily buildings

Arvada council delays drought surcharge that would have left out multifamily buildings

Arvada has no drought surcharge in effect after a City Council proposal stalled; engaged citizen Mike Rawluk says the tiered...

Colorado · 2w ago
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Analysis

Harry Haury details Unite4Freedom’s federal push to force clean Colorado voter rolls

At the second Kim Monson Community Townhall on June 16, the election-integrity analyst walked through his group's dismissed Colorado HAVA...

Colorado · 2w ago
An ordinary middle-aged American sits at a kitchen table, head lowered over a smartphone held low in both hands. Featured image for Kim Monson Newsroom: Section 702 lapses as Fourth Amendment fight and DNI standoff stall renewal
Analysis

Section 702 lapses as Fourth Amendment fight and DNI standoff stall renewal

A surveillance authority used to sweep up Americans' communications expired for the first time since 2008, caught between a bipartisan...

National · 2w ago
A Colorado couple reviews household finances at a kitchen table, a calculator and closed folder between them. Featured image for Kim Monson Newsroom: Colorado's $46.8 billion budget and the November ballot fight over TABOR
Analysis

Colorado’s $46.8 billion budget and the November ballot fight over TABOR

As the Colorado Union of Taxpayers sends its ratings on 178 bills to the printer, Kim Monson points to a...

Colorado · 2w ago
An empty municipal council chamber with vacant public gallery seats facing the dais. Featured image for Kim Monson Newsroom: Lakewood pulls citizens' zoning petition after the city doubles the signature bar

Lakewood pulls citizens’ zoning petition after the city doubles the signature bar

The Lakewood Citizens Alliance says the city approved its charter-amendment petition June 2, then reclassified it a week later as...

Colorado · 2w ago
A waitress in an apron holds a notepad in a restaurant. Featured image for Kim Monson Newsroom: Arizona adopts the new federal tax cuts in full while Colorado adds them back
Analysis

Arizona adopts the new federal tax cuts in full while Colorado adds them back

Arizona just conformed its income tax to the federal One Big Beautiful Bill, passing the no-tax-on-tips and no-tax-on-overtime breaks through...

Liberty & Economy · 2w ago

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2026 Colorado Elections

In its 50th year, the Colorado Union of Taxpayers grades lawmakers ahead of the June 30 primary

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TABOR & Colorado Fiscal Policy

In its 50th year, the Colorado Union of Taxpayers grades lawmakers ahead of the June 30 primary

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Declaration of Independence at 250

The founders’ deepest right was ownership, and the Declaration’s lineage proves it

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Federal Lyme and Tick-Borne Disease Policy

Tick Bites: Prevention, Intervention, Infection

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Local Control (Colorado)

Colorado Boulevard bus plan could double commutes as state overrides local vote

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The Wall That Heals Comes to Wyoming

Wall That Heals Vietnam memorial replica makes its only 2026 Wyoming stop in Star Valley

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Military COVID Mandate Fallout

Constitutional rights stay with service members in uniform, Brad Miller says as ‘Duty to Disobey’ opens nationwide

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Agriculture and Rural America

On Little Bighorn’s 150th anniversary, a rancher sees the same fight over land

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Property Rights vs. Green Energy Infrastructure

On Little Bighorn’s 150th anniversary, a rancher sees the same fight over land

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2026 Colorado Legislative Session

Tighter gun rules and other new Colorado laws take effect July 1

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Colorado Zoning & Local Control

Lakewood council drops citywide rezoning for incremental changes after repeal

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Colorado Auto Insurance and Enforcement

How Colorado’s unenforced insurance mandate lands on drivers who pay

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Colorado Open Records & Government Transparency

Cherry Creek seats Voices of Color member on board as federal probe opens

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Colorado Election Integrity

Tina Peters freed after Polis commutes her sentence

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