¶ Darcy Schoening public roles and controversies source cluster
This source cluster updates the repository's Darcy Schoening profile after
bounded Colorado Times Recorder, Colorado Politics, Rocky Mountain Voice,
TRACER, Socrata, IRS TEOS, ProPublica, CourtListener, Wayback, OpenFEC, and
LittleSis checks.
The strongest supported frame is that Schoening is a Colorado conservative
activist and former state-party staff figure whose public record touches school
politics, El Paso County Moms for Liberty work, Monument and Palmer Lake
local-government disputes, the 2022 HD20 campaign, 2025 Colorado GOP chair
politics, Smart Choice
committee activity, and 2026 intramovement conflict around Victor Marx / Joe
Oltmann / Sherronna Bishop.
The current record does not support stronger claims of operational control,
coordination, national funding, gun-industry infrastructure, FEC United
membership/leadership, or court-proven wrongdoing.
- Colorado Times Recorder reported in February
2022 that Schoening jumped
into the HD20 Republican primary after Tim Geitner withdrew, and that her
campaign affidavit was filed with TRACER on 2022-02-24.
- The retained HD20 TRACER slice supports her state candidate committee and
official committee activity in 2022.
- Local-government news adds a separate Monument / Palmer Lake civic-conflict
lane. Gazette reporting supports her September 2021 appointment to the
Monument Board of Trustees. KOAA, Gazette, Colorado Politics, and Colorado
Times Recorder reporting place her in the 2022-2023 Monument home-rule /
campaign-finance / LaKind ethics dispute, first as an outgoing council actor
supporting investigation and later as one of the former trustees who filed an
IEC complaint. The official IEC complaints index supports only that Complaint
23-17 (LaKind) was deemed nonfrivolous, not a merits outcome.
- Colorado Times Recorder's
2023 exit interview identifies Schoening as
co-chair of the El Paso County Moms for Liberty chapter for nearly a year and
a half and reports that she was stepping down from directing that chapter.
- The same exit interview attributes to Schoening the statement that HB1003
opt-out work and a COVID-related resolution were "my policies" and quotes her
framing education as the lane that pulled her away from a pure Second
Amendment focus.
- Colorado Times Recorder reporting in
2024 and 2025 places Schoening in
Colorado GOP special-initiatives / chair-campaign context, including a May
2024 Colorado GOP email signed by her as Director of Special Initiatives
and a January 2025 report that she announced a state-party chair run.
- The archived
Darcy for Chair news page supports that a campaign website was
live in the 2025 chair-cycle window and self-curated coverage of her chair
campaign and related disputes.
- Colorado Times Recorder reported that Brita Horn won the March
29, 2025
Colorado GOP chair race. Colorado Politics later reported that Craig Steiner
won the May 30, 2026 chair election after Horn resigned, giving the
current state-party-chair context.
- TRACER and Socrata records support Schoening as registered agent for Smart
Choice political/entity objects, and TRACER supports small committee
transactions and Smart Choice CO IEC activity.
- Colorado Times Recorder's April
2026 Victor Marx article reports that
Schoening criticized Marx on Ryan Schuiling Live, supports Joe Oltmann, and
that victormarx4co.com was a Smart Choice Colorado project. The Wayback
capture independently preserves the archived site state and a Smart Choice
Colorado footer marker.
- CourtListener public-search metadata supports the existence of
Bishop v. Schoening, E.D. Tex. 2:26-cv-00300, filed 2026-04-16, but not the truth
of the complaint allegations.
- Gazette and KKTV reporting support that Schoening released text screenshots
in the 2025 Palmer Lake / Havenar / Buc-ee's controversy and described the
release as tied to Havenar's honesty as mayor. Those reports should be
treated as direct/reporting support for her role as source of the leak, while
the lawsuit's collusion/open-meetings theories remain allegations.
¶ LittleSis attribution and use
LittleSis entity search returned an entity for Darcy Schoening and associated
relationship/source-document payloads. LittleSis material is used here only as
discovery and cross-checking context. LittleSis-derived data is attributed to
LittleSis and should not be treated as proof of causality, coordination,
control, sponsorship, household relationship, influence, or intent without the
underlying source documents and repo-local verification. LittleSis data is
licensed under CC BY-SA terms by LittleSis; preserve visible attribution when
using it materially.
- The El Paso County Moms for Liberty role is supported by reporting and
interview material, but exact chapter formation, officers, bylaws, treasury,
and national/state authority remain unresolved.
- The Monument / Palmer Lake local-government layer supports public-process
conflict, ethics-complaint, and text-leak facts. It does not prove LaKind
committed an ethics violation, Havenar or Waller committed legal wrongdoing,
or Schoening controlled the Buc-ee's proposal, Palmer Lake board decisions,
recall activity, or any litigation outcome.
- The Smart Choice record supports registered-agent and committee facts, but
not authorship of every opposition-site statement or legal conclusions about
compliance.
- The Oltmann / FEC United lane remains mostly contextual. The current retained
evidence supports Schoening's reported support for Oltmann and Oltmann's
broader public-political role, not a direct Schoening-FEC United operational
relationship.
- The gun-rights lane supports public Second Amendment rhetoric and one
committee expenditure to NRA-PVF, not firearms-industry employment,
ownership, lobbying, or direct PAC sponsorship.
- Litigation records support docket existence and initial metadata, not court
findings, page control, authorship, falsity, damages, or a June 5, 2026
Schoening setting.
Use this summary as the parent profile cluster for the Darcy Schoening entity
page and public-activity timeline. Use the finance and nonprofit summaries for
campaign-finance and nonprofit-status claims rather than repeating raw rows in
the entity page.
- Darcy Schoening, former CO GOP Director of Special Initiatives
- Darcy Schoening, Health
- CURMUDGUCATION: Moms For Liberty and the LGBTQ Conspiracy
- The Redprint: How Advance Colorado and Anonymous Donors Shape the Political Landscape
- TRACER source slice: Darcy Schoening HD20 candidate committee, 2022
- [TRACER source slice: Smart Choice Colorado and Smart Choice CO, 2023-2024](https://tracer.sos.colorado.gov/PublicSite/SearchPages/CommitteeDetail.aspx?OrgID=46642; https://tracer.sos.colorado.gov/PublicSite/SearchPages/CommitteeDetail.aspx?OrgID=47432)
- Darcy Schoening Socrata structured-data searches, 2026-06-06
- OpenFEC candidate search: Darcy Schoening, 2026-06-06
- Rocky Mountain Voice capture: Ganahl commentary on Smart Choice committee compliance
- Victor Marx campaign homepage, Wayback 2026-04-05
- ‘Marxism’ Muddles the GOP Governor Primary
- [victormarx4co.com Smart Choice direct-record screen](['https://www.victormarx4co.com/', 'https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/victormarx4co.com', 'https://opensrs.rdap.tucows.com/domain/VICTORMARX4CO.COM'])
- [IRS TEOS capture: 854331724](https://apps.irs.gov/pub/epostcard/data-download-pub78.zip, https://apps.irs.gov/pub/epostcard/data-download-revocation.zip, https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-soi/eo_fl.csv)
- [IRS TEOS capture: Smart Choice Colorado](https://apps.irs.gov/pub/epostcard/data-download-pub78.zip, https://apps.irs.gov/pub/epostcard/data-download-revocation.zip, https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-soi/eo_co.csv)
- Darcy Schoening ProPublica nonprofit searches, 2026-06-06
- Moms for Liberty Inc EIN 85-4331724 filing subsection check
- Moms for Liberty El Paso County 2023 Wayback redacted officer-role extract
- Moms for Liberty El Paso County current portal redacted officer-role extract
- [Darcy Schoening Monument and Palmer Lake local-government news source pack](['https://gazette.com/2021/09/13/monument-board-of-trustees-appoints-darcy-schoening-to-fill-vacancy-eb257f6e-126f-11ec-9329-97a00d6be017/', 'https://www.koaa.com/news/covering-colorado/town-releases-documents-at-heart-of-electioneering-scandal', 'https://gazette.com/2022/12/16/town-of-monument-to-investigate-possible-campaign-finance-violation-ee6209f4-7ccc-11ed-898c-fbc290dd003c/', 'https://www.coloradopolitics.com/2022/12/29/monument-town-meeting-to-discuss-investigation-of-alleged-campaign-finance-violations-descends-into-chaos-53743add-56b7-5389-a576-aa31ef3db2f9/', 'https://www.koaa.com/news/covering-colorado/an-ethical-complaint-has-been-filed-against-the-mayor-of-monument', 'https://iec.colorado.gov/complaints', 'https://coloradotimesrecorder.com/2023/08/monument-mayor-subject-of-ethics-complaint/55705/', 'https://gazette.com/2025/06/06/palmer-lake-mayor-resigns-amid-controversy-over-alleged-signal-text-leaks-derogatory-comments/', 'https://www.kktv.com/2025/06/10/new-details-revealed-after-text-messages-were-leaked-allegedly-involving-former-mayor-palmer-lake/?outputType=amp', 'https://www.coloradopolitics.com/2025/06/13/after-a-controversial-resignation-palmer-lake-trustee-appointed-to-mayor-53a097e2-d669-5394-991b-fe39b760533a/', 'https://www.cpr.org/2025/06/12/palmer-lake-trustees-name-new-mayor-amid-controversy-and-discord-over-possible-buc-ees-development/', 'https://wp.ocn.me/newsletter005/', 'https://ewscripps.brightspotcdn.com/04/4c/e52c2759444f855a972dccd2551b/2025-01-10-15-58-45-palmer-lake-annexation-complaint-w-rule-57-docx-1-1-1.pdf'])
- Monument Mayor Subject of Ethics Complaint
- Mesa County election breach official and independent source pass
- Bishop v. Schoening, E.D. Tex. 2:26-cv-00300 retrieval intake
- [Bishop federal docket refresh, 2026-05-28](['https://dockets.justia.com/docket/texas/txedce/2%3A2026cv00300/245155', 'https://dockets.justia.com/docket/texas/txedce/2%3A2026cv00190/244324', 'https://www.courtlistener.com/api/rest/v4/search/?q="Bishop v. Schoening"&type=r', 'https://www.courtlistener.com/api/rest/v4/search/?q="Bishop et al v. Oltmann"&type=r'])
- [Bishop / Oltmann CourtListener public-search refresh, 2026-05-30](['https://www.courtlistener.com/api/rest/v4/search/?q="Bishop v. Oltmann"&type=r', 'https://www.courtlistener.com/api/rest/v4/search/?q="Bishop v. Schoening"&type=r', 'https://www.courtlistener.com/api/rest/v4/search/?q="Bishop v. Oltmann" "Summons Returned"&type=r', 'https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.txed.244324/gov.uscourts.txed.244324.3.0.pdf'])
- [Bishop RECAP and public docket access refresh, 2026-06-06](['https://www.courtlistener.com/api/rest/v4/search/?q="Bishop v. Schoening"&type=r', 'https://www.courtlistener.com/api/rest/v4/search/?q="Bishop v. Oltmann"&type=r', 'https://www.courtlistener.com/api/rest/v4/search/?q="Bishop v. Oltmann" "Summons Returned"&type=r', 'https://www.courtlistener.com/api/rest/v4/search/?q="Bishop v. Oltmann" "Summons Issued"&type=r'])
- After Geitner Steps Out of CO Springs State House Race, Schoening Announces Run
- Exit Interview: Darcy Schoening Steps Down From Directing Colorado Moms For Liberty
- Exaggerations, Half-Truths, and Lies: How CO GOP Leader Williams Wraps Bigotry in Faux-Religious Rhetoric
- Colorado GOP Threatens to Sue Durango School District Over Pride Flag Resolution
- Second Candidate Announces For CO GOP Chair, Incumbent Williams Remains Silent
- CO GOP Votes for Less Drama But More MAGA, Lawsuit to Overturn Open Primary Will Continue
- Colorado Politics capture: Craig Steiner elected Colorado GOP chair
- Darcy for Chair news page, Wayback 2025-03-02
- LittleSis entity capture: 452011
- Bishop v. Schoening and Bishop v. Oltmann public docket refresh, 2026-06-06
- LittleSis relationships capture: 452011
- LittleSis connections capture: 452011
- LittleSis documents capture: Entity-452011
- Tina Peters, Sherronna Bishop Supporters Rally in Grand Junction
- Boebert Appears to Embrace Aide Who Left Her Campaign After Thanking God for Proud Boys
- Bishop v. Schoening Pacermonitor complaint preview package, 2026-04-19
- Bishop et al v. Oltmann
- The Truth About Victor Marx reel, March 15, 2026
- Sherronna Bishop official and independent profile source pass
- America's Mom current site and WordPress API source capture
- GUILTY: Election Conspiracist and Former Mesa County, Colorado, Election Official Faces Years in Jail
- FBI Seizes Mike Lindell’s Phone During Investigation of Colorado Clerk & Other Election Conspiracists
- MyPillow CEO Hires Colorado Conspiracists to Jet Around Country Pushing Big Lie
- Colorado Election Conspiracy Group Going Door-to-Door in Search of ‘Phantom Ballots’
- Election Fraud Conspiracies Still Abound Among Colorado Republicans
- Photos: FBI Searches Colorado Homes of Conspiracist County Clerk and Former Boebert Campaign Manager
- From the Courtroom to the Comments Section, Controversy Follows Tina Peters
- Sherronna Bishop Colorado SOS business records
- Moms for America ProPublica nonprofit records
- Colorado Legislators Joined Extremist Groups for a “We Will Not Comply” Rally Against Red Flag Law