The LNC will have an emergency electronic meeting at 8:30 PM Eastern time on Thursday, September 1, 2022. IndependentPoliticalReport plans to liveblog the open parts of the meeting via addenda to our meeting post on 9/1/2022.…
Posts published in August 2022
Over half a million Pennsylvania voters will see a member of the Socialist Workers Party on the general election ballot this November. Three members of the Socialist Workers Party are contesting office this year, with one candidate now successfully achieving ballot access.…
Each year, candidates for public office in New Hampshire have to go to the Secretary of State or their local town clerk’s office to formalize their candidacy.…
The Alabama chapter of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations recently endorsed 26 Libertarians for office across the state.
The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, more commonly referred to as the AFL-CIO, is the largest federation of labor unions in the United States.…
Independent Political Report has learned that a new national Libertarian group, the
Association of Libertarian State Parties
is in the process of being formed. It is our understanding that this group:
- will have as members only state parties, not individual people;
- will be FEC-filing;
- will have a minimum of central organization, but has already raised as commitments large sums of money;
- has enough Federal candidates on the ballot to satisfy FEC regulations for being recognized as a political party;
- will have membership joining and expulsion by majority vote of the other members;
- will allow a state party to belong also to the LNC-associated group;
- will very certainly not by using Roberts as its parliamentary rules of order;
- will have a quadrennial meeting in which member state chairs will decide who they will put on the ballot as their Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates.
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The Libertarian Party of New Mexico has ended its association with the Libertarian National Committee, asserting its identity as an independent organization in a letter sent to National Committee members this week.…
In Europe, it is not uncommon for there to be political parties in neighboring countries that in some sense are the same, and that, e.g., form blocs in the European Parliament. …
We report in the comments on what the Libertarian National Committee Executive Committee is doing tonight.…
Rhode Island voters will officially have the opportunity to vote for a Libertarian candidate this November.
A press release shared to the Libertarian National Committee’s internal list by Pat Ford states that members of the Rhode Island Libertarian Party were successful in putting a Libertarian on the ballot.…