From Richard Winger at Ballot-Access News:

The Conservative Party of New York has been the minor party that runs candidates in the largest share of its state’s legislative seats, compared to any other minor party. This has been true continuously starting in 1970. The Conservatives hit their peak (for number of legislative nominees) in 1982, when [...]

Bob Kiss is the incumbent mayor of Burlington, Vermont and a members of the Progressive Party. He has declared that he will run for re-election on March 3, 2009. Two or three candidates are hoping to oust Mayor Kiss, including one Independent.
Independent Dan Smith, 33, is a lawyer currently on leave from his job as vice-president [...]

The Nation’s State of Change blog is suggesting that Roland Burris, Illinois Governor Blagojevich’s pick for US Senate, should serve only an abbreviated sentence in the US Senate–citing Minnesota Independence Party member and candidate, and former Senator, Dean Barkley.
If Burris agrees to be a true interim senator, then a case could be more for allowing [...]

Bob Barr, the original author of the Defense Of Marriage Act and the 2008 Libertarian Presidential candidate, today penned an editorial in the Los Angeles Times, which was then covered by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. In his editorial he gave his former reasonings for supporting and helping to pass the Defense Of Marriage Act–and describes the [...]

Stu Seffern, the former leader of the Dane County Libertarian Party in Wisconsin, tragically died in a plane crash in Illinois on the night of January 1st. The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reported here.
The Dane County chairman of the Wisconsin Libertarian Party died with his wife in a fiery plane crash last night in Joliet, Ill., according [...]

Dick Randolph, the former Alaskan legislator elected to two terms, one as a Republican and one as a Libertarian, penned an editorial for the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner in which he describes the successes of his legislative career. Dick Randolph endorsed Ron Paul for President and Bob Bird for US Senate in 2008.
Disclosure: I was the [...]

I am no longer going to be a correspondent for Independent Political Report. I do not have the time to focus on it, and it would not be fair to my hard-working colleagues. I will continue to be a reader and commenter. Thank you all for your support and encouragement.

In the highly contested recount between incumbent Republican Senator Norm Coleman and challenger Democratic Farmer Laborer Al Franken, only a few hundred votes are putting Franken in the lead.  After more absentee ballots were counted today by the Minnesota Canvassing Board, Franken’s lead increased.  Of the ballots counted, 52% went for Franken, 33% for Coleman, [...]

Posted at the BTP website
31 December 2008 The Missouri state affiliate was unanimously approved today. Congratulations to our members in Missouri, and happy new year!
30 December 2008 Happy New Year to everyone. May 2009 be prosperous and full of greater freedom. On this day in 1903, the Iroquois Theater fire claimed 602 lives in twenty [...]

Posted by LPA Vice Chair Mike Rster to LPA Announce. Disclosure: I am on the executive committee of the Libertarian Party of Alabama.
The Libertarian Party of Alabama offer our best wishes for the upcoming new year!
Trying to live free in an un-free world (as Harry Browne put it) can be trying. Here is what [...]

Letter from the LP Watergate headquarters in DC, signed by national chair Bill Redpath:

Posted by Brian Miller at Delaware Libertarian

Posted at Nader.org
Dear George W. Bush—
Cong. Barney Frank said recently that Barack Obama’s declaration that “there is only one president at a time” over-estimated the number. He was referring to the economic crisis. But where are you on the Gaza crisis where the civilian population of Gaza, its civil servants and public facilities are being [...]

Posted at http://constitutionparty.org/
Constitution Party Chairman James Clymer, CP Communications Director Mary Starrett and CP Vice Presidential candidate Darrell Castle all to be interviewed by Dr. Stan Monteith on www.americanewsnet.com
Tune in and hear Mary Starrett on January 2, 2009 6pm ET, Darrell Castle on January 5, 2009 at 10:00am ET, and James Clymer on January 7, [...]

Libertarian Party national chair Bill Redpath interviewed in the Loudoun Extra section of the Washington Post. H/T Ballot Access News.
Q: How long have you been involved with the Libertarian Party and what inspired you to join?
A: I joined the Libertarian Party on April 30, 1984. I joined because - while I thought the Reagan tax [...]

Reposted on the Constitution Party national webpage
by John Stossell
Barack Obama wants to use the recession to remake the U.S. economy.
“Painful crisis also provides us with an opportunity to transform our economy to improve the lives of ordinary people,” Obama said.
His designated chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, is more direct: “You never want a serious crisis [...]