June 12, 2026
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puck.news/no-labels-leaks-manchin-24-dreams/
Independent presidential candidate Joe Manchin?
(Tara Palmeri has a rough transcript of a No Labels strategy call with more than 200 people across the country. They say the whole shebang including costs to gain ballot access will be $70 million. On the call and speaking was Joe Manchin.)
Charles Gasparino, financial news reporter for Fox Business, Twitter on May 3rd
“SCOOP: People inside @NoLabelsOrg tell me the organization will attempt to run a 3rd party candidate ONLY IF @JoeBiden and @realDonaldTrump are the respective nominees of the Dem and GOP. Its polling shows that’s the likely outcome. Outreach to donors shows an appetite by big Dem and Republican donors for an independent if it’s a Biden-Trump race. Names being thrown around are @GovLarryHogan, @Sen_JoeManchin.
In a followup response to a comment this was a leak to a conservative outlet: “Sorry not a leak; my source is a possible NoLabels delegate who works on Wall Street and is politically unaligned.”
There is an article (editorial?) in the Wall Street Journal 29, April issue about the No-Labels
party.
I am pleased to report that the LNC, having recently appropriated $12,000 for Michigan Trademark legal action, has made a further step.
It appropriated $1500 for Arkansas ballot access.
In other good news, the Montana law to impose Top-Two for one election to one office is apparently going down in flames, as there was a negative committee vote, 1-17. The committeepeople had heard from their constituents.
It seems that there is now an Independent Party. Their web site is http://www.theuniversalfoundation.com/tipusa.html
A more detailed article may well follow, sooner or later.
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First debate for the candidates running for the American Solidarity presidential nomination, which will be decided this summer.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uOd4BgKJfxc&feature=youtu.be
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/03/30/arizona-democrats-sue-no-labels-block-third-party-challenge/
Behind a Pay wall. Saw the link on line.
For more information https://electionlawblog.org/?p=135316
Another petitioner arrested in Arkansas.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUesV_W2CkQ
From RRHElections (original article NY Post):
https://nypost.com/2023/03/12/new-moderate-party-line-in-the-works-in-scheme-to-aid-ny-democrats/?force_isolation=true
“Dan Cantor, who was a founder and former director of the far left Working Families Party, is one of the people behind the effort to get the “Moderate Party” on the ballot in New York state and other states in a scheme to aid Democrats by splitting the center right vote. The party is currently working to gain ballot access in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.”
Considering how New York State Democrats killed 3rd-party ballot access in an attempt to kill the Working Families Party that did not succeed, not sure how well this is going to work.
Generic words cannot be trademarked without something to make them distinctive. The word “libertarian” is only claimed as a trademark by the party when used as a logo with a very specific description: The color(s) black, gold and white is/are claimed as a feature of the mark. The mark consists of the word “LIBERTARIAN” in black with a depiction of a black torch with the head and wing of an eagle as the flame with the wing and outline of the head in gold and the remainder of the head in white.
The Libertarian Party has also trademarked the term “Libertarian Party” and “the party of principle”.
Simply using the words “Libertarian Party” is not a trademark violation. It is a trademark violation when it is used by an entity in a way that represents itself as if it were the Libertarian Party.
“On March 2 the Libertarian National Committee filed a federal trademark lawsuit against a Virginia resident who has been holding himself out as a leader of the “Tidewater Libertarian Party.”
So I don’t know all the details but Carroll Shelby when he tried to apply trademark infringement to a company manufacturing the Cobra was told that since he did not seek to enforce the trademark against multiple companies that had manufactured cars named Cobras before, he could not pick and choose to suddenly apply the trademark here.
If you take the position that the term “Libertarian” is a trademark, this trademark has been infringed for decades. I could google search “libertarian podcasts” for example and get thousands of hits, all of which save some state and county org-originated podcasts would be infringing.
Per Richard, I emailed NM’s Secretary of State about a new third-party bill advancing in the Lege there. You can hit his site for more.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.vaed.535136/gov.uscourts.vaed.535136.1.0.pdf
Is there yet a publicly accessible set of filings?
On March 2 the Libertarian National Committee filed a federal trademark lawsuit against a Virginia resident who has been holding himself out as a leader of the “Tidewater Libertarian Party.”
Here’s one for you that I had no idea was a thing. Executive agencies have their own courts, with judges appointed solely by the executive branch (no senate confirmation).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Administrative_law_judge
The executive branch literally acts as rule maker, police officer, and judge/executioner without any congressional oversight.
On February 28, the Minnesota LP did a magnificent job of organizing a press conference (with a good attendance of reporters) in opposition to a bad bill making the definition of a “political party” twice as bad as it already is. The sponsor cancelled the hearing and perhaps the bill is dead.