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davidmeuse.bsky.social @davidmeuse.bsky.social · 4h

“Trump and MAGA have massively overreached and they are awakening a sleeping giant…Fascism is not inevitable and no one knows what will happen next. Our protests need to keep building and expanding.” #NHPolitics www.concordmonitor.com/2025/10/06/m...

Opinion: The value of protest - Concord Monitor

The movement against the Trump regime is reminiscent of the protests against Nixon's presidency. Mass movements can bring down authoritarian regimes.

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davidmeuse.bsky.social @davidmeuse.bsky.social · 17h

Having a convicted felon serving as president certainly helps normalize
a NH judge who cops a plea continuing to serve on our state Supreme Court. Or does it? Another textbook case of how the wealthy and the powerful escape consequences. #NHPolitics indepthnh.org/2025/10/07/j...

Justice Hantz Marconi Wants To Return To Work; Found Guilty On 1 New Charge; Fined $1,200

State Supreme Court Justice Anna Barbara Hantz Marconi is looking forward to getting back to work, according to her lawyer Richard Guerriero, after all seven original criminal charges against her were...

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davidmeuse.bsky.social @davidmeuse.bsky.social · 1d

The #ICEstapo strikes again. In NH, this could be prosecuted as simple assault because 1) tear gas canister effects would likely qualify as bodily injury or unprivileged physical contact and 2) road rage isn’t protected under the supremacy clause. Yet…#NHPolitics www.cbsnews.com/amp/chicago/...

Federal agent throws tear gas canister from SUV on busy Chicago street

Federal agents threw a tear gas canister at people on a busy street in the Logan Square neighborhood on Friday outside a grocery store and near an elementary school.

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davidmeuse.bsky.social @davidmeuse.bsky.social · 1d

“First, you tap into racism…From there, you create moral panic…Finally, you keep corporations, the wealthy, and their media-savvy champions happy enough so they’ll accept all the crimes and immorality.” #NHPolitics newhampshirebulletin.com/2025/10/01/h...

How power is won and held, in New Hampshire and the nation • New Hampshire Bulletin

Several decades ago, Republican campaign consultant Lee Atwater described how, as The Nation put it, “Republicans can win the vote of racists without sounding racist themselves.” Atwater outlined the ...

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davidmeuse.bsky.social @davidmeuse.bsky.social · 1d

2/ Peaceful protest is a sign of empowerment in a healthy democracy and a sign of resistance and recovery in an unhealthy one. Be part of the resistance and the recovery. kentstreetcoalition.org/2025/09/19/n...

No Kings Protest Events In New Hampshire Oct. 18

From the organizers: He’s using OUR tax dollars to pay for HIS power grabs. Trump is pouring public money into his authoritarian takeovers of cities—deploying federal forces, seizing local police d…

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davidmeuse.bsky.social @davidmeuse.bsky.social · 1d

1/We’ve seen this movie before in NH. Elected Republican leaders framing peaceful protesters as “terrorists”. But it didn’t work then and it won’t work now. On October 18, find the #NoKings protest near you. #NHPolitics indepthnh.org/2025/10/07/o...

Op-Ed: Overblown Threats of Terrorism, Then and Now

Three days before the Clamshell Alliance peaceably occupied the nuclear plant construction site in Seabrook in 1977, Governor Meldrim Thomson issued an inflammatory statement.

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davidmeuse.bsky.social @davidmeuse.bsky.social · 1d

A sweetheart plea deal, a tiny slap on the wrist and she’ll likely get to keep her law license too. #NHPolitics www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025...

NH Supreme Court Justice Hantz Marconi to plead guilty, ending legal saga

Jury selection in the criminal case against Hantz Marconi was scheduled to begin next month. She will pay a fine and serve no jail time.

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davidmeuse.bsky.social @davidmeuse.bsky.social · 2d

Wondering how many people with parents whose unflinching service to their country defined them feel the same way… substack.com/@tracymayne/...

Tracy Mayne (@tracymayne)

I’m grateful my father is dead. He was an infantryman in WWII. He only once talked about the war. That was the night my brother-in-law, Glenn, talked about his time serving in Vietnam. I listened as ...

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davidmeuse.bsky.social @davidmeuse.bsky.social · 2d

2/At this point, full text versions of the bills haven’t been posted. But in most cases the titles are descriptive enough so you can get the idea. The full searchable list of bills being submitted for the 2026 session is available here. gc.nh.gov/lsr_search/L...

New Hampshire Legislative Service Requests (LSR's)

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davidmeuse.bsky.social @davidmeuse.bsky.social · 2d

1/This is a great summary of what elected NH Republicans have planned for us in 2026. But it’s only the tip of an iceberg that includes the possible return of the death penalty and a scheme to convert public schools to charter schools. #NHPolitics democracynh.com/2025/republi...

A glimpse into what the Republicans have in mind for New Hampshire | DemocracyNH

The New Hampshire House will begin the 2026 Session on Jan. 7th. Proposed legislation will make their way onto the floor for debate and a vote. Depending on the nature of these proposed bills and the ...

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davidmeuse.bsky.social @davidmeuse.bsky.social · 2d

Addressing educational funding disparities between communities is a necessity. But yet another scheme by elected NH Republicans to place the burden entirely on the backs of property taxpayers with no regard to health or income is not. #NHPolitics newhampshirebulletin.com/2025/10/06/a...

After Supreme Court school funding decision, Republican floats fix: increasing property taxes • New Hampshire Bulletin

In the months since the New Hampshire Supreme Court ruled that the state is underfunding its public schools, lawmakers have been divided over how to respond.

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davidmeuse.bsky.social @davidmeuse.bsky.social · 3d

For those who don’t follow #NHPolitics too closely, I’ve created this helpful chart. For those needing more of an explanation, read onward… www.davidmeuse4nh.com/updates1/202...

A NH Politics Primer: Understanding Elected Republicans — Rep. David Meuse

For my those who don’t follow NH politics too closely, I’ve created this helpful chart. For those needing more of an explanation, read onward…

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Dr. K @katekaynak.bsky.social · 3d

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davidmeuse.bsky.social @davidmeuse.bsky.social · 3d

“Darkness is at its deepest, just before sunrise.”—Voltaire

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davidmeuse.bsky.social @davidmeuse.bsky.social · 3d

What Trump is doing isn’t just violating yet another law that people are too busy or distracted to care about. He is decapitating trust in anything anyone in government tells you—starting with himself. #NHPolitics indepthnh.org/2025/10/04/d...

Distant Dome: Using Government for Partisan Purposes

White Mountain National Forest website says: “The Radical Left Democrats shut down the government. This government website will be updated periodically during the funding lapse for mission critical fu...

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davidmeuse.bsky.social @davidmeuse.bsky.social · 3d

Good to see at least one NH Republican calling out last Tuesday’s meeting with senior generals and admirals as an “unmitigated failure of leadership, undermining trust in military command and sowing discord within the ranks.”#NHPolitics www.unionleader.com/opinion/op-e...

Donald C. Bolduc: A critique of comments to senior U.S. military leaders

AT THEIR MEETING on Tuesday with senior generals and admirals, the comments made by President Donald Trump and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth not only sparked controversy but exposed deep

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davidmeuse.bsky.social @davidmeuse.bsky.social · 4d

“Democrats need to empower messengers that the establishment is scared of, people who don’t delight megadonors. Democrats need to stake their claims on a set of strong beliefs, and see if Americans will follow. They need to stop being lawyerly and timid.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/o...

Opinion | The N.F.L. Gets It. Why Don’t Democrats?

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davidpreece52.bsky.social @davidpreece52.bsky.social · 4d

October 3, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

Russell Vought is best known for his contributions to Project 2025, a plan for gutting the U.S. government and installing a theocratic dictatorship. Now Trump appears to be turning the reins of the government over to Russell Vought.

October 3, 2025

Although President Donald J.

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davidmeuse.bsky.social @davidmeuse.bsky.social · 4d

A setback for NH’s race-baiting, woman-hating, child-indoctrinating, pitchforks-and-torches-toting elected Republicans. #NHPolitics www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025...

Federal judge bars state from enforcing DEI ban on most school districts

“The breadth of the anti-DEI laws’ prohibition is startling,” wrote Judge Landya B. McCafferty, with the U.S. District Court in Concord, New Hampshire. “The definition of ‘DEI’ contained [in the law] ...

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davidmeuse.bsky.social @davidmeuse.bsky.social · 4d

Apple and Google bend the knee to the American Nazi Party. apnews.com/article/appl...

Apple and Google block apps that crowdsource ICE sightings. Some warn of chilling effects

Apple and Google blocked downloads of phone apps that flag sightings of U.S. immigration agents, just hours after the Trump administration demanded that one particularly popular iPhone app be taken do...

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 6d

Wow. This really says it all.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 6d

Jeffries: In that Oval Office meeting, which lasted over an hour, the amount of time spent talking about health insurance for undocumented immigrants was less than 10 seconds. You know why? Because they know it’s a lie. They didn’t even bother to bring it up—because the cameras weren’t rolling.

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davidmeuse.bsky.social @davidmeuse.bsky.social · 5d

“The more corrupt and lawless he gets, the stiffer my spine gets. Because at this point, if I give in and consent to these kinds of tactics, which are blatantly corrupt, then it just normalizes it all, makes it become standard fare.” newrepublic.com/article/2013...

Transcript: Chris Murphy’s Dark and Unnerving New Warning about Trump

The Democratic Senator has taken the lead in drawing attention to Trump’s authoritarianism. In an interview, he offers a stark new warning that should galvanize his fellow Democrats before it’s too la...

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davidmeuse.bsky.social @davidmeuse.bsky.social · 5d

If I’m reading this correctly, Ayotte’s commission will issue a report 2 years from now with little or no transparency on its doings in the meantime—but plenty of potential for leaks and planted news stories along the way. Swell... #NHPolitics www.wmur.com/article/nh-a...

New committee unites state agencies to look closer at deadly domestic violence cases

The New Hampshire Attorney General's Office launched a new committee to review domestic violence deaths to prevent similar crimes.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 5d

The GOP health care for immigrants lie is an old one. Here’s me six years ago:

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davidmeuse.bsky.social @davidmeuse.bsky.social · 5d

This is politically motivated retribution. Every state with projects that lost funding voted for Democrat Kamala Harris in the 2024 election. NH and VT were the only states included in the cancellations with Republican governors. #NHPolitics www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025...

Federal energy funding cancellations hits two projects in New Hampshire

According to a list shared with NHPR, Brayton Energy and Ubiquity Solar both lost funding for projects in New Hampshire.

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