The New Hampshire First Pledge.
Five commitments, in public, under your own name. Put New Hampshire first, uphold Article 10, and vote to let the people decide.
This one is not for everybody.
The New Hampshire First Pledge is an instrument for people who hold or seek office. It speaks about "the powers of my office" and "every term I am elected," which is language only a candidate or an officeholder can keep.
If you are running, or already serving
State representative or senator, executive councillor, county office, mayor, city council, select board, school board, or any other elected seat in New Hampshire. Sitting officials and candidates both.
Sign the petition instead
If you are a Granite Stater who wants the vote held, the petition is your route and it takes about thirty seconds. The two are separate on purpose.
What a signer commits to.
Word for word, in full. A signer checks the commitments they are making and puts their name to them.
"I make the following pledge to my future constituents as their representative in government:"
I pledge to place the interests of New Hampshire and its citizens before any other nation, state, political entity, organization, or individual.
I further pledge to uphold the rights of Granite Staters under Article 10 of the New Hampshire Constitution, the "Right of Revolution," to reform, alter, or abolish government when it is necessary for the public good.
If it is within the powers of my office, I will vote for legislation and resolutions that call for a vote on New Hampshire reasserting its sovereignty and independence, and I will continue to do so in every term I am elected until such a referendum is held.
This is the working clause. It is not a one-off gesture; it is a standing obligation that renews with every term.
If the national debt of the United States reaches $50 trillion, I will support legislation and resolutions that call for a vote on New Hampshire reasserting its sovereignty and independence. In such a scenario, I will advocate for the people of New Hampshire to have the opportunity to decide their future in light of the unsustainable financial burden placed upon the nation.
If a majority of the people of New Hampshire vote in support of reasserting the state's independence, I pledge to work toward a peaceful, fair and expedient separation from the federal government, always placing the interests of Granite Staters first.
Signing is open to any candidate or officeholder of any party, for any elected office in New Hampshire.
Article 10 is not a metaphor.
The pledge asks a signer to uphold a right that is already written into the New Hampshire Constitution, and has been since 2 June 1784. It is Part First, Article 10, and it is titled the Right of Revolution.
Government being instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security, of the whole community, and not for the private interest or emolument of any one man, family, or class of men; therefore, whenever the ends of government are perverted, and public liberty manifestly endangered, and all other means of redress are ineffectual, the people may, and of right ought to reform the old, or establish a new government. The doctrine of nonresistance against arbitrary power, and oppression, is absurd, slavish, and destructive of the good and happiness of mankind. New Hampshire Constitution, Part First, Article 10, 1784
Every officeholder in this state already swears to uphold that constitution. The pledge simply asks them to say out loud that they meant the whole of it, including the article that says the people may reform their government when the ends of government are perverted.
Nobody is being asked to sign anything New Hampshire has not believed since 1784.
Fifty trillion dollars is not a hypothetical any more.
The pledge sets a trigger: if the national debt reaches $50 trillion, a signer supports putting the question to New Hampshire. When that clause was written it read as a distant condition. It no longer does.
Total public debt outstanding was $40,112,464,593,206, as of 1 September 2026. That is 80.2% of the way to the trigger, with $9.9 trillion to go. This figure is pulled from the Treasury, not typed in.
This is the clause that makes the pledge party-neutral. It does not ask anyone to hate Washington or to pick a side in a national argument. It asks a simple question about arithmetic: at what point does a debt New Hampshire never voted for become a reason to ask New Hampshire what it wants?
Source: U.S. Treasury, Debt to the Penny. Refreshed from the Treasury twice a day.
Put your name on the record.
Your contact details stay private. Only your name, office, district and party go on the public roster, and only after we have confirmed you hold or seek the office you have entered.
Received. Thank you.
We will confirm your office and add you to the public roster. If anything needs checking we will email you first. The record, once made, is permanent.
What happens after you sign.
Someone checks that you hold or are seeking the seat you entered. Nobody reaches the public roster on their own say-so, which is the only reason the roster is worth reading.
Then your name goes up and your details do not. The roster carries your name, office, district and party. Your email, phone and address stay in the database.
And it stays up. If you change your mind later we note that beside your name instead of deleting it, because a record you can quietly edit is not a record.
A referendum needs sponsors before it needs voters.
New Hampshire seats four hundred representatives and twenty-four senators. Every one of those seats is filled by someone a few thousand neighbors sent to Concord, and every one of them can file a bill.
Support without a vehicle goes nowhere
Independence movements that reached a real vote all had one thing in common: officeholders willing to carry the question. That is the piece New Hampshire has been missing, not the public support.
It is a public commitment
A pledge is worth something because it is on the record. Constituents can read it, ask about it, and hold a signer to it at the next filing period.
Small districts, reachable people
A New Hampshire House seat is won on hundreds of votes and pays $200 a biennium. These are not distant figures. They are neighbors, and they answer the phone.