The Price of Being New Hampshire
They will fine us $270,000 for voting first.
Democrats ruled New Hampshire too white to lead, moved us to third, then wrote penalties to punish us for following our own century-old law.
We're going first anyway.
Send the bill. We're voting first.
Add your name to the Granite Staters who are not being lectured about their own election by Washington.
What They Will Do To Us
Three punishments, aimed at a state whose only offense is obeying its own law.
“This is a calendar this party is actually going to protect… it's not going to be a wink and a nod.”
Ken Martin · Chair, Democratic National Committee
“Candidates who campaign here will be barred from any party-run debates; any delegates won here will be banned from the party convention.”
New Hampshire Union Leader editorial
Read the third one again. Campaign in Manchester, lose delegates in Nevada. These rules exist to make talking to a Granite Stater too expensive to risk — they are protecting their candidates from you.
$270K
The fine for holding the primary New Hampshire law requires.
0
Delegates seated if Democrats follow through. Your votes, in the trash.
106
Years of going first. No fine changes that.
Let them send the invoice.
New Hampshire votes first in 2028. Add your name and stand behind it.
Sources
DNC Rules and Bylaws Committee penalty provisions, adopted July 24, 2026. Editorial, “Democrats hate NH: Our voters vex bosses,” New Hampshire Union Leader. New Hampshire RSA 653:9. Reporting: Ballotpedia, Boston Globe, NHPR, NOTUS, InDepthNH.