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=== Support === On February 17, 2006, economist [[Walter Block]] publicly expressed his support for the FSP and was quoted as saying: {{blockquote|You people are doing the Lord's work. The FSP is one of the freshest practical ideas for promoting liberty that has come out of the libertarian movement in the past few decades. May you succeed beyond your wildest dreams, and thus demonstrate in yet another empirical way the benefits and blessings of liberty.<ref>{{cite web|title=Walter Block's endorsement of the Free State Project|url=http://freestateproject.org/about/endorsements/#block |website=Free State Project|access-date=2021-07-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060813130830/http://freestateproject.org/about/endorsements/#block |archive-date=2006-08-13 |url-status=unfit}}</ref>}} [[Jeffrey Tucker]] reflected about his experiences at the New Hampshire Liberty Forum in [[Nashua, New Hampshire|Nashua]], saying in part: "If you are willing to look past mainstream media coverage of American politics, you can actually find exciting and interesting activities taking place that rise above lobbying, voting, graft and corruption".<ref>{{cite web|title=Political Migration in Our Time|url=http://freestateproject.org/content/political-migration-our-time |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130310194902/http://freestateproject.org/content/political-migration-our-time |archive-date=March 10, 2013}}</ref> The project was endorsed by [[Ron Paul]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Ron Paul Supports the Free State Project|url=http://freestateproject.org/intro/ron_paul |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130519122424/http://freestateproject.org/intro/ron_paul |archive-date=May 19, 2013 }}</ref> and [[Gary Johnson]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzLw12pbIU4 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/TzLw12pbIU4| archive-date=December 11, 2021 |url-status=live|title=Gary Johnson Endorses the FSP|website=[[YouTube]] |date=June 28, 2011 }}{{cbignore}}</ref> In 2010, [[Lew Rockwell]] from the [[Mises Institute]] endorsed the project and referred to the city of [[Keene, New Hampshire]] as "the northern capital of libertarianism".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Md6zzipKNVE |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/Md6zzipKNVE | archive-date=December 11, 2021 |url-status=live|title=Lew Rockwell Applauds the Free State Project|website=[[YouTube]] |date=August 22, 2010 }}{{cbignore}}</ref> In 2011, [[Peter Schiff]] said he had considered moving to NH at one point.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6BmdaZK3Zg |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/v6BmdaZK3Zg| archive-date=December 11, 2021 |url-status=live|title=Peter Schiff (Euro Pacific Capital Inc.)|website=[[YouTube]] |date=January 7, 2011 }}{{cbignore}}</ref> Some Republicans have responded more favorably to the project.<ref name="Boston">{{cite news|last=Goldstein|first=Meredith|date=October 9, 2003|title=Free State Project pushes limits of liberty in N.H.|work=[[Boston Globe]]|url=http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2003/10/09/free_state_project_pushes_limits_of_liberty_in_nh/ }}</ref> In September 2014, Republican Party Senate nominee [[Scott Brown (politician)|Scott Brown]], a former [[United States Senate|United States Senator]] from [[Massachusetts]], said his election campaign needed "Freestaters" to support him in his one-minute closing statement at the Granite State Debate.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMtg48fQocE |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/YMtg48fQocE |archive-date=December 11, 2021 |url-status=live|title=Granite State Debate, U.S. Senate: Candidates deliver closing statements|website=[[YouTube]] |date=September 4, 2014 |access-date=September 10, 2014}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Maine state senator [[Eric Brakey]] partially attributed the Republican Party's 2020 election gains to the Free State Project.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Brakey|first1=Eric|date=July 24, 2021 |title=The rise of the 'Liberty Republican'|url=https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/the-rise-of-the-liberty-republican |access-date=April 30, 2022 |work=[[Washington Examiner]]}}</ref>
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