The level of disagreement over immigration enforcement continues to escalate. Readers of a certain age will recall photographic coverage of the war, and a few images the focused people’s minds. We perhaps now, for better or worse, have a modern equivalent. In case the above was unclear, the below may get the message across: We read complaints that the anti-ICE…
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In early 1998, the Libertarian Association of Massachusetts held its annual convention. There was a major fundraiser, billed as raising money for our candidates across Massachusetts. By report, more than ten thousand dollars was raised. I was one of the Party’s candidates. I certainly did not expect to get all the money, but neither I nor the state legislative candidates…
LNC Board Member Ford’s Non-Profit Receives Money from Libertarian Party Kennedy Fundraising Agreement We continue our coverage of how the LP got here. This article, dating February 2025, is from Jake Porter’s jakeporter.substack.com. Jake’s work is supported by subscribers to his substack PAC moves money from joint fundraising committee to Ford’s non-profit. PAC receives no other contributions. Reports doing no…
Paul Darr, LNC Vice Chair, posted (some weeks back) a list of forthcoming LP state conventions, some of which have now happened, but in any event here is the list: STATE Date Georgia 2026/01/16-18 Michigan 2026/01/17 Mississippi 2026/01/17 South Dakota 2026/01/22 Alaska 2026/01/24 Arizona 2026/01/24 Maryland 2026/01/31 New Jersey 2026/02/07 California 2026/02/13-15 Florida 2026/02/20-21 Arkansas 2026/02/20-22 Kentucky 2026/02/21 Iowa 2026/02/27-28…
You can read it at https://groups.google.com/g/lnc-public/c/wk6SglmlS6I The second post in the thread is correct. The first post in the thread has the date wrong. The thread is long. The Alternate from Hawaii still thinks he can submit motions, and insists on arguing about it.
We continue our coverage of how the LP got here. This article, dating February 2025, is from Jake Porter’s jakeporter.substack.com. Jake’s work is supported by subscribers to his substack Jake Porter wrote: JAKE PORTER FEB 13, 2025 Last night, I was a guest on The LPAlliance podcast with Kyle Davis, Phil Rein, and Amanda Griffiths where we had an enjoyable conversation…
Having declined to seat the PVLA representative, the State Board used the meeting to take a de facto stand on local organization. Presented with nearly 20 candidates whom they had recruited to run for the State Legislature, the State Board agreed at the meeting to give those candidates no help in getting on the ballot. If the candidates wanted to…
In 1998, the eastern group that was running the State Party decided both to run a full slate of candidates for state office, or as close as could be obtained. They also decided to encourage Party members to run for the state legislature. Candidates were obtained for five of the six statewide offices (no Libertarian attorney would agree to run…
Commentary: Why did this bring down Angela McArdle and the Mises Caucus down so quickly? We continue our coverage of how the LP got here. This article, dating February 2025, is from Jake Porter’s jakeporter.substack.com. Jake’s work is supported by subscribers to his substack I’ve released a series of investigative reports showing former Chair McArdle withheld information from the board about meeting…
From My Book Funding Liberty. In 1996, there was a small Libertarian activist group in Worcester. Our candidate for State Representative missed getting on the ballot through a fluke. His erstwhile Democratic opponent, Representative Binienda, was, nonetheless, annoyed by our candidate’s efforts to run for office. He rammed a bill through the state legislature doubling the number of signatures required…