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MLG focuses on indoctrinating NM kids with CRT

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This week, the Albuquerque Journal reported on the updated social studies standards by Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s New Mexico Public Education Department that include the racist Critical Race Theory language aimed at dividing children by their race, gender, economic situation, and more.

These new standards include Critical Race Theory principles of “unequal power relations,” “privilege or systemic inequity,” and mandates that students identify their “group identity” beginning in kindergarten.

“Whether they fit all the definitions of ‘critical race theory’ or not, the new standards appear designed to divide New Mexicans by race, ethnicity and economic status,” Rio Grande Foundation president Paul Gessing told the Journal.

According to recent scores, New Mexico ranks last in public school education and nearly 1 in 4 students never graduate high school.

Republican Governors Association regional press secretary Will Reinert said, “‘Privilege, power and inequity language’ will be sure to divide students instead of uniting kids to build a stronger New Mexico together.”

“Distracted from countless scandals and constant education secretary turnover, Michelle Lujan Grisham is not capable of turning around the state’s public school education system,” Reinert said. “Instead, Governor Lujan Grisham forces teachers to focus on teaching a divisive curriculum instead of skills that will lead to better opportunities for New Mexico’s children.”

The news of the Critical Race Theory standards is not new, as the Legislature previously passed the “Black Education Act” in the form of 2021’s H.B. 43, a bill sponsored by disgraced ex-Rep. Sheryl Williams Stapleton (D-Bernalillo), who served as the Democrats’ House majority leader. She is currently being charged on multiple federal counts after she appears to have stolen millions of dollars from the Albuquerque Public Schools through her role as a legislator and an administrator.

H.B. 43 included adding CRT to the New Mexico public schools, indoctrinating children with language such as “…creating and sustaining equitable and culturally responsive learning environments.” It requires all school personnel to “successfully complete an online or in-person antiracism, racial awareness and sensitivity training or professional development approved by the department that addresses race, racism and racialized aggression and demonstrates how to create and foster an equitable and culturally responsive learning environment for racial minority students.”

Furthermore, H.B. 43 also mandated, “All school discipline policies shall define and include a specific prohibition against racialized aggression involving a student or school personnel.” Now, CRT is seeping through the public school system, leaving districts with not many options.

Groups commemorating the Battle of Glorieta Pass on its 160th anniversary

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On Saturday, multiple groups are holding an event at the Plaza in Santa Fe to honor the sacrifice of the brave Union soldiers who fought the Confederacy in the victorious 1862 Battle of Glorieta Pass, helping to stop the Confederates from moving west. 

The Battle was a decisive Union victory in the American Civil War, fought near Pecos in the Sangre de Cristo mountains, which forced the Confederacy to flee with their remaining forces to the Territory of Arizona, then Texas.

The event will be held near the Soliders’ Monument obelisk, first erected in 1866, honoring the Union soldiers, which was toppled by hate groups and out-of-state activists in October 2020. The Santa Fe district attorney let all of the guilty go free, claiming “restorative justice” was their punishment. 

“Unfortunately, there are some in our community [who] don’t fully understand our history or the sacrifices New Mexicans have made in the cause of freedom for all our residents. And although the Soliders’ Monument was vandalized … leaving our community itself feeling damaged, we can take a positive step [toward] healing by remembering why it is there. Honoring our brave veterans still with us and reviving the old tradition of honoring past generations that fought and died for the freedoms we all enjoy today,” a video for the event noted. 

Multiple groups are putting on the event, including the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the American Legion, Union Protectiva de Santa Fe, Road Warriors, the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Hispanic Anti-Defamation League, and the Hispano Round Table of New Mexico, according to the ads for the event.

The event begins at 12:00 noon on Saturday, March 26, featuring “great speakers and a brief history lesson” being given by a historian. The names of the soldiers fallen in battle will be read aloud to honor their memory. 

Soros orgs that were mum on MLG groping scandal now demand Dem senator resign

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On Monday, far-left dark money groups, including some funded by billionaire George Soros, demanded that state Sen. Daniel Ivey-Soto resign amid new supposed “allegations” from lobbyists where he is accused of raising his voice at women. Another allegation that just came to fruition was one from the 1990s where a former alleged college classmate claimed he pinned her to a wall.

The move comes as a far-left proponent of Democrats’ pro-voter fraud measures in the 2022 Legislative Session, Marianna Anaya, filed a complaint against Ivey-Soto for inappropriate behavior, which the senator denied. She claims Ivey-Soto slow-walked the pro-voter fraud bill to get back at her. 

The new allegations accuse Ivey-Soto of referring to one lobbyist, Heather Ferguson of Common Cause New Mexico, as “Lips and Hips.” New Mexicans to Prevent Gun Violence lobbyist Miranda Viscoli claimed the senator once screamed and cursed at her.

One allegation comes from Carmen López, who worked at the Thornberg Foundation. She doesn’t remember when Ivey-Soto allegedly raised his voice at her sometime between 2014 and 2018.

“Gayle Krueger, then a University of New Mexico staff member, said Ivey-Soto in the 1990s pressed her against a wall and screamed in her face. He was a student at the time, she said, and had been elected chair of a graduate student government organization,” reported the Albuquerque Journal.

The dark money groups demanding Ivey-Soto resign include “Common Cause, OLE-Organizers in the Land of Enchantment, Equality New Mexico, New Mexicans to Prevent Gun Violence, NM Native Vote and the Center for Civic Policy,” the Journal report noted.

It should be noted that not a single one of these organizations spoke out against multiple men accusing Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, who has been endorsed by many of these groups, of sexual assault. Lujan Grisham paid out $150,000 to one alleged victim, James Hallinan, for claims she poured water over his pants and then groped his penis at an event held at state Rep. Deborah Armstrong’s house.

Now, these dark money groups, who have a political goal by attempting to oust Ivey Soto, suddenly care about sexual assault allegations when it appears to line up in ther best interest — to install a new Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham-appointed senator in his seat.

MLG hires cyber security aide in fear of ‘crippling’ Russian attacks

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On Friday, scandal-ridden alleged serial groper Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham announced she had hired a new cyber security advisor, Annie Winterfield Manriquez, citing Russian attacks.

According to StateScoop, “Manriquez is tasked with bolstering the state’s cybersecurity posture by working with ‘key stakeholders across government,’ developing statewide standards and ‘best practices for information-sharing, communications, and incident response protocols,’” 

Lujan Grisham claimed her new hire was because of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, with “state-sponsored cyber attacks targeting critical infrastructure in the U.S.” She said that “potentially crippling Russian cyberattacks” could target New Mexico.

“As the current geopolitical situation in Ukraine devolves and state-sponsored cyberattacks targeting critical infrastructure in the U.S. grow more sophisticated, the White House and federal agencies responsible for cybersecurity and critical infrastructure protection have called for states to take immediate steps to strengthen their defenses against potentially crippling Russian cyberattacks,” her news release read.

“New Mexico holds the distinction of being the first state this year where a local government disclosed being hit by a successful ransomware attack. On Jan. 5, Bernalillo County, New Mexico, reported an incident that led to extended disruptions of numerous services and functions, including an outage of technology used by the county jail, prompting officials to keep inmates in lockdown,” the report continued.

Manriquez worked at the Mitre Corporation, a federally funded research and development group. She also previously worked at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars and the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration.

“A robust cybersecurity framework has never been more important, and we are already seeing more sophisticated cyberattacks being carried out in New Mexico and the rest of the country,” said Gov. Lujan Grisham. “It is critical that the state continue to take action to make sure we are as prepared and protected as possible, and Annie is the leader the state needs.”

This comes as Lujan Grisham’s departments have had abysmal security measures, with IPRA requests provisioning login credentials and countless records being deleted by important departments, such as the Children, Youth, and Families (CYFD) Department which deals with sensitive data regarding minors. 

Toulouse Oliver attacks GOP opponent Audrey Trujillo

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On Saturday, far-left New Mexico Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver’s campaign viciously bashed her GOP challenger, Audrey Trujillo in a fundraising email. The left-wing politician who does not believe election fraud exists and who has attempted to weaken the state’s election laws called Trujillo a “certified election denier.” 

In the email, the campaign wrote, “After being endorsed by the Trump-backed America First [SOS] Coalition and the MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell (yes, that guy), it’s clear that our opponent does not have New Mexicans’ democratic interests at heart.”

Trujillo is listed as a candidate on the “America First SOS Coalition” but a formal endorsement from Lindell cannot be found. 

“Our problem isn’t our election integrity process, but the actors creating doubt and mistrust in our elections that intimidate voters — and wasting taxpayer money to do so,” claimed Toulouse Oliver’s team. She added that “the stakes for our democracy could not be higher.”

This comes after Trujillo released a lengthy statement applauding the Otero County 2020 election audit and demanding answers as to why Toulouse Oliver and other Democrats are doing everything in their power to stop it. 

Trujillo wrote, “The latest Rasmussen poll shows that 83% of likely U.S. voters believe the issue of election integrity will be important ahead of this year’s elections. Of those respondents, a staggering 63% identified election integrity as a very important issue. Honesty, integrity, and transparency are instrumental to a free Constitutional Representative Republic.”

“Why all the attacks? Why all the smears? Why all the lies and disinformation? What is going [on] in Otero County is not about overturning the results or suppressing voters. It’s about transparency and addressing the concerns voters have about our electoral process. Right now, our elected officials are not being honest and transparent. No matter what your political affiliation is, these issues affect everyone and if we don’t properly address those issues, nothing is going to change for the better.”

But Toulouse Oliver is continuing to beat the “election denier” drum about Trujillo, despite the GOP candidate’s message of having free and fair elections in New Mexico without election fraud. 

Election fraud in New Mexico is well-documented and the Otero County audit has already begun finding concerning data regarding voter registrations. During the Piñon Post’s own independent findings in Otero County, many registered voters still on the rolls have been dead for at least five years, while many are registered at locations that do not have a residence on the property. 

Learn more about Audrey Trujillo’s campaign to unseat far-left Maggie Toulouse Oliver here.

Lujan Grisham calls special session after vetoing junior money

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After angering Democrats and Republicans over a veto of junior money that would have gone to projects such as funding for the Special Olympics, senior centers, and helping solve child abuse cases, Gov. Lujan Grisham has called for a special session starting on April 5. 

Once a formal proclamation comes out from Lujan Grisham on the special session, all legislative candidates and legislators will be banned from fundraising throughout the conclusion of the special session.

The scandal-ridden alleged serial groper Governor tried to cover her bases by saying the special sessions about gas prices. “As prices remain high nationwide, it is clear that we must act swiftly to deliver more relief to New Mexicans,” claimed Lujan Grisham in a news release.

“It is our responsibility to do what we can to ease that burden,” she concluded, despite having killed 40% of small businesses and leading New Mexico to the highest unemployment rate in the nation. She also supported a proposal that would result in a 35 to 50 cents-per-gallon gas tax on the poor.

Lujan Grisham said she was “unconvinced” the distribution of more than $50 million for projects across the state “upholds principles of fiscal responsibility.” This comes after she signed a mammoth $8.5 billion budget that included millions in funding for the Green New Deal, anti-gun programs, and taxpayer-funded “free” college.

“Given this is an election year, a potential battle over the bill between the heavily Democratic Legislature and Lujan Grisham, also a Democrat, could have caused some political fallout,” wrote the Santa Fe New Mexican.
It is unclear if the special session will include a backdoor voting bill that would appear to make New Mexico elections unsecured. But the Piñon Post is on high alert for any developments regarding a pro-voter fraud measure. 

Lujan Grisham could call special session to save her hide after unpopular veto

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More reports are confirming that scandal-ridden alleged serial groper Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham could call a special session of the New Mexico Legislature to pass an amended junior funding bill after she vetoed the one passed earlier this year by unanimous Senate and House votes.

According to New Mexico Senate Pro-Tem Mimi Steward (D-Bernalillo), the special session could also include measures to alleviate the state’s gas taxes, despite Lujan Grisham and Stewart supporting a bill for two years in a row that would have increased the cost of gasoline anywhere from 35 to 50 cents per gallon.

“We are looking at providing some sort of cost-of-living, cost-of-transportation rebate,” Stewart told the Santa Fe New Mexican.

The Lujan Grisham-vetoed junior funding bill included funding for the Special Olympics, rural economic development, investments in senior centers, food banks, acequias, and equipment to solve child abuse cases. Democrats and Republicans responded with fury after she vetoed the commonsense bill.

Now, Stewart claims the bill can be “fixed” to accommodate Lujan Grisham. “She has brought up problems in the bill, and we are trying to determine if we agree with those,” the Senate Pro-Tem said.

Nora Sackett, the Governor’s press secretary, told the New Mexican, “The governor is committed to prioritizing transparency and accountability in making fiscal decisions, and we are optimistic that we will be able to move forward in partnership with the Legislature in ensuring taxpayer dollars are responsibly spent for the benefit of New Mexicans.” 

Lujan Grisham faces fierce opposition as she seeks another term despite her multiple scandals. A special session would mean a fundraising ban for Lujan Grisham and all legislative candidates, which will not help her in her quest to seek funds to win reelection. State Sen. Joseph Cervantes (D-Doña Ana), “There’s concern about the political optics of [an extraordinary session] in an election year.”

SOS says ‘Anyone’ supporting Otero audit is undermining ‘confidence’ in elections

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On Thursday, far-left New Mexico Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver relished in the news that left-wing coastal congressional Democrats, Reps. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) and Jamie Raskin (D-MD) are launching a House Oversight investigation into the company contracted for the Otero County audit of the 2020 election.

Toulouse Oliver dubbed the County-sanctioned audit a “fraudit” and claimed it “sabotages our constitutional right to vote.” It is unclear how merely recounting votes and documenting abnormalities in the ballots cast is doing anything other than strengthening the integrity of elections. With the audit findings, New Mexicans can definitively know the results of the 2020 election in Otero County.

She wrote, “Arry, weeks ago, I said that this was a vigilante audit. Anyone supporting the ‘fraudit’ undermines public confidence in election security and continues to spread lies about our elections here in New Mexico. The fraudit is a fraud itself.”

“Millions of Americans have sacrificed their lives to vote in this country. Anything that sabotages our constitutional right to vote should be taken very seriously, and I am grateful to the House Oversight panel for proactively investigating this. It’s pure voter intimidation,” Toulouse Oliver continued.

The Secretary of State supported far-left Democrats’ proposals for an extreme pro-voter fraud bill that would enshrine voter suppression into New Mexico law during the 2022 Legislative Session. Some of these proposals included allowing widespread ballot harvesting, letting ballots be counted one week following an election, unsecured ballot drop boxes, and other corrosive measures. 

She also teamed up with Attorney General Hector Balderas and the mainstream media to try and stymie participation by citizens in answering canvassers’ questions that could verify if they voted in the election.

It appears Toulouse Oliver is gaslighting those seeking truth in Otero County by accusing them of exactly what she is guilty of — voter intimidation. If nothing went wrong in the 2020 election, why do everything possible to stop the audit of the supposedly “secure” election? 

Dems call in U.S. House big wigs to help stop Otero County audit, claim it’s racist

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On Thursday, NBC News reported that the U.S. House Oversight Committee was launching an investigation into the New Mexico Audit Force, which is tasked with carrying out the Otero County-sanctioned audit of the 2020 election.

Specifically, the Committee is investigating EchoMail, which was the contractor hired by Otero County for around $50,000 to do the audit. 

Previously, New Mexico State Auditor Brian Colón sent a letter to the County threatening litigation, while Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver and Attorney General Hector Balderas used their bully pulpit to attempt to delegitimize the forensic audit of the 2020 election. Now, as the New Mexico Democrats’ ploys to stop the audit appear to have failed, they have now called in their friends in Washington, D.C., to try and stop it on a national level.

“The Committee is investigating whether your company’s audit and canvass in New Mexico illegally interferes with Americans’ right to vote by spreading disinformation about elections and intimidating voters,” House Oversight Committee Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), and Jamie Raskin (D-MD), the chairman of the subcommittee on civil rights and civil liberties, wrote in a Wednesday letter addressed to V.A. Shiva Ayyadurai, the founder of EchoMail. (Pictured).

Ayyadurai is an MIT-educated expert who has been cited as the “inventor of email.”

The House panel erroneously claimed in its letter that “[t]he canvas may have a particular impact on minority communities in Otero County,” noting that 40 percent of the County’s residents are Hispanic.

“Otero County’s diversity makes it susceptible to the same threat identified by DOJ in Maricopa County—that canvasses of this nature, even when sponsored by local governments, can result in intimidation directed at minority voters,” the letter continued, without any such evidence of intimidation by volunteers helping conduct the audit.

Maloney said in a statement, “The reports coming out of New Mexico of EchoMail’s canvassers harassing and intimidating people on their own property in the name of a sham ‘audit’ are truly disturbing. I urge the Department of Justice to review potential ongoing civil rights violations arising from this so-called audit, and I look forward to uncovering the full scope of EchoMail’s actions.” No specifics about what supposed “civil rights violations” may occur by merely going door to door to canvassing the area, as many political campaigns have done for decades to reach voters. The audit is even more benign, literally asking if a voter cast a ballot in 2020 — not asking who they voted for.

Secretary of State Toulouse Oliver claims there were around 20 complaints to her office, while she said “twice that” were filed with the New Mexico Attorney General.

National leftist groups, many backed by George Soros, have already dunked money into the smear campaign against the Otero County audit, with paid activists from New York to San Francisco working overtime to stop the County from getting to the truth.

“The intent of the audit is to restore trust, faith, and confidence in the integrity of our elections,” the three Otero County commissioners said. “Election integrity is a non-partisan issue.”

One must ask if these Democrats are working overtime from the West Coast, East Coast, and the offices of statewide elected leftists to stop the audit of a county with fewer than 70,000 people residing in it, what are they hiding, and what could they gain by successfully stopping the truth from coming out?

U.S. Attorney requests forfeiture of fmr. top Dem’s assets in fraud case

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According to a letter from the U.S. Attorney’s Office, agents have requested a judge grant forfeiture of around $455,000 relating to the case of ex-House Majority Leader Sheryl Williams Stapleton (D-Bernalillo), who was accused of graft of millions from children at the Albuquerque Public Schools. 

In September, the FBI seized around $3 million connected to Stapleton. According to the Santa Fe New Mexican, the U.S. Attorneys’ letter aks approval to “‘forfeit and condemn’ part of the seized federal funds related to Robotics checks that went to a nonprofit called the Ujima Foundation.”

According to research done by the Piñon Post in a sweeping report, over the course of decades, Stapleton allegedly funneled millions of dollars into Robotics Management Learning Systems, LLC and other shell companies run by Washington, D.C.-based  Joseph Johnson. Johnson is a former cabinet secretary who was forced to resign in disgrace following corruption charges during the Toney Anaya administration.

He has since been involved in multiple cases regarding public corruption in Washington, D.C., Virginia, and now again in New Mexico. 

“Federal agents in the fall seized more than $1.5 million from the Bank of America account for Robotics. Agents also seized more than $1 million from Bank of America accounts tied to those businesses and foundations linked to Williams Stapleton, plus a 2017 Volvo,” reports the New Mexican. 

“Federal agents also took $452,419.56 being held in the 2nd Judicial District Court related to state charges against the former lawmaker — funds the U.S. Attorney’s Office now wants. That agency also wants the Volvo, which was partially paid for by Williams Stapleton with Ujima Foundation funds.”

Despite Johnson claiming Stapleton had no connection with Robotics Management Learning Systems, LLC, the two have been connected since they both attended college at New Mexico State University and first got involved in politics through the socialist “Rainbow Coalition,” which Stapleton is still listed as the contact for the group in New Mexico.

[Read our full report on Stapleton’s shady business dealings and close connections to other New Mexico politicians here.]

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