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Thursday • February 19 • 2026

Vol.XVIII • No.VIII

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Urgent Call to Action: Oppose HB1050-FN

Wed, 2024-02-21 14:00 +0000

HB1050-FN, which claims to wish to establish a voluntary waiver of the right to purchase firearms, is up for a floor vote this Thursday and needs your immediate attention. This bill poses a significant threat to our rights and freedoms, introducing measures that could potentially impact gun ownership and individual liberties broadly.

HB1050 is a restriction on Second Amendment rights, creates precedents for further restrictive measures, and impacts individuals’ rights to self-defense without adequately addressing the underlying issues related to firearm misuse. It creates a sneaky avenue for so-called ‘red flag’ attempts and is a backdoor gun registry attempt.

We strongly urge all NH Firearms Coalition members to take immediate action by reaching out to your state representatives. It’s vital to express your opposition to HB1050-FN and communicate the importance of protecting our rights.

You can find your state representative’s contact information [here].

Emailing or calling your representative is a direct way to make your voice heard and influence the outcome of this legislation. Please ask your legislator to vote Inexpedient to Legislate on House Bill 1050.

The New Hampshire Firearms Coalition emailed legislators on your behalf, you can see that text below if it’s helpful in crafting your message. We need as many members writing legislators as possible to prevent this backdoor registry attempt.

Our letter to legislators:

HB 1050-FN, a bill to create a so-called ‘voluntary waiver for people who don’t want to purchase a firearm’ recently came out of the Criminal Justic and Public Safety Committee with a split recommendation.

The New Hampshire Firearms Coalition urges you to support the minority report of Inexpedient to Legislate when the bill comes to the floor for a vote. What need is there of the state wasting taxpayer dollars to support a list for people who don’t want to purchase a firearm—when all they have to do is just not buy one?

Frankly, such a list is not only expensive, but doesn’t make any sense. It doesn’t even include a funding mechanism.

More troubling, HB 1050-FN has a crafty clause in paragraph V, section II, which clearly indicates that a third party could place another person on this list.

II. Any person who knowingly gives any false information or makes any false statement with the intent of enrolling or removing another person onto or from the list shall be guilty of a class B misdemeanor.”

This bill would open up the floodgates of harassment of the many by the few who wish to interfere with a person’s 2nd amendment right to keep and bear arms.

This would make the state vulnerable to extensive litigation, which would constitute another waste of taxpayer dollars.

Again, NHFC urges you to vote Inexpedient to Legislate on HB 1050-FN.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.”

Help us oppose HB1050-FN by calling your State Representative today before Thursday’s floor vote and urging them to vote Inexpedient to Legislate! Together, we can safeguard our freedoms and ensure our rights remain intact for future generations.

Thank you for your dedication and support.

JR Hoell, Secretary
New Hampshire Firearms Coalition

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Lakewood Shooter Was An El Salvadoran Non-Citizen … Who Voted in the 2020 US Election

Wed, 2024-02-21 13:00 +0000

Genesse Ivonne Moreno was an El Salvadoan “immigrant” with a history of criminal conduct known to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). A woman (pretending to be a man named Jeffrey Moreno) who tried to shoot up a church in Austin, Texas, has since been described by authorities as … white.

Genesse Ivonne Moreno from El Salvador is documented as a White non-Hispanic.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t that shooter-bias appropriation? They want “Jeffrey” to be white, but it just ain’t so. Moreno might even be descended from the ancient Mayan culture, whose history, language, and heritage were colonized by the Spanish, whose language and culture her family was forced to adopt. In other words, she’s not a he; she might be Mayan, but she’s definitely not white.

The same thing happened to Geoge Zimmerman, a Hispanic man who shot Trayvon Martin in self-defense. An incident that turned him into a white Hispanic and the fully grown Trayvon into a child. Media magic and its growing a culture of distrust among Americans. It is no longer advisable to trust anything the legacy media reports. You’ll get more reliable news on the stall door of a public bathroom.

And as Ann Coulter noted on Bill Maher’s show recently – regarding another shooter –  we don’t know a lot, but what we do know is that it was not a white male. If it were a white man shooting, we’d know.

The speculation in KC is gang-related (yutes of color, perhaps), so that will disappear faster than you can say Genesse Ivonne Moreno (or Jeffrey) because there is no suitable narrative even after they’ve warped the truth. As for Moreno, that story comes with bonus opportunities to say WTF. Sara Gonzales, who is also not white, shared some interesting news about Moreno.

I think we can safely say she did not vote for Trump and that she is not the only illegal border jumper “known to ICE” who “voted” in the  2020 election—a known illegal with a criminal history who somehow obtained firearms and targeted a Christian Church.

Meanwhile, back in DC, the J6 persecutions continue…

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Has Mitch McConnell Massed Up Kelly Ayotte’s NH Gubernatorial Bid?

Wed, 2024-02-21 11:00 +0000

First, in case you have not been paying attention, Mitch McConnell and his allies backed the so-called “bipartisan” border bill NOT to secure the border (which it did not), but to take the issue away from Donald Trump and Republicans who support Trump.

That is, Mitch and his allies would rather continue to control the Senate GOP under a Democrat President and a Democrat majority in the Senate than lose control by having Trump in the White House and Republicans who support Trump in the majority in the Senate.

Kelly Ayotte’s politics are much, much closer to Mitch McConnell’s than to Donald Trump’s. But will she be collateral damage of the failed “bipartisan” border bill?

Ayotte’s campaign has been focused like a laser beam on the issue of illegal immigration and the support of her anticipated opponent, Joyce Craig, for “sanctuary” policies. And now … pre-primary … is the time to do it because Craig is in a bind. If she moves to the middle she cedes the issue to her primary opponent, which might be fatal considering how far Left the New Hampshire Democrat Party base is on this (and other) issues.

So Craig is doing the only thing she can … hiding behind the “bipartisan” border bill. When gently pressed by Adam Sexton on whether she would make New Hampshire a “sanctuary State,” Craig’s repeated answer was: bipartisan border bill. Not surprisingly, WMUR tendentiously titled the interview, Joyce Craig questioned on welcoming migrants as governor.

Will this strategy work in the general election? I don’t know … but if Ayotte loses to Craig, Craig should send a thank-you card to Mitch.

 

 

 

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Night Cap: School Board Member Busted for Racist Obnoxious Posts … Resigns (But It’s Not His Fault)

Wed, 2024-02-21 03:00 +0000

Northwood School Board Member Gary Caron has some interesting social media posts. We published some of them yesterday in advance of a meeting on that content scheduled for Wednesday. Rather than face the public and defend his exercise(s) of free speech in person, Gary has decided to resign.

However, that’s not his fault. He didn’t create the distraction that was those MAGA people (sharing his own words and stuff).

As a reminder, we explained that Gary always had a right to express himself freely, which he did, but that the townspeople who elected him might not think it was the sort of thing they thought appropriate for an elected representative…let alone a school board member.

And while Gary has resigned, acknowledging correctly that he broke no laws, he continues to demonstrate the complete disconnect between reality and his having internalized the approved anti-Trump narratives of the establishment uni party left (complete with a raging case of Trump Derangment Syndrome) and (remember) that’s not his fault. He has to be like this.

 

Smear campaign. Out of context. Private Twitter posts (publicly visible on the platform). A distraction. Autocracy – talk about projection, jeesh.

Again, in case you missed what “this” looks like – look here: content warning.

It’s a very amusing resignation, but having seen his X feed, I’m sure he believes all of it. Sadly, this will distract from the opportunity for Caron to be confronted publicly over his constitutionally protected expression by (now) former constituents or to defend it.

As for smearing him, he did that to himself. We merely shared his words and stated that he had a right to them but that Northwood parents and voters might have a different opinion. Rather than hear that and respond, he ran away.

At least he had already admitted to the double standard he both promotes and enjoys.

That’s not something you see every day.

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Categories: Blogs, New Hampshire

The New Hampshire House Is A National Laughingstock

Wed, 2024-02-21 01:00 +0000

So the New Hampshire House’s ludicrous “debate” over sexually explicit materials in middle school libraries went “viral” … and deservedly so. For example, Libs of TikTok is an X (Twitter) account with 2.8 million followers. See the post below. My comments follow.

Obviously, the Democrats come across as groomers, hypocrites, and thugs. Of course, it is likely that more people outside New Hampshire than inside New Hampshire know about this particular incident because WMUR, NHPR, etc., are mouthpieces for the New Hampshire Democrat Party. For example, this “reporting” by Ray Brewer keeps viewers/readers totally in the dark about the nature of the sexually explicit material being foisted on school children in New Hampshire. And here is some deflection by Adam Sexton … the “news” is that things are going sideways, NOT that the Democrats are trying to cover up the sexually explicit material in public schools:

And the Speaker, a Republican, comes across as a complete and utter buffoon … telling Rep Cordelli that he cannot read from a book available to middle school children if it is “graphic in any way,” calling the availability of the sexually explicit material in middle schools “a very sensitive situation for both sides,” Really? Seriously? We cannot talk about the specifics of sexually explicit material in public schools because it may hurt the feelings of the Democrats. What a BUFFOON. And what would you call the New Hampshire House Republicans for making this buffoon the Speaker?

But perhaps the best part is that the House apparently has a rule against “reading from a paper” (3:44). I hate this phrase, but … YOU CAN’T MAKE THIS STUFF UP.

And the grand finale to this FARCE. The House voted to keep sexually explicit materials in public schools. Again … YOU CAN’T MAKE THIS STUFF UP. The New Hampshire House is a national CLOWN SHOW a LAUGHINGSTOCK, and deservedly so.

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The Northern Border Crossing Crisis

Tue, 2024-02-20 23:00 +0000

The Southern border is where most of the action is, but the Swanton Sector (NY, VT, NH) has seen a 240% spike in illegal crossings. None of them Canadians (who increasingly have good reason to escape the wrath of Trudeau). A border problem a local hunter discovered and captured on his game cam.

[Chris] Feeley recalled being in his tree stand one morning when a startled group of deer unexpectedly ran by — followed by two men “of Mexican descent” with backpacks and walking sticks, one of whom was poring over the screen of his smartphone.

“He stopped right underneath me and was looking at his iPhone and was following a trail, so obviously somebody gave him a route of which way to go,” Feeley said.

“I was just stunned, I didn’t know what to do. I just let them walk off, I gave them 10 minutes before I went back to the barn to call Border Patrol.”

That call to border officials soon became a regular event for Feeley, who began spotting groups of migrants on his automated trail camera with increasing frequency.

“The receptionists know it’s me when I call,” he said. “They’re like, ‘Oh, hey, Chris, how’s it going?’ and I’m like, ‘Hey, I had some more just walk by my camera, if you want to send the boys up there.’ “

Mexicans entering from Canada. Map Apps on iPhones.

The New York Post reports that for $350.00, “migrants” can fly to Toronto or Montreal and then march south across the US border. Why is Canadian Customs even letting them out of the airport? Didn’t Tyrant Troodough promise to put a stop to that? I may have misremembered, but how subtle is a winter-time spike in Mexican “tourists” to the Great White North? And why don’t they just stay?

Because they have been instructed to go to America.

We’ve already reported on the South/Central American conveyor that moves millions on trains and buses to the Southern border. The UN and our own government are doing this to us. Now we’ve got Customs and Border Patrol warning residents near the Canadian border to carry a firearm.

Residents living near the United States-Canada border in Vermont have been told to watch out for illegal immigrants with criminal records amid an increase in crossings via unofficial ports of entry.

Customs and Border Patrol agents urged locals to carry a firearm just in case, noting that while the vast majority of undocumented newcomers are peaceful and simply in search of a better life in the US, there will be some who have a propensity for violence.

I’m not sure about the Swanton Sector of New York or Vermont, but in New Hampshire, that’s not going to be a problem.

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Pre-War “Concentration Camp” Gaza

Tue, 2024-02-20 21:00 +0000

It isn’t Zionists conflating Hamas with Gaza civilians. It’s the “pro-Palestinians.” ~ Elder Of Ziyon – Israel News

Video from the above link – RTWT:

 

Come Visit Gaza!

 

 

Another video – not sure of the provenance; I’ve been told this is atypical for the typical Gazan but still worth seeing:

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/we-had-a-great-life-in-gaza.mp4

 

Remember that Gaza journalist who misses life in pre-war Gaza?

Gaza journalist misses pre-Oct 7 Gaza (rumble.com)

Breezy terraces with what appears to be an excellent ambiance.  Beaches with people enjoying the sea.  And take a look at these market pictures.

Where is this open-air prison I keep hearing about?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here’s another video with material from just before Oct. 7:

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/gaza-just-before-oct-7.mp4

 

Another collection of marketplace stills:

 

 

Can anyone please tell me how the above align with either Open Air Prison or Concentration Camp?  Do concentration camps have spin classes, theme parks, and hotels?

Gaza Strip’s Arabs enjoy spin classes, fine dining, private beaches, theme parks, luxury hotels | JTF

Or plastic surgery?  Or obesity, particularly among women?  And a bunch more info here:

Pre-October 7th terror attack on Israel by Hamas, Palestinian Arabs and their useful idiots in the West accused Israel of turning Gaza into a “concentration camp” a.k.a. “the world’s largest open air prison” (barenakedislam.com)

Including a “cat café” and horseback riding lessons????  The above post also has an assortment of videos showing the horrific deprivations in Gaza.  And some videos pulled from a prior post of mine here:

Shopping mall opens in Gaza (youtube.com)

Ramadan: Gaza’s green markets are alive with colour (youtube.com)

First luxurious resort opens in Gaza Strip (youtube.com)

Gaza City 2022 | Palestine | Cities Around the Globe |Travels with Imam (youtube.com)

A Stroll Through Gaza | Islamic Relief Canada (youtube.com)

Gaza Palestine  Walking Tour | Gaza Strip Before The Attack 2023 | فلسطين غزة (youtube.com)

 

 

 

Not one bomb would have fallen either.  All the buildings in the “before” part of these picture-pairs would still be as they were.  NONE of these “before” images comport with either open air prison or concentration camp.  None.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

>>>>>=====<<<<<

 

Concentration camp?  Nope.

Open air prison?  Nope.

Weep at the loss of the Gaza that could have been…

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/the-gaza-that-could-have-been.mp4

 

>>>>>=====<<<<<

 

So let me wrap up with a picture of people in a REAL concentration camp:

 

 

You DO see the difference, don’t you?

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Categories: Blogs, New Hampshire

American Elections Are NOT Democratic

Tue, 2024-02-20 19:00 +0000

There are certain prerequisites to a functional democracy. Among these are limiting the vote to only legitimate voters, ensuring that the vote-count is legitimate, having an election-day as opposed to “early voting” for weeks prior to when the actual election is supposed to take place, and not allowing local election offices to be used as get-out-the-vote tools for the Party in power.

Equally important is that the voters get fully and fairly informed.

Stated somewhat differently, you can have voter ID, paper ballots, get rid of “early voting,” etc., etc., etc., and still not have a functional democracy if the government can censor the information available to voters (e.g., Hunter-laptop) and plant false information (e.g., Russia-bounties, the military are “suckers and losers”). America does NOT have a functional democracy because of government censorship.

Yes, it is a long listen. But if you don’t, then you are choosing to be uninformed and live in an alternative reality.

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The New Civic Listening Corps is a Government Funded Society-Wide Network of Snitches

Tue, 2024-02-20 17:00 +0000

You can’t have a proper tyranny without a vast network of informants ratting out friends and neighbors, but the Twitter files and interviews with folks like Mike Benz have put a hitch in the surveillance state’s steps. Encrypted chat apps are another problem, but the uniparty is nothing if not persistent.

Under the brand of “Civic Listening,” informant networks are now coming to the West. The concept has been embraced by the censorship industry’s network of nonprofits, research institutes and private companies that work to shut down disfavored political speech online. Spurred by concerns about the growth of private discussion groups on platforms like WhatsApp and Telegram, the censorship industry has turned to the cultivation of snitches to gain access to U.S. citizens’ private conversations.

One of the organizations at the forefront of creating this snitch network is Meedan, a San Francisco based nonprofit. The organization has received one of the largest federal grants ever awarded for a censorship program: $5.7 million in taxpayer dollars was awarded to it by the National Science Foundation (NSF) for its work to tackle “hate, abuse, and misinformation with minority led partnerships.” Meedan also received a smaller ($144,850) grant from the government-funded Open Technology Fund for a “claims and memes database” to monitor “fact-checked claims and debunked visual misinformation from internet repressive countries.”

These groups operate in at least two spheres. The first is as a tip-line to which the snitch sends the offending content or commentary. The AI-powered engine then generates a response the snitch can share to counter the misinformation.

Another function of the Civic Listening propaganda project is prebunking “the censorship industry’s plan to brainwash the public at scale by feeding them weakened versions of disfavored narratives before they encounter the real thing, biasing them ahead of time.

Funding so-called NGOs helps them get around the more direct action we saw revealed in the Twitter files with the combined result of chilling speech and making it more difficult for the average citizen to filter the noise they create.

It is devious and sinister, and you should be on the lookout for local evidence of it. That might require some folks to sign up and use these apps and tools to filter for responses that we can then look for in the digital universe. When you see them, we can say hey, that sounds exactly like the response coming from the government-funded censorship industrial complex.

Provide a screenshot, call them out, and maybe ban them from your Telegram, Messenger, Signal, or WhatsApp channel. Your call. We’re just here to let you know that this is out there, and I bet we’ll see it rear its head everywhere conversations are allowed, perhaps even in our comment section.

I do invite them to try. Our readers are not easily moved by watered-down arguments meant to pre-bunk or debunk. And they will bring receipts. But not every forum will be so well informed.

And please, let us know if you see any evidence of the pre-bunking apps especially applied locally.

One more. Trusted Messengers looks like another effort in the same vein. More on that here.

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