June 8, 2026
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From Alaska Independence Party candidate for U.S. Senate, Bob Bird:
To the IPR Crew:
More on Palin and the Alaskan Independence Party.
Sarah indeed gave a brief DVD speech for the AIP faithful back in March, which I attended, along with conservative Republican Dave Cuddy, as we both were sending out feelers for a Senate run.…
In a telephone conversation, Boston Tea Party Presidential candidate Charles Jay told me that individual(s) associated with the Barr campaign and/or known Barr supporters are working to remove the Objectivist and Boston Tea parties from state ballots by challenging their electors.…
Minnesota’s Bemidji Pioneer reports on the Independence Party U.S. Senate primary in Minnesota, where seven candidates — Kurt Anderson, Dean Barkley, Bill Dahn, Darryl Stanton, Jack Uldrich, Doug Williams, and Stephen Williams — will face off on September 9.…
IPR has previously reported that Sarah Palin had been involved in various ways with the Alaska Libertarian Party from 2004-2006, culminating in an endorsement from that party for her 2006 gubanatorial campaign.…
The Oakland Tribune reports this morning that “lawyers for John McCain and the state and national Republican Party on Thursday asked a federal judge in San Francisco to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the candidate’s place on California’s Nov.…
The verdict is in: Alan Keyes will remain on the California ballot as the presidential candidate of the American Independent Party. A lawsuit brought forward by Jim King, Chairman of the AIP faction that met in Los Angeles last month to nominate Chuck Baldwin for President and maintain the state party’s affiliation with the Constitution Party, has been thrown on out on the grounds that Alan Keyes and his vice-presidential candidate Wiley Drake should have been parties to the lawsuit, since as candidates they were the ones bearing the burden of being removed from the ballot in court:
The Court recognizes that dismissal of the petition for nonjoinder will mean that Mr.
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Darryl W. Perry, write-in candidate in the Alabama Senate race, has announced some new endorsements. They are Angela Keaton, of AntiWar Radio and the LNC, and Douglass Gaking, president of the Boston Tea Party Indiana and host of IndyTruth Radio.…
In an interview with the Peoria Pundit, the national chairman of the Modern Whig Party explains what his party is and why it exists. Lebowitz explains that it is neither here nor there on the political spectrum, and it opens its arms to whomever would like to join.…
Legal NewsLine reports that the American Independent Party is seeking to have John McCain’s name removed from the presidential ballot in California, arguing “in court papers that federal law would bar the former Vietnam War POW from taking office were he to be elected in November because he was born in the Panama Canal Zone in 1936 while his father was stationed at Coco Solo Naval Air Station.…