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OPINION: Primaries Are the People’s Choice – Not the Party’s

June 19, 2026 Anthony Clements

New Hampshire’s primary elections have long been a cornerstone of our democratic process, especially for offices like the State Senate, which represents multiple towns and cities. A primary is where anyone can step forward, where voters get real choices, and where competition sharpens candidates and strengthens the final ticket. The best ideas and the strongest … Read more

BASTARCHE: The Reluctant Shoppers – NHGOP, and Customer Sales (aka; Voter Turnout)

December 11, 2025December 11, 2025 Terese Bastarache

In the bustling marketplace of New Hampshire politics, the Republican Party (NHGOP) often resembles a frustrated store owner, pacing behind the counter, watching potential customers browse the shelves with skepticism. These customers, the grassroots voters, everyday conservatives driven by principles of limited government, fiscal responsibility, and transparency, aren’t just window shopping. They’re searching for something … Read more

Epic Rant: GOP DO YOUR JOB!

March 12, 2025 Steve MacDonald

A weekly staple of Granite State Live is one (or sometimes more) epic rants from co-host Keith Hanson. This week, Keith has some thoughts to share about the New Hampshire State Republican Party’s new chairman and the NH GOP’s lack of effort since he took the wheel. Watch more here. Please like, follow, or subscribe … Read more

If NH Republicans Don’t Want to Get Wiped Out In 2026

January 29, 2025 Steve MacDonald

If you missed last night’s Granite State Live, you should check it out. Great show. Keith, Terese, and guest Leah Cushman covered the NH DCYF and Famly Court hijinks, New Hampshire’s decades-long failure to protect its children, and the systemic (ongoing) cover-up of this failure. But that is not why I have gathered you here … Read more

Burns Attacks Bastarche To Protect An NHGOP Insider

January 23, 2025 Julie Smith

In yesterday’s mail, I received an item with my name and address on a sticker label, and there was no return address, at least not on the envelope. Expecting it to be some routine innocuous solicitation, I opened it and found it to be a hit piece on Terese Bastarche by Bob Burns. Terese is … Read more

2025 Annual New Hampshire Republican State Committee Meeting

December 15, 2024 Press Release

January 25, 2025 Inter-Lakes High School 1 Laker Lane, Meredith, NH 03253 The Annual Meeting of the New Hampshire Republican State Committee will be held on January 25, 2025, at the Inter-Lakes High School in Meredith, New Hampshire. The Members of the New Hampshire Republican State Committee shall meet in January pursuant to the bylaws for the … Read more

The Raymond Republican Town Committee Dissolution Situation Part II

October 2, 2024 Steve MacDonald

As I noted in the update to my original post alerting everyone that the NHGOP dissolving the Raymond Town Committee, I observed that “One of the more clumsy ways to get more detail about a situation is to share what you know or have been told, “to get it out there.” That worked. We speculated … Read more

NHGOP Dissolves Raymond Republican Town Committee [Update]

September 27, 2024September 27, 2024 Steve MacDonald

[Update] One of the more clumsy ways to get more detail about a situation is to share what you know or have been told “to get it out there.” That worked. Quite a bit of new information has come my way since this was published, and I will write a follow-up in the coming days. … Read more

Abortion, Abortion, Abortion

October 10, 2024June 27, 2024 Spike

I see in the New Hampshire Journal that the NHGOP is going to waste donor money in six figures again. It is the anniversary of the Dobbs decision, which correctly abandoned Roe v. Wade and sent the abortion question back to the states. Massachusetts and Mississippi are always going to decide differently, and under federalism, that is okay.

Wrong, NH-NeverTrump Journal … The NHGOP Is NOT “Playing Offense” On Abortion

June 27, 2024 Ed Mosca

The NHGOP Establishment is such a gaggle of beta leaf-eaters that they believe that “pledging” to keep abortion legal under any circumstances for six months is “playing offense.” At the outset, to be clear, the majority of voters in this State are reprobates whose moral compasses (if they have any) are beyond repair … so the present law is likely the best you can do.

Trump Verdict Shows How Pathetic And Useless The NHGOP Is

May 31, 2024 Ed Mosca

We are witnessing the 2024 election being stolen … the latest and most obvious: the Kafkaesque sham trial of Donald Trump in the kangaroo-courts of New York … and what is the reaction of the NHGOP? To call for Red States to conduct law fare back against the Democrats? To call for New Hampshire Retirement … Read more

Kudos To Ross Berry

May 23, 2024 Ed Mosca

So, I was mentioned in a recent post titled ROSS BERRY by someone named Anonymous. So I should respond, and I do as follows: KUDOS TO ROSS BERRY! To hell with the NH Democrats, who should be getting called Woke-Communists because that is what they are.

Red States Are Banning DEI (Anti-White Racism) … Why Can’t New Hampshire

May 16, 2024 Ed Mosca

DEI is simply the sublimation of anti-white racism. Individuals are simply a factor of their skin color, and whatever other identity factors the Democrat Party decides are oppressed and need protecting. That fill-in-the-blank is too white, too male, too Christian, too heterosexual.

And Another “You Can’t Make This Stuff Up” … NHGOP House Leader Blames Democrats For GOP Failure To Ban Sanctuary Cities

May 5, 2024 Ed Mosca

On May 2nd, a bunch of GOP Reps failed to show up for work. On the day that Kelly Ayotte’s signature issue, illegal immigration, was up for a vote. The bill, HB 563 LOST by eleven votes. Eight “GOP” Reps voted with the ~~Democrats~~Woke-Communists to allow sanctuary-cities, while eleven GOP failed to show up (versus seven ~~Democrat~~Woke-Communist no-shows).

Democrats Are Deliberately Destroying America … But Let’s Talk About “Entitlement Reform”!

April 29, 2024 Ed Mosca

Is it that the NHGOP does NOT want to win elections, or is it that they don’t know how? Does it matter? The ~~Democrats~~Communists are destroying America, and one of the NHGOP State Reps thinks the 2nd-CD candidates should be talking about “entitlement reform.”

Search Yields Firearms, a Manifesto, Suicide Notes, and a Bag Containing Zip Ties, Masks, and Gloves

April 28, 2024 Steve MacDonald

The New Hampshire Republican Party held its annual meeting in Concord two weeks ago. That was probably a mistake, but the State House is there, so I can guess why they’d think it would be safe. Concord is a city filled with lefties and a few Libertarians, but it is not like there weren’t a bunch of armed citizens present inside at the event.

Manch Talk: Will NH Senators Defend the Guard or Cave to The Military Industrial Complex?

October 15, 2024April 21, 2024 Manch Talk

We welcome another program to our “podcast” lineup. Manch Talk with Tammy Simmons and Caral Gericke.”Will NH Senators Defend the Guard or Cave to The Military Industrial Complex?”

The NHGOP Is Enabling And Funding DEI (That Lovely Euphemism For Anti-White Racism) … WHY?

April 21, 2024 Ed Mosca

First, credit where credit is due. Excellent piece in NH-NeverTrump Journal exposing how broadly and deeply the Left has implanted DEI … that lovely euphemism for anti-white racism that the NHGOP is afraid to call anti-white racism … into public education.

No … You Are NOT A Political Activist

April 18, 2024 Ed Mosca

IF you consider yourself a political activist … then there is a thread on X from Jesse Kelly that is a MUST-READ. But let’s start with me, okay? Am I a political activist? NO. Writing posts for GraniteGrok does NOT make me a political activist. It makes me a political commentator (the dysfunctional NHGOP would probably use gadfly instead of commentator). But it does NOT make me an activist.

Not Me, Jason

April 18, 2024 Ed Mosca

If you want to understand why NHGOP House “leadership” believes it can ignore the priorities of actual GOP voters while instead pushing their decidedly non-GOP agenda … an obsession with legalizing marijuana, outlawing single-family zoning, increasing urban density, and catering to the rich and the elites (e.g., ending interest-and-dividends tax) while ignoring working people (no … Read more