Most of our problems are solvable. Easily. For less money than what we already spend. That is the starting point. Everything else follows from there.

An aggression economy funds war, prisons, enforcement, and punishment through the mechanism of theft. Also known as taxation. A compassion economy invests in its people through the mechanism of sovereignty, with independence and well-being as its goals. Sovereignty, land, culture, environment, health, education, trade, and practical solutions to solvable problems. That is the platform.

2027 will be our last year. Sorry.

Trade agreements with Mexico, Colorado, Arizona, Utah, Oklahoma, Kansas, Texas, California, Nevada, Washington, Oregon, Canada, Alaska, and Latin America. We are not isolating. We are opening.

All federal taxes owed will be paid to the New Mexico state government for one year. Year two, sixty-seven percent. Then fifty. Then thirty-three. Then twenty-five. Beginning 2030, taxes drop to ten percent, where they remain. That is the total tax bill. Ten percent. Property taxes will be eliminated. Tariffs will be considered with all trade partners based on mutual agreement and benefit.

Taxes will be offered in categories: pay in full to the state or exchange for free services to the community.

Gary Johnson, Michelle Lujan Grisham, Bill Richardson, Bernie Sanders, and Native elders from across our nations. Not a cabinet. Trustees. They hold it in trust for the people who come after us.

Non-negotiable. These are not tourist attractions. They are living sacred sites and the physical record of thousands of years of civilization. Their protection is absolute.

Pueblos, archaeological sites, reservations, sacred sites. All of it. Land Back conversations begin immediately.

Goodbye. No longer welcome here. We’ll call if we need anything.

The feds must remove any nuclear facilities, waste, or otherwise. They built it. They own it. Not us. If New Mexico chooses nuclear energy as part of its future, that is our choice and nobody else’s.

The Rio Grande, the aquifers, the mesas, the bosques, the springs. No more sacrifice zones. No more trading what cannot be replaced for what will not last.

Priority goes to seniority. Native, Hispanic, Anglo OG, New-Age. In that order. All celebrated. None erased.

Churches, mosques, temples, kivas, moradas, meditation centers, peyote churches. No hierarchy. No state religion. No preferred faith. Come as you are.

Doctors, dentists, hospitals, veterinarians trade services for low or no taxes. They choose their package. The community gets access. The providers get relief. Nobody fills out federal paperwork.

A new compact, negotiated directly between sovereign neighbors. The river runs through Colorado, through us, through Texas, into Mexico. New Mexico sits in the middle. Water is the currency of the West. We hold the bank.

Not commodities. Not privileges. Rights. No one in New Mexico goes thirsty. No one goes hungry. This is the floor, not the ceiling.

Doesn’t cost very much really. The place takes care of itself. We just need passionate people and passionate organizations to help out. First designated wilderness in the world. Act like it.

Period. No government. No corporation. No insurance company. No politician. This covers everything for every person of every gender. We do not need to debate specifics because the principle handles all of them.

East and West. Natural healers, massage, chiropractic, herbal, acupuncture, alongside conventional medicine. All legitimate. All supported. Health means the whole person.

Real access. Real funding. Especially in rural communities where asking for help still feels like weakness. It is not weakness.

Adobe, earthship, straw bale, cob, rammed earth. No cost permitting. Access to local materials. People have built in this landscape for centuries. Let them build.

Our water and power are not for server farms. A corporation that wants to drain an aquifer to cool its machines can do it somewhere else.

Invest in athletics, recreation, and the things that bring communities together. Build fields. Build courts. Fund programs. A healthy state starts with people who move.

Everyone gets to be outside safely. Trails, parks, public land. This is New Mexico. The outside is the whole point.

Preserved and protected. The backcountry belongs to the people who use it.

A way of life. Not a political wedge. The land feeds us and we take care of the land. That relationship is older than any government.

Starting now. It’s over. We’re free of it. Yay.

Public space as essential infrastructure. Green space in every community. Places where people gather, grow things, and breathe.

The food economy stays local. No middlemen. No corporate agriculture. People growing food and selling it to their neighbors. Old model. Works.

Two years. No tuition. No debt. Invest in our people, places, and futures.

Tiwa. Mayan. Lunar. Time has been colonized and flattened into something that serves commerce. There are older and better ways to mark the days.

Housing, shelter, services. Whatever it takes. A compassion economy does not step over people on the sidewalk.

Reframed as integrated medicine. Peyote ceremonies, curanderismo, plant medicine, psilocybin therapy, harm reduction. Use the substances properly, with guidance and intention. Not in a cage.

Free public days once a month. Teeth are not a luxury.

Health means all living things. A society is measured by how it treats what cannot speak for itself.

They hold everything together. They are burning out. A free New Mexico treats them with the urgency they bring to their work.

A hotshot crew sleeping in the dirt for two weeks fighting a fire in the Jemez does not get treated like a city firefighter. We see that. We fix it.

Not an occupying force. Protection and service. Community improvement. That is the job. Do the job.

Free ride home. Anytime. No questions. A free ride is cheaper than a wrecked life. New Mexico knows this problem. This is the solution. No one else had to die.

Self-protection. Corporations welcome if they agree to our standards. If they invest in the community, they get priority. If they extract and leave, they get nothing.

Places like Taos Ski Valley. Not perfect. But invested. Employing locals. At least trying. They get top priority.

New Mexico has the landscape, the light, the culture. A sovereign New Mexico doubles down. No federal tax complications. Stories told from this place about this place.

Grow food where grass used to be. Every yard is potential farmland. Every neighborhood is a potential market.

Protect libraries, theaters, galleries, studios. Fund them. Art is how a culture knows itself. Artists are essential workers.

Funds for services, for space, for access. In rural New Mexico the library is sometimes the only public building that belongs to everyone. Build more of them.

Rename the Albuquerque airport. Breaking Bad still brings more tourists to this state than the tourism board. Lean into it.

International identification for citizens of a free New Mexico. One card. Works everywhere.

Register once. Done. Simplified title and registration for vehicles of all types. One less thing the government makes complicated for no reason.

Preserve where it was filmed. Honor McMurtry. Honor the land. Honor the story. New Mexico made that picture what it is.

Ghost Ranch. The Chama valley. The landscape she painted. This should already exist. Make it exist.

A town full of dogs and nowhere to take them. This should not require a senate candidate to fix. And yet here we are.

Somewhere in New Mexico. The music deserves a home. The decade deserves a monument. If Cleveland gets the Rock Hall we can have this.

Three new founding documents for a sovereign New Mexico. Written by New Mexicans for New Mexico. Updated for now, not the eighteenth century.

Solar, wind, water catchment. For individuals and businesses. Funded and promoted by the state. Every home that powers itself is one less home on the grid. Every business that catches its own water is one less draw on the aquifer. This removes stress from infrastructure and builds independence at the same time. The sun is right there. Use it.

In lieu of data centers. We start an organization that helps people obtain remote work. A thousand people in Taos and Santa Fe and Silver City pulling salaries from New York and spending them at the farmers market. Money flows in. Water stays in the ground. Infrastructure cost is broadband. Huge payoff for almost no investment. This is how a small state gets rich without selling itself.

We will continue working with federal agencies of our choosing until 2030. BLM, Forest Service, National Park Service, Army Corps of Engineers. After 2030, all services transfer to the state. Our land. Our management. Our people doing the work. The transition is orderly. The result is permanent.

The land will return to the state, tribes, local communities.

Partnerships with regional airports to continue uninterrupted air transportation. Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Taos, Las Cruces. Flights keep flying. Trade agreements keep the routes open. Nobody gets stranded because of politics.

Several paths. Not one. Trade schools, apprenticeships, internships. Blue collar, remote, hands in the dirt. Home school, nature school, private school, farm school, tribal school. Not everyone learns the same way and not everyone needs the same thing. Build the options and let people choose.