Protest the Break-Down of Our Democracy by the Trumpsters   - BYO sign or pickup one on-site

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President Trump has cut all sorts of funding that will impact local communities here in New Mexico.

 Our Mayor is ringing the alarm bells regarding city projects that may be in jeopardy due to federal cuts. Here is as list of programs that may be cut. 

• ABQ Police Dept.

  • funding for 50 police officers, 

  • crime lab equipment, 

  • sexual assault kits, 

  • victim support, 

• Early childhood education for 900 kids, 

• Assistance for 400 small businesses. 

These cuts could also impact projects like the Uptown Connect housing development and the Rail Trail, which are critical to our city’s future. Go to this website for the full letter: 

https://www.cabq.gov/mayor/news/mayor-keller-defending-abq-against-federal-cuts

Over the past couple years, the conservative Heritage Foundation think tank has been running a presidential transition project called "Project 2025 ” It includes a 900-page policy bible — far more comprehensive than the 16-page convention platform recently released by the Republican National Committee. The Heritage document’s 30 chapters provide a detailed game plan for how the next Republican president should curb the First Amendment, roll back gay rights, infuse Christianity into more state functions, repeal climate and environmental protections, and limit reproductive care and health care more broadly. Oh, and it also disembowels much of the federal government and concentrates more power in the hands of the president.

Because rampant vacancies and poor training limited Trump’s ability to implement his agenda last time, Project 2025 has also been recruiting and training thousands of loyal foot soldiers to execute these policies. As Paul Dans, Project 2025 director and former chief of staff of the Office of Personnel Management under Trump, put it: “Our goal is to assemble an army of aligned, vetted, trained, and prepared conservatives to go to work on Day One to deconstruct the Administrative State.” (quoted from the Washington Post )

This should scare everyone to death. We need to talk about MAGA’s master plan and share it with our friends and neighbors just how dangerous Project 2025 is, and how destructive it will be if we do not elect Democrats up and down the ballot. The Right Wing Cabal is using Trump as their useful idiot to literally destroy our democracy. Trump is disavowing any knowledge of this sinister plan. Either he is woefully ignorant or he is lying through his teeth. My guess is both.

This is not the time for a purity test of which candidate checks off all the boxes for any one constituent’s most pressing issue. We have to look at the broader picture. By voting for Joe Biden or whoever is our presidential candidate we have the luxury of protesting and advocating for climate change, women’s rights, equal rights, affirmative action, whatever your cause is. If Trump gets elected, protesters will be arrested, political enemies will be jailed or even killed for treason against the state. Education will be indoctrinated propaganda, there will be only one religion forced on us all. Good-bye healthcare, contraception, abortion, for all but the white male elite. The rest of us will be relegated to second class citizenship, or no citizenship at all.

Components of Project 2025 Found Below

(Please do not go to their site, as it gives them your email and more legitimacy)

In June 2024 John Oliver had a segment on Project 2025 that now is so prescient. Below is a link his June 2024 show. 

Jon Oliver Show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYwqpx6lp_s

Video on PBS: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/a-look-at-the-project-2025-plan-to-reshape-government-and-trumps-links-to-its-authors

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UPDATE - Increased Gun Violence in New Mexico Results in

Governor Lujan-Grisham Declaring A State of Emergency 

How to address this issue is a local, state and national issue. What do you think needs to be done, is it in line with what others outside our state think? Click the links below to get some insights. 

• Gun licensing has support: "Nearly three-quarters support Congress requiring gun owners to take a test, obtain a license, and register their firearms, similar to the process of owning an automobile."  Click HERE  

• Gun licensing has precedent; 15 states have parameters around purchasing and they have fewer gun deaths.  Click HERE

• Gun licensing has performed: In Connecticut licensing has reduced homicides by 28%, suicides by 33%, across states reduced mass shootings by 56% and significantly impacts gun trafficking, in one study by >60%

• Gun and ammo licensing are primary prevention policies, addressing the person who purchases before there is a problem 

• Gun licensing actually brings in revenue.  This is important because right now we are spending about $3300 per person in NM on the cost of gun violence that could be shifted to climate change mitigation, education, or any of our other challenging needs.