The Third Party is not just a political option. It’s a symbol of moral reclamation.
Livingston: The Gospel of the Third Party
Keelan: Corps celebrate 250th November 10
Celebrations nationwide of the Corps’ November 10 birthday include an event at the Vermont Veterans Home in Bennington, currently home to six Marines.
Roper: Sibilia’s uncivil call for civility
Oh, the hypocrisy, but there is an opportunity for redemption.
Soulia: Weapons of war: What the founders really knew about firearms
The Founders knew exactly what “weapons of war” meant. They also knew that freedom without accountability is no freedom at all.
Cohen: Vermont’s ‘Green New Scam’ scuttled
Trump blocks Bernie Sanders’ pet taxpayer-funded ‘climate initiative’
Ellis: Government shutdown blues
Or…I talk to a Senate insider about how a shutdown works, why it happens and the political stakes for the rest of us.
Kinsley: A piece of the puzzle?
A reaction to Scott’s Executive Order on Housing
Joe Gervais running for Chair of the Vermont Republican Party
Gervais: Vermont Republicans: let’s build a stronger, grassroots-powered future together
Despathy: Vermont carbon policy is legal plunder
Vermont has both the lowest energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions in the country. Vermont does not need a greater tax burden. Period.
Roper: Data and analysis? Not so much in Montpelier.
Auditor’s report shows increase in homeless spending increases homelessness.
Page: Autism and the New Eugenics
The echoes of Nazi policies in the modern quest to “cure” and “eradicate” Autism.
Procaccini: Who really benefits from the Gaza War?
There is a shocking 38-page document, published in the Washington Post, that outlines exactly what the plan by Israel/US was and still is for Gaza, including the removal of the entire population of Palestinians; and constructing the “Trump Gaza Riviera”.
Bennett: My vote goes “clunk”
An older Vermonter hopes he lives long enough to see the Turning Point tide roll across Vermont.
Deal: Military leadership overdue for a reset
Are you worried about the president’s meeting with more than 800 senior generals and admirals tomorrow? Consider this: how our military prepares for global conflict hasn’t changed since the Obama era.
Roper: Repeal the Renewable Energy Standard in 2026? Yes, please!
Senate Republican Leader outlines some agenda items for next year.
MacDonald: Gov. Scott’s climate road-to-Damascus moment
Governor Scott dropped two bombshells on Vermont’s climate cult.
Soulia: The economic impact of Act 59
Signed into law in June 2023, Act 59 sets ambitious goals to conserve 30% of Vermont’s land by 2030 and 50% by 2050. These targets align with the international “30 by 30” initiative but extend Vermont’s commitments even further by setting a 50% benchmark for mid-century.
Livingston: Vermont’s climate trap is a man-made policy disaster
Vermont has been trapped. Not by ice, not by storms, not even by the natural cold that shapes who we are — but by the kind of law that looks good on paper and bleeds us dry in practice.
Fireovid: Blinded by the artificial light
As currently written, the plans developed by our ruling class will make the inevitable decrease in our average standard of living even worse.
Cohen: Vermont hospital chief flameout 2.0
The ousted chief of Vermont’s largest hospital is now two strikes away from a final out trying to run health-care companies.
Fernandez: The Gaza “Genocide” is a lie
Now a political weapon, threadbare and cliche, it is shamelessly misused by high school and college students and faculty, anarchists, like Antifa, as well as the likes of Washington representatives Ilhan Omar (D-MI) and Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY).
Klar: Charlie Kirk taught colleges how to teach
His campus events proved that universities are failing America’s youth.
Roper: Both sides have nut jobs, but only one side cheers them on
Thoughts on Charlie Kirk’s assassination.
Keelan: How we can break Vermont’s dependency on Washington
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.
Ellis: Violence and Charlie Kirk
When will we act?
Roper: When “Green” is not sustainable
Seven Days ran an article recently about Vermont’s solar industry and the impact of federal cuts to the subsidies they’ve enjoyed for years. The headline authors called the cuts an “attack.” No, it’s not an attack. No private business is entitled to taxpayer funds to keep it afloat.
Klar: The demon in dysphoria
As the transgender debacle spirals into greater chaos in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder, the time is ripe to openly discuss its absurdity before more children are inculcated into this dangerous delusion.
Soulia: VTDigger’s golden parachute raises questions about nonprofit stewardship
When Vermonters are asked to donate to VTDigger, they’re told they’re supporting independent journalism. But recent IRS filings by its parent, the Vermont Journalism Trust (VJT), reveal a separation agreement with founder Anne Galloway that raises questions about how donor money is used.
Despathy: Vermont’s climate trap
What are the people to do when a law creates a trap that plunders precious resources and hard earned money and brings harm to Vermonters, all for zero beneficial environmental impact?
Soulia: Vermont at a crossroads
One year of FYIVT
Roper: Education reformers say they’re data driven, but are they?
Cuz the data says more charter schools, flexibility to adapt and incentives to perform.
Warner: Charlie Kirk wasn’t ‘the next Rush’ – but he could have been president
As the ugliness of this event spills over onto social media where those who didn’t know Charlie personally are celebrating his death, I have this much to say to them…ALL OF HEAVEN IS ALSO CELEBRATING HIS ARRIVAL.
Johnson: With Charlie’s death, a real turning point
Here’s what I think many felt: This was not just an assassination. It was a spiritual earthquake shaking the souls of believers and all good people. It was like the fabric of reality had perceptibly shifted, like a hard line between good and evil had finally been drawn.
Soulia: Violent censorship and what real fascism looks like
The tools of fascism — demonization, scapegoating, and the silencing of dissent through violence — are appearing with alarming regularity.
Klar: Wi-Fi exposure may damage infant development
Profitable technologies are not always healthy.
Thurston: 9/11 and the 9th Symphony
As America itself became the root cause of the attack on so many campuses, the symbol that soothed the heart of many after the bombings, the American flag, became a source of endless hate.
Roper: How our politicians propose to waste $178M
It must be corruption because nobody is actually this stupid.
Police chief: Violent felon given probation breaks officer’s hand
If certainty of punishment is zero, then the associated fear is also zero. Assaults on police officers, or other members of the community, inevitably become more prevalent.
O’Neil: What drives the transgender violence against Christians?
None of this means most people who identify as transgender pose a violent threat, nor that activist groups like the Human Rights Campaign are intentionally inspiring people to commit violence. However, the violent trend raises serious questions about the unintended consequences of transgender activists’ rhetoric.
Lindberg: Secretary of State not honest about election security
We need to get back to a system where there are, in practice, multiple eyes on every step of the process from registering a voter to casting a ballot to counting the votes. But to achieve this we will need to pass new election laws that meet this standard. I hope our lawmakers will do this in 2026.
Despathy: Truth about child vaccine trials
It would be most welcome if more people, especially healthcare providers and parents, would dig into the research on vaccine harms for the sake of our children and the future of humanity.
Bossange: How President Trump threatens Vermonters
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.
Soulia: Why Peter Welch’s lightning analogy fails on voter fraud
When Sen. Peter Welch (D-Vt.) defended voting access on social media, he leaned on a familiar line: “More Americans are struck by lightning every year than commit voter fraud.” It’s a catchy sound bite. It suggests fraud is so rare that worrying about it is like worrying about unicorns. But what happens if we pull the numbers apart and look not just at perpetrators, but at victims?
Keelan: “Affordable housing is an oxymoron”
This is why affordable housing projects completed or under development in places such as Putney, Bennington, Burlington, and other Vermont cities and towns are costing up to or exceeding $600,000 per unit. In California, the cost is closer to $1 million.
Roper: More climate propaganda and left-wing bias from VT Digger
This time they really jumped the shark.
Klar: The skinny on whole foods
What they are, and why consumer demand is heating up.
Fireovid: SpeakVT’s checklist for the new school year
Vermont summers pass quickly, and here we are in another school year.
Soulia: Dark money in Vermont: It’s not coming from AFP
The Affordable Heat Act raised costs, the PUC confirmed it, and the real outside cash is already funding Vermont’s media and advocacy landscape: they just don’t like competition.
Roper: “People experiencing Progressive policies”
Some on the Left call for abandoning “woke” language.
Warner: A.I. equals artificial integrity and a massive cost to consumers
We are witnessing the build-up of Orwell’s Ministry of Truth in our monthly power bills, replete with hydro-electric memory holes.
Soulia: “Don’t get re-arrested” dropped as Condition of Release
Why it was dropped remains unanswered. But the numbers are clear: Vermont courts leaned on Condition 3 the hardest in the very year before it was eliminated, and now the one safeguard Vermonters assumed was non-negotiable is gone.
Roper: Vermonters should help Mainers Pass Voter ID
Requiring ID to vote is one of those commonsense issues everybody (or almost everybody) agrees is a good idea. According to polling over the years, Americans consistently support voter ID laws by 70 to 80 percent or more, with majority support across the political spectrum.
Gervais: Why town caucuses in Sept. matter for Vermont Republicans
The caucus is the on-ramp for participating in the Vermont Republican Party. An organized town has delegates to the county committee, and the county committee has delegates to the state committee.
Cohen: Against all odds
Dan Cohen remembers celebrating with an unlikely Vermont governor-to-be in 1972.
Roper: If Phil Scott is pro-school choice, here’s his chance to prove it
Will he opt Vermont in to Big Beautiful Bill’s tax credit/scholarship program?
Dame: Pieciak spending “task-force” is a charade
When the State budget ballooned from $6 Billion to $9 Billion Republicans said we have to be careful about our over-reliance on federal money, because it will require either higher taxes to keep federal programs in place once the money is gone – or we will have to start cutting these programs. Neither of these ideas are discussed in the report.
Soulia: VT’s climate spending vs. drug interdiction
Vermont has chosen to spend heavily on climate mitigation, with more than a quarter-billion dollars in state funds committed over just a few years. Meanwhile, as the toll of overdoses continues to outpace weather-related deaths by a factor of nearly 100 to 1, a contrast likely to grow harder for policymakers—and taxpayers—to ignore.
Fireovid: Shunned by Indivisible ‘neighbors’
It’s strange behavior for people who claim to want a society that’s “indivisible” and who constantly profess that they’re all for “community.”
Roper: More bad news for “Make Big Oil Pay”
South Carolina Judge latest to dismiss lawsuit similar to Vermont’s.
Wheeler: Government of, by and for the People of Vermont starts at town committee meetings
Globalists from King George the 3rd to George Soros have always fought hard against such a government, which in Vermont every 2 years, parties set the stage with organizational town committee meetings.
Soulia: Estimating VT’s real-feel tax burden
On paper, Vermont’s tax burden appears moderate: according to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP), the combined state and local tax burden ranges from 6.3% for the wealthiest households to 10.6% for the lowest-income earners. But when actual Vermonters break down their paychecks and monthly bills, the numbers often feel much higher—sometimes pushing into the 30–40% range before factoring in basic living costs like housing, fuel, and food.
VT Republicans need Plan B for when school redistricting scheme implodes
Objections are coming primarily from rural districts, which tend to lean Republican and where a lot of freshman Republicans will be running for re-election for the first time next November.
Klar: Is Congress shielding chemical corporations from accountability?
The House drafts a bill that riles up MAHA moms and environmental advocates.
Klar: The big shill: The ugly truth about pharma lackey, Peter Marks
Marks favored Pfizer over American children’s health.
Roper: VT Dems’ SNAP attacks reveal everything wrong with that party
Their sense of entitlement without accountability is a proven governing failure.
MacDonald: Not helping ICE is a slippery slope
Vermont, New York, and Maine have the progressive disease for which clean elections, blogs like this, and persistence are the only cure.
Crosby: Gerrymandering seen in Vermont, too
In New England and New York, where about 40% of voters voted for Trump, Republican members of Congress are quite rare due to gerrymandering.
Dame replies to ‘Your voice matters’ letter: ‘The truth matters’
“The detractors list two main bullet points, both of which I contend are at least misleading and at worst downright falsehoods,” Dame said.
Steidler: Congress must investigate what China got from working on the Pentagon’s computers
At issue is Microsoft’s “using engineers in China to help maintain the Defense Department’s computer systems — with minimal supervision by U.S. personnel — leaving some of the nation’s most sensitive data vulnerable to hacking from its leading cyber adversary.”
Murray and Gervais: Republicans, your voice matters
Together, we can build a stronger Republican Party for Vermont.
Klar: Sparks fly in Harvard v. Trump legal face-off
Free speech violation by Trump, or unconstitutional discrimination by Harvard?
Soulia: What the numbers show about race and crime
And if we’re serious about public safety, criminal justice reform, and race relations, then we need to be honest about what the numbers show — even when they don’t conform to political narratives.
Roper: More on those polluting EVs…
How particulate pollution from tires is worse than from tailpipes, and why this matters.
Soulia: Understanding Vermont’s five political camps
Vermont is home to five active and distinct political identities: Vermont Democrats, Vermont Progressives, the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), Vermont Republicans, and Vermont Libertarians.
Ellis: Future Democrats
These women are the future of the country
Orleck: Reflections on Vermont 250 Logo, and what really makes Vermont home
In a world obsessed with the new and the unanchored, Vermont’s greatest strength has always been its rootedness, its barns and mountains, its churches and fields, its people, and their stories. When we erase these from our icons and our celebrations, we risk losing not just the images, but the spirit they represent.
Warner: Jeffrey Epstein and Israeli Intelligence
The larger question many conservatives, and also non-conservatives, are unwilling to let go is, given Epstein’s obvious connections to the intelligence community who are known to have heightened awareness of who they associate with, what are we to believe about who he was and what he was doing?
Keelan: The engine and the caboose
In the July issue of VermontBiz magazine, reporter Olga Peters metaphorically describes the economy of northwestern Vermont: “Chittenden County stands as the undeniable engine of the state’s economy, generating a disproportionate share of its jobs, wages, and income tax revenues.”
Klar: Bipartisan Immigration Amnesty Bill has little chance
The Dignity Act and the Big Beautiful Bill collide.
Roper: Face it, Vermont’s public schools are terrible
Taxpayers and students are being ripped off, and no one is being held accountable.
Soulia: Pulled NEA handbook promotes Palestinian Nackba, downplays Holocaust
Vermont educators were teaching the historical record—while their union’s national leadership was busy diluting it.
Livingston: Vermonters don’t dance in the streets
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.
Bossange: Are YOU okay with the Trump dictatorship?
“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.”
Roper: New Hampshire eliminates vehicle inspection mandate
How about Vermont, and what other useless programs can we scrap?
Chen: “Green is Gold,” Chinese consul says after Vermont visit
In China we have a saying: “Lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets.” Both Vermont and China are pushing hard for green growth, and that gives us so much room to dream big together.
Keelan: The Democratic Party and how it has changed
I can only imagine what Presidents Clinton, Obama, and Biden are thinking when they witness the direction the Democratic Party has taken in 2025–to the left of socialism.
Cohen: Vermont news legend Steve Terry dead
The passing of a journalistic giant.
Schubart: Vermont hospital chief ‘power grab’
Has Sunil Eappen, the president of the system they govern, so cowed his board of trustees that they’re unable to fulfill their legal obligation to hold his administration accountable?
Roper: How to spot “fake news” in local journalism
This week the online news outlet VT Digger hosted an event in Brookfield titled, “In Facts We Trust: Local Journalism in the ‘Fake News’ Era.” They described it thus, “In an era of misinformation, how do we know the news we’re seeing is accurate? Let’s talk about it together.” VT Digger, are you joking?
Klar: Are weight loss drugs worth the costs and risks?
The jury is still out as long-term studies await…
Klar: Exciting MAHA event with Russell Brand
A launch of the amazing MAHA initiative, called MAHA Action, will be celebrated on July 21 at the Ned nightclub in Washington, DC.
Satel and Huddle: Medical school has gotten too political
Over the past decade, we’ve grown ever more concerned about dubious strains of social-justice advocacy infiltrating medicine. Following the death of George Floyd in 2020, doctors’ pursuit of social reform coalesced, almost overnight, into a mission.
Despathy: The failure of Vermont leaders in opposing trans-exploitation
Part 4 in 4-part series, ‘Mutilation or Healthcare?’
Soulia: Trump, Biden, and the DOJ
Is this payback or just doing their job?
Roper: A third party or a Constitutional Convention?
Whither goes Elon next?
Page: When the undocumented go missing
Every year, thousands of people disappear while attempting to cross borders or while living without legal documentation in the United States. These disappearances represent more than statistics—they are families torn apart, communities left searching for answers, and lives lost to a system that often fails to protect the most vulnerable.
Ruffaner: DEI isn’t dead—it’s just changing its name
Across campuses and corporations, DEI is retreating into rebranded titles and euphemistic jargon, but its ideology remains intact.
Roper: Unions looking to exploit coming mega-school districts
This move from local to regional control is supposed to be more streamlined and efficient. But let’s think about this…
Soulia: Life after deaf for old dogs?
Can dogs hear beyond deafness? A Vermont farmer-coder thinks so—and he’s asking for your help.
Despathy: A mother’s plea for her daughter
Part 3 in 4-part series, ‘Mutilation or Healthcare?’
