NEIC recognises good authorship and good content. We are pleased to announce that with her permission, we will be featuring JillyBean Monet’s blog content from her Substack. A resident of Deerfield MA, JillyBean provides us with insightful commentary on the state of affairs today in New England. Without further ado, here is her first blog post, “Secession is the only Patriotism”.
Dear People of New England,
There comes a time in the life of every republic when the dream fractures… when the ink of its founding dries into dogma, and the parchment that once protected liberty begins to smother it. For us, that time has arrived. The Union we were told to revere has become a parody of its promise: governed by cruelty, fueled by resentment, and held hostage by the very states that once went to war to keep human beings in chains.
We have endured. We have voted. We have protested. We have pleaded. And still we are tethered to a federal government that no longer reflects the will, the dignity, or the future of Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Rhode Island, or Connecticut.
This is not a tantrum. This is not spectacle. This is history echoing with the same clarity it did in Philadelphia in 1776: when the government becomes destructive of the ends of liberty, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it. We are not leaving America. We are leaving what America has become.
The Moral Break: Why This Union Cannot Be Saved
The ideological rupture is complete. Red states have outlawed bodily autonomy, gutted voting rights, banned books, criminalized compassion, and elevated men who brag about sexual assault while cloaking themselves in scripture. Their courts no longer interpret law: they weaponize it. Their legislatures no longer compromise: they threaten secession if they cannot dominate. Their vision of freedom is the power to subjugate others without consequence. And through gerrymandering, the Electoral College, and a Senate designed to privilege land over lives, they hold the rest of us hostage.
Massachusetts did not consent to the rule of Alabama. Vermont did not surrender its dignity to appease Texas. New Hampshire did not forge its identity to be overwritten by Florida’s theocracy. We are not “one nation under God.” We are many nations, ruled under fear, by those who have learned that democracy can be outvoted if injustice is well-designed.
The Pillars of Our Independence
Massachusetts
The intellectual engine. Birthplace of public education, constitutional liberty, and progressive innovation. Home to Harvard, MIT, and some of the finest hospitals, labs, and legal minds on Earth. Boston alone contributes more to global innovation than entire red-state coalitions.
Connecticut
A financial titan. With a GDP exceeding $300 billion, it powers insurance, banking, biotech, and logistics across the Northeast. Its suburban hubs and elite universities form a pipeline of talent and capital the federal government leeches while scolding.
Rhode Island
A rebel with a memory. The first to declare independence, the last to ratify the Constitution. It knows how to say no. A bastion of marine research, artistic freedom, and direct democracy, it offers strategic coastal command and deep civic heritage.
Vermont
The moral spine. Grounded in agrarian integrity, gun-owning progressivism, and fierce independence, Vermont reminds us that rural doesn’t mean reactionary. It lives its values and protects its land like a covenant, not a commodity.
New Hampshire
Live free or die is written into the bones of the state. With strong town governance, high civic participation, and a libertarian conscience, New Hampshire proves decentralization can be a shield against tyranny when wielded with integrity.
Maine
The frontier and the watchtower. Rich in resources, steeped in maritime and indigenous history, fiercely independent and strategically vital. It is where the soul of Yankee resilience still burns in the coldest wind.
Myths, Lies, and the Fear of Leaving
“Secession is unconstitutional.”
So was abolition. So was interracial marriage. So was women’s suffrage. The Constitution is not holy text, it is a social contract. And when that contract becomes a cage, it must be broken. Even Texas v. White left open the door: “through revolution, or through consent of the States.” If a court ruled tomorrow that slavery were once again legal, would we comply? No? Then stop pretending law defines morality.
“The economy will collapse.”
New England gives more than it takes. Massachusetts alone contributes more in federal tax dollars than it receives. Connecticut sends billions into the abyss of red-state subsidies. Our schools are ranked highest. Our healthcare is ranked best. Our GDP per capita dwarfs that of the states that scream “America First.”
“You’re abandoning America.”
America abandoned us. It abandoned science. It abandoned truth. It abandoned liberty for political grievance, and replaced dialogue with dominion. We are not leaving our country, we are leaving the fiction that it still exists.
“You’ll be vulnerable to attack.”
We are bordered by Canada and the Atlantic. We have ports, defense manufacturing, and cyber infrastructure. The United States won’t bomb Boston, and if it would, then that proves we were right to leave. Let us be clear: our strength lies not in tanks, but in data, trade, and diplomatic leverage. We’re not declaring war, we’re declaring self-respect.
“It’ll never happen.”
Every revolution was once impossible. Every nation was once a dream. The Soviet Union collapsed. Czechoslovakia split. Brexit happened. The American colonies stood up to the world’s greatest empire and won. All we need is for one spark to light. One vote. One legislature. One state to say: Enough.
Our Final Answer
We are not rebels. We are not radicals. We are stewards of a legacy that has been hijacked by those who fear difference and worship control. We taught this country how to govern. We bled to end its sins. We rebuilt it after every fall. And now we are told to sit down while it rots from within?
No.
We will not pretend Mississippi and Massachusetts still want the same nation. We will not trade our daughters’ freedom for the approval of men who view rights as currency. We will not raise our children under a flag that waves for billionaires, bigots, and biblical tyrants.
We are New England. The land of thinkers, farmers, builders, radicals, writers, and revolutionaries. We were the first to rise. Let us be the first to walk away.
History does not remember the obedient. It remembers the brave.
And we remember everything.
Sincerely,
A Daughter of New England
This post was taken with the author’s permission from JillyBean Monet’s Substack. To view her other posts, please click here: https://jillybeanmonet.substack.com/archive?sort=new