By Amy Barela
Historians are often hesitant to predict the future, not just because of the many variables at play but also because it can be difficult to fully grasp the significance of unfolding events.
Some historical moments, like the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, are immediately understood as turning points in history. Others, such as the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914, seemed insignificant at the time, yet spiraled into global chaos.
Today, New Mexico stands at a similar crossroads, facing the long-term consequences of a single-party rule that has gone unchecked for far too long.
For years, the Democratic leadership in our state has resulted in a painful litany of failed policies, economic stagnation, and rising crime rates. The excessive power of a one-party system has suffocated our communities, burdened our businesses with overreaching regulations, and left our education system ranked the lowest in the nation.
Instead of addressing these clear signs of decline with genuine solutions, the Democrat-controlled government continues to double down on policies that have proven ineffective, ignoring the concerns of everyday New Mexicans.
Much like great empires that have crumbled under the weight of their own corruption and mismanagement, we must recognize that New Mexico is on a dangerous trajectory. The current administration has favored government overreach and prioritized the interests of a select few over the needs of our working families.
This pattern has led to ineffective, soft-on-crime policies that have compromised public safety, while higher taxes and excessive regulations have stifled the lifeblood of our economy — small businesses.
Rural communities have been left behind, government transparency is virtually non-existent, and the voices of ordinary New Mexicans are consistently ignored.
The answer to New Mexico’s struggles is not more of the same. It’s time to restore balance, accountability, and common sense to our state.
Electing a Republican governor in 2026 is the only way to disrupt this cycle of failure, return power to the people, implement policies that genuinely promote economic growth, ensure public safety and uphold individual freedoms.
We must seize this opportunity to change course before it is too late. The future of our state depends on it. Amy Barela is chair of the Republican Party of New Mexico.
Interested in GOP opinion on Baby Bonds.
Yes! The D candidate is already runnng! Where do is ours? Not criticizing…our county hasn’t been highly successful finding candidates. Just asking.
Would like to delete “do.”
The Problem the Republican have is they won’t accept the breakdown by Party in New Mexico;
42% Democratic Party
32% Republican Party
24% Independent
1% Libertarian
The Democrats only need 1/3 of the Independents to win a Statewide Election like the Governors Office, while the Republicans need 75% of Independents to win.
With the Republicans Far Right Platform, this just isn’t going to happen.
Newt Gingrich and Dick Armey successfully created the Contract with America by limiting proposals to “60% issues”, i.e. legislation that polling showed garnered 60% support of the American people.
Unless Bernalillo County and New Mexico State Republicans learn from the success of Gingrich and Armey, using a “60% Rule” to create their Platform, they will continue to lose elections in Bernalillo County and New Mexico.
Yes, yes, yes
Who? Is there a MAGA supporter willing to be a candidate?
Amen!
We need change! We need to rid the devil party of power! I pray this in the name and blood of Jesus amen.
“Devil party”? You believe in the devil in 2025?
I wanna work with you all. Let’s put an end to the good ol boys. To include Ron Trujillo.
Same old stuff. The NM GOP runs on these false complaints every election, and every time voters return Democratic majorities and blue congressional delegations.
The GOP’s “select few” are the very wealthy, like big oil and big pharma.
Ordinary New Mexicans want what Democrats work to deliver, to keep women’s right to choose, get guns out the hands of irresponsible people, care for the most vulnerable, and to protect the great outdoors from polluters and global warming while we transition to clean energy.
“Ordinary New Mexicans want what Democrats work to deliver, to keep women’s rights to choose(or in other words, they want to kill and murder they’re babies because they don’t think that human babies are humans at all even though actual science proves that human babies are humans otherwise what are you JH Cole and what am I, and what are other humans), and to protect the great outdoors from polluters while we transition to clean energy”. No, they don’t. Ordinary New Mexicans don’t want any of that bullcrap. Any New Mexican with common sense doesn’t want any of what you just said. Any New Mexican with common sense doesn’t want abortion up to and including birth and after birth. Any New Mexican with common sense doesn’t want crime in NM to skyrocket because of the soft-on-crime policies that your party, the Democratic Party, have implemented, as well as due to the border crisis that you say doesn’t exist, but does exist as clearly as the blue sky that we see on our planet. Any New Mexican with common sense doesn’t want men who become women through gender reassignment surgery aka not actual women but men to compete and play with actual women in women’s sports, nor do they want men who become women through gender reassignment surgery aka not actual women but men to change in women’s locker rooms. I mean, you have to be either a moron or delusional to think that allowing men who become women through gender reassignment surgery aka not actual women but men because they still have X Y chromosomes and still have DNA proving that they are still men, to compete with and play in women’s sports with actual women. Most likely the latter. And you have to be a moron or delusional to think that banning all gas-powered vehicles, gas stoves, coal mining which is where basically everything including our clothes and phones, etc come from, as well as oil and gas and making everything electric or “green energy based” is going to somehow make the environment better. Any New Mexican, let alone anyone with common sense knows that none of the policies of your side, your party, the Democratic Party, or Leftists across the globe, isn’t going to work. Why do you think some countries have abandoned the net-zero policies? Because it doesn’t work. It’s just like defunding of the police policies. Why do you think certain places have abandoned attempting to defund the police? Because it doesn’t work. Your policies, Democrats, doesn’t work. You should have realized that a long time ago. Your policies doesn’t work. You think that opening up the border and allowing 21 million plus illegals including terrorists from Hamas, murderers, child rapists, Haitians and other groups of illegals who can’t speak the language of the United States of America, English, who get free food stamps and free Social Security benefits, free housing before actual hard-working Americans, actual legal citizens of this country, who have to go through hoops and loops just to get those benefits, Mexican drug cartels bringing in unprecedented amounts of fentanyl that is literally harming and killing innocent Americans in the thousands and other illegals who have committed atrocious acts on innocent Americans like Laken Riley, was going to somehow make the United States safer? What is wrong with you? You have to be a moron or you have to be delusional to think that allowing millions of illegals into the country including those groups of illegals who I just named that has been invading our country, will actually make our country safer. And you have to be a moron or delusional to think that the same thing that’s happening in other countries will make other countries safer too. Yet, you Democrats, especially those of you who are far-left progressive, such as yourself JH Cole, say there’s no border crisis. You’ve all been living under a rock for the last four years clearly. Which proves my point. You Democrats caused the border crisis. And you have lied about it. You really think that I’m an idiot? I’m not a idiot. I can see through your bs. We all can see through your bs. Prime example, having transgender women aka men in women’s sports. We can clearly see that all those transgender women in women’s sports are not actual women. They are men who become women through gender reassignment surgery. They’re men. I don’t care if they have gender reassignment surgery to become women and have the female breast implants implanted into them through gender reassignment surgery and all that stuff. You can’t fool me and you can’t fool others with common sense. They are men because they still have DNA and X Y chromosomes to prove that they are still men. You cannot change your DNA or X Y chromosomes. Anyone who has common sense can understand that. Transgender women? Men? Same group of people. You can keep saying that men are “transgender women” until your face turns blue. Doesn’t change the fact that transgender women are men. They are not actual women.
And no, there’s no “false complaints” in regarding the GOP and common sense minded people’s complaints. The only people with “false complaints”, if you want to talk about false complaints, is you Democrats, including you far-left progressive ones. You’ve complained about Trump supposedly committing “34 felonies” and have been complaining about all the “crimes” that Trump’s supposedly committed for the last decade or so. With no actual verifiable and physical evidence or proof to prove any of it. Instead, you have relied on hearsay and rumors, which are inaccurate the overwhelming majority of the time. That’s what you have presented as “verifiable evidence or proof” in order to get rid of Trump because you hate him and fear him because he actually supports the true values of this country like freedom of speech and securing the border and supporting Israel and school choice and parental rights and protecting women’s sports and women’s rights, etc, while you don’t and you have failed miserably on all those things. That is what you Democrats have presented as “verifiable evidence or proof” in order to get rid of him. Rumors and hearsay. Both of which are inaccurate the overwhelming majority of the time. That is why you have lost credibility and why you have lost the battles, maybe the war, with Trump and his supporters. Because you are relying on hearsay and rumors, which are factually inaccurate the overwhelming majority of the time. You just assume that Trump supposedly did the things that you say that he did just because someone came out and said it, with clearly no physical evidence or proof to prove it. Like Stormy Daniels. She says that Trump committed sexual harassment or misconduct on her. But yet, we haven’t seen the actual physical evidence or proof to prove that. So what is she saying that based upon? Hearsay and rumors. Which means that she’s lying. She is a hooker, a porn star, who has had no verifiable physical evidence or proof to prove that Trump did the things that she thinks he did. None. Ziltch. Nada. Nothing. She has nothing on him. And you Democrats have nothing on him either. You’ve lost Democrats. Because you can’t present the actual physical evidence or proof to prove that Trump or his supporters have done anything wrong. You are only relying on hearsay and rumors. Plain and simple. You are relying on hearsay and rumors. Which is not actual verifiable evidence or proof. It’s is what it is. Rumors and hearsay. Nothing else. But we, common sense minded people and Americans, we have actual verifiable and physical evidence or proof to prove that you Democrats have done things wrong. Prime example being the border. You say that there is no border crisis. But haha, we get to differ. The overwhelming majority of Americans beg to differ. There’s clearly a border crisis. Why do you think that the crime rate in the United States has skyrocketed? Defunding the police is one reason. Democratic DAs and judges releasing criminals of all kinds including violent ones to commit more crimes or the same ones over and over and over again is another reason. But it’s also because of the border crisis. 21 million plus illegals have invaded our country in the last four years because of you Democrats, including terrorists from Hamas and murderers and child rapists, etc. And the fact that you are saying that the border crisis doesn’t exist proves to us that you caused it, and you’ve been hiding it and lying about it. You can’t fool any of us common sense minded people and Americans on the claim that there is “no border crisis”. We know that you are lying about it. Otherwise why do you think that there is a mass deportation of 21 million plus illegals going on now, of which you Democrats including you far-left progressive ones say is “racist”? Clearly, deporting illegals back to where they came from is not racist nor is it inhumane. It’s called border security and securing the border. It says it in the Constitution of the United States. You can’t fool us common sense minded people and Americans anymore, Democrats especially those of you who are far-left progressive. You can’t fool us anymore. No wonder why you Democrats lost the presidency and Congress and the United States Senate. Because you have fooled us way too long. Including on foreign policy. You really expect us to believe that the Palestinians are the victims of the conflict between Israel and the Gaza Strip or Hamas. Maybe some are. But, the Palestinians and Hamas are the same people. Why do I say that? Because in the Hamas Covenant, it says that not only does Hamas have the right to commit atrocious acts on innocent people in Israel, not only does Hamas have the right to annihilate the nation of Israel and it’s people for existing and for their faith, not only does Hamas have the right to target the nation of Israel and the Jewish people and homosexuals for existing and for their faith, but it states that the Palestinians have the same right to do the same thing. They are the same people. Need more convincing? The Palestinians have voted into office and have elected into they’re own government members of Hamas and the Palestinian Authority, which are associated with socialism which ruins countries like Venezuela, since at least 2006, if not longer. It even says it on the Palestine Wikipedia page. The Palestinians and Hamas and the Palestinian Authority and Iran and Hezbollah are all the same people. They hate the nation of Israel and the Jewish people for existing and for they’re faith. Why else do you think that pro-Palestine “protesters” have insulted, assaulted, targeted, or worse killed Jewish people in the United States and across the globe for they’re faith and for existing? Because the Palestinians and Hamas and Hezbollah and Iran and the Palestinian Authority are the same people. They hate the nation of Israel and the Jewish people for existing and for they’re faith. And they hate the United States of America and it’s people for existing too. It’s just funny and ironic that we the United States of America are funding the very same people who want to obilerate and annihilate us off the face of the planet and the nation of Israel and the Jewish people for existing and for they’re faith. We are funding terrorism. Not directly, but we are funding terrorism and jihad just through the Palestinians, who are the same people as the terrorist groups Hamas and Hezbollah and are the same people as Iran the largest sponsor of terrorism on Earth who funded Hamas and the Palestinians to attack Israel and rape and murder and burn alive innocent people in Israel and funded them to kidnap and hold hostage innocent people including Americans for months, and are the same people as the Palestinian Authority who are rooted in socialism which ruins countries like Venezuela because it causes hyperinflation, mass starvation, famines, etc just like communism, which is one step above socialism. That is who we the United States of America is funding money and supplies to. It’s not a rumor. It’s not hearsay. It’s not a exaggeration. We the United States of America are funding money and supplies to the very people who want to obilerate and annihilate us and the nation of Israel and the Jewish people off the face of the planet for existing and for our faith, sexuality, etc. Anyone who has common sense would understand that we are funding the wrong people in terms of the Palestinians. Because they are the same people as Iran and Hezbollah and Hamas and the Palestinian Authority. It clearly states that in Hamas’s own charter the Hamas Covenant. Don’t believe me? Read it. Read the Hamas Covenant. You’ll understand. It clearly states that the Palestinians and Hamas and Iran and Hezbollah and the Palestinian Authority are the same people who want to obilerate and annihilate the nation of Israel and the Jewish people and homosexuals off the face of the planet for existing and for they’re faith and sexuality and who want to obilerate and annihilate the United States of America and it’s people off the face of the planet for existing too. This is who you Democrats including you far-left progressive and Democrats in power are funding and supporting. No wonder why you lost the presidency and Congress and the United States Senate Democrats. You’ve screwed up, not just on foreign policy. But everything else. The border, the economy, women’s sports and women’s rights, parents and supporting parents, etc. You Democrats including you far-left progressive ones have screwed up on all those things and you have failed on those things. Trump received the largest percentage of votes and the largest percentage of counties in the United States arguably in the history of the United States. Why do you think that happened Democrats especially those of you are far-left progressive and for those of you Democrats who have been having a meltdown because the guy who you hate the most because he actually supports the true values of this country and you don’t won? Why do you think that happened? I think I just told you the reasons why that happened. You Democrats especially those of you who are far-left progressive and those of you Democrats who have been posting videos of yourselves having a meltdown because the guy who you hate the most won, lost. You Democrats lost the election and the presidency and Congress and the United States Senate because you have screwed up on everything. You can’t admit that you lost because you have screwed up on everything can’t you Democrats. That’s why you lost the presidency and Congress and the United States Senate. You’ve screwed up. Sure, you might win back the United States Senate and Congress in two years and you might win back the White House in four. But, it will not change the fact that you Democrats including you far-left progressive ones have screwed up on everything and every issue that you have touched or have talked about. You’ve screwed up. That is why we common sense minded Americans including Trump won the election and the presidency and Congress and the United States Senate as well as legal battles and everything else that you have thrown at us. You’ve screwed up Democrats. That is why you lost the presidency and Congress and the United States Senate. Maybe next time you want to open your mouth and say things that are not true, maybe you should think about that. We don’t want to commit violence or anything like that on you Democrats. But if you think that you’re just going to lie to us about everything, you have another thing coming. Because your lies doesn’t impress me or any other common sense minded person in the United States or abroad. Now maybe if you just tell the truth once in awhile, maybe we will be impressed and take you more seriously. But you Democrats including you far-left progressive ones like you JH Cole haven’t done that. So until then, you do not impress me or any other common sense minded person with your lies. If you want to keep lying to people Democrats, then by all means. But, it doesn’t impress me or any other common sense minded person.