12 years ago today, the Independent Political Report first went online to fill in the void that the demise of Third Party Watch brought. In its dozen year existence it has served as a hub for Third Party Politicians and activists across the political spectrum to combat the Two Party Duopoly of the United States in it’s own unique way.
In an election year where citizens are again faced with candidates that are two sides of the same coin, IPR is needed to bring to attention the other names on the ballot.
Here’s to the next dozen years…
IPR has now completed its first Chinese Zodiac cycle just as I have completed my 4th.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_zodiac
Happy birthday to IPR!
Would love to see some of our previous commenters come back.
Much more motivating to spend hours a day chasing down information and compiling it like I used to if I know there are people reading and appreciating it. Nowadays I don’t get that feeling as often.
As someone who rarely comments, and still follows the site daily, congratulations on 12 years! I was more active in the early years of the site, but much, much less so now. Anyway, I’m glad to have a source to get information on a topic very few of us are passionate about. Here’s to 12 more years and beyond!
Thank you
Happy Birthday, Paulie. And happy birthday to IPR. Sto lat! (100 years!)
They are for delegates of a given state. If you are a delegate check with your state.
Can any of us get on any of those chats?
They Should be fun, Especially on the discussion of the Agenda Change Motion that you KNOW has to be coming…
Or if there is a BIG PUSH for NOTA… That would be… Interesting too…
Yes, it will be on the LPTV youtube. I’ll put up a discussion thread. But despite what should be a limited agenda I am expecting tons of parliamentary fuckery in the main meeting. Also, there will be ongoing vote lobbying, procedural vote tallying and unrelated conversations in the Alabama delegate messenger chat. So that will be my main focus, assuming no technical problems precluding my participation. I’m just letting everyone know not to rely on me to do a whole lot of liveblogging. I will do what I can and hopefully other people will do more.
Presumably it will be live-streamed on YouTube, and unless there’s a delegate-driven change it will be a very limited agenda, so it seems to me that an open thread with comments is more useful than someone trying to chronologically “cover developments.”
California will have a chat going on, also, and I’m not sure I can multi-task that many things at one time.
I’ll definitely check in throughout the days and post anything important that happens.
Thank you. Luckily William, Fernando and others are taking up my slack now.
My state chat is probably too busy for that. Hopefully we can recruit a non-delegate or several to help. I’ll provide updates as time allows.
“Will anyone be live-blogging the Libertarian on-line convention this weekend?”
I suggest an “open thread” approach for whoever’s paying attention.
Since I’m an alternate and incredibly unlikely to be seated — at least unless the delegates decide to do everything online and the thing drags out for weeks — I may not be around to watch in real time. I’ve got a friend who needs help moving house.
Happy birthday, Paulie, and congratulations to all of you who have kept the site going!
Will anyone be live-blogging the Libertarian on-line convention this weekend?
I miss him too. He definitely could be that way at times. But it was small potatoes compared to what I saw, and did, when I was with the Democrats.
You, me, Jason, and maybe Michelle.
Fuckin’ Gordon. I miss him, but when he decided to be a snake, he got waaaaaaay down in the grass.
Blast from the past! I think that was you, me and…Michelle Shinghal?
Huzzah!
I remember that last minute “please change my press credentials — Third Party Watch is dead, long live Independent Political Report” moment.
Thank you
Happy Birthday Paulie!
Fixed.
Last year’s article https://independentpoliticalreport.com/2019/05/independent-political-report-turns-11-today-and-paulie-turns-47/
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Congrats to IPR on 12 years. IPR has been around almost my entire adult life. I remember first discovering TPW my first year of college then a couple of months later this site launched. Although I am way less political than I was before, I still come here occasionally to check out what’s going on. Especially on even years (midterm and presidential elections).
Thanks for posting, Fernando. For those who would like to know more you can find more detailed articles on May 20 of most years:
https://independentpoliticalreport.com/20xx/05/20
With xx being whatever year you put in. We did miss a year or two more recently.