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North Carolina Libertarian Party candidate for the US Senate Sean Haugh will appear on the John Stossel show on the Fox Business Channel on Thursday.

Michael McDermott Michael McDermott, the New York LP guberenatorial candidate, has received endorsements from several prominent individuals, including former candidate Jimmy McMillian of the Rent Is Too High Party, crime victim and political activist Bernhard Goetz, and former LP Presidential candidate Gary Johnson. McDermott is running on eliminating the state income tax, and giving back […]

Jack Seaman North Dakota Libertarian Jack Seaman has had great showings in debates for the state’s sole U.S. House seat. His inclusion in all seven congressional debates has helped make them civil and substantive compared with most two-way debates that include only a Republican and Democrat. Watch this one-minute, 42-second clip of Seaman in a […]

Chad Grimm Illinois Libertarian Party gubernatorial candidate Chad Grimm has been polling well, receving 6 to 7 percent in polls conducted by We Ask America during the last three months, according to Ballot Access News. He also has been getting prominent media attention recently, including coverage in the Chicago Sun-Times, FOX News, “The Independents” on […]

The October 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 Libertarian Party candidates in the November 2014 election, including several high-profile U.S. Senate and governor races; […]

Tonight, Wednesday, Oct. 22, at 8:00 p.m. ET, Libertarian candidate for governor Michael McDermott debates Democratic incumbent Andrew Cuomo, Republican Rob Astorino, and Green candidate Howie Hawkins in Buffalo, N.Y. The hourlong debate will be the only one for the New York governor’s general election. Access a live stream of the debate online at one […]

The Hill, Washington D.C.’s newspaper of record that focuses exclusively on politics, cited the Libertarian Party as one of the organizations in a pro–Fourth Amendment coalition that is lobbying to end government mass surveillance: Dozens of civil liberties groups are calling on Congress not to stop short in reforming the National Security Agency. The Bill […]

Charles Earl, LP Ohio Candidate for Governor Ohio Libertarian Party gubernatorial candidate and former state legislator Charlie Earl, attorney general candidate Sherry Clark, and candidate for attorney general Steve Linnabary will not appear on the general election ballot next month, because a U.S. District Court judge refused to put them on last week. “Sad day […]

Polling firm Gallup reports: A majority of U.S. adults, 58%, say a third U.S. political party is needed because the Republican and Democratic parties “do such a poor job” representing the American people. Americans’ current desire for a third party is consistent with their generally negative views of both the Republican and Democratic parties, with […]

Keen and Eileen Umbehr Eileen Umbehr wrote the following letter to Kansas City Star reporter Eric Adler after he wrote an Oct. 5 headline story that neglected to mention her husband, Libertarian for governor Keen Umbehr, who has polled as high as 9 percent and has consistently beaten the spread between his Democratic and Republican […]

Doug Craig “Whether it’s a moment or a bonafide movement, libertarianism is on the rise. That’s thanks to people like Doug Craig, chair of the Libertarian Party of Georgia.”