THE GROUND UP
What’s happening in New Hampshire, from the ground up.
What is it?
The Ground Up is a regular newsletter from Community First Coalition about what is happening around New Hampshire, who is making the decisions, and how those decisions affect the people who live here.
Each issue pulls together a few things worth knowing, adds context, and points you toward useful resources and ways to stay involved. Subscribers get each issue first, with more detail than we can fit into our social posts.
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Who Is Community First Coalition?
Community First Coalition is a New Hampshire organization working to make it easier for working-class and community-rooted people to run for public office and represent their communities.
We’re building the tools and infrastructure candidates need to run serious campaigns without starting from scratch or needing personal wealth, political connections, or a professional campaign operation behind them.
What Makes a
Community First Candidate?
COMMUNITY
Puts the people affected first, respects local knowledge, and stays answerable to the community.
INTEGRITY
Uses public office to serve, not enrich themselves, and refuses money or influence that compromises that responsibility.
What Makes a
Community First Candidate?
SOLIDARITY
Treats people as neighbors and refuses to gain power through scapegoating, exclusion, dehumanization, or hate.
DEMOCRACY
Believes people deserve a real say, supports open participation, and keeps power accountable to the people affected.
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Working-class candidates should not have to carry a campaign alone. Community First needs people who will help shape the coalition and resources to carry out the work. Joining and donating are the two most direct ways to help.