With violent rhetoric and election denial, podcaster becomes GOP force in Colorado

From a corporate office park in the Denver suburbs, podcaster Joe Oltmann spins a daily vision of America’s dark and violent future.

“Pretty soon we’ll have gallows being built all over the country. We can take care of all these traitors to our nation,” he told listeners during an episode late last year.

“Stretch that rope,” he intoned during another, suggesting that Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) be hanged, before going on to explain that it was just a joke.

Oltmann’s political organization — FEC United, standing for “Faith, Education and Commerce” — is less than two years old, but it has been advocating for candidates up and down the Colorado ballot, from key statewide positions to obscure county jobs.

Six days after the vote, he told listeners of his “Conservative Daily” podcast that he had weeks earlier infiltrated a meeting of “antifa journalists.” On the call, he said, he heard a man identify himself as Eric “the Dominion guy” and reassure the others that they need not worry about the election. (see also)

['Eric [Coomer] the Dominion guy' has sued Oltmann for defamation. Just in May of this year, a judge ruled it could proceed and that "there was prima facie evidence that Oltmann had “spread political disinformation at Coomer’s expense.”"]

Despite the lack of evidence for his assertions, the Colorado podcaster was a headliner at a rally in Washington on the evening of Jan. 5, 2021, explaining his theories that the election was stolen to a crowd of thousands gathered to object to the congressional certification of the electoral college votes the following day.

At that time, [county clerk] Broerman said, county clerks across Colorado were under intense pressure to allow pro-Trump activists, including those who said they were affiliated with Oltmann’s FEC United, to access their voting machines to try to prove fraud. He declined. “I have a responsibility for that equipment. It’s part of federally protected infrastructure,” he said.

A few months later, however, a different Republican clerk in Colorado, Mesa County’s Tina Peters, allegedly orchestrated the secret copying of hard drives from her county’s Dominion Voting Systems machines. It was the first known case among several similar instances around the country of election deniers tampering with voting machinery to try to prove that fraud took place in 2020. (see also)


Oltmann seems to be a one man wrecking ball of American institutions. Faith, Education and Commerce? More like Fraud, Misinformation and Calumny.

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From a corporate office park in the Denver suburbs, podcaster Joe Oltmann spins a daily vision of America’s dark and violent future.

“Pretty soon we’ll have gallows being built all over the country. We can take care of all these traitors to our nation,” he told listeners during an episode late last year.

“Stretch that rope,” he intoned during another, suggesting that Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) be hanged, before going on to explain that it was just a joke.

Oltmann’s political organization — FEC United, standing for “Faith, Education and Commerce” — is less than two years old, but it has been advocating for candidates up and down the Colorado ballot, from key statewide positions to obscure county jobs.

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Colorado Election Fraud Conspiracist Appears to Have Committed Voter Fraud, Court Docs Show​

[Oltmann has] never been able to produce any evidence of [election fraud in Colorado], and in fact, has been sued for defamation multiple times over his unsubstantiated claims.

Thanks in part to one of those lawsuits, there finally appears to be proof of voter fraud: his own.

It’s either that or he’s committed perjury, according to several public records.

In an Aug. 6, 2021, court statement, Oltmann said he is not a resident of Colorado.

Records indicate Oltmann voted in Colorado in the 2021 election, and the 2022 primary and general elections, all of which took place well after he says he moved out of state. He voted by mail in 2021 and for the primary in 2022, before voting in person in Douglas County on Election Day 2022.

essentialsaltes said:

From a corporate office park in the Denver suburbs, podcaster Joe Oltmann spins a daily vision of America’s dark and violent future.

['Eric [Coomer] the Dominion guy' has sued Oltmann for defamation. Just in May of this year [2022], a judge ruled it could proceed and that "there was prima facie evidence that Oltmann had “spread political disinformation at Coomer’s expense.”"]

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On Wednesday, Oltmann defended himself against the lawsuit on a podcast. "I don't write stuff on my social media that, that frankly, that I wouldn't be able to defend. I don't," he said.

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The Douglas County conservative activist and podcaster who created an election rigging conspiracy theory that was repeated by former President Donald Trump's campaign is being ordered to provide evidence or pay a daily fine to the Coloradan he accused of fixing the 2020 election.

A court said Oltmann owes a former Dominion Voting Systems employee $1,000 a day, starting this week, for as long as he continues withholding evidence of his election rigging claims.

Oltmann closed his Thursday podcast with another of his frequent predictions of coming political violence.

"November is going to be the start of something very, very, very, very, very, very kinetic," Oltmann said. "Now, do I want that to happen? No, I don't, but I don't want my children to be groomed either. I don't want perverts and Satanists to be the one that gets the last word."