July 22, 2026
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By Karl Taro Greenfeld
In the sanctuary above an herbal tonic bar, before a seated Buddha and a pair of mandalas, 48 volunteers for congressional candidate Marianne Williamson close their eyes and meditate as Annelise Balfour, the manager and head facilitator of the Source Spiritual Center, intones a welcome prayer.…
Carla Howell, political director for the national Libertarian Party, made a statement to Press TV on April 6 in response to Republicans attacking President Barack Obama about high unemployment.…
From Ballot Access News:
On April 8, Arlington County, Virginia, held a special election to fill a vacant seat on the County Board. Independent candidate John Vihstadt won with an absolute majority, even though there were four candidates on the ballot.…
Greetings Dedicated Supporters,
Ben Cohen & Jerry Greenfield, co-founders of Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream, will address the audience of Free & Equal’s United We Stand Festival at UCLA on May 10th, 2014, via video.…
From Ballot Access News:
This Birmingham News story about Gary Johnson’s April 7 visit to Alabama manages to educate readers about Alabama’s unfriendly ballot access laws.…
By Nicole Gaudiano
Sen. Bernie Sanders is taking his progressive message to the first presidential primary voters in the nation Saturday.
The Vermont independent will hold a town hall meeting at New Hampshire’s Saint Anselm College, which has regularly played host to presidential primary debates.…
From Ballot Access News:
In this letter, Maria Pereira, who was elected to the Bridgeport, Connecticut School Board as a Working Families Party nominee in 2009, resigns her office within the Working Families Party.…
The Secretary of State of California has released the Certified List of Candidates for the June 3 2014 primary election. There are only six Libertarians listed:
Attorney General – Jonathan Jaech
CD 7 – Art Tuma
CD 25 – David Koster Bruce
CD 33 – Mark Matthew Herd
CD 51 – Michael Benoit
AD 8 – Janice Bonser
Here is the document:
Certified List of Candidates for June 3, 2014 Statewide Primary Election
Ted Brown, a long-time activist and former state chairman for the CA LP, has noticed that there are 21 spots in the state with only one person running.…
JEN MCCLELLAN: Mimi Soltysik, you’re running openly as a socialist for State Assembly for the 62nd District of Los Angeles. Why you?
MIMI SOLTYSIK: When we decided locally to do something like this, the “me” part was secondary to the idea.…