New Mexico is the latest example of how much progress we can make on big issues even without action in Washington. Governor Lujan Grisham and the state legislature – with strong support from the state’s members of Moms Demand and Everytown for Gun Safety – have adopted background check legislation similar to the bill that Republicans in the U.S. Senate are now blocking. Congratulations to everyone involved. This is exactly the kind of bottom-up action that I will be doing more to support over the next two years across the country.