Senator Bernie Sanders says America has a student debt crisis. He’s right about that. Forty-three million Americans owe student loans. About 76,000 Vermonters have them. Many borrowers are struggling, and some face higher monthly payments starting tomorrow, July 1, as changes to federal repayment programs take effect. Sanders recently held a Senate roundtable featuring borrowers ... Read more

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The Birthright citizenship case was a bust. Roberts and Barrett couldn’t find a reason to support Trump’s EO, and while I don’t choose to agree with them, I’ll admit there’s plenty of room for interpretation that allows for their opinions. Read both sides before you snap a gasket. There is as much gray space for ... Read more

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A Solid Win for Fairness, But New Hampshire Must Finish the Job SCOTUS affirms sex-based categories under Title IX and the Constitution — now Governor Ayotte must sign HB 1442 to protect NH girls in sports, locker rooms, bathrooms, and prisons. On June 30, 2026, the U.S. Supreme Court delivered a solid win for women ... Read more

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Here’s an odd bit of fiscal news for you. New Hampshire is not known for its affordable access to health care, though that has been improving in recent years thanks to Republicans in the legislature and the corner office. I know something happened ot the Republican State Senate as summer approached, and they went sideways, ... Read more

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Picture this scenario: The Lee family, which is very entrenched in the Chinese Communist Party, is expecting a child. At the start of a long-range plan, they make the short trip to Guam, an American territory, to deliver their baby on U.S. soil. They do not have to stay long or even establish residency; Mrs. ... Read more

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Dear Mr. Karoutas, Since your firm has received $70,000 or more since 27th October, 2025, to help with communications and image for the judiciary, perhaps you can provide answers to the following questions: 1) When is the Supreme Court going to hear the complaint I have against Jane Young for Conflicts of Interest in her ... Read more

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Today on the Morning Update, Oliver Anthony spoke at Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC) again this year, and you have got to hear what this man had to say. 00:00 The Resilience of Mary Draper Ingalls01:21 Finding Inspiration in Adversity Watch on the ‘Grok Rumble Channel if the Embedded Video does not load. Ep 208 ... Read more

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On March 21, Laconia launched New England’s first social district, a designated area where drinking is allowed in public under tightly regulated conditions.  With Motorcycle Week looming, critics on social media mockingly predicted disaster.  A week later, Joia Hughes, Laconia’s economic development and housing director, summed up the damage. “No problems,” she said. Mayor Mike ... Read more

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We hear about divides a lot these days, whether it is the country, friends, or, maybe worse, families. I realize that the beliefs of the two parties in America may never have been so diametrically opposed, and that support for each side has never been so deeply entrenched, but I think much of the problem ... Read more

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This week, on Right Side Up, Alison and Mike discuss some of the upcoming America 250 July 4 events, a pending Act 73 lawsuit, and the state of the economy. Watch on the ‘Grok Rumble Channel if the Embedded Video does not load. Authors’ and Speakers’ opinions are their own and may not represent those ... Read more

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Nashua has around 90,000 people in it, give or take, making it the second largest collection of people in a municipality in the state of New Hampshire. As of June 2026, 46,917 of them are registered to vote. As you’d expect, Dems have a registration advantage, but something has happened since 2024. Based on data ... Read more

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Many recent elections have ended with the losing party claiming that voter fraud and cheating took place. While the winning party steadfastly denies that any cheating or voting irregularities took place, insisting that there’s nothing to see here. What happens next? Everyone moves on and goes back to sleep. Having a preferred political candidate lose ... Read more

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If you have patriotic or Independence Day memes you’d like published on Friday, please send them to me by Thursday morning, if possible. Reminder: Memes are memes and are neither vetted nor “fact-checked,” nor to be considered “research,” or taken seriously, nor do they (necessarily) represent the opinion of Grok Media, LLC, GraniteGrok.com, its sponsors, readers, authors, or ... Read more

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Today’s America is being brought to us from roughly a century of communist infiltration, organizing, and the indoctrination of those who are our Country’s future.  Counter to their former obscurity, their current actions and words have confirmed what many have suspected. To our detriment, the fact is that since the sixties, these commies have amassed ... Read more

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It’s been an interesting week for decisions from the US Supreme Court. Not anywhere near as bad as some allege, nor as good as the left would have their grubby followers believe. I’m only going to talk about one of them today because Dems are losing their minds, which means it’s good for America. Watch ... Read more

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— ACTA’s Goal: Foster growth of Classical Education options — ACTA NON VERBA Foundation, a New Hampshire-based private charitable organization established to promote schools offering students a classical education, announced today that Richard A. Merkt of Westmoreland has been elected Chairman of its Board of Trustees. Merkt succeeds Kimberly Lavallee of Mont Vernon, who served ... Read more

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Welcome to our special, limited-time collaboration with Bare Minimum Books. In the month of July, for every $50.00 of support you direct to GraniteGrok.com, you can choose one PDF edition of one of Ian Underwood’s Bare Minimum Books. The Granite Grok + Bare Minimum Books fundraiser is now live. Celebrate Independence by supporting independent media ... Read more

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“When once a republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils, but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles.”-Montesquieu These United States of America were built on strong first principles – many of which were included in the Declaration of Independence. The foundation of all the rest? ... Read more

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Mid Vermont Christian School in Quechee has asked a federal appeals court to overturn Vermont’s Act 73 exclusion of religious schools from the state’s tuition and other public education benefit programs, arguing the policy violates the First Amendment, according to a statement by Alliance Defending Freedom. Attorneys with Alliance Defending Freedom filed an opening brief ... Read more

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This might sound a bit odd, weird, hypocritical even, but the people who used Natural Selection as an excuse to socially engineer their nations are uppity about adaptation. The entire Climate craziness on the left is a decades-long effort to undermine their own obsession. Nature, not God. But when nature does something wholly predictable, like ... Read more

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