Jeanette Dedios

Former President Donald Trump traveled to New Mexico last Thursday in a final attempt to rally voters in the state. He focused the rally on Hispanic voters, but there were also a number of Native Americans at the event.

New Mexico Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver discussed the 2024 election with the Courts, Corrections & Justice Committee on Nov. 12, 2024. Rep. John Block (R-Alamogordo) sits at the table in front of her.

Activist Lauri Dawn Kindness, right, speaks at the Crow Indian Reservation, in Lodge Grass, Mont. Native Americans make up less than 2% of the U.S. population and often are listed in datasets as "other" or denoted with an asterisk. Even when surveyed, the results can be considered statistically insignificant because the sample size isn't large enough or the margin of error is too great to accurately reflect the population. The National Congress of American Indians has said there's a critical need for data that is accurate, meaningful, and timely within tribal communities.

District 6 Councilor Nichole Rogers at her election party in December 2023.

Owner of Delectable Baking Co., Xandria Molinari with her daughter Kirea in her bakery shop.

There’s been a recent surge in authentic depictions of Native American people and stories in pop culture. And it’s not isolated to acclaimed series like Reservation Dogs or movies like Killers of the Flower Moon or Rez Ball, to name a few. The literary world is changing too. Take Shutter, about a Navajo woman who solves paranormal crimes as a forensic photographer, which was

Gas flaring in a Permian Basin oil field in Southeast New Mexico.

Sen. Ben Ray Lujan, D-N.M., speaks at the Arcosa Wind Towers, Aug. 9, 2023, in Belen, N.M. Luján, Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., and Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., joined with the House Congressional Hispanic Caucus at a press conference in front of the Capitol where they battered both Senate Republicans for demanding the border policy changes in exchange for passing Ukraine aid as well as Biden for making concessions that they warned would harm asylum seekers and ultimately undermine the United States' standing as a country that welcomes immigrants.

COVID-19 Current Wastewater Viral Activity Levels Map that indicates that New Mexico is classified as "very high risk."

Over the past 20 years, New Mexico has lost half of its family-scale dairy farms to big factory farms. That’s according to Food & Water Watch, an advocacy group that argues this increasing reliance on these big farms is harmful to air, land, and water quality. The organization is seeking a moratorium on these operations.