Press Releases and Party News

Robert Bender for Reynoldsburg City Council in Ohio

Court returns Libertarian city council candidate to Ohio’s November ballot

Robert Bender, a Libertarian Party of Ohio candidate for the Reynoldsburg City Council, has been returned to the November ballot by court order after previously having a critical number of his petition signatures invalidated by election officials. From the Columbus Dispatch on July 23: The Franklin County Board of Elections returned a Libertarian candidate for […]

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Lincoln Chafee (Boston Globe photo)

Lincoln Chafee on why he joined the Libertarian Party

Former Rhode Island Governor Lincoln Chafee, who recently switched his voter registration to the Libertarian Party, wrote this opinion piece for the Boston Globe on July 19: As an American, I have been saddened and embarrassed by recent failures of American presidents to exercise their global duties responsibly. We have entered into never-ending, illegitimate conflicts […]

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President Donald Trump and Speaker Nancy Pelosi

Donald Trump and Nancy Pelosi agree!

There aren’t many things that can unite Donald Trump and Nancy Pelosi, but if it’s reaching their hands into your wallet, then they see eye-to-eye. On July 23, Donald Trump tweeted that a deal was reached to add $2 trillion to the national debt. As you know, the national debt has already surpassed $22,000,000,000,000. Thomas, […]

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Libertarian Cara Schulz featured on NBC’s Today Show

Libertarian Cara Schulz featured on NBC’s Today show

Women hold most of the leadership positions in Burnsville, Minn., and one of them is Cara Schulz, the Libertarian National Committee’s candidate recruiting specialist, who is an elected member of the Burnsville City Council. Schulz was featured on NBC’s Today show alongside several other of these women on July 19. Watch the full Today Show […]

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Libertarianism and Immigration conference call featuring Alex Nowrasteh

Let’s discuss immigration policy with an expert

You are invited to a special conference call on Libertarianism and Immigration Policy featuring: Alex Nowrasteh, Director of Immigration StudiesCato Institute Center For Global Liberty and Prosperity Alex Nowrasteh is the director of immigration studies at the Cato Institute’s Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity. His popular publications have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, […]

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LP Arkansas Ballot Access Victory

Court stops stringent new Arkansas ballot access law

On July 3, a federal judge in U.S. district court enjoined Arkansas from enforcing the state’s new petition requirement for newly-qualifying parties, putting a halt to the secretary of state’s plans of carrying out tougher laws to regain ballot access. In February, the Arkansas legislature had raised the signature requirement from 10,000 registered voters to […]

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LP Texas files ballot access lawsuit vs. state of Texas

Libertarians, other third parties, independents sue Texas for discriminatory ballot access

The Libertarian Party of Texas, as part of a coalition of voters, candidates, and political parties, filed suit against the state of Texas on July 11, challenging the state’s discriminatory and burdensome ballot access requirements for third parties and independent candidates. The press release below, explaining details of the case, was issued by the Center […]

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Bethany Baldes

Running for state legislature

Friends, My name is Bethany Baldes. Last year, I came within 53 votes of unseating the Republican majority leader in the Wyoming legislature. And I did it while running as a Libertarian. Working closely with Apollo Pazell, the national Libertarian Party’s campaigns advisor, my campaign for state representative in Wyoming’s 55th District broke the record […]

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U.S. Supreme Court

Supreme Court strikes citizenship question from census

In a 5-4 vote on the case Department of Commerce v. New York, the Supreme Court ruled on June 27 that President Donald Trump’s administration had not cleared the appropriate procedural hurdles to add a citizenship question to the 2020 U.S. Census. The court also found, however, that the Enumeration Clause of the Constitution, which […]

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