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Paul Gibson and his wife, Roxanne Barber came to Santa Fe in 2012. Since arriving in Santa Fe they have been involved in the development of the Academy of Sustainability Education at Santa Fe High, as volunteers with Master Gardeners, New Energy Economy, and other local efforts. Most recently they coordinated the SantaFe4Bernie campaign, an effort that took advice from Bernie and focused locally, morphing into Retake the Roundhouse. Retake the Roundhouse worked with other advocacy groups around the state to support nine important races, winning seven of them and contributing to NM being the only state legislature in the country that turned blue in the last election. They now are exiting from partisan election processes and have created Retake Our Democracy, a 501-c-4 non-profit organization that tried to make daily activism easier by providing a wide range of resources, information and tools that empower and activate supporters.

• What You May Have Missed

  By paulgibson51 on November 28, 2022 • ( 2 )

  

  Retake used the Thanksgiving break to catch up in our readying for the 2023 session after taking 8 days off to visit the kids. We use today’s post to catch you up on what is coming, what we’ve written since… Read More ›

• Guns & COVID Illustrate How Badly the U.S. is Broken

  By paulgibson51 on November 27, 2022 • ( 4 )

  

  We discuss a NYTimes’ annotated partial list of 2022 mass shootings in the U.S. The list is knee buckling, but the accompanying analysis and research makes clear the root cause of the problem. What is far harder to explain is… Read More ›

• Why the NM Supreme Court Should Rule as Unconstitutional, the Amendment Allowing Gov to Appoint PRC Commissioners

  By paulgibson51 on November 26, 2022 • ( 5 )

  

  Today we revisit a 2020 Constitutional Amendment that a coalition of indigenous organizations is asking the NM Supreme Court to overturn. We outline why Retake and Indivisible ABQ supported the indigenous groups and what is at stake. Before we get… Read More ›

• Ruminations on Air Travel, Thanksgiving and NM’s Future

  By paulgibson51 on November 22, 2022 • ( 6 )

  

  We’ve escaped the election, largely unscathed on the national level. And in NM, our plate is set for a transformational legislative session. Thanksgiving can be a time of food, family and frolic, but with a four day weekend, it can… Read More ›

• Election reaction: No Red Wave, But No Blue Tsunami Either…WHAT Happened & What We’ve learned Here & Elsewhere…

  By paulgibson51 on November 11, 2022 • ( 1 )

  

  Dems did much better than polls projected. Much, much better. Donald did very poorly. Very, very poorly. We assess the status of the race for the U.S.House and Senate and national trends suggested by the shocking results. We also compiled… Read More ›

• “Our economic crisis isn’t inflation, it’s corporate greed and the GOP will only make that worse”–Bernie Sanders

  By paulgibson51 on November 8, 2022 • ( 3 )

  

  As election day neared, Bernie delivered the message that should have been the theme to all Dem campaign rhetoric. Corporate greed is at a 70-year high and oil companies are buying back stock, not lowering prices. Dems got killed on… Read More ›