In one of the most fascinating congressional races in the country that autumn, wealthy playwright Clare Boothe Luce, the glamorous wife of TIME, Life and Fortune founder and publisher Henry R. Luce, announced her candidacy for the Republican nomination for the U.S. House from Connecticut’s […]
On Saturday, Libertarian presidential nominee Gary Johnson addressed the crowd at PAUL Fest, a gathering of Ron Paul supporters in advance of the Republican National Convention in Tampa. Johnson delivered a rousing address to the 800 or so that were reported as in attendance for […]
The Peace and Freedom Party took a major step toward expanding beyond their California base on Saturday, nominating actress and activist Roseanne Barr for president. Earlier this year Barr sought the Green Party’s presidential nomination, but was defeated by Dr. Jill Stein. This weekend’s victory […]
Dr. Benjamin Spock, the famous pediatrician and antiwar activist, was formally nominated for the presidency by the People’s Party forty years ago this weekend. Organized around opposition to the Vietnam War and originally co-chaired by novelist Gore Vidal and Spock himself, the People’s Party was […]
Barry Commoner, a pioneer in the ecology movement and Citizens Party candidate for president, earned a spot on the Oregon ballot on this day in 1980 with a speech before an enthusiastic crowd of 1,100 cheering supporters in Portland’s Memorial Coliseum. The crowd, which included […]
Wisconsin State Senator Tim Cullen has announced that he is breaking ties with the Democratic caucus, effectively making him an independent Democrat for the moment. Cullen believes he was treated with disrespect by Majority Leader Mark Miller, who failed to award Cullen a significant committee […]
Minnesota’s Norma Lundeen, widow of the Farmer-Labor Party’s Ernest Lundeen, an isolationist who was later accused of being a Nazi sympathizer, unexpectedly entered the race for her late husband’s U.S. Senate seat on this day in 1942. Lundeen’s husband, who had been tragically killed in […]
Yesterday, Illinois election officials determined that the names of four presidential candidates will be removed from that state’s ballot due to a failure of the parties to collect sufficient petition signatures. The state requires minor party and independent candidates to file 25,000 valid petitions. Under […]
Former Salt Lake City mayor Rocky Anderson, the Justice Party’s founder and presidential nominee, was a guest on Up with Chris Hayes on Saturday. Up, for anyone not familiar, is MSNBC’s weekend morning program. The motivation for Anderson’s invite seemed, primarily, to get someone on […]
Failing to secure enough delegates to capture the Green Party’s presidential nomination last weekend at the Green national convention in Baltimore, actress and activist Roseanne Barr decided not to make an appearance at the event. Instead, following the state-by-state balloting that lead to the nomination […]
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