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There were three critical swing states in which the Green Party appeared on the ballot in 2016 and didn’t appear in 2020. The states of Arizona, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania all removed the Green Party from the presidential election in 2020, with Democratic operatives using underhanded tactics to kick them off. Labor activist Howie Hawkins was the Green Party’s 2020 presidential nominee. In 2016, the Green Party nominee Jill Stein won more than 34,000 votes in Arizona. If a Green Party candidate had appeared with ballot access in the state in 2020, he or she would’ve been sure to win enough...

Hofstra University will host the first gubernatorial debate between GOP candidate Carl Paladino, Democratic opponent Andrew Cuomo and five third-party candidates on Monday, Oct. 18. All seven candidates said they plan to attend, including Anti-Prohibition Party candidate Kristin Davis, Freedom Party candidate Charles Barron, Green Party candidate Howie Hawkins, Libertarian Party candidate Warren Redlich and Jimmy McMillan of the Rent is too Damn High Party. The debate comes after Paladino accused Cuomo of avoiding a debate. It also comes two years after the university hosted the third and final Presidential debate in 2008. “This election is a critical one for...

ALBANY, N.Y. -- Green Party candidate for U.S. Senate Howie Hawkins on Monday urged progressive Democrats to declare independence from Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton because she has ignored liberal causes to prop up the military and corporate America. "Expecting the Democrats to end the Iraq war is like expecting crack addicts to turn in their dealers," said Hawkins, 53, of Syracuse. "I think she's always been a corporate candidate." Hawkins, a soft-spoken UPS Inc. loading dock worker, pitched his three top issues in a news conference: Withdrawal from Iraq; expanding Medicare into universal health care instead of depending on more...