People’s Press Collective and our friends at Complete Colorado and Face the State took three of the five spots on the Colorado list (the other two being lame left-wing hate holes). Of the five on the list, PPC is the only one which is an entirely un-funded effort…which is actually embarassing to admit, since we’re a bunch of capitalists who ought to be making money off of it, but I confess this fact merely to illustrate what can be done on a shoestring.

It takes very little in the way of financial resources for those with sufficient motivation to make a difference in state-level politics through citizen journalism and activism, something that center-righters getting fired up by the tea-party movement ought to be aware of. A website and a camera or two is all one really needs to get started, and once established a site like PPC is a good venue for retaining the activists and the civic involvement the tea parties are spawning.