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On February 4, the Florida Supreme Court issued a unanimous opinion in Brinkmann v Francois, SC14-1899. It agrees with the Florida State Court of Appeals that write-in candidates in general elections are “real” candidates.
The case arose because Florida has closed primaries, except in instances when all the candidates who file are members of the same party and the winner of that one party’s primary will be be the only candidate in November. At the 2014 election for Broward County Commissioner, district 2, all the candidates who filed for any primary filed for the Democratic primary. But, one …read more

A case I’ve made often on my science and tech podcast, Sovryn Tech, is a case that was originally made by the pioneering and important work of ex-Microsoft employee, Caspar Bowden (and I make sure to credit him every time I bring it up). Caspar had spent years–long before Edward Snowden revealed anything–explaining and proving how just through very open facts “on the books” that there is NO data privacy from the US government for any consumer that is using the services/software/etc. of a corporation that is set up within the United States (ie: Google, Apple, Microsoft, and so on). …read more

Jim Murray has been a student of Nikola Tesla’s work for decades and his inventions based this work have been nothing short of paradigm shifting.
In a recent interview with the Free Thought Project, Murray explained that he was fascinated by Tesla’s incredible claims concerning power generation and transmission, and he vowed to rediscover the great scientist’s undisclosed secrets. Jim’s efforts eventually led him to individuals like Otis T. Carr, who claimed to have known Tesla personally. They also gave him a greater understanding of several lost Tesla secrets.
Murray devoted his life to learning these secrets and because the government seized …read more

NOTICE: The amicus brief we proposed for U.S. v. Graham has been filed by our sister organization, Downsize DC Foundation. You can read about it on the Zero Aggression blog. In fact, you can actually download a pdf of the brief, which is only 7 pages long. Thanks to all who contributed to make this happen.
A great start on One Subject bill by Mia Love & Rand Paul. The next move… Retweet

In our last message, we told you that Representative Mia Love of Utah has re-introduced our “One Subject at a Time Act” (HR 4335) in the House. We told …read more

Scott McLarty, media spokesperson for the Green Party, has this essay at Counterpunch. One of the original ideas is that while Bernie Sanders is campaigning, and easily available (at least for New Hampshire residents), he should be asked to take a position on the Commission on Presidential Debates. …read more

Billings, MT — In January of 2015, two former Yellowstone County Sheriff’s deputies Jason Robinson and Christopher Rudolph opened fire on Loren Simpson and killed him as he attempted to flee their stop.
According to the police, Simpson matched the description of a suspect in an “allegedly stolen vehicle,” and had pursued him down a dead end road. During the officers’ attempt to block him in, Simpson veered to his left to avoid the deputies. However, Robinson, with an AR-15, and Rudolph, with a Shotgun, both opened fire, dumping 54 rounds within 5 seconds into the SUV and Simpson.
The rifle caused …read more

It is rare in recent years for mainstream media to cover the political parties in the U.S. that hold themselves out as socialist. But Politico has this major story about those parties, and the Green Party, and how they react to Bernie Sanders’ candidacy. …read more

On February 2, the Georgia Green and Constitution Parties filed this reply brief in Green Party of Georgia v Kemp, n.d., 1:12cv-1822. The issue is the Georgia law that requires independent presidential candidates, and newly-qualifying parties, to submit over 50,000 valid signatures to get on the ballot. …read more

It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything. -Joseph Stalin (allegedly)

Just after 1:00 p.m. on Tuesday, Hillary Clinton declared herself the winner of the Democratic Party in the much-anticipated Iowa caucuses. Immediately after the ‘victory,’ Clinton went on CNN to bask in her counterfeit fame.
“I am so thrilled,” Clinton told Wolf Blitzer in an interview Tuesday afternoon. “My luck was not that good last time around, and it was wonderful to win the caucus, to have that experience.”
However, as a C-SPAN …read more

The Ninth Circuit has chosen May, 2016, for oral arguments in two important election law cases: (1) Arizona Green Party v Reagan, 14-15976, over Arizona’s February petition deadline for newly-qualifying parties; (2) Democratic Party of Hawaii v Nago, 13-17545, over the Democratic Party’s request for a closed primary for itself. …read more