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Arvin Vohra will be hosting the show Libertarians Working For You today at 2 pm EST. Today’s guests are Henry Herford, who is the Franklin District 1 Constable in Louisiana, and Jennifer “Hap” Werther, who is running for Sheriff of St. Tammany Parish in Louisiana. Click here to listen.  

​Nick Taiber, Cedar Falls City Council – De-prioritizing MJ At their January 5, 2015 meeting the Cedar Falls City Council narrowly defeated (3-4) a motion to create a resolution de-emphasizing marijuana enforcement, demonstrating that the marijuana conversation is moving from the state capital to the dinner tables of Iowa. For the past three years Council […]

We’ve raised $2,728.55 towards our $4,500 goal for the Students For Liberty conference. $2,028.55 has been raised on our Piryx page, plus another $700 by PayPal. If you prefer to contribute by PayPal, click here or visit LP.org/contribute and type “students” in the comment box at the bottom. Please donate to help us reach our […]

A bill has been introduced in the Georgia legislature to lower the threshold for non-statewide independent and non-establishment candidates from 5% of the registered voters to 2% of the actual voters in the most recent race. ““The worst ballot access law in the U.S. is the Georgia law on how an independent or minor party […]

Nicholas Sarwark LNC chair Libertarian National Committee Chair Nicholas Sarwark made the following statement on foreign aid on February 5: “When you were a kid, did you ever know an unpopular kid who didn’t seem to have any friends?  Did you ever see that kid try to buy friends by giving out candy or gifts to make other […]

Arvin Vohra will be hosting the show Libertarians Working For You today at 2 pm EST. Today’s guests are Perrysburg, OH city councilman Todd Grayson, and candidate for the Louisiana House of Reprsentatives 70th district Jay Price. Click here to listen.

Arvin Vohra LNC vice-chair Libertarian National Committee vice-chair Arvin Vohra appeared on the Glen Woods Bold Republic show last week, to discuss Wisconsin Governor and potential Republican Presidential candidate Scott Walker’s “American Revival” ad. Click here to watch the video.  

I need your help to recruit students into the Libertarian Party. A new and fast-growing organization called Students For Liberty is hosting its annual conference in Washington, DC, February 13-15. Students For Liberty is run by libertarian activists, and their focus is educating students about libertarianism. Its founder, Alexander McCobin, spoke at our Libertarian National […]

Sheldon Silver NY Assembly Speaker The Manhattan Libertarian Party held its convention on January 24, and raised four cents for the legal defense for New York state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, who was recently arrested by the FBI on corruption chargers. “I think it’s great we’re helping him out like this,” said newly re-elected Manhattan […]

In a setback for the California Libertarian Party and other non-establishment parties, the California Court of Appeals upheld the two-only (“top-two”) primary system, and refused to allow a trial to present evidence against top-two. The only hope now to defeat the exclusionary system in the courts is for the state Supreme Court to hear the appeal. Click […]

Libertarian Party Political Director Carla Howell and Libertarian National Committee Regional Representative Dr. James Lark will be on Libertarians Working For You today at 2 pm EST. They will be discussing health care choice, and risk and regulation. Click here to listen.  

The Washington Times has an article in today’s paper that libertarians have good reason to be optimistic, and have made some history. “A recent Gallup poll revealed that self-described “independents” are the nation’s largest political demographic. Indeed a record-breaking 43 percent of Americans now say they are independents, compared to 30 percent who are Democrats […]