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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.
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Trump is a Ticking Bomb. But Our Worse Threat is Likely Climate Change
Frightening reports on climate change, as Energy Transfer Partners has just spilled two million gallons of drilling materials in Ohio using the same technique planned for the Missouri River, the Antarctic glacier is rapidly melting & PNM continues to stall… Read More ›
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Trump = Creeping Fascism, Buffoon, or Both?
Trump fires Comey who is overseeing at least 3 Trump-related investigations and Chris Matthews and others wonder: Is this creeping fascism? Or a buffoon? Is the GOP flailing or are we on the verge of something unthinkable? What is really… Read More ›
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TrumpCare: The Opportunity to Retake the House
TrumpCare could be the vote that swings 2018 left, and in a big way. The plan is indefensible and 10 GOP states would be hit hardest. This post also includes a heads up: Major protest at the Roundhouse, May 24… Read More ›
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TrumpCare: What it Is and How it Passed
First a Tax Plan Wealth Grab and now a Health Plan that will throw 24-27M Americans out of care, 54M by 2025. A Quinnipiac poll showed that only 17% of Americans supported the first TrumpCare, so they went and made… Read More ›
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A Look at Trump’s Tax Plan: Worse than You Could Imagine
He campaigned saying the rich should pay more and the middle class should pay less. Nope. As this post reveals, the Trump tax plan is an obscene transfer of wealth predicated on what Geo. Bush called voodoo economics. It failed… Read More ›
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Soda Tax Trounced. Time to Find a More Progressive Funding Source
Two ways to look at this: Soda lobbyists and their misinformation undermined a solid progressive effort to do what our state seems to be unable to do: fund Pre-K. OR the city needs to find a more progressive funding source…. Read More ›