June 30, 2022
Covering Third Parties and Independent Candidates Since 2008
A view of the convention floor on Thursday.
Presidential candidate Jim Burns greeting delegates as they wait to check in.
Anti-Fair Tax posters, clearly posted in protest of Gary Johnson’s tax position.
A sign for the campaign of Presidential candidate Lee Wrights.… Read more ...
Third parties were the first electoral parties to push a number of then-fringe issues into the mainstream over the years in the United States. From the abolition of slavery and universal suffrage to social security and prohibition, third parties have pioneered many issues that became law or nearly so.… Read more ...
Judge Jim Gray has officially announced his intention to seek the Vice Presidential nomination of the Libertarian Party at their national convention in Las Vegas, Nevada, this weekend. His statement follows in full:
Dear Convention Delegates:
In 2001 I first met Gary Johnson when he, as a sitting governor of the State of New Mexico, endorsed the original edition of my book, which is entitled “Why Our Drug Laws Have Failed and What We Can Do About It: A Judicial Indictment of the War on Drugs” (Temple University Press, 2d edition, 2012).