The Manchester Free Press

Saturday • May 2 • 2026

Vol.XVIII • No.XVIII

Manchester, N.H.

CARDELLO: If You Need to Explain the Joke, It Wasn’t Funny

Granite Grok - 4 hours 49 min ago

I gave up on late-night TV, specifically late-night comedy, when Jay Leno left the scene. Maybe we were spoiled growing up with Johnny Carson and Jay Leno, but I think we witnessed the end of an era and with it, a period of good humor. These guys were funny, and it was never in a ... Read more

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The Independents: They Called It ‘Settled Science.’ Now It’s a Criminal Case

Granite Grok - 6 hours 49 min ago

Yesterday, the Department of Justice indicted David Morens—a longtime senior advisor to Anthony Fauci—on charges including conspiracy and destroying federal records. Translation? The COVID narrative wasn’t just “messy science.” It was engineered. In this episode of The Independents, I break down how “settled science” was manufactured—from the Peter Daszak-orchestrated Lancet letter to the suppression of ... Read more

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Categories: Blogs, New Hampshire

MACDONALD: “Race” and Redistricting

Granite Grok - Fri, 2026-05-01 21:00 +0000

Is there a court left for the Democrats to run to after the US Supreme Court’s redistricting ruling in Louisiana v. Callais? Racially gerrymandered congressional districts are illegal. The Voting Rights Act, the very thing the Dems have used to waterboard extra seats in Congress in the name of civil rights, is now their worst ... Read more

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Categories: Blogs, New Hampshire

UNDERWOOD: EdOpt Fair in Candia this Monday

Granite Grok - Fri, 2026-05-01 18:00 +0000

The EdOpt Fair in Candia is taking place today! Co-organized by Kathy Carlson from Jesse Remington High School and Education Options. Come join us and meet all these providers: Don’t forget to stop by the EdOpt table if you want some guidance. Looking forward to seeing you there! Please share with your friends.

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Categories: Blogs, New Hampshire

Friday Meme Thing

Granite Grok - Fri, 2026-05-01 16:00 +0000

Reminder: Memes are memes and are neither “fact-checked” nor do they (necessarily) represent the opinion of Grok Media, LLC, GraniteGrok.com, its sponsors, readers, authors, or advertisers. Brought to you by the number eleven and two. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... Read more

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Categories: Blogs, New Hampshire

BEST: YDC Abuse Victims Tell Supreme Court State Broke Promises?

Granite Grok - Fri, 2026-05-01 14:00 +0000

Hi Damien [Fisher], Re: YDC Abuse Victims Tell Supreme Court State Broke Promises Do you know how Nixon Peabody are allowed to represent the plaintiffs at all in the YDC cases? It’s a supreme conflict of interests. Not a minor one. A massive one.  Nixon Peabody’s own client, NHCADSV, is contracted with DCYF and DOC ... Read more

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Categories: Blogs, New Hampshire

Morning Update: Lawsuits & Election Integrity

Granite Grok - Fri, 2026-05-01 11:00 +0000

Today, on the Morning Update, Donald Trump’s DOJ sued New Hampshire (and several other states) for refusing to cough up its voter rolls. The State AG is asking that the case be dismissed, insisting their voter rolls are clean, but we know they are not. 00:00 Federal Lawsuit on Voter Integrity01:51 Election Integrity Challenges in ... Read more

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Categories: Blogs, New Hampshire

OPINION: For All The Debbie Doubters

Granite Grok - Fri, 2026-05-01 09:00 +0000

They really think Trump has no clue what’s going on, when in reality, he now controls the flow of 36%+ of the world’s crude oil supply, and just forced the nations of the world to buy oil from us, and Venezuela, which Trump conveniently already secured, along with the Panama Canal. Now, Trump’s focus is ... Read more

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Categories: Blogs, New Hampshire

CLINE: MA Refugees Have Brought $6 Billion in Personal Income to NH Since 2012

Granite Grok - Fri, 2026-05-01 02:00 +0000

Movers from Massachusetts to New Hampshire brought with them $5.95 billion in net adjusted gross income (AGI) from 2012-2023, IRS data show, representing a massive transfer of wealth from the high-tax Bay State to low-tax New Hampshire.  New Hampshire’s net personal income gain from Massachusetts movers grew tenfold from 2012-2019, then suddenly doubled to a ... Read more

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Categories: Blogs, New Hampshire

Right Side Up: Disorderly Conduct

Granite Grok - Fri, 2026-05-01 00:00 +0000

This week on Right Side Up, Alison and I discuss Chittenden County State’s Attorney not prosecuting disorderly conduct, Telecom siting, and new S.325 Regional Planning language. Watch on the ‘Grok Rumble Channel if the embedded video does not load. Get More Right Side Up Here Check out all of our other podcasts. Get More Morning ... Read more

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Categories: Blogs, New Hampshire

MACDONALD: If Karoline Leavitt was a Democrat

Granite Grok - Thu, 2026-04-30 21:00 +0000

The self-proclaimed party of women’s empowerment has gone in a very weird direction in recent years. After decades of girl power BS, they decided that it was time to stop pretending. Girls and women needed to be conquered by the patriarchy. Completely. They are not only attempting to normalize the practice of calling men in ... Read more

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Categories: Blogs, New Hampshire

OPINION: AI Fraude ;-) – Another Breakfast With Claude

Granite Grok - Thu, 2026-04-30 18:00 +0000

A unscripted conversation between one-old-conservative and Claude (Anthropic) — April 2026 Backgrounder: This is another in a series of original GraniteGrok articles on Artificial Intelligence (AI), written by one old conservative and Anthropic’s Claude 4.6 from an unscripted chat over breakfast. Before beginning the chat, I uploaded a 260-word text file containing a recap of ... Read more

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Categories: Blogs, New Hampshire

MACDONALD: Biden Admin Used “Benghazi” To Launder 90 Million to Planned Parenthood

Granite Grok - Thu, 2026-04-30 16:00 +0000

Democrats are not just dirty dogs, they are conniving crooks, the depths of whose malfeasance may never be fully plumbed. The federal welfare fraud has been epic and ignored, if not wholly encouraged. One of Obama’s key initiatives was, after all, to get as many people connected to the federal teat as possible. Biden doubled ... Read more

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Categories: Blogs, New Hampshire

KLAR: ‘The Official MAHA Movie’

Granite Grok - Thu, 2026-04-30 14:00 +0000

Filmmaker Tells the Story of a People’s Movement to Reclaim their Government and their Health In his brilliant new documentary, filmmaker Jeff Hays tells the story of the MAHA movement and exposes the regulatory capture of our public health agencies that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ran for president to warn us about. The Official MAHA ... Read more

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Categories: Blogs, New Hampshire

Morning Update: SNAP Fraud Gone Wild

Granite Grok - Thu, 2026-04-30 11:00 +0000

Today, on the Morning Update, we all knew there was fraud in federal grants, welfare, aid, and other programs, but it is clear the scope is significant, and democrats (mostly) don’t want it found or are just denying it exists. The Left is going long to prevent people from finding more of it, but I’m ... Read more

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Categories: Blogs, New Hampshire

OPINION: New Hampshire – The Most Dangerous Place On Earth

Granite Grok - Thu, 2026-04-30 09:00 +0000

My daughter is 18 years old, always wise and successful beyond her years, and thanks to the state of New Hampshire, traumatized beyond her years. A place she treasured and called home — by the time she was 12, she deemed New Hampshire the most dangerous place on earth. Not because of its people, but ... Read more

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Categories: Blogs, New Hampshire

OPINION: President Trump to consider putting Arlington County back under DC

Granite Grok - Thu, 2026-04-30 02:00 +0000

The Virginia Special election to amend the state constitution to allow gerrymandering represents a historic crossroads not only for American history, but for both political parties and the voters as an electoral body. For VA state democrats, it is the beginning of an unforgivable direct assault on the sovereignty and security of Virginia’s electoral system. ... Read more

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Categories: Blogs, New Hampshire

Granite Discourse:  Victor Orlando

Granite Grok - Thu, 2026-04-30 00:00 +0000

In this installment of Granite Discourse, Victor Orlando is a small business owner and a family man. He owns his own roofing company and is running for US Congress as a Republican in NH’s CD-2 race. Authors’ and Speakers’ opinions are their own and may not represent those of Grok Media, LLC, GraniteGrok.com, its sponsors, ... Read more

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Categories: Blogs, New Hampshire

BREAKING: Federal Judge Sides w/NH EC on Emissions Testing Contracts

Granite Grok - Wed, 2026-04-29 21:00 +0000

We predicted that Gordon-Darby never stood a serious chance of winning this, and it looks like we are well on our way to being right. According to Councilor John Stephens, the effort by Gordon-Darby to force the state to renew a contract it canceled was dismissed. The Executive Council is the sole repository of this ... Read more

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Categories: Blogs, New Hampshire

KLAR: Why We Must Listen to the Vaccine Injured

Granite Grok - Wed, 2026-04-29 18:00 +0000

Just a few years ago, most Americans were anxiously lining up to receive an experimental vaccine for a dreaded new disease dubbed “Covid-19.” Fast forward to 2026, and more Americans are declining that vaccine as the disease has become relatively innocuous. Meanwhile, the vaccine-infatuated have stridently blamed this shift on the vaccine-deniers. The American Academy ... Read more

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Categories: Blogs, New Hampshire

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