We recently had an anomalous issue with a comment on our sister publication Independent Political Report. Fortunately, all comments on IPR are moderated, so the comment was intercepted. None of you saw it. Someone who has never commented before, using the email address of a very senior person at the No Labels group, surfaced and said that whenever we discussed…
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Pew Research asked Americans what they thought of government press censorship. Their poll results have been published. “the share of U.S. adults who say the federal government should restrict false information has risen from 39% in 2018 to 55% in 2023.” The division is highly partisan. According to the poll, only 39% of Republicans think that the U.S. government should…
Because ‘first past the post’ election schemes work just fine when only one party is on the ballot. One of our political sources counted. In 2022, only 10% of state legislators had opposition in their primary election. Two-thirds of state legislators had no opponent in the General Election. Massachusetts needs a Second Party, the Republicans being effectively not in business…
For various reasons, I am on a large number of political email lists. Some are quite conservative. Some are far to the left. However, they have a feature in common. We are 16 months from November 2024. Nonetheless, they have all gone to high intensity fundraising for the next Federal elections, the ones in 2024. From some sites, I receive…
Thomas Knapp, Director for the William Lloyd Garrison Center for Libertarian Advocacy Journalism and the former 2008 vice presidential nominee of the Boston Tea Party, has announced that he will run for the presidency in the 2024 election cycle. Knapp is running an independent, “write-in-only” campaign. Third Party Watch invites our readers to contribute to the discourse! Share your opinions…
Revised LPUS membership counts, at end of month. Note in the past two months the drops of nearly 500 and nearly1000. 2022-12 16,988 2023-1 16,507 2023-2 16,308 2023-3 15,954 2023-4 15,539 2023-5 15,060 2023-6 14,080 There had been a slow loss of sustaining members due to an unanticipated consequence of a software feature, these people still being sustaining members but…
What results can one expect from direct mail? Regardless of your political inclinations, we call the attention of readers to Richard Viguerrie’s how-to manual on doing politics. His book GoBig as seen at https://www.gorightgobig.com/ is largely applicable to any political group. Viguerrie in the associated blog gives us interesting numbers on direct mail fundraising. He estimates that he will “…mail…
No, that’s not a typo. I said lost not won. Of course most people currently living in the US would call it a victory. The winners get to write the history books. However, if you were someone who lived on this continent before the relentless swarm of invaders headed inward from the eastern shore, you would say lost. The same…
A post from Stewart Flood forwarded by George Phillies You may or may not remember reading about the Hoovervilles. Ad-hoc camps in several cities, most notable outside of the District of Columbia, put together by former servicemen who came – peacefully – to demand their back pay from World War I that the government had deferred and held hostage. There…
Previously I discussed how parties currently mock and censure dissent instead of debating differences. I posed the position that the Libertarian Party’s tent is just like the Republicans’ and Democrats’ tents: a circus big top with too many rings. Perhaps we need a Tent City rather than one single big top. A large tent easily blows down in a storm. …