June 12, 2026
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The Rhode Island Civic Learning Coalition is currently accepting event proposals for Rhode Island Civic Learning Week 2024.
Rhode Island Civic Learning Week is series of events that will take place from March 11-15, 2024 and seeks to highlight the importance of civic education in sustaining and strengthening constitutional democracy in the United States.…
About a dozen citizens joined a recent a Zoom call to launch and organize a new political party in the state of Virginia.
After electing a Chair, Vice-Chair, and Executive Director, the party immediately took action to nominate a Presidential candidate, as well as two Congressional candidates – and set the goal of recruiting more.…
A Rhode Island Senate commission studying alternative voting methods and their potential benefits to the state has released its findings and recommendations.
The commission’s final report provides an extensive review of non-plurality and runoff voting methods, details their potential advantages and disadvantages to Rhode Island, outlines potential legal and logistical challenges to their adoption and presents methods of selecting winners in elections that commission members feel could be beneficial for Rhode Island.…
We find in the Wall Street Journal an extended article (paywalled) proposing that this year a third party may do better than in years past. The article covers as far back as the Wallace campaign a half-century ago.…
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I wish you well in your special convention today and remain grateful for your support during my term as your state chair which also saw three of my six campaigns for public office in Utah.
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We work vigorously to cover third parties other than the Libertarians. There is an obstacle. FEC filings reveal 2021-2022 spending by party national committees. We find
Libertarian $4,321,097.42
Green $387,983.11
Constitution $148,293.02
Alliance $18,073.34
Reform $13,738.39
In terms of fund raising, the Green Party is about a tenth the size of the Libertarian Party, and the Constitution Party is less than 4% of the size of the Libertarian Party. …
A commentary from Owner/Editor George Phillies:
As some of you have already noticed, we are operating two web sites, namely IndependentPoliticalReport.com and ThirdPartyWatch.com. The two sites have very different objectives and editorial styles.…
