Vermont · There is a history here
Vermont governed itself once. The case has not changed.
Vermont has done this before. The movement here is dormant, not dead.
VermontNot measured
Vermont had too small a sample in the 2024 poll to publish a number. The case for self-determination doesn't hinge on it.
Organized here before
This is not new ground.
Vermont has raised an organized independence movement before, in the recent past. It went quiet, which is not the same as gone. Most movements sit quiet for years, right up until they don't. The people who believed it then are still here, and it takes a handful of them to make it a movement again.
Vermont, if it stood alone
largest economy on Earth
$46 billion, ahead of Latvia.
people
More than the whole of Montenegro. A nation-sized population, governed from elsewhere.
seats in Congress
The other 532 are chosen by people who don't live here.
The only question that matters
Vermont is already a nation in all but name.
If Vermont 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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Vermont governed itself once. It was the Vermont Republic for fourteen years before it joined the union, it wrote a constitution that outlawed adult slavery before any other, and it still runs town meeting day, where residents stand up and decide their own affairs to each other's faces. So when the pollsters could not gather a clean read here, that number should not be mistaken for a settled answer. Vermont was never asked in a way that captured what this place already knows about running its own life.
Here is why the quiet is misleading. A poll asks an abstract question and gets a cautious reply. A ballot asks something concrete and binary, a peaceful yes or no you can hold in your hand, and support for self-determination tends to climb about thirty points once it takes that form. Apply that shift to a state built on governing itself, and Vermont sits at or very near a majority. The silence was measurement, not sentiment.
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Count Me In, Vermont
Add your name, and be one of the people who brings Vermont's movement back.
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