No Doubt About It

The numbers are coming in before Election Day even arrives, and they’re telling a story that’s hard to ignore. We walk through New Mexico early voting totals and the partisan registration breakdown, explain what those reports can and can’t prove, and talk candidly about why turnout has replaced persuasion as the defining battle in modern campaigns. If you’re tired of endless texts and mailers, we...

Politics can get ugly. But when it turns into deterrence, threats, and career-ending “payback” talk, it stops being a debate and starts becoming a warning to anyone thinking about public service. We dig into three recent moments from high-profile voices on the left that, to us, signal a dangerous shift toward intimidation and dehumanization, and we talk honestly about how that kind of rhetoric can...

Ella turns 18 and suddenly our “kid voting” jokes become real math: two more ballots in the household, one more reminder that elections get decided by the people who actually show up. We talk early voting in New Mexico, why waiting for Election Day can backfire, and what we’re seeing on the ground as turnout ramps up across Albuquerque and the state. Then we share exclusive Peak Insights polling o...

A seven point lead sounds decisive until you look under the hood. We walk through a new New Mexico governor poll and explain why the details matter: 1,125 interviews, 100% phone survey work, nine days in the field, and a tight margin of error. From there, we get practical about what the numbers actually mean for Deb Haaland and Gregg Hull, including name ID, the money gap, and why “undecided” ofte...

A single body cam clip can change how a whole state sees its leadership, especially when it comes with months of delays and a cloud of “why couldn’t we see this sooner?” We break down the newly released lapel footage tied to New Mexico Senate leader Mimi Stewart’s 2024 Santa Fe crash, including the public records fight, the tone at the scene, and why the optics of power matter as much as the incid...

New Mexico can’t recruit doctors, patients can’t get appointments, and one legislative race in Northeast Albuquerque is suddenly about far more than party labels. We connect the dots between medical malpractice lawsuits, rising insurance costs, and the brutal reality of waiting a year or more to see a specialist, then we ask the uncomfortable question: who benefits from keeping the system this way...

Debates are supposed to clarify elections, but sometimes the real game is the argument about whether the debate happens at all. We dig into the New Mexico governor race drama around Deb Haaland and Gregg Hull, why a front-runner might avoid a live stage, and how a challenger can accidentally hand over the perfect excuse. From a campaign operative’s view, we talk leverage, earned media, and why “ac...

The New Mexico governor’s race is heading toward early voting, and the simplest question still doesn’t have a clean answer: will the candidates actually debate? Mark Ronchetti drops a fast, late-night update on the “battle over debates” between Deb Haaland and Gregg Hull, and why the back-and-forth over dates is starting to matter as much as the issues themselves. We walk through the timeline that...

A candidate takes money from a controversial project, then calls for a moratorium on the very thing that funded her campaign. That tension kicks off a fast moving conversation about the New Mexico governor race, the Project Jupiter data center fight, and why data centers have become a political lightning rod around water use, power demand, and utility rates. We walk through what a “pause and guard...

The people building the most powerful AI models are now publicly warning that AI could get out of control, and that alone should make all of us lean in. We walk through what’s behind the sudden unity from major players like Anthropic, OpenAI, and Elon Musk, including the language you keep hearing but rarely see explained clearly: AI misalignment, agent swarms, and recursive self-improvement. If AI...

AI doesn’t have to “turn evil” to wreck real life. It just has to be wrong, persuasive, and everywhere at once and the people closest to the tech are saying that risk is already here. We walk through a resignation and public warnings from major AI labs, then unpack what “alignment” really means in plain language: we’re growing systems from oceans of human content, we can’t fully explain what’s hap...

A governor debate gets “announced” before both campaigns agree, and that small-looking scheduling story turns into a bigger question: who is actually serving the voter, the campaigns or the public? We unpack the back-and-forth around a proposed Deb Haaland vs Greg Hull debate, why TV stations don’t want a credibility mess, and why pushing debates past September can feel like a deliberate strategy...

The Rio Grande shouldn’t look like a dry construction site, but that’s exactly what we’re seeing in Albuquerque, and it’s the perfect gut check for anyone counting on weather to bail us out. We start with what the drought looks like on the ground, then zoom out to the question we get nonstop: what does El Nino really mean for New Mexico, and are we headed for a true snowpack comeback? We break dow...

A single new poll can flip the mood of a whole election, and the latest Albuquerque Journal numbers do exactly that for the New Mexico governor race. We walk through why Greg Hull suddenly looks like he’s within striking distance of Deb Haaland, what the undecided share really means, and how the independent vote, gender gap, education divide, and regional turnout could decide the finish. If you ca...

A single headline can make you feel like you already know the truth, and that’s exactly why we slow down and read the fine print. We start with a Santa Fe ICE arrests story that’s framed as a crackdown in a “sensitive place,” then we dig into the details the framing leaves out: how serious allegations can fall apart, how “failure by prosecutor” shows up in real cases, and why politicians rush to s...

Senior year hits different, and we open with that mix of pride, dread, and the weird reality that every milestone becomes the “last first.” From there, we get into the political mechanics that actually decide outcomes, starting with a blunt point: a quiet governor race is not a good sign for the challenger. We talk New Mexico politics, what “quiet” really means (or does not mean), and why fundrais...

A governor’s race that barely makes noise should make you ask one question: who benefits from the silence? We talk through why New Mexico’s top race feels so subdued, what that suggests about internal data, and how a challenger can sometimes thrive when the favorite delays attacks and keeps the timeline short. We also get into the unglamorous parts of politics that decide outcomes, polling that ac...

Hauling 20 Amazon boxes up to a seventh-floor dorm is one kind of reality check. Watching a major political party insist its most extreme slogans are “not really happening” is another. We start with a very relatable back-to-college story, then pivot hard into the headlines shaping national and New Mexico politics and why so many voters feel like they’re being sold a version of reality that doesn’t...

A single headline can flip the meaning of a story, and we’re seeing that play out in real time. We start with a local New Mexico example where border water well drilling gets framed as a squabble over “credit” while the bigger question of accountability gets pushed aside. If you’ve ever felt like coverage misses the point, we break down exactly how that happens and why it matters for voters trying...

New Mexico is full of smart, hardworking people, so why does the state keep settling for broken systems and bottom-of-the-list outcomes? We bring in Gregg Hull, the longtime mayor of Rio Rancho and the Republican nominee for governor, to make the case that competence is a policy and that Rio Rancho’s track record can scale statewide if leaders stop chasing sound bites and start delivering measurab...

A fraud investigator with a phone camera can shake up more than a newsroom ever could, and that’s exactly why the backlash gets intense. We sit down with Nick Shirley, the 24-year-old independent journalist behind the Quality Learing Center reporting and other viral investigations, to talk about what it’s like to work when you’re recognized everywhere you go. Nick explains why he believes first-pe...

A major Albuquerque news bombshell is landing: KRQE is reportedly losing the CBS affiliate, and KOAT is set to become the home for CBS in New Mexico while already carrying ABC. That single shift can reshape what viewers watch, when they watch it, and how local journalism gets funded. We’re jumping on with an emergency update to explain what’s changing, why it’s changing, and why it matters to anyo...

A Democrat drops out of a governor’s race, endorses a Republican, and suddenly everyone has a hot take, but the real story is the mechanics. We break down what Ken Miyagishima’s exit means for the New Mexico governor race, why signature requirements and ballot access can be brutally determinative, and how the Las Cruces and El Paso media market complicates any “endorsement boost” narrative for Gre...

A Supreme Court justice describes carrying a bulletproof vest into her home and watching her family live through swatting threats. That’s where our conversation starts to feel less like politics and more like a stress test for the country and for the institutions we rely on when things get ugly. With Michael Garofalo in the co-host chair, we talk candidly about what intimidation does to public ser...

Two headlines hit your screen: “Worst States To Live In.” Same country, same year, totally different answers. That’s where we start, because it explains so much of the frustration in American life right now. When one list grades states on safety, education, healthcare, and economic strength, and another list quietly swaps in culture-war proxies, people end up living in different realities without...