The Grafton County Dems are hosting a morning of workshops in Littleton on June 13, You’ve Protested; Now What? Join us in welcoming our candidates who will have filed by the day before.

Our Executive Council candidates from District 1 (Luz Bay) and District 2 (Karen Liot Hill) have both accepted our invitation. We have invited our Grafton County candidates for commissioner, attorney, register of deeds, treasurer and sheriff along with candidates from our five Senate districts and 26 House candidates representing 18 House districts. And, of course, we are inviting you as well.

The workshops are all interactive. In the first workshop we will build out the candidate calendar. We will design specific actions volunteers can take to help their candidates at different points along the campaign, from filing to the election. We will break out into districts and regional groups. Your participation in your regional group will be valuable. The second workshop will focus on strategies around voter outreach and voter contact, using your personal pitch as a winning tactic. The third workshop will be working with Fast Democracy and how to use it to contrast our candidate positions (in our districts) and push for accountability. Bring your ideas and bring a friend!

Come ready to get involved — and leave ready to make a difference.
Register now for June 13, 9am-12pm, in Littleton.

https://www.mobilize.us/nhdp_events/event/936178/

Join our CCNH Workshop, May 18, 7 pm
Spring is a great time to begin conversation canvassing.  

With elections six months away, we can use this season to build relationships with voters, listening to their concerns and finding common ground.  This is the way we earn the right to ask them for their vote in the fall. Training with Conversation Canvassing New Hampshire involves watching short videos (about two hours total) at your own pace, on your own time.  Then there’s a one-hour workshop on Zoom for questions and practice.  

CCNH is offering an Upper Valley/Mascoma Forward workshop on Monday, May 18 at 7:00 pm. 

Start watching the videos and then register for the zoom workshop:  visit conversationcanvassing26.org

Want to join? Gather a group of like-minded friends, watch the videos, and get together in someone’s house to zoom in. Let us know: annhgarland@gmail.com

Forget the SAVE Act, voter suppression is happening right here in New Hampshire!

If you are registering to vote FOR THE FIRST TIME in New Hampshire, you now need to prove 3 things when you register with your town clerk:

• You must be a US citizen—and you need to show a birth certificate, a US passport or naturalization papers
  • AND if you changed your name, name change documents if applicable
• You must be 18 years or older on or before election day— and you need to show a driver’s license, a government-issued photo ID or a passport
• You must prove New Hampshire is your home—and you need to show a driver’s license, a government-issued photo ID, a vehicle registration, a government-issued tax document or a government-issued check and the document must list your primary residence address.

Click here if you are registering to vote for the FIRST TIME in New Hampshire

If you have moved to a new town or to a different city ward in
New Hampshire, you will need to register to vote.

FIND YOUR TOWN CLERK’S OFFICE INFO AND HOURS

Help us elect more Grafton County Democrats 
to the NH House & Senate

Are you angry about state expenses filtering down to local communities and your property taxes? efforts to suck money out of the public schools without accountability? a concerted campaign to take away local control over education and curriculum? efforts that will make it harder to vote? We can stop this!

We need to flip Republican districts blue in November. We have a plan for that. We are asking you for help to raise money for Grafton County candidates especially in purple and red districts with tight races.  A recent special election in Carroll County saw a community elect a Democrat in a town that previously voted for Trump by 11 points! We can do this. 

A generous group of concerned Democrats have pledged $15,000 to this effort, and we need to raise an equal amount to unlock that match. 

Click on this link to reach the Grafton County Dems’ Matching Gift ActBlue page and consider making a donation in support of our candidates. If you would like to support us but prefer not to use Act Blue, checks made out to Grafton County Democrats can be sent to our treasurer, Nancy Graham, 76 Dogwood Circle, West Lebanon 03784. We will add your gift to the thermometer. 

As we continue this campaign through the month of April, you will be able to monitor how we are doing by checking the thermometer on the site. Please share this with friends who are looking for a constructive way to channel their anger with Republicans in Concord who simply ignore standards of decency.

We raised $27,000 ahead of the 2024 election, and those dollars helped candidates pay for yard signs and literature so they could immediately begin knocking doors after filing for office in early June. We also ran radio ads, and placed newspaper ads in multiple weekly and daily publications as well as on Facebook and Instagram.

Are you in?  Take a look, the thermometer is already on the move!Click below and we will match your gift. 

Yes, Please Match My Gift!

Last Friday Governor Kelly Ayotte signed HB1815 into law, a bill that narrows the state’s responsibility for funding public education. You can read David Luneau’s press release on the impact this will have on our property taxes. You can also see how our nine Grafton County House Republicans voted on HB 1815. 

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Eight of our nine Grafton County Republican House Representatives voted to support HB1815. One was excused. 

WE DID IT!
Saturday was the largest single day of protest in modern U.S. history, and look what Grafton County did!!

Enfield, 255 ppl, Video, album
Hanover/Lyme, 456 ppl, Photo,Video, narrated by Willem Lange, written by William Daugherty
Lebanon, 1,400 ppl, Video,  FB video
Lincoln, 90 ppl, Video, FB Video
Littleton, 500 ppl, FB video
Orford, 250 ppl, FB Album, Video
Plymouth,  450 ppl, VideoFB Video

Listen to this inspirational speech from Brie Choate, Haverhill NH, one of the organizers of the VT/NH Day of Solidarity.

7 No Kings events in Grafton County as of now!
Get counted nationally!
Register for an event in Grafton County!
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Plymouth, 9-11 am, register here
Kendal/Lyme, 9-11am, register here
Orford, 10 am -12 pm, register here
Enfield,10:45 am, register here
Lebanon, 1-2:30 pm, register here
Lincoln, 1-3 pm, register here
Littleton, 2-4 pm, register here

• 10 am – Orford, NH rally on the Samuel Morey Memorial Bridge over the Connecticut River between Orford and Fairlee, VT.
• 11 am – Bradford, VT rally at Valley Floor parking lot on the corner of Rt 5/Rt 25.
• 12 pm – Newbury, VT rally at Newbury Common on Rt 5.
• 2 pm – Littleton, NH rally at 120 Main St.

Mobilize Sign Up Link: 

• Big Wins in NH Legislature, Facebook
• Bills die in House, NHPR
• EFA accountability is not an attack, Sen. Sue Prentiss, Article 
• Bill to bar Student ID cards, NH Bulletin
• AG’s Office opposes CHARLIE Act over constitutional concerns, InDepthNH.org
• House GOP Passes School District Budget Cap, InDepthNH.org
• Who are the Free Staters, Video
• Rebecca Harned announces her candidacy for NH Senate District 7, Below
• GO NORTH is back. Thank you, Executive Councilor Karen Liot Hill