Members of the Pirate Party are looking to organize a new state affiliate in Arizona. Organizers launched a website that includes a party platform earlier this week.
In a post on Wednesday, the Pirate Party of the United States teased that “big things” would soon be happening in Arizona. The post was accompanied by an image of a logo for the new state affiliate. Around the same time, the Pirate Party’s official wiki was updated to reflect that members in Arizona are actively working to form a new chapter, and it now includes a website link for the group.
The Arizona Pirate Party’s website outlines the organization’s platform and provides links to several social media platforms used by the group. However, it does not currently identify which members are serving in initial leadership roles. The platform broadly aligns with that of the national organization, referencing civil liberties, privacy rights, government transparency, and digital freedom. It also addresses areas such as electoral reform, foreign policy, and bigotry, which it explicitly condemns as “irrational and repugnant.”
The Pirate Party of the United States currently lists five active affiliates on its website, including chapters in Massachusetts, Illinois, and California, where state parties recruit candidates for public office. Not all affiliates are organized with the goal of fielding candidates, and it is not yet clear what the Arizona chapter plans to do or whether it will file with the state. The party’s wiki also lists additional affiliates in areas such as Texas and Florida.
Actually they have seven active parties: California, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and Texas! Delaware, West Virginia and the DMV (DC, Maryland, Virginia) all have active parties but are not PNC members, and in addition to Arizona, even they haven’t announced it yet, Ohio should be coming up soon as well!
The Pirate Party could run candidates for partisan office with the greatest ease in 2026 if it runs them in the No Labels Party primary. They only need to file a declaration of write-in candidacy and then their candidate needs to get more write-in votes than anyone else. Even one write-in is good enough if no one else gets any votes.