The 2024 legislative session is underway, and there are many opportunities for you to get involved and influence proposed legislation impacting you and your community.
This webinar will provide an overview of the NH state legislature and how a bill becomes a law, and discusses when and how to get involved by participating in public hearings, reaching out to legislators, using media, and other advocacy strategies. Be empowered to take action on issues you care about during the 2024 legislative session!
ASL interpretation will be provided during this webinar. This webinar will be recorded.
This Tuesday, January 23, is Democratic primary day in New Hampshire!
Don’t let anyone tell Granite Staters that our presidential primary doesn’t matter. This year, because the DNC shuffled the presidential primary calendar, Iowa had a hybrid in-person/mail-in ballot Democratic caucus and those results won’t be announced until Super Tuesday in March.
This means the first results from a caucus or a primary will be from New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation Democratic primary next Tuesday. All eyes are on us.
Twenty-one Democratic candidates have filed to be on the Democratic presidential primary ballot in New Hampshire. Joe Biden is not one of them; if you want to vote for him you need to write him in.
No matter which candidate you support, voting in the Democratic primary sends a strong message rejecting the MAGA extremism of the Republican Party.
Vote for the candidate of your choice but get out and vote. Your voice counts!
In the NH legislature, from January to June, lawmakers present, debate and vote on bills. With so many House and Senate committees, we cannot possibly address all of the bills coming through. But we have a few suggestions.
If you want to follow a specific bill, watch the debates and then weigh in, read this article.
Check your voter registration, polling location, sample ballot and local clerk’s information at app.sos.nh.gov Do you know a student turning 18 before January 23? Share this short video with your students about registering to vote. Not registered to vote? In New Hampshire you can register at the polls on election day. Just remember to bring your photo ID or you will have to complete an affidavit.
“Republicans doth protest too much – WHY ARE New Hampshire Republicans attacking Democrats who plan on writing in Joe Biden on the state’s Democratic presidential primary ballot?
Democrats could have meekly accepted the DNC’s new rules and ignored the primary. We could have said, it does not really matter anyway, since Biden will win re-nomination with or without New Hampshire. Democrats could have taken the not-unbiased advice of Republicans and stayed home. But we did not.
The effort is the best thing the state’s Democrats could have done to make our side of the primary relevant in a way that no one — the media, the Democratic National Committee, and, especially, the state’s GOP — expected. It has received significant attention from news outlets, not just locally, but across the country. It has received the support of both New Hampshire Democrats and from national Democratic figures from across the party’s ideological spectrum.
That national attention is not only good for the New Hampshire Democratic Party. It is good for the primary.
Republicans would probably respond to this by claiming they are not telling Democrats we should not vote.
“Oh, no,” they would claim, “we aren’t saying don’t vote, we are saying, vote if you want to, but don’t you dare vote for Biden!” Well, with all due respect, we are not going to give the party of Donald Trump veto power over which candidate we support.
