Post pagination shows 20 most recent posts

I have a theme that uses a Custom Post type to display blogs as shown here. A list of clickable images that represent my blog posts.

There are as I write this 70 such blogs on the database.

“blog pages show at most” 1 posts. – This is the only setting that seems to make pagination links show up at all.

In code, the “posts_per_page” property is set to 10.

The pagination I need seems to be working but only for the first 2 pages of posts to the most recent 20 posts (10 per page).

I’m at a loss. How do I get the rest of the posts to show up? Is it possible for a custom post type?

index.php

<?php 
/* 
    Template Name: index.php - blog_posts CPT
*/
?>

<?php $page_title = "Home"; ?>

<?php require("template-parts/header.php"); ?>

    <section class="article_block_primary">
            
        <?php get_template_part("primary","content"); ?>  

        <?php require("template-parts/content-blocks/primary.php");  ?>

    </section>

    <section class="article_block_secondary">

        <?php get_template_part("content", "secondary-content"); ?>

        <?php require("template-parts/content-blocks/secondary.php");  ?>

    </section>

<?php require("template-parts/footer.php"); ?>

primary.php

<?php //echo "primary.php"; ?>

 <!-- Blog Posts Custom Post Type Loop -->
 <?php 
            
            $paged = ( get_query_var( 'paged' ) ) ? get_query_var( 'paged' ) :  get_query_var( 'paged' );
            $args = array('paged' => $paged); 
            $query = new WP_Query( $args );

            $blog_posts = new WP_Query(

                array(
                    'post_type' => 'blog_posts', //
                    'posts_per_page' => 10, // posts per page - CPT
                    'paged' => $paged
                )
            );
            
            $latest_post = new WP_Query( 
                
                array(
                    'post_type' => 'blog_posts', //
                    'posts_per_page' => 1, // This is the amount of posts per page you want to show

                )
            );
        
        ?>
        
        <?php if( $blog_posts->have_posts() ) { ?>

                    <!-- pagination -->
                    <div class="next"> <?php next_posts_link( 'Older Posts' ); ?> </div>
                    <div class="previous"> <?php previous_posts_link( 'Newer Posts' ); ?> </div>

                    <?php 
                        echo paginate_links( array(
                            'base'         => str_replace( 999999999, '%#%', esc_url( get_pagenum_link( 999999999 ) ) ),
                            'total'        => $query->max_num_pages,
                            'current'      => max( 1, get_query_var( 'paged' ) ),
                            'format'       => '?paged=%#%',
                            'show_all'     => false,
                            'type'         => 'plain',
                            'end_size'     => 2,
                            'mid_size'     => 1,
                            'prev_next'    => true,
                            'prev_text'    => sprintf( '<i></i> %1$s', __( 'Newer Posts', 'jgdm_blog' ) ),
                            'next_text'    => sprintf( '%1$s <i></i>', __( 'Older Posts', 'jgdm_blog' ) ),
                            'add_args'     => false,
                            'add_fragment' => '',
                        ) );
                    ?>

                    <?php the_posts_pagination( array('mid_size' => 3)   ); ?>

                    <!-- // The content you want to loop -->   
                    <?php while ( $blog_posts->have_posts() ) {                      
                        
                        $blog_posts->the_post();

                    ?>           

            <article>

                <article class="article_title"> 

                    <?php if( get_field('article_featured_image') ): ?>
                        <img />" />
                    <?php endif; ?>

                    <a>">

                        <div class="article_blurb">
                            
                            <?php if( get_field('article_title') ): ?>
                                    <h2>  <?php the_field('article_title'); ?> </h2>
                            <?php endif; ?><!-- 70 chars -->
                            
                            <?php if( get_field('article_blurb') ): ?>
                                 <?php the_field('article_blurb'); ?> 

                            <?php endif; ?><!-- 250 chars -->

                        </div>

                    </a>

                </article>

                <article class="author_block">

                    <div class="author_information">

                        Author: <a>/jgdm_blog/author-page/" class="author_links" alt="Author information" title="Author information"><?php echo get_the_author_meta( 'nicename', $author_id ); ?> </a> 

                        Posted: <a>/jgdm_blog/site-archive/" class="author_links" alt="Author information" title="Author information"><?php echo get_the_date("F j, Y g:i a"); ?> </a> 

                    </div>

                </article>

            </article>          

        <?php  }   //end while ?>

        <?php } else {  //end loop content ?>

            <article>
                <!-- If No content found-->
                <h3 class="article_title">No Content</h3>

                <p class="article_content">No Posts Available

                <?php esc_html_e( 'Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.' ); ?>

            </article>

        <?php } ?> <!-- the wordpress loop end -->

        <!-- Reset post data -->
        <?php wp_reset_postdata(); ?>
        
        <!-- pagination -->
        <div class="next"> <?php next_posts_link( 'Older Posts' ); ?> </div>
        <div class="previous"> <?php previous_posts_link( 'Newer Posts' ); ?> </div>

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