Ladies and gentlemen, the Libertarian party officially has representation in Congress. No, they didn’t win an election or anything, but Justin Amash switched his registration from Independent to Libertarian prior to announcing an exploratory committee for the party’s presidential nomination on Tuesday. There had been rumors last week that Amash purchased a lifetime membership, but…
After what may have actually been the world’s longest flirtation period, independent Representative Justin Amash declared on Tuesday he was forming an exploratory committee to seek the Libertarian party’s nomination for president. While not technically a presidential campaign announcement, an exploratory committee is usually a mere formality before launching the campaign itself. Amash, a rising…
Pending any postponements due to COVID 19, the Libertarian national convention is less than two months away. Over a thousand delegates will convene, either in Austin, Texas or over some sort of virtual method, at the end of May to choose the party’s presidential and vice presidential nominees. It has seemed to be mostly a…
The Libertarian Party fired shots at former 2016 LP Presidential candidate Austin Petersen on Twitter on Friday, accusing him of abandoning the principles of liberty. The insults came as a response to Austin posting on Twitter about how he wished President Trump would keep his campaign promise of bringing U.S. troops home from the Middle…
Chris White Republican presidential candidate Bill Weld said Monday that President Donald Trump should consider himself lucky if he doesn’t face the death penalty for asking a foreign entity to probe his political enemies. The president has gone far beyond merely undermining Democratic institutions, Weld told MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough. Trump’s decision to ask Ukrainian President Volodymyr…
The average voter wants to stand with a winner. To be part of a successful movement and tribe. Participation isn’t (as democracy acolytes would often like to pretend) some kind of expression of collective values arrived at through society’s sober reflection of a candidate’s positions and character. Not only is Donald Trump president after defeating…
In case you’ve somehow missed it, Michigan Representative Justin Amash has been in the national spotlight lately. Back in May, Amash dropped a Twitter thread bomb in which he detailed his response to the Mueller report – after doing something unheard of: actually reading it- and concluded that President Trump committed impeachable offenses. Here are…
Today, Bill Weld released the following image on his official Twitter account: If this was a broadcast, rather than an article, this is the part where I’d pause for dramatic effect while the viewer had a chance to really reflect on the visual. Take as much time as you need. None of the immediate questions…
Peter Hasson Former Republican Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld, who on Monday announced plans to challenge President Donald Trump in the 2020 Republican primary, has a track record of siding against his party on key social issues. Weld supports allowing abortions up until birth, including partial-birth abortions, and in the past called for a ban on “assault…
Former two-term governor of Massachusetts Bill Weld is expected to announce his 2020 presidential bid soon. As a man with previous top-ticket experience as Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson’s running mate in 2016, his candidacy for president wasn’t so unexpected. What was unexpected, however, was his party choice. After his expected formal announcement, William F. Weld…