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• Eliminate predatory pricing by regulating electronic shelf labels (ESLs), surge pricing (demanding higher cost during high demand periods), targeted pricing and irregularities between online and in-person costs. AND JUNK FEES
• Establish every New Mexican's right to repair products that they own without spending exorbitant fees or being forced to purchase new products via planned obsolescence.
• Stop employers from taking credit card fees out of the wages of tipped workers (2025 HB 201)
• Keep private equity out of public utlitity companies to gaurentee low costs for all new mexicans
• Working class tax breaks
• Capping credit card and lending agencies interest rates

For more information: "Medicaid Forward Unlocking affordable coverage for all New Mexicans"

The first priority must be to increase access to healthcare via more insurance coverage and retaining medical providers. Legislating for more access to insurance will save the state millions in costly emergency room visits, free up critical response services and help keep insurance rates lower for everyone.

• Fund a statewide public option Medicaid insurance program to reach those families who do not meet the criteria for Turquoise Care and cannot afford insurance rates on the marketplace.

• Prioritize funding and staffing rural hospitals and medical facilities.

• Create and sustain statewide funding to address addiction in our communities using community-centered and community-based solutions.

• Expand and permanently fund in-home Comprehensive Community Support Services (CCSS) for those who do not currently have access (seniors, veterans) via a public option Medicaid.  

• Fund behavioral health solutions that are rooted in trauma-focused, evidence-based care, provide care for those with addiction or in mental health crisis, which will contribute to community safety improvements.

• Incentivize medical providers with aligned values to relocate to New Mexico and encourage graduating medical providers to stay in state via aggressive student loan forgiveness, more residency positions, and provide financial benefits to providers willing to work in underserved and rural areas.

• Pass the Paid Family Medical Leave Act (2025 NM HB0011) to support New Mexicans who want to expand their families or on whom the labor of family care for an elder has fallen to.

• Lower the cost of prescription medications via legislation and oversight of insurance companies, capping the out-of-pocket cost consumers pay, and collaborating in an interstate buying pool to maximize buying power

For more information: "Medicaid Forward Unlocking affordable coverage for all New Mexicans"

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• Rentals -

For more information: "2025 New Mexico Housing Needs Assessment"

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• COLA retirement
• Fund support staff - librarians, nurses, nutrition professionals, etc
• Implement Yazzie/Martinez
• aggressive student loan forgiveness for educators and skilled support workers to remove barriers to the education that will serve our communities.

For more information: "2025 New Mexico Housing Needs Assessment"

"By the time a Class of 2024 high school graduate reaches retirement age, New Mexico will have 25% less water than we do today." - Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, 50 Year Water Action Plan

The 500-acre "Unified Fire" of March 2026  just south of Rio Communities demonstrates the immediate need to invest in preparedness for changing water access and weather patterns. New Mexico is predicted to have less water and hotter, drier days, leading to more serious fires, flooding and erosion.

• Fund conservation projects at local levels to reduce leaks in drinking water infrastructure, increase municipal conservation and improve water storage and delivery.

• Incentivize agricultural experts to use drought-tolerant and less-water dependent crops.

• Fast-track groundwater surveys for mapping and monitoring.

• Study the efficacy of evaporation capture via covering open drains and ditches.

• Legally protect and fund watersheds, as well as aggressively fund clean up of contaminated water sites.  

• Invest and expand statewide and local municipality fire response crews, infrastructure and equipment.

• Expand hiring for fire and natural disaster mitigation professionals, i.e. wildlands firefighters, disaster response , conservation specialists.

• Support and fund indigenous professionals, practitioners, and practices of land management.

• Invest in removal of invasive and water intensive species like salt cedar.

• Establish a Heat Chief via legislation to develop a statewide preparedness agency and plan, similar to Arizona's Heat Chief Officer Eugene Livar. (Link)



• Establish statewide, solar powered cooling centers to provide community members in need with temporary shelter, temperature regulation, hydration, to protect against heat sickness and heat stroke.

For more information: "50 Year Water Action Plan", Arizona Extreme Heat Preparedness website