$119 billion, on its own feet
Sixty-eighth largest on Earth, bigger than Croatia's or Lithuania's, both of which govern themselves, and carrying its share of a federal debt that now stands at $40.12 trillion.
New Hampshire should be a free and independent nation.
A peaceful, lawful movement to put New Hampshire independence to a vote of the people.
Add your name. It's free.
Sign the call for the General Court to put independence on the ballot.
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Next, find out which House districts you sit in and who holds those seats. That needs your street address and takes about ten seconds.
You ticked organize in my own town
Not many people tick that box, and it is the part that actually decides this. Somebody will email you within a week, from a real address, with the districts you sit in, who holds those seats, and who else near you has said the same thing.
If a week goes by and nothing arrives, write to hello@nhexitnow.org and say so. We would rather be chased than lose you.
One more thing that helps
Most people in New Hampshire who already agree with this have no idea the others exist. Send one person the link.
Reported on by
42%
Want the vote held
Support for New Hampshire holding a referendum. SurveyUSA, 2022.
$119bn
Economy of its own
Sixty-eighth largest on Earth, ahead of Bulgaria and Oman. World Bank, 2024.
400
Representatives in Concord
The largest state legislature in the country, and the most reachable.
4 of 535
Seats in Congress
The other 531 are chosen by people who do not live here.
Who already agrees
339,000
Granite Staters already say they would prefer New Hampshire to govern itself.
Each mark is roughly 11,700 New Hampshire adults. The lit ones already agree.
29% of New Hampshire adults said so, in a poll SurveyUSA ran across the state in June 2022, against a Census count of 1.17 million adults. Among New Hampshire Republicans it was 52%.
A third of a million people. They live in your town, they shop where you shop, and almost none of them know about each other.
They are not a movement yet. Connecting them is the job.
NHEXIT is for finding the people who already agree and putting them in the same room, in every House district in the state. It beats arguing New Hampshire round from a standing start.
Every county in the state.
Granite Staters have put their names to this from Coos down to the seacoast. Thin in places, and not a crowd yet. But there is no county in New Hampshire without somebody in it.
Most towns still have nobody. Putting your own name down is how the person in the next one finds out you exist.
Four in ten Granite Staters want the vote held.
Scotland won the right to a referendum at thirty-three percent.
SurveyUSA asked New Hampshire directly: would you support the idea of New Hampshire holding a vote to find out whether voters want to peacefully separate from the US?
42% said yes. Close to half a million adults, asking for the same thing this campaign asks for.
New Hampshire, support for holding a vote
42%
SurveyUSA, June 2022. About 492,000 adults.
Brexit Leave, before the campaign ran
behind
Trailed through most of the years before the referendum, and won it. We are not drawing a bar for this one: the figure moves a great deal depending on whether undecided voters are counted, and a bar would imply a precision the comparison does not have.
Scottish independence, pre-referendum
33%
Won the right to a vote. Outran its polling on the day.
Scotland went to a referendum from a lower base than New Hampshire polls at today, and outran that polling on the day. New Hampshire got to its number before anyone had campaigned at all.
SurveyUSA #26405, 21 to 28 June 2022, 625 New Hampshire adults, credibility interval 4.5 points. Commissioned by the Foundation for New Hampshire Independence.
Live free or die. Death is not the worst of evils.
General John Stark, 1809
No state has a better right to ask.
The Constitution became law because New Hampshire said yes. Article VII needed nine states, eight had gone before, and on 21 June 1788 a convention in Concord made it real.
We granted the authority
Washington's government exists because this state voted for it, and the ratification record says so in New Hampshire's own hand.
And we set the terms
In the same instrument New Hampshire demanded twelve amendments. The first: powers not expressly delegated stay with the states. It became the Tenth Amendment.
So we may ask
A people who granted a government its authority on stated terms may ask themselves whether those terms are being kept. That question belongs on a ballot.
New Hampshire is already a nation in all but name.
For a state this size, independence is a change of address on the paperwork rather than a leap into the unknown.
Laws made in Concord
Four hundred representatives, paid $200 a biennium, in districts small enough that your neighbor holds the seat.
The state stays the state
No income tax, no sales tax, town meeting every March. Concord decides all of that today and would decide it after. What changes is who else gets a say.
Four hundred seats. One of them answers to you.
Representatives Hall, Concord
The New Hampshire First Pledge.
A referendum needs sponsors before it needs voters.
Support without a vehicle goes nowhere. Every independence movement that reached a real vote had officeholders willing to carry the question, and that is the piece New Hampshire has been missing.
So we ask candidates and officeholders, of any party and for any elected seat in the state, to make five commitments in public and under their own name. The working one is the third: vote for legislation calling a referendum, every term, until one is held.
The names go on a public roster and they stay there. A signature that could be withdrawn quietly would be worth nothing at the moment it mattered.
Not a candidate? The petition is your route. The two are separate on purpose.
Fourteen names, and a request to take them off the ballot.
In August 2022 a resident of Atkinson asked the New Hampshire Ballot Law Commission to disqualify fourteen candidates from standing for re-election. Seven had sponsored the independence amendment. Seven more had voted against killing it. The grounds were the clause of the Fourteenth Amendment that bars from office anyone who has “engaged in insurrection or rebellion.”
The commission threw it out two days later, unanimously, on the ground that reading the federal constitution was not its job. One commissioner asked who the enemy was supposed to be and said he saw nothing on the merits. Another said the slope would get slippery awfully quick.
Nobody argued that Granite Staters would vote to stay.
That was the easy argument. The polling would have carried it. It went unmade, and what was filed instead was a request that the people who put the question forward be kept off a ballot. Not beaten at the polls. Kept off.
A side that expected to win a vote asks for the vote. This is what the objection looks like when somebody writes it down and files it.
Put it on the ballot.
Close to half a million Granite Staters already want this question put to them. The argument is already won with half a million people. Getting them a ballot is the work.
Add your name and we will tell you which House districts you live in, who holds those seats, and what to say to them.