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Libertarian National Committee Chair Steven Nekhaila has issued a public statement criticizing the behavior of Colorado Chair Hannah Goodman after she sent derogatory messages to another user from one of the state party’s official social media accounts. On Tuesday, The Denver Post reported that Goodman had privately sent disparaging comments to an individual while using the Libertarian Party of Colorado’s official X account. According to the report, Goodman used anti-gay slurs and made remarks disparaging individuals with disabilities during an exchange with a critic of the party’s social media presence. The conversation eventually escalated to the point where the individual...

By gaining a deeper understanding of the philosophy behind Peter Thiel, we can learn where the second Trump administration is headed. Meet the Man Whose Philosophy Has Influenced Peter Thiel and the Technocrats By gaining a deeper understanding of the philosophy behind Peter Thiel, we can learn where the second Trump administration is headed. As it becomes clear the acolytes of Technocrat and faux-libertarian Peter Thiel will wield power in the second Trump administration, it is increasingly important to understand some of the influences behind Thiel and his fellow Technocrats. One of the largest influences on Thiel’s thinking is a...

Julian Assange's 14-year saga as a fugitive and prisoner may be coming to an end. The Wikileaks founder has agreed to plead guilty to a felony charge with the U.S. Justice Department in exchange for no additional prison time. He has already served 5 years in a maximum security prison in England after spending 7 years hiding in an Ecuadorian Embassy. Assange would only agree to a hearing outside of U.S. soil. Last month he won his right to appeal an extradition order. High Court judges Victoria Sharp and Jeremy Johnson ruled for Assange after his lawyers argued that the...

Plans are underway to create “Freedom Cities” — privately controlled corporate enclaves that would operate outside federal oversight — across the United States.According to Wired, a coalition of tech billionaires, venture capitalists, and corporate advocacy groups is drafting congressional legislation and meeting with the Trump administration to bring these experimental cities to U.S. soil.The outlets reports that these cities would be “free from certain federal laws,” allowing unregulated human longevity trials, nuclear reactor startups, and unrestricted infrastructure projects to move forward without government approval. As Wired puts it:The goal of these cities would be to have places where anti-aging clinical...

The Libertarian Party of San Francisco passed resolutions this month denouncing recent immigration policies enacted by the Trump administration, as well as the decision by former Libertarian National Committee Chair Angela McArdle to award President Donald Trump an honorary lifetime membership with the party. According to a statement from the party published on social media, both resolutions were adopted by those in attendance at the party’s February 8 meeting. The party did not specify how many members attended, only noting that the resolutions were unanimously approved. The statement also reiterated that only Libertarian Party of California members affiliated with the...

In November 2023, the warning came, as clear as an omen. A political upstart was seeking office and, if elected, his policies were likely to cause “devastation” in his own country and “severely reduce policy space in the long run.” The threat was a chainsaw-wielding disciple of Austrian economics from Argentina who embraced laissez-faire economics. The predictions of doom came not from Old Testament prophets, but 108 economists who signed a public letter saying his anachronistic ideas had long ago been discredited. “As economists from around the world who are supportive of broad-based economic development in Argentina, we are especially...

@elonmusk: Those who know, please reply to this post listing all the evil things that NED has done. It’s a long list. https://x.com/elonmusk/statu After that merciless arm-twisting, I have no choice but to recap my National Endowment for Democracy bashes going back to shortly after it was launched in 1983. In a November 29, 1985 piece in the Oakland Tribune, I hailed NED as “one of the newest, most prestigious boondoggles on the Potomac.” But there were plenty of scoffers early on: “NED has been called many things—an International Political Action Committee, the Taxpayer Funding of Foreign Elections Program, and...

WASHINGTON, June 25 (UPI) -- The Iraq war has demonstrated the limits of American power, not the capabilities, according Stefan Halper, a policy aide under Ronald Reagan's presidency. This is "what people around the world see," said Halper, and "that's a very frightening development." Halper, who served under Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford and Reagan in the White House and State Department, made the comments at the New America Foundation, a bipartisan think tank that hosted the presentation of his book, "America Alone: The Neo-Conservatives and the Global Order" in Washington Wednesday. He described the policies of the neo-conservatives as...

Across Hungary, George Soros’s aged face dominates bus stops, pedestrian pathways, and major intersections with the cryptic message, “Don’t let Soros have the last laugh.” Last laugh? A tag line explained the allusion: “99% reject illegal immigration.” The anti-Soros ad campaign conflates the controversial financier’s investments in leftwing political causes, including open borders, with the European Union’s ongoing effort to force Hungary and other EU countries to accept an annual quota of illegal immigrants. To redistribute hundreds of thousands of people who arrived in Italy and Greece in 2015, the EU assigned each member state a compulsory number: 1,294 for...

The Arizona Libertarian Party is calling for the suspension and formal investigation of Libertarian National Committee Chair Angela McArdle, citing allegations of undisclosed ties to a voter outreach company used by the party and a potential conflict of interest. The party is also urging an inquiry into other alleged unethical disbursements of party funds. The statement, initially shared on X and later sent as an email to the Libertarian National Committee, urges the Committee to suspend Chair Angela McArdle and formally investigate her alleged involvement with a phone banking and canvassing company the Committee used last year. The Arizona Libertarian...

@TheHodeman I again reiterate that Trump will likely free Ross Ulbricht. The chair of the Libertarian Party assures us that she has a deal in place with him. According to her, she's busy working on getting ANOTHER political prisoner freed (I'm interested to see who!). The chair also said that he tried to free Ross during his first term and the papers were slow-walked back. If this is true, the pardon is basically a guarantee. The pardons were always scheduled to take place after the Inauguration Party tonight. I understand we're all eager to see him freed. I, too, am...

The Liberal Party USA announced plans over the weekend for a training conference to be held later this year in Texas. The event, which the party has called “The New Frontier Summit,” is scheduled for Memorial Day Weekend 2025 in Houston. “We are the party of the future… Save the date for The New Frontier Summit on Memorial Day Weekend 2025 in Houston, TX!” the party stated in an advertisement promoting the event. While specific details about the summit have not yet been released, an accompanying graphic produced by the party indicated it will serve as both a strategy summit...

TTT TELL THE TRUTH. TELLING THE TRUTH ABOUT THE ORIGINS OF THE CRIMINAL PREDATORS DECIMATING OUR COUNTRY We see the lies of the OLD MEDIA. The illegal invaders who commit crimes in our towns, cities, neighborhoods are tagged with our community and sometimes our state as their origin. Stop the lie. Append FOREIGN NATIONAL to EVERY headline. If the origin is known...that is the descriptor. These people are not us. Not Americans. Call them what they are! Stop the OLD MEDIA from hurting our country and citizens.

Indigenous lawmakers broke into a tribal dance to protest a bill in New Zealand's parliament.To reject a piece of legislation proposed by the island country's libertarian party, a bunch of Māori members of Parliament (MPs) staged a protest by busting out the "haka," a Māori war dance traditionally used to terrify enemies on the battlefield.Māori members of New Zealand’s parliament disrupted the passage of a bill that would reinterpret the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi, which uplifts Indigenous peoples. The MPs performed a haka—a traditional Māori dance and chant—causing the session to be suspended. pic.twitter.com/89VhB1aqAS— red. (@redstreamnet) November 14, 2024The disruption...

WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump plans to announce at the Libertarian National Convention on Saturday that he intends to commute "Silk Road" website operator Ross Ulbricht's life in prison sentence, according to a source familiar with the matter. Ulbricht was sentenced to life in federal prison in 2015 for creating and operating a hidden website known as the "Silk Road" that people used to buy and sell drugs, among other illegal goods and services. Many libertarians have called for Ulbricht's release. At the convention on Saturday, the crowd was filled with "free Ross" signs and took up chants in...

Libertarian National Committee Chair Angela McArdle stated in an email on Friday that she is already in communication with Republican Donald Trump’s team regarding the appointment of a libertarian to a cabinet position in his incoming administration. In the email to party supporters, McArdle extended her “heartfelt thanks and appreciation” to Libertarian nominees Chase Oliver and Mike ter Maat, their campaign team, and their supporters, describing 2024 as “the most challenging election year in the party’s history.” McArdle acknowledged that, while the Libertarian Party did not win the presidency, she believes it will still have an influence on the incoming...

With just days to go before the general election, the Colorado secretary of state is facing a lawsuit over the leak of sensitive election system passwords that were inadvertently left exposed for months on her office’s website. The lawsuit, filed Friday in Denver District Court by the Libertarian Party of Colorado and James Wiley, the Libertarian candidate for Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District seat, names Jena Griswold, the Democratic secretary of state, and Chris Beall, the deputy secretary of state, as defendants. Hannah Goodman, the Libertarian Party state chair, is also named as a plaintiff. The suit had not yet appeared...

Leader of the Mises Caucus, paid by the LNC, Michael Heise has announced that he will be voting for Donald Trump. He did this on an obscure media site. National Chair Angela McArdle then forwarded Haise’s endorsement … to her decidedly not obscure X.com account. Behold the disgraceful conduct of the National Committee, sending endorsements of the Republican candidate to all and sundry.

I appreciate the many secular, even atheistic and non-Christian voices that have pushed back against radical trans-activism. They have spoken loudly and clearly and boldly and fearlessly. Good for them! But if America is to be changed in a lasting, positive way, we cannot only push back against what is wrong. We must also present what is right, namely, that human beings are created in the image of God, thereby endowed with morality and purpose and significance, and that He created us male and female. That’s why those of us with a biblically based faith must lead the way.

Libertarian Party of Tennessee Chair Josiah Baker wrote on Tuesday that he opposes the Libertarian Party presidential ticket of Chase Oliver and Mike Ter Maat, and is instead endorsing an alternate ticket of Clint Russell and Josie Glabach. In an opinion article shared via the Libertarian Party of Tennessee’s X account, Baker expressed his belief that the Libertarian ticket of Chase Oliver and Mike ter Maat does not align with the values and goals of the LPTN. He cited several primary reason for his opposition to the campaign, including his view that Oliver is a weak advocate for the Second...