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Independent Political Report covers third-party politics. Here we reach the political organization that is not a party, but whose activities have the same consequences as a third party, namely the Democratic Socialists of America. While other ideological movements have organized into independent political parties, including the second-tier Libertarian, Green, and Constitution Parties (not to mention

Long-time Libertarian activist George Phillies has purchased Independent Political Report. The purchase includes the current web site, the URLs IndependentPoliticalReport.com, IPRnews.com, IPR.tv, and ThirdPartyWatch.com, two Twitter sites, and two FaceBook groups. Changes in the appearance of IPR are already evident. The story began with an email, from which we quote: Hi George, I've been considering

In related news, LNC Chair McArdle removed Jennifer Moore from the LNC Ballot Access Committee, because Moore was assisting the Pennsylvania Keystone Party in putting its candidates for statewide office on the ballot. The Pennsylvania Libertarian Party at its state convention had voted NOTA for these offices, but the Pennsylvania Libertarian State Committee has apparently

A new poll out in the Oregon governor's race shows former state house GOP leader Christine Drazan and former House Speaker Tina Kotek, a Democrat, are locked in a near tie for first place. Approximately 30% of likely Oregon voters chose Drazan, while Kotek draw the support of 28% of respondents. The wild card in

We have not recently reported much on the Constitution Party, but as a slightly late note, their National Committee held its Spring meeting on April 29 and 39 in Erie, PA. In addition to the committee meeting, there was a substantial program of speakers, including we are told Ambassador Alan Keyes, Coach Dave Daubenmire, Dr.

By a vote of 14-0-3, the Libertarian National Committee passed a resolution recognizing the group headed by Mr. Cordio as the LNC's Massachusetts affiliate. The only obvious consequence of this action, in the short term, is that the group headed by Mr. Graham will no longer receive lists of new national party members.

Earlier today Reason Magazine published the following 31 minute video documentary of the "Reno Reset." Those interviewed by Reason Magazine editor-at-large Nicholas Gillespie include, in order of appearance: LNC Chair Angela McArdle, former Congressman Justin Amash, Scott Horton, former LNC Chair Nicholas Sarwark, Randyn Tarnoff, Michael Heise, Dave Smith, Jeremy Kauffman, Brianna Coyle, Tom Woods,

An article by Jeet Heer published earlier today in THE NATION, titled: "The Libertarian Party Goes Alt-Right: By embracing bigotry, Libertarians are poised to help reelect Trump" attributed the origins of the Reno Reset in LNC management to a blog post by Jeff Deist from 2017. Mr. Heer writes: "In July 28, 2017, Jeff Deist,

IPR will be covering the politically relevant (broadly defined) sessions of the “Philosophy For Freedom And Flourishing” conference (TOS CON) to be held in Westminster, CO, 22 to 25 June, 2022. The TOS CON website contains the following description: “Sharpen your mind. Fuel your soul. Excel in life. Fight for liberty . . . Freedom

At its recently concluded national convention the Libertarian Party removed a long standing platform plank which condemned bigotry as irrational and repugnant. The national committee, which runs the national Libertarian Party in between conventions, is as its first order of business in the new term about to take up the following resolution: "Whereas, The Southern