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Julie Ebenstein is a senior staff attorney for the Voting Rights Project at the ACLU

The New Hampshire 2020 primary is still almost a year away, but state legislators are already working to disenfranchise voters. HB 1264, a law set to go into effect in July 2019, will change the definition of what it means to be a “resident” of New Hampshire, forcing people with out-of-state driver’s licenses or car registrations to swi

A New Hampshire Republican state lawmaker wrote in a blog post last week that U.S. Rep. Ann McLane Kuster (D-NH) will lose her re-election bid because she is “ugly as sin” and facing off against a more attractive Republican opponent.

Back in 2012, when he got trounced by Elizabeth Warren in the U.S. Senate race in Massachusetts, losing the seat he won in a special election in 2010, Republican candidate Scott Brown was clear where he stood on climate change.

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It’s become obvious that opinions regarding humans’ impact on the climate often differ depending on one’s political party. While some conservatives have openly decided to leave climate denial behind, the gap between Republicans and Democrats on this issue is huge—larger than some of the most historically divisive debates.

In an interview with a right-wing talk show Saturday, a New Hampshire Republican lawmaker argued that armed rebellion may be the “next step” for right-wing activists.

J.R. Hoell, a Tea Party-aligned state representative from Dunbarton, has been 

Gabrielle Giffords and her husband are nearing the end of a seven-state-in-seven-day tour across America, meeting with allies and opponents alike to generate momentum for federal legislation that would expand background checks on gun purchases.

At her first town meeting since the vote, Ayotte was confronted by a visibly angry Erica Lafferty, daughter of slain Sandy Hook principal Dawn Hochsprung. In response, Ayotte stammered, stuttered, fell ingloriously into silence because, really, what is there to say?

New Hampshire's House is voting this week whether lawmakers should get free ski passes for Cannon Mountain.

After New Hampshire voters handed Republicans an electoral shellacking, former GOP chair Fergus Cullen blamed the defeat on his party's "Tea Partiers" and "Agenda 21 conspiracy theorists." As if to prove his point, yesterday the New Hampshire Tea Party Coalition identified the greatest threat to American survival: the United Nations.

My long two-pointed ladder's sticking through a tree


Toward heaven still,


And there's a barrel that I didn't fill


Beside it, and there may be two or three


Apples I didn't pick upon some bough.


But I am done with apple-picking now.
Essence of winter sleep is on the night,


The scent of apples: I am drowsing off.


I cannot rub the strangeness from my sight


I got from looking through a pane of glass


I skimmed this morning from the drinking trough


And held against the world of hoary grass.


It melted, and I let it fa...

Ira Glass looks at divisive politics - in particular, New Hampshire politics. The show thanks a lot of familiar names: Gene Chandler, Philip Galanes, Elizabeth Garrett, Jessica Garrett Mills, Christine Hamm, Shawn Jasper, Corey Lewandowski, Terie Norelli, Robert Rowe, Amy Silver Judd and Tony Soltani.

Bill O'Brien doesn't get a thank you. But he appears to be the subject of the episode.

It's on at 4PM today (Saturday),

Republican senatorial candidate Richard Mourdock has done voters a big favor. His bizarre statement that "I think that even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that it is something that God intended to happen," followed by Mitt Romney's continuing endorsement of Mourdock, gives voters clear insight into Romney's character.  

In a reply to Bloomberg News, the Romney campaign's response was that "Governor Romney disagrees with Richard Mourdock's comments, and they do not reflect his views." Asked whether Romney will withdraw his endorsement of Mourdock or insist that an ...