June 26, 2026
Your Premier Source on Third Parties and Independent Candidates Since 2008
If that’s what you want, you are in sync with the group Democratize the Debates, another recently started FaceBook site. Their “Basic info” says:
Join this group if you want to see all ballot-qualified candidates included in the 2008 presidential debates.
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The Marxist-Leninist Workers World Party has announced its formal endorsement of Green Party presidential nominee Cynthia McKinney:
McKinney’s campaign is Black-led, anti-imperialist, working-class-centered and has a multinational radical base with the potential of unlimited growth.
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Last month, IPR reported that Bob Barr received a staggering 57.69% of Google News hits for all the “major” (defined very loosely) third-party and independent candidates.…
The Party for Socialism and Liberation has completed its petitiong in Iowa, collecting over 1,900 signatures in a state that requires 1,500. According to the latest release on the matter, petitioners recieved generally positive response during their drive:
Members of the Chicago branch of the PSL made weekend trips to Iowa City, Des Moines, Waterloo and Davenport to collect signatures.
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The Communist Party USA has published an editorial today outlining its perspective on this year’s presidential election. Much like 2004’s position paper (published in clarification of a forgery distributed by opponents of John Kerry), Eye on the Prize stresses removing the “ultra-right” from power, and lavishes praise on the nature of the Obama campaign if not its candidate:
Barack Obama is not a left candidate.
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In an article published earlier this month in Workers Vanguard, the newsletter of the International Communist League, a who’s who of the American Left is chastised for it’s role in the 2008 presidential campaign.…
The current issue of The Militant reports that “for the first time in more than 30 years, the Socialist Workers Party presidential ticket will appear on the ballot” in Delaware.…
Socialist Party USA presidential candidate Brian Moore will be debating “capitalist businessman” Rick Harper tonight on Millionaire Smackdown, a Web radio show.
The “capitalist” is billed as a man who “loves our system of government,” while Socialist Moore says “it’s unfair and too advantageous to the wealthy.”…
In 1912, the sitting president — William Howard Taft — finished third in both the popular- and electoral-vote tallies. A former president, Theodore Roosevelt, led an insurgent new third-party movement, the Progressive or “Bull Moose” Party, which elected numerous legislators across the nation and led T.R.…