Interview and commentary by Gary Doan Joshua Smith is a libertarian activist and founding member of Think Liberty, who is currently running for Chair of the Libertarian National Committee. I decided to seek out an interview with him once #StickWithNick seemed to include #StickingWithArvin for many delegates who will decide at convention who will head…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Taylor Hoffman The Libertarian Party of Ohio was duped by the Johnson-Weld campaign, and I got to experience it. I am not writing this to disparage the Ohio party or its members. I have met some amazing people, who I feel are not only assets to the LPO, but to…
By: Elias J. Atienza The Libertarian Party was supposed to win big. With the two most unpopular candidates in modern American politics, the ticket of two experienced governors, backed up by the only third party on the ballot in all fifty states, the LP had a chance to win through the Electoral College. But instead,…
By Brett Chandrasekhar At May during the Libertarian Party’s National Convention, a pudgy white man went up on stage, played music on his phone, and began a stripshow. This was James Weeks, a candidate for chairman of the party. C-SPAN aired this event and multiple publications picked it up, using it to symbolize the LP’s…
by Josh Guckert Just as soon as Donald Trump was declared the victor in Tuesday’s (somewhat) tight election, some progressives went to social media to lay the blame at the feet of third-parties. Presidential candidates other than Trump or Hillary Clinton received over 6 million votes. There ought to a major grain of salt when speculating…
by Josh Guckert It will be easy for some in the libertarian movement to admonish and criticize Gary Johnson and William Weld for their performance last night. However, after they earned over 3% of the vote, including over 4 million popular votes, they deserve praise. Not only did they shatter the LP record for earned…
by Josh Guckert The highly-respected polling site FiveThirtyEight now projects Gary Johnson to earn exactly 5.0% of the popular vote on Tuesday. The highest projected share which Johnson has reached this cycle is 9.2% on July 17 and then 9.0% on September 11. In spite of historical trends which indicate that third-party candidates effectively disappear…
Judd Weiss Releases Final Video Commentary on Political Process by Avens O’Brien Judd Weiss was John McAfee’s choice for Vice President when they headed to the Libertarian convention in Orlando back in May of this year. The party delegates chose Governor Johnson and Governor Weld instead, but that didn’t stop Weiss from continuing his commentary…
by Kevin Daley Libertarian presidential nominee Gov. Gary Johnson released a list of possible nominees to the U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday, in a bid to revive his idealistic campaign for the presidency. The Johnson campaign named federal judges Janice Rogers Brown and Alex Kozinski; professors Randy Barnett and Jonathan Turley; Chapman University School of Law…
by Josh Guckert On Tuesday night, Libertarian vice presidential nominee William Weld went on The Rachel Maddow Show to discuss the state of the presidential election. As he has recently stated, he finds the newest Hillary Clinton email announcement inappropriate and likely to be much ado about nothing. First of all, this opinion should be seen as one…