The Free State Project is a political movement

Political movement

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, founded in 2001, to recruit at least 20,000 libertarian

Libertarianism

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-leaning people to move to New Hampshire

New Hampshire

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 in order to make the state a stronghold for libertarian ideas.

Those who join the Free State Project sign a statement of intent to move to New Hampshire within five years of the group reaching 20,000 participants or some other trigger selected by participants. , around 900 FSP participants live in NH.