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The Libertarian Party filed a lawsuit against the state of Connecticut, challenging a law which requires anyone petitioning for candidates in the state to be a resident of Connecticut. The provision requiring petitioners to be residents of the state in which they are petitioning has been overturned in 11 states and the District of Columbia. Click […]

From a December 31, 2015 article in Newsweek on John McAfee, who recently declared his bid for the Libertarian nomination for president: “McAfee preaches open borders for immigrants and calls on the United States to disengage completely from the Middle East. “‘You would also feel helpless and angry if a drone in the sky that you […]

The 12/30/15 episode of Libertarians Working For You hosted by Arvin Vohra is now available online, with guest Anton Chamberlin, founding member of the College Libertarians at Loyola (New Orleans), on ending college subsidies. Click here to listen.

101 potential candidates have filed to run for office as Libertarians in Texas for the 2016 elections. The filing deadline was on December 14. Texas has the second-earliest filing deadline for non-establishment parties, behind Arkansas, whose 2016 candidates had to file in early November. The Texas LP has run over 100 candidates for office in […]

Libertarian National Committee chair Nicholas Sarwark was interviewed on December 25 by Sputnik News, on the violence in Syria. “The focus on which groups are being murdered by ISIS is a distraction from the bigger problem that ISIS is killing people of all stripes,” Sarwark said. “The best thing for our government to do would [be] to […]

From USA TODAY December 24, 2015 by Jon Swartz The unconventional presidential run is McAfee’s latest headline-grabbing adventure. The 70-year-old cybersecurity pioneer has been the subject of profiles in USA TODAY, network news, Wired magazine and the international press. His fame has also landed him the role as subject of a forthcoming miniseries on cable network Spike. […]

Many thanks to Michael Chastain of Austin, Texas for contributing $24,000 to the LP recently. He contributed $4,000 for Oklahoma ballot access plus $20,000 to help finance a major project to distribute door hangers in 2016 featuring the World’s Smallest Political Quiz. We currently sell these door hangers at our store LPStore.org for ten cents each plus $5 shipping. With the […]

The North Carolina Libertarian Party will have 18 candidates on the 2016 general election ballot. The filing period closed December 21. The LPNC will have three statewide candidates, one US House candidate, 12 candidates running for the state legislature, and two running for county commission. “We must garner 2% of the vote in the Gubernatorial or […]

The 12/16/15 episode of Libertarians Working For You hosted by Arvin Vohra is now available online, with guests Dr. Mary Ruwart, Jeff Sanford of the Louisiana LP, and Dr. George Phillies, chair of the Massachusetts LP. Click here to listen.

Thanks to our donors and more petitioners, we have continued the Oklahoma petition drive. Since we are going forward with the drive, I need your help to pay to finish it. Please click here to donate. I’d especially like to thank Michael Chastain, of Austin, Texas, for mailing a $4,000 check towards the Oklahoma petition […]

The News and Observer, a daily newspaper in Raleigh, NC, ran an article yesterday (12/16/15) on the North Carolina Libertarian Party and its statewide 2016 candidates. The North Carolina LP has until December 21 to have the candidates file to be able to appear on the 2016 ballot. The deadline used to be in late […]

The December issue of LP News is ready to view online. Click here to read about Libertarian campaigns, national and affiliate party news, ballot access updates, libertarian solutions; and more,