June 2, 2026
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Via LP.org:
Nicholas Sarwark, Chair of the Libertarian National Committee, released the following statement today:
American taxpayers get to take home just 54 cents on every dollar they earn, while federal, state and local governments take the other 46 cents.
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Juliana Musheyev at the Party for Socialism and Liberation’s Liberation News:
On January 20, 2017, hundreds of thousands of people gathered in cities all over the country to declare that they will not let the Trump administration get away with its attacks on working and oppressed people.…
Joseph Buchman is chairman of the Libertarian Party of Utah. Buchman has a Ph.D. in media from Indiana University and has spent his career teaching marketing, finance and communications and working with Ph.D.…
Roderick Long sought the chairmanship of the Libertarian Party of Alabama in 2009 and was the 3rd district rep on the executive committee. Charles Johnson, several of whose articles are linked in this one, ran as a Libertarian for the Alabama 79th State House Representative in 2002.…
Brief refresher, for which Wikipedia will do:
The Dallas Accord was an implicit agreement made at the 1974 Libertarian National Convention to compromise between the larger minarchist and smaller anarcho-capitalist factions by adopting a platform that explicitly did not say whether it was desirable for the state to exist.
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Here is a link to the Nick Troiano interview conducted on April 26 by radio host Michael Smerconish. Troiano is a spokesperson for The Centrist Project, which hopes to elect independent centrists to congress in 2018.…
Submitted by D. Frank Robinson to IPR for publication:
Does giving the state governments a monopoly of printing ballots violate the individual’s First Amendment right by abridging freedom of the press?…
According to LP News, LP state conventions are taking place this weekend in CA, MD, MN, and NY.
Liveblogging from any of these, after the fact reports, links to coverage elsewhere (including social media accounts), or links to videos or photos from any of these welcome in the comments.…
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