June 2, 2026
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Last week the Libertarian Party of Kentucky held part one of its five part presidential debate. Today it held part two.
Participants were 2012 vice presidential nominee Judge Jim Gray, Grady County (Georgia) NAACP president John Monds, 1996 vice presidential nominee Jo Jorgensen, performance artist Vermin Supreme, and FFF founder and president Jacob Hornberger.…
At its National Convention online today, the Constitution Party nominated former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship for President on the second ballot. William Mohr was nominated unanimously for vice president.…
As first reported at Ballot Access News, at the much publicized Zoom meeting today, the Libertarian National Committee (LNC) voted nine to seven to cancel the in-person National Convention scheduled for Austin later this month. …
For the third time, for the third different party, third party activist and blogger Tom Knapp is running for Vice President. In a statement on his Kn@ppster blog from Wednesday, Knapp wonders whether he has set a new Guinness World Record with the run. …
Yesterday, Socialist Party USA presidential nominee and leading candidate for the Green Party’s 2020 presidential nomination, Howie Hawkins, posted the following statement on his campaign website concerning the history of May Day:
May Day, or International Workers Day, is celebrated with marches and rallies every May 1 to lift up the working people and their demands for freedom, equality, and justice.…
Former Coast Guard Officer Ken Armstrong withdrew from the race for the Libertarian Party’s presidential nomination Wednesday with the emergence of Congressman Justin Amash as a contender. …
David Boaz of the Cato Institute wrote the following article celebrating the 90th birthday of 1980 Libertarian Party presidential nominee Ed Clark. Clark, an attorney who turns 90 on May 4, received 1.06 percent of the popular vote in 1980; the highest percentage for a Libertarian presidential nominee until Gary Johnson received 3.28 percent in 2016. …
Former Congressman Ron Paul was the 1988 presidential nominee of the Libertarian Party. His two runs for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008 and 2012 brought notice to the libertarian movement. …
Congressman Justin Amash, who just announced his decision to join the Libertarian Party and seek its 2020 presidential nomination, officially changed his partisan affiliation in the Congressional directory to “Libertarian.”…
