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🚨Colorado’s House District 47 just re-elected Republican Ty Winter with about 63% of the vote against Democrat Vic Meyers. The rural southeastern rancher and Assistant Minority Leader celebrated protecting “rural Colorado’s way of life.” Critics see something darker. In 2018–19, under the name Ty Freedom, Winter co-hosted the “Major League Liberty” podcast with Louie Huey, then a leader of Colorado’s Proud Boys chapter. He appeared at a Capitol “free speech” rally heavily attended by Proud Boys members and was photographed with them. He also led the Colorado chapter of American Freedom Keepers, a militia-adjacent group whose affiliates joined the 2017 Charlottesville Unite the Right protests. Winter has denied being a member of any extremist group, calling the claims “patently false” and “slanderous.” He describes the podcast as promoting liberty and says rally photos included people from across the spectrum. Earlier, when asked directly if he considered himself a Proud Boy, he did not answer. He has also promoted disproven 2020 election-fraud claims. Elevating and re-electing a lawmaker with this history normalizes proximity to groups linked to political violence and white-nationalist extremism—without a clear repudiation. Character and integrity matter, as Winter himself said. The record invites scrutiny of both.