With the Labor Day weekend behind us, the unofficial start of the general campaign season has arrived. The COVID-19 pandemic will impact the 2020 election cycle in a number of predictable and unpredictable ways, so with less than two months to go, here are six things to watch as we approach Election Day: The Trump…
Year: 2020
Mail-In Voting Fears and Facts
Due to safety concerns surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, millions of Americans are choosing to vote by mail this November. President Trump has claimed that mail-in voting could lead to increased voter fraud, despite no proof of fraud in states where voting by mail is common. Though New Mexico has allowed mail-in voting in the past,…
Individualism & COVID-19
As Americans, we are proud of the personal freedoms our country allows us. First Amendment rights, along with the rest of the Bill of Rights, form our identity as a nation in which every individual has a right to express their opinions and to live the way they choose to live. This includes practicing a…
2020 Primary Post Mortem Analysis
In short, the 2020 primary was a good night for progressive Democrats up and down the ballot, including state and federal races – though there is reason for Republican optimism as explained below. New Mexico Senate Across New Mexico, a slew of moderate-to-conservative Democratic state Senators lost their primaries to a slate of progressives under…