Immediately after Charlie Kirk's assassination, NHJournal issued an invitation to every elected NH Democrat to join us on the podcast and say, well, anything!

Of the hundreds of election NHDems, just one took us up on the offer: Rep. Jennifer Mandelbaum.

Dr. Jennifer Mandelbaum is a public health expert and dedicated public servant representing Portsmouth and Newington in the New Hampshire House of Representatives. She joins NHJournal Managing Editor Michael Graham to discuss NH politics, the current state of the NH Dem party, and the issues that matter to her.

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Live from Castro's in Bedford, NH it's 'Cigars & Snark!' NHJournal Managing Editor Michael Graham is joined by his WTKK-FM producer 'The Great and Powerful Tom,' Tom Shattuck. They attempt to explain why the Jimmy Kimmel story isn't generating the 'Free Speech Now!' outrage from the Right that the mainstream media seem to expect. They also tell some stories from their career doing conservative talk radio from deep-blue Boston.

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On a special edition of the NHJournal podcast from Castro's in Bedford, political operative and NH native Matthew Barlett joins NHJournal managing editor Michael Graham from his regular stool at Shelly's Backroom in Washington, D.C. to discuss -- and debate -- the assassination of Charlie Kirk and what it means for American politics.

Bartlett calls the shooter a 'lone wolf.' Graham disagrees. Also, what could this spike in political violence mean for the 2026 midterm elections in New Hampshire and beyond?

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Kevin Sabet is President and CEO of the group Smart Approaches to Marijuana. He was in New Hampshire to talk to the National Association of Attorneys General about the impact of America's mass experiment with the commercial marijuana industry. His first book was called Reefer Sanity: Seven Great Myths About Marijuana, and he talks to NHJournal's Michael Graham about how New Hampshire's decision to stay out of the pot business may put it at the forefront of new thinking regarding legal weed.

Graham also gives a shout out to the New Hampshire progressives who've taken a break from chanting "Globalize the Intifada" and "From the River to the Sea" to denounce the handful of neo-Nazis who showed up at the state house.

Plus -- Why are your energy bills so damn high?

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Want to know why the Sydney Sweeney "Good Jeans" ad upset political progressives so much? Just check the reaction to Gov. Kelly Ayotte's decision to sign bills banning sex-change procedures for minor children.

PLUS -- Why GOP midterm gerrymandering in Texas means there's almost no chance you'll see it in New Hampshire.

Hosted by Michael Graham, managing editor of NHJournal.com.

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A new NHJournal/Praecones Analytica poll has dropped, and NHJ Managing Editor Michael Graham talks about it with New Hampshire Institute of Politics (NHIOP) Director Neil Levesque.

But first, it's Executive Councilor John Stephen venting his outrage at Magistrate Stephanie Johnson and her mishandling of two high-profile cases, including the horrific murder-suicide in Berlin. He says it's time for Johnson to go and the court has the power to kick her out.

Plus, a bit of rank punditry from Graham as he tries to figure out what the heck NH Democrats are up to.

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Just minutes after her budget deal passes the legislature and is headed to her desk, Gov. Kelly Ayotte joins NHJournal to talk about the process, her priorities and her very public battle with Republican legislators.

Did Ayotte get everything she wanted? Does she think she went too far in her fight with the state Senate?

She talks about it with NHJournal Managing Editor Michael Graham.

Also, some rank punditry on the current state of the New Hampshire Democratic Party. (Hint: Not Great, Bob.)

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Tracy Richmond, Chair of the Board for The Jewish Federation of New Hampshire, talks to NHJournal's Michael Graham about life in the Granite State as a Jewish American as antisemitic violence claims two more lives on the streets of Washington, D.C.

That violence was accompanied by the "Free, Free Palestine" chant heard at UNH and the state capitol in Concord.

Then Graham launches into a rant about the World's Worst Political Cover Up -- the fact that Joe Biden was mentally unfit to be President of the United States pretty much the entire time he was President of the United States. And nobody did more to keep Biden there than the Democrats of New Hampshire.

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