September 9, 2026
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Andrew Yang with Larry Sharpe, photo by Joe Buchman
An article by Brittany Sheehan, published by Red State Media, titled “FreedomFest ’22: Andrew Yang Announces Forward Party and ‘Final 5’ Voting Reforms”, reports that, “As a former presidential and mayoral candidate who ran as Democrat before breaking up with the party, Yang’s inclusion as a speaker raised some eyebrows among attendees.…
Dan Lipinski, a former Democratic congressman from Illinois, is set to qualify for the ballot as an independent even though he has no plans of running. …
IPR reporters will be covering, in-person, presentations by current (and former) Libertarians, as well as other “third-party” speakers such as Andrew Yang of the Forward Party, at FreedomFest, in Las Vegas, Nevada, 13 to 16 July, 2022.…
NOT SO UNIVERSAL: Supporting direct cash payments for families and individuals is a founding principle of Minnesota’s newest political party. But Cory Hepola, the first Minnesota candidate endorsed by Andrew Yang’s Forward Party, has questioned the idea in the past and isn’t sold on implementing the policy on the state level.…
CUTLER FALLOUT: Eliot Cutler, a former two-time independent candidate for Maine governor, was arrested last month for possession of child pornography.
Numerous politicians have now publicly donated political contributions from Cutler to the Maine Coalition Against Sexual Assault.…
HEPOLA HITS THE TRAIL: Forward Party gubernatorial candidate Cory Hepola “revealed his three main campaign ‘pillars’ during a meeting of the Perham Noon Rotary on Thursday, March 24.”…
Former WCCO Radio host Cory Hepola is launching a run for governor of Minnesota with the Forward Party label. Minnesota’s Forward Party is the first state affiliate of Andrew Yang’s nascent effort to launch a national political party.…
Larry Sharpe is officially running for governor of New York again. Sharpe, who finished fourth in the 2018 race with 95,033 votes or 1.53%, will need to collect 45,000 valid signatures to secure a spot on the ballot in November.…
Former Democratic presidential and NYC mayoral candidate Andrew Yang, author of last year’s book Forward and founder of the new Forward Party (which is still at an embryonic stage), is getting into crypto.…
