ALBUQUERQUE — The Republican Party of New Mexico’s Albuquerque headquarters was vandalized overnight Sunday, the second attack on the building in roughly a year, prompting Chairwoman Amy Barela to call on elected officials across party lines to condemn political violence.

Party staff discovered the damage on Monday morning. According to an RPNM press release, an object was hurled through a glass window late Sunday night, damaging both the exterior and interior of the office at 5150 San Francisco Rd. NE.

“I am enraged and flabbergasted that this continues to be something we deal with,” Barela said in a statement released Monday. “Someone could have been seriously injured as a result of this senseless act of political violence. I am calling on every single elected official in New Mexico, Democrat and Republican, to condemn acts of violence or rhetoric that threaten violence and intimidation, such as this.”

Barela said the party is reviewing surveillance footage and cooperating with authorities to identify those responsible.

The incident marks the second significant attack on the RPNM office in less than 13 months. In the early morning hours of March 30, 2025, someone hurled homemade incendiary devices at the building, destroying the front entryway and causing smoke damage throughout the interior. Graffiti reading “ICE=KKK” was spray-painted on the south exterior wall. No one was injured.

Federal investigators from the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives linked the 2025 arson to Jamison Wagner, 40, of Albuquerque. Wagner was also charged in connection with a February 2025 firebombing of the Tesla Albuquerque Showroom in Bernalillo, in which two Tesla Model Y vehicles were destroyed and anti-Elon Musk graffiti was spray-painted on the building.

A search of Wagner’s Albuquerque home on April 12, 2025, uncovered eight assembled suspected incendiary devices, flammable liquids consistent with materials found at both crime scenes, black and red spray paint, and an “ICE=KKK” stencil matching the graffiti at RPNM headquarters, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. Investigators also identified Wagner’s white 2015 Hyundai Accent on surveillance footage from both scenes.

Wagner was charged with two federal counts of malicious damage or destruction of property by fire or explosives, each carrying a potential sentence of five to 20 years in prison. The U.S. Department of Justice sought the maximum 20 years on each count. The status of Wagner’s federal case could not be independently confirmed at press time.

Then-U.S. Attorney General Pamela Bondi called the 2025 attack part of “an ongoing wave of political violence” and vowed prosecution to the fullest extent of the law. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said at the time that “hurling firebombs is not political protest.”

In Monday’s statement, Barela explicitly tied the latest vandalism to the unresolved pattern she says state leaders have failed to address.

“The reality is that this type of behavior has been normalized in New Mexico in recent months because leaders in our state refuse to condemn it,” Barela said. “These actions, no matter who is the target, are completely unacceptable.”

No suspects had been publicly identified in connection with Sunday’s vandalism as of Monday morning.