NEWS ARTICLES

From the Houston Chronicle on August 28, 2020: About a week after Texas Democrats took several Green Party candidates to court and had them knocked off the ballot for failing to pay candidate filing fees, state and national Republicans are taking a similar case to the...

The Party Bylaws require draft convention minutes to be posted to the Party website prior to presentation for approval by the LNC as follows: ARTICLE 10: CONVENTIONS 9. The Convention Secretary shall produce draft convention minutes within 60 days of the adjournment...

The Libertarian National Committee is soliciting applications for the following committees: Historical Preservation Committee: This committee is responsible for directing the preservation and publication of Party historical documents and the administration of...

The Libertarian Party 2020 presidential ticket of Jo Jorgensen and Jeremy "Spike" Cohen is certified to appear the ballot in 45 states plus DC. The remaining states are Iowa, Minnesota, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Virginia. Petitions have been submitted to the...

From the Amarillo Pioneer on August 4, 2020: Kerry McKennon has officially won the Libertarian Party’s nomination for U.S. Senate and will represent the party in Texas’ highest-profile contest in 2020. Over the weekend, the Libertarian Party of Texas finalized its...

From Ballot Access News on August 17, 2020: On August 17, a Libertarian Party ballot access case in New Mexico was settled. A final order from a U.S. District Court documents that the New Mexico Secretary of State now agrees that Stephen Curtis received enough...

From Reason online on July 31, 2020: Sen. Tom Cotton's Democratic challenger, Josh Mahony, dropped out of the U.S. Senate race just hours after the filing deadline closed. Between this and Cotton's comments over the past few weeks, which range from calling slavery a...

The 2020 Libertarian Party presidential ticket of Jo Jorgensen and Jeremy "Spike" Cohen are currently certified to be on the ballot in 40 states plus DC, as the Maine Secretary of State's office confirmed that the petition was valid today, August 10. Four more states...

From WBAY-TV, the ABC affiliate in Green Bay, Wisconsin on July 25: Libertarian Party Presidential Candidate Jo Jorgensen held a rally in Wisconsin Saturday. It was held at Leach Amphitheater in Oshkosh. Jorgensen said with her nomination, Americans have a chance to...

A new Libertarian National Committee was elected at the national convention, held both online and in Orlando, Florida, from July 9th through the 12th. Joe Bishop-Henchman was elected chair on the second ballot with 54% of the vote. Ken Moellman was elected vice-chair...

From KINY radio in Juneau, Alaska on July 20, 2020: The Alaska Libertarian Party has turned over signatures in order to get the party's presidential ticket on the ballot. The ALP has submitted 5,024 ballot access petition signatures, well exceeding the 3,212...

From WGEM-TV, the NBC affiliate in western Illinois, on July 21, 2020: The Libertarian Party of Illinois submitted its petitions today for several candidates vying for statewide and national office. This could be a historic election for the party, given the...

Congratulations to the newly elected At-Large members of the Libertarian National Committee: Laura Ebke, Valerie Sarwark, Joshua Smith, Richard Longstreth, and Erik Raudsep! And congratulations to the newly elected Judicial Committee: Mary Ruwart, Tom Arnold, Jim...

2020 Libertarian Party presidential nominee Jo Jorgensen and vice-presidential nominee Jeremy "Spike" Cohen addressed the delegates at the LP national convention in Orlando, Florida on July 11, 2020. Jo and Spike talked about their vision for the Presidency, ending...

Nearly every other day since that dreadful day, May 25, 2020, when George Floyd was murdered, I've been bombarded with calls from all over our country reaching out to me, asking how I was doing and if I was all right. A vast majority of my Caucasian friends expressed...

Below is a press release from the Jorgensen for President campaign, on June 18, 2020: MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.; June 18, 2020— Beginning Friday, Dr. Jo Jorgensen, the Libertarian presidential candidate, will be attending events in the Twin Cities to pay her respects to...

From Ballot Access News on June 19, 2020: Last year, a U.S. District Court in Arkansas enjoined the new 3% petition requirement for newly-qualifying parties, and put the Arkansas Libertarian Party on the ballot for 2020. On June 18, the Eighth Circuit ruled that the...

From Ballot Access News on June 10, 2020: On June 9, North Dakota held open primaries for the Republican, Democratic, and Libertarian Parties. North Dakota is the only state which requires primary candidates to poll a specified minimum number of votes in the primary...

Muir Boda, a member of the Salisbury, Maryland City Council, has returned to the Libertarian Party. Boda resigned from the Maryland Republican Party and the Wicomico County Republican Central Committee on May 17, and renewed his memberships in the state and national...

Libertarian Party 2020 presidential nominee Dr. Jo Jorgensen was interviewed on the NPR show Weekend Edition on May 30, 2020. Click here to listen to the interview.  

From John Stossel of Reason Magazine on May 26, 2020: We have a choice! Next presidential election, we don't have to decide between two big-spending candidates, neither of whom has expressed much interest in limited government. Now, we have a third serious choice....

The Libertarian Party presidential and vice-presidential candidate debates will take place this evening, May 21, starting at 8:00 pm ET. The presidential candidate debate will take place first, followed by the vice-presidential debate. Each debate will last an hour....

Jim Galloway, political reporter for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the 19th most popular news website in the country, wrote the following opinion piece on the upcoming Libertarian Party national convention on May 19, 2020: Over the weekend, U.S. Rep. Justin Amash...

Below are candidates running for the 2020 Libertarian Party Vice-Presidential nomination:   [table id=35] The list above includes Libertarian Party 2020 vice-presidential candidates who have met the following criteria, specified by the Libertarian National...