Mr. Heinrich,
I am continually frustrated by your refusal to work with President Donald Trump, who often works to resolve domestic and international issues that elected legislators and executives for generations have either ignored through sloth or political/personal advantage/disinterest. I understand that the President is your political enemy at the request of the Democratic Party, to which you seem to have sold your fullest devotions. Although the rewards for your complete worship to "D" are likely very great, my hope is that you will, at any point, choose to do what is most representative of our American virtues of individual liberty and the restraint on smothering public governance. You ask me to contribute my resources toward your party's efforts to push further Washington and Santa Fe institutional dominance over the lives of New Mexicans. Your loyalties and votes in the Senate give greatest evidence of a purpose toward crushing liberty and enthroning yourself and your friends in an unassailable dictatorship over all American and international enterprise, the engulfment of individual states in a federal entanglement of patronages and graft, financed by confiscatory taxation and enslaving regulation on the stifled industry of your embattled constituent-victims. Trump-hatred is no excuse for opposing good legislation.
250 years ago, you and your legislators began to have the power to throw down tyranny and to grant further liberty for Americans to profit from their efforts without undue government interference. Sadly, your caste continues the tradition of stamping down personal enterprise until it can be properly bled to the vampiric desires of government control. The British King and his Parliament have merely been replaced by a pre-corrupted and vetted Executive and its legislative and judicial baying-hounds, if we are to hearken to our national founding. You sir give every evidence of one whose loyalty is to party spoilage and professional blood-lust of the un-vetted.
Your letter of July 4, 2026 is a little-varnished call to continue to dismantle the liberty of individuals and petition for the ignorant citizen plea-pandering for "free" grants to "aggrieved" groups and sophistic causes. As you tail a "D" after your name, the text is all in service to the never-ending status and power of the Democratic Party. It would be to your credit if you could stand for something higher than loyalty to mutual corruption among either of the major parties. Trump is willing to fight his own party on many fronts, you could try to rise to that noble battle as well.
Though your station today is a credit to your prowess in buying favor from the right groups and delivering New Mexico for your chosen party, I still hold out hope that you can burst above the ocean of partisan swill and put yourself of the side of the individual New Mexican American who yearns for a life more free from government coercion. You can still grant us the "life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness" that the Declaration of Independence demanded from a king 250 years ago. You can do a better job to honor our God-given rights and make good on our founding resolve to humanity's better principles.
With hope,
Jason Nemrow, Citizen
Tucumcari, New Mexico, USA
July 4, 2026
Dear Friend,
250 years ago, a group of Americans declared that government exists to serve people—not the other way around. That radical idea became the foundation of this nation, and it’s one worth fighting for in every generation.
The path to achieving America’s promise has been fraught. From slavery to the forced removal of Native peoples, to our ongoing struggle to make freedoms written on paper real for everyone, the work remains. But we’ve also proven, time and again, that we can do better—that we can expand opportunity, strengthen the protections every American deserves, and move closer to fulfilling our founding promise.
This Fourth of July, that work feels more urgent than ever. There are those in power who would sell off our public lands to the highest bidder, strip health care from working families, silence the voices of voters, and replace the rule of law with the rule of one man.
The answer isn’t nostalgia. It’s recommitment. To a democracy that answers to the people, not the powerful. To communities where everyone can get ahead. To the public servants, military families, and veterans who remind us that patriotism is measured by service to our country and one another—not by serving ourselves. To the wild places that belong to every American, not just the wealthy few.
The story of America has always been one of people who believed our country could better live up to its founding promise—and rolled up their sleeves to make it happen. That's the work ahead of us, and it's work I'll never stop fighting for. Happy Fourth of July.
Sincerely,
MARTIN HEINRICH United States Senator
