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New Jersey LP will have six candidates on the November ballot

The New Jersey Libertarian Party will be running six candidates for partisan office this November, including two for the state legislature, one for county office, and three for local office. New Jersey is one of four states which conducts races for their state legislature in odd-numbered years. The others are Kentucky, Mississippi, and Virginia. Virginia […]

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Libertarians Working For You Show, with Charles Saucier

Yesterday’s episode (7/1/2015) of Libertarians Working For You hosted by Arvin Vohra is now available online, with guest Charles Saucier, Tangipahoa, LA Parish Representative and 2014 candidate for the US House of Representatives in Louisiana’s fifth congressional district. Click here to listen.

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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 cost of health insurance premiums and reducing health care access for Americans. But Republicans […]

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Virginia LP will have eight candidates on the November ballot

The Virginia Libertarian Party will be running eight candidates for partisan office this November, including five for the state legislature, two for county office, and one for local office. The Virginia LP also had eight candidates on the ballot last year, as they ran candidates for the US Senate and seven of the eleven US […]

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‘Banned from pride event for being a gay libertarian’

Members of the Washington state Libertarian Party were recently banned from a gay pride event for their support of the second amendment. The LPWA had been attending the Capital City Pride Festival for years, but this year were told by the festival chair that they were no longer welcome. Click here to read the full […]

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Poll Results: Libertarians say there are multiple important impacts of Libertarian campaigns

When Libertarians visiting the LP.org website were asked to identify the most important impact of Libertarian candidates running for office, forty percent of the 1,186 respondents said “all or most” of the choices listed are important. Of the individual reasons listed, the most votes went to, “Turning on voters to Libertarian solutions and their benefits” […]

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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 party’s 1976 presidential nominee, Roger MacBride, have been bravely calling for marriage equality since long […]

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Libertarians Working For You show, with Wendy Adams, Carl Loser, Mark Anderson, and Joshua Hardy

Yesterday’s episode (6/24/2015) of Libertarians Working For You hosted by Arvin Vohra is now available online, with guests: Wendy Adams, Executive Director, Orleans Parish LP, Louisiana Carl Loser, Virginia LP candidate for State Senate 10th district Mark Anderson, Virginia LP candidate for House of Delegates 33rd district Joshua Hardy, Mississippi LP candidate for state House of Representatives 109th district […]

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LNC member Lark interviewed on 10th anniversary of the Kelo – City of New London Supreme Court decision

Dr. Jim Lark Dr. James Lark, Libertarian National Committee region 5 representative and former national chair, was interviewed yesterday on WINA 1070 AM in Charlottesville, VA to discuss the 10th anniversary of the Kelo – City of New London Supreme Court decision, which allowed the town of New London, Connecticut to seize a person’s home, […]

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LP Chair Nicholas Sarwark interviewed on the Paul Malloy show

Libertarian National Committee Chair Nicholas Sarwark discusses on air the free trade alternative to treaties like the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiated in secret by Democrats and Republicans and how removing government barriers to trade unilaterally benefits U.S. consumers. Click here and scroll to 11:22 to hear the Sarwark interview.

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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 Presidential Debates (CPD), a Democratic- and Republican-run agency that sets rules designed to exclude […]

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