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  • Priority Legislative Actions: Week of May 17

    CALL YOUR SENATOR TO OPPOSE HB 155 Lawmakers are finally being forced to acknowledge what Granite Staters already know: tax breaks for the wealthy come at everyone else’s expense. HB 155 hands a giveaway to large, often out-of-state corporations and their lobbyists—money taken directly from schools, housing, child care, and health care. When that money disappears, towns still…

  • FREE STATE AGENDA WATCH

    WHATEVER HAPPENED TO LOCAL CONTROL? Most of the education-related bills that will be considered in the House and Senate this week have a common theme. As they constantly downshift costs to local communities, Republican/Free State leaders are working hard to “upshift” control over them. These lawmakers want to mandate what teachers can and can’t say in class and demand…

  • AFFORDABILITY ALERT

    Why are Executive Councilors  Blocking Federal Funding for Childcare in New Hampshire? The New Hampshire Executive Council voted to delay/deny $1.2 million in 100% federally funded child care support tied to the Department of Health and Human Services’ contract amendment with Pyramid Model Consortium. This funding would strengthen Granite Steps for Quality (NH’s child care…

  • Priority Legislative Actions: Week of May 10

    OPPOSE HB 1793 OPPOSE HB 1793 so-called CAMPUS CARRY bill in all its forms, original or as amended. HB 1793 Campus Carry Proposal Recommended for Study Committee From our friends at the GunSense NH and the NH Gun Violence Prevention Coalition: HB 1793 began as a bill that would prohibit any public institution of higher education from…

  • KSC MONTHLY MEETING: May

    Hyper-focus on November: Protecting Voting Rights and Defending Our Elections Thursday, May 14 6:30-8:00pm, Zoom More details below Join us as we kick off Kent Street Coalition’s 2026 election work at the May 2026 Kent Street Monthly Meeting:  Defending Voting Rights and Protecting Elections:  Understanding the Federal Landscape and  Recent Changes to New Hampshire Law…

  • URGENT ACTION

    Trump and Nuclear Weapons With no end in sight for the American-Israeli war against Iran, our president has become more desperate in his rhetoric and more confused about his strategic goals. A frightening possibility is that President Trump or Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu will use a nuclear weapon against the Iranian people. In order to…

  • Priority Legislative Actions: Week of May 3

    Veto Alert! Please see bills (below) being voted on by the House and Senate in full session on Thursday. Make sure to contact your legislators ahead of time and please join us if you can at the State House, Thursday May 7th, 8 to 10 am. From our friends at the Rockingham County Democratic Committee:  OPPOSE HB348.…

  • Priority Legislative Actions: Week of April 26

    School tax caps on November state & federal election ballots every two years – from our friends at AFT-NH HB 1300 OPPOSE HB 1300 would require every community to vote on a school tax cap every two years in the November general election—taking a process that already exists locally and mandating it from the state,…

  • Priority Legislative Actions: Week of April 19

    STOP OPEN ENROLLMENT; SAVE OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS! SB 101 – School “Open Enrollment” bill OPPOSE On Thursday, April 23, the NH House will vote on SB 101, the wildly unpopular “open enrollment” bill that would undermine our public education system. Instead of addressing the fundamental problem that in NH the opportunity for a well resourced…

  • Priority Federal Action: Week of April 12

    Tell Congress: No Unconstitutional War with Iran From our friends at the ACLU: President Trump does not have the power to unilaterally declare war on another country. Yet that’s exactly what he’s trying to do: dodging the Constitution to launch a war with Iran with no authorization from Congress. But waging an illegal war is…