Nevada rewards candidates who can appeal to all economic and educational levels. Elevating a union-strong, diverse, highly competitive battleground state will lay the foundation to help Democrats win back the trust of working-class voters and voters of color. I'm proud to speak in favor of Nevada being first in the nation.

**New Hampshire: First in the Nation – and we proved it first.** Granite Staters, we didn’t just talk about independence. We *acted* on it before any other colony. Here’s the concrete history: - **December 14-15, 1774**: Months before Lexington and Concord, patriots led by John Langdon and John Sullivan stormed Fort William and Mary (now Fort Constitution) in New Castle. They faced cannon and musket fire from the King’s soldiers, seized 100 barrels of gunpowder, small arms, and cannons that later armed our militia at Bunker Hill. It was the first organized armed resistance against British authority in the colonies – the opening shots of the Revolution right here in Portsmouth Harbor. - By mid-1775, we had driven out Royal Governor John Wentworth and the last British troops. No more royal rule. - **January 5, 1776**: Six full months before the Declaration of Independence was signed in Philadelphia, New Hampshire’s Provincial Congress adopted our first state constitution. We created a government “derived from the free suffrage of the people” – not from royal prerogative or Parliament. We were the first of the 13 colonies to establish a fully independent government and write our own constitution. That same fierce spirit of checking power is still baked into our state government today. We are the **only state in the entire nation** that still has an Executive Council sitting over the Governor. Five elected Councilors must approve appointments, pardons, major contracts, and expenditures – no governor acts alone. This isn’t some modern invention. It’s a direct holdover from 1679, when King Charles II issued the royal commission that separated New Hampshire from Massachusetts and installed a President (later Governor) *and* a nine-man Council. The King put that structure in place specifically to keep the colony from rebelling and to force acceptance of his royal governor. Our ancestors turned that very mechanism into a permanent check on executive power – and we’ve kept it ever since as living proof that New Hampshire has never trusted unchecked authority, whether from a distant king or a statehouse governor. We were first to separate from the Crown because we were already living the principle: power must be accountable to the people. That’s not ancient history – it’s how we still govern today. **Live Free or Die.** 🇺🇸 #FirstInTheNation #NHHistory #ExecutiveCouncil

Barb Anness, trustee of the Rochester School Board, refused to stand for the pledge of allegiance at last night’s school board meeting. Let’s make this Rosie O’Donnell doppelgänger famous.

Liars. Last week they cheered as a biological man stepped out of a woman’s bathroom stall in the NH State House. They don’t celebrate or care about women at all. They will clap when a biological male takes a sports award away from your daughter too.