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.
David Leyonhjelm will pursue state office instead to fight restrictive, nannying laws.
The interaction began when he was stopped by the side of the road trying to power-wash stenciled messages on a dirty concrete barrier.
Winning candidates need to offer practical approaches that are appropriate for the offices they are seeking. Jeff Hewitt did exactly that.
Now the Party needs to register over 5,000 voters to get on the ballot in 2020, even though it already had that many before the state arbitrarily changed their registration.
John Kasich, Mark Cuban, and an army of op-ed political strategists are wrong if they think you can just whip up an independent presidential candidacy or new third party from scratch.
Party activists reflect after both a disappointing midterm and an energizing Jeff Hewitt win
Where does political libertarianism go after the midterms?
The L.P.'s biggest 2018 winner wants to tackle California's public sector pension crisis head-on
Running a campaign that stressed small-government values over the Libertarian Party label, the incumbent was still unable to prevail.
Digging in on one winnable small-total race comes very close to paying off for Libertarian strategist Apollo Pazell.
"Voters care more about party than literally anything else."
Wisconsin, Georgia, and even Alaska are among the 8 states where Libertarian candidates are polling more than the margin between Republicans and Democrats
L.P. contenders in Indiana, Nevada, and Missouri are beating the spread between Democrats and Republicans. Gary Johnson is right behind them.
Polling uncertainty and a surge in voter enthusiasm could make tomorrow an embarrassing day for many in the political class.
Two new surveys this week show the Libertarian fading fast in New Mexico, though his overall polling average remains at 17%.
The former New Mexico governor brings Reason on the campaign trail and shares insights along the way.
Montana L.P. candidate Rick Breckenridge says he was misinterpreted by a reporter.
2016 L.P. veep runner-up set to shatter the 50,000-vote threshold needed to make Libertarians a ballot-qualified party for the first time in state history
The Libertarian Party's candidate for governor speaks out.
"Fishman would bring a sorely needed independent streak to the office," the paper editorializes.
Weird new wrinkle for the purported "spoiler" in a toss-up race
Republicans and Democrats hate each other. They love their own power even more.
The New Mexico Libertarian Party's candidate for U.S. Senate trails incumbent Democrat Martin Heinrich (40%) and GOP novice Mick Rich (28%).
In one of the country's highest-profile campaigns, featuring Democratic heartthrob Stacey Abrams vs. Trumpian Secretary of State Brian Kemp, Ted Metz is likely pulling enough votes away to force a runoff.
If hatred is the country's main political motivator these days, you might as well lean into it.
To which many Libertarian Party enthusiasts might respond, So you're saying there's a chance?
There is no excuse to exclude high-performing Libertarians (or Greens) from "neck-and-neck" races
Libertarian haul is still dwarfed by the Democrat's, though a Rand Paul-friendly PAC is kicking in $2 million.
The scant evidence available suggests that inclusion of Libertarians in polls improves slightly the competitiveness of Republican candidates
New ideas, like leasing naming rights for public bridges and buildings, would save taxpayers money.
Former L.P. veep pick says 2016 emphasis on the "six-lane highway" down the middle of the road "might have been a fundamental error."
Reason's Matt Welch sat down with the popular libertarian writer and podcaster to discuss his ideological journey, his LP plans, and controversial past associations.
Nicholas Sarwark, who's also running for mayor of Phoenix, explains how Democrats and Republicans write their own rules when it comes to political competition.
Green Party candidate also left out of debate that will include only two of the four candidates on the ballot.
It's running strong candidates in toss-up races in a historically tight election year, yet America's third party still finds itself routinely left off polls.
Factional politics heat up in the Libertarian Party.
Or is the L.P. our best bet for making a difference?
The New Mexico Senate race is 47%-26%-16% Democrat-Republican-Libertarian, according to the Albuquerque Journal.
Having a "one-punch" option to choose every candidate from a political party alters election results, changes politicians' behavior, and reinforces the advantage of the locally dominant party.
Last-minute Democrat-assisting reinstatement of "one-punch" balloting is struck down by the New Mexico Supreme Court
