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Libertarian Party responds to new Gallup Poll
For Immediate Release Tuesday, September 22, 2015 Monday, Gallup published a new poll showing that 49% of Americans think that "the federal government poses an immediate threat to the rights and freedoms of ordinary citizens." This is up from 30% in 2003. Gallup also...

Libertarians versus Donald Trump
For Immediate Release Wednesday, September 16, 2015 No hair jokes, just issues. Nicholas Sarwark, Chair of the Libertarian National Committee issued the following statement: Libertarianism is the idea that you have the right to pursue happiness in any way you wish as...

How Your Vote Matters to Black Lives
For Immediate Release Monday, September 14, 2015 The Libertarian Party applauds the efforts of Campaign Zero to go beyond merely protesting the injustices perpetrated by law enforcement on citizens of the United States to proposing specific, well thought-through...

Why the Republican Party is equally guilty of Obamacare; Libertarians explain
For Immediate Release Thursday, July 2, 2015 Republican politicians and their allies are wailing over the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling which affirmed provisions of Obamacare, blaming the president for the onerous, 17,000-page body of law that is driving up the...

Libertarian Party four-decade advocacy for marriage equality pays off with US Supreme Court decision
For Immediate Release Friday, June 26, 2015 In a 5-4 ruling today, the US Supreme Court held that the Fourteenth Amendment requires states to license same-sex marriage and recognize those marriages entered into in other states. Libertarian candidates, including the...

Libertarian Party joins lawsuit to open presidential debates
For Immediate Release Monday, June 22, 2015 Attachment Size Amended Complaint 10.22.15.pdf 161.59 KB The Libertarian Party joined Level the Playing Field, the successor group to Americans Elect, and the Green Party to file a lawsuit aimed at the Commission on...

Libertarian Party joins lawsuit to open presidential debates
For Immediate Release Monday, June 22, 2015 Attachment Size Amended Complaint 10.22.15.pdf 161.59 KB The Libertarian Party joined Level the Playing Field, the successor group to Americans Elect, and the Green Party to file a lawsuit aimed at the Commission on...

Secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership trade bill lets foreign governments and foreign special interests control American medical care, banking, the Internet, and even civil liberties
For Immediate Release Friday, June 19, 2015 Republicans howled when Nancy Pelosi famously said, 'We have to pass [Obamacare] so that you can find out what is in it." Now GOP lawmakers, who control the U.S. House, are following suit in their passage of a new...

Call now and urge your U.S. Senators to let the ‘Patriot’ Act die
For Immediate Release Monday, June 1, 2015 Today Libertarian National Committee Chair Nicholas Sarwark released the following statement: I woke up this morning to the news that the government no longer has the legal authority to spy on the phone records of every...

LP: Republican-controlled U.S. House votes to jack up military spending, skirt the sequester
For Immediate Release Wednesday, May 20, 2015 228 Republicans and 41 Democrats in the U.S. House voted for a $612 billion defense authorization bill on May 15 . They maneuvered the increase in military spending, which should have been prohibited by 'sequester'...