I want to stipulate first that no government is in a position to dictate to its people whether someone’s statements are truthful or not. It is up to each individual to determine the validity of what they hear or read and ascertain its authenticity.

Our First Amendment right to Free Speech prevents explicitly such action. But, don’t let a little thing like the United States Constitution stand in the way of Joe Biden and this out-of-control, incompetent administration. This government is so paranoid of the power of free speech that they have chosen to take action that I hope will be challenged and shut down by the Supreme Court.

DHS Secretary Mayorkas disclosed this week, during his testimony before Congress, that a “Disinformation Governance Board” had recently been created to combat online disinformation. Politico reported that Nina Jankowicz, who previously served as a disinformation fellow at the Wilson Center, will head the board as executive director. Jankowicz knows a lot about truth as she has been professing the Hunter Biden Laptop was a product of the Russians and the Trump campaign.

The timing of this announcement comes on the news of Elon Musk successfully buying Twitter. They are paranoid that Elon Musk will expose them as the people who have censored content on Social Media for the last five years. Elon Musk bought Twitter to return it to its original state as a platform for “Absolute” Free Speech. Free Speech without moderation, IE censorship, will expose and destroy the Biden Administration.

Interestingly, this board was created within the Department of Homeland Security. DHS Secretary Mayorkas has lied to us for fourteen months that our border is secure. Now he will be in charge of a board that’s purpose is to cleanse information, so we are only exposed to the truth.

“Rather than police our border, Homeland Security has decided to make policing Americans’ speech its top priority,” Republican Sen. Josh Hawley tweeted. “They’re creating a Disinformation Board. No, really. And take a look at the views of the leftist radical running it.”

There has been no information about how this board will operate and how they will control the content. Still, their target is the dissemination of information via the Internet. It is obvious the only content they will be watching will be Twitter. Apparently, the administration feels they have adequate control over the mainstream media.

This administration that has taken us down a perilous road with their poor decisions will now protect us from free speech. This administration has lied to us about Afghanistan, transitory inflation, Putin’s gas hikes, the border situation, Joe’s business dealings with Hunter, and even Joe’s mental fitness. They now want us to trust them to discern truth from lies for us. I don’t think so, Joe, but thanks. We are all set and will watch and listen for ourselves.

I hope their fear is justified. I hope Elon Musk lives up to his word, destroys the Twitter algorithms, and lets the light shine on these people who have been manipulating the truth for years. I hope Joe’s paranoia is justified, and the power of free speech is what brings down the Joe Biden House of Lies.

 

 

Ray Writes for GraniteGrok.com and the Liberty Loft

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So the latest in a long series of disastrous moves by the Biden Administration involves forgiving student debt—another attempt to buy votes with public money via gross fiscal mismanagement.

The U.S. Department of Education canceled student loan debt for 40,000 people and seeks to help another 3.6 million pay off their loans. Those who already paid off their contracted loans must feel foolish—much as immigrants who played by the rules and waited in line to come here legally must feel foolish watching the current administration enable thousands of illegals to cross our borders daily.

Part of the reason for student debt involves the high cost of college, something due in part to universities hiking tuition in response to earlier loan programs. Salaries for professors and administrators skyrocketed. Many college presidents make more than the U.S. President.

But college faculty members channel much of their newfound largesse back to their Democratic congressional patrons.

Political contributions are public record. It’s a shameful shell game that’s left students debt-ridden. Now the likes of Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders are at the forefront of the loan forgiveness movement. So consider that Warren “earned” $429,821 as a part-time instructor at Harvard during 2010-11. Or that Sanders’ wife made many hundreds of thousands of dollars as president of Burlington College before it went bankrupt.

Throwing federal money around has long been a Democrat hallmark. The orgy of public spending over the past two years led to the current inflation mess. It would have been far worse had not Republicans put brakes on some of it. And Democrat Senator Joe Manchin deserves credit as well.

Injecting trillions of dollars of new spending into our economy caused our terrible inflation. It’s as simple as that—although Dems try to blame Vladimir Putin or climate change or whatever for the mess. Yet brainwashed college students still largely support Dems as evidenced by vote totals out of Durham, Hanover, or Keene—as colleges hire ever more directors of “Diversity, Equity, and Social Justice” and the like.
These young people would be better served by learning about economics and the horrible damage that our public debt is doing to their futures. But Warren, Sanders, Joe Biden, and Nancy Pelosi are all around 80 years of age and will be long gone when the spending chickens come home to roost.

Further consider that New Mexico channeled COVID relief funds into tuition grants for illegal immigrants as the Biden administration ends Title 42 border restrictions. While this guarantees escalating border chaos, many Dems welcome the influx of the undocumented. It worked well in turning California blue, despite $6 a gallon gas prices, 13% state income tax rates, and 7% sales tax rates. But the Golden State’s high taxes allow government to grow and public employees are staunch Dem supporters who rule the roost out there. Californians are trapped.

Public employee pension liabilities are crippling the likes of California, Illinois, New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Rhode Island—blue states all. This explains the migration to red states and is a cautionary tale for New Hampshire, where progressives seek to establish similar blue state policies and programs.

The Granite State’s so-called education funding crisis is a case in point. Education spending has never been higher despite a huge drop in public school attendance, concurrent with a drop in assessment scores. Progressives cry out for property tax relief—meaning new broad-based taxes. The circular logic of bringing about tax relief by imposing new taxes didn’t work in the aforementioned blue states and it won’t work here.

The good news is that in this information age reality eventually sets in and truths emerge. More good news is that the November elections are only seven months away. These elections are opportunities to change course not only in Washington but all over the country.
Should voting patterns evolve in places like Durham, Hanover, and Keene then we’ll see encouraging evidence that many young folks in our education communities are finally learning some valuable economic—and political—lessons.

 

 

State Representative Mike Moffett of Loudon is a retired professor and former Marine Corps officer. He vice-chairs the House Committee on State-Federal Relations and also serves on the House Education Committee.

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Imagine a story about the wife of a creepy molester who used his career in Washington to enrich himself and his family. A work of non-fiction. A tale compiled from a deep dive into headlines in newspapers worldwide.

That book would sell.

And it still may. Joe Biden’s history of abuse and corruption could eventually get told, but will it sell? It’d sell better than “Jill: A Biography of the First Lady” by Julie Pace and Darlene Superville.

These two AP reporters convinced someone to pay them to write a book about Mrs. Joe Biden. The woman behind the hair-sniffing, boob grabbing, naked-swimming, kid coddling, credibly accused rapist, racial slurring Obama “point-man” whose family made millions peddling his political access and favors for cash.

And what about these two words? Hunter Biden. A rotten apple that never fell from Joe’s tree. The son that wasn’t Beau. The crack-smoking conduit of corruption, Burisma Board, Chinese-partnering Biden son who had a kid with a prostitute.

 

 

But “Jill: A Biography of the First Lady” isn’t about that (hey, she married into that family after all). It can’t be about them and the authors must have gone out of their way to keep all of that out (I didn’t read it either). But we know it’s not in there, or we’d have heard and book sales would be…better.

Just mention the laptop, and Jill’s book sales soar.

It’s not about that either (again, the sales tell us so). It’s about boring old nobody Dr. Jill Biden (without mentioning the fakeness of the Dr – bit) and her journey absent all the crap Joe pulled or tried to pull (Cheating, lying, plagiarism, lying).

In other words, two AP reporters have produced a book almost no one wants to read about a woman who – to a real Democrat – should have left the bastard years ago and taken at least half his illegitimate and ill-gotten gains. But she stuck it out, and look!

She’s one of the least interesting First Ladies in recent memory about whom few want to know more – even inside the DC machine.

The woman whose legacy will be little more than a case of domestic elder abuse in exchange for the sort of attention and access few women will ever enjoy.

I doubt that’s in the book, or people would be buying it.

Oh, and one more point. The featured image is from Jill’s White House page. Is it me, or does that picture look decades old? And I’m not saying she isn’t pretty or wasn’t ever beautiful, but she doesn’t look at all like that now.

More deception is the point. Did she get that from Joe, or is “Dr.” Jill Biden like that too?

 

 

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I received an action alert from FRC, notifying me that the Senate Judiciary Committee is expected to take up the nomination of Nancy Abudu tomorrow!

The FRC further asked me to call my US Senators, Ms. Hassan and Ms. Shaheen, to voice my concerns about the nomination of Ms. Nancy Abudu to the US Court of Appeals in the 11th Circuit, a seeming conservative circuit, where Ms. Abudu will lend “balance and progressive ideals.”

Currently, Ms. Abudu works as interim director for strategic litigation at the Southern Poverty Law Center, which she joined in 2019, after serving as the Legal Director of the ACLU in Florida.  Unfortunately, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has become an increasingly corrupt organization known for tarring its political opponents with its patented “hate group” brush and their usual inflammatory rhetoric.

Years ago, the Southern Poverty Law Center took on causes we could get behind: it forced the Alabama state police to admit black candidates and won a redistricting case that helped black candidates win elections for the first time since Reconstruction; it represented Vietnamese fishermen harassed by the KKK and sued the latter crowd into oblivion; it saved the Tarboro Three, three black men who were wrongfully convicted of raping a white woman, from death row.

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Today, Democrat politicians and their handmaidens in the media, Big Tech, and corporate America consider the SPLC’s “hate group” list to be the flickering candle by which supposed “dangerous right-wing organizations” are read, measured, and come up wanting – organizations that always foment home-grown American terror and rebellion unlike those greater destructive forces on the left.

Just last month, an SPLC representative testified in Congress asking Big Tech and the government to target “hate groups” for increased censorship, amid the usual blather about the 1st Amendment, in the name of fighting white supremacist terrorism.

Interestingly, after the murders, arson, and injuries that recently plagued many cities, the SPLC has been silent about the atrocities and fiscal malfeasance laid at the feet of Black Lives Matter. With chants like “Pigs in a blanket, fry-em like bacon” and “What do we want? Dead Cops!,” BLM has created an atmosphere of contempt and bitterness and has incited violence against law enforcement officers all across America. In no way has the killing and wounding of law enforcement officers dampened the left’s enthusiasm for the BLM, but has served to excite many.  And SPLC is decidedly silent on the litany of BLM’s nefarious activities, from arson resulting in murder to disbursement of 521(c)3 donations to enrich its leadership with jewelry, autos and palatial homes.

However, on the other hand, SPLC has indicated that it doesn’t condone the actions of Antifa.  However, the SPLC won’t label Antifa a “hate group” because its members don’t discriminate against people based on race, sexual orientation or other classes protected by anti-discrimination laws.  No, Antifa simply beats senseless anyone they dislike, from cops, to passers-by, and journalists like Andy Ngo.

“There might be forms of hate out there that you may consider hateful, but it’s not the type of hate we follow,” Richard Cohen, SPLC’s president, somewhat archly stated when quizzed.

While Abudu led the ACLU of Florida as Legal Director, she challenged residency restrictions on convicted sex offenders, arguing that they were unconstitutionally restrictive. Doe v. Miami-Dade Cnty., 846 F.3d 1180 (11th Cir. 2017). She also unsuccessfully challenged Palm Beach County’s policy of suspicionless drug testing for applicants to be substitute teachers. See Fridenberg v. Sch. Bd. of Palm Beach Cnty., 911 F.3d 10 (11th Cir. 2018).

From 2005 to 2013, Abudu worked at the ACLU Voting Rights Center. Among the prominent cases she argued there, Abudu unsuccessfully challenged felon disenfranchisement provisions in Mississippi, see Young v. Hosemann, 598 F.3d 184 (5th Cir. 2010), Arizona, see Harvey v. Brewer, 605 F.3d 1067 (9th Cir. 2010), and in Tennessee. See Johnson v. Bredesen, 624 F.3d 742 (6th Cir. 2010).

From 2013 to 2019, Abudu led the ACLU of Florida as Legal Director. Among the matters she handled, Abudu challenged Felon re-enfranchisement provisions passed by the Florida legislature, arguing that they were discriminatory based on gender. See Jones v. Gov. of Florida, 15 F.4th 1062 (11th Cir. 2021), which was rejected by the Eleventh Circuit, which found that the suit could only succeed with evidence of intentional discrimination, and such evidence didn’t exist.  Abudu also submitted Florida’s felon disenfranchisement policies to the United Nations Committee on Human Rights for review of human rights violations, according to a press release from the ACLU of Florida, entitled ‘Democracy Imprisoned’ from September of 2013. Abudu joined the ACLU of Florida in a suit unsuccessfully challenging the denial and delay in hormone therapies to a transgender inmate in Keohane v. Fla. Dep’t of Corr. Sec’y, 952 F.3d 1257 (11th Cir. 2020).

It becomes quite apparent that many of the cases Abudu involved herself with entailed further indulging the inane whims of convicted criminals, where the latter serves as one of the legs supporting the Democrat stool.  The other legs consist of illegal immigrants, and their critical Democrat votes; the dead, who overwhelmingly vote Democrat; and students, who are to be coddled by eliminating their educational debts in return for the votes of this poorly educated mob, who feel America has failed them like the lack of jobs being offered to those who have majored in gender and women’s studies and transgender management.

Additionally, before calling on our dear senators, Jeanne Shaheen and Maggie Hassan, remember that beyond Abudu’s brief stints at Skadden Arps and as a staff attorney with the Eleventh Circuit, Abudu has spent almost her entire legal career as a civil rights attorney, a dime a dozen with the ACLU, their Voting Rights Project, at the ACLU of Florida, and the Southern Poverty Law Center.

While waiting for Hassan’s office in DC to open and field our calls, we must also remember that both Shaheen and Hassan and their Democrat confreres have used Skadden Arps*, Abudu’s single private firm employer, to perform legal investigations for them on the “opioid crisis”, the activities of local law enforcement, federal student loans and managing our borders, all under the rubric of Preparing for Democratic Oversight Investigations. (https://www.skadden.com › – › media › files › publications › 2018 › 11 › chartpreparingfordemocratic)

So, here we have a dedicated ACLU and an SPLC attorney whose senate acceptance for the 11th Circuit will add a hardcore Democrat, who has never served as a judge nor made any usable or understandable rulings, to a decidedly conservative Circuit and who has also been employed by a private law firm with deep ties to the Democrats and our own Democrat US Senators.  Shaheen and Hassan have used Skadden Arps to prepare for their investigations of governmental programs serving and protecting us through our taxation and programs.

While we have never heard Shaheen and Hassan ever call Antifa and BLM to task for their ruinous campaigns of rampaging and riots, we can guess that they are both more than willing now to cast their votes in the US Senate for Ms. Abudu because they have been told to and because it’s finally time to insert an ACLU lawyer into the dreaded 11th Circuit Court of Appeals.

How placing this woman in the 11th Circuit will help us in New Hampshire remains as big a mystery to me as to how a non-judge with a lengthy background in aiding the criminal class will decide issues using our Constitution, a scrap of paper which those she works with despise.

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That would be William Lia Thomas, who went from #462 in the world to #1 – just by saying that he was now a she.

Totally destroying all women’s records just by showing up, he gets to do in the women’s locker room that which would get him arrested if done on a street corner wearing an old, torn, and crusty trenchcoat.  Instead, he’s lauded as being a trendy trans.

J.P. Sears, in his trademarked fashion of satire and humor, wades into Thomas’ “Woke pool” and makes Thomas look like the jerk he really is.

Note: there are a couple of moments in this video that may be NSFW (not safe for work) – especially if you are surrounded by sexuality Wokesters.

 

(H/T: Awaken With JP)

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Yeah, I thought I’d be fine enough to set it up but I was wrong. Had a minor medical procedure yesterday and when I came home late in the afternoon, I was in no shape to even GET near a keyboard.  If you have ever watched America’s Funniest Home Videos with the teens still under sedatives after visiting a dentist?  Yeah, that was me when the Eldest called.  I have no memory at all about the call but TMEW did! Yep, I was made sport of. And when I got up at 11pm-noon time yesterday (I DID make one smart decision and went right to bed), she reGALED me of how that call went. What’s worse, I’m going to have to listen to the Eldest the next time he comes over – and he’s GOOD at taking that kind of stuff and using it against me for YEARS.

This is gonna suck. For years he’s gonna look at me and won’t be able to stop snickering at me. And he won’t even have to say a word why; and he will know that I know why he’s snickering…

So, that’s where I’ve been the last two days and much appreciation to Steve for covering for me. And yes, I’m fine (even as I’m writing this at 4 in the morning as my time cycle is all screwed up).

So have you ever been under and blabbing? Anyways, this is your thread – do with it as you please!

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Nothing about COVID reporting has ever been honest. Money and headlines have driven the details from testing to cases to hospitalizations to deaths. It’s been about marketing the vaccine, but they’ve flipped the script.

States that pushed COVID vaccination as a path to a new normal have created a new normal but not the one they promised. Safe and effective is still a lie they can’t stop telling, but most COVID cases continue to be among the vaccinated.  The “cure” makes you more susceptible after about three to five weeks, and after a year of telling the Jabbed to mingle freely, increasing numbers of them have gotten COVID or died from the Jab itself.

Last year the cover-up for the off-season spike in “flu” was to call it a pandemic of the unvaccinated. They filtered or massaged data to make that look true. But places like Israel and the UK didn’t scrub. It later became evident that this was the case everywhere.

And Pfizer (and, likely the FDA) knew all of this before the march of the mandates.

Fast forward to now, and State data on hospitalization has changed. Where before, they wanted to show more cases to spread terror (and cash in), they are now draining the data downward. New Hampshire actually announced the change.

 

“In an announcement Tuesday, the Department of Health and Human Services said it had redefined COVID-19 hospitalization to include only patients being treated with remdesivir or dexamethasone, drugs used for hospitalized patients with moderate to severe illness. Those hospitalized with milder symptoms or primarily for another cause are no longer included — even if they continue to take up a hospital bed because they are too ill to be discharged.”

The change is part of a national trend and one backed by the Biden administration in February. Separating out cases involving severe disease, the administration said, gives public health officials a more nuanced picture of COVID-19’s impact and, therefore, a better guide for policy decisions.

 

Unless you are actually in the death by hospital protocol, the state no longer counts it as a COVID hospitalization, and these changes are again at the behest of the tampering meddlers at COVID central down in DC.

When they say nuance, it is a lot like when the Warmists tried to hide the decline. Global Temperatures were not cooperating. The Planet was not warming. The models were all wrong. So, they conspired to hide this fact and changed the marketing to ‘Climate Change.’

Today, with COVID, it’s to hide the incline.

Our oldest Americans are also the most vaccinated—up to 95% in some states. You know, the people the unvaccinated we’re told they were going to kill. It turns out that the vaccinated virus carriers were killing them and still are – or putting them in the hospital.

Add to that the habit of the vaccinated of all ages getting the flu in spring and summer when cases used to drop, and you’ve got another vaccine-fraud nightmare.

If you change the reporting to hide the incline, your failed vaccine doesn’t look as bad. It also leaves room to report a dramatic spike in “hospitalizations” in the future to justify mail-in-ballot mules (again) before a midterm election (or something).

So, a prediction: watch for more “guidance” before the end of the summer that flips the latest tack on its head and back to the old way of lying about things COVID.

And no, it isn’t just New Hampshire. Most New England States appear to have begun massaging the data downward; they just haven’t announced it.

 

 

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State Rep Mike Sylvia Committing Civil Disobedience in 2014

State representative Mike Sylvia of Belmont – the main sponsor of CACR 32, the historic NH Exit constitutional amendment – has spoken out via his blog on the subject of New Hampshire Independence. Written just days prior to the full house vote, Sylvia’s excellent piece is titled, “Sovereign State Or Branch Office of D.C. Inc.”  In it, he demolishes the arguments against secession.  You can read it here on his blog, but I have also pasted the text below to ensure it is not taken down if his site goes away at some point:

Sovereign State Or Branch Office of D.C. Inc.

In 1784 the people of New Hampshire formed a government, founded upon the sovereignty of the people. The people shared with that government a limited portion of their own sovereignty which was detailed in Part II of the New Hampshire constitution. Notably, the people retained to themselves rights which could not be infringed upon nor delegated to others. This is known as our New Hampshire Bill of Rights which make up Part I of our constitution.

The people of New Hampshire declared our State to be forever a sovereign state.

[Art.] 7. [State Sovereignty.] The people of this state have the sole and exclusive right of governing themselves as a free, sovereign, and independent state; and do, and forever hereafter shall, exercise and enjoy every power, jurisdiction, and right, pertaining thereto, which is not, or may not hereafter be, by them expressly delegated to the United States of America in congress assembled.

In 1787 the Constitution for the United States was created. In 1791 the Bill of Rights was amended to the constitution. This included the 9th amendment;

The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

And the 10th;

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

Note how well those amendments fit with the preexisting NH Constitution Part I, Article 7, [State Sovereignty.] The people of this state have the sole and exclusive right of governing themselves as a free, sovereign, and independent state; and do, and forever hereafter shall, exercise and enjoy every power, jurisdiction, and right, pertaining thereto, which is not, or may not hereafter be, by them expressly delegated to the United States of America in congress assembled.

In the majority report recommending that CACR32 be inexpedient to legislate three ill-conceived reasons are relied upon.

First, “Nowhere in our US Constitution does it allow the federal government to permit any state to secede.” If one reads and understands the 10th amendment to the US Constitution, one can clearly see that lacking the explicit delegation of the power to prevent secession means that secession is retained to the states or the people. The majority report is self-defeating and lacks any logic.

Second, the majority claims that the ‘perpetual union’ was then ‘perfected’ under the US Constitution therefore it must continue for eternity. An honest look at the historical facts will reveal that we no longer hold to the Articles of Confederation; clearly that union was not perpetual. In fact, one can consider the formation of a new government under the US Constitution to have been an act of revolution.

Lastly, the Civil War settled the question. This argument is the very simple and brutal ‘might makes right.’ This is a bit odd when balanced with the concept of a contract between states. If force is that which holds the union together then there is no state sovereignty. If sovereignty is held by D.C. Inc. one might be forced to consider whence that sovereignty came.

It is quite sad but predictable that a committee named State Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs would be so subservient to the powers of the National government which regards its founding document with such little concern.

With such weak arguements against the proposed amendment to our constitution, the author of the majority report felt the need to move beyond reporting on the bill into the realm of questioning the character of the sponsors. He demands that D.C. Inc. punish those whom question authoritarian rule from the swamp. He even goes as far as threatening those whom might dare to vote for such a proposal.

Still straying from the content of the amendment the writer implies that the General Court should punish those whom follow the State constitution and view the State as the sovereign state that it is.

Insecure in his failed reasoning, he resorts to threatening charges of rebellion for those whom might dare vote to send a constitutional amendment to the people of the state. He further implies that the NH House remove voting rights for presumed rebellion.

REBELLION: Deliberate, organized resistance, by force and arms, to the laws or operations of the government, committed by a subject.

I’m almost disappointed that he didn’t whip out the big one:

Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.

Let me end with one more jewel from our Bill of Rights:

[Art.] 30. [Freedom of Speech.] The freedom of deliberation, speech, and debate, in either house of the legislature, is so essential to the rights of the people, that it cannot be the foundation of any action, complaint, or prosecution, in any other court or place whatsoever.

The authors of our founding documents knew tyranny all too well, if we open our eyes today, we can see it coming back around.

Open your eyes.

(The “Majority Report” from committee member Brodie Deshaies appears below:)

CACR 32, relating to independence. Providing that the state peaceably declares independence from the United States and proceeds as a sovereign nation. INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE.
Rep. Brodie Deshaies for State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs. The committee believes that articles of secession are unconstitutional and therefore impossible. Any attempt to make NH a “sovereign nation” only purports to do so and is illegitimate. There are three main arguments the committee heard. The first legal argument why states cannot secede from the union is reasonably understandable. The federal government is the only legitimate power to admit new states and to extend or retract territorial boundaries. Nowhere in our US Constitution does it allow the federal government to permit any state to secede, let alone for any state to decide unilaterally. Our constitution is quite clear on this issue (see Article IV, Section 3). No state constitution has ever suggested that states hold this power. Constitutions are implicit contracts with citizens that grant governments specific powers. With no power explicitly given allowing secession, no state can ever secede. Another argument lies in the US Supreme Court decision in Texas v. White (1869). In the court’s majority decision, Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase explained that the union began during the Revolutionary War amongst the colonies. In his decision, he writes, the union “was confirmed and strengthened… and received definite form and character and sanction from the Articles of Confederation… [and] by these, the Union was solemnly declared to be perpetual.” Justice Chase then says that our current Constitution was “ordained to form a more perfect Union,” which intended to convey the idea of indissoluble unity….” Therefore, the union can never be dissolved. Our form of government and Constitution is predicated upon the union’s “perpetual” existence. Without this “perpetual” existence, we would be throwing away the union, and with it, the US Constitution. The last constitutional argument is straightforward. It does not matter whether or not secession is illegal. What matters is that the union beat the confederacy in the Civil War. Once this happened, the illegality of unilateral secession was de facto established. The legality of secession was answered at Appomattox Court House in 1865 with the conclusion of the Civil War. It also means the repercussions for attempting unilateral secession have been decided too. The federal government must punish states and their leaders who try to secede. Which leads us to another question: can state leaders introduce or vote for articles of secession? This is currently an open question and the NH General Court would decide the answer. Nonetheless, the 14th Amendment, Article III, is very clear: “No State Legislator shall engage in rebellion against the Constitution.” Voting for NH’s proposed articles of secession could be determined by the NH House as rebellion against the US Constitution. It could be casting a vote to rebel against the union and, therefore, the same constitution establishing the perpetual union. Voting for CACR32 is not voting for a referendum. NH does not have referendum. We encourage fellow lawmakers to reject NH’s articles of secession and protect constitutional government. Not only is CACR32 logistically and constitutionally impossible, but NH’s articles of secession may require enforcement of the 14th Amendment by the NH House.

It was a historic day as New Hampshire was the first state since the “Civil War” to have a house floor discussion about secession.  As reported on this blog previously, CACR 32 – the constitutional amendment that would have allowed NH voters to decide the question of declaring peaceful independence from the United States – was voted down 323-13 on Thursday.  Now you can watch video of the full discussion from the floor of Rep’s Hall:

Don’t miss this post at Free Keene which gathers together seventeen hysterical posts from SHOCKED democrats in response to the heroic thirteen state reps who voted to try to stop CACR 32 from being killed.

We’re just getting started promoting independence for New Hampshire. CACR 32 was just the beginning to get the conversation going. Stay tuned here to NHexit.US for more. Meanwhile, be sure to sign the petition and join the community via the links in the top menu and help us do even more!

Cowardly State Reps Return to Reps Hall

Today was the big day, the first time ever that a bill relating to New Hampshire independence was heard by the full state house.  With over 330 of 400 reps in attendance, the historic proposed constitutional amendment was sadly shot down 323-13.  We didn’t expect to win the first time out, of course.  The point of CACR 32 was to get the conversation started.

No thanks however to multiple so-called “liberty reps” who put fear-based political concerns over principle and refused to back up the brave reps who sponsored this bill.  I was there greeting the reps this morning as they entered Reps’ Hall and I heard various excuses.  Free Stater rep Jess Edwards said it shouldn’t go to voters unless reps support the idea, and he doesn’t.  This is literally the same thing some of the democrats told me as they were entering the chamber, expressing that they were against democracy as they see themselves as “gatekeepers”.  One Democrat, rep Tim Egan, even admitted in an email to me, “legislators can absolutely not trust voters with this decision”.  The state reps don’t trust you to decide, whether they be Republican or Democrat.

Representative Tom Ploszaj used the excuse that no one from his constituency had reached out to him in support of CACR 32.  Of course the bill got very little attention in the media, so it’s likely few people were even aware of it.  Ploszaj and other “liberty reps” seem very concerned with what voters would think if they voted in support of CACR 32.  Ploszaj said in an email, “My personal opinion and stance on the CACR is irreverent [SIC] since I was elected to represent my district and uphold the Constitutions not to make decisions based on my own agendas.”  This is a strange statement as we all know that no one can truly “represent” a diverse group of people.  If Ploszaj ran a campaign and was honest about supporting liberty, then that is presumably why he was elected, not to do anything a handful of people who call him up suggest.  If a few people called Ploszaj to request he sponsor some Communist legislation, I suspect he would say no, even though some constituents wanted it.

Jason Osborne, Free Stater and the current House Majority Leader said that he supports California seceding, but doesn’t think the people of New Hampshire want independence.  He told me instead NH should lead the way for America.  Another Free Stater, five-term rep Brian Seaworth expressed that he didn’t want to support the bill because he didn’t think it would pass and he felt that voting for it would put him in jeopardy of losing the next election.  Melissa Blasek, state rep and executive director of Rebuild NH said that while she likes the idea, she’s worried the democrats will use it against her in her reelection campaign.

I guess we’ll see if the thirteen heroes who voted for this bill will be defeated in their re-election attempts later this year.  What if they are re-elected?  Will the “liberty reps” who refused to stand on principle develop a spine?  Don’t get your hopes up.

Perhaps they’ll be prosecuted for treason or rebellion as statist rep Brodie Deshaies suggested in his attempts to intimidate the reps into opposing CACR 32.  I’d bet against any reps being prosecuted.  Despite the claims to the contrary, this was an attempt at peaceful secession.  No violence was ever suggested.  Secession is legal and constitutional, as rep Matt Santonastaso explained in his speech on the house floor today.  Article one, section ten of the US Constitution outlines the specific things that states are not allowed to do.  Leaving is not one of those prohibited things.  In fact, secession isn’t talked about at all in the US Constitution.  Therefore, it’s a right left to the states under the tenth amendment of the Bill of Rights.  We CAN do this.  Some state is going to be first to go.  Whether it’s Texas, California, New Hampshire, or elsewhere, the only question is when.

 

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The next big step for the NH Exit constitutional amendment, CACR 32, is this Thursday March 10th, when it will come to the full state house for a vote. Supporters of New Hampshire independence should immediately call or email their state representatives and ask them to support CACR 32. Please remind them that voting on CACR 32 is NOT a vote on state secession. Their vote is on whether or not to put the question on the ballot for the people to decide.

Many reps are confused and believe that if they vote to pass CACR 32 that they are supporting independence for NH and that is not true. Voting to kill CACR 32 means they are anti-democratic and do not want to allow the people of New Hampshire to vote on the matter.  Please be kind to the confused reps and try to help them understand rather than getting upset.

Here’s a handy tool you can use to discover your local state reps and get their contact information. While you can contact more than just your area’s reps, reps outside your area may not consider your comments as seriously as your local reps. So, if your time is limited, keep your state rep outreach to your area’s reps only.

Second, if you have free time this Thursday March 10th, please show up at the state house in Concord at 107 N Main St for their full house session where CACR 32 will be heard. We do not know the exact time CACR 32 will come up, but it is expected to happen at some point. The session begins at 9am but some NH Independence activists will be arriving much earlier, some as early as 7:30am, for a rally outside the state house. Feel free to bring signs or shirts promoting independence for New Hampshire. Be sure to also connect with our chat rooms on Matrix or Telegram to help coordinate. Both chat rooms are linked together, so if you join one, you needn’t join the other.

Earlier this winter, the committee hearing the bill voted it “Inexpedient to Legislate” 21-0, however there are 400 state reps in New Hampshire and because it’s a constitutional amendment any vote of the full house must be a “roll call” vote. Roll call means that each representative’s vote is recorded so we know how each state rep voted. We need to be present on Thursday to show them there is support for CACR 32 and that we are watching to see how they vote. See you Thursday morning at the state house in Concord!

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. 

 

1. Without the federal income tax, we’d each save around $25,000/year right off the bat.
2. The IRS is corrupt, tyrannical, and about to grow by 80,000 employees and billions of dollars. Years ago, they were caught targeting conservatives. Now, they are surely much more polarized and hateful against us. I could live without them.
3. The ATF is extremely anti-gun. They have been one of the biggest reasons that federal gun control laws have grown increasingly strict. The ATF passes laws and bypasses Congress. Once the murderous criminal, Dave Chipman is confirmed as the new ATF director, things will get much worse. I could live without the ATF. Once we divorce DC by declaring independence from the union, the ATF will no longer have jurisdiction over us. 
4. The CDC is out of control, and the agency will only ever grow more tyrannical. This was before corona-fascism made the CDC into the most harmful agency to liberty of all 400 illegal executive agencies. By the way, did you know that the CDC took legal ownership over every rental property in the united states?
5. I don’t trust Joe Biden to run my life or to do anything that could impact me. I have around 28 trillion reasons for distrusting that corrupt, evil, demented sociopath. 
6. I don’t trust Congress to run my life. They have proven time and again that they support authoritarian socialism. Even with majorities in the House and the Senate and even with Trump in the White House, Congress did nearly nothing to expand liberty. But they did pass many laws that violated my natural rights. 
7. The federal government benefits from terribly untrustworthy elections, such as the one in 2020. Once HR1 passes into law, all elections in the united states will be required to abide by the same insane rules that caused us all to doubt the legitimacy of the 2020 election.
8. Once HR51 passes into law, DC will be a state, complete with two more hardcore socialist Senators. The Democrats will control the Senate forever.
9. If you aren’t a big fan of sobriety checkpoints, you’ll be happy to learn that they are federally funded. Once we divorce the feds, it’s unlikely that any local police dept. will spend the money on the checkpoints. 
10. If you aren’t a big fan of immigration checkpoints, you’ll be happy to learn that they are federally funded and/or conducted. Once we divorce the feds, it’s unlikely that any local police dept. will spend the money on the checkpoints. 
11.  Local cops only use tanks, drones, BEARcats, and other aggressive military gear against us because the feds give them those toys. Once we cut ties with DC, our local cops will return to their proper role as peace officers instead of acting as soldiers against us.
12. One of the reasons that Dictator Sununu locked us down and derailed our economy involved pressure and money from DC encouraging him to do so. 
13. If you don’t like being forced to pay for the DC politicians to wage futile endless wars in dozens of countries all over the world while veterans, women, and babies in our own communities starve on the streets, it means you want to separate from DC. 
14. If you are ready to give up on the war on drugs and stop sending cops to homes to punish people for consuming a plant, separating from DC is the first step you must take. DC politicians STILL consider cannabis a schedule one top-tier dangerous substance that is 100% illegal to possess. 
15. Do you love it when cops steal your property (car, house, money, guns, etc.) without convicting you of a crime? Well, federal law allows law enforcement to seize any property that could be involved in a past, present, or even future crime. And the feds have ‘extended’ that authority to state and local cops. Once we sever ties with DC, cops in NH lose the power of civil asset forfeiture.
16. If you ever wondered why bad cops almost never receive any punishment, you should know that ‘qualified immunity’ is a federal doctrine. Without DC, local cops become much more accountable to their neighbors.
17. The millions of federal regulations cost businesses over 2 trillion dollars each year in lost productivity. Once we divorce DC, our businesses will truly be able to unleash their creativity, making New Hampshire more prosperous than we could ever imagine.
18. Who should decide whether NH accepts illegal aliens or Afghan refugees? Biden and Pelosi or our governor and legislature?
19. Are you tired of being ruled by nine lawyers in long black robes who live in DC and have the power of Gods? If five out of the nine rule a certain way, that becomes the law for all 330,000,000 people in the united states.  
20. The federal reserve and DC politicians have overseen a decline in 99% of the US dollar’s purchasing power over the past century.
21. DC politicians have run up a debt of 28 trillion dollars and counting. And they claim that you and I are responsible for it. 
22. Nearly every politician has ambitions and eventually wishes to be sent to DC. This affects nearly every decision they make. Once DC is no longer in their minds, they will focus on what is most important: you.
23. Federal law enforcement (including the FBI) have shown themselves to be thoroughly corrupt. Even conservative commentators like Dan Bongino have called for their abolition. A few months ago, the FBI and other federal cops came to New Hampshire and violently kidnapped six of my friends. They are charging them with crimes that could result in them spending the remainder of their lives in federal prison. Their excuse? That my friends committed some victimless crimes by using and selling cryptocurrency. Once we leave DC, that will never happen again. 
24. Want a suppressor so that you can save your hearing? They are only illegal because the feds prohibit them. Without the feds, NH would be totally free, and you could put a suppressor on your SBR without any worries. 
25. Are you worried about increasingly strict EPA restrictions on vehicles, houses, and everything else? Once we divorce DC, they will have no jurisdiction over us.
26. Are you sick of random federal judges issuing injunctions that overrule actual laws passed by Congress or state legislatures? An independent NH would not have to worry one bit about federal judges.
27. The DC politicians are destroying the once-mighty American military. Their current secretary of defense and commander-in-chief continually insist that the #1 priority for their military is pleasing LGBT individuals. An independent New Hampshire could have a military with a top priority of defending us against hostile militaries. As it should be.
28. Have you accumulated a respectable net worth? Soon, the federal government will tax your net worth each year in addition to all of the other taxes. 
29. The US Congress literally does not represent you or me.
30. The federal government hates you. Especially if you are white. 
31. Multiple federal court rulings have declared that the first amendment does not protect any speech that is insulting, especially towards a government agent. 
32. Right now, even policies that you think are set by state lawmakers are really controlled by the feds via extortion. 
33. If the thought of Pelosi’s Capitol Police Force growing worries you …. You might support NH independence from DC. 
34. If you would rather have your highway taxes spent on highways … You might be a NHexiter.
35. Do you think that Facebook and Twitter are too powerful and too damaging to liberty? Federal law grants them effective immunity from lawsuits while also granting them the power to manipulate content. They get to act as both a publisher and a platform, whichever suits them at the moment. 
36. If you support sound, free-market money like gold and silver (and crypto) ….You already support NHexit. It’s only a matter of time before the feds ban them.
37. If you are afraid that Donald Trump might become President again …. You just might be a NHexiter.
38. If you are afraid that Kamala Harris might become President…. You just might be a NHexiter.
39. If you think that Title IX is a major reason that free speech and due process in colleges were destroyed, you support NHexit.
40. If you believe that boys should not have a free pass to the girls’ bathrooms, locker rooms, and showers, you support NH independence. 
41. If you can’t count the billions of federal laws….you might support independence.
42. The FDA hurts and kills patients by stifling innovation and preventing people from using medications until the FDA spends decades of time and billions of dollars approving them.
43. Cutting ties with DC would immediately and drastically cut prices and improve the availability of drugs like epinephrine, insulin, loperamide, and many others. 
44. DC politicians use the federal department of education to brainwash your children to hate freedom. Once we are independent, that goes away.
45. The federal government believes that showing online ads to specific cohorts is a crime.
46. If you are not comfortable with the REAL ID becoming a dystopian federal identification card, you might be an NHexit supporter.  
47. Support in Congress for a magazine ban is getting very close to a majority. In a few years, your magazines will be federally illegal. 
48. Once HR127 passes Congress, every firearm will be effectively illegal. Hope you’re ready to turn in your guns to the feds! You are a patriot and not a criminal, so you’d never violate federal law, right? 
49. It is very likely that Congress (or federal regulators) ban armor plates for all civilians very soon. Hope you’re ready to turn in your plates!
50. Even the best ‘conservatives’ in DC are working with Bloomberg to take away your guns.
51. Technically speaking…the federal government should not exist anymore. 
52. Federal judges have ruled that police have no legal obligation to protect you. 
53. The federal government thinks it can take your property by force, as long as it plans to use the property for anything that could benefit the government, including giving your property to companies like Pfizer. Without DC, states and localities have no power of eminent domain (AKA theft of property).
54. Federal politicians from Biden to McConnell and everyone in between consistently sell us out to oligarchs like Putin and Xi to enrich themselves. 
55. We can’t take power back from Congress, even with a Convention of States.
56. The DC politicians incentivize single motherhood and discourage employment. 
57. If you don’t believe that global warming is the biggest threat to our lives, you should not be in the same union as DC, the federal government, and the other states. 
58. If you don’t appreciate being spied on by the NSA and other creepy DC agents and politicians, you should consider divorcing them. 
59. If you don’t want to support the Taliban by providing them with money and military weapons and helicopters, you should leave the union and stop paying federal taxes. 
60. The federal government considers people guilty until proven innocent – the opposite of how it was supposed to be. Peaceful protesters have been receiving punishments in prison for months despite never being convicted. If you support due process, you support NHexit.
61. The federal TSA regularly violates our natural rights, despite literally missing 95% of actual threats. 
62. DC politicians maintain a horrifically managed ‘no-fly list’, which mistakenly puts many people (including babies) onto the list, preventing them from flying. It’s also nearly impossible to get off of the list. 
63. Conservatives from Candace Owens to Matt Walsh have spoken in support of state independence from DC. 
64. Federal government leaders believe that if you don’t wear all the masks they recommend and if you don’t get all of the vaccines they recommend, you are just like the Taliban suicide bombers. 
65. DC politicians prohibit beneficial pipelines that would have been amazing for our national security and economy while simultaneously supporting pipelines for nations that are hostile to us. 
66. Who is arming the violent Mexican drug cartels? Federal agents from DC!
67. The federal government has kidnapped innocent Japanese people and put them in concentration camps. New Hampshire has never done that. And they couldn’t ever do that. Because we all have lots of guns. 
68. The US government banned firearms and ammunition from Russia. New Hampshire would never do that.
69. The US government puts many kids in cages at the border. New Hampshire would handle immigration in a much more sensible and humane way. 
70. Things will literally never change for the better. Even with Trump in the White House and Republicans controlling Congress and the SCOTUS, freedom only diminished and tyranny continued to grow.
71. New Hampshire citizens are the hardest workers and earn the most money, which is demonstrated by our continent-leading median household income. We don’t need DC politicians to be wealthy.
72. New Hampshire is the freest state. Nearly all of our issues are caused by federal laws. Once we are independent, we will be almost 100% free to live as we please!
73. New Hampshire is the safest state. We don’t need DC or other states bringing violence to our peaceful paradise. 
74. Half of the people in the united states believe that Biden was legitimately elected and that Republicans are all traitors, while the other half believes that Biden lost the election and progressives are traitors. How could one country be united if its people hate each other so much? 
75. The DC politicians now feel so entitled to infinite power that they essentially ban medications that could help treat COVID, such as hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin. 
76. DC politicians are so arrogant that they no longer feel the need to pass legislation in Congress; they now use executive orders to pass new laws, including the most recent one forcing all private companies in the united states with over 100 employees to vaccinate their employees or test them for COVID weekly. This will affect 80 million employees. If you don’t want DC sociopaths coming between you and your employer (or you and your doctor), you support independence. 
77. When conservative states began having success treating COVID with monoclonal antibodies Biden and DC politicians began to BLOCK the life-saving treatments from getting to pro-freedom anti-Biden states like Alabama and Florida, potentially causing people to die.
78. DC politicians have made it clear that they will continue to prioritize foreign nationals and illegal immigrants over American citizens like you and me.
79. On the other hand, DC politicians have made it very clear that Cuban immigrants are not welcome here (because they tend to vote for freedom and against communism). 
80. The Biden IRS is now going to monitor every bank account with over $600 in it so that they can tax all people who make any money in any way. Those who receive more than $600 in PayPal transactions in a year will also be subject to taxation, according to experts. Peaceful separation solves this IRS issue because the IRS would no longer have any jurisdiction over us. 
81. When NH adopted federal food laws, it made selling mushrooms illegal, among many other prohibitions. Now, the only way to make it legal for anyone in NH to sell mushrooms is to create more regulation requiring ‘licenses’, which is somewhat counterproductive. The only other way to make mushrooms legal in NH would be to sever ties with DC. 
82. Dictator Biden nominated an actual Soviet communist to be the comptroller of the currency. If you don’t want your country’s financial system to be run by an avowed communist, you support separation from DC.  
83. On 10/8/21, the preliminary deal on a GLOBAL tax on businesses was officially agreed to. A total of 136 countries have signed onto the measure, guaranteeing that they will work together to stomp out businesses seeking to evade taxes by implementing at least a 15% tax on them, no matter where they come from. Once New Hampshire becomes a self-governing state, its low (or absent) tax on business could attract so much business to the state that it could cause the biggest economic boom in world history. 
84. Dictator Biden’s OSHA implemented a vaccine mandate for nearly every worker in the united states. It is extremely unlikely that an individual could beat this in federal courts or via federal legislation. Separating from the union is actually the more practical way to nullify this mandate. 
85. A federal law to require all new cars to have passive drunk-driving monitoring technology is about to go into effect, making all cars in the united states more expensive and much more intrusive. The law does not specify, but the new technology may be tantamount to perpetual breathalyzers and/or eye monitoring in every car. 
86. The medical system and all medical institutions in the united states are becoming increasingly racist towards whites, and it all starts with DC politicians. 
87. The Supreme Court is composed of 9 judges. The SCOTUS is perhaps the most powerful entity in the united states now. These nine judges are either evil or mentally retarded. They certainly do not believe in freedom. Is that who you want to be ruled by?
88. The US House of Representatives passed legislation that would take over control of elections, taking the power that always resided with the states and granting it to DC politicians. Among the many measures in the legislative package was a law that prohibited any election in the united states from requiring ID in order to vote. New Hampshire citizens who would like to retain their voter ID law must either support secession or give up voter ID forever once this federal law passes. 
89. DC politicians just passed a law mandating that all vehicles made after 2026 be equipped with perpetual monitoring systems to detect ‘impaired driving’. The vehicles must also have ‘kill switches’ that allow cops to turn them off at any moment. If you don’t like this policy, secession is the only solution. 
90. In the summer of 2022, federal government will begin to require facial recognition/uploading pictures of your face in order to access tax/ documents on the IRS website.
91. The President announced that the next US Supreme Court Judge he nominates will be a black woman. Upon joining the court, she will likely hear a massively important case involving ‘affirmative action’.
92. DC politicians are literally stealing our organs. In 2021, a policy change at UNOS essentially caused nearly all organs from donors in New Hampshire to be sent to NYC, CT, and MA, harming New Hampshire’s patients who desperately need organs to live. DC is viciously fighting NH legislation that would allow Granite Staters to state their preference that their neighbors be granted priority over foreigners if they pass away with viable organs. 
93. The brilliant experts in DC are using $30,000,000 in taxpayer funds to give out drug paraphernalia, including crack pipes, to drug users. The statement from the DC politicians specifically mentioned that they are being distributed primarily to minorities and that they are to be used for illegal drugs. 
94. Our Lords in DC believe that they must force New Hampshire to build more housing projects so that our state could look more like the Bronx.  
95. Our brilliant Lords in DC are destroying our savings and devaluing our salaries by printing so much money that annual inflation is now at a frightening 9.1% annual rate.
96. DC politicians have been forcing you and me to pay for dangerous bioweapons labs in Ukraine for years. 
97. Your federal tax dollars are being used to pay Tik Tok influencers to create and promote propaganda approved by Dictator Biden. If you don’t want to be forced to fund such endeavors, you may want to consider secession. 
98. If you don’t enjoy paying $6 billion for the annual NIAID budget doled out by Anthony Fauci to fund foreign bioweapons labs and development and approval of ludicrously expensive patented pharmaceuticals and suppress use of cheap off-patent drug, you should consider supporting a vote of NH residents to leave the union.
99. The federal government violates free speech in numerous ways. Leaving their jurisdiction solves these issues and restores freedom of speech, expression, press, association, and worship. 
100. The federal government is increasingly racist. Most recently, Dictator Biden nominated a black woman to be a judge on the highest court because of her gender and skin color. Ironically, she will likely soon be ruling on an affirmative action case. 

 

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