June 8, 2026
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Chelene Nightingale is the director of Save Our State, an anti-illegal immigration group in California. Gary Odom, National Political Director of the Constitution Party, had this to say about her:
“As director Chelene has organized several marches in the Los Angeles area including the “Free the Texas Three” march in Hollywood featured on “America’s Most Wanted” and the Stop the North American Union march to the Federal Building in Westwood.
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Ballot Access Newsreports
Here is the decision of the California Superior Court in King v Bowen, handed down tentatively on December 19. The case concerns the identity of the true officers of the American Independent Party of California.
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Ballot Access News reports
On December 19, a Superior Court in Sacramento, California, held oral arguments in King v Bowen, the lawsuit over the identity of the state officers of the American Independent Party.
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In an email sent to its membership, the Libertarian Party is promoting free registration to the Conservative Leadership Conference to be held September 18-21 in Las Vegas.…
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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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.…
According to its website, America’s Independent Party, formed by Alan Keyes following his Constitution Party convention loss to Chuck Baldwin, has held its national convention and nominated Alan Keyes for President.…
Many have accused Chuck Baldwin of being a theocrat. Ed Noonan, the former chair of the American Independent Party in California, has even accused him of being anti-mormon.…