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2018 Libertarian Party victories and 2019 goals

Dear Libertarian, Thanks to the efforts of committed Libertarian Party members like you, 2018 was a landmark year in many ways. We had 53 candidate wins at the ballot box, 38 of them prevailing in the general November election in Arizona, California, Florida, Indiana, Kentucky, Minnesota, Nebraska, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Vermont. Jeff Hewitt, […]

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LP News, December 2018

December 2018 issue of LP News now online

The December 2018 issue of LP News is now ready to view on our website. This issue covers highlights from the November election! The press deadline arrived before all the final election results were in, because absentee and provisional ballots were slowly counted for weeks after Election Day. We know now that we had 38 […]

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Libertarian Party

LP Georgia’s database for 2019

LP Georgia is estimated to save nearly $2,400 on platform costs for this year, and an additional $400 in payment processing fees. The tools provided are going to enable Georgia to get more done while saving money, allowing us to put funds into projects more directly related to our mission. – Ryan Graham, LP Georgia […]

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We favor free-market banking, with unrestricted competition among banks and depository institutions of all types.

Federal Reserve creates dangerous amounts of dodgy debt

The U.S. Federal Reserve released its third-quarter financial report on Dec. 13. The Fed’s own report — unaudited, of course — indicates that our country’s central bank is underwater in “fair value” market terms. Its bond portfolio is worth $66.5 billion less than what its original cost, and that shortfall is $27.4 billion higher than […]

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Libertarian Party of Maine

Libertarian Party fights effort to unenroll Maine voters

The Libertarian Party of Maine would have been a state-qualified political party with ballot access in the upcoming 2020 election … until Maine’s secretary of state decided to arbitrarily unenroll 6,168 of its registered voters soon after the November general election. LP Maine now has until Jan. 2, 2020, to re-enroll 5,000 voters with the […]

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We favor the freedom to engage in or abstain from any religious activities that do not violate the rights of others. We oppose government actions which either aid or attack any religion.

Religious persecution in China … and in Arizona

Many people who aspire to government power are motivated by their own idealistic view of how the world should work. The Communist Party in China holds “socialism with Chinese characteristics” as its ideal. This generally excludes religious belief, which it views as antithetical to Communist Party allegiance, so the Chinese government has often cracked down […]

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Jeffrey Hewitt portrait standing in dark suit and red tie in front of American flag (color photo)

Greenhut: Libertarian Hewitt wins, sets example being ‘outspoken in the positions he championed’

In a January op-ed for the Orange County Register, public-employee pension expert Steven Greenhut praised as a “model for the state” Libertarian Mayor Jeff Hewitt’s work ending Calimesa’s dependence on the state’s fire-protection bureaucracy, enabling the city to avoid exorbitant pension costs. Following a suspenseful ballot-counting process in a very tight race, Hewitt has garnered […]

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2020 Presidential Ballot Access - Dec. 17, 2019

2020 presidential ballot access!

The Libertarian Party came out of the 2018 midterm elections with the best ballot access that any third party has achieved at this stage in the election cycle since 1914! We currently have ballot access for our 2020 presidential ticket in 33 states and DC. That is exactly double the 17 states in which the LP […]

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Bill of Rights

Libertarians honor the Bill of Rights

Happy birthday to the Bill of Rights! These 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution were ratified by the states on Dec. 15, 1791. The Anti-Federalists insisted that the Constitution must contain an enumeration of protection for some of the most important rights, to help ensure that the federal government didn’t overstep its bounds by violating […]

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Liberland

Libertarians resolve to support development of Liberland

Liberland is a new republic organized according to libertarian values, on a disputed piece of land about the size of Gibraltar, 2.7 square miles, between Serbia and Croatia. Liberland’s president, Vit Jedlička, was a guest at the quarterly meeting of the Libertarian National Committee on Dec. 1–2. He asked the LNC to approve a resolution […]

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