September 24, 2026
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While the official FreedomFest Agenda is not scheduled to be published in full until June, organizers are promoting Justin Amash, Spike Cohen, Angela McArdle, Larry Sharpe and others as among their featured speakers for what is described as:
The ultimate summit for liberty .
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Wednesday evening, Libertarian hopefuls met remotely for the year’s second public Libertarian presidential primary debate. Like the first debate held in February, New York Libertarian activist Larry Sharpe served as co-moderator and hosted it on his official YouTube show, The Sharpe Way.…
New York voters may see only two candidates for governor on their election ballot for the first time in nearly 75 years. Still, the excluded Green and Libertarian Party candidates are pushing to have their voices heard.…
Nina Pineda of WABC’s 7 On Your Side recently writes that Larry Sharpe is under scrutiny for failing to pay tens of thousands owed to petitioners.…
IPR reporters will be covering, in-person, presentations by current (and former) Libertarians, as well as other “third-party” speakers such as Andrew Yang of the Forward Party, at FreedomFest, in Las Vegas, Nevada, 13 to 16 July, 2022.…
UNITED UTAH BACKS MCMULLIN: Party members voted 46-3 in favor of endorsing McMullin, making this the first time the party, which was established in 2017, has endorsed a candidate who is not one of its members.…
WYOMING WEED: A new multi-partisan bill in the Wyoming state house would “remove criminal penalties for possessing small amounts of cannabis, replacing the state’s current misdemeanor charge with a $100 fine.”…
Larry Sharpe is officially running for governor of New York again. Sharpe, who finished fourth in the 2018 race with 95,033 votes or 1.53%, will need to collect 45,000 valid signatures to secure a spot on the ballot in November.…
New York governor Kathy Hochul is popular with likely voters, her job approval stands at 55% approve/33% disapprove according to a new Zogby Analytics poll.…
