Expanded Gun Background Checks Become Law in New Mexico
Extensive advocacy work by proponents of stronger gun regulations in New Mexico has led to a new law that will require…
California Will Reportedly Pull Its National Guard From Trump’s Fantasy War at the Border
While President Donald Trump ratchets up his already-demented fear mongering about undocumented immigration from…
Beto O'Rourke Is On the Road Again
Beto O’Rourke ran hard. One of the most exciting campaigns Texas politics has seen in years, people said. He came very…
Trump Blames Democrats for Children's Deaths While in Border Patrol Custody
Seemingly incapable of any sense of empathy, the president of the United States has chosen to politicize on Twitter the…
Talking With Deb Haaland, the Organizer Poised to Become the First Native American Woman in Congress
This piece is part of Splinter’s series The New Guard, where we interview progressive candidates who are running in…
Democrats Appear to Have Dodged a Political Nightmare in California
Tuesday’s primary in California was arguably the most important American election since November 2016. More than any…
Thank God Facebook Is Here to End the Opioid Epidemic
On Tuesday, Facebook, a company that has recently pivoted from pandering to conservative propagandists to ham-fisted…
New Mexico Governor Wants to Give Cops Legal Immunity for Almost Anything They Do on Duty
New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez is pushing to pass legislation granting legal immunity to the state’s police…
New Mexico Congressional Candidate Arrested for Stalking After Allegedly Sending Woman Harassing Texts
A candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives was arrested in Albuquerque, NM and charged with felony stalking…
How Trans ICE Detainees Ended Up in a Men’s Detention Center in the Middle of New Mexico
Immigration officials last month closed the nation’s only detention center dedicated to detaining gay, bisexual, and…
Someone has allegedly been peeing on Qur'ans in a New Mexico library
The Council on American-Islamic Relations has called on New Mexico lawmakers to investigate an apparent act…
The new Chair of the Indian Affairs Committee wanted to shut down DAPL protests
The lawmaker now heading the U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs described the Dakota Access Pipeline protests as a…
My mom is in prison for murdering my grandma, but she doesn't deserve the death penalty
After my brother and I left the police station, two officers drove us to a KFC drive-thru in Santa Fe, while we…
This New Mexico restaurant had the terrible idea to put up a 'black olives matter' billboard
An Italian restaurant in Albuquerque is being criticized on social media for writing the words "BLACK OLIVES MATTER -…
There were five other mass shootings that took place in America this weekend
America has so many mass shootings, sometimes a few get missed in the wake of the devastating, unthinkable ones.
Trump: New Mexico's Latina governor is 'not doing the job' and needs to 'get moving'
Donald Trump is supposedly trying to "unify" the Republican Party, and he's decided the best way is to attack one of…
Dramatic videos show cops and protesters clashing at violent anti-Trump rally in Albuquerque
Protests at a Donald Trump rally in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Tuesday night turned violent, with angry demonstrators…
These state workers say they messed with emergency food aid applications to deny assistance
When someone applies for emergency food aid in New Mexico, the state has seven days to respond. Unless, of course, a…
The governor of New Mexico is having a meltdown
If you had an office holiday party this year, odds are that at some point things got a little out of hand. Whatever…
How Frank Sinatra ruined 'Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas'
My apartment on December 25, 2006, was a second story room in a converted motel on the edge of the Northwestern New…