The Libertarian Party of New Hampshire has issued a two-page response to recent criticism. You can read the response here and here.
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Project 50501 (“50 states, 50 protests, one day”) is an emergent political action movement formed in opposition to Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and Project 2025. It staged large numbers of demonstrations on President’s day. The Manchester, New Hampshire demonstration, estimated at 100 people lining both sides of the State House block, was joined by prominent local Libertarians, who sent us…
Update: Free State Project by Jason Sorens (written two decades ago) The ball is rolling! I’ve received over 200 responses to my essay in last week’s The Libertarian Enterprise, over 95% of them positive. So far 220 people have signed up for the email list I’ve created on Yahoo for announcements relating to the project. That means we are already…
But didn’t we fight a war over secession almost 150 years ago? Wouldn’t the feds just send in the troops to crush our little experiment? The answer, in short, is no. In “modern, democratic” countries the use of violence against legal secessionist movements is out of the question. For example, no one advocates using force to prevent Quebec from leaving…
We begin with the original proposal of Jason Sorens, as continued here: Some activism of this sort has been tried, involving “monkey-wrenching” � la Claire Wolfe, “dropping out,” not using government services, etc. The problem with these strategies is that: 1) they are small-scale and unlikely to make a noticeable difference; 2) the more radical projects require abandoning family and…
The Free State Project by Jason Sorens Note from the author (7/2/04): This article was the first exploration of the idea of a “free state strategy.” Needless to say, the present-day Free State Project differs from the proposals of this article in some respects. In particular, the article overemphasizes the possibility of secession. Nevertheless, I think it’s still of historical…
The Free State Project started off with a reasonably clear sketch of a plan: A state with a Libertarian majority was to be created. That plan has been sabotaged by outside influencers. We start at the beginning, with a somewhat radical proposal by Jason Sorens. The proposal was soon to be moderately tuned down: Announcement: The Free State Project by…