From a media release sent to IPR by the Roger Gary campaign: Roger Gary’s statement on the entry of Gov. Gary Johnson into the race for the Libertarian Party presidential nomination “While most Libertarians, including myself, would disagree with Gov. Johnson on some of the issues, he, like Representative Ron Paul, has distinguished himself from [...]

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Darcy Richardson is the author of a series of books about Third Parties called The Others. He is the third party movement’s pre-eminent historian. However, he is also running in the Democratic primaries against incumbent President Barack Obama. Richard Winger reports that Darcy Richardson has made the ballot in Texas too. Three candidates have paid [...]

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Former Sheriff Richard Mack has announced that he will run for Congress as a Republican candidate in Texas’ 21st Congressional District. Mack is perhaps best known as a gun rights activist and as a speaker on the role of law enforcement in America. Mack was the Libertarian candidate for U.S. Senate in Arizona in 2006. [...]

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Written by Alan Pyeatt for ”Independent Political Report” for publication on this special day.               On June 1, 1954, Congress passed a law which officially changed the annual November 11 holiday from Armistice Day to Veterans Day.  The Korean War had ended less than a year earlier, and according to President Eisenhower’s Proclamation 3071, Congress [...]

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Anna Tinsley in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram points out that Libertarians Lee Wrights and Roger Gary, Independents Jeffrey “Jeff” Barea, Michael David Elder, John Hoelzel Jr. and Scott Andrew Cain, Eco-Green John “Green” Ferguson and Madisonian Federalist Thaddaus Hill are among 17 candidates from Texas to file with the FEC for President. The Texans running [...]

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News With Views August 11, 2011 Last Saturday, Texas Governor Rick Perry unofficially launched his 2012 Presidential candidacy in Houston (in my opinion). Speculation is he will officially announce his intentions this weekend in South Carolina. If he does declare his candidacy, many election-watchers say Perry will become the GOP frontrunner, due to an extremely [...]

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July 13, 2011 Sent to IPR by Ryan Brennan, editor & webmaster of www.ThirdPartyPolitics.us AUSTIN, TEXAS – Within hours of Rep. Ron Paul’s announcement that he will not seek re-election to Congress to focus on his bid for the Republican nomination for President, three Libertarians announced their intent to seek the Libertarian Party of Texas [...]

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From a media release sent to IPR by Libertarian activist John Jay Myers: Dallas Texas, for immediate release: Something must be up in Deep Ellum because just as Drowning Pool bassist Steve Benton leases the Boiler Room location, former Deep Ellum musician John Jay Myers will be reopening Sol’s Taco Lounge as “The Free Man”. [...]

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“…revenues are down dramatically. Coincidence?

Everything happening today under Obama resembles the storyline of Ayn Rand’s famous book, Atlas Shrugged…”

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Submitted to IPR by Libertarian Party of Tom Green County vice chairman Ken Barton: The Judicial power of the United States shall not be construed to extend to any suit in law or equity, commenced or prosecuted against one of the United States by citizens of another state, or by citizens or subjects of any [...]

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SAN ANGELO, Texas — “They would suffer irreparable harm.” That is what federal Judge Fred Biery said would happen to members of the Schultz family if they attended their son’s graduation ceremony at Medina Valley ISD. What was going to happen that would cause this harm? Were they threatened with violence? Were they going to [...]

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From an email sent to IPR by Darryl Perry, chair of the Boston Tea Party: Texas could become the first State to pass a bill criminalizing invasive pat-downs by agents of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). Near the end of the regular session HB 1937 passed the State House unanimously yet stalled in the State [...]

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Posted in the Dallas Monthly News, June 2011 John Jay Myers, the Membership Director of the Libertarian Party talks about the Republican, Democratic and Libertarian Parties By Betsy Turner & Job Eliazer john myersQ: What is the Libertarian Party? A: The Libertarian Party is the 3rd largest political party in the United States. One of [...]

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Phil Moffett and John T. Kemper III, Republican candidates for Governor and Auditor, respectively, had signed a petition which would allow Libertarian Party candidate for State Treasurer Ken Moellman a place on the ballot

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From the Libertarian Party of Texas on April 10: Fellow North Texas Libertarians, yesterday the TXSLEC voted to bring me on board as the new Membership Director for the State of Texas! http://lptexas.org/content/join-or-donate My wife and our production manager will continue to run ClearSky24.com (my business) while I try to greatly increase the membership and [...]

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Written by John Jay Myers           So, here we go again. Another president is starting another war in another country that is no threat to us. And our mission will be limited because our goal is not to kill Gadhafi, only to stop him from killing the people who are trying to kill him. Oh [...]

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The great thing about the web is you get a lot of articles written by people who normally are not associated with a news source, and you learn things you didn’t know. The bad thing about the web is you get a lot of articles written by people who normally are not associated with a [...]

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from the Texas LP via LP.org blog and IPR email: HB 418 withdrawn by bill author Berman AUSTIN- In a victory for The Libertarian Party of Texas, State Representative Leo Berman (R -District 6) withdrew HB 418 on Monday. The bill would have imposed filing fees on third-party and independent candidates, resulting in an intimidating [...]

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Photos from St. Patrick’s Day Parade from John Jay Myers and the Dallas Libertarian Party: For more about the parade, see Dallas Libertarians participate in parade with 100,000 attendees, offer customizable video to other local LPs

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