I was born & raised in NYC.
My father instilled in me the idea that owning a home was bad because yardwork was a horrible chore. I truly believed apartment dwelling city life was the ideal.
I moved to NH 22 years ago.
Hubby & I bought a modest house with a few acres 2 years ago. We now have goats, chickens, and guardian dogs with plans for more.
I cannot describe how much I love being out in the yard with the animals, doing farm chores and (believe it or not, Dad!) yardwork.
I am so grateful I moved to NH every single day.
#ILoveNH #RuralLife #TheChickensNameIsMartha #IDontHaveAFavoriteChicken #ButItMightBeMartha
I’ve said some harsh things about Democrats since I started my campaign and would like to clarify my position a bit:
Ya’ll are insane. I regret nothing and stand by my comments.
Just wanted to be clear on that.
Seriously though, understand that when I talk about “Democrats” I’m not talking about the Kennedy or Bill Clinton era moderates. You guys are mostly reasonable people and we probably agree on more than we disagree.
The problem is, that isn’t your party anymore. You are the minority now, and many of you don’t see it.
Your party has been hijacked by the woke / communist wing. It’s gotten so bad that anyone running as a Democrat can openly out themselves as a socialist or communist and it doesn’t even hurt their odds…
Every day they’re looking for exciting new ways to take away our rights and pick our pockets in the name of “equity” which is just another way of saying “pay for all of our silly ideas and prop up our privileged classes.”
It’s a set of ideas that only leads to destruction, and you can see it in EVERY area of government they’ve touched.
They tell us they’re the party of science, but want us to pretend mentally ill men in dresses are women.
They tell us we’re racist, but say black people are too dumb to get ID.
They call us “fascists” for wanting secure borders, but create “safe spaces” to keep out people they don’t agree with.
They call us “intolerant” but try to silence everyone they don’t agree with, and cheer when one of their own murders a conservative speaker or a healthcare executive.
They attack our gun rights and make as many restrictive laws as they can, but reward violent criminals with light sentences or early release (as long as those criminals are members one of their preferred racial groups.)
Every institution they’ve infiltrated is demonstrably worse. No amount of money is ever enough. Their public school budgets are crushing homeowners with out-of-control property taxes. The teachers make shit while the “admin” column grows and grows, and the Democrats “solution” is to add a freaking INCOME TAX so they can take even more.
Meanwhile, while our adult children struggle to afford to live here, the Democrats are more than happy to import destitute third worlders and prop them up with free food, housing, and medical care while the working Americans actually PAYING FOR IT struggle.
Enough is enough.
If that comes across as “angry” then that means I’m communicating effectively. You’re damn right I’m angry.
Take a look at my wife’s Facebook page sometime and you’ll see tons photos of her and the kids when they were little, without me in them. I was at work.
Working to provide. Working to stay ahead of the takers. Working to build a little bit of wealth, so maybe one day I could live off of that and not have to work as much. Thirty years of working my ass off, all so when I get to the finish line some Democrat can say I should give THEM more and “pay my fair share?”
Heck, there were years I paid more in taxes than most of these takers will pay in their LIFETIME, and you’re gonna lecture me about “fair share?” 🙄
Your “fair share” of the money someone else worked for is 0%. Period.
All of these things are why I decided to run. Honestly, I don’t even want to. I hate politics and most politicians. I just wanted to be left alone. But the blue team won’t let me have that. So I decided to forego early retirement and do something about it.
When I win my House race, I’ll be one more vote against everything the modern Democrat stands for. Against every stupid bill, every money grab, and every bad policy that makes life harder for Granite Staters who work for a living.
I doubt any Democrats reading this will take the time to look in the mirror and reflect on it. But you should. You created me.
At the end of the day, there are two kinds of people: makers and takers.
I’m running to support the makers.
I'm a Gen X'er, so I grew up a latchkey kid, staying out until dark, etc. ... but I was in a city, so never experienced drinking from a hose like I've heard others of my generation mention.
Also, the community I grew up in didn't allow dogs, so seeing one was a rare, special occurrence.
Today, watching my puppies drink from a hose filled my inner child's heart with so much joy! :)
🚨 Governor Ayotte just signed HB1300, the school district tax cap law. What does this mean for you?
Short version: this November, you get to vote on capping your own school property taxes. Here's the long version.
What happens in November
At the 2026 general election, every town and city ward in New Hampshire will have a tax cap question on the ballot. Automatically. By operation of law. No warrant article, no citizen petition, no asking permission from your select board or school board. You show up to vote for governor and Congress, and the question is just there.
If ballot space runs out, it goes on the back of the ballot or a separate ballot at the same polls. Absentee ballots include it too. Nobody gets skipped.
What a YES vote does
Adoption requires a 3/5 majority of those voting on the question. If it passes in your district, two caps kick in:
📌 The levy cap. Your local school property tax levy can't grow beyond the prior year's amount, adjusted for inflation (CPI, Northeast region) and new construction. Market appreciation and revaluations don't count as growth, so a hot housing market can't be used as an excuse to raise the levy.
📌 The admin cap. SAU central office spending gets capped at 6% of total school district appropriations. That means superintendent services, HR, payroll, legal, PR, and district-level administrators who don't actually teach.
What's NOT capped
Classroom instruction. School-based staff. Special education. Transportation. Food service. Building maintenance. Bonded capital projects (new schools, renovations) are excluded from both caps entirely. This law is aimed at the administrative layer, not at teachers or kids.
Can it be overridden?
Yes. Your district can exceed the cap by the same 3/5 ballot vote that adopted it. The Department of Revenue Administration enforces compliance and won't set a tax rate above the cap without a valid override. Any taxpayer in the district has standing to enforce it in superior court. It has teeth.
Now the fine print, because you should always read the fine print
This is a pilot program, not a permanent fixture. The law only puts the question on the ballot twice: November 2026 and November 2028.
Adopt it this fall and the caps apply starting with FY2028 budgets. Adopt it in 2028 and they apply starting FY2030. And the entire law sunsets on January 1, 2032. Any caps adopted under it expire that day unless the legislature acts to renew them.
So this isn't Concord permanently rewriting your town's budget rules. It's a two-cycle experiment in letting voters answer a question school boards have never wanted to ask: should school taxes grow faster than your paycheck does?
If capped districts thrive and the sky doesn't fall, the case for making it permanent writes itself. If voters say no, that's their call too. Either way, the people paying the bills finally get a direct vote on the size of the bill.
That's RSA 32:5-i. See you in November 🗽
Interesting moment in NH Senate Education yesterday on HB 1448.
This bill would ban public school curriculum "provided or created by the World Economic Forum."
I admit I was skeptical that the WEF is controlling the curriculum in NH.
The teachers' union lobbyist then got up and said, yes, we are developing a curriculum with the World Economic Forum as part of "a partnership announced at Davos."
My school district is made up of 5 towns with a total population of about 8,400. The school (PreK - 12) has about 1,000 students.
At the big budget hearing tonight, about 30 people showed up (many of them school employees).
I know school board meetings are boring and the timing isn't great, but the people who just want to be left alone need to start showing up! School budgets & property taxes will continue rising if no one shows up to push back against the insanity!
Their proposed budget translates to roughly $27,000 per student.
The class with the highest proficiency scores is 7th grade - 57% in English and 42% in math. The 11th graders have a **15%** proficiency in math. 4th graders are at 26% English proficiency.
What the heck is the school spending all their money on? As a Homeschooling Momma, I can assure you it doesn't take a lot of money to achieve 100% proficiency in the basics.
People need to be held accountable. These kids are our future leaders, voters, parents of the next generation!
We need to show up to make sure schools are prioritizing education and not just seeing kids as dollar signs to get more federal funding to line their pockets (the way they talked tonight disgusted me).
In other news, I may be running for school board in March. :)
I just want everyone to understand that America has not been trying. We bully our smart kids. We spend 1000 times more on special education than gifted and talented programs. We eliminated honors classes in the name of equality. We even came up with a replacement for phonics so stupid that half our kids can’t read. Then we take the smartest kids that survive this system, and we racially and sexually discriminate against them for entry into college. Then we do that again when they apply for their first job. And again for every job after that. Then we undercut them in favor of foreign labor that’ll do worse work for cheaper. Most kids see this and just say “fuck it” and focus on sports, or trying to be an influencer, or just give up on trying altogether. Meanwhile in places like China every kid spends 16 hours a day studying trig tables or gets the belt. Yet America is still number one. In everything. There is so much latent potential in the American people. We have tried before. We crossed a continent and carved this country out of clay. We recrossed the oceans and conquered the world by accident as a favor to our friends. One day (hopefully soon), we are going to start trying again. America will wake up. Don’t be on the wrong side when it does.
Time is such a weird thing - it seems to go at different speeds at various stages of life. What I wouldn't give to go back to when my guys were little and stretch those days out a little more.
“We need to save our democracy!”
Unfortunately, this is a lie you hear no matter what side of the political spectrum you’re on.
We are not a democracy.
In America, we have a Constitutional Republic.
Democracy is tyranny. The inventors of democracy hated and feared it. Ancient philosophers hated and feared it. Our Founding Fathers hated and feared it.
Why? And what’s the difference?
In democracy, if slightly more than half the populace want something, that thing happens, and it affects everyone, with no system to filter out bad people and ideas.
In a Constitutional Republic, the public votes for the people who vote for things, and there are rules to make sure it doesn’t get out of hand.
Democracy is one of the most Un-American political ideologies.
“We in America do not have government by the majority—we have government by the majority who participate… All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.”
-Thomas Jefferson
If someone is a U.S. citizen living in America and is more loyal to a different country, they should get deported there.
To secure the liberty and safety of actual Americans, we need to remove people from society who actively hold and practice beliefs and mindsets that will destroy America.
“Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn’t an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag… We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language… and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.”
-Theodore Roosevelt
You guys need to hear this story.
This is a perfect example of why not only women, but everyone needs to be carrying when they leave the house.
"I am trying to share this story to make other women aware of the situation because it will be happening more frequently especially in cities that are allowing immigration in."
"This is how we keep other people safe."
I despise the Groyper movement, but if you want to understand where Fuentes gets purchase with young men I will tell you how it happened by telling you about my experience at the orientation night when my son joined elementary school band:
My 11 year old son son joined the elementary school band, and so I went to the parents orientation night which was held at a local high-school. As the night went on it became obvious to me why young men rage against the larger social system.
The classrooms were inundated with DEI messages and trans pride flags. On the walls there were posters, stickers and various decorations that all invoked the various totems if diversity. Black lives matter messaging, decolonization messaging, LGBTQ+ messaging, and basically ever sort of race and gender social justice messaging you can imagine was present. The advertisements for post secondary opportunities featured social justice education prominently, including advertising a course on indigenous ways of knowing" as something grade 12 students should pursue upon graduation. Many of the teachers has "this is a safe space" sticker son their doors, and others had variations of "in this house" messaging on their doors or on the walls of the classroom.
The entire aesthetic which dominated the decoration of classrooms was the progressive leftist coded "in this house" and "be kind" aesthetic. As soon as you walked into a classroom there was no doubt as the the political leanings of whichever teacher occupied that classroom. The only way I can describe it is to say that progressive social justice activists have colonized the school and marked their territory.
A woman in a mask (who was in charge) got up and read a number of land acknowledgements before acknowledging the contribution of indigenous people to ways of knowing. Standard leftist land acknowledgement boilerplate. Additionally, every interaction was done in the style of HR style professionalism mixed with progressive leftist coded gentle parenting.
When it comes to how the teachers behaved I am going to draw on both that night and the other times I have been at my sons school in order to explain it. To begin, the boys are treated almost as though they are defective girls. The feminine modes of interaction and socialization are treated as though they are the only legitimate modes of interaction and serve as the taken for granted way to properly interact and navigate the world. Almost all the authority figures at my sons school are women with almost no exceptions. One day my son found out that the school had hired a single male education Assistant, and my son came home and told me, in wondrous amazement, that he saw a "boy teacher" at school. The level of wonderment and surprise he expressed was on par with what I would expect if he had walked into school and seen a triceratops walking the hallways.
My son often comes home from school and expresses utter frustration at the fact that his preferred way of communicating, as well as the things that are aligned with his temperament are treated as though they were somehow inferior. As he is 11 (and being assessed for autism) he lacks the correct technical language to describe this, so it generally shows up as him getting in trouble for being insufficiently "gentle" and "kind" in response to various passive aggressive power plays and instances of bullying carries out by his more socially developed (often) female peers.
To say that band night was feminine coded would be an understatement. It would be more accurate to say that feminized modes of behavior and communication were embedded in every single interaction. It was a totally alien environment for anyone who isn't well versed in navigating the social codes of progressive leftist institutional spaces. It was like the slogan "the future is female" was taken to be a command delivered from God Himself turned into an education program.
Now, I want you to imagine what it is like for an 11 year old boy to be saturated in that environment day after day. he is an alien in his own school who is treated essentially like a ticking time bomb who needs to be effectively managed rather than engaged with an taught, and he knows this is happening. It is hard to overstate the level of hostility towards boys that is floating around in the ambient culture of the school system. It isn’t so much that there is an explicit form of anti-male bigotry (although examples of that exist) it is more that there is an overall attitude of distaste for anything masculine and an utter indifference towards the interests, fortunes, and inner lives of young boys. The expectations, norms, rules, and standards of behavior cater to the sensibilities of girls and women.
This is the entire social system that a young boy goes through from when he is 6 years old all the way until he is graduated from university.
It’s an old trope on the right to say “imagine if the roles were reversed,” but that would be to miss the point. I know that many on the left will say that all of this is perfectly acceptable because of historical injustices and the pursuit of Social Justice. What I want to point out to you is how absurd the world must appear through the eyes of the average 11 year-old boy. He is basically told he has a host of social advantages (white privilege, male privilege, straight privilege, etc) that he has never experienced and will never benefit from, and this justifies the system which he is immersed in. And the worst part is, if young men point any of this out, the very people who are doing it will look them in the eye with a straight face and deny that any of this ever happened. Making matters worse these men begin to figure out that the institutions have been used to advance a leftist political agenda that scapegoated their group (young white men), and when they point this out everyone in authority calls them evil bigots.
And all this happens during their formative years.
Now, Imagine you are a young white male.
You graduate from the school system and are released into the world only to find that the feminine modes of socialization pushed on you are entirely unfit for purpose. That the social skills you were taught fail utterly in both the job markets young men tend towards (construction, engineering, building, landscaping, etc) and have no purchase in the dating market where highly agentic, masculine, wealthy men have a huge advantage over the passive, docile "nice boy." On top of that, imagine that a great deal of the job listings that you peruse make it clear that preference will be given to women and "diverse" candidates, and that the job interview itself is full of shibboleths, coded statements, and trap questions meant to elicit responses that allow the hiring party to exclude anyone who isn't sufficiently versed in and aligned with the priorities of the DEI/Woke/Social Justice paradigm.
On top of that, that if a you do get a job you will exposed to various sensitivity trainings, DEI trainings, and intersectionality workshops in which your group (straight white men) are repeatedly scapegoated as the source of all the worlds pathologies. Laid at your feet are patriarchy, colonialism, racism, sexism and a great number of other social evils for which you are taken to be complicit in and have a responsibility for fixing in virtue of being a white male.
While all this is going on a series of scandals (COVID, Men in womens' sports, trans kids, etc) reveal to you the degree to which the institutions that make up the society you live in have adopted an ideology that is actively hostile to you because you are a straight white male, and have been denying you opportunity while scapegoating you for all societies problems and treating you like you are a defective girl.
Once you understand this, the real question is not "why are some young men radicalizing?" the real question is "why are there any young men at all who have not been radicalized?"
None of this is to excuse any of the extremist radicals who are attempting to harness the resentment and anger of young men for their evil purposes. The point is to get you to understand why young men will attach themselves to any voice who is willing to stridently call for the obliteration of the social system and ideology which lied to them during their formative years and is currently doing things which rob them of opportunities for advancement and success.
The institutions have totally blown their credibility with young men, and have completely destroyed young men's trust in institutions. Young men view the current set of social institutions as ideologically corrupt and totally illegitimate, and they view the narratives that emerge from those institutions as being expressions of as nothing more then a story told to legitimize an ideology which seeks to hold them back. As such, the institutions and their narratives have absolutely no normative pull on young Gen Z men.
I am not saying the situation is hopeless, but unless you acknowledge what I have laid out here, and engage in a good faith attempt to understand what the school system, Universities, non-profits, HR departments, and other civic institutions have done to young men, you will never be able to gain their trust enough to lead them away from guys like Nick Fuentes, Andrew Tate, Andrew Torba, and other pathological influences.
/fin
It takes a long time to convince folks to move for their own benefit. The Free State Project in NH has been working on concentrating like-minded people into one state for 20 years, so come take advantage of our head start in gathering together folks who have moved because they're serious about working toward a better life.
Before you move South, please come visit! Up around Colebrook, you'll find a strong community of risk-tolerant families that I think you'll get along great with! :)
We can NOT peacefully co-exist with Muslims. Sorry, it’s just a fact.
This girl was burned at 5 years old. Israelis saved her & treated her for over 4 years.
She goes back to Gaza & becomes a suicide bomber & chooses the hospital which had treated her.
She gets caught at a check point. They once again help her get a degree etc.
She STILL wants to blow them up.
Cover songs is the best genre! Some of my faves that I haven't seen mentioned here yet:
- Tom Jones "Burning Down the House"
- Regina Spektor "While My Guitar Gently Weeps"
- The Band "Free Your Mind"
- Colouring "I Heard It Through The Grapevine"
- Alex Clare "Addicted to Love"
- 2Cellos "With or Without You"
- The Dead South "People Are Strange"