No Doubt About It

Episode 321: Women Of The Left Choose Threats & Violence, Early Vote Numbers, Plus Greg Cunningham On Winning CD2

Politics can get ugly. But when it turns into deterrence, threats, and career-ending “payback” talk, it stops being a debate and starts becoming a warning to anyone think

Episode 320: Exclusive New Mexico Governor Poll Plus How Turnout Will Decide Everything

Ella turns 18 and suddenly our “kid voting” jokes become real math: two more ballots in the household, one more reminder that elections get decided by the people who actu

Episode 318: Inside The New Mexico Governor Race Numbers

A seven point lead sounds decisive until you look under the hood. We walk through a new New Mexico governor poll and explain why the details matter: 1,125 interviews, 100

Episode 317: Don’t You Know Who I Am Politics Never Ends Well

A single body cam clip can change how a whole state sees its leadership, especially when it comes with months of delays and a cloud of “why couldn’t we see this sooner?”

Episode 316: Why One Albuquerque House Race Could Change Healthcare Access With Rep. Nicole Chavez

New Mexico can’t recruit doctors, patients can’t get appointments, and one legislative race in Northeast Albuquerque is suddenly about far more than party labels. We conn

Episode 315: Why Skipping Debates Works And How Challengers Fight Back

Debates are supposed to clarify elections, but sometimes the real game is the argument about whether the debate happens at all. We dig into the New Mexico governor race d

Episode 314: ***Quick Update***The New Mexico Debate Mess

The New Mexico governor’s race is heading toward early voting, and the simplest question still doesn’t have a clean answer: will the candidates actually debate? Mark Ronc

Episode 313: Inside New Mexico’s Governor Race And The Data Center Backlash

A candidate takes money from a controversial project, then calls for a moratorium on the very thing that funded her campaign. That tension kicks off a fast moving convers

Episode 312: Who Gets To Control AI When Everyone Is Afraid

The people building the most powerful AI models are now publicly warning that AI could get out of control, and that alone should make all of us lean in. We walk through w

Episode 311: AI Could Outrun Our Control Faster Than We Think

AI doesn’t have to “turn evil” to wreck real life. It just has to be wrong, persuasive, and everywhere at once and the people closest to the tech are saying that risk is

The Great Debate? Will Haaland and Hull Ever Share The Stage In Front Of New Mexicans?

A governor debate gets “announced” before both campaigns agree, and that small-looking scheduling story turns into a bigger question: who is actually serving the voter, t

Episode 309: Here’s Why A Super El Nino Still Might Not Deliver A Blockbuster Snowpack

The Rio Grande shouldn’t look like a dry construction site, but that’s exactly what we’re seeing in Albuquerque, and it’s the perfect gut check for anyone counting on wea

Episode 308: Haaland Headed For Epic Collapse? Hull in Striking Distance!

A single new poll can flip the mood of a whole election, and the latest Albuquerque Journal numbers do exactly that for the New Mexico governor race. We walk through why

Episode 307: Safe Spaces For Everyone Except Common Sense

A single headline can make you feel like you already know the truth, and that’s exactly why we slow down and read the fine print. We start with a Santa Fe ICE arrests sto

Episode 306: A Silent Campaign Is Not A Winning Campaign

Senior year hits different, and we open with that mix of pride, dread, and the weird reality that every milestone becomes the “last first.” From there, we get into the po

Episode 305: We Break Down New Mexico Politics And The Stories The Media Won’t Touch

A governor’s race that barely makes noise should make you ask one question: who benefits from the silence? We talk through why New Mexico’s top race feels so subdued, wha

Episode 304: The Democratic Party’s Left Turn Is Becoming A Liability

Hauling 20 Amazon boxes up to a seventh-floor dorm is one kind of reality check. Watching a major political party insist its most extreme slogans are “not really happenin

Episode 303: Government Grocery Stores Could Win Before They Fail

A single headline can flip the meaning of a story, and we’re seeing that play out in real time. We start with a local New Mexico example where border water well drilling

Episode 302: How Rio Rancho’s Mayor Wants To Fix New Mexico

New Mexico is full of smart, hardworking people, so why does the state keep settling for broken systems and bottom-of-the-list outcomes? We bring in Gregg Hull, the longt

Episode 301: Nick Shirley On Investigating Daycare Fraud And Surviving The Blowback

A fraud investigator with a phone camera can shake up more than a newsroom ever could, and that’s exactly why the backlash gets intense. We sit down with Nick Shirley, th