Project Jupiter’s troubles are no longer confined to permitting fights and political battles in New Mexico. They are now showing up on Wall Street. Oracle shares have continued sliding after the technology giant invoked a force majeure provision tied to Project Jupiter, the enormous artificial intelligence data-center complex under construction
Published: Monday, September 28, 2026 09:12PM
Updated: Monday, September 28, 2026 09:16PM
A longtime political operative who managed Deb Haaland’s gubernatorial campaign at its launch is now listed as a lobbyist for a company powering Project Jupiter — adding another connection between the Democrat gubernatorial nominee’s political orbit and the massive artificial intelligence data-center industry she has recently vowed to rein in.
Published: Sunday, September 27, 2026 09:06PM
New Mexico attorney Mike Seibel has secured a $200,000 settlement in a closely watched wrongful-death case involving the estate of a 26-week unborn child — a case Seibel says marks an unprecedented legal development in litigation against abortionists. The lawsuit, Wabbington v. Boyd, was brought against longtime late-term abortionist Curtis
Published: Friday, September 25, 2026 08:21PM
Republican state Sen. David Gallegos of Eunice used New Mexico’s first lieutenant governor debate Thursday to draw sharp contrasts with Democrat State Land Commissioner Stephanie Garcia Richard on crime, government dependency, abortion, education, data centers, and the direction of state government. The hourlong debate, hosted at the Albuquerque Journal and
Published: Thursday, September 24, 2026 10:40PM
Democrat gubernatorial nominee Deb Haaland used a national NewsNation interview Wednesday to pitch herself as an experienced manager, promise a day-one pause on new large-scale data centers, and blame President Donald Trump for a host of New Mexicans’ economic problems. But several of the interview’s most notable moments came from
Published: Thursday, September 24, 2026 07:02AM
Democrat U.S. Rep. Gabe Vasquez is accusing Republican challenger Greg Cunningham of avoiding southern New Mexico voters for not accepting a proposed Univision debate — even as Cunningham says he has already accepted three televised debate invitations and Vasquez has publicly confirmed only one of them. The dispute has become
Published: Sunday, September 20, 2026 10:50PM
Democrat gubernatorial nominee Deb Haaland’s attempt to appear tough on New Mexico’s increasingly controversial data center boom ran headfirst into a glaring campaign cash problem Thursday after she was pressed on donations tied to Project Jupiter — and did not commit to giving the money back. At a press conference
Published: Thursday, September 17, 2026 08:09PM
Democrat U.S. Rep. Melanie Stansbury of New Mexico is openly telling supporters that House Democrats are already preparing for “in-depth oversight and impeachments of administration officials” next year if voters hand the party control of the U.S. House in November. The comments came in a video circulating on X this
Published: Wednesday, September 16, 2026 08:30PM
Updated: Thursday, September 17, 2026 08:59AM
Democrat gubernatorial nominee Deb Haaland outraised Republican Gregg Hull during New Mexico’s latest campaign-finance reporting period. But a line-by-line review of the candidates’ actual reports shows a much more complicated picture than the topline numbers alone: Haaland is operating a heavily nationalized, high-volume fundraising and campaign apparatus, while Hull’s donor
Published: Tuesday, September 15, 2026 10:00PM
New Mexico state Rep. Joseph Hernandez’s latest campaign-finance report is in, and the spending pattern previously documented by the Piñon Post did not end with the earlier filings. The Shiprock lawmaker’s First General Report, filed Sept. 14 with the New Mexico Secretary of State, shows another $6,797.40 in campaign expenditures,
Published: Monday, September 14, 2026 09:09PM
Democrat U.S. Rep. Gabe Vasquez and gubernatorial nominee Deb Haaland welcomed Joe Biden’s former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg to Las Cruces on Sunday, tying their campaigns to one of the Biden administration’s highest-profile former Cabinet officials — whose four years overseeing the nation’s transportation system were marked by a series
Published: Monday, September 14, 2026 10:32AM
Democratic U.S. Rep. Gabe Vasquez went on the offensive against Republican challenger Greg Cunningham after Cunningham used a nationally televised GOP convention speech to hammer crime, border security and fentanyl in New Mexico — accusing his opponent of abandoning New Mexicans to “kiss the ring” of President Donald Trump. Cunningham,
Published: Saturday, September 12, 2026 08:04AM
Republican congressional candidate Greg Cunningham used a national stage in Dallas Thursday to put New Mexico’s crime, border and fentanyl problems at the center of his campaign against Democrat U.S. Rep. Gabe Vasquez, delivering a roughly four-minute address at the Republican Party’s first-ever midterm convention. Cunningham, a retired Albuquerque police
Published: Friday, September 11, 2026 09:36AM
Republican congressional candidate Greg Cunningham is set to appear on the national stage this week as the GOP puts New Mexico’s closely watched 2nd Congressional District contest in the spotlight at its first-ever midterm convention in Dallas. Cunningham, the Republican nominee challenging Democratic U.S. Rep. Gabe Vasquez, is among a
Published: Tuesday, September 08, 2026 07:25AM
Updated: Tuesday, September 08, 2026 07:33AM
President Donald Trump spent Sunday doing what he has repeatedly proven capable of doing: posting an outrageous meme, sitting back, and watching Democrats rush to respond. This time, New Mexico’s entire Democratic political establishment practically lined up to take the bait. Trump shared an altered map of New Mexico on
Published: Monday, September 07, 2026 06:20AM
The controversy surrounding Democrat state Rep. Andrea Romero is widening after a taxpayer-funded public relations firm hired to assist New Mexico’s Jeffrey Epstein “truth commission” became entangled in Romero’s personal political crisis — and then abruptly parted ways with the commission. Romero, who chairs the Survivors Truth Commission examining Epstein’s
Published: Friday, September 04, 2026 08:35AM
New Mexico Democrats have lost their effort to place replacement candidates on the November ballot in two state House districts after the New Mexico Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the party missed a clear statutory deadline. The divided decision, with Justice Michael Vigil dissenting, leaves Republican candidates unopposed in House
Published: Thursday, September 03, 2026 04:27PM
Updated: Friday, September 04, 2026 08:37AM
Democrat state Rep. Andrea Romero’s short-lived stint working for the First Judicial District Attorney’s Office ended with her resignation — but the political fireworks only intensified after New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez publicly torched the Santa Fe lawmaker following her criticism of his office. Romero resigned from the six-figure-paying
Published: Tuesday, September 01, 2026 07:54PM
The judge overseeing Democrats’ attempt to force a replacement candidate onto the ballot in New Mexico House District 23 has extensive ties to the state’s Democratic political establishment — including a marriage to one of New Mexico’s most prolific progressive fundraisers and strategists. That history is drawing fresh scrutiny as
Published: Tuesday, September 01, 2026 08:47AM
The bizarre Chicago hotel incident that helped end Democrat state Rep. Joseph Hernandez’s reelection campaign grabbed the headlines. But Hernandez’s own campaign-finance reports, as we exclusively reported last week, reveal another spectacle: more than $101,000 in reported spending, including cash withdrawals, gift cards, hotels, big-box stores — and at least
Published: Monday, August 31, 2026 11:58AM
New Mexico Democrats are asking state judges to rescue two state House races after their original nominees bailed out too late to satisfy a key deadline in state election law — with county clerks arguing the statute simply does not allow the party to substitute new candidates under the circumstances.
Published: Saturday, August 29, 2026 08:38AM
U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson made a high-profile stop in New Mexico Wednesday to rally support for Republican congressional nominee Greg Cunningham, highlighting one of the GOP’s biggest opportunities to expand its narrow House majority this November. And Johnson arrived with a message from President Donald Trump himself. The Louisiana
Published: Wednesday, August 26, 2026 10:00PM
New Mexico Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver’s office is sounding the alarm after the U.S. Supreme Court handed President Donald Trump a key victory in his push to tighten mail-in voting rules ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. In a statement posted online Tuesday, Toulouse Oliver’s office claimed the
Published: Tuesday, August 25, 2026 09:56PM
PIÑON POST EXCLUSIVE — New Mexico House Rep. Joseph Hernandez is already under fire after apologizing for a bizarre Chicago hotel incident involving allegations of public nudity, banging on guest doors, and police escorting him off the property. In a stunning new development, Hernandez has withdrawn his candidacy for reelection,
Published: Tuesday, August 25, 2026 11:00AM
Updated: Tuesday, August 25, 2026 04:21PM
New Mexico, which is run by far-left Democrats in every place of state power, plans to keep paying for transgender-related medical services for minors even after the Trump administration’s new federal rule cuts off Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program funding for such treatments. The move means New Mexico taxpayers
Published: Monday, August 24, 2026 10:19PM