Tuesday • February 3 • 2026
Vol.XVIII • No.VI
Manchester, N.H.
From Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, a list – since sometimes it’s nice to have one – of 64 documented incidents when the President of the United States deliberately undermined border security.
There may be more, but exactly how many do you need, especially in an election year, after Biden’s administration had claimed (repeatedly) there’s no there there, or, later, that they were doing something about what they’d claimed wasn’t there. Sure.
Here’s the list.
WASHINGTON — Last week, in a weak attempt to shift blame for a crisis their own policies created, the White House clumsily tried claim that House Republicans had an “anti-border security record” by voting to “eliminate over 2,000 border patrol agents and erode our capacity to seize fentanyl.”
These claims were demonstrably untrue, previously disproven, and underscored the Biden Administration’s failure to secure our southern border, marked by record high crossings in December and widespread national recognition that the situation at our border is a crisis.
“Since his first day in office, President Biden and his administration have worked to systematically undermine America’s border security,” Speaker Johnson said. “On more than 60 occasions, he has manipulated the federal bureaucracy to open our borders to illegal immigrants, human trafficking, fentanyl, and potential terrorists. The result is a humanitarian and national security catastrophe. The President must use his executive authority to repair what he has broken. I am calling on him to do so. “
Below are 64 instances of the Biden Administration undermining border security policy and encouraging illegal immigration. Click here to download this document with source links and corresponding data on encounters, number of children smuggled, and fentanyl seized.
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Here’s a story that hasn’t even broken in the press yet. At Saturday’s Town Meeting in Hooksett, New Hampshire, someone advanced a motion to cut 750,00.00 dollars from the school budget, and it passed! Wait, there’s more.
Emphasis, mine.
Saturday, February 3, 2024, Hooksett Deliberative School Session Update. Hooksett, NH, citizen Todd Lizotte made a motion to remove $750,000 from the Hooksett School District budget to help taxpayers with the ever-increasing tax burden they are experiencing in Hooksett, NH. The motion passed 24 Y – 22 N, with the Moderator confirming with a raised hand count.
The people on the losing side called for a “secret ballot.”
The Moderator discussed this with Hooksett School District Attorney Gordan Graham and declared that it was ok to move forward in this direction and called for the Supervisor of the Checklist, who would be needed to register voters for the secret ballot, to return to the polls. A significant amount of time passed before the Supervisor of the Checklist could return to the deliberative session. During that time of waiting, you could see the folks on the losing side of the vote all on their cell phones begin calling friends to get down to Cawley Middle School to vote and the Moderator allowed it.
Seeing this, the scene became unbelievable and chaotic, with citizens from both sides of the vote frantically calling friends and neighbors to come down and vote. Soon, the place was then packed with voters. The secret ballot vote was tallied, and the motion to remove the $750,000 from the Hooksett School District proposed budget for 2024-2025 passed anyway….52 Y – 34 N…so from the end of the legal vote until the time the secret ballot was taken, the deliberative session attendance grew from 46 registered voters to 86 registered voters.
Hooksett, can we do better than this? It is a sad day for Hooksett, New Hampshire!
Cutting the school budget to help taxpayers with the ever-increasing tax burden…caused almost entirely by the school budget. It’s only the best place to begin the process, so congrats to Hooksett and kudos to Todd Lizotte for the motion.
I hope you stick the landing because I can do more than imagine the chaos when this goes wide.
The Croydon Budget Battle is another example of locals doing something about out-of-control school spending, and that story went national after they cut the budget in half. The schoolies lost their minds, so I’m wondering how long it will take for Hooksett’s Public School Mafia to bring an extortion or pressure campaign to get “their” money back.
They don’t like it when budgets go down, even when their budget is the most significant expense in every town, and for what? Not much. And hey, in the end, only eighty-six registered voters weighed in from a town population of just under 15,000. That likely means at least 9-10,000 people didn’t have a say (by their own choice – they didn’t show up), and someone will insist they deserve to be heard. But that’s not how elections work. You don’t get a say if you don’t show up to vote.
Sorry, that’s how elections are supposed to work.
We’ll try to keep an eye on it, but we expect the radicals to start whining about losing music, theater, or sports when what they could do is trim administrative overhead without losing any of that, even though none of what they threaten they’d lose ever has a thing to do with learning to read and write. If not, then they will say they have to cut teachers. No, you don’t. Start in the SAU. Dispense with a few admin assistants to the assistant to the whoever. I’m sure you’ve got some.
Hey. does Hooksett waste money on gender studies BS, CRT, or DEI? Being taught to be bitchy, easily triggered dependents doesn’t have any educational value, either. Cut those jobs first.
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Larry was kind enough to not evict Timmy in the middle of his lease, but he has resolved to not renew the contract with the unpleasant tenant. After all, Larry owns the property and can do whatever he wants with it.
But according to current state law, Larry is forced to let Timmy stay on his property indefinitely.
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On January 11, 2024, the AG’s office issued a Cease and Desist Order to Mayor Donchess for electioneering during the 2021 campaign. Electioneering is a criminal misdemeanor under RSA 659. That year, against the vote of the Board of Alderman, the Mayor led a ballot initiative to change how the police commissioners would be appointed.
The Mayor was campaigning to win public support to permit him to appoint the Police Commissioners.
The AG’s office also cited 3 Board of Alderman members for electioneering as well and issued cease and desist orders to President Wilshire, Vice President Michael O’Brien, and Alderman at-large Ben Clemons.
Where did they go wrong? They used governmental equipment associated with the public funded TV stations in Nashua to individually promote their positions on politics.
The Mayor’s remarks to the New Hampshire Journal show his all too visible lack of leadership, ownership, and responsibility for his actions. He believes that going on the governmental TV station six days before the election to campaign for his position to change the appointment of the commissioners was merely engaging in a debate. Mind you, the “debate” ran about 26 times.
Apparently, the mayor believes that a debate involving only me, myself, and I, namely Hizzoner, constitutes the proper deliberations for the legislative body. Did he really go to law school?
The Merriam-Webster dictionary describes a debate relative to law and government as the formal discussion of a motion before a deliberative body according to the rules of parliamentary procedure. Mr. Mayor, do you really believe that holding a debate with only yourself constitutes a debate? Should the public trust you to fairly pitch both sides or the argument?
Next, the mayor criticizes the AG’s office for violating his First Amendment rights. That accusation is particularly laughable given what’s been going on in Nashua for the last three years. The mayor feels very comfortable violating the First Amendment rights of the people who participate in their government and seek redress.
The city is involved in numerous lawsuits for civil rights violations centered on criminalizing a citizen for accessing records and also for an Aldermen, while in the PUBLIC Chamber, brandishing his degree as a licensed social worker to call out a citizen, whom he has never treated as a patient, as a child predator.
Nashua’s Aldermanic Chamber is a place for gaslighting, mobbing, and bullying, designed to marginalize citizens and take away their rights.
The mayor simply fails to show the leadership qualities that the citizens of Nashua deserve. As my Ward Aldermen representative stated to me, the Mayor can do whatever he wants. He doesn’t have to follow the law. Certainly, Nashua’s leadership has had free reign for years and operates with impunity. Isn’t it time for Nashua to operate within the Constitutional and State Statutes?
Holding your government accountable is a basic right of every citizen.
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Travis O’Hara isn’t technically a bad Republican vote. If and when he shows up (not showing up for crucial votes is certainly bad), his HRA score for 2023 was a hair over 90%. You judge what that means, but as you do, please also consider his ready embrace of progressive language.
In his recent defense of a vote to let municipalities milk citizens who pursue public documents (HB1002), he was quick to embrace Liberal smears.
For the record, I’m not saying there are no frivolous witch hunts, but shouldn’t ensuring transparency and access to the business of their government supersede that? Why is it better to fine everyone in every instance for what may be a paltry few cases of ill will meant to slow down the gears of government for no legitimate purpose?
If you’d like to know what extremist is, it might be Republicans choosing a new levy for the government before the transparency interests of people who can’t afford it.
Related: HB1002 Passes The House: These Republicans Voted for a New “Tax” on Public Records Access (Update)
HB1002 will make open government untenable for many middle and low-income constituents, creating inequities that limit access or any in-depth investigation or scrutiny to only those who can afford it. People of means, well-funded NGOs, lobbyists, and a few deep-pocketed activist groups. Those whose very interaction with the government likely deserves more public scrutiny.
And has it occurred to no one who supports this bill that it will encourage the behavior that municipal supporters seek to hide from their citizens, and are you prepared to argue that this is not the case? Nashua, Rochester, and Londonderry come immediately to mind as recent trouble spots, but there are others.
So, perhaps what is extreme is that GraniteGrok is more willing to stand up for citizens against their government, but if the extremism reference is more general, let’s cover that before we close.
What is extremist about defending free speech, the right to self-defense, medical freedom, bodily autonomy, property rights, women’s safe spaces, low taxes, education freedom, limited government, and affordable food and energy? We fight for the rights of farmers, police and first responders, veterans, and children.
We unapologetically defend the US and New Hampshire Constitutions and those who do likewise and, in the case of the right to know, side with citizens over the government, which, as a matter of process, like the constitution themselves, serve to constrain potential abuses of power or subject them to sunlight by ensuring the press and public can, at any time investigate and potentially expose bad behavior.
There is a reconsideration vote this week on HB1002.
Travis is prepared to vote for it another 100 times, but we hope that most Republicans will recognize that his is the extreme position. HB1002 will make the government less transparent, less accessible, and less accountable. Is that what you were elected to do in Concord, or was it the reverse?
One more point. Two recent Nackey Loeb School First Amendment award winners (Donna Green and Laurie Ortolano – both contributors to GraniteGrok) won that award for taking right-to-know public document obstruction cases to the State Supreme Court and winning.
Not everyone can afford that, an inequity HB1002 brings down to street level.
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A growing list of potentially intractable problems confronts the alternative meat industry, which includes both plant-based substitutes and cultured “cell-grown” meats.
Consumers have not managed to swallow the fake taste (beet juice may be a sad substitute for beef blood), the Beverly Hills pricing, or the growing awareness that the counterfeits are highly processed and largely dependent on monocultured plant crops such as corn, soybeans, and wheat that present their own environmental challenges. Much as they have in the EV and solar panel markets, buyers are waking up to a triple-shill: Fake meat “alternatives” seem to be overpriced, unpalatable, and pollute the planet despite claims of climate rescue.
Launched as eco-friendly, healthful alternatives to the horrors of industrial animal processing, fake meat ventures have attracted billions of dollars from investors to match the marketing buzz. Businesses eager to tap the anticipated goldmine have crafted a plethora of faux foodstuffs to fuel the hype. However, the market for fake/alternative meats has been declining sharply and will likely witness more decreases in 2024, including attrition as small players are gobbled up by the better-capitalized.
A Tale of Two BrandsTwo prominent producers that have seen their fake meat fortunes quickly wane are Upside Foods and Beyond Meat. The catchy names attracted a lot of investment dollars, but the profits have yet to follow. Upside Foods, a Bill Gates darling, launched into the “cultivated” or “lab-grown” sphere. Beyond Meat manufactures simulated chicken nuggets and other meat imposters from plant ingredients. Both companies amassed enormous sums for their undertakings; both have encountered choppy operational waters.
Upside Foods obtained USDA approval to manufacture and sell lab-grown chicken in 2023. The promotional sales pitch was an “industry-disrupting” venture “with a planned annual capacity of tens of millions of pounds of cultivated meat products.” The company has allegedly failed to produce a single pound of cultivated meat at a profit, unable to overcome processing hurdles to achieve production at scale.
Beyond Meat lost sales precipitously since 2022, in both supermarkets and restaurants. Its stock price has dropped some 90%. Many other fake meat start-ups are shrinking or folding, as product novelty wears off and consumer wallets close. One investment site counsels to avoid Beyond Meat: “This stock is likely headed to zero within the next few years unless it can make a miraculous turnaround.” It is not just Beyond Meat but the entire simulated meat industry that is praying for a Hail Mary market rescue.
Is Fake Meat Junk Food?Despite all the marketing hype, fake meat promotions have not delivered on their rosy promises, and consumers are savvy. The proof is displayed on grocery store shelves:
“[A] new global survey of 1,000 consumers for vegan firm Strong Roots found that despite 61% of consumers increasing their plant-based intake, 40% are reducing or cutting out fake meat from their diets.
“Almost half (47%) said taste was behind the decision, followed by 36% who cited artificial additives and another 36% who stated it was the processed nature of the products which changed their habits.”
Clearly cost is also a factor for those struggling with food as well as energy and housing inflation. However, live beef prices are rising and expected to break records in 2024 due to low US inventories: This could make factory-fabricated alternatives more affordable, but they still have work to do in the taste and healthfulness departments. It is unclear whether either of those challenges can be overcome. Consumers avoiding highly processed foods loaded with odd additives may select fresh vegetables or revert to a grass-fed steak rather than ingest fabricated simulations that will never be organic or genuinely fresh.
Backlash by farmers and food activists also continues against synthetic meats. Italy has banned the stuff, though that may be challenged if the European Union decides to approve cultured meat. But government imprimatur does not equal consumer approval.
Renewables Implications Consumers appear to be losing affection for EVs and solar panels as well. Much like the fake food industry, the fake energy industry has overpromised and delivered disappointments. EVs are very expensive, and despite large regressive subsidies and government marketing, sales are plummeting. Like faux meats, the products do not deliver as more people learn of the pollution and labor abuses involved in their manufacture, the problems of lithium mining, and vehicle disposal (not so “renewable” after all). Threats to the electric grid, vehicles stalled uselessly in the recent cold spell, and plummeting used EV prices have dulled consumer appeal. Solar panels and heat pumps are confronting similar shortcomings.The significant problems that overshadow the fake meat, EV, and solar panels industries seem to be turning customers and investors cold, causing some analysts to predict sharp market retractions in 2024.
John Klar is an Attorney, farmer, and author. Mostly farmer… And Regular Contributor to GraniteGrok and VermontGrok.
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Of the 106 hearings in the House, we are recommending support of 18 and opposition of 12 with 8 being of interest.
Of the 18 hearings in the Senate, we are recommending support of 0 and opposition of 1 with 2 being of interest.
| Position | Bill | Title | Committee | Day | Time | Room | State Analysis |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Of Interest | HB1473 | relative to social-emotional learning in public schools. | Education | Mon 2/5 | 10:15 AM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill prohibits the teaching of curriculum for social emotional learning in public schools. |
| Support | HB1298 | relative to the definition of part-time teachers. | Education | Mon 2/5 | 12:45 PM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill defines “part-time teachers” and subjects them to the board of education’s professional code of ethics and professional code of conduct. |
| Support | HB1458 | relative to authorizing parents to remove children from the English Language Learner Program. | Education | Mon 2/5 | 1:15 PM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill allows parents to remove their children from the English language learner (ELL) program, automatically removes them if they have not received ELL services in the last 2 years, and puts the burden on the local school district to appeal removals. |
| Of Interest | HB1496 | relative to the state’s duty to protect children in public schools. | Education | Mon 2/5 | 1:45 PM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill adds a provision stating that the state, acting as the temporary guardian for children in public schools, has a duty to protect those children. |
| Of Interest | HB1692 | relative to public high school graduation requirements. | Education | Mon 2/5 | 2:15 PM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill revises the requirements for public high school graduation by adding a requirement to earn a minimum competency score on the statewide assessment administered in high school. |
| Of Interest | HB1682 | relative to the civics test graduation requirement. | Education | Mon 2/5 | 3:00 PM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill provides authority for schools to use the department of education provided civics test to satisfy graduation requirements. |
| Of Interest | HB1573 | relative to oversight of and criteria for residential placement of children. | Children and Family Law | Tue 2/6 | 9:30 AM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill revises criteria for the out-of-home placement of children and increases oversight and certification criteria for out-of-state residential treatment programs. The bill also expands the definition of abuse or neglect under RSA 169-C to include a child in certain residential placements. |
| Support | HB1582 | relative to allowing for the consumption of alcohol in artist performance areas. | Commerce and Consumer Affairs | Tue 2/6 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 305 | This bill includes the stage and performance areas in the definition of entertainers under an exception to liquor license requirements. |
| Support | HB1151 | relative to the carrying of alcoholic beverages on hotel premises. | Commerce and Consumer Affairs | Tue 2/6 | 10:30 AM | LOB Room 305 | This bill allows a guest of a hotel to purchase a drink at a hotel bar or restaurant and carry it back to the guest’s room. |
| Oppose | HB1591 | relative to fines for prohibited sales of tobacco. | Commerce and Consumer Affairs | Tue 2/6 | 11:00 AM | LOB Room 305 | This bill moves fines for tobacco-related violations from statute to administrative rules, adopted by the liquor commission. |
| Oppose | HB1162 | relative to teaching discrimination in public schools and discrimination in public workplaces. | Education | Tue 2/6 | 11:00 AM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill provides that no education law of this state shall be construed to bar any school employee from teaching the historical or current experiences of any group that is protected from discrimination. The bill also repeals provisions of the law relating to the right to freedom from discrimination in public workplaces and education. |
| Oppose | HB1671 | relative to the complaint process for teaching discrimination and allowing educators and school officials a right of action for damages and costs for false accusations. | Education | Tue 2/6 | 1:00 PM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill provides that complaints for teaching discrimination first be made to the local school board and are appealed to the state board of education. The bill also allows educators or other school employees falsely accused of teaching discrimination to initiate a civil action for legal or equitable relief. |
| Support | HB1616 | relative to parental consent for student participation in Medicaid to schools program. | Education | Tue 2/6 | 2:45 PM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill requires schools to obtain parental consent for each service is provided to a student under the Medicaid to schools program. Violation of the requirement would subject the educator to disciplinary action by the state board of education. The bill also requires certain legislative policy committees to receive reports regarding the Medicaid to schools program. |
| Of Interest | SB531 | relative to background checks of municipal health officers. | Election Law and Municipal Affairs | Tue 2/6 | 9:00 AM | LOB Room 103 | This bill provides that municipalities shall be responsible for reviewing criminal background checks of nominated health officers, with oversight of appointments by the department of health and human services. The bill is a request of the department of health and human services. |
| Oppose | HB1504 | relative to architectural paint recycling. | Environment and Agriculture | Tue 2/6 | 3:30 PM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill establishes an architectural paint recycling program administered by the department of environmental services. |
| Support | HB1331 | relative to dentists licensed in another country. | Executive Departments and Administration | Tue 2/6 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 210-211 | This bill allows the board of dental examiners to grant a limited dental license to applicants licensed in another country. |
| Support | HB1526 | relative to a conditional veterinary license for veterinarians educated in other countries. | Executive Departments and Administration | Tue 2/6 | 1:45 PM | LOB Room 210-211 | This bill enables the board of veterinary medicine to issue a conditional veterinary license for veterinarians who are educated in other countries. |
| Support | HB1029 | relative to exempting certain persons from requiring a New Hampshire landing license if such persons are not landing for the purpose of the sale of the lobster or crab they have caught. | Fish and Game and Marine Resources | Tue 2/6 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 307 | This bill exempts certain persons from requiring a New Hampshire landing license if such persons are not landing for the purpose of the sale of the lobster or crab they have caught. |
| Oppose | HB1148 | relative to the fish and game commission. | Fish and Game and Marine Resources | Tue 2/6 | 10:30 AM | LOB Room 307 | This bill makes changes to the fish and game commission including notice of appointment, qualifications, and misconduct and removal from office. |
| Support | HB1532 | relative to land owner rights and responsibility pertaining to game cameras and tree stands. | Fish and Game and Marine Resources | Tue 2/6 | 11:30 AM | LOB Room 307 | This bill allows a tree stand to be erected from August 1 to June 1. This bill also allows for the placement of game cameras on a property with the owners’ permission. |
| Oppose | HB1100 | relative to coyote hunting. | Fish and Game and Marine Resources | Tue 2/6 | 1:30 PM | LOB Room 307 | This bill prohibits hunting coyote during certain months to coincide with coyote pup rearing. |
| Support | HB1063 | relative to motor vehicle speed within 10 miles per hour of the speed limit. | Transportation | Tue 2/6 | 9:30 AM | LOB Room 203 | This bill allows motor vehicles to lawfully travel 10 miles per hour over the speed limit in certain circumstances. |
| Support | HB1403 | relative to temporary vehicle emission control equipment. | Transportation | Tue 2/6 | 10:30 AM | LOB Room 203 | This bill extends the repair period for vehicles that fail the OBD II test to 90 days. |
| Of Interest | HB1637 | relative to reducing requirements for vehicle inspections. | Transportation | Tue 2/6 | 11:00 AM | LOB Room 203 | This bill reduces requirements for vehicle inspection. |
| Support | HB1247 | relative to requiring the display of certain information concerning Selective Service registration at driver licensing and school military recruiting locations. | Transportation | Tue 2/6 | 1:00 PM | LOB Room 203 | This bill requires a form to be available at locations of state driver’s licensing and at schools hosting military recruiters concerning registration with the Selective Service System. |
| Oppose | HB1244 | prohibiting smoking and e-cigarettes in motor vehicles when a passenger is under 16 years of age. | Transportation | Tue 2/6 | 1:30 PM | LOB Room 203 | This bill prohibits smoking and e-cigarettes in motor vehicles when a passenger under the age of 16 is in the vehicle. |
| Oppose | HB1467 | relative to child passenger protection. | Transportation | Tue 2/6 | 2:00 PM | LOB Room 203 | This bill requires a motor vehicle restraint system for motor vehicle operators and passengers under 18 years of age. |
| Of Interest | HB1339 | relative to department of safety firearm background checks. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Wed 2/7 | 10:30 AM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill requires the department of safety to be responsible for conducting the required firearm background checks for federal firearm licensees through NICS for all firearm transfers. |
| Oppose | HB1462 | relative to requirements for reporting hate crimes. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Wed 2/7 | 11:00 AM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill establishes reporting requirements for hate-based crimes. |
| Of Interest | SB373 | relative to the state building code. | Executive Departments and Administration | Wed 2/7 | 9:00 AM | SH Room 103 | This bill updates the state building code definition. |
| Oppose | SB401 | relative to removing the prospective repeal of the New Hampshire granite advantage health care program and trust fund. | Health and Human Services | Wed 2/7 | 10:00 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill removes the prospective repeal of the New Hampshire granite advantage health care program and trust fund. |
| Support | HB1300 | relative to terminal patients’ right to try act. | Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs | Wed 2/7 | 10:15 AM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill revises the definition of eligible patient and terminal illness for purposes of the patient’s right to try act, expands the criteria for informed consent, and removes references to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for purposes of defining an investigational drug or device. |
| Of Interest | HB1283 | relative to end of life options. | Judiciary | Wed 2/7 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 210-211 | This bill establishes a procedure for an individual with terminal illness to receive medical assistance in dying through the self administration of medication. The bill establishes criteria for the prescription of such medication and establishes reporting requirements and penalties for misuse or noncompliance. |
| Support | HB1377 | relative to granting workers free choice to join or refrain from joining labor unions. | Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services | Wed 2/7 | 9:30 AM | LOB Room 307 | This bill prohibits collective bargaining agreements that require employees to join or contribute to a labor union. |
| Oppose | HB1388 | relative to recusal by members of the general court for conflicts of interest. | Legislative Administration | Wed 2/7 | 10:30 AM | LOB Room 203 | This bill defines “conflict of interest” and makes provisions for the recusal of members of the general court for conflicts of interest. |
| Support | HB1479 | relative to prohibiting the use of federal, state, or local funds for lobbying activities. | Legislative Administration | Wed 2/7 | 11:00 AM | LOB Room 203 | This bill regulates the use of public funds for lobbying activities and establishes certain additional enforcement mechanisms. |
| Support | HB1202 | relative to the issuance of permits for the alteration of driveways exiting onto public ways. | Public Works and Highways | Wed 2/7 | 10:45 AM | LOB Room 201 | This bill establishes certain deadlines for issuance of permits for the alteration of driveways exiting onto public ways. |
| Oppose | HB1360 | relative to emergency authority on the public or coastal waters of the state. | Resources, Recreation and Development | Wed 2/7 | 2:00 PM | LOB Room 305 | This bill allows the department of safety to establish an emergency maximum speed limit on public and coastal waters for up to 10 days due to weather or environmental conditions. |
| Oppose | HB1611 | relative to establishing a child care workforce fund. | Special Committee on Childcare | Wed 2/7 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 209 | This bill establishes a child care workforce fund. |
| Support | HB1567 | relative to zoning provisions concerning family and group family child care uses. | Special Committee on Childcare | Wed 2/7 | 1:30 PM | LOB Room 209 | This bill generally requires family and group family child care programs to be allowed as an accessory use to any primary residential use under local zoning and planning regulations. |
| Support | HB1584 | relative to home day care licensing requirements. | Special Committee on Childcare | Wed 2/7 | 2:00 PM | LOB Room 209 | This bill exempts from child day care licensing requirements private homes in which care is provided for up to 4 children in addition to the provider’s own children. Current law permits care for 3 additional children. |
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On Thursday afternoon, the New Hampshire House voted on CACR20, legislation that would place a question on the ballot asking voters if they wished to amend the New Hampshire Constitution to include a provision stating that New Hampshire declares independence from the union once the DC politicians rack up a debt of $40 trillion.
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Yesterday, I placed a mid-size donation into a fund that seeks to reimburse US Border agents and soldiers who choose to continue their work in an alliance with the Texas Guard or the volunteer groups now establishing themselves to protect Americans’ lives and property.
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The ongoing opposition of Texas to the feds on the border issue and where is Trump, why is he not capitalizing on this issue? Does POTUS have authority to stop States’ National Guards from going to another State to enforce the border; the proposed deal in the senate to allow more immigrants in; should Trump do more to raise the enthusiasm of the republican voters? How important is the upcoming special congressional election on February 13th in Nassau County, NY? Severe prison sentences for pro-lifers vs light or no sentences for BLM peaceful protesters? Should Trump more publicly protect and stand up for Peter Navarro?
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On Wednesday morning, NHexit.US announced that local liberty activists in New Hampshire have hired a chartered airplane pilot to fly a pro-independence banner over the three largest cities in the state. Over the past few years, the calls for serious discussions on peaceful separation of New Hampshire from DC and the union have grown dramatically. New Hampshire is already home to the most influential liberty movement in the world.
Notable events since 2021 include:
This Saturday, an airplane banner could be added to that list. The tentative plan is for the banner to fly over Nashua, Manchester, and Concord. If you look up while in one of these cities, you just might be able to snap a photo or record a video of the banner. We encourage our readers to post their photos to social media with the tags #NHexit, #secession, and #NHpolitics.
Additionally, the question of secession will be asked by another highly reputable pollster. The University of New Hampshire is currently conducting a political survey that includes multiple questions related to New Hampshire independence. The results could be published within days or a few weeks.
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A recent poll conducted by SurveyUSA on behalf of the Foundation for New Hampshire Independence (FNHI) shows that while the peaceful separation of New Hampshire from the federal government has low support among politicians, it has significant support among registered voters.
According to an overwhelming number of respondents, the people of the United States are getting more and more divided over important issues like LGBT rights, guns, abortion, election integrity, race relations, involvement in foreign wars, climate change, immigration, and so on (91%). Nearly as many fear that if this trend continues, it will lead to increases in political violence (89%).
Large majorities of respondents agreed that the federal government doesn’t have their best interests in mind (67%); that it violates their rights more than it protects those rights (65%); that it produces laws, regulations, and court rulings that are incompatible with New Hampshire’s culture of freedom (63%); and that its financial decisions and economic regulations hurt our livelihoods, and could lead to inflation and bankruptcy (77%).
In short, 63% of respondents feel that their state can be trusted more than the federal government.
One possible way forward would be for New Hampshire to begin ignoring federal laws and regulations regarding matters reserved to the States by the 10th Amendment. Fewer than half of respondents believe that the federal government should be able to force New Hampshire to follow federal mandates and laws regarding cannabis (27%), medicine (37%), public health (42%), education (41%), welfare (42%, firearms (42%), businesses (38%), and abortion (33%).
This approach, also referred to as ‘nullification’ is common, currently being utilized by dozens of states, and is consistent with the recent enactment of New Hampshire HB 1178, ‘prohibiting the state from enforcing any federal statute, regulation, or Presidential Executive Order that restricts or regulates the right of the people to keep and bear arms’.
However, a more comprehensive way forward would be for New Hampshire to reclaim its sovereignty, peacefully separating from the federal government to govern itself as an independent country, an idea that was supported by 29% of respondents and 52% of Republicans. Only 58% of respondents do not support immediate and full secession from the federal government today. More than 2/5 of respondents agreed that the state should be able to do this without securing permission from the federal government (43%). And only 3% of respondents would support the use of military force by the federal government to interfere with such a separation.
Again, while politicians declined to put the question to the people, more than 2/5 of respondents support the idea of placing independence on the ballot (42%) while only 47% currently oppose it.
History is filled with proposals that seemed at first to be politically impossible, but after serious discussion and evolving circumstances, proved to be politically inevitable. To take just one example, shall-issue laws for concealed carry licenses, once viewed as extreme, are now the law in nearly every state. As the results of this poll show, peaceful separation already has more support now than shall-issue laws had in 1990. Today, not only is shall-issue the norm, but 25 states allow their residents to carry concealed guns without even requiring a permit. If New Hampshire independence follows a similar path, it may only be a few short years away from broad adoption.
The survey also found strong support for independence and extreme discontent with DC politicians among all 8 states polled. In Texas, 90% of Republicans recently endorsed putting secession on the ballot, officially placing the position in their platform. California progressives have a strong independence movement of their own, and surveys show that around half of Californians support or are open to independence from the union. Progressives in Hawaii, Oregon, and Washington also support independence. States like South Carolina, Florida, and many other states have new independence movements that are rapidly growing, as well.
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Over the past few weeks, a group of pro-freedom activists in New Hampshire has been holding informal meetings to brainstorm how to best promote independence in the next legislative session. Predictably, progressive authoritarians have already begun to attack the concepts of independence and liberty. A few conservatives cling to hope that they can fix DC and all 50 states, convince all Democrats to embrace conservative liberty values, and ‘save America’.
I have written dozens of articles, published three books, and produced hundreds of videos making the case for a national divorce from the authoritarians. Here are just 100 reasons why every New Hampshire citizen who supports freedom should support a bill and a ballot referendum on independence from DC.
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