July 31, 2026
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Brian Jones was the Green Party candidate for Lieutenant Governor in New York in 2014. Together with gubernatorial candidate Howie Hawkins, Jones received almost 5 percent of the vote, in one of the most well-organized and visible Green Party campaigns in 2014. …
From the Socialist Party USA National Action Committee, posted to the party’s website:
If progressives can learn one thing from the 2014 election cycle, it is that they no longer have a place in the Democratic Party.…
From Richard Winger at Ballot Access News:
On November 4, Libertarian nominees for statewide partisan office carried counties in three states. In all cases, there was no Democrat in the race.…
Originally posted to the Constitution Party of Illinois website:
My name is Randy Stufflebeam. I am a retired Marine, with over 22 years of honorable active duty service to my country.…
My husband and I attended a special event today in Orange County, CA. The Mises Institute had a conference called Society Without the State: Law and Order in a Free World.…
From Richard Winger at Ballot Access News:
Based on preliminary election returns, it appears the percentage of the vote in the November 2014 election for independent and minor party candidates, for the office at the top of the ballot, was 4.4%.…
By Tom Crean at the Socialist Alternative website:
The significant gains made by Republicans in the mid-term elections, in particular taking control of the U.S.…
From the Libertarian Party website:
The Libertarian Party of Oregon issued the following press release on the defeat of the state’s Measure 90 ballot initiative:
Oregonians sent a strong message of support for strong third parties and for the value of a vibrant culture of ideas in their elections, with a crushing rejection of Measure 90.…
From Richard Winger at Ballot Access News:
Arizona has never elected an independent candidate to statewide office, to Congress, or to the state legislature, in all the years since it has been a state.…