The Free State Project Board has voted by 5-1 to remove Jeremy Kauffman from the Free State Project Board. The charge was that Kauffman refused to stop retweeting items from an account that the board felt was racist. Kauffman had been in charge of FSP communications, including the group’s Twitter/X accounts. The ouster has received local press coverage, for example…
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Toward an Organizing Committee for a New Freedom-Aligned Party by Publius Valerius Surveys have shown roughly equal division between people who think that libertarians should abandon the Libertarian party and tried to take over the Democratic Party or the Republican Party, people who think that libertarians should try to cover their party from the current controllers, people who think that…
Libertarian National Committee Financial and Membership Reports have recently become very late. However, the Treasurer on September 26 filed the end-of-July report, which includes a graph of National Party memberships at the end of each month for some years previous. Membership at the end of June was 13,620. Membership at the end of July was about (read off graph) 11,900-12,000. …
It is September 20, and the LNC filed its FEC report in a timely way. The outcome could be said to leave something to be desired. The August LNC Financials show Cash on hand, start of month $266,368 Receipts for month $73,300 Disbursements for month $122,019 Cash on hand, end of month $217,649 However, debt increased markedly, from $14,397 last…
As described in my article https://independentpoliticalreport.com/2023/09/book-note-rufos-americas-cultural-revolution/, Chris Rufo’s new book proposes that the radical left under the cognomen diversity-equity-inclusion, has taken control of vast swathes of the American scene, including universities, public schools, main-stream media, and major corporations. The positions of the radical left are inconsistent with the political positions of most third parties. This situation is not good, either…
The final outcome. Malagon wins 11-5. Voting for Adrian Malagon: Benner, Blankenship, Dassing, Ford, Haman, Harlos, Malagon, McArdle, Rufo, Watkins, Yeniscavich (11) Voting for Bill Redpath: Hagopian, Nanna, Nekhaila, Pantke, Tuniewicz (5) Mark Tuniewicz nominated Bill Redpath to fill the vacant LNC At-Large position Selected messages from the LNC discussion of candidates for the LNC At-Large position. Mark Tuniewicz I’ll nominate Mr. Bill…
In a recent statement to the LNC, LNC Secretary Caryn Ann Harlos has endorsed Adrian Malagon for new At-Large member. Her rationale was that the convention delegates in 2022 did not want a factionally diverse board, they wanted a board that supported their positions, and Adrian Malagon is the candidate who represents that policy choice. She Wrote I was going…
The author considers the downhill trend in American politics from World War 2 to 2014. The volume is actually an extended collection of essays, ordered approximately temporally. The last essays reach to 2014, when it was apparent that matters could not go on as they had, but it was unclear what would happen next. The author did not anticipate the…
Third Parties choose their own platforms. However, if you want to advocate for more or less saleable opinions, you might usefully find out what the more saleable opinions are. The Liberal Patriot is actually a classical liberal site. It focuses on actual data about politics, and is therefore worth subscribing to. It’s also a burr under Democratic and Republican Party…
The Mises PAC is a Hybrid PAC with separate Federal and non-Federal contributions. We here report on their finances for the first half of 2023. Their total receipts were $166,068.13.