The LNC Chair has ruled as requested by the LNC Secretary on three motions that LNC Member Adrian Malagon put on the agenda for the May in-person LNC Meeting. The Chair ruled that the three Malagon motions were out of order. Dear Colleagues, I have been asked to review the three motions recently noticed, in accordance with Robert’s Rules of…
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Third Party Watch is not in possession of the full report on the situation of the Libertarian Party. We have, however, been sent sections that we believe are authentic, which we will reprint and update here. Fresh updates will appear at the top of the Report section. Addendum We are advised by an extremely reliable source that the claim that…
In a letter sent today, LNC National Chair Steven Nekhaila warned that the LNC was in imminent danger of full collapse. He did this after reporting that a confidential operational report on the LNC had been leaked by a board member (though not to us). His description of the state of the LNC was “We are an organization in dysfunction.…
Treasurer Bill Redpath has filed the LNC Treasurer’s Report covering March. The supporting staff document is available here as a file. We quote his analysis: Attached please find the Libertarian National Committee, Inc. financial statements, as of March 31, 2025 Due to Joint Fundraising Committee (JFC) impacts on the financial statements on Pages 5, 9 & 10 (because of Cash…
LIBERTARIAN PARTY RECONSTRUCTION Trump’s Tariffs Present Opportunity for Libertarian Party Revitalization As the Trump administration attacks libertarian values, there is an opportunity for the Libertarian National Committee to seek accountability to move forward and grow again. Dear Friends, Did you know the Libertarian Party was founded over five decades ago in response to a corrupt Republican president using his executive authority to…
The count of dues-paying members of the Libertarian Party fell from 10,177 at the end of February to 9,954 at the end of March, a decrease of 223 members or 2.2%. The report claims that the decrease was only by 1.64%. We do not offer to explain the discrepancy. Looking back a half-year, the decrease was from 11,461 at the…
IndependentPoliticalReport.com reports that former Libertarian National Committee members have urged the LNC to take more vigorous action with respect to former National Chair Angela McArdle. McArdle resigned in January, claiming that she had a new opportunity that would be incompatible with her remaining as National Chair. Former LNC Chair Nicholas Sarwark has now unveiled an open letter to the LNC.…
Long-time Libertarian and medical activist Durk Pearson passed away on October 26, 2024. He completed degrees at MIT, where I knew him, in physics, life sciences, and psychology. He was a member of the class of 1965; his presence at MIT did not quite overlap with the formation of the MIT Radicals for Capitalism, an Objectivist-influenced anti-socialist MIT Student Club. …
With an April 9 declassification order, United States Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard unveiled a previously secret document, the Strategic Implementation Plan for Countering Domestic Terrorism. Of particular interest as a civil rights issue, a closing action item on the last page of the document reads: Action 4.1.1a: Rein in the proliferation of “ghost guns”; encourage state adoption of…
Fracturing what exactly? By Pat Jones In a recent piece, Tom Rowlette editorialized against a split in the Libertarian Party which would result in one of its current factions continuing to form the Liberal Party or another joining the Constitution Party. But, what holds all these folks together? What precisely is the set of views and policies on which all…