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NHEXIT is the process of New Hampshire leaving the union and becoming a self-governing nation. Independence is the destination. NHEXIT is the road, and the road is a vote.

Start in the right place. The right of a people to govern themselves is inherent. It came before the Constitution, it is not something Washington hands out, and it is not Washington's to take back. New Hampshire was exercising it at Exeter in January 1776.

Nothing forbids it. There is no clause and no statute barring a state from leaving. Article I, Section 10 is the list of things states may not do, and it is a specific list: no treaties, no coining money, no troops, no import duties without Congress. Leaving is not on it. The Tenth Amendment reserves what was never handed over. The silence is the answer, and the burden sits with anyone claiming a prohibition to produce one.

What they produce is Texas v. White, an 1869 case about $5 million in bonds, decided by Lincoln's own Treasury Secretary, whose actual holding on those bonds was overturned in 1885. The famous line about an indestructible union was never necessary to decide the case. And the thing that court was looking at was a break by force of arms, not a ballot. Even Chase allowed that the union could be reconsidered "through revolution, or through consent of the States", which is a strange thing to write about something permanent.

So the honest summary is short. There is no law against it. The barrier is political, not constitutional, and political problems have political solutions. In New Hampshire that solution is a vote.

One thing before anything else: a vote of the people of New Hampshire. Until that has happened there is nothing to negotiate and nobody to negotiate on behalf of. Everything downstream, every question about currency, borders, federal assets, or treaties, is a question for negotiators who do not yet have a mandate.

So the near-term work is narrow and unglamorous. Get a referendum authorized through the General Court. That is the whole ask.

Further here than anywhere else in the country. In 2022, Rep. Michael Sylvia filed CACR 32, a constitutional amendment to let New Hampshire voters decide on independence. It was heard in committee, with the public turning out to testify, and on 10 March 2022 it was debated and voted on the floor of the New Hampshire House.

New Hampshire is the only state in modern American history to take the question up in open session and put every member's name to a recorded vote. The amendment did not pass. It established something more useful than a result: the question is admissible here, the process works, and the door opens. It can be filed again, and it will be.

More than a poll can tell you, which is the point. We commissioned the University of New Hampshire Survey Center to ask in April 2025, and the answer moved threefold depending on the sentence.

Asked "should New Hampshire secede," twelve percent said yes. Asked whether New Hampshire should hold a vote on it, twenty-one percent. Asked whether they would want New Hampshire to join the United States if it were not already a member, thirty-four percent said no.

Same people, same afternoon, same subject. Nobody changed their mind between those questions, because the questions were not the same question. That is what polling does with a constitutional issue, and it is why this campaign asks for a ballot rather than another survey. A vote is the only instrument that answers honestly. Read the poll.

Because of how this state is built. New Hampshire seats 400 representatives, the largest state legislative body in the United States, alongside a 24-member Senate, and pays them $200 for a two-year term. Districts are tiny and the people in them are reachable.

In most states, moving a legislature means moving a party. In New Hampshire it means moving a few thousand neighbors at a time, four hundred times. That is slow, but it is a job ordinary people can actually do.

No, and it cannot afford to be. A referendum needs a majority of New Hampshire, not a majority of one party's primary electorate. Self-government is not a left or right proposition and the moment it is treated as one, the arithmetic stops working.

Sign the petition so we know you exist and can tell you which House district you live in. After that, talk to the person who holds your seat. They are not a distant figure. In New Hampshire they are frequently someone you can reach in an afternoon.