July 16, 2026
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Update: Stephen Gordon disputes some of the assertions made in this article. Please see his comment here.
Stephen Gordon, the one-time owner of Third Party Watch and prominent Barr backer while working as the LP’s political director (in dispute), has banned George Phillies from the Libertarian State Leadership Alliance mailing list for promoting his presidential campaign.…
Reposted upon request and with permission of Mr. Seth Cohn:
This is written for those with little or no background in this issue, which includes many LNCers, and perhaps some of the current LPNH Exec Comm.…
Anonymous sources from inside the Baldwin campaign say that the famed “Ron Paul billionaire” — whose existence was confirmed by Stephen Gordon Ron Paul’s spokesman and grandson-in-law, Jesse Benton (correction) — is in negotiations to get behind Constitution Party candidate Chuck Baldwin.…
Ron Paul’s libertarian presidential run within the GOP was plagued by “white nationalist” supporters. Paul refused to return a donation from Stormfront webmaster Don Black, and a county coordinator of his Michigan campaign was later discovered to be a KKK and Christian Identity member.…
Stephen Gordon, a member of the Barr campaign and editor for Third Party Watch, has posted a hypothetical electoral map in which the LP ticket wins 18 states.…
I just heard an interesting rumor from a friend who is attending the LP convention in Denver. Apparently he reports that there is talk of the LP rehiring Shane Cory.…
Third Party Watch founder Austin Cassidy has agreed to join Independent Political Report as Publisher and Managing Partner. Says Mr. Cassidy:
I started Third Party Watch because I thought there was a need for a largely objective news source that covered the so called “periphery” of American politics.
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The Barr campaign is offering to bus people into Denver for the presidential vote. The chartered bus full of Barr backers will then immediately turn around and leave — “[n]o hotel fees or convention ‘extras’ needed!”…
Austin Cassidy was an unlikely father of the greatest minor-party news site in the history of the Internet. After all, he was and is a Republican, and a thoroughly moderate one at that.…