ACTION ALERTS! Week of August 23, 2026

Please note: Some of these actions duplicate those found elsewhere in KSC communications but we have heard that some readers with limited time find this short list helpful.

CENTRAL NH INDIVISIBLE Tell your Senators to reject CORCA

The Combating Organized Retail Crime Act (CORCA) is being sold as a way to stop shoplifting. But instead of making our neighborhoods safer, it would be a massive expansion of the surveillance state. This bill would give ICE and other federal agencies even more power to track our movements, monitor our associations, and collect people’s personal data for anyone to access.

Attacks on Equity, Diversity, Accessibility and Inclusion: Plenty of Bark, But Not Much Bite

Following a recent trend of Washington dysfunction being replicated in New Hampshire, lawmakers introduced 13 different bills targeting “DEI.” This proposed legislation comes in the context of an October 2025 injunction temporarily blocking the implementation of a similar 2025 law for being overly broad and unenforceable.

In practice, the legislation proposed during the 2026 session would have caused significant new logistical headaches for teachers and school administrators, librarians, other public employees, and non-profit leaders, restricted programs and opportunities that benefit a large number of Granite Staters, created high-visibility signals of intolerance that may have encouraged young people to leave the state, or a combination of the three.

Pushback was overwhelmingly successful. Following public outcry, 10 of the 13 bills, including the most potentially dangerous, died in committee or were referred to interim study. The three that will be implemented are expected to have marginal impacts, with the most prominent of the three – SB 464 – having been clarified and narrowed through a legislative compromise.

However, just because Granite Staters were able to successfully delay and defeat these ideas during the 2026 session, that doesn’t mean that no harm was done or that our communities are safe from these attacks. With the 2026 elections fast approaching, elected officials will almost surely try to use the same issues to pit us against each other.

Communities must continue to speak out, reminding legislators that these policies would harm all of us, and that even introducing them gives us a reputation as a regressive state where people are made to feel unwelcome.