Politics
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Taxpayers spent $28 million on John Sununu’s family ski town
John E. Sununu is running for Senate touting his management of his family’s ski resort. Records show taxpayers helped build it up at every turn, from federal loans to a state check that only ever goes to one ski resort at a time: theirs.
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‘Trump got his guy’: NH Democrats start ‘Stop Sununu Tour
Two days after John E. Sununu won the Republican nomination for US Senate, Democrats in Manchester argued he would rubber-stamp Donald Trump’s agenda on tariffs, the war in Iran, and Medicaid.
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Exclusive: Inside NH Democrats’ post-primary battle plan to win in November
The state party memo says roughly 151,000 Democrats cast primary ballots, tens of thousands more than the state projected.
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John Sununu ‘helped Big Pharma and Big Oil make billions,’ says first attack ad
With the general election set, WinSenate is moving quickly to turn Democrats’ primary-day energy into an offensive against Republican nominee John E. Sununu’s lobbying career and corporate ties.
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Top progressive leader weighs in on bitter NH Senate primary
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), co-chair of Bernie Sanders’ 2020 campaign, hasn’t endorsed anyone in Tuesday’s Democratic Senate primary. In an exclusive interview the day before the vote, he vouched for Rep. Chris Pappas’ record on housing, wages and equal rights, and said the loser needs to get behind the winner.
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Hassan demands details on Trump accounts closed over money laundering red flags
Capital One told a federal court it shut Trump-affiliated bank accounts after its anti-money laundering team found “suspicious transactions.” Hassan wants to know what those transactions were, and whether anyone told law enforcement.
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Hassan makes rare primary endorsement, backing Stefany Shaheen for Congress
Sitting senators almost never pick sides in contested primaries in their own state. Hassan just did, with the Democratic race for New Hampshire’s open US House seat deadlocked and 12 days left.
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Sullivan overtakes Shaheen in back-to-back polls ahead of Sept. 8 primary
Two polls released in the past week put the Marine Corps veteran narrowly ahead of the longtime frontrunner for the first time, with both leads inside the margin of error and less than two weeks to go. For the first time since the race began, Maura Sullivan leads Stefany Shaheen in the contest for the…
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Hassan and Shaheen are leading the US Senate fight against Trump’s ICE
New Hampshire’s two US Senators have spent 2026 at the center of the congressional pushback against US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), helping kill a planned detention warehouse in Merrimack and forcing the agency’s then director to admit that its shooting investigations were biased from the top.
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Ayotte co-headlines New Hampshire multimillionaire’s comeback after Epstein files scandal
The governor and the inventor hold the marquee slots at this week’s Freedom Summit in Manchester. Ayotte arrives with a fresh Epstein donor problem; Kamen returns to a big stage five months after resigning from the nonprofit he spent 37 years building. UPDATE: Gov. Kelly Ayotte cancelled her appearance at the tech conference last-minute, citing…
