{"id":12177,"date":"2026-05-07T20:36:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T00:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/?p=12177"},"modified":"2026-05-07T22:30:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T02:30:31","slug":"taking-over-your-town-the-free-staters-appleseed-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/?p=12177","title":{"rendered":"Taking Over Your Town: The Free Staters\u2019 \u201cAppleseed\u201d Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Approximately a one hours presentation on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fsp.org\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.fsp.org\/\">Free State Project<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Free State Project newsletter describes how its members run for less visible local offices as \u201cnice neighbors.\u201d Their strategy is to make incremental cuts that eventually rot away at local government\u2019s ability to meet residents needs, so residents move out. Meanwhile, they eat away at zoning laws to move in as many libertarians as possible. They seek to replace code enforcement with only a requirement to obtain insurance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thu May 21 Hudson,\u00a07pm, Rodgers Memorial Library, 194 Derry Rd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Related Posts:<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/?p=11036\">The Free State&#8217;s&nbsp;Long Range Goal, Take Over NH<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/?p=11315\">Town Councilor Shawn Faber &#8216;The Art of War&#8217;<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/?p=11029\">Shawn Faber: False Prophets of Politics<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/?p=10746\">Town Councilor Shawn Faber to Speak at&nbsp;PorcFest, 6\/20\/2025<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Approximately a one hours presentation on the Free State Project The Free State Project newsletter describes how its members run for less visible local offices as \u201cnice neighbors.\u201d Their strategy is to make incremental cuts that eventually rot away at local government\u2019s ability to meet residents needs, so residents move&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12177"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12181,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12177\/revisions\/12181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}