“She who writes best wins.”
Sarah Bella is a Granite Stater originally from the Boston area who holds her state motto Live Free or Die in the highest regard. She earned a B.S. in marketing with a minor in communications from Southern New Hampshire University, which she attended while fighting cancer and operating a DJ business. She has resided in many other amazing places, but New Hampshire is her home.
“I moved to New Hampshire when I was 19. It was one of the first adult decisions I ever made: to leave the People’s Republik of Taxachusetts once and for all. I started my family here. My beautiful son, nicknamed Tank by nurses, was born at Parkland in Derry. I had to move away because I had promises to fulfill, and not one day went by that I didn’t dream of home. At the first possible opportunity, I found my way back here, and I have no intention of ever leaving again. I still adore Boston, and I joke about leaving my heart in San Francisco, but I chose New Hampshire twice, and this is where I’ve always belonged.“
With a rogueish attitude and decades of freelance journalism and campaign experience, Sarah’s political writings focus on policy analysis, public relations, psychology, and campaign strategy through the lens of intersectional feminism. She also writes about mental and sexual health, consent and boundaries, gender, ethical philosophy, science, pop culture, and more, often blending them into holistic tapestries that present unique perspectives. Read her work at ImSarahBella.com.
She first got involved with politics in 1991 when she was just 12 years old. That year, she joined the campaign of later Representative Michael Capuano, who was running for mayor in her hometown of Somerville, Massachusetts. Starting as a neighborhood canvasser, she eventually went on to become an organizer for other campaigns, including the lieutenant gubernatorial run of Dorothy Kelly Gay in Massachusetts, and contributed to the presidential run of John Kerry with the New Hampshire Democratic Party in 2004.
In 2008, she went to work for the Young Democrats of America shortly after moving to Orange County, California. With a background in scholastic journalism, she later became a writer, Editor-in-Chief, and webmaster of Orange Juice, a non-partisan political blog.
She was always a small-l libertarian but became a big-L Libertarian and supported Ron Paul in 2009 after the bank and auto industry bailouts in response to the economic crash. She also supported Gary Johnson.
Sarah thought she was retired from politics from 2014 until 2024, when she returned to the fray to oppose Project 2025. While not officially rejoining the Democratic Party, she became a national volunteer leader (“Kamala Captain”), facilitating relational organizing training, teaching people how to speak with friends and family, and on social media, about the election.
In response to Kamala’s loss and the Democrats’ lack of a cohesive alternative media strategy to counter the GOP, Sarah created Live Free & Prosper, an organization dedicated to ethical L/libertarian media activist education and training. She is also a leadership member and co-Webmaster of LPAlliance and co-Editor and Staff Writer at The Torch.
In 2025, she created The Free Congress Project, dedicated to electing L/libertarians to strategically chosen congressional seats, fostering a strong coalition for a revitalized Libertarian Party through a national focus every two years, instead of the usual four.