Former candidate for Governor of New Mexico. Roadrunner & Red Chile Fanatic.
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Duke Rodriguez retweeted
Honored to announce the endorsement of Ambassador Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell ).
Former Acting Director of National Intelligence. Former United States Ambassador to Germany. Former President of the Trump-Kennedy Center. One of the most consequential conservative leaders in America.
Richard Grenell is a fighter. He came to New Mexico and campaigned for President Trump in 2024. He believes in this state. And he believes in what we are building here.
The people who matter are paying attention. New Mexico is ready.
Duke Rodriguez retweeted
🚨 The final episode in our Primary Profile series is OUT NOW! 🔥
We interviewed all three Republican gubernatorial candidates — Gregg Hull, Doug Turner, and Duke Rodriguez — so you can hear directly from each of them before casting your vote in the primary election.
Early voting ends tomorrow, and Election Day is June 2! Don’t forget to exercise your right to vote and make your voice heard in New Mexico’s primary election.
Listen to Duke's interview now🎧
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@DukeforNM
#crime #homelessness #economy #healthcare #government #newmexico #election #governor
Duke Rodriguez retweeted
A judge has ruled that @NewMexicoGOP Chair Amy Barela must resig as party chair. The ruling comes as plantiffs including @DukeforNM and @ABDforNM have filed suit stating that Barela has used her position to favor candidates in primaries, a violation of party bylaws.
Duke Rodriguez retweeted
If she's this angry, it means your winning. Keep up the fight and, by God, fix this great state.
@GovMLG attacking you just secured my vote for you 100%.
If she's this upset, I know you are right to lead this state.
Duke Rodriguez retweeted
Judge Elaine Lujan’s order was for MLG to cease enforcement of regulations that expanded free childcare to universal eligibility.
Sounds like a big old #nmpol win for Duke to anybody but MLG & her groupies.
A third-tier Republican candidate for governor — who lives in Arizona — is using a frivolous lawsuit in a despicable attempt to mislead New Mexico families and generate headlines for a campaign that is going nowhere.
Universal child care is in effect and it is NOT being shut down, despite what this desperate candidate claims.
The court did not order us to end the program, and this losing candidate is purposely sowing confusion and mistrust. The court said the state has an opportunity to respond before any action is taken, which is standard legal protocol. We will respond and we will prevail.
The New Mexico Legislature already settled the underlying legal question when it passed Senate Bill 241, which provided both the funding and the authorization for this program.
New Mexicans should know this: A man who wants to lead our state made a calculated decision to scare working families — parents who depend on child care to hold down jobs, pay their bills, and build a future here — because he is losing and he knows it.
This is not the leadership New Mexicans want — it is desperation by a third-tier losing candidate who lives in Arizona.
Duke Rodriguez retweeted
Yes, Governor Lujan Grisham's post reads like a direct attack on you—calling you a "third-tier" Arizona resident running a "desperate" and "frivolous" lawsuit to scare families over universal child care. She's framing it as political gamesmanship while defending the program and SB 241. Standard heated campaign rhetoric.
Duke Rodriguez retweeted
@GovMLG you can not enact the free childcare program by executive order prior to it being laid out by the legislature.
What you did was illegal. The court "for now" is siding with @DukeforNM because it believes you did not follow the rules in implementing the socialist program.
The states next move will be to file a motion to dismiss, and the court will either deny or allow the case to move forward.
I support Dukes move here and so do the tax paying hard working citizens in this state.
A third-tier Republican candidate for governor — who lives in Arizona — is using a frivolous lawsuit in a despicable attempt to mislead New Mexico families and generate headlines for a campaign that is going nowhere.
Universal child care is in effect and it is NOT being shut down, despite what this desperate candidate claims.
The court did not order us to end the program, and this losing candidate is purposely sowing confusion and mistrust. The court said the state has an opportunity to respond before any action is taken, which is standard legal protocol. We will respond and we will prevail.
The New Mexico Legislature already settled the underlying legal question when it passed Senate Bill 241, which provided both the funding and the authorization for this program.
New Mexicans should know this: A man who wants to lead our state made a calculated decision to scare working families — parents who depend on child care to hold down jobs, pay their bills, and build a future here — because he is losing and he knows it.
This is not the leadership New Mexicans want — it is desperation by a third-tier losing candidate who lives in Arizona.
Duke Rodriguez retweeted
Here's our take on the @DukeforNM lawsuit: "The ability for future governors to set up a new government program AND THEN demand the Legislature approve it and provide funding is highly problematic and worth the challenge."
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Duke Rodriguez retweeted
Here's our take on the @DukeforNM lawsuit: "The ability for future governors to set up a new government program AND THEN demand the Legislature approve it and provide funding is highly problematic and worth the challenge."
errorsofenchantment.com/a-cl… @bobkkob @tjwilham @NMHouseGOP
Duke Rodriguez retweeted
@GovMLG has declared a new public health emergency, will shut down public schools and businesses for months, will force mask mandates for new dangerous disease hitting NM: RODRIGUEZ DERANGEMENT SYNDROME
Duke Rodriguez retweeted
Nice to see someone fighting the status quo instead of playing Mr. Nice guy politics.
Duke Rodriguez retweeted
Is @GovMLG's free, universal childcare program in jeopardy? GOP gubernatorial contender @DukeforNM says it's been "SHUT DOWN." Untrue, countered MLG, who called Rodriguez a "third-tier Republican candidate for governor — who lives in Arizona." santafenewmexican.com/news/l… #nmpol
Duke Rodriguez retweeted
Wow, this is big.
🚨WE TOOK ON GOVERNOR MLG AND WON ROUND ONE.
The court just ordered Governor Lujan Grisham to SHUT DOWN her illegal child care program — rolled out with no legislative authority, no appropriation, and no proper rulemaking.
Now she has a choice: comply with the court, or defy it.
If she defies it, we go to trial on June 11th —I'll be ready to step into that ring and finish what we started.
New Mexico isn't a poor state. It's a poorly run state. On June 2nd, let's fix that.
#RunWithDuke #NMpol #NMGov
Duke Rodriguez retweeted
🚨New: The Trump administration has reclassified state-licensed marijuana from a Schedule I to Schedule III drug under federal law
Duke Rodriguez retweeted
GOP governor candidate Duke Rodriguez seeks to undo universal child care rules santafenewmexican.com/news/l… via @thenewmexican
Duke Rodriguez retweeted
Speaking of New Mexico, and setting your constitutional and historical illiteracy aside, given that neither you (AZ), nor your mother (AZ), nor your father (MN) were born in New Mexico, why do you falsely claim to be a “35th-generation New Mexican?”
Kinda weird to get all high dudgeon about indigenous this and birthright citizenship that when you’re not even a native New Mexican! As an actual native New Mexican who is the child of an actual native New Mexican, I find this to be deeply no bueno.
This is appalling.
Indigenous people are the original inhabitants of this continent and, here in New Mexico, we live that truth every day. The fact that the Solicitor General of the United States would hesitate on our citizenship is outrageous and horrific. He doesn’t understand basic American history or the law, and he has no business holding this position.
Duke Rodriguez retweeted
In the latest episode of "Around the Roundhouse," Duke Rodriguez explains why he has decided to run for governor, responds to questions about his residency in New Mexico and discusses his personal and professional background.
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Duke Rodriguez retweeted
🚨New: The former secretary of the New Mexico Human Services Department, Duke Rodriguezn (@DukeforNM) has announced that he is officially running for Governor of New Mexico in 2026
