Indivisible Santa Fe Radio

No Kings has turned out the biggest mass protests in American history, but on October 17 takes a new turn as activists focus on getting out early voters for the 2026 midterms. We know Trump is planning disruption and suppression at polling places. Donovan and Gary talk witth Scott Romans, communications director at Indivisible Santa Fe, who explains how and why casting your ballot early can safegu...

Protecting reproductive freedom, guarding voting rights, stemming gun violence, securing paid family leave: these are some of the priorities for NOW as women lead the fight against MAGA's cult of toxic masculinity. Donovan and Gary speak with Janet William and Sheila Lewis of the Santa Fe Chapter who discuss local accomplishments including Noise for NOW which is raising millions for women's health...

Donovan speaks today with Austin Weahkee, statewide director of the New Mexico Working Families Party about their electoral strategy and progressive platform. The Working Families Guarantee pledges all Americans affordable housing, universalist healthcare, paid family leave, a national jobs program and accessible childcare, funded through a tax on the ultra wealthy. Austin was Political Director f...

Thousands of positions were cut last year not just in the National Park Service but in BLM, the Geological Survey and other agencies protecting our putblic lands. This summer Park Rangers across the Western Region voted overwhelming to unionize to protect their positions and give visitors a better experience in these iconic landscapes. Donovan and Gary speak today with Charlotte Graveline, an hist...

Last spring Hawaii passed legislation outlawing corporate spending on political campaigns. Montana is doing much the same with a citizen referendum. Could the same approach work here in New Mexico? Republicans and Democrats alike say that Super Pacs and Dark Money are corrupting our elections., but what can be done? Today Donovan and Gary speak with a trio of lawyers and activists who are drafting...

Why are some people rich and others poor? It's not because the laws of nature or economics make it so. Our winner-take-all economy has been deliberately constructed to place more and more wealth and power into fewer and fewer hands. The consequences for our democracy. have been disastrous. Samuel Bowles, who has spent his academic career studying the problem, is Professor Emeritus of Economics at...

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Las Cruces, New Mexico, is being sued by the federal government, which wants to erect a thirty-foot border wall across a sacred pilgrimmage site known as Cristo Rey (or Christ the King). Deacon Jim Winder of the Diocese speaks with our host Gary to explain that this is primarily a battle over symbols. The holy mountain is topped by a 29 foot statue of Christ with welc...

More Americans say they don't trust elections, but for very different reasons. Debunked claims of voter fraud continue to circulate. Gerrymandering is rampant. New laws make it harder to cast a ballot. How can we restore faith in the nation's electoral system? For answers, Donovan and Gary speak with Stephanie Schlanger and Kelly Davis of the Santa Fe chapter of the League of Women Voters, a non-p...

Did you know that Barry Goldwater's wife was chair of Arizona's Planned Parenthood for many years? (The Republcan Senator and 1964 Presidential candidate was himself a lifelong member of the NAACP.) Times have changed and not always for the better. Christian Nationalism is a white nativist evangelical crusade that makes yesteryear's Moral Majority seem tame, identifying the Kingdom of God with the...

For decades, notorious sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein operated a vast hideaway called Zorro Ranch just south of Santa Fe. Until now, no full investigation of the property ever took place. Donovan and Gary talk with Representative Andrea Romero, who chairs the newly formed NM Survivors Truth Commission, empowered to search out whatever crimes may have occurred there. Recently the Commission began i...

New Mexico spends more on education per pupil than most other states, but ranks near the bottom on student outcomes for math and reading proficiency. Why is that, and what can be done? The answers may surprise. Donovan and Gary talk with Fred Nathan, Jr., the founder and Executive Director of Think New Mexico , which has has been instrumental in reforming state government: successfully pushing to...

Earlier this month the U.S. Supreme Court destroyed what was left of the landmark 1965 Voting Rights Act that for the first time in Amerrican history gave blacks access to the ballot box and a voice in their own government. Already states across old Dixie are redrawing lines to dilute minority representation in Congress. Donovan and Gary discuss the decision and its implications with Gene Grant, E...

When if ever is war justified? Donovan and Gary are honored to speak with the Archbishop of Santa Fe John Wester, who reflects on the dubious morality of America's war with Iran in light of Roman Catholic teachings that reach back to Augustine and Aquinas which but remain more relevant than ever. Archbishop Wester shares his vision for a better path to peace.

Billionaires with deep pockets have an outsized influence on electoral politics, turning government of and by the people into a system that serves the ultra-wealthy and well-connected. Donovan and Gary talk with Bruce Berlin, the author of Breaking Big Money's Grip on America to under stand the scope of the challenge and explore remedies to return power to ordinary citizens.

Amanda Diaz, Exective Director of Faith Roots Reproductive Action, assists women traveling to New Mexico to receive abortions, offering support with lodging, food and other practical necessities. Where are these women coming from and what conditions force them to seek health care here ? Co-hosts Donovan and Gary talk with Amanda about the effort to protect women's bodily autonomy.

Hosts Donovan and Gary talk with historian and renowned journalist Adam Hochschild, co-founder of Mother Jones magazine, about his most recent book American Midnight: The Great War, A Violent Peace and America’s Forgotten Crisis.. Hysteria over immigration, attacks on free speech, jailing of "subversives" and political prisoners, a surge in lynching and racial violence, gross disparities of wealth...

Who gets to tell and edit the story of our nation's past? Our host Gary speaks with Jerry Rogers, who started out as an historian-ranger in the National Park Service in 1963 and whose career led him to national positions in historic preservation and ultimately to serve as Keeper of the National Register of Historic Places and a decade as National Park Service Associate Director for Cultural Resour...

Recent weeks have seen walk-outs by Santa Fe high school students protesting Trump's immigration horror show and now his trumped-up wars. Donovan and Gary talk with Aurora Sandoval, a Generation Next writer fdor the Santa Fe New Mexican and junior at Santa Fe School for the Arts to learn how younger people are taking democracy seriously.

Donovan and Gary speak with Scott Romans, Communications Chair for Indivisible Santa Fe, concerning the peaceful march at the Roundhouse planned for Saturday, March 28, where thousands will assemble to call for a return to Constitutional norms and democratic freedoms. Speakers, live music, and whistles for everyone are part what promises to be the largest mass protest in American history. Register...

Donovan and Gary interview Dr. Simesha McEachern, President of the Santa Fe Chapter of the NAACP. In the week following the death of Reverend Jesse Jackson, what will be his lasting impact and legacy? Simesha reflects on where she find hope and strength in these difficult times.

Hosts Donovan and Gary of Indivisible Santa Fe speak with activists from northern New Mexico about strategies to defend our working families, our lands, our civic culture and democracy. In this episode, Heidi Feldman, professor emeritus at Georgetown Law, dissects the breakdown of American Constitutional Government under Donald Trump. Musical coda courtesy of penguinmusic 2025.

As the 2026 special session of the New Mexico Legislature considers House Bill 9 that would keep privately run ICE prisons from contracting to do business with towns and counties in our state, Donovan and Gary take a look at the detention centers operating in Torrance and Cibola. Who are the prisoners there and why were they arrested? What are conditions like behind the bars and barbed wire? Kelly...

There is a shortage of doctors and other medical providers in our state. Host Donovan Kolbly and public health expert Jane Steinberg talk about how to improve the situation in this 2026 Special Session of the New Mexico Legislature.