Hello from downtown ABQ, where more than 100 have gathered to protest a proposed private equity takeover of the state’s largest electric company Story TK on @sourcenm.com

NEW from me & @patricklohmann.bsky.social on @sourcenm.com: Gallup officials voted 4-1 to delay a decision on entering a 110 million gallons/year wastewater agreement with a proposed data center “I understand the appeal,” one councilor said. But “what does this open the door to?”

NEW: Project Jupiter developers look to fuel cells after prolonged pushback to plans to build two gas plants

The State Ethics Commission on Thursday sued Elevate New Mexico for violating the state's lobbyist regulation act with its pro-Project Jupiter campaign Source NM reported on last month

BREAKING: New Mexico State Ethics Commission sues the secretive organization behind the massive pro-Project Jupiter ad campaign My reporting was first to reveal where the mailers/digital ads came from

Tech giants are building AI data centers in places with scarce local news. As a reporter in Texas told Lucy Schiller, “It’s easier for them when there’s less public scrutiny.” www.cjr.org/feature/ai-d...

If you were in Phoenix in 2005 and 2006, you know how horrific the Baseline Killer's crimes were. Mark Goudeau, the serial killer who was convicted and sentenced to death, is still proclaiming his innocence. His latest appeal says he was framed -- and that he's intellectually disabled

Thanks to @columjournreview.bsky.social for speaking with me about my @sourcenm.com coverage of Project Jupiter, the proposed OpenAI and Oracle data center complex in southern New Mexico

Source NM sat down with gubernatorial hopeful Sam Bregman, who's currently serving a term as Bernalillo County district attorney. Here's why he thinks he's ready for New Mexico's highest elected office.

Source NM sat down with former U.S. Interior Secretary and New Mexico Democratic gubernatorial candidate Deb Haaland to speak about her vision for holding the state's highest elected office — and her plans to fight the Trump administration.

NEW: I sat down with @debhaalandnm.bsky.social to discuss her priorities if she becomes the next governor of New Mexico Read our interview on fighting the Trump admin, bringing Native representation to gov’t and tackling controversial land-use proposals

Former WNMU president Joseph Shepard is heading to trial next year in a case brought by the NM State Ethics Commission unless the two sides settle, court records show

In the first of many gubernatorial candidate profiles, I sit down with Rio Rancho Mayor Gregg Hull, who thinks New Mexico could learn a thing or two from his growing suburb sourcenm.com/2026/04/10/n...

Following a contested NM primary race? Worry not, the @sourcenm.com team and I have you covered! sourcenm.com/2026/04/09/n...

“These products are engineered to taste like candy, designed to be hidden in a backpack and loaded with enough nicotine to create a lifelong addiction,” Torrez said at a Tuesday morning news conference in Albuquerque.

Source NM was at Santa Fe and ABQ No Kings demonstrations today. See the day’s highlights here:

Appeal comes on the heels of NM regulators opening an investigation

Publicly, Project Jupiter has promised 4,000+ construction jobs and 1,500 jobs after, so why did Oracle in a court filing say it anticipated “at least 800” jobs once it’s built? The latest, free to read at @sourcenm.com:

Breaking election news: Sen. Steve Lanier running as an R for New Mexico Governor is disqualified from the June 2 primary ballot

Leaders across the state, including @mayorkeller.bsky.social, are already evaluating whether to rename landmarks bearing Cesar Chavez’s name Full story from @sourcenm.com here:

An investigation by The New York Times found extensive evidence that Cesar Chavez, the United Farm Workers co-founder, groomed and sexually abused young girls who worked in the movement.

Infighting in the NM GOP. Bernalillo County Republicans are calling on the state party chair to step down because she’s in a contested primary for the Otero County Commission

WNMU has hired a new president, more than a year after @govmlg.bsky.social demanded the resignation of sitting regents and appointed replacements Details here:

Introducing Source NM’s Trail Notes! Catch up on the week’s campaign trail news, every Friday

@lujan.senate.gov joins a growing call for more investigations into Jeffrey Epstein’s time in NM after reviewing non-redacted Epstein files today

New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has signed 71 bills into law, including an $11.1 billion state budget and the nation's first universal child care program. Explore which bills made the cut — and which didn't:

Thanks to @newsnation.bsky.social for having me on tonight to discuss the @sourcenm.com team’s reporting and the @nmdoj.bsky.social’s investigation into Zorro Ranch You can watch here:

Thanks to @newsnation.bsky.social for having me on tonight to discuss the @sourcenm.com team’s reporting and the @nmdoj.bsky.social’s investigation into Zorro Ranch You can watch here:

The New Mexico Department of Justice and 2 police departments searched the former Zorro Ranch owned by Jeffrey Epstein today

@debhaalandnm.bsky.social proposes CYFD overhaul, statewide alternative response department and limits on where ICE agents can operate as part of her public safety platform

ICYMI: I take you inside the secretive, out-of-state campaign to get New Mexicans’ support for the Project Jupiter OpenAI/Oracle data center Only on @sourcenm.com:

More Project Jupiter news today — a proposed gas pipeline that would consume enough to power Española every day for a year

Don't miss Joshua Bowling's story in @sourcenm.com today about a secret ad buyer that covered its tracks in trying to drum up for support for Project Jupiter. (via @cosmicbowling.bsky.social) sourcenm.com/2026/03/04/a...

NEW: Physical mailers and digital ads have urged New Mexicans to support the controversial Project Jupiter data center. The company behind the effort is registered in Virginia, and seemingly no one wants to claim credit for it.

NEW: Physical mailers urging New Mexicans to support the controversial Project Jupiter data center had a Virginia return address I take you inside the secretive ad push that seemingly no one wants to take credit for, at @sourcenm.com

NEW: Nike says its factory workers should earn enough to pay their basic needs and have some money left over. In Indonesia, its factory workforce has shrunk where the minimum wage is considered enough to live on. And it has grown, dramatically, where the opposite is true.

Attorneys for the state auditor & lawmakers asked a judge to remove them from a lawsuit brought by former Western New Mexico Uni President Joseph Shepard The latest in the WNMU spending controversy, here:

Come along with me & @sourcenm.com on the 2026 New Mexico campaign trail

An Aztec judge dismissed a lawsuit that challenged the legitimacy of Duke Rodriguez's Republican bid for governor. Rodriguez still faces a similar challenge from an opponent.

BREAKING: Judge dismisses the first of two challenges to the legitimacy of cannabis CEO Duke Rodriguez’s Republican bid for NM governor

In a stark contrast to the end of last year’s session, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham spent today praising lawmakers for their work getting medical malpractice reform and universal child care across the finish line

Amid the chaos of the final day in the 2026 NM legislative session, I’m taking a moment to mark #WorldCCADay. Some of you may know I lost my father to this horrible disease about 5 years ago Today & every day I wear a bit of green in his memory. One day we’ll find a cure 💚

On @sourcenm.com: As priority crime and public safety bills wither on the vine during the final hours of the 2026 New Mexico legislative session, @govmlg.bsky.social tells me it’s “a little early” to decide on calling a special session “I don’t believe in calling legislators together to disagree.”

New Mexico’s Jeffrey Epstein “truth commission” had its first meeting this morning. Subpoena power, a tip-line and investigative reports all part of the deal. The goal: a full pic of who in NM knew what — and when they knew it

New Mexico firefighters cannot always get worker's compensation for cancer diagnoses — even if they've spent years fighting blazes with known toxins. A bill before the Legislature would change that.

NEW for @sourcenm.com: Worker’s compensation denied this ABQ firefighter coverage for his cancer. With days remaining in the legislative session, a new bill would change that.

After hours of debate Wednesday evening, the New Mexico House Commerce and Economic Development Committee voted 6-5 to advance a bill that would further regulate gun dealers across the state and ban the sale of certain types of firearms and accessories.

We are sorry to announce the demise of our previous Instagram account. Please follow us anew at buff.ly/WVDi7cQ Here is a photo of an elk (by Danielle Prokop), an example of the visual treats that await.

Seven New Mexico Democratic state senators on Wednesday sided with their Republican colleagues voting down the Clear Horizons Act. Advocates for the bill said "misinformation and disinformation" from oil and gas groups contributed to the result.

The recently filed legal challenge says elected officials "abruptly" went into a closed-door meeting during the September hearing on Project Jupiter.