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Economic freedom demands the unrestricted movement of human as well as financial capital across national borders.

Trump will now keep detained immigrant families in the same cages

For the last month, the Department of Homeland Security has been separating captured immigrant children from their families at the border. They’ve been housing the children in cages at an abandoned Walmart and other facilities, and holding their parents in cages elsewhere. The public revulsion to this policy of families being forcibly separated led President […]

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Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!

Feds lose and abuse massive numbers of immigrant children

Hopelessly complex immigration laws make it nearly impossible for people seeking a better life to live and work legally in the United States, and deprive our country of the economic expansion that immigrants bring. As several recently publicized cases demonstrate, these draconian immigration restrictions also lead to widespread negligence and abuse within the enforcement system, […]

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American foreign policy should seek an America at peace with the world.

A missed opportunity for Korean peace

North Korea and South Korea have technically been at war since 1950. The recent historic meeting of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in in the demilitarized zone provides ample evidence that both North Korea and South Korea want peace. The scheduled summit between Kim and President Donald Trump in Singapore […]

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LP News, May 2018

May 2018 issue of LP News now online

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 Kneeld’s election to the Davenport City Council in Florida, why the United States […]

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Larry Sharpe

Help Larry in New York

Do you want Larry Sharpe to be on ballots in New York this year? If you do, we need your help to make it happen. We are working hard to get ballot access for Larry, and countless other Libertarian candidates, in New York and elsewhere. Every state has different legal hurdles we have to jump […]

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LP News, March 2018

March 2018 issue of LP News now online

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 run for office, the Senate budget deal, national convention registration and sponsorship info, […]

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LNC Paid Portion of LP Ohio Petition Drive - April 2018

Ohio petition too slow. Help! Get paid $2.50 each!

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 keeps dragging on and […]

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If you don't rein in government, who will?

Trump is the opposite of a Libertarian

During the 2016 presidential campaign, some libertarian-leaning voters wanted to give Donald Trump the benefit of the doubt. As a candidate, Trump talked about drastic reductions in spending and taxation, along with “draining the swamp” of its career politicians. He said he wanted to reduce spending for defense of other countries and wars of foreign […]

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Cropped version of Thomas Jefferson's official presidential portrait (by Rembrandt Peale, 1800) - (color painting)

Dates of interest to Libertarians: 2018

The following is a list of dates of interest to Libertarians in 2018, compiled by Dr. James Lark, Libertarian National Committee regional representative and former LNC chair.   January 6 Pres. Franklin Roosevelt delivers his “Four Freedoms” speech. (1941) 15 Martin Luther King Jr. Day 16 Ratification of the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution […]

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