NEWS ARTICLES

Rob Hodgkinson, former chair of the Kansas Libertarian Party, was featured on WIBW radio’s News Now program, discussing his 2018 candidacy for Kansas secretary of state. From the written synopsis of the March 27 interview, “Minor party status gives Secretary of State...

Businessman and former LNC member Jake Porter was interviewed for the Times-Republican about his race for governor of Iowa and his plans should he be elected. From the May 8 article, “Porter: Restoring personal, economic freedoms,” by Jeff Hutton: For Jake Porter,...

The May 2018 issue of LP News is now ready to view on our website. Inside, you can read coverage of the Libertarian Party of South Dakota’s ballot access victory, elected Libertarian Sen. Laura Ebke’s successful occupational licensing reform in Nebraska, Brandon...

The Libertarian National Committee's Platform Committee will meet in person this weekend, May 13–14, at Staybridge Suites, located at 3121 Olentangy River Rd. in Columbus. The purpose of this meeting is to consider proposals to be presented at the 2018 Libertarian...

The March 2018 issue of LP News is now ready to view on our website. Inside, you can read coverage of the Libertarian Party’s first statewide elected official, another elected Libertarian spurring firefighting reform in California, Ohio voter purging, why you should...

Please help the Libertarian Party of Pennsylvania get ballot access petition signatures on Tuesday, May 15 — Primary Day in Pennsylvania. There are many Libertarian candidates around the state who are attempting to achieve ballot access for the 2018 campaign cycle,...

Dr. Murray Sabrin, the 2018 Libertarian candidate for U.S. senate in New Jersey, appeared on the Joe Piscopo Show on AM 970 The Answer radio on April 3. In the interview, Piscopo and Sabrin, an author and professor of finance at Ramapo College, discuss several ways to...

LNC Press Secretary Richard Fields recently appeared on “Left–Right Radio,” a web-based radio show hosted by Chuck Morse, a conservative journalist, author, former politician, and YouTube personality based in Boston, Mass. On the April 13 program, called “Libertarian...

The Missoula County Commission (Mont.) has decided to reserve a seat for a Libertarian Party representative on its election advisory committee. According to the committee’s website, its members represent the citizens of Missoula County to the county commissioners in...

After each Libertarian National Convention, a Bylaws and Rules Committee is established to consider and recommend proposed amendments to the party’s governing documents. The Bylaws Committee consists of 10 members, no more than five of whom must be non-members of the...

Delegates to the Libertarian Party of California (LPC) annual convention elected Honor “Mimi” Robson as chair on April 29. She replaces two-time LPC chair Ted Brown, who recently relocated to Texas, for the second half of the two-year term. It was Brown whose 2016...

Phil Anderson, the Wisconsin Libertarian Party chair and 2018 gubernatorial candidate, has spearheaded a request to Wisconsin’s state ethics commission for guidelines on political campaigns’ acceptance of donations of digital currency. Anderson’s questions and the...

Libertarian National Committee member Aaron Starr is running for mayor of Oxnard, Calif., in a recall election that he organized. The election will take place on Tuesday, May 1. Starr authored Measure M, a ballot initiative to repeal a 35 percent wastewater rate hike,...

A meeting of the Libertarian National Committee will take place on Saturday, April 21 and Sunday, April 22 in Denver, Colorado. The meeting will start at 11 a.m. EDT on Saturday. The LNC will attempt to stream the meeting live on the Internet. Be advised that...

Bill Gelineau, the Libertarian candidate for governor of Michigan, was featured on the “Stateside” program on NPR Michigan affiliate WUOM-FM to discuss his campaign, particularly spending, taxes, and roads, the Michigan Strategic Fund, legalizing marijuana, and the...

Jennifer Harper, the “Inside the Beltway” columnnist for the Washington Times, growth in voter registration, the upcoming national convention, the party’s growth in voter registration, and our 2018 ballot-access and campaign progress in her April 9 column. From the...

A federal judge has ruled unconstitutional South Dakota’s laws regulating third-party access to the ballot. From ABC affiliate KOTA-TV’s coverage of the Feb. 21 decision: Judge Lawrence Piersol ruled that the laws violated the First and Fourteenth Amendment rights of...

The Daily Campus, a publication of the University of Connecticut, featured an interview of Rod Hanscomb, the Libertarian Party candidate for governor of Connecticut, on March 23. In the interview, Hanscomb discusses his chances of winning, cutting spending and making...

Libertarian Brandon Kneeld,  elected city councilmember in Davenport, Fla. Florida Libertarian Brandon Kneeld was elected to the Davenport City Council on April 3. Kneeld easily defeated his opponent, Headley Oliver, with 245 votes to Oliver’s 117. “I’m just...

At their convention on March 24, Libertarian Party of New Jersey delegates nominated writer, musician, and business consultant Jim Tosone as their candidate for House of Representatives in New Jersey’s 5th congressional district. The explicitly nonpartisan news...

I'll pay you $2.50 per signature for each signature you collect for the LP Ohio petition drive, subject to the terms below. I need your help! See the graph below. We have to speed up right away! We had hoped to finish this petition drive in December 2017, but it just...

To be presented during the 2018 LP National Convention in New Orleans, Louisiana. THOMAS JEFFERSON Leadership Award — will be presented to the LP member whose achievements merit our recognition of outstanding leadership, high character, and dedication to the...

The Arkansas Libertarian Party (LP) has nominated 33 candidates for 34 office in 2018. The record number of candidates, headed by Mark West for governor, has garnered notable media coverage. West was interviewed by Roby Brock, host of “Talk Business & Politics” on...

The Washington Blade, whose slogan is “America’s LGBT news source,” interviewed Libertarian candidate Martin Moulton about his having filed to run for either of two local offices in Washington, D.C. From the March 14 article, “Gay Libertarian to run for D.C. mayor,...

The Smoky Mountain News featured Libertarian Party (LP) candidate Clifton B. Ingram, Jr. in article about the “impressive tally” of Libertarians running for office in North Carolina this spring. From the March 7 story, “Libertarians in it to win it in 2018,” by Cory...

The national Libertarian Party is close to having our best first quarter revenues in over a decade! As of Thursday morning, March 22, we are just $11,000 away from this goal! A very generous donor has offered to match "at least $5,000" to help us reach this goal. So,...

The Libertarian Party will elect officers and other members of the Libertarian National Committee at its 2018 Convention. Current LNC officers and members, as well as candidates for those positions, are invited to participate in a program to help recruit dues-paying...

Michigan Libertarian Bill Gelineau has become the first candidate for governor from a non-establishment party to qualify under “major party” status to appear on a primary ballot there in nearly a half-century, and only the second since 1932. On Thursday, March 8,...

Michigan Libertarian Bill Gelineau has become the first candidate for governor from a non-establishment party to qualify under “major party” status to appear on a primary ballot there in nearly a half-century, and only the second since 1932. On Thursday, March 8,...

Marco Battaglia, a longtime LP Iowa activist and a candidate for the Libertarian nomination for Iowa governor in 2018, was interviewed on KSCJ-FM radio on February 26. In the interview, Battaglia, who writes for the Iowa Free Press and is a bassist in three bands,...