Hot Topics for the week of January 11, 2026
Current events and issues of interest to LWVCNM members
This list is available online.
LWVCNM member Anne Galer is giving her presentation Abolishing the Electoral College to LWV Los Alamos on January 15. Check it out on Zoom if you missed her presentation to LWVCNM last February. She has updated her slides with 2024 election information.
Topic: Lunch with a Leader
Time: Jan 15, 2026 11:30 AM Mountain Time (US and Canada)
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86963226991?pwd=0TtwwbmuocMO7NPdDZz8SUxJUFvio0.1
Meeting ID: 869 6322 6991
Passcode: 942000
The 2026 Legislative Session begins on January 20 (and ends on February 19).
The Drop-In Coffee is on January 24 from 10 AM to noon in the conference room.
The next LWVCNM Book Club session is on January 28 at 5:30. The book is The Line Becomes A River – Dispatches from the Border by Francisco Cantú.
The LWVNM League Legislative reception is January 29th from 5:30 to 7:30 at La Fonda in Santa Fe. Speaker: Laura Paskus on Water Issues in New Mexico.
League Day at the Legislature is January 30th.
Speakers are:
10:30– 11:15 Richard Anklam – President & Executive
Director, NM Tax Research Institute, “Budget and Tax issues in the 2026
session”
11:15 – 12:00 Kristina Fisher – Associate Director, Think New Mexico, “Health
Care Compacts in the 2026 session”
See the calendar of events on our website.
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DID YOU KNOW?
Understanding appropriation, new tax and tax credit bills
https://lwvnm.org/Action/advocacy/moneybills.php
You can follow the New Mexico League’s involvement and advocacy in the 2026 New Mexico Legislative Session at the web pages https://www.lwvnm.org/Action and https://lwvnm.org/Action/2026/LWVtrack2026.php.
LWV Press Release - LULAC, Joined by Leading
Legacy Civil Rights Organizations, Calls for Congressional Investigation into
Recent Federal Immigration Enforcement Actions
There is still time to write a letter to the governor asking her to send a message to include the Freedom to Read New Mexico bills to the 2026 session. One of the three bills has been filed by Representative Cates. The bill is HB26 PROHIBITING BOOK BANNING AT PUBLIC LIBRARIES.
There will be two more bills filed in the near future. One by Senator Pope and the other by Senator Sedillo Lopez.