Not to kick the same donkey too many times, but the measure of a moderate Democrat, real or imagined, is not if they can lay claim to the title. It is whether it means anything once they are a member of the caucus. Jonah Wheeler is a mostly reliable Democrat vote in the New Hampshire ... Read more

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He was “Your Guy.” He was the All-American boy, the prototypical dude from Maine who would get up at 4 am to harvest oysters and slay Susan Collins after lunch. He was the guy who pushed Janet Mills and the establishment machine aside and got 70% of the vote in the Maine primary. He was ... Read more

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The moment “they” announced COVID loans, it felt like another laundromat for fraud. And it was. Locally, we’ve had one high-profile case involving Andy Sanborn. Andy was just a Concord business owner in 2009/2010 when the Tea Party rose from nothing. He was showing up at the hearing, talking about the long list of new ... Read more

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Granite Staters are often told that our low taxes are a liability and that copying the other New England states’ higher-tax, higher-spending model would improve affordability and the overall quality of life. New polling from the University of New Hampshire Survey Center suggests that the exact opposite is true. A series of UNH surveys released ... Read more

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Here’s something you may not have known: About 88% of New Hampshire’s Class of 2025 graduated from high school. But when that same cohort was tested in Grade 11, only 63% demonstrated proficiency in reading and 30% in math. That’s quite a gap. It made me wonder: How are so many students graduating when so ... Read more

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Every Friday, I get an email from the Governor’s office listing all the bills she has signed or vetoed. This week, one bill, HB1268, makes New Hampshire the freest state in America for homeschooling. It frees parents from a systemic contradiction. The education system monopoly that can’t teach kids to read or do math is ... Read more

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For many Americans, even lovers of American history, myself included, there are certain blank spots and gaps in knowledge. While we can appreciate that history can be and is used propagandistically to affirm certain narratives—usually by emphasis and deemphasis—it is also often the case that time constraints and desire to focus on other events helps ... Read more

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This week, on The New England Take, A. J. is joined by Maine Republican Party’s Kristina Parker to dive into the implosion of Graham Platner, with his evil backstory of womanizing, deception, and communist admissions. They also break down Maine’s gubernatorial race, with the drive to flip it red and how the Maine GOP is ... Read more

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Ro Khanna is another communist “rich kid” (even though he’s not a kid), a Democratic Party Marxist worth over 230 million. The fallout from ‘The Revolution’ he desires won’t hurt him or his family. They are financially inoculated as long as they pull for team blue. Che shirts, hammer and sickle. That makes him an ... Read more

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When the Live Free Press’s July 7 article titled New Hampshire’s Municipal Lobby Trains Its Fire on Republican Bills came to my attention, my blood boiled at first sight.  I thought of that old Janet Jackson song, What  Have You Done For Me Lately?  I also remember Kevin Avard complaining about them a few years ago when I ... Read more

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Videographer Hank “Planet Hank” Poitras confirmed today that he is being investigated by Attorney General Charity Clark under Vermont’s 2026 Synthetic Media law for a satire video he produced earlier this year.   As first reported by Seven Days, Clark has sent him a warning letter about her investigating him for the video. He said that she says he violated the ... Read more

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Five Weapons. One Target: Your Freedom. Washington, Webster, Paine, Madison, and more – they saw every one of them coming and warned us, but “we the people” didn’t listen. TOTAL TYRANNY Starting with the end-game, St. George Tucker warned us about the one-two punch – the holy grail of tyranny. “Wherever standing armies are kept ... Read more

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While surfing the news-o-sphere for something to amuse my mind, I stumbled upon what you’d expect to find. An article with the headline “Canada and Australia Have Much Higher Violent Crime Rates Than the US.” By expect, I mean, the US gets a bad rap for its murder rates, especially from Democrats who run the ... Read more

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You may have heard the Men from Maine parody on WROR or seen some YouTube shorts. Self-deprecation can be hilarious, and white men are allowed, but Maine Democrats could probably do their own version. Democrat men from Maine. We’ve got the repeated accusations of poor behavior by Graham Platner, the systemic effort to cover it ... Read more

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This week, on The Independents, what was hidden in FBI Room 9582? Carla Gericke dives into the newly uncovered Seth Rich revelations, explains the psychology of “nudging,” dissects Big Lies, and explores how narrative control shapes public perception. Authors’ and Speakers’ opinions are their own and may not represent those of Grok Media, LLC, GraniteGrok.com, its ... Read more

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Editor’s note: The full list of reps was cropped in the original 2026 RINO Report Card. We have updated the post to include the entire list for your reconsideration. Originally published July 6, 2026 The New Hampshire General Court (i.e., our legislature) has finished for the year, except for a few votes on the Governor’s vetoes. ... Read more

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The pipeline for stories, tips, leads, and the rest of it is rarely dry, but most of them never find their way into the content you get to see. Limited “parking spaces,” for one thing, and I have to feel the spark. My creative process is probably not unique or unusual, but if I look ... Read more

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Nashua residents deserve full transparency into how our City manages taxpayer‑funded housing programs and vets individuals placed in our neighborhoods. Recent events have raised serious and urgent concerns about the City of Nashua’s screening practices, concerns that City officials have repeatedly refused to address. A Nashua resident recently informed me that her father, a local ... Read more

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Reminder: Memes are memes and are neither vetted nor “fact-checked,” nor to be considered “research,” nor taken seriously, 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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Most readers are aware by now that there isn’t much ‘Grok readership in Ward 2, Nashua.  Just look at the serial absence of representation in City Hall and the House, election after election, going back several cycles.  Having “marked myself safe” from Alderman Dowd before last fall’s election, I can share good news: all of ... Read more

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