Posted on 10/15/2025 5:01:50 PM PDT by Angelino97
The Libertarian Party has announced The Parity Project, a ten-year plan to grow its membership and visibility to rival the Democrats and Republicans. The effort draws inspiration from past membership drives, including the 1990s-era Project Archimedes.
In an October 15 letter to members, Libertarian National Committee Chair Steven Nekhaila outlined a plan to “equalize” the party by targeting Americans who already identify with libertarian principles. Citing research from “eleven different studies,” he estimated that 30 to 60 million Americans either identify as libertarian or hold mostly libertarian views. Nekhaila noted that many of these voters currently cast ballots “defensively” for Democrats or Republicans and that activating this base could significantly expand the party’s reach.
“The two old parties each have about 68 million Americans who identify with them. Both of those parties also have universal visibility,” Nekhaila wrote. “The LP has almost no visibility. Finding and activating dormant libertarians will change that. If we developed 30–60 million libertarians with little visibility, imagine what universal awareness could achieve.”
Nekhaila pointed to the United Kingdom’s multiparty system, which operates under a similar winner-take-all structure, as evidence that a three-party America is possible. “If you gain attention in London, the rest of Britain follows, but America requires heavy investment in hundreds of large population centers,” he wrote. “The only way to fund that is to locate and recruit the people who already see themselves as libertarians.”
Unlike past initiatives that focused on converting non-libertarians, Nekhaila said the project will follow a “discovery before persuasion” strategy prioritizing those who already agree with the party’s principles. He described this as “taking yes for an answer,” with the goal of building resources and momentum before expanding persuasion efforts. Nekhaila also introduced a subsidiary effort called “Operation Everywhere,” aimed at making libertarian candidates and ideas visible “to everyone, everywhere, every day.”
The project will begin by expanding an existing internal database of one million contacts, updating it with new information acquired from public resources, email appeals, and social media advertising. Respondents will be asked to affirm whether they identify as libertarian or libertarian-leaning, if they’d like to see the Libertarian Party on equal footing with the two major parties, and whether they’d be willing to help. The party plans to measure its success on a monthly basis, with donations funding further outreach and visibility.
According to the plan, each new supporter, donor, or increase in visibility will be treated as an “increment of success.” Nekhaila argues that even modest gains could eventually translate into electoral successes, with the long-term goal of giving the party enough prominence to influence governance “long before it achieves a majority.”
The project is being led by strategist Perry Willis, who previously designed Project Archimedes in the 1990s under then-chair Steve Dasbach. That effort produced record membership and revenue for the party at the time, with Nekhaila first alluding to its potential revival in remarks during an LNC meeting earlier this year. “Project Archimedes used only direct mail,” Nekhaila added. “What was done before on a small scale can now be done in a large way.”
Willis will work with advisor Jim Babka and the firm Iron Light, which will oversee data enhancement and advertising placements.
The party is seeking $48,000 in initial funding to launch the project, with half allocated to Iron Light for data enhancements and the remainder to cover email and advertising costs. Nekhaila said sustained growth in supporters, donors, and visibility will be critical to maintaining momentum.
“We aim to make our numbers constantly grow in the following areas, month after month […],” Nekhaila added. “Do that for a few years and we’ll achieve the ultimate goal, full parity with the Democrats and Republicans.”
Losertarians
The left is trying something new to defeat the right, bring the LP back to life.
If you have no seAts in congress, you have no voice.
I saw Rand Paul squawking about mean old President Trump blowing up drug runners on the
high seas. Seriously. Fluffy had his bowels in an uproar over our military killing drug runners.
No wonder Rand's neighbor beat him up.
Were it not for their anti-military stances. I would easily be a Libertarian.
I’m an “Independent” although I never vote for a Democrat.
I don’t like lot of Republican policies with regards to personal freedom. Democrats don’t even understand the concept of personal freedom. My rights are granted to me by God, not some government Toadie. Nor can those rights be
throttled by some government Toadie.
Many people can’t handle the responsibilities of Freedom.
That is what jails or isolated communities are for.
“””””Were it not for their anti-military stances. I would easily be a Libertarian.”””””
Ending the Border Patrol and INS and opening the borders?
Libertarian Party Platform:
Throw open the borders completely; only a rare individual (terrorist, disease carrier etc.) can be kept from freedom of movement through “political boundaries”, eliminate the Border Patrol and INS.
Homosexuals; total freedom in the military, gay marriage, adoption, child custody and everything else.
Abortion; zero restrictions or impediments full 9 months.
Pornography; no restraint, no restrictions.
Drugs; Meth, Heroin, Crack, and anything new that science and marketers can come up with, zero restrictions.
Advertising those drugs, prostitution, and pornography; zero restrictions.
Military Strength; minimal capabilities.
and they will not take a stand against pedophilia, they continue to debate it for decades as a child’s freedom.
However, in the current state of affairs in the USA, with a highly uneducated and unchurched populace, the LP ideals are folly.
This does not mean I think the Republican Party is awesome. It sucks. There are many good Republicans though, so that is currently the best option for voters.
“”””I think the LP has its place if the populace as a whole is well educated in civics and is moral.”””””
Their platform is what destroyed America, the left succeeded in mostly implementing it and it wiped us out.
Open Borders - even worse than the Democrats on that issue.
Saw them posting things that people should be able to freely cross the border - “not just those who have the blessing of the government.” If there is any legitimate function of the government, it is securing the border and knowing who from the outside is entering our territory.
They’re nuts.
Without defensible and defended borders there is no nation to represent.
This is kinda basic stuff.
Only dumb Democrats and Libertarians can’t understand it.
I went to one of their meetings back in ‘88 when I was in college. They seemed like old hippies who didn’t want to get arrested for doing drugs.
So now, almost 40 years later they’ve decided to put the bong down and try to grow their membership?
Boy do I stand corrected.
I haven’t even looked at
their party platform in years.
It used to be more sensible.
That platform is for nutcases.
I guess I stay Independent!
Their party platform NEVER changed, their positions remain the same.
The only slight difference is their first platform or two (1972-6) had a couple of items not mentioned because they were not issues yet, but the positions never changed.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
The vast majority of those who were ever Libertarian was because they wanted to smoke dope legally. Now that it is legal in most states, the party has no Reason to exist.
They should concentrate efforts on states that are effectively one-party right now (e.g. Massachusetts, California). In those places, voters won’t see a Libertarian ballot as a throw awaysince the Republican is not in much better shape on the statewide ticket.
There is enough bickering among the libertarians that I do not believe it can ever be a stable coalition. The pot-head contingent, the open borders contingent, the minarchist/anarchist contingent, the state rights contingent not only have different priorities, but are often at odds with each other. The most pro-abort and the most anti-abort are among the libertarians, each claiming the same underlying principles of basic human rights.
Many in the Libertarian Party even showed a fat streak of yellow during Covid. This non-libertarian acted more libertarian than many during that period.
How do you grow what is pitiful?
I thought libertarians win in 1992
No doubt Republicans are flawed but at least they pretend to try
Libertarians only help elect the party hell bent on destroying our country
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