November 6, 2026
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The Marxist-Leninist Workers World Party has announced its formal endorsement of Green Party presidential nominee Cynthia McKinney:
McKinney’s campaign is Black-led, anti-imperialist, working-class-centered and has a multinational radical base with the potential of unlimited growth.
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“Barr is always accompanied by handlers whose job is to keep libertarians away from their presidential candidate so they can’t ask him questions about his Big Government positions,” says CLS of the Classically Liberal blog.…
In a statement issued last night, Bob Barr encouraged his supporters to join Accountability Now PAC in the PAC’s efforts to remove from power the key enablers of the “tyrannical and lawless FISA compromise.”…
Appearing on Glenn Beck last night, Ron Paul said that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac should be allowed to fail. Unlike Libertarian presidential candidate Bob Barr, who says Congress should provide a “temporary line of credit” to boost the share price of the publicly traded stock — and give the Fed more “oversight” over the housing industry — the Republican congressman said Congress should eliminate the GSEs’ implied line of credit to the Treasury and allow the companies to be liquidated.…
Dave Brownlow, the Constitution Party’s candidate for U.S. Senate in Oregon, has issued a statement criticizing the Senate’s recent 80-16 vote to triple foreign aid to fight AIDS in Africa.…
“Wait, other people are running for president?” a headline from an article in last Thursday’s Medill Reports sarcastically asks. “You wouldn’t know it, but yes, more than a dozen candidates are hoping to be the longshot winner who will upset the favorites.”…
Last month, IPR reported that Bob Barr received a staggering 57.69% of Google News hits for all the “major” (defined very loosely) third-party and independent candidates.…
“I was actively discouraged from my original presidential run, because GP didn’t want to counter the Democratic nominee with a white male,” says former Green presidential hopeful now running for Congress, Alan Augustson.…
Since IPR’s inception, Third-Party Watch has linked to several of our stories — usually crediting them to Austin Cassidy, whether he wrote them or not. But recently, at least one TPW author has begun copying IPR content and reposting it as his own.…