June 2, 2026
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Howie Hawkins
Jon Flanders at Counterpunch via GP.org:
Howie Hawkins is not a lawyer, businessman or scion of a wealthy family. Yet as a line worker for the United Parcel Service (UPS), he has managed to run for office numerous times from local to statewide, in the process helping to make the Green Party of New York State the real left opposition here.…
From Richard Winger at Ballot Access News:
Evan Falchuk, founder of the United Independent Party, has this op-ed in the Springfield Republican daily newspaper. Falchuk mentions that most Massachusetts general elections for state legislature had only one person on the ballot, although, unfortunately, he doesn’t explain why.…
From Ballot Access News:
Virginia holds special elections to fill three legislative vacancies this month. Independent candidates are running in two of the three races.…
Reposted today at LP.org blog. Like LP.org, IPR has posted this before, but I’ll go ahead and post it again for 2015. See also: Milwaukee Libertarians issue New Year’s Resolutions for local government and DuPage Libertarians 2014 Year In Review
Harry Browne, the Libertarian Party’s presidential nominee in 1996 and 2000, was among the greatest salesmen for liberty who ever lived.…
Originally posted at http://libertarian-party.ru/news/itogi-2014. I did not find a translation, so I did one myself. My Russian is functional, but not perfect (we left when I was seven, in 1979), so any errors in translation are mine.…
From Ballot Access News:
Montgomery, Alabama Daily Newspaper Again Endorses Ballot Access Reform
The Montgomery Advertiser, the daily newspaper for Montgomery, Alabama, has this op-ed, asking the legislature to ease the ballot access laws for newly-qualifying parties and independent candidates.
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This has been prominently featured on the Justice Party website since August, but I am not finding a record of IPR having posted it before.
The Justice Party stands in solidarity with the people in Ferguson, Missouri who are protesting the killing of Michael Brown.…
On December 30, the Maryland Green Party submitted its petition to be restored as a political party in Maryland. Assuming the petition is valid, the party will be on the ballot in 2016 and 2018.…
The following comment from the January open thread is edited slightly and re-published here as its own article at paulie’s suggestion.
I was challenged about my frequent assertion that “strong third-party results always presage shifts in major-party policy” so I compiled the following list which I thought I’d share.…
