Since my last update a month ago, here’s what I know about what’s new with the the campaigns for the LP presidential nomination: Gary Johnson has now participated in one debate with other candidates seeking the Libertarian nomination, and has made plans to appear in others. Johnson has received the endorsement of several state and [...]

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“Big business and government have in fact formed an unholy alliance to destroy the competition — just like a criminal gang, or a mafia family. Their goal is to control a monopoly and force all of us to work for them, and buy from them.” – Wayne Root

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Minnesota Public Radio (excerpts): Minneapolis — Hundreds of people gathered in downtown Minneapolis Friday for the opening of the OccupyMN demonstration, patterned after weeks of protest in New York’s financial district. …. The protest featured an appearance by Independence Party and former Gov. Jesse Ventura, who spoke as people started to gather. He compared the [...]

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Paul Watson reports at infowars.com that Former Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura has sensationally called for Ron Paul to quit the Republican Party in order to form a Paul-Ventura libertarian ticket that can take on the establishment candidates in the race for the White House in 2012. “Ron Paul can win, all you’ve got to do [...]

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Michael Cavlan is running for U.S. Senate in the 2012 race, under the Minnesota Open Progressive banner. Cavlan’s opinion piece about the importance of third parties was recently published at a local media outlet.

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From an article on www.SHTFPlan.com: A great interview with Jessie Ventura covering a host of issues, namely corruption within the halls of government. The only way to do it is what I advocate for now. I don’t support the third party movement anymore. I support the abolishment of all these political parties. The world is [...]

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In a startling move to the political world, billionaire real estate mogul Donald Trump formally announced a run for President earlier today, submitting his paperwork to the Federal Election Commission to run in the Republican primary. Readers at IPR will note that Trump explored a run for President on the Reform Party line in 2000. [...]

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By Chuck Baldwin ChuckBaldwinLive.com To a packed out crowd of over 500 Montanans who had assembled in minus zero weather to hear me speak, I made the statement, “Not all Christians are our friends, and not all non-Christians are our enemies.” Indeed, being able to identify our friends is more than half the battle. When [...]

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UPI writes: Former Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura is suing the Transportation Security Administration for allegedly violating his privacy rights during an airport patdown.

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As the presidential race begins to take vague shape, the left searches for its new Ralph Nader.

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Emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com by Dennis Mikolay: THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE ABOUT THE NATURAL LAW PARTY APPEARED IN THE MONMOUTH UNIVERSITY “OUTLOOK” ON SEPTEMBER 29, 2010. ——————————————————————– WHEN POLITICS COMES NATURALLY By Dennis “DJ” Mikolay Whenever the public becomes discontent with government policy, the masses start to recognize the ineffectiveness of the two-party duopoly. Thus, the talk [...]

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Email from Jeff Vanke to contact.ipr.gmail.com: On today’s CNN.com, here, Jeff Vanke’s campaign and his balanced budget are featured in a story on independent candidates in 2010. – Jeff Vanke for Congress, Independent, 6th District of Virginia 1007 1st Street SW, Suite D, Roanoke, VA 24016 (540) 915-3786 www.JeffVanke.com Excerpt from that story: (L)et’s break [...]

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In a surprise move (even to the campaign), former Governor Jesse Ventura has endorsed Independence Party candidate Tom Horner for Governor of Minnesota. “I urge people — if they truly want change, it’s in their power — shock the world again. Vote Tom Horner in as governor,” the first and only IP governor said in an interview [...]

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Statistical guru Nate Silver weighs in on the brouhaha in the blogosphere since Thomas Friedman posted his op-ed on the idea of a third party candidacy in 2012 (for a second time). There have been 16 Presidential elections since World War II: in only one instance, 1992, was there a third-party candidate (H. Ross Perot) who [...]

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Can Tom Tancredo follow the example of Joe Lieberman’s 2006 campaign to victory?

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Via LRC blog Writes Glenn Jacobs: I received a solicitation for a donation to Joe Arpaio’s campaign today. The letter chronicled Arpaio’s battles with illegal immigrants, Mexican drug cartels, and “open-border” leftists. I find it alarming that a local politician is utilizing illegal immigration as a national fund-raising platform (especially a fascist thug like Arpaio). [...]

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Ballot Access News: On August 31, the MPR News-Humphrey Institute released a poll for the Minnesota gubernatorial race. It shows: Republican Tom Emmer 34%; Democratic-Farmer-Labor Mark Dayton 34%, Independence Party Tom Horner 13%, undecided or other 19%. See this story. Horner, the Independence Party nominee, is already higher in this poll than Jesse Ventura was [...]

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Emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com: On August 14th, 2010, delegates of the Reform Party of New Jersey gathered in Piscataway for the party’s first convention in over a decade. The Reform Party of the United States was America’s most successful third party during the 1990s. The populist appeal of candidates like H. Ross Perot, Jesse Ventura, and [...]

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All across the country, minor party and independent candidates are forced to fight an uphill battle to gain entry into forums and debates with their major party contenders.

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Last night former Independence Party Governor of Minnesota Jesse Ventura made an appearance on Bill Maher’s show Real Time, which airs on HBO.  They talked about many topics, including Ventura’s refusal to support the two party system, electing independents, and “alternative voting,” which is more commonly known as instant runoff voting or ranked choice voting [...]

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