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Project Jupiter hits Wall Street — Oracle stock takes a beating
Project Jupiter hits Wall Street — Oracle stock takes a beating

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


Haaland’s former campaign boss now lobbying for Project Jupiter firm
Haaland’s former campaign boss now lobbying for Project Jupiter firm

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


NM attorney scores major legal win in groundbreaking abortion lawsuit
NM attorney scores major legal win in groundbreaking abortion lawsuit

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


Things get spicy fast in New Mexico’s lieutenant governor debate
Things get spicy fast in New Mexico’s lieutenant governor debate

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


Haaland stumbles through national-TV interview as she dodges debates
Haaland stumbles through national-TV interview as she dodges debates

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


Vasquez ducks multiple NM debate invites, demands debate in El Paso
Vasquez ducks multiple NM debate invites, demands debate in El Paso

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


Haaland chokes on Project Jupiter cash question, REFUSES to return their $87K
Haaland chokes on Project Jupiter cash question, REFUSES to return their $87K

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


Stansbury lets slip what Dems are planning if they capture Congress
Stansbury lets slip what Dems are planning if they capture Congress

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


New financial reports reveal stark Haaland-Hull fundraising divide
New financial reports reveal stark Haaland-Hull fundraising divide

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


Embattled Dem’s latest filing packed with fast food, hotels, 94 ‘Bank Card’ charges
Embattled Dem’s latest filing packed with fast food, hotels, 94 ‘Bank Card’ charges

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


Vasquez, Haaland board the Buttigieg baggage train
Vasquez, Haaland board the Buttigieg baggage train

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


Vasquez attacks rival’s national spotlight, backlash follows
Vasquez attacks rival’s national spotlight, backlash follows

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


Cunningham puts NM’s crime crisis in national spotlight at GOP convention
Cunningham puts NM’s crime crisis in national spotlight at GOP convention

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


NM race to get national spotlight at GOP midterm convention
NM race to get national spotlight at GOP midterm convention

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


Trump jokes about new name for NM — and libs take the bait
Trump jokes about new name for NM — and libs take the bait

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


Romero scandal explodes as taxpayer-funded Epstein PR firm quits
Romero scandal explodes as taxpayer-funded Epstein PR firm quits

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


Too late: NM Supreme Court boots Dem replacement candidates
Too late: NM Supreme Court boots Dem replacement candidates

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


AG Torrez torches state Rep. Andrea Romero after ‘unlawful’ prosecutor job
AG Torrez torches state Rep. Andrea Romero after ‘unlawful’ prosecutor job

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


Will judge follow the law? Dem ballot case puts political ties in spotlight
Will judge follow the law? Dem ballot case puts political ties in spotlight

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


How much fried chicken did NM legislator buy with campaign cash? See the list
How much fried chicken did NM legislator buy with campaign cash? See the list

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


Ballot bailout? NM Dems sue to replace candidates after deadline
Ballot bailout? NM Dems sue to replace candidates after deadline

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


Speaker Johnson visits NM with major boost for Cunningham
Speaker Johnson visits NM with major boost for Cunningham

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


‘I think it is BS’: NM Dems rage over Trump Supreme Court victory
‘I think it is BS’: NM Dems rage over Trump Supreme Court victory

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


Scandal-plagued Dem quits race after streaking, campaign cash bombshells
Scandal-plagued Dem quits race after streaking, campaign cash bombshells

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


Defying Trump, NM Dems double down on taxpayer-funded child sex-changes
Defying Trump, NM Dems double down on taxpayer-funded child sex-changes

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

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