Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont is urging Congress to block any expansion of presidential war-making powers, warning that unilateral military action by the executive branch threatens democratic institutions and risks pulling the country into conflicts without appropriate public consent.…
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Independent Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont is encouraging progressives to consider running as independents rather than as Democrats. In a recent interview, he criticized the party’s failure to address economic issues, warning that more candidates could run outside the party unless it changes course.…
Benjamin Spock, the nation’s most famous pediatrician and the People’s Party candidate for president, carried his antiwar message to students at Vermont’s Bennington College in September of 1972.…
Evan McMullin, a former CIA officer who received 21.5 percent of the vote in Utah as an Independent candidate in the 2016 presidential election (0.53 percent nationwide), plans to announce an Independent challenge to incumbent Republican Mike Lee of Utah for his US Senate seat in 2022, reports The Salt Lake Tribune.…
Former Senator Mike Gravel of Alaska, a 2008 candidate for the Libertarian Party’s presidential nomination, has died at the age of 91, his namesake Gravel Institute reports:
https://twitter.com/GravelInstitute/status/1409141062799708163?s=19…
Movement For A People’s Party, a group founded with the intention of translating the Bernie Sanders movement into an Independent Political Party in the vein of the People’s Party of William Jennings Bryan, will hold a convention on August 30th from 4-6 pm Eastern Time to discuss strategy for the 2022 and 2024 Elections.…
As Ballot Access News reports, the newly- christened presidential nominee of the socialist Peace and Freedom Party and presidential nominee of the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL), Gloria La Riva, received the presidential nomination of Vermont’s ballot qualified Liberty Union Party.…
Former two term Senator Mike Gravel of Alaska turned 90 years old today. Gravel unsuccessfully sought the Libertarian Party’s 2008 presidential nomination, losing to former Congressman Bob Barr at the National Convention. …
Patrick J. Buchanan was the Reform Party’s 2000 presidential nominee. He published the following editorial today on his official website Buchanan.org:
Where Barack Obama achieved notoriety for “leading from behind,” Joe Biden, these last two months, has been leading from the basement.…