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On Sunday night, America did the most 2026 thing imaginable. It built a cage on the South Lawn of the
A legislative report counted the disconnected youth, priced the damage, and even named the fix. The missing ingredient is the one New Mexico never seems to supply: follow-through.
New
A program sold to the poor, built on a pattern we've already lived
New Mexico has heard this pitch before. A program arrives wrapped in the language of
New Mexico sits on the busiest stretch of America's immigration story, and the data finally lets us say something honest about it — without the hysteria from either side.
The same ecosystem that pushed HB 9 through Santa Fe also shows up in endorsements, outside spending, and donor pipelines around the lawmakers who carried it.
Part 1 of an ongoing New Mexico Madness investigation into HB 9, the officials defending it, and the political network behind it. For earlier reporting that helped set the table, see our earlier piece regarding the SPLC (Apr '26).
Long before flight became ordinary, it seemed almost mythic. For centuries, human beings looked upward with the same mix of wonder and frustration, imagining what it would mean to leave
New Mexico opened the door to independents. The state still did not move.
That is the cleanest takeaway from the first semi-open primary in state history. Reformers promised a
Summer concert season is finally doing what it is supposed to do: giving New Mexicans a decent excuse to leave the house, burn some gas, buy an overpriced drink, and
