Former congressman Justin Amash (L-MI) is launching a new podcast in February, according to a series of teaser posts on his social media accounts.
First elected to Congress in 2010 as a Republican, Amash eventually became an independent in July of 2019 and ultimately joined the Libertarian Party in April 2020.… Read more ...
The Green Party is hosting a live webinar on Tuesday, January 25 at 9:00 pm Eastern to help recruit and inspire potential Green candidates for future elections.
A panel discussion will include three current Green officeholders who will talk about their campaigns and what they’re accomplishing as elected officials.
Set to appear as part of this event are city councilwoman Anna Trevorrow from Portland, ME, mayor Peter Schwartzman of Galesburg, IL, and Samantha Pree-Stinson, who was recently elected to the Board of Estimate and Taxation in Minneapolis.… Read more ...
McMULLIN BANKS BIG BUCKS: Evan McMullin’s independent campaign for U.S. Senate in Utah has banked over $1 million. The campaign claims this total is a first in the history of Utah, more than any Senate challenger in the state has ever raised in one quarter AND more than incumbent Mike Lee has raised in any previous quarter.… Read more ...
Political columnist and cartoonist Ted Rall, a voice of the left, took Democrats to task for their treatment of Green Party candidates in a new Wall Street Journal editorial.
Rall lays out the case that Democrats used lawsuits over minor technicalities to force Green Party nominee Howie Hawkins off the ballot in several states in 2020.… Read more ...
Our favorite Twitter mapmaker Nick (@Mill226) has been graciously allowing us to republish some of his maps here on IPR. If you find these kinds of visualizations interesting, you should definitely follow him on Twitter.
As a special commission for IPR, we’ve asked Nick to do a set of maps comparing the Green Party’s showings in presidential elections from 1996 to 2020.… Read more ...
Former 2020 presidential candidates Marianne Williamson and Andrew Yang sat down for an hourlong podcast to discuss their political futures.
During the conversation Yang repeatedly pitches his Forward Party, at several times floating the possibility of holding Forward Party presidential primaries in 2024 that shadow the major party nominating process. Both predict a dire situation for 2024, with inevitable political violence and a smoldering political civil war on the near-term horizon.… Read more ...
Whitney Bilyeu, chair of the Libertarian Party’s National Committee, issued the following statement which reiterates the LP’s long-held position that the Guantanamo Bay detention facility should be immediately closed:
… Read more ...Last month the Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing regarding the status of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, reviewing its nearly two decade history and the current plans for the site.
Maine state representative John Andrews has switched his registration back to Republican. The change happened at the end of 2021, as he feared that a legal battle might have kept the Libertarian Party off the ballot in Maine.
“I was a Republican before and many of my principles are aligned with them,” Andrews told the Bangor Daily News while explaining his party switch.… Read more ...
The Illinois Green Party has released a statement stressing that the party “wholeheartedly supports the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) in its struggle with the Chicago Public Schools over in-person learning and school safety.”
Chicago students recently returned to class following a CTU walkout that flared tensions between the labor union and the city’s Democratic mayor.… Read more ...
Third party and independent candidates have occasionally been featured on Saturday Night Live over the years, most notably during the 1992 and 1996 elections when Dana Carvey appeared numerous time as Ross Perot.
Just for fun, I’ve compiled a collection of some of the more notable sketches that I thought might be of interest to IPR readers.… Read more ...
FairVote President & CEO Rob Richie had a conversation with Andrew Yang, former Democratic presidential candidate and now a FairVote Action Board Member, to hear why he believes Ranked-Choice Voting is the best electoral reform for safeguarding our democracy right now.
Yang recently launched the Forward Party, a PAC which is intended to become a political party with an agenda that includes the promotion of structural reform of our electoral systems.… Read more ...