June 2, 2026
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From the Vermont Libertarian Party website:
The Vermont Libertarian Party opposes expanding background checks for gun sales in Vermont. Vermont firearm dealers currently conduct background checks on each person purchasing a firearm both in-store and at gun shows.…
From the Reform Party website:
The Reform Party of the United States of America is raising money to fund a new website and the Communications Committee.…
From DNAinfo Chicago:
Mayoral candidates vowed to get Chicago back on track during the Green Party’s mayoral forum at the Second Unitarian Church in Lakeview Saturday.…
From Mark Wachtler at the Illinois Herald:
Enough is enough – let Dock Walls participate in the televised Mayoral debates. It’s bad enough that independents in Chicago need 20,000 signatures to run for office while Democrats and Republicans only need 500.…
Keith English
On January 26, Democratic State Representative Keith English, who represents Missouri’s 68th district, said he is leaving the Democratic Party and becoming an independent.…
From newly-elected Reform Party Secretary Nicholas Hensley at the Reform Party website:
The Reform Party National Committee met on December 6th, 2014 to elect a Vice-Chair and Secretary for the Party.…
From the Libertarian Party website:
The Washington Times has an article in today’s paper that libertarians have good reason to be optimistic, and have made some history.…
From John Hays at The Militant, newspaper of the Socialist Workers Party:
“No one has to die in accidents like this,” Glova Scott, Socialist Workers Party candidate for City Council in Ward 4 here, told workers as she campaigned door to door and talked to transit workers at the Fort Totten Metro rail station Jan.…
From the Wisconsin Green Party website:
Enbridge Energy, the corporation responsible for the largest inland oil spill in American history (dumping an estimated 1 million gallons of tar sands sludge into the Kalamazoo River system), is attempting to expand its pipeline system in Wisconsin to carry more tar sands than the proposed Keystone XL pipeline.…