On Tuesday, February 10, 2026, former state senator Kevin Lundberg and Athletes for Action co-founder Megan Burke rally support for Protect Kids Colorado’s three ballot initiatives in the final days of signature collection, while constitutional scholar Rob Natelson celebrates his 40th citation at the United States Supreme Court and Jon Boesen of Boesen Law discusses navigating insurance claims.

Start listening at 19:24 – Hour 1

Kevin Lundberg, former Colorado state senator and Protect Kids Colorado board member, reports that over 2,000 volunteer circulators have gathered signatures for three ballot initiatives aimed at protecting children. With only days remaining before the petitions must be delivered to the Secretary of State, the organization needs just under 125,000 valid signatures and is racing to compile and notarize the forms. Colorado requires notarization of citizen initiative petitions, a more burdensome process than most states, but volunteers have risen to the challenge by earning notary certifications to streamline collection.

Representative Scott Bottoms introduced legislative versions of all three initiatives using three of his five allotted bills, giving the Colorado General Assembly a final chance to act before voters decide in November. Lundberg says the legislature shows no signs of moving in that direction, and the current session is instead advancing legislation he calls “the worst bills.” Twenty-six states have already enacted similar protections for girls sports, and a group in Maine followed Colorado’s lead to qualify their own ballot measure. The petition drive has drawn both enthusiastic support and hostile pushback from opponents, but Lundberg says the overwhelming majority of Coloradans sign when they hear the plain facts.

“We’re going to give them one last shot at doing the right thing before we put it before the people through these initiatives.”

Kevin Lundberg, Former State Senator and Protect Kids Colorado Board Member

Start listening at 32:31 – Hour 1

Megan Burke, a 15-time Colorado state champion in track and cross country who earned a full scholarship to the University of North Carolina, brings firsthand athletic experience to the fight for fair competition. Burke co-founded Athletes for Action to provide young female athletes with community, education, and the confidence to speak up. She reports receiving weekly messages from parents whose daughters face boys competing in their leagues, from JV soccer to U9 softball, and has witnessed it personally as a youth soccer coach. Burke points to Paula Scanlan‘s experience at the University of Pennsylvania, where the swimmer had to change 18 times a week alongside a fully intact 6-foot-4-inch male competitor.

Burke challenges the premise that placing biological males in girls’ categories qualifies as inclusion, arguing it actually excludes girls from their own spaces and opportunities. She cites data showing men jump 25 percent higher, are around 30 percent stronger, and punch 162 percent harder. At Denver’s East High School, she notes, the second floor has a boys’ bathroom and an all-gender bathroom with no dedicated girls’ facility. New Hampshire Governor Kelly Ayotte‘s veto of a bathroom protection bill the previous Friday adds national context. Burke urges parents and community members to have calm, fact-based conversations that can shift perspectives and to sign the Protect Kids Colorado petitions before time runs out.

“If one girl is not allowed to be on the field because a boy is playing, or if one girl’s medal is taken away, or if one girl is injured on the field because a boy is playing in their sport and injures them, that is too many.”

Megan Burke, Co-Founder of Athletes for Action

Start listening at 65:05 – Hour 2

Jon Boesen of Boesen Law brings listeners a practical warning about the insurance claims process. Insurance companies, while necessary, are for-profit enterprises whose adjusters are trained to minimize payouts. Boesen explains that adjusters routinely challenge liability even when it is clear, attribute injuries to pre-existing conditions without evidence, and probe for any angle that reduces the value of a legitimate claim. Injured individuals who speak with adjusters without legal counsel risk providing information that undermines their case before they understand how the system works.

Boesen also touches on the immigration debate, suggesting a “look back period” for people who came to the country legally, examining their conduct over two to three years before granting permanent status. He urges listeners to contact Boesen Law for a complimentary consultation at 303-999-9999, emphasizing that early legal guidance changes outcomes in personal injury, workplace, and medical malpractice cases.

“Insurance companies are always looking for a way to minimize, and sometimes they go way over the line.”

Jon Boesen, Boesen Law

Start listening at 73:34 – Hour 2

Rob Natelson, constitutional scholar and former law professor, announces his 40th citation by a United States Supreme Court justice, a distinction placing him among the top ten most-cited legal scholars in the nation and the only one not affiliated with a prestige law school. Justice Clarence Thomas relied on Natelson’s 2003 article on retroactive laws in a recent ex post facto case, where the court unanimously ruled that Congress could not impose additional restitution penalties on defendants convicted before the law’s passage. Natelson’s journey of Supreme Court citations began in 2013 after joining the Independence Institute in Colorado.

Turning to the 150th birthday of the Colorado Constitution, Natelson argues the 1876 document was among the most liberty-oriented constitutions ever adopted by any state. The original allowed only one statewide tax, the property tax, capped at two mills per dollar of assessed valuation, meaning a $400,000 home would owe no more than $800 annually with no other taxes whatsoever. Strict spending limits, debt restrictions, and a ban on appropriations benefiting private persons or corporations reinforced fiscal discipline. Over 170 amendments and adverse court rulings have since gutted those protections. Natelson and callers also explore sanctuary city law and the Supremacy Clause, the constitutionality of ICE administrative warrants for deporting individuals with existing removal orders, and state resistance to Second Amendment rulings. His book is available in a fourth edition on Amazon.

“The Colorado Constitution of 1876 and the Montana Constitution of 1889, which largely copied the Colorado Constitution, were really the high watermarks of freedom-oriented Constitution writing in the United States.”

Rob Natelson, Constitutional Scholar and Author

On this Friday, February 6, 2026 broadcast, Kim Monson marks Ronald Reagan’s birthday by weaving his 1964 Time of Choosing speech throughout the show, connecting Cold War-era warnings about appeasement to today’s ideological battles over education, immigration enforcement, and the preservation of Western civilization with Molly Lamar, Brad Birzer, Teddy Collins, and Chris Harris.

Start listening at 20:36 – Hour 1

Molly Lamar, a former State Board of Education candidate who has closely monitored Cherry Creek School District, reports that Superintendent Chris Smith resigned after Channel 7 investigative reporter Tony Kowalewski exposed a pattern of bullying, demeaning language, and a culture of fear within the district’s administrative offices. Smith’s wife, Brenda Smith, who served as chief of HR, creating a conflict of interest that eliminated checks and balances, was placed on administrative leave.

Lamar describes teachers appearing on television masked and disguised for fear of losing their positions, and high-performing principals threatened with termination for speaking up. The school board has imposed a six-month travel freeze on district-level travel. Lamar calls for a full audit and warns that interim superintendent Dr. Jennifer Perry, who has been part of the existing culture, faces a pivotal test. Kim Monson connects the story to broader transparency failures across Colorado school districts, noting that Open the Books was told by Cherry Creek it would charge a high fee to release payroll data that should be publicly available.

“The resignation of Superintendent Smith is not just a change in leadership. It is a victory for the hundreds of teachers and parents and staff who finally broke the silence on this toxic culture.”

Molly Lamar, Education Advocate

Start listening at 34:47 – Hour 1

Brad Birzer, the Russell Amos Kirk Chair in History at Hillsdale College and a fellow of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, illuminates the Inklings, the literary circle he calls the most important of the 20th century. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis met in the mid-1920s, began gathering friends by 1931, and sustained their collaboration for nearly two decades. The group met on Monday mornings at a local pub, welcomed visitors at the Bird and Baby on Tuesdays, and read manuscripts aloud to one another on Thursday nights in Lewis’s rooms at Oxford, where Tolkien read the entire over many sessions.

Birzer draws a direct line between the Inklings’ work and the defense of Western civilization, noting that both Tolkien and Lewis were deeply conservative men living through the rise of fascism, Nazism, and communism. The Battle of Vienna in 1683, when Polish King Jan Sobieski’s mounted knights relieved the besieged city at the last moment, directly inspired scenes in The Lord of the Rings. Birzer observes that Mustafa the Black was defeated on September 11, 1683, and that the date was chosen deliberately for the 2001 attacks. For young people especially, Birzer argues, Tolkien and Lewis succeeded where few authors do: they made goodness interesting without being Pollyannish.

“When we’re reading The Lord of the Rings, we are truly being called to arms to defend Western civilization.”

Brad Birzer, Russell Amos Kirk Chair in History, Hillsdale College

Start listening at 64:55 – Hour 2

Teddy Collins, co-founder of Spartan Defense in Colorado Springs and co-founder of The Second Syndicate, announces his candidacy for State Senate District 4, the seat being vacated by Senator Mark Baisley, who endorsed Collins. Collins flags a new bill he calls the “home FFL killer” that he says would put roughly 40% of federal firearms licensees in Colorado out of business. Kim Monson notes that 244 pieces of legislation or resolutions have already been introduced in the current session, on top of hundreds from last year. Collins argues that most legislation is unnecessary government interference unless it protects a right or funds a critical function.

“Legislation isn’t really necessary in most cases unless it’s protecting a right or if it’s funding something. And that being said, that’s not what these bills are doing.”

Teddy Collins, Co-Founder, Spartan Defense

Start listening at 74:44 – Hour 2

Retired San Diego sector Border Patrol agent Chris Harris reports that anti-ICE protests are well organized and funded, citing Hong Kong billionaire Nabil Sigman’s ties to the Chinese Communist Party as one funding source alongside George Soros. Harris distinguishes between states like West Virginia, where a joint federal-state-local operation apprehended 660 individuals without incident, and blue cities like Minneapolis, where protesters have set up roadblocks demanding identification from passing drivers, an irony Harris highlights: the same people who oppose federal ID checks are themselves stopping cars to demand papers.

Harris explains the historical 247 hold process, where local law enforcement would notify Border Patrol when releasing an undocumented individual, calling it safe and efficient. He recounts a California case where sanctuary policies prevented a sheriff from alerting ICE about a released domestic abuser who subsequently killed his children and a supervising monitor before taking his own life. On administrative warrants, Harris acknowledges discomfort with their potential use to enter homes, calling for the Supreme Court to rule definitively. He urges listeners to engage moderates and independents with respectful, fact-based dialogue rather than inflammatory rhetoric.

“We have to decide as a nation, do we want to be a nation of the rule of law, which goes all the way back to the Magna Carta and certainly with our Constitution? Do we want to be a nation state that’s the rule of law, or do we want to be mob rule?”

Chris Harris, Retired Border Patrol Agent