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Google News featured our Wednesday article about New Mexico connections to the situation involving armed protesters at a national wildlife refuge in Oregon.
That meant people clicked on the story about 14,000 times, making it the second most viewed post in NMPolitics.net’s history. That’s amazing! It exposed people across the nation to the work we’re doing and drew some new folks into our online community.
Heath Haussamen
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I’m grateful for the opportunity to present The New Mexican’s edgy and analytical coverage of the session to our community for discussion. And I’ll continue doing my own hard-hitting and thoughtful reporting and commentary on what’s happening at the Roundhouse. Earlier this week, I wrote a commentary fact-checking Gov. Susana Martinez’s rhetoric related to New Mexico’s driver’s licenses and the federal REAL ID Act.
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