Do We Surrender and Run or Stay and Fight

How We Take Charge if we want it

We stop waiting for someone else to save Vermont.

We stop assuming the system will correct itself.
We stop believing that one election changes everything.
We stop surrendering local institutions by default.

Sit home and do nothing — that’s how we got here.

Real change happens from the ground up.

That means showing up where power actually forms:

• school boards

• selectboards

• planning commissions

• development review boards

• town meetings

• budget committees

• local media

• community organizations

• and public hearings.

We reshape Vermont understanding something critical:
Culture controls politics long before elections do.

The people who transformed Vermont did not begin with majorities.
They organized.
They pressured institutions.
They flooded hearings.
They built local networks.
They stayed active while everyone else stayed comfortable.

That is how power changes hands.

So this is how we take charge.

We stop acting like managers of decline.

We act like a movement.

Not Democrats.
Not Republicans.

Vermonters.

People who believe freedom requires participation.
People who understand that liberty is not permanent unless citizens defend it.
People who understand government exists to serve communities — not manage every aspect of life from the top down.

Our goals are simple:

• End centralization

• Repeal the culture of endless top-down control

• End the regulatory paralysis created by systems like Act 250 and Act 181 that turned growth, housing, infrastructure, and economic development into endless bureaucracy

• Create a clean slate for the Green State.

• No income tax

• No property tax

We accomplish this through:

• Smaller government

• Less regulation

• Local control

• Economic growth

When we take everything back, so will:

• Affordable energy

• Affordable housing

• Productive jobs

• Strong communities

• Real opportunity.

We fight politically until Vermont becomes a place where working people can afford to stay, build, raise families, and create wealth again.

Because the current system is not producing prosperity.

It is producing stagnation.

The policies sold over the past fifty years as compassionate and forward-thinking became systems of dependency, bureaucracy, delay, and decline.

Feel-good policies are not enough.

Results matter.

And the results are visible everywhere:

• Young people continue leaving

• families priced out

• shrinking affordability

• housing shortages

• business stagnation

• rising taxes

• more bureaucracy and communities slowly hollowing out.

We do not need more regulation.

We need jobs, Security, Homes, Community, Growth, Industry, Construction, Energy, and Opportunity.

And we refuse to quietly watch Vermont become a playground for wealthy outsiders while the people who built this state can no longer afford to live in it.

So every bill gets challenged publicly.
Every tax increase gets exposed.
Every hearing gets flooded.
Every town gets visited.
Every parade gets walked.
Every camera gets used.

Hold press conferences constantly.

Bring charts.
Bring numbers.
Bring taxpayers.
Bring contractors who cannot build.
Families being priced out.
Young people are leaving.
Farmers are collapsing under regulation.
Small businesses are drowning in costs.

Force the conversation into public view every single day.

Stop speaking only inside Montpelier.
Start organizing outside of it.

Town halls.
Rallies.
Public forums.
Parking lot speeches.
Church basements.
Fire halls.
Town greens.
Local podcasts.
Independent media.

Go directly to the people.

Demand vetoes.
Demand repeal.
Demand recorded votes.
Force every legislator to publicly own the consequences of the system they support.

If your legislators are not aligned with these goals, then challenge them.
Run against them.
Replace them.
Keep replacing them until the system answers to the people again.

Use every procedural tool available:

• delays

• public testimony

• motions

• floor speeches

• media pressure

• walkouts

• and coordinated public resistance.

Not violence. Not destruction.

Pressure. Relentless public pressure.

Make it politically uncomfortable to continue governing as if rising taxes, collapsing affordability, housing shortages, outmigration, and endless centralization are normal.

Repeal centralization.
Power to the people.
Smaller government.
Take back Vermont.

Because sitting quietly and hoping the system fixes itself is exactly how Vermont got here.

We do not make change just by voting.
We make change by getting involved — or we end up right back here, or worse.

So who’s with me?
Who’s ready to do this?

The time is now.

Or be honest with me and everyone else.

Because I’m at the point where either we fight politically to take Vermont back for the people who built it, or we sell, leave, and let Vermont go because it’s over.

#VT4VT #END250 #END181