[Lwvcnmtopics] LWVCNM Hot Topics for the week of January 11, 2026

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*Hot Topics for the week of January 11, 2026*

*Current events and issues of interest to LWVCNM members*

*This list is available **online* <https://www.lwvcnm.org/hot-topics/>*. *




*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*
<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* <https://www.lwvcnm.org/book-club/>
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 <https://www.lwvcnm.org/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*
<https://www.lwv.org/newsroom/press-releases/lulac-joined-leading-legacy-civil-rights-organizations-calls-congressional>*
- *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
<https://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=H&legType=B&legNo=26&year=26>
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.


League of Women Voters of Central New Mexico
6739 Academy Rd. NE  Suite 124
Albuquerque, New Mexico 87109-3352
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