June 10, 2026
Your Premier Source on Third Parties and Independent Candidates Since 2008
Posted at Third Party and Independent Daily:
From the Columbia News Service, via the Memphis Socialist Party:
The economic crisis may have sounded a death knell for investment banks, construction companies and countless small businesses, but there are some groups that are benefittng from the general malaise.…
Posted by Dave Schwab at Green Party Watch:
Rich Whitney, the Illinois Green Party’s 2010 candidate for governor who earned over 10% of the vote in 
2006, has called for legalization of cannabis in his comprehensive plan to solve Illinois’ budget crisis.…
Hugh Giordano, a Green state representative candidate in Pennsylvania’s 194th district, was featured today in a story that ran in a group of newspapers published in Philadelphia and nearby Montgomery County. …
Via email, GP.org, Green Party Watch, and On The Wilder Side (immediate source is the last link):
GP OH Guv Cand Dennis Spisak
Several Green candidates have launched campaigns in their states’ races for governor in 2010.…
Via email and LP.org:
Dear Friend of Liberty,
Like you, I am upset that the health care bill passed last night. Another huge expansion of government spending and government control is not good for our freedom or our health.…
From Ballot Access News:
The Mountain Party of West Virginia is that state’s affiliate of the Green Party. This year it has chosen to nominate by primary rather than by convention.
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In recent elections, international Green Parties have had election victories in Colombia and in regional elections in France.
Posted to the GreenChange.org social network by a Green in Colombia (h/t to Green Party Watch):
Colombian congress has 268 seats; 100 seats for the senate and 168 seats for the equivalent of the house of representatives.
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From the PR Newswire, via Poli-Tea:
CHICAGO, March 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Yesterday was an historic day in Washington for a different reason than the passage of a healthcare bill that essentially goes into effect some four years from now.
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Independent candidate for Congress in 2008 and former Green Party member John Murphy writes in Dissident Voice,
The Democrat Party is just another voice of the corporate elite that is trying to control America.
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