Tuesday, it was Minnesota with its Somali immigration corruption scandal. On Wednesday, it's Colorado facing the glaring light of election integrity, or lack thereof. In 2024, Mesa County, Colorado, resident Tina Peters was convicted and sentenced to nine years in prison for her role in attempting to expose 2020 election fraud. RedState has reported on the documented cases of how the 2020 election may have been interfered with here, here, here, and here. So, the fact that Peters is still imprisoned for what many consider a politically motivated conviction is telling. The juxtaposition of the two issues could not be more stark, and it has Americans paying attention to the continued application of unequal justice.
Colorado is finally trending for the RIGHT reason! Free Tina Peters! #copolitics #colorado #freetinapeters
— Denver Fail (@mrosazza) December 9, 2025
“Earlier today (December 9, 2025), the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division, under Assistant AG Harmeet Dhillon, announced an investigation into Colorado’s… pic.twitter.com/fuqR3x1ouj
Colorado is finally trending for the RIGHT reason! Free Tina Peters! #copolitics #colorado #freetinapeters
“Earlier today (December 9, 2025), the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division, under Assistant AG Harmeet Dhillon, announced an investigation into Colorado’s entire prison system. This follows “multiple reports of unconstitutional and legally insufficient carceral conditions,” explicitly tied to complaints about 70-year-old Tina Peters’ treatment at La Vista Correctional Facility. Peters, the former Mesa County Clerk serving a nine-year sentence for breaching voting machines in a 2020 fraud scheme, has become a martyr for Trump supporters.”
On Tuesday, Assistant Attorney General of the Civil Rights Division Harmeet Dhillon announced that the DOJ was opening an investigation of the entirety of the Colorado prison system. Many feel this was sparked by both President Donald Trump and activists' outcry over the Peters case.
Under my direction, @CivilRights has opened an investigation into the entire Colorado prison system following multiple reports of unconstitutional and legally insufficient carceral conditions. Prisoners have civil rights. @AGPamBondi pic.twitter.com/RTw69CzLDE
— AAGHarmeetDhillon (@AAGDhillon) December 9, 2025
It also comes on the heels of a federal judge's rejection of Peters' lawsuit seeking a writ of habeas corpus (asserting that her free speech rights were violated) because of her pending appeal in state court. At least that is what Judge Scott Varholak put forth as the basis for his ruling.
A federal judge has refused to release a former Colorado clerk who was convicted of attempting to breach voting systems in hopes of proving President Donald Trump's claims of election malfeasance in 2020.
The former clerk, 70-year-old Tina Peters, was sentenced to nine years in prison after a state jury convicted her of participating in a scheme to breach the Mesa County voting systems. Peters filed a lawsuit seeking her release earlier this year, arguing that her free speech rights had been violated, but Judge Scott Varholak rejected the move on Monday.
"Ms. Peters raises important constitutional questions concerning whether the trial court improperly punished her more severely because of her protected First Amendment speech," Varholak wrote. "But because this question remains pending before Colorado courts, this Court must abstain from answering that question until after the Colorado courts have decided the issue."
Peters, the only Trump ally to face prison time for 2020 election denial, has received significant support from the president.
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President Trump just instructed the DOJ to Free Tina Peters. She tried to blow the whistle on election fraud that she witnessed in Colorado.
— David J Harris Jr (@DavidJHarrisJr) May 6, 2025
The judge insulted her, berated her, told her she had white “privilege” and then gave her 9 years in prison!
These are the kinds of… pic.twitter.com/HMaTIsS5HG
These are the kinds of active judges that need to be removed!
Between the DOJ investigation and pressure on Colorado's elected officials to reconsider Peters' case, this could signal the beginning of the end of the left's lawfare campaigns. Peters is reportedly in poor health, making action on her pending cases more urgent.
Colorado officials want the public to believe that keeping former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters in prison is justice. But when a woman’s health is collapsing, when she is rapidly declining, and when her continued confinement now poses a direct threat to her life, the law tells a very different story.
Colorado is not simply neglecting its responsibility – it is violating its own constitution.
Article III Project founder Mike Davis agrees and points to the greater lesson. Thanks to Peters' actions, a hole was punched in the campaign to overthrow the American system of a representative republic and constitutional governance.
Tina Peters is not a criminal. She is an American patriot.
— 🇺🇸 Mike Davis 🇺🇸 (@mrddmia) September 19, 2025
She stood up when others stayed silent on election manipulation.
She warned us that the Left thrives on division.
The Left teaches people to hate America.
This is the Marxist playbook: divide, conquer, and control.… pic.twitter.com/vtWTbMwKUQ
Tina Peters is not a criminal. She is an American patriot.
She stood up when others stayed silent on election manipulation.
She warned us that the Left thrives on division.
The Left teaches people to hate America.
This is the Marxist playbook: divide, conquer, and control.
Tina Peters sat in prison on her 70th birthday, sentenced to nine years in prison for speaking the truth.
That is what real sacrifice looks like.
That is why she is considered such a threat.
And that is why she deserves our support.
Americans' patience is wearing thin in three areas: illegal immigration, the allowance of rampant fraud and waste, and elected officials' inaction to correct both these matters. With the DOJ shining the light on Colorado prisons, perhaps the pressure applied will elicit results. Let's hope those results will not be too late for Tina Peters.
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