I have been a lifelong Republican. I remain active in the Barre Town, Washington County, and Vermont State GOP committees. I will be voting for Republican candidates this fall. However, I am totally fed up with the antics of our President Donald J. Trump.
The midterm elections are close at hand and sad as it seems to be, Christians fail to turn out to vote in these elections. Each may have their reason, but honestly, none are adequate considering what is at stake.
Our family has a motto: no matter the task, big or small, we leave it on the field. I decided to run for the State House about eight hours into labor with my daughter — because I’ve learned there’s no perfect moment to act, only the decision to do the work.
Duwaji and every other genocide accuser will have a tough time explaining Israel’s genocidal intent, given that the population of Israeli Arabs has grown from 156,000 in 1948 to more than two million today – one-fifth of the population.
America did not become an economic superpower because Washington controlled business. It became great because ordinary people were free to dream, invest, invent, build businesses, own property, and reap the rewards of their hard work. Our Founders understood that liberty and economic freedom go hand in hand.
Your website declares you want to get rid of the Presidency, the U.S. Senate, Homeland Security and ICE, State and local Law Enforcement, private businesses, prisons, our United States Constitution. What world will we live in with your ideas?
Why we should care about the country
The Governor’ claims the decision came down to cost and time, but that explanation rings hollow. They had 45 days to prepare, and this was not a surprise invitation to a backyard picnic. It was a national celebration.
Too many Vermonters are struggling under the weight of extraordinarily high health insurance costs, high health care prices, and too few choices.
The rugged Christian faith of the heroic founders was vitally interwoven with their patriotism and is inextricably linked by a sacred thread of purpose to the Great Awakening.
How we got here: farms, industry, policy
Almost 40 years after the VT Supreme Court rendered its Brigham decision, supposedly ensuring equal educational opportunities for all Vermont kids, the opportunities to be academically proficient in Vermont schools remain decidedly UNequal.
Whether we live in Swanton, Guilford, Pownal, or anywhere in between, Vermonters take pride in our self-sufficiency and resilience. When we see a problem, we fix it, whether it’s a broken fence or a broken economy. The next two years of the Trump administration will almost certainly see Washington punishing so-called “blue states” like Vermont with less federal help than ever. No one is coming to save us, so it’s up to us to invest in ourselves, and our communities.
An Open Letter to the Cabot School Board, June 8th, 2026
Study shows Republicans and Democrats can agree on something.
We all want the same basic things: a society where people have real opportunity, dignity, security, and a genuine sense of belonging. The deepest paradox in modern politics is that the path to that humane, abundant society runs through free markets — not despite them.
Students’ families shouldn’t have to fight for what they already have a right to: an educational experience that promotes both academic success and health. Yet this basic truth is being actively ignored in schools statewide as parents get pushback from teachers, principals and superintendents for trying to opt their kids out of being put at a setback…this being receiving a personal laptop, or in the case of kindergarteners, a tablet.
Criminals will still carry, and that’s the truth, but this is Burlington, where the truth is what they say it is, and the excuse they came up with to ask for a ban in bars was a shooting that wasn’t in a bar.
Vermont has studied the need for a forensic system for years. We are now approaching another moment of déjà vu, as in 2023 when forensic facility language was removed.
It is a moral error to imagine Hamas as “freedom fighters” since freedom fighters do not gang rape women and mutilate their corpses and laugh about it. Nor do they sexually torture teens at music festivals, burn families alive, and livestream it online.
Inspired by Brian Dubie, I thought I’d try my hand at songwriting. Thanks to my AI bandmates for for writing the music.
It did seem that the Act 181 Road Rule and Tier 3 that threatened so many rural Vermonters was an unshakable mountain that could not be moved. But, by the small faith of many, working together, hearts and minds were changed, and that mountain is being moved.
An Oxford professor’s take on the transhumanist agenda
While Vermont’s visible challenges with drug trafficking maybe happening on streets and in parks, what’s happening inside residential apartment buildings is also putting citizens and their neighbors at risk, largely out of sight. These illegal enterprises are surprisingly often operating under tacit protections from State law and the resulting risks are exacerbated by a lengthy court process that takes months to resolve. And this is putting vulnerable Vermonters in harm’s way.
We have crossed the line.
On February 18, the Vermont Bowhunters Association petitioned the state Fish and Wildlife Board to lift the ban on hunting bears over garbage. A decision is expected April 22. Bear baiting is a dying, discredited practice. Only 12 states still permit it.
At the Statehouse, a coalition is forming to bring forward a constitutional amendment which will take another biennium before it can be introduced, but the time is now to promote it. The primary purpose for it is to fulfill this goal: to put Vermont at the helm of progress, to initiate a growth of small- and medium-scale organic farming, to encourage and expand local gardens, and to totally dedicate ourselves to the cause of sustainability in harmony with Nature.
Sometimes I wish we Christians had more courage
The fundamental mission of state wildlife agencies is not animal welfare—it is resource management for human use and profit.
The Vermont political leadership, at the federal, state, and local levels (except for Governor Phil Scott’s administration), has made numerous announcements about how they wish to control residential rental housing in Vermont. They have made it their mission to stigmatize those who are residential rental landlords with comments such as, “they are gouging their tenants, making huge profits while providing minimum services.”
Now Democrats copy his misleading accusations that Republicans were the root of the problem.
It would be easy to label these debates as hunters and trappers versus those who oppose hunting and trapping. But that false assessment would trivialize and misdirect the debate as well as ignore the findings of a major values survey that shines a bright light as to just why these controversial wildlife practices are so protected by FWD.
Something for everyone
History is not a children’s morality tale. It is a record of power, conflict, negotiation, and survival.
Be sure to send the message you intend to send with your vote.
The proposed legislation would, for those involved, remove the risk of prison time if they come forward within a predetermined period and admit and cease their illegal activity.
The following is an open letter from Barre resident Larry McEnany to Treasurer Michael Pieciak.
Vermont can no longer admire the problem. It must act, guided by data, employers, and long-term planning.
On the White House executive order targeting state AI laws.
Restricting parental choice in the name of empowerment.
In all, a stunning failure and lack of respect for the will of Vermonters who have said that the status quo of our schools – educationally and financially is no longer working and needs dramatic change, very soon.
In the United States today, political office too often resembles a throne more than a term of service. But it was not always this way.
Governor Scott has taken action. We stand ready to implement solutions. The question now is whether environmental interest groups who claim to care about Vermont’s future will contribute to solving this crisis or perpetuate the status quo.
Is there a chronically-online identitarian cult lurking in the Green Mountains? Let’s investigate.
I do not think there is a state in America that hates young men more than Vermont.
Chuck Schumer, leader of the US Senate Minority, recently said “Rise Up, faithful Democrats!” on a nationally televised broadcast. Rise up against what, and do what, I wonder?
The Third Party is not just a political option. It’s a symbol of moral reclamation.
Not a day goes by that we read/hear about another Vermont institutional sector sounding the alarm that its sustainability is in jeopardy due to the possible lack of federal funding. The major sectors are healthcare, cultural arts, education, food distribution, environmental and preservation agencies, public safety, disaster relief, etc. The list goes on.
Dictators love big government. They remain in power through the long arm of the law and big government overreach. For them the government is their tool of control and pathway to creating a police state.
We walk them. We build them. We shovel them. We drive through them in battered pickups with a plow blade strapped to the front and a tired dog in the back. But we don’t dance in them. Not like they do in the cities we never asked to become.
“Many Trump supporters are unwilling to see through all the white noise coming from their selected media sources. They have found solace and comfort with a narrow window of information, which for many of us, is easier to understand.”
These outdated trapping and hunting policies do not reflect the majority of the people. Protect Our Wildlife focuses on securing stronger protections for individual wild animals, recognizing that they feel happiness, pain, fear, sadness, and so much more.
America doesn’t need a third political party.
It needs a controlled demolition.
Using hateful, divisive, dehumanizing, and revenge-laced language like “dumb,” “animals,” “people with bad genes,” “rapists,” “criminals,” and “left-wing Marxists” to describe Democrats, citizens and non-citizens who oppose the President’s actions, inciting anger and giving MAGA supporters license to attack Americans with differing opinions.
That’s us—America—riddled with ideological trench lines and carpet-bombed by generations of political theater.
Former Burlington school superintendent was one of Iran’s U.S. hostages in 1979
Let’s set aside the anger, refocus on the real challenges facing our state, and come together to restore the Vermont we know and love.
Fortunately, the hate cult is waning in the face of truth.
They are trying hard to sell their victim mentality mindset with gas-lighting, spin and Trump-hating to whomever will believe their distortions and lies.
I’m not asking anyone to burn it down. I’m just saying this: look closely. Ask more. Believe less. Because if the system has to constantly manage your perception of freedom, it was never freedom to begin with.
Let’s make a statement this summer. If you fly one flag, let it be the American flag. Let it fly high above our homes, our farms, and towns. Let it be a symbol of pride—an unwavering commitment to the liberties so many fought and died to preserve.
The program allows urbanites to redirect a portion of their income taxes to rural municipalities of their choosing while receiving specialty local products as thank-you gifts.
Outright Vermont is betraying its own principles as it champions Palestine over Israel
Briton: Trump, Vance ignorant of history
For Vermont’s most famous politico, the answer is always the same: blame billionaires, blame capitalism, blame everyone except the people actually in charge.
Vermont needs genuine people with real vision; with fight and courage to make Vermont the best place to live, work, and play.
At this point in history, America does not need a statesman. And we certainly do not need a politician. Frankly, we do not need a peacemaker.
An email was sent out recently by the Hartford Interim Superintendent Caty Sutton, raising questions about the safety of Hartford area students at school.
Controlling property taxes is going to take a whole system overhaul.
Hartford, like other desperate-to-seem relevant townships like Burlington and Montpelier, appears to operate on the political lake effect.
They will have to focus on student academic achievement by setting specific measurable goals and focusing district resources on meeting those goals.
What is more surprising? A Republican governor in a Democratic state, who stands against everything Trump espouses and who voted for his opponent, wins the governorship for a fifth time with 73 percent of the vote.
The hounds did not first ask whether these individuals were Republican or Democrat. Companion dogs have been attacked by bear and coyote hounds.
Elon Musk wrote on X, “The people of America gave Donald Trump a crystal clear mandate for change tonight.”
John not only supports Vermont’s traditional rural way of life, he lives it. He farms the Rodgers Family 200-year-old farm in the Northeast Kingdom. He harvests timber off the Rodgers land and trucks it to local timber mills.
But there are additional issues as well: environmental requirements that are stricter than federal requirements; investigations related to historic preservation and archeological studies; and a permitting process that seems to have no end!
Many of these impressionable imps of ignorance hide their entities behind keffiyehs and hijabs, but remain oblivious to this conflict’s facts.
Bernie Sanders, like so many of his blue-hued fans, is blinded by Hamas’ heavyweight winning propaganda war against the featherweight of political fiction, Israel.
Vermont must invest to end our housing crisis.
Biden administration deems its detractors, Conservatives “vulnerable to disinformation methods”.
Vermont taxpayers paying for this bad behavior to stay high and unproductive in society, and to never seek help – how is that safe or right?
We don’t have a “Climate Emergency”, we have an Education Emergency and common- sense problem.
Two bills are under consideration by Vermont’s Legislative Committee on Administrative Rules (LCAR) that will have a substantial impact on Vermonters’ hunting and trapping liberties.
In Vermont and in the United States, God and our Constitution cannot fall to Socialism unless we allow it to. Today’s deterioration of God, family and community is a result of a hidden plan.
If the masks people have been wearing for the past three years are unable to keep out mold and dust particles, then clearly their gaps are too large to keep out Covid-carrying aerosolized droplets.
“Let us hope that the ghost of no SVHC Trustee will ever come back and say if only I had done my job.”
