Legislative Preview
League of Women Voters of New Mexico Legislative Priorities for the 2025 Session
Thursday, January 16 at 6:00 pm
Members, watch your email for the Zoom link.
Watch: 2025 Advocacy Workshop
The Advocacy Workshop was Saturday, January 4, and featured Senator Carrie Hamblen (D-Dona Ana), Representative Rebecca Dow (R-Grant, Hidalgo & Sierra), and Linda Siegle (Owner, Resources for Change).
You can find more details, and the documents discussed at the workshop here: 2025 LWVNM Advocacy Workshop.
February 5-6: League Days at the Legislature
February 5-6: Please join us for League Days at the Legislature.
Speakers include NM Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver; Molly Swank, Executive Director of Common Cause New Mexico; and Stephanie Garcia Richard, New State Land Commissioner.
More details here: League Days at the Legislature.
Legislators Now Have District Legislative Aides
The League of Women Voters of New Mexico would like want to congratulate the Legislature for taking a great step forward in the modernization of the New Mexico Legislature by enabling - the legislators to hire now have District Legislative Aides (DLAs). The funding for the DLAs is included in House Bill 1 that funds other legislative functions.
The operation of the District Legislative Aides is spelled out in this NMLegis handout: 27. LEGISLATIVE DISTRICT OFFICES.
You can find out the contact information for athe legislator’s DLA at the following links. Not all legislators have made the hires yet and the newly elected legislators may not show up on the links below until the start of the session.
Senators: Legislators Listing
Representatives: Legislators Listing
This is a new and important step forward, but may take time to be fully implemented. So be patient.
Join us!
LWVNM has four local Leagues:
You can join your local League (click on the links above), or
join LWVNM as a Member at Large.
Current Activities
During the Legislative Session, we advocate for and against bills as they pass through the legislature. See more details on our Action page.
We produce a statewide, nonpartisan Voter Guide for New Mexico, at Vote411.org (only available during elections).
The League leads the Fair Districts for New Mexico Project, promoting fair and transparent redistricting for New Mexico and gearing up for legislation in the 2025 session. Please visit the Fair Districts web site for updates. Or watch the 90 Second Video to Promote an Independent Redistricting Commission.
To see what we've been doing recently, see the
News page.
For more information on our ongoing activities, see the
Programs page.
Latest La Palabra
The Winter 2025 La Palabra (PDF, 4.1Mb) newsletter is out.
Co-Presidents' Report; Action Report; Flawed Democracy; Immigration Report; Legislative Targets for Water; First Call to Convention; League Days Schedule; Voter Services Report; Vote411 Social Media Results; Making Democracy Work Award Presented; Judiciary Study; Local League News.
Keep up to date by reading La Palabra!
For issues of La Palabra dating back to 2005, see the Newsletters page.