American Capitalist Party Planning First National Convention, Exploring New State Affiliate

The American Capitalist Party is beginning preparations for its first national convention. As part of general planning for 2026, the organization is also looking at establishing a state affiliate in Georgia.

In its December newsletter, the party stated that it is looking to hold its national convention September 18–20 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, though details are still tentative. It would be the first national convention held by the organization since it announced its formation at LibertyCon earlier in 2025. The party plans to release additional information in the coming months.

The email also outlined the agenda for the party’s December 20 meeting, which will focus on party-building efforts ahead of the 2026 cycle. While the agenda does not go into detail, it notes that part of the discussion will center on planning for a new Georgia affiliate. This would potentially be the party’s first formal state-level chapter, though it has previously been active in specific areas. A link will be provided closer to the meeting date, and the event will be hosted on X Spaces, making it publicly accessible.

As part of the meeting, leadership will also deliver a treasury report, provide a general update on active projects, and offer what it calls “party opposition insights.” The party added that it is streamlining its older website to redirect to the new national site and continuing development of an AI-powered chatbot that will provide information about the organization, its policies, and its national platform.

Only some unforeseen catastrophic change in the U.S. is going to open the political door to a major third party.

The Left has always recognized this and correctly just registered and run as Democrats even when actually Communists, Marxists, Socialists or Progressives - and helped shape the Democratic Party.

Social Conservatives were the only Conservative political grouping that recognized this and made their way into the GOP, and made their own contributions that helped shape it as it is today.

Libertarians, Constitutionalists, Capitalists and others keep weakening a collective right-of-center politics by being purists insisting on their own party, never making much national traction at all, and failing to add any weight to those they are closest to - other Conservatives.

“Why do people like you keep insisting on electing and re-electing backstabbing losers like McConnell and Lindsey Graham and John McCain? “

Why do you make up stories - lies about other people - that only please yourself?

Never did and never would have, if I could have, voted for McConnell, Graham or McPain.

As I noted, “purist” social Conservatives (Right to Life) decided NOT to start their own party, registered as Republicans, joined Republican groups in their states, started running for Congress and from the, and changed the GOP to more favorable social Conservative positions, beginning in the Reagan era.

Other Conservatives should consider that and do what social conservatives successfully did - build the GOP and make it more favorable towards them.

Fracturing Conservative votes with splintered purist parties of different Conservative stripes will surely make the country dominated everywhere by the Dims.

"Never did and never would have, if I could have, voted for McConnell, Graham or McPain."

Well, then, I apologize. I mean that sincerely. But if you refused to vote for McCain in the 2008 presidential election, doesn't that make you the very purist you now decry? So who are you attacking, yourself?

I'm sorry but overall in your whole message you seem terribly conflicted here. You have championed the very thing you abhor and seem to have claimed to participate in the very thing you decry.

It's just confusing. I hope you can clarify the details.

"Fracturing Conservative votes with splintered purist parties of different Conservative stripes will surely make the country dominated everywhere by the Dims."

It's a valuable threat. Highly valuable. The amount of apathy that currently exists among republican voters is extremely extreme and does have some guilt in the reasons why we had presidents like Obama and Biden, and the state of Georgia has two democrat senators. Georgia! For crying out loud. Yes, republican voters are in some way to blame for that for constantly saddling the U.S. for years with absolutely terrible left wing republican senators.

One way to threaten republican voters to wake the heck up is to make them feel heat like their precious party is going to be fractured. So wake up dummies, stop voting for hard left wing republicans!

This tactic often times works, BTW. The apathetic can be forced to stop their apathy if pushed hard enough. If we had a better way to stop apathy among republican voters I would be all in favor of it. But at the end of the day if its what we have to do, then its what we have to do. So the threat must be issued. We are being KILLED by apathy among these voters. How is it that some of the reddest states like Ohio, Alabama, Mississippi, Utah, and many others have some of the more left wing republicans out there?

It's voter apathy. Apathy, apathy, apathy. The GOP voter base is more dead asleep than Rip Van Winkle. What do we have to do to shake them and wake them up? What do we have to do???

"Fracturing Conservative votes with splintered purist parties of different Conservative stripes will surely make the country dominated everywhere by the Dims."

They are asleep. If they don't wake the heck up we're leaving. They are NOT worth uniting with. Absolutely frigging useless voters. Not, not, not, not worth it. They are delivering to us republicans that are exactly the same as the democrats. There isn't a point to sticking around with the heights of apathy we suffer under. It's like trying to swim with a boat anchor around each ankle.

"Other Conservatives should consider that and do what social conservatives successfully did - build the GOP and make it more favorable towards them."

Being a purist is exactly how this very thing works, did you even bother to examine the process from front to back before issuing your smears against unnamed "purists" who didn't deserve it? Here is the process: The purist way is to vote yes for the hard core conservatives and then let the left wing republicans lose their races by withholding your vote. That way the GOP's left wingers get sent home before they can do damage in Congress. Only conservatives should be allowed to win races - unless we're talking about Illinois, Maine, Oregon, etc.(Side note: I, for one, absolutely love Susan Collins. But Susan isn't a Senator from Alabama for crying out loud.)

It is a very good process. Voters can halt left wing republicans right there on election day. It's wonderful. Except when the apathy zombies flood the zone. That's why we keep getting the Cornyns and McConnells of the world. Apathy zombies.

I did not mean to imply I did not vote for McCain vs Obama.

But had I been an Arizonan I would have worked for someone besides McCain as a GOP candidate for Senator. All McCain ever had to run on (in my opinion) was hero worship as a POW survivor. I think being a POW survivor (from North Vietnam prisons) is something to be proud of but does not automatically confer any political or geopolitical insight. As a Senator he also kept helping the Dims old immigration reform hostage to amnesty - which was unforgivable enough, and he sided with Billary Inc on creating a destabilized Libya; a destabilized Libya which helped facilitate the illegal African migration flow into Europe; right in time for Ms Merkel’s stupid EU immigration policies.

I also held my nose again in 2012 and voted for Romney.

In both McCain and Romney neither one had a coherent economic, or governmental plan, and each lacked sufficient advocacy for some major reforms. But, neither would have done the country as much harm as Obama.

So, I have not been a purist, particularly not with Presidents, for even a so-so Presidents can get their feet held to the fire if enough Senators from their own party do not go along.

So I am not conflicted, as you suggest in error.

“The purist way is to vote yes for the hard core conservatives and then let the left wing republicans lose their races by withholding your vote. That way the GOP’s left wingers get sent home before they can do damage in Congress. “

A purist voting for some third party has never damaged a Republican in any primary, except possibly in a few states where the primary is “stupidly”, “open” - any one no matter their own party registration can vote in the primary for someone of another party (which defeats the whole purpose of primaries as means for party’s to select THEIR nonminees.

Libertarians and others voting as Libertarians have seldom if ever made - by their actions - a difference in who the GOP nominees are. They have more likely simply helped Dims win in the general election, by pulling their votes away from the GOP candidates they are allot more like than the Dims.

But a “purist” in the GOP, is IN THE GOP - not outside of it, and helps shape the party from within. They can help get better GOP candidates nominated - which is how evangelicals and other social Conservatives helped shape the GOP, from within, not from without.

"But a “purist” in the GOP, is IN THE GOP - not outside of it"

They are. For now. But no other tactics have proven to have success against the apathy zombies besides leveling threats toward them.

If you can think of better ways to break the apathy, I'm all for it. Lacking any other options, I'll continue to see leaving the party for a third option as viable. I will continue to threaten the apathy zombies. They need to be threatened with universal danger to get them to move. Just, do something! They're so lazy! OMG are they so lazy.

This is the universal question nobody seems to want to answer, or if they do want to answer it they fail to come up with any solutions:

How can we break the extremely extreme apathy among republican voters?

This ^^^ is what I hope to see from you, Wuli. Thank you for your continued conversation. I do appreciate it, and again I apologize since I did not have enough information to form a more cogent opinion. When someone uses that word "purist", it is generally a vicious and unwarranted attack.

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