Deb Haaland’s Chaco decision was sold as protection, but the full New Mexico story is more complicated: tribal division, unresolved ethics questions, activism ties, and real concern over future energy jobs and revenues.
The federal indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center on wire fraud and money laundering charges is not just an Alabama problem. It is a New Mexico problem — because the
Santa Fe turned a Walmart-sized land negotiation into another performative anti-border tantrum — and may still lose the land anyway.
Seven acres. That is the fight. Not some vast ranchland empire.
New Mexico has ranked at or near the bottom of every major national education ranking for over a decade. Not occasionally. Not during a rough stretch. Every single year, like
Deb Haaland is campaigning to restrain federal immigration-enforcement operations in New Mexico just as the federal government is posting some of the strongest border-security numbers in modern history.¹
That is
Andrew Yang’s Forward Party brings some respectable reform ideas to New Mexico. But slogans and process talk are not enough in a state shaped by border pressure, military power,
Albuquerque Public Schools (APS) and the Albuquerque Journal already gave the public the number that should stop everyone cold: 851. That is how many English-as-a-second-language students reportedly left APS between
JPMorganChase has launched what it calls the American Dream Initiative, a national effort to expand opportunity through small business growth, housing access, financial health, workforce pathways, healthcare, and stronger local
Remember mandatory COVID vaccines and masks? She has a healthcare plan now and it's loaded for the uninsured on your dime.
Deb Haaland’s healthcare agenda is being
New Mexico should stop acting like the AI and data-center boom is something to fear and start treating it as a strategic opening. The national fight over data centers is
New Mexico leaders love to talk about rural health care, education, and economic opportunity. Yet in 2026, too many rural families still do not have reliable high-speed internet, and some
Follow the money
New Mexico should stop pretending these trail and outdoor-equity programs exist in some political vacuum. The state’s own budget documents say New Mexico relies heavily on
