John McAfee, a tech entrepreneur and former Libertarian Party presidential candidate who was found dead in a Spanish prison in 2021, has posthumously returned to public attention through a crypto-centered AI project bearing his likeness.…
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The Party for Socialism and Liberation’s 2024 presidential ticket of Claudia De la Cruz and Karina Garcia achieved notable results this year, becoming the highest-performing ticket in the party’s history and the strongest by any openly socialist candidate appearing on the ballot under a label identifying them as such since the 1936 election.…
Editorial note: The League of Independent Voters of Texas is a 501(c)(4) nonprofit that advocates for a independent voters in Texas. This article, posted by LIV and republished with its permission, explores the Independent Texans PAC (IT PAC), a grassroots group originating from Ross Perot’s Reform Party, and its impact on local politics and organizing in Bastrop, Texas.…
The first Black woman to be nominated as a Presidential candidate has died.
Charlene Mitchell, 92, died on December 14 in Manhattan. Mitchell was the 1968 Presidential candidate of the Communist Party, receiving just over 1,000 votes and finishing 11th among nominated candidates.…
Long-time Libertarian activist George Phillies has purchased Independent Political Report. The purchase includes the current web site, the URLs IndependentPoliticalReport.com, IPRnews.com, IPR.tv, and ThirdPartyWatch.com, two Twitter sites, and two FaceBook groups.…
IPR will be covering the politically relevant (broadly defined) sessions of the “Philosophy For Freedom And Flourishing” conference (TOS CON) to be held in Westminster, CO, 22 to 25 June, 2022.…
Declaring that “Roosevelts come and go, but Longs go on and up forever,” Gertrude Stein, the expatriate writer and poet living in Paris where she had befriended Pablo Picasso, Ezra Pound, Ernest Hemingway and other prominent figures in the arts and literary world, surprised the nation’s political pundits 87 years ago this week when she endorsed Louisiana’s Huey P.…
On this day 103 years ago, Benjamin Spock was born to a Dutch upper class family. Like his father (whom he was named after), he would pursue education at Yale, originally studying literature and history.…
On this day 112 Years ago, Leo Isacson was born to a Jewish family in the Manhattan area. After graduating from public schools, Isacson would pursue higher education: graduating from New York University in 1931 and New York University School of Law in 1933.…
Barry Commoner, a pioneer in the ecology movement and Citizens Party candidate for president, earned a spot on the Oregon ballot in 1980 with a speech before an enthusiastic crowd of 1,100 cheering supporters in Portland’s Memorial Coliseum.…
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.…