In a May 20 settlement that should send shockwaves through every child welfare agency still clinging to gender ideology mandates, the state’s Department of Children, Youth, and Families agreed to a permanent injunction barring officials from denying or restricting foster care licenses based on applicants’ religious beliefs about marriage, gender, or sexual relationships. The settlement in the Washington ... Read more

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This week, on The New England Take, A. J. is joined by Michael Stansfield, CEO of Civic-Chain, to discuss the importance of government transparency, providing tools that make it easy for journalists and citizens to keep government honest, and how blockchain tools (like Civic-Chain) can make this happen. Learn more about Civic-Chain at https://civic-chain.com Authors’ and ... Read more

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Way back when, GraniteGrok had a digital subscription to the Union Leader. For non-Granite Staters, this is the state’s largest (as in most widely circulated) daily print newspaper. Many years ago, it was the nation’s most conservative daily newspaper, but after William Loeb died, it modernized but didn’t change too much journalistically, not until after ... Read more

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MSNOW held a memorial service on Deadline: White House, hosted by Nicolle Wallace. The guests were Jim Acosta and Don Lemon, and you cannot put three more incompetent “news” people on the same screen. The deceased was Scott Pelley, who was fired from 60 Minutes this week. These three exemplify the so-called journalists who believe ... Read more

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The widespread cultural divide among Americans was evident in a recent First Amendment case in Washington. A Christian foster family from the Evergreen State said their speech and religious liberties were violated by state policies demanding they employ gender pronouns and affirm the sexual orientation of their foster charges. The resulting settlement seeks to protect ... Read more

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For two decades, the Federal Reserve has behaved less like a central bank and more like the nation’s emergency room physician, trauma counselor and part-time life coach. Markets sneeze, the Fed reaches for liquidity. Congress overspends, the Fed absorbs the debt. Asset bubbles inflate, then burst, and somehow the cure is always another round of ... Read more

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Are you familiar with the term “offsets”? It is a consideration or amount that diminishes or balances the effect of a contrary one. It is also the amount or distance by which something is “out of line.” For the past forty years, give or take, the word has been used in place of “indulgence.” “A ... Read more

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Incumbent NH State Representative Jose’ Eduardo Cambrils is running for re-election in Merrimack County District 4 – Canterbury / Loudon. Jose’ was born in Victoria De Las Tunas, Cuba in 1960. He and his family immigrated (legally) to the United States in 1965 to escape from the Communist Castro regime. He was very proud to ... Read more

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Why did 20th-century Americans abandon freedom in the first place? There is no question but that the type of society in which, say, late 19th-century Americans lived was totally different from the type of society in which 20th-century Americans lived and in which 21st-century Americans continue to live. Nineteenth-century Americans lived without such things as ... Read more

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What happens when the fight for life moves from the legislature into the courtroom? In this episode of the Ever Living Podcast, hosts Jessica and Jason sit down with renowned New Hampshire attorney Michael Tierney to discuss his decades-long work defending the pro-life movement, religious liberty, and constitutional rights. Michael shares his journey from Dartmouth ... Read more

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One of the foundational points, in my mind, of convincing people you are like everyone else is that you don’t need to ask for or have others advocate for increased taxpayer support for you. Any taxpayer support. Normal means you are a tax benefit, and if you are in Seattle, the normal taxpayer pays lots ... Read more

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The Henry Nowak Case and the Deadly Lie of Racial Grievance A survivor’s testimony meets the Henry Nowak bodycam horror and America’s two-tier racial outrage. White people are not your enemy. This division must end before it destroys us. A personal testimony of trauma, muggings, and assault — paired with the shocking bodycam evidence from ... Read more

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

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As we approach the 250th celebration of our nation’s birth, it is important to ponder the late President Emeritus of The John Birch Society’s brilliant appraisal of why Americans have been blessed with unparalleled liberty. John F. McManus said, “America has become great not because of what the government did for us; America has become ... Read more

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Today, on the Morning Update, the government has no more responsibility to care for your ballots than it does for your person. That’d be none. If you don’t make sure your vote is counted, how do you know if your vote counts? 00:00 A few words about Public Safety01:33 Voting and Ballot Security03:10 Mail-in Ballot ... Read more

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The new highly anticipated education reform bill H. 955 is now at the governor’s desk to be signed or vetoed. On Friday the bill passed out of the House chamber via a 125-10 affirmative vote. Highlights include a foundation funding formula that targets reducing the cost per student by about half the current price. One ... Read more

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After 12 years of dissecting Donald Trump’s character every day and his being unsuitable for office, every one of these same politicians is coming to the defense of Graham Platner, who is a candidate for the U.S. Senate representing Maine. There has been a constant drip of issues in Platner’s past that may disqualify him ... Read more

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One of the many things the angry white liberal women are too blinded by hate to see is that Immigration and Customs Enforcement actions protect minorities. The criminal aliens hide in the immigrant community, where they cause stress and strife, commit crimes, often rape women and children, and do significant harm. And Tren De Argua ... Read more

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A Deeper Analysis of Corporation Counsel’s Role in Nashua’s April 28, 2026, 14 Mulberry Street Secret Vote Preface: Why This Matters Beyond Nashua What happened in Nashua’s aldermanic chamber on the night of April 28, 2026 is not merely a procedural dispute about meeting minutes. It is a case study in how legal counsel to ... Read more

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On the fourth Wednesday of every month, I get to spend a few minutes talking to Jeff Chidester on WFEA as part of his morning update. The topic could be almost anything, but this month we settled on the Bathroom conspiracy to keep men out of the ladies’ spaces. We also take a quick trip ... Read more

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