Press Releases and Party News

Dear friend, It may be a slow election year but there are still some exciting races happening across the country…and you can help without even leaving your home!  Specifically, I want to bring to your attention the special election for California’s 32nd congressional district where Libertarian Christopher Agrella is running. The primary is on May […]

Your Monday Message from the Libertarian Party: Dear friend, Great news!  Obama is repealing “onerous” federal regulations! Unfortunately he’s not repealing any of the hundreds of thousands of federal regulations making it harder to start, expand or keep a business. Instead – in a payoff to his union boss campaign financiers – Obama repealed pro-transparency […]

Juan Williams, an Emmy Award-winning black liberal journalist who openly wept with joy during Barack Obama’s inauguration, is now seething with anger after the president terminated D.C.’s "Opportunity Scholarship Program" that would have allowed poor black children to attend the same distinguished schools as his daughters – calling greater choice in education "the key civil […]

Texas Libertarian Party officials successfully stopped a bill in the State Legislature that would have forced Libertarians to nominate their candidates at both taxpayer and greater party expense. HB 1892, sponsored by Republican State Rep. Leo Berman of Tyler, would have required all political parties to nominate their candidates through taxpayer-funded primaries, ending the practice […]

Financial and legal expert Vern McKinley, in research for the Cato Institute, diagnoses the illness plaguing America’s financial sector and prescribes a treatment that will get the economy growing again — economic liberty and a return to the free markets that have been progressively abandoned over history. He writes, in part: Beyond the inconsistencies and […]

My Internship at the Libertarian National CommitteeIrena SchneiderPresident of American University Students for Liberty It’s hard to imagine that after three months, my time at the Libertarian Party is coming to a close. As all kinds of final moments necessitate some time for reflection, I can think of the many tasks I’ve taken on and […]

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other Democrat leaders are warning Democrat members of Congress not to support a measure by Rep. Jeff Flake to investigate ties between key Democrats and a controversial defense lobbying firm, The Hill reports today. At issue are contributions made by the now-defunt PMA Group lobbying firm to the campaigns of […]

According to analysis published today by the Associated Press, "Obama’s latest budget-tightening effort hardly makes a dime’s worth of differenc." In a toughly-worded article, AP writers Andrew Taylor and Calvin Woodward take Obama to task for asking his Cabinet to find $100 million in budget savings — much of it in already-proposed ideas — and […]

Dear friend, Did you hear?  Obama’s cutting the budget! Unfortunately, it’s only $100 million, which comes out to 0.0027 percent of the $3.6 trillion in spending he is imposing on current and future taxpayers.  Much of it is simply things like buying office supplies in bulk, or one-time cuts that do nothing to cure long-term […]