The New Hampshire Liberty Forum is an annual convention-style conference hosted by the

Free State Project The Free State Project (FSP) is an American political migration movement founded in 2001 to recruit at least 20,000 libertarians to move to a single low-population state (New Hampshire was selected in 2003) in order to make the state a stronghold ...

. It has attracted attendees such as U.S. Presidential candidates, a sitting

U.S. Senator The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress, with the House of Representatives being the lower chamber. Together they compose the national bicameral legislature of the United States. The composition and powe ...

, a sitting

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, state legislators, well-known businesspersons, entrepreneurs, and numerous policy institutes. The conference is one of two annual events hosted by the

in an effort to recruit 20,000 individuals with libertarian ideals to move to

New Hampshire New Hampshire is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States. It is bordered by Massachusetts to the south, Vermont to the west, Maine and the Gulf of Maine to the east, and the Canadian province of Quebec to the nor ...

, the other being the Porcupine Freedom Festival. As of February 3, 2016, the group has 20,000 participants signed on, hence completing the original goal. The signatories are now expected to move to New Hampshire by 2022, five years after the end of the drive.

2016 conference

The 2016 New Hampshire Liberty Forum was held from February 18 through February 21, 2016, at the Radisson Hotel in

Manchester, New Hampshire Manchester is a city in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, United States. It is the most populous city in New Hampshire. At the 2020 census, the city had a population of 115,644. Manchester is, along with Nashua, one of two seats of New Ha ...

. The theme of the 2016 conference was "Living Liberty," which focused on participants who had already moved to New Hampshire and how they are exploring and expanding their personal liberties there.

NSA The National Security Agency (NSA) is a national-level intelligence agency of the United States Department of Defense, under the authority of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI). The NSA is responsible for global monitoring, collecti ...

whistleblower Edward Snowden gave the keynote speech, via live video stream from his exile in Russia. Lyn Ulbricht spoke and shared an update on the appeal trial of her son,

Ross Ulbricht Ross William Ulbricht (born March 27, 1984) is an American serving life imprisonment for creating and operating the darknet market website Silk Road from 2011 until his arrest in 2013. The site operated as a hidden service on the Tor network ...

, sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for allegedly creating a darknet market named Silk Road under the pseudonym Dread Pirate Roberts.

2015 conference

The 2015 conference was held on March 5 through March 8, 2015, at the Radisson Hotel in Manchester, New Hampshire. The event was branded using dark blue, light blue, white, and gold theming. The logo featured a stylized map of New Hampshire, divided into polygonal shapes using the branding colors of the event, but introducing different green and blue shades which were only present in the logo. The slogan of the event was "Moved By Liberty". The event featured a media room, various speakers organized into interest-based tracks, a vendor showcase, children's activities, and art workshops. Event tickets were sold in tiers, and many attendees of the event were also entitled to catered meals for lunch and dinner, a brunch, access to snacks, and both alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages with purchase of the VIP-tier ticket, which permitted access to the hospitality suite. In contrast with previous events and aligning with the creation of interest-specific tracks, speakers for the 2015 event were not designated 'keynote' speakers. Despite this shift, scheduling changes caused by January 2015 North American blizzard and subsequent winter storms caused more than one formal event host to declare that a 'keynote speaker' had been rescheduled. ;Speakers * Amanda Bouldin –

State Representative * Andrew Hemingway – Gubernatorial candidate in

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– Emmy Award-winning journalist * Bob Hull –

State Representative *

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– Founder Zftr, ZftrCoin *

Branden Petersen Branden Petersen (born February 4, 1986) is a Minnesota politician and former member of the Minnesota Senate. A member of the Republican Party of Minnesota, he represented District 35, which includes portions of Anoka County in the northern Twin ...

–

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District 35,

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* Carl Soderberg – Founder, Able Ebinezer Brewing Company *

Carla Gericke Carla Gericke is an author, activist, and attorney. Born in South Africa, she immigrated to the United States in the 1990s after winning a green card in the Diversity Visa Lottery. She became a U.S. citizen in 2000. Gericke practiced law in Sou ...

– President,

* Carlos Morales – Author, "Legally Kidnapped, The Case Against Child Protective Services" * Carol McGuire – Four-term

State Representative * Catherine Cadden – Author, "Peaceable Revolution Through Education" * Charlie Arlinghaus – President, Josiah Bartlett Center For Public Education * Chris Mercogliano – Author, Making It Up As We Go Along, The Story of the Albany Free School, and Teaching The Restless. * Dan McGuire – Three-term

State Representative *

David Boaz David Boaz (; born August 29, 1953, Mayfield, Kentucky) is the executive vice president of the Cato Institute, an American libertarian think tank. He is the author of ''Libertarianism: A Primer'', published in 1997 by the Free Press and described ...

– Executive Vice President,

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David Kelley David Christopher Kelley (born June 23, 1949) is an American philosopher. He is a professed Objectivist, though his position that Objectivism can be revised and influenced by other schools of thought has prompted disagreements with other Objec ...

– Author, doctorate – The Sciences, Reason, Harvard Business Review, Unrugged Individualism: The Selfish Basis of Benevolence, The Art of Reasoning *

Edward Hudgins Edward Wren Hudgins (January 17, 1882 – July 29, 1958) was a Virginia lawyer, political figure and judge. From 1947 to 1958, he served as the 19th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia. Biography Hudgins was born in Buckingham County, ...

– Editor,

Regulation Regulation is the management of complex systems according to a set of rules and trends. In systems theory, these types of rules exist in various fields of biology and society, but the term has slightly different meanings according to context. Fo ...

. * Evan Pierce – Artist, Bardo Farm * Francois-Rene Dang Vu Ban Rideau – (Name Anglicized) – Blogger, Futurist. *

Ian Freeman Ian William Freeman (born 11 October 1966) is a retired English mixed martial artist who was the Cage Rage World Heavyweight Champion and the final Cage Rage British Light Heavyweight Champion. He was the first British person to fight in ...

– Director, LRN.FM. Host, Free Talk Live *

Ian Underwood Ian Robertson Underwood (born May 22, 1939) is a woodwind and keyboards player, known for his work with Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention. Biography Underwood graduated from The Choate School in 1957 and Yale University with a bachelo ...

– Founding Owner, Bardo Project. Researcher (physics, computer science),

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James Otteson James R. Otteson (; born June 19, 1968) is an American philosopher and political economist. He is the John T. Ryan Jr. Professor of Business Ethics at the University of Notre Dame. Formerly, he was the Thomas W. Smith Presidential Chair in Busi ...

– Executive Director, BB&T Center for the Study of Capitalism, doctorate. * Jared Chicoine – State Campaign Director, Ron Paul 2012. * Jason Sorens – Author, Announcement: The Free State Project, doctorate. *

Jeffrey Tucker Jeffrey Albert Tucker (; born December 19, 1963) is an American libertarian writer, publisher, entrepreneur and advocate of anarcho-capitalism and Bitcoin. For many years he worked for Ron Paul, the Mises Institute, and Lew Rockwell. Wit ...

– Founder, Liberty.me. Author, Bourbon For Breakfast * Jesse Wiens – Founder, ZENVC * Jody Underwood – Founder/owner Bardo Farm, doctorate. * Jon Herdman – Founder, Mental Health Is Not a Crime * Kevin Bloom – Political director, New Hampshire Liberty Alliance * Kirk McNeil – Co-founder, Church of the Sword * Lee Webster – Founder, director – New Hampshire Funeral Resources, Education & Advocacy * Louis Calitz – Technology entrepreneur, CTO FreeStateProject.org * Lyn Ulbricht – Mother of

, Motivational speaker * Mark Warden – Principal, Porcupine Real Estate * Matthew Ping – Founder, Ledgeview Commercial Partners * Matt Simon – Former executive director,

Marijuana Policy Project The Marijuana Policy Project (MPP) is the largest organization working solely on marijuana policy reform in the United States in terms of its budget, number of members, and staff. Its stated aims are to: (1) increase public support for non-pu ...

* Mier G. Kohn – Professor of economics,

Dartmouth College Dartmouth College (; ) is a private research university in Hanover, New Hampshire. Established in 1769 by Eleazar Wheelock, it is one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution. Although founded to educate Native ...

* Michelle Levell – Director, School Choice New Hampshire * Mike Vine – Organizer, Porcfest X and Freecoast Festival *

Nick Gillespie Nicholas John Gillespie (; born August 7, 1963) is an American libertarian journalist who was editor-in-chief of ''Reason'' magazine from 2000 to 2008 and editor-in-chief of Reason.com and Reason TV from 2008 to 2017. Gillespie originally joined ...

– Editor-in-chief, Reason.com. * Ofer Nave – Co-founder, The Porcupine Clubhouse * Patrick M. Byrne – CEO, Overstock.com * Paul Best – chairman, New Hampshire Liberty Alliance * Peter St. Onge – Editor, Austrian Investment Monthly *

Richard Mack Richard Ivan Mack (born December 27, 1952) is the former sheriff of Graham County, Arizona and a political activist. He is known for his role in a successful lawsuit brought against the federal government of the United States which alleged that ...

– Founder,

Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association The Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association (CSPOA) is a political organization of local police officials in the United States who contend that federal and state government authorities are subordinate to the local authority of county ...

* Rick Broussard – Editor,

New Hampshire Magazine ''New Hampshire'' is a monthly lifestyle publication focused on "joining readers in a quest for all the best New Hampshire has to offer." It is a member of the City and Regional Magazine Association (CRMA). History The early years ''New ...

* Sam Eaton – Owner, FanConx.com * Sandy Pierre – Editor, Shire Liberty News *

Saul Anuzis Saulius "Saul" Anuzis (born March 6, 1959) is the president of the 60 Plus Association and a Republican Party politician from the U.S. State of Michigan. He was chairman of the Michigan Republican Party from 2005–2009 and was also a candidate f ...

– Managing partner, Coast To Coast Strategies * Scott Horton – Host, Antiwar Radio * Seamas O' Scaladidhe – (Name Anglicized) – Treasurer, Free State Project. Principal, GenCourtMobile. * Seth Hipple – Co-founder, Martin & Hipple, esquire. * Shem Kellogg –

State Representative * Tim O'Flaherty – Research director, New Hampshire Liberty Alliance * William Ruger – Vice president, research and policy at

Charles Koch Institute The Charles Koch Institute is a libertarian-oriented public policy research, programming, grant-making, and fellowship-funding organization based in Virginia. Named after Charles Koch, its founder and primary financier, it pursues conservative ...

, doctorate. * William Thomas – Author,

Radicals for Capitalism ''Radicals for Capitalism: A Freewheeling History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement'' is a 2007 book about the history of 20th-century American libertarianism by journalist and ''Reason'' senior editor Brian Doherty. He traces the e ...

; Editor, The Literary Art of Ayn Rand

2014 conference

The 2014 conference was held from February 20 to 23, 2014, at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Nashua, New Hampshire. ;Keynote speakers *

Naomi Wolf Naomi Rebekah Wolf (born November 12, 1962) is an American feminist author, journalist and conspiracy theorist. Following her first book ''The Beauty Myth'' (1991), she became a leading spokeswoman of what has been described as the third wave ...

– author of '' The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot'' and ''Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries'' *

Thomas Andrews Drake Thomas Andrews Drake (born 1957) is a former senior executive of the National Security Agency (NSA), a decorated United States Air Force and United States Navy veteran, and a whistleblower. In 2010, the government alleged that Drake mishandled doc ...

– a former senior executive of the U.S.

National Security Agency The National Security Agency (NSA) is a national-level intelligence agency of the United States Department of Defense, under the authority of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI). The NSA is responsible for global monitoring, collect ...

and a

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Jesselyn Radack Jesselyn Radack (born December 12, 1970) is an American national security and human rights attorney known for her defense of whistleblowers, journalists, and hacktivists. She graduated from Brown University and Yale Law School and began her car ...

– a former ethics adviser to the

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and a whistleblower ;Speakers *

– executive editor of Laissez Faire Books and Distinguished Fellow of the

Foundation for Economic Education The Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) is an American conservative, libertarian economic think tank. Founded in 1948 in New York City, FEE is now headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. It is a member of the State Policy Network. FEE offers ...

– Edward R. Murrow Award and Emmy Award winning journalist, and an internet phenomenon with over 10 million video views * Trevor Timm – co-founder and executive director of the

Freedom of the Press Foundation Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) is a non-profit organization founded in 2012 to fund and support free speech and freedom of the press. The organization originally managed crowd-funding campaigns for independent journalistic organizations, ...

and activist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation * Ken White – criminal defense attorney and blogger at Popehat * Travis Brown – state lobbyist, author o
How Money Walks
* Kashmir Hill – senior online editor at

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, writing about the intersection of law, technology, social media and personal information *

Cody Wilson Cody Rutledge Wilson (born January 31, 1988) is an American gun rights activist and crypto-anarchist. He is a founder and director of Defense Distributed, a non-profit organization that develops and publishes open source gun designs, so-calle ...

– co-founder of

Defense Distributed Defense Distributed is an online open-source hardware organization that develops digital schematics of firearms in CAD files, or "wiki weapons", that may be downloaded from the Internet and used in 3D printing or CNC milling applications. Among ...

* Ben Falk – resilient site development and permaculture expert wit
Whole Systems Design LLC
* Aaron Day – Chairman of the

Republican Liberty Caucus The Republican Liberty Caucus (RLC) is a political action organization dedicated to promoting the ideals of Individual freedom, individual liberty, limited government and free market economics within the Republican Party (United States), Republi ...

of New Hampshire and CEO of

the Atlas Society The Atlas Society (TAS) is an American 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that promotes the philosophy of Ayn Rand. It is part of the Objectivist movement that split off from the Ayn Rand Institute in 1990 due to disagreements over whether Objectiv ...

* Dan Alban – an attorney with the

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who litigates cutting-edge constitutional cases protecting free speech, property rights, economic liberty and other individual liberties * Bill Buppert – expert on irregular warfare and revolutionary movements, author of ZeroGov * James Bovard – libertarian author and journalist *

James O'Keefe James Edward O'Keefe III (born June 28, 1984) is an American political activist and provocateur who founded Project Veritas, a far-right activist group that uses deceptive editing techniques to attack mainstream media organizations and progr ...

– journalist whose investigations have exposed corruption and malfeasance in major taxpayer-funded institutions, including ACORN, Planned Parenthood and

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2013 conference

The 2013 conference was held from February 21 to 24, 2013 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Nashua, New Hampshire. ;Keynote speakers * Jack Spirko – creator/host of The Survival Podcast, winner of the People's Choice Podcast Award in 2010 *

Thomas Woods Thomas Ernest Woods Jr. (born August 1, 1972) is an American author and libertarian commentator who is currently a senior fellow at the Mises Institute.Naji FilaliInterview with Thomas E. Woods, Jr. Harvard Political Review, August 16, 2011. Wo ...

– American historian, political analyst, and New York Times-bestselling author ;Speakers *

Vermin Supreme Vermin Love Supreme (born 1960 or 1961) is an American performance artist and activist who has run as a candidate in various local, state, and national elections in the United States. He served as a member of the Libertarian Party's judicial c ...

– American performance artist, anarchist and political activist * Ben Stone – host of th
Bad Quaker podcast
* Aaron Day – CEO of

* Lee Doren – author and activist *

– executive editor of Laissez Faire Books * Erik Voorhees – Bitcoin entrepreneur *

Roger Ver Roger Keith Ver (born 27 January 1979) is an early investor in Bitcoin, Bitcoin-related startups and an early promoter of Bitcoin. Ver has sometimes been referred to as "Bitcoin Jesus". He now primarily promotes Bitcoin Cash as Ver sees it as fu ...

– Bitcoin entrepreneur * Julie Borowski –

YouTube YouTube is a global online video sharing and social media platform headquartered in San Bruno, California. It was launched on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. It is owned by Google, and is the second mo ...

channel host and

Freedomworks FreedomWorks is a conservative and libertarian advocacy group based in Washington, D.C. FreedomWorks trains volunteers, assists in campaigns, and encourages them to mobilize, interacting with both fellow citizens and their political representat ...

activist * Thaddeus Russell – professor, author, historian and cultural critic * Pete Eyre – former Bureaucrash Crasher-in-Chief and Liberty On Tour co-creator *

Katherine Albrecht Katherine Albrecht is a consumer privacy advocate , Vice President (VP) of Startpage.com and spokesperson against radio-frequency identification (RFID). Albrecht devised the term " spy chips" to describe RFID tags such as those embedded in passpo ...

– founder of Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering (CASPIAN) * Carla Gericke – President of the

* John Bush – Texas based liberty activist and host of the reality show Sovereign Living * Tarrin Lupo –

anarcho-capitalist Anarcho-capitalism (or, colloquially, ancap) is an anti-statist, libertarian, and anti-political philosophy and economic theory that seeks to abolish centralized states in favor of stateless societies with systems of private property enfo ...

author and cohost of the podcast Wheels Off Liberty * Kira Peikoff – author *

Cory Doctorow Cory Efram Doctorow (; born July 17, 1971) is a Canadian-British blogger, journalist, and science fiction author who served as co-editor of the blog '' Boing Boing''. He is an activist in favour of liberalising copyright laws and a proponent of ...

– journalist, science fiction author and proponent of Creative Commons

2012 conference

The 2012 conference was held from February 23 to 26. The

Second Amendment Sisters Second Amendment Sisters, Inc. (SAS) was a United States women's gun rights advocacy group that supported gun use for self defense and empowerment. According to a 2003 ''Los Angeles Times The ''Los Angeles Times'' (abbreviated as ''LA Times ...

of New Hampshire sponsored a firearm safety class and shoot, and the New Hampshire Liberty Alliance offered a tour of the

New Hampshire State House The New Hampshire State House, located in Concord at 107 North Main Street, is the state capitol building of New Hampshire. The capitol houses the New Hampshire General Court, Governor, and Executive Council. The building was constructed on a ...

. ;Keynote speakers *

Peter Schiff Peter David Schiff (; born March 23, 1963) is an American stock broker, financial commentator, and radio personality. He is CEO and chief global strategist of Euro Pacific Capital Inc., a broker-dealer based in Westport, Connecticut. He is also ...

–

Austrian School The Austrian School is a heterodox school of economic thought that advocates strict adherence to methodological individualism, the concept that social phenomena result exclusively from the motivations and actions of individuals. Austrian schoo ...

economic commentator and owner of Euro Pacific Capital *

Joel Salatin Joel F. Salatin (born February 24, 1957) is an American farmer, lecturer, and author. Salatin raises livestock on his Polyface Farm in Swoope, Virginia, in the Shenandoah Valley. Meat from the farm is sold by direct marketing to consumers and r ...

– farmer, lecturer, and author whose books include "You Can Farm" and "Salad Bar Beef" ;Speakers *

Jodie Emery Jodie Emery (born January 4, 1985) is a Canadian cannabis rights Legality of cannabis, activist and politician. She is the spouse of fellow activist Marc Emery. Until the business was shut down by police, the couple were co-owners of Cannabis Cu ...

– editor of

Cannabis Culture Cannabis culture describes a social atmosphere or series of associated social behaviors that depends heavily upon cannabis consumption, particularly as an entheogen, recreational drug and medicine. Historically cannabis has been used an enthe ...

online magazine *

John Lott John Richard Lott Jr. (born May 8, 1958) is an American economist, political commentator, and gun rights advocate. Lott was formerly employed at various academic institutions and at the American Enterprise Institute conservative think tank. He ...

– economist and author * Sharon Presley – co-founder of Laissez Faire Books * Michael Boldin – founder and executive director of the Tenth Amendment Center * Michael Cloud – author, speech writer and president and co-founder of the Center For Small Government * John Bush – Texas based liberty activist

2011 conference

The 2011 conference was scheduled for February 24–27 in Nashua, New Hampshire but in December 2010, it was announced by Free State Project President Varrin Swearingen that the 2011 conference would be canceled. A primary reason for the cancellation included slow ticket sales after the event announcement was delayed partially due to the keynote speaker unexpectedly backing out.

2010 conference

The 2010 conference was held from March 18 through March 21 in Nashua, New Hampshire, at the Crowne Plaza Hotel. ;Keynote speakers * Judge Andrew Napolitano – former New Jersey Superior Court Judge, former host of

Freedom Watch ''Freedom Watch with Judge Napolitano'' is a television show hosted by Judge Andrew Napolitano, on Fox Business Network. The show aired from 2009 to 2012, focusing mainly on libertarian issues and perspectives. The show ''Freedom Watch'' was c ...

and senior judicial analyst on the FOX business network * NH State Rep.

Dan Itse Daniel C. Itse (born May 21, 1958) is an American politician who was a conservative Republican member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives from 2001 to 2018. A native of San Francisco, California, Itse is a professional engineer who res ...

– sitting New Hampshire State Representative * Jacob Hornberger – founder and president of The Future of Freedom Foundation, a libertarian educational foundation ;Speakers * Angela Keaton – development director of

Antiwar.com Antiwar.com is a website that describes itself as devoted to non-interventionism and as opposing imperialism and war. It is a project of the Randolph Bourne Institute. The website states that it is "fighting the next information war”. Histor ...

, producer of Antiwar Radio; serves on the boards of Outright Libertarians and

Ladies of Liberty Alliance The Ladies of Liberty Alliance (LOLA) is a network of independent, libertarian women leaders who, through their careers and/or personal endeavors, are dedicated to spreading the ideas of individual liberty and free markets. Participation in the ...

* Brad Spangler – Director of the Center for a Stateless Society, proponent of agorism * Brett Veinotte – host of School Sucks Podcast * Catherine Bleish – Executive Director of the Liberty Restoration Project * Charles W. Johnson – individualist-anarchist writer and activist, founding member of the Alliance of the Libertarian Left, occasional columnist; writes at radgeek.com * Daniel J. Mitchell – libertarian economist, Senior Fellow at the

Cato Institute The Cato Institute is an American libertarian think tank headquartered in Washington, D.C. It was founded in 1977 by Ed Crane, Murray Rothbard, and Charles Koch, chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Koch Industries.Koch Ind ...

David D. Friedman David Director Friedman (born February 12, 1945) is an American economist, physicist, legal scholar, and anarcho-capitalist theorist. Although he studied chemistry and physics and not law or economics, he is known for his textbook writings on m ...

– author of "

The Machinery of Freedom ''The Machinery of Freedom'' is a nonfiction book by David D. Friedman that advocates an anarcho-capitalist society from a consequentialist perspective. The book was published in 1973, with a second edition in 1989 and a third edition in 2014. ...

"; holds A.B. from

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of high ...

, Ph.D. in Physics from the

University of Chicago The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi) is a private university, private research university in Chicago, Illinois. Its main campus is located in Chicago's Hyde Park, Chicago, Hyde Park neighborhood. The University of Chic ...

* Devin S. Standard – firearms instructor, accomplished martial artist, hunter * Eddie Allen – International Currency Director for the American Open Currency Standard * Ernest Hancock – publisher of FreedomsPhoenix, host of "Declare Your Independence" on the Liberty News Radio Network and the

Republic Broadcasting Network Republic Broadcasting Network (RBN) is a satellite, shortwave, and Internet radio operation based in the state of Texas. It is run by John Stadtmiller, who advertises it as a "truth radio station" with the motto "Real News, Real Talk, Real Peopl ...

; best known as creator of the Ron Paul r3VOLution logo * Jason Talley – author, contributes to fr33agents.net * Jenn Coffey – National Coordinator of the

, elected NH State Representative * Kelley Vlahos – contributing editor for

The American Conservative ''The American Conservative'' (''TAC'') is a magazine published by the American Ideas Institute which was founded in 2002. Originally published twice a month, it was reduced to monthly publication in August 2009, and since February 2013, it has ...

magazine and its blog; political writer for

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, regular columnist for

Kenneth W. Royce Kenneth W. Royce is an American author who primarily writes under the pen-name of Boston T. Party. He has written non-fiction books that offer a Libertarianism, libertarian stance on privacy, police encounters, tax resistance and gun politics. His ...

– aka "Boston T. Party", founder of Free State Wyoming, shooting instructor, speaker, author of books on guns, history, law, politics, and government * Michele Seven – mother taking up her case against the

IRS The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is the revenue service for the United States federal government, which is responsible for collecting U.S. federal taxes and administering the Internal Revenue Code, the main body of the federal statutory tax ...

* Pasha Roberts – producer/director of the movie "Silver Circle" (silvercirclemovie.com) *

Radley Balko Radley Prescott Balko (born April 19, 1975) is an American journalist, author, blogger, and speaker who writes about criminal justice, the drug war, and civil liberties. In 2022, he began publishing his work on Substack after being let go from ...

– journalist, senior editor for

Reason magazine ''Reason'' is an American libertarian monthly magazine published by the Reason Foundation. The magazine has a circulation of around 50,000 and was named one of the 50 best magazines in 2003 and 2004 by the ''Chicago Tribune''. History ''Reaso ...

, and blogs at theagitator.com * Scott Bieser – cartoonist, former video game animator * Shelly Roche – libertarian activist with a podcast at ByteStyle.tv; computer programmer, entrepreneur * Skip Coryell – founder of the Second Amendment March; author of seven books related to personal defense and 2nd Amendment activism; Chief Instructor and co-owner of Midwest Tactical Training * Stewart Rhodes – founder and director of

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; former firearms instructor and former member of Ron Paul’s D.C. staff. *

Thomas Naylor Thomas Herbert Naylor (May 30, 1936 – December 12, 2012) was an American economist and professor.Nancy RemsenSecond Vermont Republic founder Thomas Naylor has died, ''Burlington Free Press'', December 17, 2012. From Jackson, Mississippi, he w ...

– co-founder of the Second Vermont Republic; author, Professor Emeritus of Economics at Duke University * Tom Baugh – entrepreneur, inventor; author of "Starving the Monkeys: Fight Back Smarter" * Tom Mullen – author of "A Return to Common Sense: Reawakening Liberty in the Inhabitants of America" * William Norman Grigg – award-winning investigative journalist and author; blogs at freedominourtime.blogspot.com Additionally, members of the Liberty Caravan (libertycaravan.org) spoke about their journey to

2009 conference

The 2009 conference was held from March 5 through March 8 in Nashua, New Hampshire, at the Crowne Plaza Hotel. ;Keynote speakers * Dick Heller – brought suit against Washington, D.C., with the Bill of Rights Foundation, and together they overturned the D.C. ban on handguns. Mr. Heller is a participant in the Free State Project. * Dr. Mary Ruwart – author and 2008 LP Presidential candidate * Stefan Molyneux – host of Freedomain Radio ;Speakers * Charles Arlinghaus – president of the free-market Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy *

David Bergland David Peter Bergland (June 4, 1935 – June 3, 2019) was an American politician who was the United States Libertarian Party's nominee for President of the United States in the 1984 presidential election,Second Amendment Sisters Second Amendment Sisters, Inc. (SAS) was a United States women's gun rights advocacy group that supported gun use for self defense and empowerment. According to a 2003 ''Los Angeles Times The ''Los Angeles Times'' (abbreviated as ''LA Times ...

, & elected New Hampshire State Representative * Pete Eyre – Bureaucrash Crasher-in-Chief * Gary Franchi – National Director of Aaron Russo's Restore the Republic * Patri Friedman – Executive Director of the Seasteading Institute * John Taylor Gatto – author of numerous books including "Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling" * Anthony Gregory – Research Analyst at the Independent Institute *

– New Hampshire state representative who introduced States' Rights bill HCR 0006 * Glenn Jacobs – WWE wrestler "Kane", Free State Project member, creator of the blog Adventures of Citizen X * Angela Keaton – Development Director from Antiwar.com, AntiWar.com * Adam Kokesh – from Iraq Veterans Against the War
Tom Mullen
– author of "A Return to Common Sense" * Ethan Nadelmann – founder and executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance * Evan Nappen – lawyer and author of "New Hampshire Gun, Knife, and Weapon Law" * David Nolan (libertarian), David Nolan – founder of the Libertarian Party * Kenneth Royce (Boston T. Party) – author of books on guns, history, law, politics, and government * Matt Simon – Director of NH Common Sense Marijuana Policy * Lisa Snell – Director of Education and Child Welfare, Reason Foundation * Marc Stevens – author of "Adventures in Legal Land" * Deborah Stevenson – Executive Director of National Home Education Legal Defense * Aaron David Ward – libertarian comedian

2008 conference

The 2008 conference was held from January 3 through January 6 in Nashua at the Crowne Plaza Hotel. Moved to first weekend in January based on predicted New Hampshire primary date of Tuesday, January 8, 2008, which came to pass. ''Slogan: Moving Liberty Forward'' ;Keynote speakers * Bernard von NotHaus – currency architect and creator of the Liberty dollar (private currency), Liberty Dollar * John E. Sununu – Republican Party (United States), Republican United States Senate, United States Senator from

* Ron Paul – U.S. Congressman from Texas's 14th congressional district, 14th district of Texas and Republican Presidential Candidate ;Speakers * Sharon Harris – president of Advocates for Self Government * F. Paul Wilson – author the Repairman Jack series * Bob Schulz – Chairman of the We the People Foundation * Barry Cooper (political activist), Barry Cooper – from NeverGetBusted.com * Jim Babka – president of the Downsize DC Foundation * Peter Christ – founder of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP) * Tom Eddlem – host of Dangerous Talk and blogger at LewRockwell.com * Gardner Goldsmith – author and host of Against the Grain * Don Gorman – political director for the New Hampshire Liberty Alliance

* Christopher Gronski – creator of DestinationFreedom.orgGronski – Freedom Biography
/ref> and NH coordinator for the We the People Foundation * John McManus – President of the John Birch Society * Tyler Stearns – student, named "2007 Liberty Activist of the Year" by the New Hampshire Liberty Alliance * Wayne Green – creator of Byte magazine and of NH To Do * Lydia Harman – realtor, Integrity Plus Investments & Real Estate * Carla Howell – from the Center for Small Government

2007 conference

Held in Concord, New Hampshire, Concord, from February 22 to February 25, 2007. ''Slogan: Attaining Personal and Economic Freedom in America's Freest State'' ;Keynote speakers * John Stossel – co-anchor of American Broadcasting Company, ABC's 20/20 (US television series), 20/20, called "the most consistently thought-provoking TV reporter of our time". * Michael Badnarik – 2004 Libertarian Party (United States), Libertarian Party presidential candidate, and author of ''Good To Be King: The Foundation of Our Constitutional Freedom''. ;Speakers * Ron Paul
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– U.S. Congressman from Texas's 14th congressional district * Jim Babka – president of the Downsize DC Foundation * Jack A. Cole, Jack Cole – executive director of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP) * Bill Westmiller – national chairman of the

* Rob Kampia – executive director of the

* Jim Harper – director of information policy studies at the

* Joe McQuaid – Publisher of New Hampshire's statewide newspaper, ''New Hampshire Union Leader, The Union Leader'' * Geoffrey Segal – director of government reform for the Reason Foundation * Christopher Gronski – New Hampshire coordinator for the We the People Foundation * Don Gorman – political director for the New Hampshire Liberty Alliance * Lydia Harman – realtor, Integrity Plus Investments & Real Estate

References

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External links

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Libertarianism in the United States Political events in New Hampshire Annual events in New Hampshire