Party for Socialism and Liberation: By: Eugene Puryear Lessons from the 1963 March on Washington and the movement we need today  In addition to civil rights, marchers in 1963 demanded jobs, quality education and housing. On Aug. 28, 1963, hundreds of thousands participated in the massive March on Washington, which many call the high point [...]

[Read more →]

Ballot Access News: On August 28, West Virginia held primary elections for the Democratic, Republican and Mountain Parties for U.S. Senate. Preliminary election returns are available on the Secretary of State’s web page here. So far, the Mountain Party has the best turnout. Only 13% of registered Democrats appear to have cast a vote in [...]

[Read more →]

By George Phillies We’re the Libertarian Party. We’re for liberty. We’re against people who believe that the state should be omnipotent, knowing no limits to its powers or deeds. Once again, Mr. Root has missed the boat on positions that a libertarian should take. And when you are on our National Committee, you have a [...]

[Read more →]

It’s been quite a while since we’ve done an episode of IPR Blog Talk Radio. I’m interested in giving it another go. If you are an independent or alt party candidate, alternative party spokesperson, or author covering our subject matter, and would like to set up a time to talk on our internet radio show, [...]

[Read more →]

From the Philadelphia Bulletin: When threatened with a legal challenge to the signatures on the nominating petitions, third party candidates do not have the necessary funds to fight back, said Bonita Hoke, executive director of the non-partisan League of Women Voters of Pennsylvania. “It is all too easy for major party candidates, with access to [...]

[Read more →]

Think Progress: In a stunning upset, Tea Party activist and Sarah Palin-endorsee Joe Miller appears to have upset incumbent Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) in Tuesday’s Republican primary election. Though there are still around ten thousand absentee ballots yet to be counted, analysts agree it is unlikely Murkowski will be able to close her 1,668 vote [...]

[Read more →]

Posted by Thomas Sipos at Libertarian Peacenik: Wayne Allyn Root, John Hospers: The LP’s Anti-Libertarian Faces Massachusetts Libertarian Party Chair George Phillies reports on Independent Political Report (comment 148): “I am amused to report that the LNC was contacted by a reporter who wanted to do a story on possible interactions between the Libertarian Party [...]

[Read more →]

By Darryl W. Perry Chair, Boston Tea Party National Committee In July I wrote, “As long as a government is able to “get away” with “minor” intrusions such as traffic cameras and airport body scanners; they will try to get away with greater intrusions of privacy and greater violations of our guaranteed protection from “unreasonable [...]

[Read more →]

Ballot Access News: The Socialist Party has petitioned onto the Vermont ballot this year. It is the first time since 1952 that the Socialist Party has appeared on the Vermont ballot. The seven statewide nominees each needed 500 signatures, and they gathered them successfully. This year’s Socialist Party nominees in Vermont are also the nominees [...]

[Read more →]

Ballot Access News: In November 2010, voters of six states will find Working Families Party nominees on the ballot, the highest number of states so far for that party. In Delaware, the Working Families Party is cross-endorsing four Democrats and two Republicans, all of them legislative candidates. In South Carolina, the party has its own [...]

[Read more →]

d. eris at TPID: Background: J. Christian Adams writes at Pajamas Media: the Pentagon announced that it had granted the waiver requests of five states seeking to escape requirements to protect military voters. I have written previously here at PJM that all waiver requests should be denied. Unfortunately, if you are an overseas servicemember from [...]

[Read more →]

On The Wilder Side: John Anthony La Pietra Offers Ideas on Protecting Election Rights, Withdrawing Petition Signatures, and How to Make Elections Fairer and Better for Voters John Anthony La Pietra, nominated by the Green Party of Michigan (GPMI) as the party’s 2010 candidate for Secretary of State, has posted the first three “position discussion [...]

[Read more →]