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🚨Call to Action!🚨

We’ve made this guide to help you stay up-to-date and get involved this year.

Remember, your representatives work for YOU and are elected to represent YOU.

Let your representatives know where you stand by speaking up during committee hearings, either in person or via Zoom. Your voice holds a ton of weight.

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RPNM Legislative Updates - Democrats Kill ‘Revolving Door’ Bill & More

Senator Craig Brandt Issues Statement After Democrats Kill ‘Revolving Door’ Bill 

Via: NM Senate Republicans

January 29, 2024
SANTA FE—Today, Senate Republican Whip, Senator Craig Brandt (R- Rio Rancho) presented Senate Bill 122 before the Senate Health and Public Affairs Committee. Despite support from top law enforcement officials and prosecutors, Democrats on the committee tabled the bill on a 5-4 vote. The bill would have changed the law to allow for the holding of violent offenders pending trial to ensure they do not commit further crimes. 

Following the tabling of the bill, Senator Brandt issued the following statement:

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Senate Bill 5 bans the lawful carry firearms near polling places

Senator Greg Baca Issues Statement Following Passage of Gun Legislation Targeting Law-Abiding Citizens

SANTA FE—On a 26-16 vote, the New Mexico Senate today passed Senate Bill 5 to ban the lawful carry of firearms in and around polling locations. An amendment carried by Senate Republicans to provide an exception for concealed carry permit holders was rejected.

Senate Republican Leader, Senator Greg Baca (R-Belen), issued the following statement regarding the bill’s passage:

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RPNM Legislative Updates 012924

RPNM Legislative Updates <contact@gopnm.org>
Democrats Kill ‘Revolving Door’ Bill &
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Senator Craig Brandt Issues Statement After Democrats Kill ‘Revolving Door’ Bill 

Via: NM Senate Republicans

January 29, 2024

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NM Republican Legislative Update 1-26-24

🟥HB 114 -  Would make the firearms industry an easy target for litigation that could put them out of business.

HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE
Friday, January 26, 2024 - 1:30 PM - Room 309

To send an email, copy the contact info for this committee below:
 christine.chandler@nmlegis.gov , andrea@andrearomero.com , bill.rehm@nmlegis.gov ,  eliseo.alcon@nmlegis.gov ,  gail@gailchasey.com ,  RYAN@LANEFORLIBERTY.COM , javier.martinez@nmlegis.gov ,  matthew.mcqueen@nmlegis.gov , jared.hembree@nmlegis.gov , Andrea.Reeb@nmlegis.gov ,  reena.szczepanski@nmlegis.gov 

To speak during the live Zoom hearing:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82777125960
Or One tap mobile :+12532050468,,82777125960#
US Meeting ID: 813 1901 9085

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Senate Republicans Respond to Advancement of 14-Day Waiting Period

Senate Republicans Respond to Advancement of 14-Day Waiting Period for Firearms Purchases 

Bill would mandate the longest waiting period to buy a firearm in the nation

SANTA FE – Today, Senate Bill 69 advanced through the Senate Health and Public Affairs Committee on a vote of 5-3, with all Senate Republicans voting against the measure. The bill would mandate the longest waiting period to buy a firearm in the nation at 14 days. During testimony, the sponsor acknowledged that current litigation regarding similar measures in other states may overturn this legislation. 

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Under Progressive Democrat control, NM Ranks at the Bottom…AGAIN.

The results are in, and New Mexico has ranked at the bottom of the states again in several key metrics, according to the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s 2023 Kid’s Count Data Book.

According to the report, New Mexico ranks 50th overall in child well-being.

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New Mexico also ranks 49th in economic well-being, and 50th in education.

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Republican Governors Ban Together

Republican Governors Ban Together, Issue Joint Statement Supporting Texas’ Constitutional Right to Self-Defense 

WASHINGTON, D.C. – 25 Republican governors released the following joint statement in support of Texas Governor Greg Abbott and Texas’ constitutional right to self-defense.

 The statement comes as the Biden Administration continues to attack Texas and refuses to take action or responsibility for the crisis at the Southern border. 

“President Biden and his Administration have left Americans and our country completely vulnerable to unprecedented illegal immigration pouring across the Southern border. Instead of upholding the rule of law and securing the border, the Biden Administration has attacked and sued Texas for stepping up to protect American citizens from historic levels of illegal immigrants, deadly drugs like fentanyl, and terrorists entering our country.

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