Though it is focused on the 2012 presidential election, the top post on the PPP blog at the present moment is entitled: “A Third Party?” Tom Jensen writes:
Sifting through our last national poll really makes me think the time is ripe for a third party to have some success. [...]

A Green Party activist sounds off about Kucinich’s statements that he will support the Democrats’ newest version of the health care bill (which does not include the single-payer option.)

Tom Cleland is an activist from Minnesota who left the Green Party for the Democrats. Cleland wrote a blog post explaining in detail the background, and then the voting, at a March 14, 2010 Democratic Party convention in Minnesota. His frustration with various candidates and their issues, and with the outcome of the voting, has motivated him to announce a return to the Green Party.

Independent Eliot Cutler recently sat down with some of his Democratic and Republican opponents (there are also many other independents running) at a forum on natural resources in Maine, sponsored by businesses in that area.  DownEast.com reported the following on his responses:
Cutler sees natural gas as an important ingredient in lowering costs and supports an [...]

Ballot Access News
The American Independent Party will have primary contests on June 8, 2010, between candidates who do not want the AIP to be allied with the national Constitution Party, and candidates who are loyal to the national Constitution Party.
The statewide candidates for the anti-Constitution Party group are: Ed Noonan, U.S. Senator; Markham Robinson, Governor; [...]

Sal Peralta, the Secretary of the Independent Party of Oregon, writes in to the Massachusetts Patriot Ledger to take issue with an editorial from earlier in the month, in which the paper mocked the very idea of an “independent” political party. “Where’s the independence in an independents party?” they asked:
it’s a mystery why Marshfield businessman [...]

Reposted from Ballot Access News:
On March 15, Lynne Williams announced that her petition drive to get on the Green Party’s primary ballot for Governor will not succeed. See this story. Although the Green Party is ballot-qualified in Maine, it still has ballot access problems. That is because Maine is one of three states that makes [...]

Ballot Access News
On March 15, the 5th circuit refused to rehear Libertarian Party v Dardenne, 09-30307. Earlier the 5th circuit had ruled that the dispute is moot. Oddly, though, another panel of the 5th circuit had ruled a few weeks earlier that a similar lawsuit from Mississippi is not moot. The Mississippi case involved Brian [...]

Ballot Access News
Montana has four ballot-qualified parties: Constitution, Democratic, Libertarian, and Republican. All four nominate by primary. Filing for the June 2010 primaries closed on March 15.
The Libertarian Party has a candidate for the only statewide office on the ballot, U.S. House. The Libertarians also have one candidate for State Senate, five for State House, [...]

Posted at Poli-Tea:
In the corporate media and mainstream political press, advocates of third party and independent politics are like Schroedinger’s cat: they exist and they do not exist at the very same time. At Green Party Watch, Dave Schwab invites readers to join an ongoing discussion of third party media strategy:
Recent stories about media [...]

Ballot Access News:
The Philadelphia Inquirer of March 11 has this editorial, focusing attention on the fact that the challenge to Ralph Nader’s 2004 Pennsylvania petition was illegally carried out with state resources and state employees. Petition challenges in Pennsylvania are brought by private individuals, yet the people who challenged Nader’s petition used government assets. Nader [...]

Via email and LP blog:
Dear Friend of Liberty,
I gave a speech to the Libertarian Party of Maryland state convention on
Saturday about how “Libertarians Candidates Make a Difference.” Maryland
has a nice slate of Libertarian candidates for the 2010 elections.
See our entire list of candidates sorted by state.
Please note that in some cases, state parties choose to [...]

Video posted front and center at peaceandfreedom.org:

Jake Towne’s independent libertarian campaign for congress in Pennsylvania’s 15th congressional district first caught my attention last August, when he unveiled his concept of the “open office“. Since then, Towne has maintained a fairly aggressive campaign and has begun to break through the mainstream media’s duopolist filter. The Morning Call, a local paper, [...]

Ballot Access News
Rand Paul, son of Congressman Ron Paul, is leading in polls for the Kentucky Republican Senate nomination, according to this story. Rand Paul, like his father, is a friend of the ballot access reform movement. He was active in 1988 when his father was the Libertarian Party nominee, and he is well-informed about [...]