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The Libertarian Party of Colorado passed a resolution this week refusing to nominate the ticket of Chase Oliver and Mike ter Maat, selected at the party’s national convention last month. Additionally, it called on the Libertarian National Committee to decertify the ticket. The resolution, announced via X on Monday, was passed by the party’s Board of Directors, who said the decision was made to uphold the party’s core principles and ensure that its candidates genuinely represent their values and strategies. To that end, the party will not place the ticket on its ballot later this year. The resolution comes one...

In a video received by Independent Political Report earlier today, former Libertarian Party Vice-Presidential nominee Wayne Allyn Root (who ran with 2008 presidential nominee former Congressman Bob Barr) claims credit for “masterminding the suicide of the LP” as a result of his role in arranging the speech by former President Trump to delegates attending the 2024 Libertarian presidential nominating convention... A partial transcript of his remarks follows; a link to the full video can be found below. ROOT: Trump did something historic last Saturday. It’s long forgotten; . . . He was willing to address a hostile audience, get boos,...

The Abandon Biden Campaign announced last week that it will continue to oppose President Joe Biden into November. The campaign was influential in rallying support for the uncommitted option during the Democratic primary season. In a press release last Thursday, the campaign reiterated its commitment to oppose Biden in the general election, criticizing his support of Israeli actions in Gaza and condemning his policies as “diplomacy theater.” They specifically highlighted Biden’s failure to enforce meaningful “redlines,” which they argue enables ongoing violence. A full copy of the press release is available here. “We will not stand by,” the organization stated....

A huge pro-Palestine protest at the White House has descended into chaos with smoke bombs let off and attendees claiming they were maced. Thousands of demonstrators gathered in Washington on Saturday calling for a ceasefire on Gaza. Video shows smoke billowing in front of the White House as a speaker delivers a speech to a crowd calling Israel a 'butcher of Gaza'. Independent journalist Ford Fischer shared a photo of his bloodshot face claiming that mace had been deployed on the crowds during an attempted arrest. In another clip cops can be seen making their way through the throngs to...

Petrified Columbia University students who have felt “harassed and intimidated” by anti-Israel protests which have gripped their college and disrupted learning for months will be provided safety escorts on campus. The move is part of a settlement in a lawsuit filed on Tuesday in Manhattan federal court, where the Ivy League school will now offer “walking escorts” across campus and appoint a “safe passage liaison” to address any students concerns over protests. Additionally, accommodations will be made for students who were displaced by the protests and couldn’t finish exams or assignments. It resolves a proposed class action filed by a...

Libertarian Party of Colorado Chair Hannah Goodman reportedly stated that she will support Republican Donald Trump over Libertarian nominee Chase Oliver in a recent interview with local Colorado media. In a CPR News article on Monday exploring third party candidates running for Colorado’s fourth congressional district, Goodman, identified as the Colorado party chair, primarily discusses her dual campaign for both the upcoming special and general elections. However, during the interview, she also discloses to the publication her intention to vote for Republican former President Donald Trump over the Libertarian Party nominee. “[Hannah] said she plans to vote for the presumed...

The Montana Libertarian Party announced on Tuesday that it has officially rejected Libertarian nominee Chase Oliver, urging other affiliates to do the same and calling for the national party leadership to suspend and replace him as the nominee. In a statement made over social media on Tuesday, the Montana Libertarian Party stated that it does not believe the Oliver campaign advances the party’s goals for the state, which it views as its main priority. The statement further called on other state affiliates to follow their lead in rejecting Oliver’s candidacy and urged the Libertarian National Committee to consider suspending and...

Former Republican House Majority Leader Tom DeLay of Texas recently praised the Constitution Party’s Randall Terry and Stephen Broden and called on supporters to financially support the ticket in airing television and radio ads. According to a statement on the homepage of the Terry campaign’s official website, DeLay praises the campaign’s “3-D battle plan,” calling on his fellow Republicans to rally behind the ticket’s priorities. While he never explicitly mentions voting, DeLay states that he is financially supporting the ticket so that it can air a series of video and radio spots nationwide, urging others to do the same. “The...

A group of teens forced a woman to miscarry with a brutal attack after she and her husband dared to stray onto a Chicago street that the youths claimed as their own. The 41-year-old mother was returning home with her husband from a date night on Friday when they were surrounded by at least 10 young people in the city's notorious Streeterville neighborhood. The woman, who gave her name only as Nina, told Fox32 that she was pepper-sprayed in the face, kicked in the stomach and lost a clump of hair as her husband was held back by the mob....

A Jewish-American Army Major has resigned from his post in protest at US support for Israel's 'ethnic cleansing' of Palestinians that has starved and killed 'tens of thousands of civilians'. Major Harrison Mann told CBS that Israel's response to the October 7 attack has 'turned the whole world against it' and imperiled the security of both Jews and Israel. The Defense Intelligence Agency analyst offered his resignation in November as casualties mounted in Gaza following Israel's invasion, and spoke out on Tuesday as he formally stepped down after 13 years. 'I'm confident saying it's certainly some measure of ethnic cleansing,'...

Scott Adams blames Israel for the ADL. See the video for his specific comments.

Russia strongly condemns Israeli airstrikes on the outskirts of Syria's Aleppo; these aggressive actions grossly violate Syria's sovereignty and international law, the Russian Foreign Ministry said. "Moscow strongly condemns these aggressive actions, which come in gross violation of Syria's sovereignty and basic rules of international law," the ministry stressed. "Such use of force, which in the current tense regional situation can lead to extremely dangerous consequences and trigger a large-scale armed escalation, are unacceptable," it added. The Russian Foreign Ministry "once again urges the Israeli leadership to abandon this vicious practice fraught with uncontrolled destabilization of the situation in the...

Celebrities with dual citizenship include Emily Blunt with the U.K., Natalie Portman with Israel, Jim Carrey with Canada, and Nicole Kidman with Australia. In Congress, a representative must be a U.S. citizen for the prior seven years, while a senator must be a citizen for the past nine. However, the U.S. allows a citizen to obtain dual citizenship with another nation. Indeed, some prominent Congress members are (or have been) dual citizens... The exact number of U.S. dual citizens is unknown, because the government does not officially track it. The Dual Loyalty Disclosure Act would mandate that political candidates for...

Fire Commissioner Laura Kavanagh has named a pastor with no clinical experience to run the FDNY’s counseling services for firefighters and medics struggling with mental-health problems — an appointment that will require the department to hire another licensed supervisor at taxpayer expense to plug the gap. Kavanagh tapped Ann Kansfield, the FDNY’s first female and openly gay chaplain, as chief of the department’s Counseling Services Unit, which runs a staff of psychologists and therapists who conduct screening, assessment and treatment of job candidates and ailing first-responders. Kansfield, 48, whom Kavanagh has called her “spiritual muse” — served as one of...

The Kremlin said on Friday that Donald Trump's guilty verdict showed that all legal and illegal means were being used in the United States to get rid of political rivals. Donald Trump became the first U.S. president to be convicted of a crime on Thursday when a New York jury found him guilty of falsifying documents to cover up a payment to silence a porn star ahead of the 2016 election. "If we speak about Trump, the fact that there is simply the elimination, in effect, of political rivals by all possible means, legal and illegal, is obvious", Kremlin spokesman...

The U.S. government is closing in on a deal to fund a late-stage trial for an mRNA pandemic bird flu vaccine made by Moderna, the Financial Times reported Thursday, as the country battles an H5N1 outbreak in cattle and poultry farms. Citing unnamed people close to the discussion, the Financial Times reported federal funding worth “several tens of millions of dollars” will come from the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) likely sometime next month. The purported deal with the federal agency also includes a commitment to purchase a stockpile of doses if the trials prove successful. The government...

The Democratic Party is seeking a project manager to gather campaign information and track the progress of third party and independent candidates such as Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Cornel West, and Jill Stein, according to a now-removed advertisement. The advertisement, initially posted by the Democratic Party on the applicant tracking site Lever and LinkedIn, stated that the party is seeking to hire a “Third Party & Independent Project Manager.” According to the advertisement, the project manager will be “tasked with overseeing and managing 3PI-related work in respective states, as well as overseeing an aspect of the program.” The posting goes...

Libertarians for Kennedy, a group of Libertarians who sought to nominate independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at the party convention, proposed a strategic plan on Wednesday to place Kennedy on certain state ballots. This effort aims to improve future ballot access for the party while also helping Kennedy participate in the presidential debates. The group initially invited Kennedy to seek the presidential nomination of the Libertarian Party at its convention held this past weekend. The invitation included a letter signed by several state Libertarian Party leaders, delegation chairs, and an alternate regional member of the Libertarian National Committee. Kennedy...

Libertarian National Committee Chair Angela McArdle appeared to withhold immediate support for the Libertarian Party ticket of Chase Oliver and Mike ter Maat on Tuesday, instead urging members to prioritize the potential benefits of a 2024 Trump administration. “Everyone is understandably flipping out right now. I will have more to say this weekend,” McArdle said on Tuesday. “For now, I will say that I delivered an incredible convention, with the help of my amazing staff and volunteers. All of my critics were WRONG. I made the right call to invite Donald Trump and if libertarians can behave themselves, he will...

Jenna Ortega has called for a ceasefire in Gaza months after her former Scream VII co-star was fired for voicing support for Palestinians... 'Masses debating over a ceasefire while thousands upon thousands of children continue being slaughtered. Where is the humanity,' she wrote... Ortega's former Scream VII co-star Melissa Barrera was in November dumped from the horror film after making her own posts in support of Palestinians. However, hers were more provocative than Ortega's and were deemed 'hate speech' by production company Spyglass. 'Gaza is currently being treated like a concentration camp,' she wrote in one Instagram story. 'Cornering everyone...