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New York Libertarians are optimistic that governor candidate Michael McDermott will win the 50,000 votes needed this November to secure ballot access for the New York LP for the next four years. Ballot access would drastically reduce the number of signatures needed to run for U.S. House or the state legislature, opening the door for […]

Kathie Glass, LP Texas candidatefor governor Newsweek ran a story covering the libertarian viewpoint on how to handle an Ebola outbreak, quoting Texas Libertarians Kathie Glass and Lauren Daugherty and national Libertarian Party Political Director Carla Howell. Glass, the Libertarian candidate for Texas governor, said that forced isolation is acceptable if it’s absolutely necessary. “If […]

Nicholas Sarwark, LNC Chair Nicholas Sarwark, the Libertarian National Committee chair, was recently interviewed by Austin Cassidy of UncoveredPolitics.com. “Every candidate who steps up to give voters a real Libertarian choice is a hero,” Sarwark said. “They are the most important people in this party and should be thanked and honored every chance we get.” […]

Amanda Swafford Time.com reports that Libertarian Amanda Swafford’s race for U.S. Senate could force a run-off vote in Georgia. Swafford told Time that if that were the case, it would be “a clear mandate from people of Georgia for a small government and less involvement in people’s lives.” Time notes that “small government has hardly […]

The August 2014 edition of LP News is now available in the LP News archive, which contains issues stretching back for more than six years. So, if you haven’t seen it yet, be sure to read our coverage of the 2014 Libertarian Party National Convention; the numerous LP candidates who pledged to dramatically downsize the […]

Sean Haugh Libertarian statewide candidates Sean Haugh, Adrian Wyllie, Dr. Andrew Hunt, and Mark Fish were covered in an article in Sunday’s New York Times on how non-establishment party candidates may affect the November elections. “In an election year shaped by voter anger toward the political establishment, the outcome of an unusually large number of […]

Mark Elworth Jr. Libertarian Mark Elworth Jr., running for governor in Nebraska, is suing to stop the Republican Party from replacing the Republican nominee for lieutenant governor after the deadline. Republican Secretary of State John Gale has violated Nebraska law by allowing the Republicans to replace Lavon Heidemann after the Sept. 2 deadline. Heidemann has […]

Chad Monnin From the Libertarian Party of Ohio: The Libertarian Party of Ohio is proud to announce its endorsement of Chad Monnin, candidate for Ohio House of Representatives, District 19. Monnin has been a life member of the Libertarian Party of Ohio since 2010, and his campaign represents the best chance that a Libertarian will […]

Nicholas Sarwark Thirteen years ago, terrorists crashed planes into buildings, killing thousands of innocent Americans. I was working in Arlington, Va., on that day and remember rushing home past the smoking Pentagon. I will not and cannot forget that day. But while terrorists killed innocent Americans that day, they did not kill America. They did […]

Libertarian Jeffrey Carson, running for Congress in northern Virginia, appeared in a candidate debate on Sept. 2, 2014. ARLnow reported: A former U.S. Army captain, Carson decried the nation’s “meddlesome, haphazard and dangerous interventionist foreign policy; our failed and unconstitutional drug war; NSA domestic spying; militarized police forces and the erosion of our civil liberties.” […]

Gigi Bowman According to the Huntingtonian, New York state Sen. Carl Marcellino has filed a lawsuit to remove Libertarian Gigi Bowman from the November ballot. Bowman is opposing Marcellino in the election. New York LP Chair Mark Axinn commented, “The Republican Party will stop at nothing to prevent choice on the ballot. Neither the Board […]