By Cathy ReisenwitzOriginally published in LPNews, 2022 Spring Edition As the War on Drugs begins to ramp down after 50 years of failure and devastation, authoritarians are hardly going quietly into that good night. The nanny state never sleeps, and the new moral panic is the scourge of sex work and pornography. Lawmakers are […]
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Bus Life: The Ladies Behind Lady Liberty
From LP News | Vol. 50, Issue 3 | Quarter 3, 2020 By Kate Prather • LP Texas 2020 has been quite a year, especially for campaigning, with there being no exceptions for our presidential candidate’s campaign. Conventions, petitioning, fundraising, event planning, and campaigning have all had to take very interesting and innovative approaches to […]
Frontier Project Candidate Elected to Wyoming House
Marshall Burt’s historic statehouse win is first since 2002, fifth in party history From LP News | Vol. 50, Issue 3 | Quarter 3, 2020 By Andy Craig • Maryland For the first time in a generation, a Libertarian has been elected to a state legislature. Marshall Burt, a track inspector for the Union Pacific […]
‘First they came for the Greens’: Duopoly attacks Texas Libertarians
From LP News | Vol. 50, Issue 3 | Quarter 3, 2020 By Bekah Congdon • LPHQ Development Associate For anyone who has been around the Libertarian Party for more than one election cycle, you will be familiar with the fights — plural — we endure to be placed on the ballot. Long before we […]
Historic LP Texas State Convention Meets Online, Names New All-Female Leadership
From LP News | Vol. 50, Issue 3 | Quarter 3, 2020 By Chris Clemence • LPHQ Stewardship Associate The Libertarian Party of Texas bore witness to profound change this convention season. After a 103-day delay, the state convention moved 500 miles across the state to host both in-person and online delegates as they elected […]
Crossing the Rubicon: Why it’s so hard to be a Libertarian
From LP News | Vol. 50, Issue 3 | Quarter 3, 2020 By John Mills • Washington In 1776, Thomas Jefferson penned these famous and radical words: “Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.” King George III, and indeed his entire court, lawyers all over the United […]
Court Upholds First Amendment Rights in Oklahoma Right-of-Way Case
From LP News | Vol. 50, Issue 3 | Quarter 3, 2020 By Chris Powell • Oklahoma LP On Aug. 31, the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of the plaintiffs in McCraw et al v. City of Oklahoma City, upholding free speech by overturning a city ordinance banning people from standing in […]
From the Chair: Schrödinger’s Vote & Electing Libertarians
From LP News | Vol. 50, Issue 3 | Quarter 3, 2020 By Joe Bishop-Henchman • LNC Chair I spent Election Day 2020 on Wyoming sidewalks in 30-degree weather, helping rally voters for Libertarian candidates. After a night fretting about election results, I spent the next day with State Rep.-elect Marshall Burt (L-WY) — I […]