When Michelle Lujan Grisham, now governor of New Mexico, defeated Eric Griego in the race for New Mexico’s 1st Congressional District in 2012, it put the left wing of the state’s Democratic Party on the back foot. Nine years later, the state Legislature is routinely passing some of the most progressive legislation in the country. What happened? Griego, state director of the New Mexico Working Families Party, joins Ryan Grim to discuss.

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