Rhode Island · Self-Determination
On a fair ballot, Rhode Island is within reach of a majority.
There is no organized movement for it in Rhode Island yet. That is exactly what we are here to change.
Rhode Islandadults in Rhode Island would back independence when the question is asked the way a ballot asks it: calm, binary, and peaceful. That's about 44% of the state.
Even the understated abstract poll counts 120,000 (14%). How we get this number →
Rhode Island, if it stood alone
largest economy on Earth
$82 billion, ahead of Belarus.
people
More than the whole of Fiji. A nation-sized population, governed from elsewhere.
seats in Congress
The other 531 are chosen by people who don't live here.
The only question that matters
Rhode Island is already a nation in all but name.
If Rhode Island were already a self-governing nation, with its own border, its own money, its own defense, everything two hundred other nations control, and the vote in front of you was not whether to leave, but whether to join the United States on the terms it offers today, would you vote yes?
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Rhode Island was the last of the thirteen to ratify the federal Constitution, and it held out until 1790. It refused to send delegates to Philadelphia, and it renounced the British Crown before anyone else. Roger Williams founded this place in 1636 as a refuge for people who would not bow to a distant authority. That instinct never left. On a fair, plainly worded ballot, about 44% of Rhode Island would vote to leave the union. That is roughly 377,000 adults.
The 44% is the honest number, and here is why. Abstract polls ask people to react to a loaded word with no stakes attached. A ballot is different. It is binary, it is calm, and it is peaceful. Put the question the way a real vote is put and support runs about 30 points over the abstract poll, which lands Rhode Island close to half. Even that abstract poll already says 14%, and that is only the understated floor. Rhode Island went blue in 2020, which tells you self-determination is not a red thing or a blue thing. It is a question about who governs Rhode Island.
So what is missing here is not the will. What is missing is each other. There is no map yet for the 377,000, no way for a person in Providence to find a person in Woonsocket who feels the same. We bring the playbook and the connections. We do not run your group, and we do not touch your money. You decide what a Rhode Island movement looks like, and you build it.
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Count Me In, Rhode Island
Be findable. When the next person from Rhode Island reaches out, we connect you. That is how it starts.
We don't run your group. We don't take your money. We bring the playbook, the standard, and the connections. What you build is yours.
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