Do you have some news concerning third-party or independent politics you’d like to share?  Is there a website, or an event IPR readers should know about?  Well, here’s the place for you.  This open thread is for a topic that might not relate to anything we’re talking about elsewhere.  It is for YOU.  And we need you!

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We’ve had enough of your people’s stupid opinions, so instead of an open thread, this month we are doing a closed thread. Yeah, that’s right, how do you like them apples? NO comments allowed. Go ahead and try. See the comment box? No? Well, get used to it, because the more stupid, inane, and downright [...]

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By now, if you’ve been around here awhile, y’all should know what to do. If you haven’t, and if “open thread” is not self-explanatory to you, see explanations in the body of our past open threads, and the open threads themselves for examples of what we talk about. And now, as I often do with [...]

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This thread is for anything our readers would like to share, assuming it has to to do with independents or third parties. For examples of what you can post, please have a look at any of the prior months’ open threads. This thread is for YOU.

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Since contact.ipr email no longer works for sending us news tips, I’m going to try a new experiment this month. We usually do an open thread every month with comments that can include news tips and pretty much anything else. This month, I want to separate that out and put up two different threads. In [...]

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Please post news tips in the comments on the other thread here, and see comments on past open threads – all the kinds of stuff in those comment sections which is not news tips should go in the comments here.

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Here’s our Open Thread for December. This is for anyone who has something to say about third parties and/or independents. For an idea of how it works, check out November Open Thread or October Open Thread . We know many of you have information or ideas you’d like to share. Here is also a good [...]

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For those of you who have been around, as well as anyone new here, we do this every month. Check out past months’ descriptions and comments if you have any questions about what sorts of things usually get discussed in the open threads here. You may also post news tips here; we’ll do our best [...]

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For those of you who have been around, as well as anyone new here, we do this every month. Check out past months’ descriptions and comments if you have any questions about what sorts of things usually get discussed in the open threads here. You may also post news tips here; we’ll do our best [...]

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Here we are at the beginning of another month. We start a new thread for any news or opinions of third parties or independents that someone would like to share that might not fit elsewhere. Please look at the some of the other months’ open threads if you’d like to see how it works. This [...]

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Every month we set a thread up for anything related to third parties and independents that anyone would like to post. Do you have some news to pass along, that isn’t related to one of our articles? Here’s the place to do it. Do you want to ask a question of the readers and writers [...]

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This is IPR post #10,000. Thanks to IPR writers for putting up an average of almost 200 posts per month in the 51 months (as of tomorrow) that IPR has been up, and to our readers for leaving over 171,000 comments on those posts.

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