He thinks the government's COVID-19 reactions are overdone, and would like to run a campaign emphasizing fiscal restraint, agency downsizing, full marijuana legalization, and a non-imperial presidency.
The longtime anti-drug-war jurist drafts Larry Sharpe as a running mate.
Coronavirus didn't help, but Chafee was already disappointed his anti-war message wasn't more resonant with the Libertarian establishment.
Austin, where America's third party is scheduled to have its national convention May 21-25, is in lockdown mode.
Future of Freedom Foundation founder outpolls the competition in California and North Carolina
In between Trump's restrictionism and Democrats' Medicare-for-all-undocumented enthusiasm lies a party basically unified behind mass immigration without welfare.
The former Rhode Island governor and senator said state-level legalization efforts are “interesting, positive experiments.”
Chafee may be the first in an eventual wave of former Republicans seeking the Libertarian presidential nod.
"It's doubtful there's a sufficient market for a pro-life/pro-impeachment independent in the district to allow him a path to a sixth term," concludes the Cook Political Report.
Because the world needs another ballot access Christmas carol.
What we won't see at tonight's debate is far more important than what's going to be on display.
Former South Carolina congressman and governor, who'd been running on debt/deficits, says impeachment has sucked all the oxygen out of the room.
Jacob Hornberger becomes the latest back-to-basics libertarian to enter the Libertarian presidential race.
Senator can't even accurately represent a plan whose numbers don't remotely add up
The 2008 Libertarian Party presidential ticket continues to run interference for the embattled Republican president.
Dave Smith and Nicholas Sarwark debate the 2016 Libertarian Party ballot, what constitutes success in an election, and how to effectively share libertarian principles.
Dave Smith and Nicholas Sarwark debate the 2016 Libertarian Party ticket, what constitutes success in an election, and how to effectively share libertarian principles.
The man who couldn't win a GOP primary on his home turf as an incumbent is polling at just 4%—though even that is better than Bill Weld.
The libertarian-leaning Republican was unseated after criticizing, among several things, the president's poor grasp of the Constitution.
"I don't think he would be a great candidate for us," says one of the independent congressman's leading would-be competitors
Vanity Fair overstates the work it takes to be the Libertarian Party's presidential nominee.
He says partisan power structures have made government reforms impossible.
Riverside County Supervisor Jeff Hewitt is now the highest elected Libertarian Party member in the U.S.
While presidential speculation swirls, a second poll shows the congressman down double digits in a Republican primary he will no longer compete in
"The two-party system has evolved into an existential threat to American principles and institutions," Trump's congressional nemesis declares as he officially leaves the GOP.
McAfee lauds Che Guevara for being revolutionary and thinks Cuba is his last chance to avoid extradition for tax crimes.
The Libertarian Party's 1984 presidential nominee wanted his campaign to build for the future.
Competitors welcome chance to debate (and defeat!) the Republican congressman who is currently having a national moment.
If you had never heard of Amash before, it was a perfect introduction to his views on just about every significant issue. If you are familiar with him, it was a standout performance.
There aren't more like him in Congress. Which is why he might take the third-party plunge.
The president goes personal in his reply to a libertarian Republican congressman accusing him of obstruction of justice.
The libertarian-leaning senator also discusses his long, uphill fight to get U.S. troops out of Afghanistan.
The first Republican to primary the president is an ex-Libertarian worried about debt, divisiveness, and decorum.
Sobering reminder for all current and future Libertarians: A previously unknown mayor from a midsized Indiana college town will soon shatter the high-water fundraising numbers for America's third party.
The self-described "a-hole" defends his abrasive brand of in-your-face anarchism.
Republican congressman also tweets out tantalizingly cryptic Aragorn quote.
Voters "still want someone who is not a politician," the billionaire tells the Daily News. "And you're not getting that from anyone in the Democratic Party."
The libertarian Republican tells CNN's Jake Tapper "it is important that we have someone in there who is presenting a vision for America that is different from what these two parties are presenting."
The first semi-declared 2020 GOP challenger comes out blazing against the president while trying to wriggle off the hook about his recent Libertarian past.
Pro-choice, Obama-supporting "Libertarian for life" will take a "substantial" move Friday toward competing for the Republican presidential nomination.
Billionaire seeks ballot access, political party seeks cash, both hate the national debt...but Schultz is far more interventionist at home and abroad than, say, Bill Weld.
"As far as we're concerned he's a Libertarian and he can't flip-flop back and forth for political expediency," says New Hampshire GOP chair.
Riverside County Supervisor Jeff Hewitt delivers the L.P.'s prebuttal to tonight's SOTU, while the L.A. Times asks whether Hewitt can "make a fringe party mainstream."
Despite Weld's 14 months of party-building as a Libertarian, the local media and some of his allies are talking up a GOP primary challenge to Donald Trump
The antivirus visionary hopes Libertarians will credit him for "standing up and risking things" for freedom by campaigning in exile.
"That's me!" jokes Bill Weld, while calling Amash a "hero" and encouraging the congressman to run.
Shutdown teaches us that much of government is NOT essential.
