Jeremy J. Olson is a liberty activist, real estate investor, IT professional, and small business owner from New Hampshire.
Jeremy moved to New Hampshire from Massachusetts in 2007 after the enactment of Romneycare, the predecessor to Obamacare. From 2007–14, he volunteered with political campaigns and organizations in and around the Manchester area, and engaged in legislative advocacy in Concord with the New Hampshire Liberty Alliance and Citizens for Criminal Justice Reform – New Hampshire. He served as Research Director for the NHLA in 2008–10 and 2012–14, and has been Secretary of CCJR-NH since its founding in 2011. After moving to Grafton, he concentrated on local politics for a number of years before scaling back his involvement in 2016. In late 2021, in response to Covid-19, he reconnected with the liberty community and got involved again.
In 2022, Jeremy volunteered on a number of political campaigns, including as campaign manager for Donald McFarlane for N.H. House. In 2023, he served on the N.H. Republican State Committee for Grafton County, then later joined the Manchester Republican Committee. Working with Americans for Prosperity – New Hampshire, he organized a successful get-out-the-vote campaign for the city elections, giving Manchester its first Republican majority in 34 years.
In 2024, Jeremy worked with the NHLA and AFP-NH on legislative advocacy in Concord, concentrating on housing reform from a property rights perspective and eliminating the car inspection mandate. He is currently volunteering with AFP-NH on a number of election campaigns, including Emily Phillips for N.H. Senate and John Stephen for Executive Council.
Jeremy is the recipient of the 2024 NHLA Activist of the Year Award and the 2023 AFP-NH Luke Mroz Freedom Firefighter of the Year award.
As a participant in the Free State Project, Jeremy was mover #200. He regularly attends the Taproom Tuesday and New Movers Party events, and hosts the monthly Merrimack Valley Porcupines gathering. He is currently a board member of the Quill.
In 2023, Jeremy moved back to Manchester. Like many other liberty activists, he now owns a rental property in West Manchester, purchased through Porcupine Real Estate and managed by Ledgeview Commercial Partners.
Jeremy is a libertarian, an eleutherian, a voluntaryist, and an anarcho-capitalist: A liberal in the classical, and proper, meaning of the word. He is a secular humanist, and believes that human behavior and morality ought to be guided by the Non-Aggression Principle. His personal motto is “Quod vis fac.”
As an information technology professional, Jeremy specializes in IT security and privacy, and has worked in the industry since 2000. He created his first website in 1996, which included support for the EFF’s Blue Ribbon Campaign. In 2007, he founded EPRCI, a small web-hosting, IT consulting, and web-development business, with many other liberty activists and organizations as its customers. EPRCI is not currently accepting new customers but is still online, and he continues to run the company in his free time. He is currently a senior software developer at a mid-size software business in southern New Hampshire.
Volunteerism & service
Jeremy has been a liberty activist since moving to New Hampshire in 2007. He scaled back his involvement in 2016 but in late 2021, as a result of coercive Covid-19 policies, he reconnected with the liberty community and got involved again.
Jeremy works with liberty activism and advocacy groups, political parties and campaigns, volunteer service organizations, community groups, churches and other religious organizations, and has served in public office. He has experience with 501(c)(3), 501(c)(4), 501(c)(7), 527, and RSA 292 organizations, plus LLCs, land trusts, irrevocable trusts, and other kinds of corporate and non-corporate structures.
Current
In 2022, Jeremy served as campaign manager for Donald McFarlane for N.H. House, volunteered for the successful Michael Yakubovich and Keith Murphy for N.H. Senate campaigns, and the Don Bolduc for U.S. Senate campaign. He joined the Grafton County Republican Committee and then served as a member of the N.H. Republican State Committee in 2023.
Later in 2023, Jeremy joined the Manchester Republican Committee. Working with Americans for Prosperity – New Hampshire (AFP-NH), he organized a successful get-out-the-vote campaign for the city elections, giving Manchester its first Republican majority in 34 years. He was the recipient of the 2023 AFP-NH Luke Mroz Freedom Firefighter of the Year award.
In 2024, Jeremy worked with the New Hampshire Liberty Alliance (NHLA) and AFP-NH on legislative advocacy in Concord, concentrating on housing reform from a property rights perspective and eliminating the car inspection mandate. He is currently working with AFP-NH on a number of election campaigns, including Emily Phillips for N.H. Senate and John Stephen for Executive Council. He is the recipient of the 2024 NHLA Activist of the Year Award.
As a participant in the Free State Project (FSP), Jeremy was mover #200. He regularly attends the Taproom Tuesday and New Movers Party events, and hosts the monthly Merrimack Valley Porcupines (MVP) gathering. He is currently a board member of the Quill.
Jeremy has been a member of the NHLA since 2007, and served on the Board of Directors as Director of Research from 2008–2010 and 2012–2014. He has also served as their Gold Standard Committee chairman, IT Committee chairman, and regional coördinator for the Upper Valley. He continues to do bill reviews for the NHLA each year, and frequently joins them at the State House engaging in legislative advocacy. While on the Board in 2010, he was responsible for the NHLA eliminating their list of “don’t touch” issues and crafting their position supporting same-sex marriage. In 2024, he organized a team of people to successfully oppose bringing back one “don’t touch” issue, assisted suicide.
Jeremy is the Secretary and a member of the Board of Directors of Citizens for Criminal Justice Reform – New Hampshire (CCJR-NH). He was one of the founding members of CCJR-NH in 2011, has served on their Legislative Policy Committee, and is their Research Committee chairman and webmaster.
Jeremy co-founded the Manchester Free Press (MFP) with other liberty activists in 2007. The Manchester Free Press is now a news aggregator which brings together in one place all the news about what’s happening in the Free State of New Hampshire. He handles all technical aspects of the website and since 2021 has been the site’s content coördinator. He also served as Editor-in-Chief from 2009–2011.
Jeremy created FreeHampshire.Com in 2011, a general New Hampshire information website.
Jeremy has been a member of the Canaan Lions Club since 2011, and served as President in 2014–2015. He previously served as Tailtwister, Second Vice President, and Vice President. Currently a resident of West Manchester, he volunteers with We Heart West.
Jeremy is an ordained minister in Peaceful Assembly Church (PAC), the Universal Life Church, and the Universal Church Triumphant of the Apathetic Agnostic.
Grafton
Jeremy was not part of the original Free Town Project, but continued the same efforts to recruit activists to move to Grafton after he moved there himself in 2010. From 2011–2014, he organized the liberty community in Grafton to attend the yearly deliberative sessions and vote in all local elections. In 2013, the thirty-member liberty bloc was sufficiently large and organized to defeat the Town’s budget (by a vote of 29–35), and then placed a 10% budget reduction on the ballot, by a single vote (33–32). At deliberative sessions, every single vote counts.
During the same period, Jeremy also led efforts to place numerous pro-liberty warrant articles on the ballot and run pro-liberty candidates for every local office. He was the lead plaintiff in Jeremy Olson &a. v. Town of Grafton, 168 N.H. 563, 133 A.3d 270 (2016), an unsuccessful attempt to prevent the Town government from sabotaging petitioned warrant articles by placing their own negative recommendations on the ballot alongside the measures.
Jeremy founded the Mascoma Valley Taxpayers Union (MVTU) in 2012, and has served as its Chairman and Treasurer since its founding. In 2012 and 2013, the MVTU successfully blocked a renovation to the Mascoma Valley Regional High School, saving the taxpayers $24 million each year.
Jeremy was an elected member of the Trustee of the Trust Funds from 2012–2015. He also was appointed as a Planning Board Alternate from 2011–2015, and served as minute-taker in 2014–2015. He ran for State Representative in 2010, 2012, and 2014. He ran for the Town Budget Committee in 2011 in a three-way race and lost in a tie (135–135–128), again showing how every single vote counts in local elections.
From 2012–2014, Jeremy helped plan and organize the annual Burning Porcupine Festival, Grafton’s local version of the FSP’s annual Porcupine Freedom Festival. In 2009, he was a volunteer for PorcFest, and from 2010–2015 hosted the Grafton information tent at PorcFest, promoting Grafton and recruiting movers.
Jeremy has been a member of the Board of Directors and the Secretary of PAC since 2013. He was involved in the lawsuit against the Town of Grafton which won PAC its property tax exemption in 2016. After stepping back from most activism in 2016, he continued to support PAC behind the scenes, through a second lawsuit in 2018 and then the sale of PAC’s original meetinghouse in 2019. Though PAC is largely dormant at the moment, he still serves on the Board and as one of its ministers.
Jeremy continues to maintain the Free Grafton website, an information repository on the liberty movement in Grafton, and previously ran the Grafton Forum, a discussion forum for liberty activists. He also continues to assist the current liberty activists in Grafton behind the scenes.
Earlier efforts
Jeremy moved to New Hampshire on 2007-06-30, in response to Massachusetts enacting "Romneycare," a coercive health insurance law that forced residents to purchase insurance from private corporations. This law (111M M.G.L. 2, 2006 HB4479, Mass. Acts Ch. 58) went into effect on 2007-07-01. He was Free State Project mover #200. On 2008-02-01, he quit his tech job in Massachusetts to participate in the liberty movement full-time.
Jeremy was a volunteer for the Ron Paul presidential campaigns in 2008 and 2012. He has also volunteered with many other state and local political campaigns around New Hampshire, including State Representative campaigns for Paul Comeau, Tom Ploszaj, Bob Hull, Mark Warden, Phil Greazzo, Brad Jardis, Joel Winters, and Andrew Carroll; State Senate campaigns for Eileen Landies and JR Hoell; Brad Jardis for Sheriff; Frank Guinta for Mayor of Manchester; Phil Greazzo and Tammy Simmons for Manchester City Council; and many, many local candidates and measures in the Town of Grafton.
At the State House, Jeremy was involved in the successful campaigns to defeat mandatory seatbelts (HB802, 2007), REAL-ID (SB434, 2008), car insurance (HB639, 2009), and motorcycle helmets (HB1162, 2010); legalize same-sex marriage (HB436, 2009); repeal laws banning switchblades (HB1665, 2010); allow jury nullification (HB146, 2012); legalize medical marijuana (HB573, 2013); remove public urination from the sex offender registry (HB1294, 2008); and repeal an obsolete criminal adultery statute (HB1125, 2014).
Between 2007–2014, Jeremy was also particularly active in movements to decriminalize marijuana, eliminate pistol permits making New Hampshire a constitutional carry state, prohibit surveillance and other privacy invasions by the State, protect citizens’ right to audio-record the police, broaden the right-to-know law (RSA 91-A), establish civilian oversight boards to investigate police misconduct (HB92, 2009), prevent police departments from acquiring Lenco BearCats and other military equipment, reform or repeal sex offender laws, legalize prostitution, eliminate car inspections, raise speed limits, and eliminate sobriety checkpoints. [Both marijuana decriminalization and constitutional carry finally passed in 2017.]
In 2007, Jeremy and other liberty activists successfully defeated a mandatory seatbelt bill, HB802. Part of this campaign involved putting pressure on one particular Senator, Betsi DeVries (D–Manchester). One of the activists acquired a copy of this Senator’s donors; they then launched a flyering campaign labeling DeVries as an “anti-liberty Senator” and specifically targeted the donors’ houses and their neighborhoods. Whereas only a few hundred flyers were actually distributed, this created the appearance they had flyered the entire State of New Hampshire on this one bill. Ultimately, the Senate voted 16–8 to kill the bill, which included Betsi DeVries. Earlier, when this bill was being debated in the State House, Jeremy led a group of twelve activists in a civil disobedience campaign who testified at the hearing that, should the law pass, they pledged to stop wearing seatbelts, and then fight every ticket in an effort to clog the courts.
In 2009, Jeremy and two other liberty activists successfully led the effort to gain sufficient Republican support for the same-sex marriage bill, HB436. The initial roll call to pass the bill failed by a single vote (182–183), and then the attempt to kill the bill failed by twelve (177–189). After much parliamentary wrangling, the bill passed upon reconsideration by a mere seven votes (186–179). Ultimately about forty Republicans voted in favor—without which the bill would not have passed. New Hampshire became the second state in the nation to legalize same-sex marriage through legislation. (Vermont beat New Hampshire by three days.) In 2010, he then successfully led the effort within the NHLA to organize a meeting of all members and have same-sex marriage removed from their “don’t touch” issues. This meeting actually resulted in the six “don’t touch” issues being reduced to a single item, abortion.
In 2007–2008, Jeremy was one of many liberty activists who, working with Keith Murphy, helped to reinvigorate the Manchester Republican Committee. In 2008, he ran for Republican Party delegate for Manchester Ward 3.
As an NHLA volunteer, Jeremy attended the first Tea Party rallies, which took place in New Hampshire in March and April, 2009, and supported State Representative Dan Itse’s states’ rights bill (HCR6).
Jeremy helped organize the New Hampshire delegation to the Continental Congress 2009 assembled by the We The People Foundation.
Jeremy was an organizer and volunteer for PorcFest in 2009, the year it returned to Roger’s Campground in Lancaster.
Jeremy was part of the “Not Ayotte” campaign opposing Kelly Ayotte for U.S. Senate in 2010, a campaign to promote pro-liberty candidates in the Republican primary.
While briefly involved with the Democratic Party in 2010–2014, Jeremy was a member of New Hampshire’s Democratic Freedom Caucus (DFC) chapter and attended the N.H. Democratic Party State Convention in 2010.
During the 2014 U.S. Senate race, Jeremy volunteered with the Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund in their effort to elect enough Republicans to repeal Obamacare.
Along with other liberty activists, Jeremy founded the New Hampshire Courtroom Legal Opposition Group (NH-CLOG) in 2009, a site to educate and aid activists in their legal battles. NH-CLOG was involved in dozens of legal cases around Manchester, Keene, Concord, Nashua, and elsewhere—aiding activists with their defense strategies, videotaping trials and putting them online, and promoting these efforts within the liberty movement. In 2014, he co-founded LGCPA, Inc., a similar project concentrating on the court system in the lower Grafton County area.
Jeremy has contested every traffic citation he has ever received. Two of them—one for $150 and one for $75—he fought in court. Each of these cases he fought all the way to the N.H. Supreme Court, and each of them kept the State busy for nearly two years. Two other citations, the prosecutors dropped when they realized what was coming. He does not get traffic citations anymore.
Jeremy was involved behind-the-scenes with a series of major lawsuits against the Town of Weare (Gericke v. Weare Police Department, Town of Weare, 753 F.3d 1 (2014), Alleman v. Montplaisir, Civil No. 12-cv-282-JL, Rodriguez v. Town of Weare, Civil No. 13-cv-131-JL) over a traffic stop where the police interfered with citizens’ right to record as protected by RSA 91-A and the Glik v. Cunniffe decision. This litigation resulted not only in a monetary settlement but both the police publicly apologizing for their conduct and the N.H. Attorney General notifying all departments that similar conduct will not be protected under qualified immunity.
From 2007–2012, Jeremy ran N.H. Citizens Union to Reform Sex Offender Registration (NH-CURSOR) along with other liberty activists. In 2008, NH-CURSOR helped defeat a Manchester city ordinance that would have imposed residency restrictions on sex offenders. In 2011, members of NH-CURSOR went on to found CCJR-NH, expanding their scope to the much broader topic of criminal justice reform. In 2015, CCJR-NH helped to uncover a scandal in the N.H. prison system, where understaffed treatment programs were causing prisoners to be held past their minimum sentences through no fault of their own. This revelation, followed by an audit of the N.H. Department of Corrections by the General Court, lead to the resignation of the NHDOC Commissioner.
Jeremy ran the N.H. Tea Party discussion forum in 2008–2012, a spin-off of the earlier N.H. Underground forum.
Websites
Jeremy hosts and maintains several websites, mostly non-profits and liberty activist organizations, including the Canaan Lions Club, Citizens for Criminal Justice Reform – New Hampshire, EPRCI, Escape from MA, Free Grafton, FreeHampshire.Com, the Grafton Forum, LGCPA, Inc., the Manchester Free Press, the Mascoma Valley Taxpayers Union and its archive, N.H. Citizens Union to Reform Sex Offender Registration, N.H. Courtroom Legal Opposition Group, the N.H. Freedom Activism Image Repository, the N.H. Tea Party forum, Peaceful Assembly Church, the 420 at 4:20 on 4/20 archive, and personal websites for Dathan Tyler Cade, Mark Warden, and Tom Ploszaj.
Jeremy previously hosted and maintained the websites of the New Hampshire Liberty Alliance, the Libertarian Party of New Hampshire, the Ridley Report, 420 at 4:20 on 4/20, and the Church of the Invisible Hand, and many other now-defunct projects, including the AltExpo, Amagi TV, Anarchy in Your Head, the Burning Porcupine Festival, Citizens for Sensible Legislation New Hampshire, the Civil Disobedience Evolution Fund, Copper Commerce, the Grafton Gazette, Grafton Gulch, the Grafton Independent, Informal University, Mail-to-Jail, N.H. Brass Balls, N.H. Coalition for Common Sense Marijuana Policy, N.H. Compassion, N.H. Liberty Dollar, the “Not Ayotte” campaign, Pimp My Activism, Porc Manor, Porc Therapy, Shire Silver, and candidate websites for John Babiarz, Ken Blevens, Paul Comeau, JR Hoell, Brad Jardis, and Greg Surbey. And there are probably many more sites he has forgotten.
Jeremy also designed the look and feel for many of these websites.
Colophon
The color scheme and general layout of Jeremy J Olson.com are loosely based on the New Hampshire Advantage PAC website. The site is typeset in Poppins, a font by Jonny Pinhorn.
The site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License and is hosted by EPRCI: “IT services for liberty activists, by liberty activists.” SSL certificates are provided by Let’s Encrypt.
Jeremy J Olson.com was initially launched on 2010-06-01. From 2012-06-10 until 2021-09-20, this site was a Drupal site. Jeremy is converting all of his Drupal sites to either static HTML, typically processed using XSLT on the back-end, or another platform, due to the Larry Garfield controversy. On the former site, the primary font was popular web font Georgia. The shade of purple used throughout the site was rebeccapurple, #663399. This was also, coincidentally, nearly identical to the purple used by Peaceful Assembly Church.
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