I am writing today to announce the closure of the New Mexico Independent. After three and a half years of operation in New Mexico, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news…
While environmental activists played their part yesterday during demonstrations at the capitol building, going so far as to dress up as solar panels and to sing the tune of “You Are My Sunshine,” their counterparts, the anti-cap-and-trade contingency who has…
Roughly one quarter of University of New Mexico students are unimpressed with the state’s flagship public school, according to a survey that questioned college students about their higher education experiences.
An open letter from leaders of the groups Take Back Washington, Tea Party Nation, Downsize DC, GOProud, the D.C. Tea Party and other conservative groups calls on members of Congress to reject the Legal Workforce Act, a bill sponsored by…
A new Gallup poll shows that the tea party has lost major ground in terms of mainstream American support since last year’s crop of tea party candidates took office in January. Almost half of all Americans now have an unfavorable view of the tea party, compared to a third who hold a favorable view.
U.S. Rep. Steve Pearce, R-N.M., is traveling to speak to a tea party meeting in the state’s largest city, but he tells NMPolitics.net that his Albuquerque trip has nothing to do with a potential Senate run.
The state Democratic Party is pushing back against likely senatorial candidate and current Lt. Gov. John Sanchez. In a fundraising appeal to supporters Monday, the state party compared Sanchez to U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., and painted him as too extreme for the state.
Lt. Gov. John Sanchez inched closer to announcing a Senate run this weekend at a tea party rally in Moriarty. Sanchez has been named as a potential Republican candidate for the open Senate seat.
Ben Luján, D-Nambe, remained Speaker of the House, defeating Tom Taylor, R-Farmington, in a Tuesday morning vote. An expected challenge from Rep. Joseph Cervantes, D-Las Cruces, based on a support of a coalition of Republicans and southern New Mexico Democrats, did not materialize.
The midterm elections brought an unprecedented number of climate skeptics into Congress, with no incoming Republicans acknowledging the existence of man-made climate change. Environmentalists have all but given up on passing significant climate legislation in the near future, but in the long term, it may be difficult for climate skeptics to hold their ranks: Young Americans are significantly more concerned about global warming than older generations, and there are no major organizations of young climate skeptics.
Dem, Republican volunteers ‘equally aggressive,’ Taos Clerk says
The U.S. Justice Department has announced it will send agents to monitor some polling places in Texas after tea party and Republican Party-certified poll challengers allegedly harassed dozens of early voters and poll officials.
Tea party activists are fanning out across…
Jobs—and how the government should do more to promote them—were the main focus of the One Nation Working Together rally in Washington, D.C. this weekend, which was sponsored by more than 500 progressive organizations. “We bailed out the banks and the insurance companies. Now it’s time to bail out the American people,” urged the Rev. Al Sharpton, who drew some of the loudest cheers of the afternoon. “I hope they look at the mall, because this is what America looks like,” he added. “Not one color or one gender.”
Jonathan Rauch over at the National Journal takes a look at the Tea Party and what it means for the 2010 elections.
His findings: The increase in Republican-leaning voters — de-branded Republicans, he calls them, who make up most…
Delegates at a meeting of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People voted this week to adopt a resolution calling on tea party organizers to denounce racists in their ranks. The NAACP cited the claims of three…
Tea party movement supporters and members of the Republican Party are similar in their views on many political issues, though tea party supporters are more likely to believe that government debt is an “extremely serious threat” to the United States’…
Eight out of every 10 tea party supporters identify as Republicans and more than half say they are conservative Republicans, according to a series of national polls from Gallup.
“Their similar ideological makeup and views suggest that the Tea…
The FreedomWorks PAC, the campaign arm of the group that has mentored the tea party movement, has endorsed Jon Barela in the New Mexico 1st Congressional District race. The group, chaired by former U.S. House Majority Leader Dick Armey,…
Why are the tea partiers so angry? Because the Wall Street bailout, stimulus and other events demonstrated “the depths of the absolute dependence of us all on government action, and in so doing they undermined the deeply held fiction…
There is a striking omission in FreedomWorks’ otherwise expansive public agenda: It says nothing about national security or foreign policy. FreedomWorks, the organization most often credited with organizing the revival of an activist conservative grassroots, studiously avoids mention of the country’s two wars, its ballooning defense budget, arms control or the tangle of legal controversy that has outlived the previous administration’s “war on terror”—from Guantanamo to torture.
Michael Rocca, an assistant professor of political science at the University of New Mexico, discussed the upcoming congressional midterm elections both nationwide and in New Mexico with UNM’s Benson Hendrix. His take? Things might not change all that much…
The results from Tuesday’s much-watched congressional primaries are in. Now the larger question remains: What’s their significance? Two of the three high-profile races featured establishment candidates taking on other establishment candidates — with the liberals coming out on top. If any common message emerged from Tuesday’s results it was this: Republicans, who have been hoping that the public’s discontent will translate into big congressional gains in November, might want to reconsider their strategy come Wednesday.
