The Manchester Free Press

Monday • July 20 • 2026

Vol.XVIII • No.XXX

Manchester, N.H.

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Morning Update: Sarah Chadzynski

1 hour 54 min ago

Today, on the Morning Update, We’re surrounded by Millionaire Libs pretending to be like normal people, so what about this candidate for Congress who says she’s not like them? Is that even possible? Watch on the ‘Grok Rumble Channel if the Embedded Video does not load. Ep 221 Links: Edited Transcript: Steve (00:00)Welcome to your ... Read more

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CORNERSTONE: Governor Vetoes Locker Room Privacy Bill — Again

3 hours 54 min ago

Governor Ayotte has vetoed a fourth bill protecting the privacy of women and girls — after the legislature answered her own objections. We also have good news on childcare, the election season ahead, and a free legal resource for churches this summer. Governor Vetoes Locker Room Privacy Bill — Again Governor Ayotte has vetoed HB 1442 — ... Read more

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IMANI: Khamenei Is Dead – Finish the Regime

10 hours 54 min ago

The Fall of a Tyrant’s Empire: A Final Warning to the IRGC and the West For forty-seven agonizing years, the ancient and noble land of Iran has lived under the suffocating boot of a brutal theocratic occupation. Today, the supreme architect of that misery, Ali Khamenei, is gone. He is dead, yet the apparatus of ... Read more

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MACDONALD: AG Claims Civil Rights Win He Doesn’t Deserve

12 hours 54 min ago

To be fair, this isn’t the first example in which AG John Formella got the Judicial system to agree with his disastrous interpretation of New Hampshire’s Civil Rights Act. Frank Hobbs took his “feelings” out on someone’s pride sign, and the State decided it was a hate crime. There’s no such thing, but if Judges ... Read more

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McMaken: What the Conservatives Get Wrong about the French Revolution

Sun, 2026-07-19 21:00 +0000

The thing we now call “conservatism” in the West largely comes out of a reaction against the French Revolution and other revolutionary movements inspired by it. The Continental conservatives—e.g., Joseph de Maistre, Friedrich von Gentz, Klemens von Metternich, and Juan Donoso Cortés—embraced monarchism, often including its more authoritarian and absolutist varieties, in an effort to avoid the excesses of ... Read more

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MACDONALD: Reader Mail

Sun, 2026-07-19 18:00 +0000

I get a lot of email. You’ll have heard that before. We get lots of stuff, and I’ve been more than public about how much stuff and how we can only ever use some of it. Time constraints, bandwidth, interest. Every now and again, someone likes to send some insight into how much they dislike ... Read more

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SMITH: Rep Peter “Placeholder” Varney’s Record

Sun, 2026-07-19 16:00 +0000

Perhaps Rep Varney should be called a “Republican Rep David Cote” as he seemingly aspires to be like him, but I chose the word “placeholder” for now.  We’d like to think that Team Red has higher standards for conduct, especially seeing that we’re quick to criticize the Dems who receive unflattering attention from WMUR and ... Read more

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OPINION: What Keeps Vermont Deep Blue

Sun, 2026-07-19 14:00 +0000

As Vermont’s sole representative in the U.S. House, what has Rep. Becca Balint done to improve the plight of Vermont’s youth, the working class, senior citizens, and small businesses? If parroting her party’s line on national issues and feigning outrage over international events count, then she sure has done a lot. Meanwhile, the forgotten men ... Read more

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MACDONALD: USPS Vote-by-Mail Rule is Alive. ALIVE!

Sun, 2026-07-19 11:00 +0000

You can never tell with District Court judges. Even after SCOTUS suggests it would be inappropriate for a tiny judge in a tiny pond to cast orders with national effect, they keep doing it. And I know, I’m singing to the choir on the judge problem. The left goes shopping. Finds one willing to do ... Read more

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OPINION: It’s As Easy As Ever For Out-of-State College Students To Vote In New Hampshire

Sun, 2026-07-19 02:00 +0000

Governor Kelly Ayotte signed House Bill 323 into law. As a result, student IDs are no longer a valid form of identification to obtain a ballot in New Hampshire. But note that a “driver’s license issued by any state” remains a valid form of identification. This means that, notwithstanding all the hooting and hollering over ... Read more

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The New England Take: College is broken, but all is not lost

Sun, 2026-07-19 00:00 +0000

YET! Campus Reform’s Zachary Marschall, PhD This week, on The New England Take, A. J. speaks with Campus Reform Editor in Chief Zachary Marschall, PhD, to dive into the impact higher education DEI programming has on society, that we need a mindset shift on the role of education, and how reducing the time needed to ... Read more

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MACDONALD: Want Jobs and Investment? Don’t Vote Democrat

Sat, 2026-07-18 21:00 +0000

I was messing with rich kid Stefany Shaheen on X the other day. She posted some left-Wing talking points about defunding ICE (or someone did using her name). I responded with three examples of criminal aliens, rape, murder, and so on, who would still be in America without ICE. There are tens of thousands of ... Read more

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QUARATIELLO: My Orwellian Public Library – Struggling with Totalitarian Library Trustees 

Sat, 2026-07-18 18:00 +0000

In chapter five of George Orwell’s Animal Farm, the head pig, Napoleon, announces the end of the weekly meetings of the animals: “They were unnecessary, he said, and wasted time. In the future, all questions relating to the working of the farm would be settled by a special committee of pigs, presided over by himself. These ... Read more

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BOLDIN: The Reasons the Constitution Exists

Sat, 2026-07-18 16:00 +0000

“In all free states the constitution is fixed.” Samuel Adams and James Otis Jr. -.along with the rest of the founders and old revolutionaries –  knew that freedom cannot exist with a government that doesn’t have strict rules. A clear line in the sand that it’s not allowed to cross. In other words – when ... Read more

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VDC: Taxpayers’ Rights Group Comes to Vermont 

Sat, 2026-07-18 14:00 +0000

The Fiscal Alliance Foundation is expanding into Vermont and has named Waterbury resident Elizabeth Brown as its Vermont state director, charging her with leading the organization’s efforts to promote fiscally responsible, transparent, and data-driven public policy. Brown, who has lived in Vermont for three decades, brings more than 25 years of experience in the financial services industry ... Read more

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Morning Update: GLAAD’s Not…Happy

Sat, 2026-07-18 11:00 +0000

Today, on a special Saturday Edition of the Morning Update, GLAAD, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, … isn’t very happy with their water-carriers in the entertainment Industry. Watch on the ‘Grok Rumble Channel if the Embedded Video does not load. Ep 220 Link: Authors’ and Speakers’ opinions are their own and may not ... Read more

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SMITH: HB1727 Should Have Never Made It To The Finish Line

Sat, 2026-07-18 02:00 +0000

While most sound-minded bill watchers were concentrating on the last of the women’s sports & safe spaces bills being vetoed yesterday, I took a look at the 20 bills that were signed and spotted HB1727 (This bill creates a system for automatic enrollment of eligible students into the Summer EBT (Electronic Benefits Transfer) program, unless ... Read more

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The Ever-Living Podcast: “The Bible’s Strongest Defense of Life”

Sat, 2026-07-18 00:00 +0000

Samuel Green Explains What Scripture Really Says” This week, on the Ever Living Podcast, hosts Xindi and Jason Hennessy welcome Samuel Green, President and General Counsel of the Reason for Life, for an in-depth discussion on the biblical foundations of the pro-life movement. Drawing from both Scripture and legal experience, Samuel explains why the humanity ... Read more

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MACDONALD: You Spelled “Age-Inappropriate” Wrong

Fri, 2026-07-17 21:00 +0000

Has anyone noticed the proglodytes bringing their kids to bars and strip clubs or helping them pick out a glossy porn mag at the local (wherever you can buy those these days)? Have ’em grab a fifth and some smokes and off to the playground. No? Probably not. Those are all illegal, whether you think ... Read more

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CARDELLO: Democrats Are Going to Use the Biddeford Shooting to Beat Susan Collins

Fri, 2026-07-17 18:00 +0000

There is no depth too low for Democrats to sink when it comes to seizing an opportunity to fortify their power. The Democrats have proven that they have no plan for the future, and their only purpose is the power needed for self-reliance and the obstruction of anything that the Republicans conceive. I thought, and ... Read more

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