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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 […]

Dear Libertarian, In a moment, I’m going to ask you to run for office — any office. But first, I want to see if you’ll make phone calls to get out the vote for Alison Foxall’s campaign for state representative. Alison is in a special election this Tuesday, Feb. 13, in Florida, but you can […]

Hello, I’m Nicholas Sarwark, chairman of the Libertarian Party. Tonight, the president gave a speech on the state of the Union to Congress. It was a mixture of the good, the bad, and the ugly. Sadly, more of the latter, too. Let’s start with the good stuff. The president called for Congress to pass right-to-try […]

Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) enables the government to monitor the communications of foreigners, including “incidental” surveillance of any Americans communicating outside U.S. borders. In practice, Section 702 essentially allows for unlimited surveillance of Americans if the initial targets of that surveillance are foreigners. As a result, the NSA and FBI […]

Temporary Protected Status (TPS) allows immigrants to live and work legally in the United States if they would face extreme hardship after being forced to return to their countries of origin. Immigrants from El Salvador, which has been ravaged by natural disaster and poverty, have been TPS-eligible since 2001, and today there are 262,500 Salvadorans […]

[gravityform action=”polls” id=”29″ mode=”poll” title=”false” style=”blue” show_results_link=”true” display_results=”true” percentages=”true” counts=”false”][gravitywp_count formid=’29’] total responses Dear Libertarian, With the holiday season upon us, I thought it would be interesting to do a survey asking “What religion are Libertarians?” We ran a similar poll a couple of years ago, and this year have added many more choices. The […]

I’m Wes Benedict, executive director of the Libertarian Party. Libertarians want to make America more prosperous, friendlier, and fairer for everyone, and we think we can deliver that with free markets, civil liberties, and peace. Libertarians welcome both good conservatives and good liberals. We welcome people of faith who are motivated by love, who use […]

I’m excited to announce the hiring of Cara Schulz to serve as candidate recruiting specialist for the Libertarian National Committee. Cara (pronounced “care + a”) has not only managed other people’s campaigns at federal, state, and local levels, but has personally run for public office and won.