This source cluster compiles direct and reported evidence for an El Paso consultant-and-intermediary layer linking Daniel Cole, Cole Communications, Victor's Canvassing, D11 Momentum, Advocates for D20 Kids, Daniel Fenlason, and overlapping D11/D20 school-board operations. In the current repo, it matters because it shows that the Colorado Springs education conflict is not only ideological or church-based; it also runs through campaign-service firms, licensed petition entities, committee infrastructure, and district-branded advocacy fronts.
The strongest items in this cluster are mixed but complementary: direct news reporting on Daniel Cole and Cole Communications, a Colorado Secretary of State petition-entity listing for Victor's Canvassing, an official D11 Momentum campaign site, Colorado Sun reporting on Advocates for D20 Kids, existing TRACER committee records, address-census records, and later Transparency USA aggregation pages showing payee and contributor concentration. Colorado Times Recorder reporting remains important for Joel Sorensen, D11 Achievement Alliance, and the crossover between D11 and D20, but the new direct-source layer sharpens the consultant, vendor, compliance, and shared-address side of that network.
- Daniel Cole now has stronger direct grounding in the repo as a long-running Republican operative: Colorado Politics describes him as former Colorado GOP communications director and former El Paso County GOP executive director, while KRDO later describes him as running Cole Communications and distributing political texts as a publishing medium.
- The direct Colorado SOS business-summary capture for Cole Communications lists it as a Colorado LLC in good standing, formed on
2016-05-31, with Daniel Joseph William Cole as registered agent and the Saint Vrain suite as principal-office and registered-agent address.
- The new Cole Communications finance capture shows the firm appearing as a recurring Colorado political payee, including both statewide Republican committee work and D11-adjacent committee payments.
- Victor's Canvassing is now stronger than a one-off vendor mention. The Colorado Secretary of State lists it as a licensed petition entity, Transparency USA shows it as a recurring political payee across multiple school-board races, and the Truth & Liberty bio identifies Daniel Fenlason as its COO.
- The direct Colorado SOS business-summary capture for Victor's Canvassing lists it as a Colorado LLC in good standing, formed on
2019-06-24, with Daniel Joseph William Cole as registered agent and the same Saint Vrain suite as principal-office and registered-agent address.
- The expanded address-census source pass shows that Saint Vrain Suite 105 is a larger official-record cluster, not only a Cole / Victor's pair: exact Colorado business records also place Colorado Dawn, Colorado Dawn IEC, QED Colorado, Molon Labe Action, Constitutional Conservatives of El Paso County, and Colorado Conservatives for Retaking Congress at the suite, while direct TRACER, Form 990, and FEC records add committee-level Colorado Dawn / Springs Opportunity Fund support.
- The same pass shows that Belleview Suite 375 is a broader West Group / Advance Colorado legal-compliance cluster, with
28 exact Colorado business-entity rows, 5 Colorado charities-registration rows, D11 Parents and Teachers TRACER address evidence, and an official FEC hit for Western Way Action PAC.
- The follow-on campaign-finance sweep adds a broader municipal layer: a City of Colorado Springs current-filing supplement shows Colorado Dawn as a municipal contributor totaling
$1,805,555.50, Defend Colorado as a contributor totaling $585,000.00, and Cole Communications LLC as a municipal payee totaling $487,796.34; a focused Springs Opportunity Fund capture separately supports a 2021 accounting-view sequence in which Springs Opportunity Fund received $128,000.00 from Colorado Dawn and spent $128,000.00 to Cole Communications LLC, with amended-filing caveats retained in the raw note.
- The same sweep shows larger TRACER payee totals since
2020-12-08 for Victor's Canvassing LLC ($2,659,887.18) and Cole Communications LLC ($1,700,326.65), plus TRACER recipient totals for Springs Opportunity Fund ($766,702.42) and Colorado Dawn IEC ($173,488.00).
- Daniel Fenlason now has a direct public bio page in the repo that links Victor's Canvassing to both Republican campaign-data work and Truth & Liberty's Christian-political framing.
- D11 Momentum is now directly anchored as a public-facing 2023 D11 campaign site. It promoted Parth Melpakam, Thomas Carey, Jill Haffley, and Jason Jorgenson, collected text-message opt-ins for Springs Opportunity Fund, and displayed a paid-for-by Springs Opportunity Fund disclaimer.
- Advocates for D20 Kids is now better grounded as a public-facing organization rather than only a leaked-chat container. Colorado Sun quotes chairman Brian Moody describing it as a 2022 group organized around academic excellence, parental rights, school choice, and strong character.
- The existing CTR reporting still matters because it is currently the clearest source placing Joel Sorensen inside this intermediary network as a reported Cole Communications employee, D11 Achievement Alliance spokesman, owner of the Advocates for D20 Kids Discord server, and crossover mobilizer between D11 and D20 politics.
- The direct D11 Parents and Teachers TRACER slice adds a later-cycle continuation signal. The retained 2025 bulk rows show one
$125,000.00 contribution from ADVANCE COLORADO ACTION, then $210,642.40 in accounting expenditures, mostly to AXIOM STRATEGIES, with one VICTOR'S CANVASSING canvassing row and one FLAT CREEK website row.
- The dedicated 2025-2026 Springs Opportunity Fund slice confirms the active 2023 committee's four retained 2025 expenditure rows to
AXIOM STRATEGIES, totaling $45,101.40, with direct-mail and text-messaging explanations.
- The Colorado Secretary of State Larson hearing-docket PDF strengthens the business-role layer for Daniel Cole, Cole Communications, and Victor's Canvassing: the embedded Deputy Secretary order treats Daniel Cole as owner and registered agent of Cole Communications, LLC and Victors Canvassing, LLC. That source is also an overreach guardrail because the later hearing result did not prove the alleged Larson violations by a preponderance of the evidence.
2019-02: Colorado Politics reports Daniel Cole taking over the Senate Majority Fund and already operating a communications and political consulting firm.2019-06: secondary company-directory data dates Victor's Canvassing's Colorado formation to June 2019.2022-10: Colorado Sun describes Advocates for D20 Kids as a 2022 parent-rights and school-choice group in the D20 book-challenge conflict.2023-05: KRDO profiles Daniel Cole's text-messaging operation and data-driven campaign methods.2023-10: CTR reporting places Joel Sorensen, D11 Achievement Alliance, D11 board messaging, Cole Communications, and Victor's Canvassing inside one crossover school-board ecosystem.2023-11: the D11 Momentum site publicly backs a four-candidate D11 slate and ties text sign-ups to Springs Opportunity Fund.2025-09-26 through 2025-11-03: D11 Parents and Teachers' retained accounting expenditure rows show text, mail, digital, canvassing, and website spending through Axiom Strategies, Victor's Canvassing, and Flat Creek.2025-10-08: the retained D11 Parents and Teachers contribution row shows a $125,000.00 contribution from ADVANCE COLORADO ACTION.2025-09 through 2025-12: retained D11 Parents and Teachers committee records and Transparency aggregation show later D11 spending involving Advance Colorado, Axiom Strategies, and Victor's Canvassing.
- Consultant-managed school-board advocacy fronts
- District branding that masks committee and vendor infrastructure
- Reuse of the same campaign-service layer across D11, D20, Woodland Park, and statewide Republican politics
- Christian-right movement overlap with conventional campaign operations rather than a purely church-centered organizing model
¶ Evidence limits and open questions
D11 Momentum is directly tied to Springs Opportunity Fund, but the repo still lacks a direct organizational document proving whether D11 Momentum and D11 Achievement Alliance were the same entity, sibling brands, or only adjacent groups.- Joel Sorensen remains important in this cluster, but most of the current evidence for his exact role stack still runs through CTR reporting and chat-export context rather than retained direct profile pages.
- Direct Colorado SOS business-summary captures now support the shared registered-agent and address layer for Cole Communications and Victor's Canvassing. The repo still lacks filing images, contracts, and client records for both LLCs.
- The retained D11 Parents and Teachers transaction slice upgrades the committee from a secondary aggregation lead into a direct TRACER-backed node, but the repo still lacks filing-image captures, invoices, and direct mail/text artifacts for the listed expenditures.
Crimson Central Services remains the weakest node in this cluster. The current repo only has a lower-confidence investigative lead plus sparse expenditure mentions, not a durable ownership or operations record.- Shared-address and campaign-finance facts are meaningful infrastructure signals but do not prove common ownership, control, sponsorship, or strategic direction. The Saint Vrain and Belleview address clusters need filing histories, invoices, contracts, and committee report images before stronger relationship claims are warranted.