Three days after a unanimous Supreme Court ruling reshaped gun rights for thousands of New Mexicans, the Governor and Attorney General still haven't said a word. We asked why "do nothing" is the plan—and followed the dots to who they answer to.
New Mexico Madness formally requested answers from the Governor and Attorney General on what the Supreme Court's unanimous cannabis-and-guns ruling means for residents. Here's the memo—and the response, or lack of one.
The justices just rewrote the rules on whether cannabis users can legally own firearms. Here's what changed, what didn't, and why it lands hard in a state where weed is legal and guns are barely regulated.
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.
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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).
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
Part 1 followed the money after it was already moving. Part 2 turns to the front gate of the same system: who gets verified, how long that verification can drag,
New Mexico does not need California or Minnesota to understand what a public-benefits accountability problem looks like. The state already has its own record of federal audit findings, legislative
