On the Syrian ceasefire

Near the end of February, after five years of civil war, a ceasefire quietly took affect in Syria. However the ceasefire is not meant to stop all fighting in the …

Maine Secretary of State Declines to Furnish Copies of Rejected Libertarian Voter Registration Cards for Upcoming Court Hearing

As reported earlier, the Maine Libertarian Party is in court over whether it should be a qualified party. The law requires a group that wants to be a party to have at least 5,000 registered members by December 1 of the year before the election. The party submitted 6,700 voter registration forms showing the applicant had registered “Libertarian” by the deadline, but election officials said only 4,513 are valid. For the lawsuit, the party’s attorney asked the Secretary of State for copies of all voter registration cards that were rejected. On March 4, the attorney for …read more

New Mexico Town Councilmember Will Run for Legislature as an Independent

Guadalupe Cano, one of the four town councilmembers of Silver City, New Mexico, will run for the State House of Representatives this year as an independent candidate. No independent has ever been elected to the New Mexico legislature. New Mexico didn’t even permit independent candidates until 1977.
The last time a member of any party, other than the Democratic and Republican Parties, was elected to the New Mexico legislature was 1914, when one Socialist and one Progressive were elected. However, New Mexico eliminated the straight-ticket device in 2011, so that will help Cano. …read more

Who is the new co-sponsor for the Fiscal Responsibility Act?

Let’s expand the demand for the Fiscal Responsibility Act Retweet

In February, we told you that Representative Ron Blum (R-IA) has introduced one of our agenda items, the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2016 (FRA – HR 4476). It requires Congress to balance the budget or take a pay cut!

Now we’re pleased to announce that FRA already has a co-sponsor — Representative Ron DeSantis from Florida!

You can take action to reinforce good behavior and provide an incentive for other representatives to join.
Please tweet Representative DeSantis to thank him for co-sponsoring the Fiscal Responsibility Act. Here’s what we recommend; copy and paste this… …read more

Edward Snowden’s Talk from Liberty Forum 2016!

Credit needs to be given where it’s due: The Free State Project having arranged Edward Snowden to give a (remote) keynote speech at the 2016 Liberty Forum was awesome. If anything, I’m pleased just to know that Edward Snowden knows that the Free State Project in itself exists. But it ended up being a pretty fair keynote speech at that (and apparently, he said at the end–during the applause–that he may consider moving to New Hampshire under “the right conditions”…which I would assume means when New Hampshire declares independence and secedes from the United States…and I’m serious about that).
SIDE NOTE: …read more