Tuesday • January 13 • 2026
Vol.XVIII • No.III
Manchester, N.H.
Custom keyrings are multipurpose items with many advantages for businesses. These advantages include creating a memorable brand presence, marketing that is affordable, customised branding, increased client loyalty, and word-of-mouth advertising.
Furthermore, they function as useful and practical advertising items that are exceptionally effective. Businesses must place a high priority on having a superior keyring design if they want to take advantage of all these benefits. In this article, we will explore effective design tips for custom keyrings that guarantee the fullest possible utilisation of their advantages and create a lasting impact on everyone who sees them.
Effective Custom Keyrings: Design Tips for Optimal ImpactTo get the maximum benefits of custom keyrings for businesses, these useful design tips must be included in every design strategy.
Integrate your brand storyA brand story is a narrative that conveys the core principles, goals, and distinctive character of a brand. To fully reap the benefits of these indispensable promotional objects, you must incorporate your business’s story into the design of your custom keyrings as a fundamental practice. Your brand’s mission and values, logo and visual identity, unique selling proposition, personality, cultural influences, interactive elements, and future vision are all components of your brand story. These strategies improve customer engagement, word-of-mouth marketing, memorability, differentiation, brand consistency, and long-lasting impression. They also foster an emotional connection between your brand and the consumer.
Maintain a minimal design for effective custom keyringsFor promotional items to advance clarity of message, timeless appeal, versatility, improved brand recognition, ease of integration of promotional tactics, lower production costs, ease of use, and user-friendliness, their design must be minimalistic. Practices like simplifying shapes, incorporating a simple colour scheme, concentrating on essential components of your brand or message, incorporating clean topography, utilising whitespace, adhering to a consistent design language, maximising scale and proportion, emphasising a single focal point in the design, and streamlining logo elements are some ways to keep the custom keyrings’ design simple.
Consider your target audience when creating custom keyringsHow your brand’s audience will feel about the custom keyrings will have a major impact on their success as marketing tools. Cultural sensitivity, perceived exclusivity, usefulness and practicality, brand connection, relevance and appeal, aesthetic preferences, perceived quality, and word-of-mouth impact should all be evaluated. This is necessary to create custom keyrings that fulfil their intended purpose and leave a lasting impression. Because of this, take your target demographic into consideration when you design the keyrings. Give top priority to elements like user interaction, trends and fashion, colour psychology, cultural sensitivity, functional demands, lifestyle, preferences, and demography. Ensure you perform due diligence when considering your target audience in order to get accurate information about them.
ConclusionWe have discussed three proactive custom keyring design tips that ought to be included in your design plans. Any business may fully realise the benefits of custom keyrings and get a competitive edge by implementing the tips covered in this article.
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In the category of you can’t make this stuff up. Maine … you know the State where some unelected, unaccountable former ACLU lunatic recently threw Trump off the ballot … is building luxury apartments for illegals. But just keep pretending that the Great Replacement is a “right-wing, conspiracy theory,” as you are being replaced in front of your very eyes.
Maine is now an apartheid state. Illegals have more privileges and rights than actual citizens. Maine, like New Hampshire, is a lost cause. Real Republicans should get the hell out of Maine (and New Hampshire) as fast as possible, and migrate to a State that is not “transforming” America into a socialism-based-on-woke hell-hole.
5 new luxury buildings are going up in Brunswick, Maine to host illegals.
2 years of rent will be paid off by the taxpayers for jobless illegals.
Maine is also supplying them with $100k for legal support to help them with asylum and work authorization.
Woke residents gathered… pic.twitter.com/qGs4PATOdb
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) January 13, 2024
Maine taxpayers are footing the bill for new apartments built specifically for illegal immigrants. They have *two years worth of rent paid for by state taxpayers.
pic.twitter.com/IAPkCK3uoF— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) January 12, 2024
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Our bill to end town mask mandates forever has made a surprising reappearance in the Senate thanks to Rep. Juliet Harvey-Bolia and Senator James Gray. The vote will be on the 18th, and we need everyone to call Senator Ricciardi and Senator Avard and urge them to support the floor amendment to SB63.
Let’s kindly persuade them.
Tuesday, January 16th, N.H. Senate
9:00 a.m. – OPPOSE –SB343
Currently contracted, school-based health care clinics do occur, yet apparently there is no current legal authority for this, only for school nurses and physicians to perform various procedures and exams. Parental consent is already required via law. This bill seeks to give legal authority for contracted school health care clinics using money from a federal grant, accepted by the Executive Council. This is part of a larger agenda to create government dependency from cradle to grave, is potentially harmful (2 children last year were vaccinated “accidentally” in schools), and provides no further protections for parental consent.
Schools are for learning reading, writing, and arithmetic and are not meant to become mini health clinics.
Click here to register your disposition.
Email the committee:
Ruth.Ward@leg.state.nh.us
Carrie.Gendreau@leg.state.nh.us
Timothy.Lang@leg.state.nh.us
Donovan.Fenton@leg.state.nh.us Suzanne.Prentiss@leg.state.nh.us
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1:00 p.m. – SUPPORT – HB1677
This bill makes Education Freedom Accounts available for all students in failing districts (less than 49% proficiency)
Click here to register your disposition.
Email the committee
Thursday, January 18th, N.H. House
10:00 a.m. – SUPPORT – HB1012
This bill would ensure parents cannot be found guilty of child endangerment for making a parenting decision that is not otherwise illegal and presents no more than a hypothetical risk of harm. Protect parents’ rights and the ability of children to grow into independence.
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Email the committee
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According to the two bookends who provided testimony to legislators about the best juridical interests of state judges this week, the legislators can just kick back and skip a resolution to return to Constitutionally defined voting processes in state elections.
Go home and take a pass was the message.
Is it time to abandon judicial political policy-making as court-favored witnesses testified? Should the legislature take a break from their duty, role, and work of establishing public policy and instead allow judges to handle election challenges that define voting process in state elections? De facto, that advice establishes judges as the best determiners of public policy.
Legislators, give yourselves a break. You should let go & go home because the judges got this, was the smiling message delivered with a wink and nod to House Committee members.
Yesterday, two high-level politicos bookended the house hearing and advised legislators to ignore House Resolution No. 25 – designed to thwart the new voting practice allowing anyone to show up on election day to cast a vote without identification, preregistration, or proof of any kind.
This ‘alternative’ to Constitutionally mandated procedures that pre-qualify voters to avoid election fraud is one of many questionable political expansion maneuvers that have been challenged in state and national courts over the last four years. Cynical voters have watched with dismay at the variety of slanted political alterations to states’ voting process and then they sued election officials. (Largely (57 cases nationally) they then lose and are tossed out of court for lack of standing. In New Hampshire, in response to election officials’ alterations of the voting process, a legislative resolution was filed calling for a return to the rules specifically printed in the state constitution. Ergo, this legislative hearing followed on adopting that resolution as a formal statement of public policy as a matter of legislative law/process. (2nd Branch rule.)
Two political advisors (the bookends) argued that legislators (2nd Branch) should skip all the work and disregard voting on a public policy statement. Just let the judges (3rd Branch) handle election voting issues. After all, they said, there are multiple state and federal cases in court concerning election law reform
So why bother yourselves with establishing a public policy resolution that has no clout? No teeth? said first speaker (the Parliamentarian) waving around his old outdated Mason’s Manual as defining authority. Skip it, he advised. Take a pass, he told the resolution committee.
Committee legislators then heard a citizen explanation of a recent U.S. Supreme Court case of Moore v. Harper, (June 2023) which reversed and clarified State duties and clearly defined the duty of states to act and not reject outright claims and complaints of Constitutional fundamental rights regarding election voting rights. The Moore case, taken together with a pair
of earlier Supreme Court 2nd Amendment rights cases, explained Daniel Richard, a Constitutional scholar, to the committee; it establishes a state duty to protect citizens’ fundamental constitutional rights including fundamental election and voter rights to a fair election process The state neglected that duty regarding constitutional questions, he said, and this resolution would recognize it.
The 2nd bookend testimony to the committee was private attorney Bryan Gould, who argued that the courts were the place to handle public policy of this sort (not the legislature) and that Richard’s opinions about the 2nd Amendment cases was “too aggressive” in interpretation — and Richard’s “opinion about a Constitutional duty to protect fundamental rights was in error.” He called the U.S. decision about 2nd Amendment cases “inconsequential” to the election-rights resolution, because the newly clarified Moore v. Harper duty-to-protect was applicable only to 2nd Amendment cases, and not to all fundamental Constitutional challenge cases (1st, 2nd,.5th).
Here, the resolution is about government manipulation of the voting process in violation of the Constitution. It falls into the Heller & Bruen case rulings that STATES bear the burden of proof at trial (not citizens) so an election-process resolution would also be protected by the umbrella of similar Constitutional rights. Gould was wrong when he advised the Committee that “[Richard’s] his opinion is in error” because unlike constitutionally protected gun rights, voting and fair election rights are not required to be fundamentally protected by state law, he said.
With a broad wink, Attorney Gould launched into the narrative of his earlier experiences as the state political fix-it guy for election law cases, bemoaning a federal court LOSS of an earlier voting case on residency and domicile. Gould told the committee that “the greatest legal minds in the state” had “carefully crafted the legislation (of SB 3)” attempting to clarify voter qualifications. (And circumvent the constitution.) They proposed a fancy-schmancy state legislative act to instill a different process for qualifying voters than that process provided in the state constitution. And the federal court struck it down.
What he did not say however was that Mr. Political Fix-It-Man (for the SOS, the State AG, and the State GOP) lost that case that attempted to redefine who was qualified to vote in New Hampshire. [All the while billing the state for valuable attorney time.]
I was so disappointed we lost, he moaned to the committee. [Note: Lesson missed. Try again. More billable hours.]
“Too aggressive,” he said, referring to the prior speaker’s explanation that this resolution fit the Heller & Bruen legal criteria and therefore should be adopted as a statement of public policy. Instead, his message was: ‘State voters seeking fundamental fairness in the election-vote process should leave the issue to the courts, not pass a toothless public policy resolution in the legislature.’ That message was delivered to legislators with a smile, followed by a wink.
Hours before the legislative hearing on Resolution 25, a federal judge tossed out the Testerman election process case. Her challenge of alterations to the GOP political voter registration process
avoided the Constitutional election process. That Constitutional process is a due process mandate.
The judge wrote that Testerman and others had no standing to sue. In other words, the NH SOS can unilaterally extend primary election dates (although specific dates are explicit in the State Constitution) in a way that enables non-party voting (against Trump in 2024) in the GOP primary. [This is a quiet tactical voting scheme of the NH SOS and GOP Party chairman designed and implemented to disrupt 2024 election results.]
Gould was wrong about the law that he advised to the committee — not once, but repeatedly. But he is not stupid. He simply is a tool of a top-tier political agenda, urging and confusing the Committee to leave public policy to the Courts to handle. With flawed case interpretation and his earlier election cases already lost (flawed thinking), this advice to committee members was offered to protect the political “schema” that averts qualified votes into a barrel of monkey results. (The quiet plan was to alter registration deadlines, attached to a campaign for a significant number of Democrats to change to undeclared party status, then to use/ask for a Republican ballot on Primary Day to keep Donald Trump’s name off the fall election ballot. Then to use their undeclared status to vote in the general election, where they are not prevented from voting.
The tactical voting scheme goes much deeper than that. It is also a challenge of power about which branch of government should decide public policy – the legislature or court?
The process of extending and encouraging non-party voting in a party primary is called “a tactile voting process interruption.”
By design, it renders election-day voting a politically manipulated outcome. It violates State Constitutional mandates for election registration and process. It is also alleged to be an act of RICO.
The area of Election Day voting abuse by public officials has been drastically reshaped by court decisions across the country –designed in law theory and practice to deny injured parties “standing to sue” with no other relief available. Injury without relief. Judges have callously advanced a no-recourse solution as ‘take your problem to the voters’ because judges systematically disallow (reject) election challenge lawsuits. This is not the first time in our nation’s history that the court has expanded political power to take over the role of the legislature.
Can courts convert state election policy and constitutionally mandated voting practices by avoiding hearing these cases? What if the effect is –to politically “expand voting rights to anyone” by using court rulings (or denial of standing) for all election-challenge cases? Can they control the outcome of the election?
This take-over of function encroaches on the legislature’s role in creating public policy, and it circumvents the American Constitutional system. The result is to neuter or ‘amend’ the Constitution by judges’ practices, but not by operation of law. 1925 to 1930 saw multiple jurists and legal scholars work to reinterpret the Constitution using “a crude version of Marxism to reinterpret the Court’s decisions…” (see Gustavus Myers’ book, History of the Supreme Court of the United States, and James Smith’s book, The Growth and Decadence of Constitutional Government).
Court-packing and judicial activism are considered blatant political aggressions viewed through the different lense of political scientists. The difference is political scientists are more likely to regard judicial activism as “a perversion of the democratic process” and not a legal operation under the Constitution and rule of law. [See Wallace Mendelson’s book, Justice Black and Frankfurter: Conflict on the Court.]
By systematically avoiding legal challenges and as in the present situation–by politically encouraging legislators to skip the bother of a frivolous election-rights resolution [because judges have election challenge cases in hand]—it sidesteps the underlying agenda to defeat democratic rule. ‘
The judges have got this, you don’t have to’ is the message. It’s the same “Trust us” message Clerk of Court Howard Zibel told legislators mere days before the NH House Subcommittee voted for a full impeachment investigation about decades-old court cronyism and corruption. You can trust the judges. This historic refrain echoed yet again in the state legislative committee room this week.
Submitted by Caroline Douglas, J.D.
Former New Hampshire legislative bill drafter
Former NH attorney
Legal Analyst and Author of The Dark Side, a law treatise on judging National whistleblower and skeptic
Contact: nssri@pm.me
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Check out the recent clips of Joe Biden “campaigning.” Biden, OBVIOUSLY, cannot even dress himself. Yet the people who control the information continue the charade that Biden is running the executive branch of the federal government.
THIS is why “they” … the system, the UniParty, whatever you want to call it … HATE Elon Musk and X so much. Essentially, Musk and X allow those who are interested in and willing to see it to see the Matrix that our “democracy” actually is.
But count on “traditional Republicans” to keep telling us that the most important issues we face are cutting business taxes, billionaire taxes, and eviscerating local zoning laws. “Traditional Republicans” … Nikki Haley, Chris Sununu, Mitch McConnell … are every bit as invested in perpetuating the Matrix as their frenemies on the Left.
NEW: Bike store owner talks to President Joe Biden like a nursing home patient and has to put his hand in front of him to stop him from walking.
Meanwhile, Democrats think this man has another 5 years in the tank.
During the same outing, Biden told a group of people that he… pic.twitter.com/bFqssb2fgd
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) January 12, 2024
A lost and confused Grandpa Joe has to be spoken to like a five-year-old.
This is the same person making unilateral decisions to wage war.pic.twitter.com/wNrCeSvAoo
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) January 12, 2024
WATCH: Joe Biden makes teenage girl visibly uncomfortable as she squirms away from him when he starts creepily whispering in her ear pic.twitter.com/WZ3840WDUP
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) January 12, 2024
Joe Biden visits a coffee shop and doesn't remember where he is or that he's the President.
"My name's Joe Biden. I work for the government in the Senate."
This is terrifying. pic.twitter.com/nCNqx83ww3
— Grand Old Patriots (@GrandOlPatriots) January 12, 2024
Media: Joe Biden does not make children physically uncomfortable
Joe Biden: pic.twitter.com/arqET32ayP
— DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) January 12, 2024
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You’ve heard these words many times in the past year — the 2024 presidential race is “the most important election in our lifetime.” Is it really? Yes! Here’s one way to describe the environment surrounding this year’s election:
Ronald Reagan has been famously quoted saying:
“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream, it must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same….”
People, WE are that “one generation!”You might ask what happened to our country such that today we find ourselves up against a “woke” Democrat-Socialist “army” that has “captured” each and every major institution. Seemingly overnight?
Actually, “overnight” took over a hundred years — starting in the Progressive era of the late 19th and early 20th centuries continuing all the way up to Whoever is Running the Biden Administration today in the 21st.
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Like so many changes, the takeover was slow at first and then quite rapid.
And we allowed it to happen!According to documentary producer and Palladium Pictures CEO Michael Pack appearing on Newt Gingrich’s podcast, it’s like two armies were at war:
We are only now beginning to realize that the consequences of this war are serious. To win it, we’ve got to get serious!
As Kevin Roberts of The Heritage Foundation says, “To save America, we MUST GO ON OFFENSE!”
If we don’t, starting now, our fate will likely be as Reagan described in the rest of his famous quote: “(… or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in a United States where men were free.”
The primary season starts in January, but it is only the beginning.The Democrat “army” is ready for battle! Are YOU? Republicans will not win without each and every one of you.
We all need to support our favorite candidate in your primary — Door knocking, phone banking, letters to the editor, talking to neighbors, and of course, VOTING.
The Republican Convention is July 15-18 in Milwaukee, at which the Republican nominee for President will be confirmed.
Then, we need to do it again, all of it, all of us, ACTIVELY supporting that candidate against whoever the Democrats throw up against us (and it may well not be Biden).
And don’t expect that they will fight fairly — remember, they are the “win at all costs” army.
But only by getting serious will we have a chance to begin slowing down the forces of darkness. Only by continuing to be serious in turning back the takeover by the left will our Republic be sustained.
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I recently posted about illegals being able to vote in Arizona. Turns out that the “law” that allows illegals to vote in Arizona allows illegals to vote everywhere. Stephen Miller explains on X.
But just keep pretending that we have a democracy … as our votes are negated by people who have no right to be in America, never mind vote in American elections. And count on “traditional Republicans,” to borrow Grifter-Mikey Graham’s euphemism for the GOP grifter-class, to keep telling us that there is no evidence … none whatsoever … that our elections are RIGGED.
Surely you cannot be this obtuse. I hope your ignorance is feigned and not sincere.
In all 50 states in America — as a result of preposterous judicial rulings — illegal aliens and millions of other ineligible noncitizens — can register to vote merely by checking a box on a…
— Stephen Miller (@StephenM) January 12, 2024
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The annual Ruling Class Klan Bake is upon us with its jet-setting cadre of elites gathering in Davos, Switzerland, to decide what to do about the peasants. But this year’s theme will be a bit different. A growing number of peasants don’t trust them.
Against this backdrop and to instil a measure of collective agency, it is necessary to start restoring trust at three fundamental levels: into the future, within societies and among nations. Therefore, the 54th Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum will convene under the theme Rebuilding Trust to provide the crucial space to step back and focus on the fundamental principles driving trust, including transparency, consistency and accountability.
I’m sure they’ll discuss all sorts of solutions, including the one they’d like to pursue above all others. If they can concretize the global censorship apparatus -especially among those pesky Americans and the damn First Amendment, they could silence dissent. When no one is allowed to question their words, rulings, and edicts (summarized in one word: lies) they, they can say and do whatever they please and not have to worry about public relations or marketing to restore trust.
It would save a good deal of time, and it’s something they have to have, but is it too late for that?
Who can forget World Economic Forum gems like “You’ll own nothing and be happy”, WEF promotion of Greta Thunberg, back when she was politically useful, and of course the many PR blunders of members of their board of trustees like Al Gore and Lagarde? … A global tax cartel, coordinating spending on the green agenda, and taking inspiration from the Covid-19 response, presumably including Covid-19 era threats to the livelihoods of anyone who didn’t comply with government diktats, and brutal treatment of those who outright refused to comply.
It looks like a challenge ahead for the Davos crew. Perhaps they should focus on pissing off farmers, creating food and energy scarcity during the next pandemic. We know that’s what they are after. Or, are they increasingly afraid that the global insurrection they have been trying to foment will look more like a planet-wide French Revolution? An end to the Davos Klan Bake as the majority of its participants have been relieved of their lives and livelihood.
I’m not suggesting it or even condoning it, but these same elites who think we are too stupid to know how to run our own lives or what is best for us and our families must know what this same level of consciousness is capable of when pushed into a corner.
If they make things go sideways again, the odds are not in their favor.
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