Maryland: Residents ‘fleeing in droves’ after ‘insane’ far-left takeover

You can be sure that it’s not just the remaining patriots in Maryland who are fleeing. It’s leftists, also. They don’t want to live under the insane policies they vote for any more than anyone else does. The bitter irony, however, is that they will learn nothing. They will go from Maryland to some state that is not as contaminated with leftist insanity and vote for leftist candidates. They seem unwilling to face the obvious fact that the disastrous and worsening conditions in Maryland are the results of their choices at the ballot box.

“Blue state residents ‘fleeing in droves’ after ‘insane’ progressive takeover, says top state attorney,” by Peter Pinedo, Fox News, April 24, 2026:

A top state attorney in Democrat-controlled Maryland says he has had enough and is throwing in the towel after saying the Old Line State has suffered an “insane” “ultra-progressive” takeover.

In an interview with Fox News Digital, Haven Shoemaker, state attorney for Maryland’s Carroll County, said that after decades in public service, he is “sick to death” of the policies that “emanate” from the state capital in Annapolis. He said he is especially disgusted with Maryland’s “sanctuary” policies and the high taxes he said are being levied in part to pay for more services for illegal immigrants.

“Maryland has become California on the Chesapeake,” said Shoemaker. “It only gets worse. It’s not getting better. And at some point, I just had to make a personal decision that it’s time to throw in the towel and head for what I believe are greener pastures.”

Shoemaker is not the only one. He said that he sees Marylanders giving up on the state “all the time.”

“The State of Maryland has one of the worst outward migration numbers of any state in the country right now,” he said. “So, I don’t know who’s going to be the last to foot the bill for the profligate spending that Annapolis likes to engage in, but it’s not going to be me, I can tell you that.”

Moore’s office did not respond to Fox News Digital’s questions. Fox News Digital also reached out to Maryland House Speaker Joseline A. Peña-Melnyk and Senate President Bill Ferguson for comment.

Born in Baltimore in the 1960s, Shoemaker spent three decades in local and state politics before taking the job as Carroll County’s top prosecutor in 2023. His career in public service includes seven years as mayor of Hampstead, Maryland, four years as a Carroll County commissioner and nine years in the Maryland House of Delegates. He rose to the role of House Minority Whip for the Maryland Republican Party.

Despite years deeply involved in state politics, Shoemaker said his decision to abandon Maryland has been a long time coming.

“I’ve been contemplating this move for a while, but the linchpin for me was this most recent legislative session where they essentially made Maryland a sanctuary state for illegal immigrants,” he told Fox News Digital….