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| DIRECTORY OF U.Southward. POLITICAL PARTIES THE 2 MAJOR PARTIES: DEMOCRATIC Party (DNC) - The Democrats regained the White House in 2020, only barely maintained majority
REPUBLICAN PARTY (RNC) - Republicans lost the Presidency and Us Senate control in 2020, but made major gains in the Us House. The
THE Third PARTIES: THE "Large TWO" THIRD PARTIES: GREEN PARTY OF THE Us - The Green Party -- the informal U.s.-chapter of the leftist, environmentalist European Greens move -- is one of the two largest third parties in the nation. The Greens support strict environmental protection laws, stronger labor rights, expanded social programs, and higher taxes on the wealthy and corporations. The political party regularly fields candidates for local, state and federal offices in many states, and has established agile state affiliate parties in nearly all states. The Greens scored a major political points when information technology convinced prominent consumer abet Ralph Nader to run as their commencement Presidential nominee in 1996. Spending LIBERTARIAN Political party - The LP, founded in 1971, bills itself as "America's largest third party" (and, forth with the Greens, are definitely amidst the ii largest third parties in the nation). The Libertarians are neither left nor correct: they believe in full individual liberty (pro-drug legalization, pro-gay marriage, pro-home schooling, pro-gun rights, generally pro-option, etc.) and total economic liberty (anti-welfare, anti-government regulation of business, anti-minimum wage, anti-income tax, pro-gratis trade). The LP espouses a classical laissez faire ideology which, they SMALLER THIRD PARTIES: Alliance Party - The Alliance Party launched in 2018, formed by fiscally conservative/socially moderate centrists who had been Democrats, Republicans, independents, and third party members (the Modern Whig Political party, American Moderates Party and the South Carolina American Political party folded into it) who were upset with the dysfucntion caused by condition quo political gridlock and the toxic national political divide. They explained: "Americans need not exist adversaries or combatants. In reality, we are all pursuing a personal American Dream, and nosotros are allies in our collective pursuit of a more perfect Union." The party supports gratuitous trade, reducing the national debt, a strong armed services, affordable wellness care, initiatives to combat climatic change, gay equality, clearing, gun rights (with limited, constitutionally reasonable regulation), better intendance for veterans an accent on renewable energy, and term-limits. While nonetheless very small-scale, the party has active affiliates in many states and fielded candidates in 2020. The NY Independence Party and Florida Reform Party in 2020 became state affiliates of the Alliance Political party. Frequent candidate and wealthy businessman Rocky de la Fuente - who has run over the years nether many dissimilar political party banners - was Alliance's 2020 presidential nominee (5th identify - 88,200 votes). AMERICAN INDEPENDENT PARTY - Governor George Wallace (D-AL) founded the AIP and ran as the its first Presidential nominee in 1968. AMERICAN SOLIDARITY Political party - The American Solidarity Party is founded upon Catholic social teaching. The party is pro-life, anti-death penalization, pro-welfare, anti-gay union, pro-universal wellness care, pro-environmental protection, and anti-military machine Selective Service/draft. The ASP also wants to cutting income taxes on earned wages, while increasing taxes on investment income and corporations. The ASP supports increased cyberbanking regulation, wants to end energy and agricultural subsidies, supports clean free energy, backs tougher environmental protections, opposes armed forces intervenionism, opposes Us arms sales to foreign governments, is anti-pornography, supports a focus on rehabilitation versus arrests for narcotics, and is pro-labor unions. The ASP's 2016 presidential nominee, Mike Maturen, achieved ballot status in one country and write-in status in several others (16th place - 4,655 votes). Retired teacher Brian Carroll was the ASP'southward 2020 presidential nominee and achieved ballot access in nine states (10th place - 38,600 votes). The ASP is now working to constitute a few land affiliates, and also has a Facebook page. AMERICA'Due south PARTY - Old Ambassador and frequent GOP Presidential candidate Alan Keyes created this party in 2008, after he quit the Republican race for President and failed to win the Constitution Party'south nomination. Originally named America's Independent Political party, they shortened their proper name to America'southward Political party in 2011. The party espouses a social Christian bourgeois platform: pro-life (no exceptions), anti-gay rights, pro-gun rights, pro-potent military ("peace through strength"), pro-Iraq War, anti-tax (supports total repeal of federal income taxes), and opposes federal spending on any programs non explicitly authorized by the United states of america Constitution. In 2008, Keyes was on the ballot in three states as the party'south Presidential nominee and captured a full of 47,768 votes (7th identify - 0.04%). In a directly related coup, this party wrested control of the American Independent Political party of California away from the Constitution Political party, thus capturing ballot condition in the country for the 2008/2010 elections. Interestingly, the party does not accept whatever financial donations. Party national chair Tom Hoefling was the party'south 2016 Presidential nominee (17th place - 4,577 votes). The political party did not field their ain presidential nominee for 2020 - although Hoefling ran every bit an Independent that twelvemonth (one,311 votes). COMMUNIST Party Usa - The CPUSA -- in one case the slavish propaganda tool and spy network for the Soviet Key Committee -- experienced a forced transformation in recent years. Highly classified Soviet Politburo records, made public after the fall of Soviet communism in the 1990s, revealed the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) illegally CONSTITUTION PARTY - The Constitution Party is strongly pro-life, anti-gun control, anti-tax, anti-immigration, trade protectionist, "anti-New World Club," anti-United nations, anti-gay rights, anti-welfare, and pro-school prayer. Former Nixon Administration official and sometime Bourgeois Coalition chair Howard Phillips founded the party, originally named the US Taxpayers Political party (USTP), in 1992. The USTP renamed itself the Constitution Forward Party - Founded in 2021 by 'twenty Dem presidential hopeful Andrew Yang, the Frontward Party vows to "support candidates for part who align with our cadre principles so that we can reform the system and make information technology more responsive to the American people. This means that nosotros will back up Republicans, Democrats, and Independents - as well as candidates identifying themselves as Forward Party members." The party supports Yang'southward signature effect - Universal Basic Income (guaranteed minimum monthly payments to all Americans to ensure none are below the poverty line) - along with ranked pick voting, open up/nonpartisan primaries, federal term limits (eighteen years for Firm and Senate), contained redistricting commissions, recognizing online data equally an private holding correct, simplifying tax filing, and other mostly centrist stances. Several candidates announced for political part in 2022 as Forwards Party candidates, simply none have yet secured ballot status under the Forrard Party banner. Freedom SOCIALIST PARTY - The FSP was formed in 1966 past a splinter group of dissident feminist Trotskyists who broke away from the Socialist Workers Political party to create a new party in the "tradition of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Trotsky." The FSP has e'er emphasized "black liberation and social feminsm" -- thus the reason Radical Women is an official alternate name used by the FSP. The FSP draw themselves as a "revolutionary, socialist feminist arrangement, dedicated to the replacement of capitalist rule by a genuine workers' commonwealth that volition guarantee full economic, social, political, and legal equality to women, people of color, gays, and all who are exploited, oppressed, and repelled past the profit system and its adjunct -- imperialism." The FSP has party organizations in the U.s.a., Canada and Australia, and today remains staunchly Trotskyist in ideology. The FSP occasionally fields a handful of local candidates in Washington, California and New York (ofttimes in non-partisan elections). The FSP too fielded their first Presidential candidate in 2012: socialist activist Stephen Durham, who ran as a write-in when he failed to accomplish election status in whatever country. No candidates in 2016 or 2020. Official FSP links include the Liberty Socialist newspaper and Cherry Letter Press (volume publishers). THE Contained PARTY - This small, centrist party was founded in 1976, although they showed no political footprint before 2010. The TIP claim to be affinity descendents of the small Toleration Party of the early 1800s. Their stances are largely platitudes. Case: "We work and abet for progress on political and social issues, have adopted policies and the platform that result positive change, insist on gratis, open, and equal access to the ballot, media, and vote, equal representation by our elected officials, demand fiscal responsibility, and transparency by our SERVANTS of the people!" TIP'south party platform is short but rather incomprehensible. The party fielded roughly a dozen federal and land candidates in six states in 2018, and ran Terry Wheelock for President as a write-in candidate in 2020. LIFE AND LIBERTY PARTY - Founded in 2019 past dissident leaders from the Constitution Party, the Life and Liberty Political party is "a coalition of parties across the nation ... centered on the Constitution of the United States of America, and upholding the rule of law." The party is uncompromisingly pro-life and anti-euthanasia, supports environmental protection laws, and is otherwise somewhat libertarian-consevative on other issues. Currently, the Alaska and Due south Dakota Constitution Parties disaffiliated from the national CP and now chapter with the L&L Party. The party has agile affiliates in a few states. Party co-founder J.R. Myers was the L&Fifty presidential nominee in 2020 (22rd place - 1,372 votes). NATIONAL PROGRESSIVE Political party - The Vermont Progressive Party - which has existed since 1982 and successfully elected candidates to statewide office - launched this national entity in 2020 right after the stop of U.s.a. Senator Bernie Sanders' presidential entrada. As in Vermont, the NPP is a democratic socialist political party closely aligned with the politics of Sanders. In fact, Sanders was starting time elected Burlington Mayor in the 1980s equally a candidate of the Progressive Party. "Not Bernie, u.s.. We're planting the seeds of a winning new party, taking no corporate money, and championing economical, social, and environmental justice," is how the political party described themselves in 2020 after Sanders' presidential run ended. Non notwithstanding clear what their national strategy is or when then await to expand into other states. The new People's Party - beneath - seems a larger and better organized entity of those who splintered off from the Bernie 2020 campaign. PARTY FOR SOCIALISM AND LIBERATION - The Party of Socialism & Liberation PEACE AND FREEDOM Political party - Founded in the 1960s as a left-wing party opposed to the Vietnam State of war, the party reached its superlative of support in 1968 when it nominated Blackness Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver for President. PEOPLE'S Political party - The Move for a People's Party - which evolved into the People'south Party - was created in 2020 by progressive activists who had been involved in the 2016 and 2020 Bernie Sanders presidential campaigns. The PP supports Medicare for All, social justice programs, anti-militarism, police reforms and restorative justice, anti-Wall Street regulations, pro-organized labor, etc. They believe the Democratic Party is also dominated by corporate interests and billionaires, and desire to apply this vehicle for influencing policy and moving the national debate leftward. The first three state chapters - Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Ohio - were launched immediately after their founding national convention (7,600 people participated in the online convention). The party plans to aggrandize with more than state and local capacity before the 2022 elections. The PP already registered as a formal political party in Maine, and plans to field candidates there in 2022. PIRATE PARTY - The PROHIBITION PARTY - "If you are a reform-minded conservative and a not-drinker, the REFORM Political party - Once a quickly growing and populist third party, the Reform Party commencement shifted far to the correct during 1999-2002, before imploding into insignificance due to factional in-fighting. After the shift, it quickly experienced massive waves of conservative defections abroad into the Constitution Party and the America Get-go Party in 2002, before withering into an insignificant shadow of its former glory years. First, some history: subsequently running as an Independent in 1992, billionaire Texas businessman Ross Perot founded the Reform Party in 1995 as his vehicle for converting his contained motility into a permanent political party. In 1996, Perot ran as the Reform Party's presidential nominee (viii,085,000 votes - 8%). Salvage AMERICA MOVEMENT Party - The Salvage America Motion (SAM) Party was initially created as a vehicle for former Syracuse Mayor and one-time NY State Democratic Chair Stephanie A. Miner to get on the NY gubernatorial ballot in 2018 as an independent candidate. The political party's name was an acronym play using the candidate's ain initials. She finished in fifth place with ane% (55,000 votes). Yet, SAM has lived on beyond Miner's own run for office and taken on a life of its own as a new centrist political party. Equally the party itself explains, they are "a new political political party for the millions of Americans who are tired of choosing between the lesser of two evils ... America's a diverse identify and nosotros don't always agree on everything. Neither do SAM members. But we share a gear up of universal principles and one ultimate goal: to fix a organisation that has been corrupted past the mainstream parties and the people who prop them up ... The existing parties won't change. They can't change. So our only option is to go around them." SAM's key stances heart effectually maximum transparency and balloter reform. Former GOP Congressman David Jolly (FL) became the SAM national chair in 2021, and is also a potential candidate for office in 2022. Equally of 2021, the party has affiliates in NY, CT and FL, and is organizing in other states. SOCIALIST Party United states of america - The SPUSA are truthful democratic socialists -- advocating left-wing electoral change versus militant revolutionary change. Many of the SP members could easily exist members SOCIALIST ACTION - Socialist Action is a Trotskyist political political party of "revolutionary socialists" originally founded in 1983 by expelled members of the Socialist Workers Party. While the SA shares the SWP'south pro-Cuba views, the SA yet tries to retain its Trotskyist ideological roots (versus the SWP, which has drifted away from Trotskyism towards a Soviet authoritarian communist ideology). The SA states that they "oppose the Democrats and Republicans, all backer political parties, and all capitalist governments and their representatives everywhere ... [and] Stalinist and neo-Stalinist regimes from the ex-Soviet Spousal relationship to China." This communist political party has fielded some local political candidates in the San Francisco Bay area over the years, and ran its first congressional candidate in 2010 (in Connecticut). The party fielded SA National Secretarial assistant Jeff Mackler as the 2016 and 2020 presidential nominee, but he was but a write-in hopeful both times. Other official sites: Youth for Socialist Action and VoteSocialistAction. SOCIALIST EQUALITY PARTY - The Socialist Equality Party (SEP) was originally named the Workers League (WL). The WL was founded in 1966 every bit a Trotskyist communist group closely associated with the electoral campaigns of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP). The goal of these Trotskyist groups was a build a working-course labor party in the US affiliated with the International Committee of the Fourth International (the global Trotskyist umbrella network). They believe that "the egalitarian and internationalist legacy of the Russian Revolution" could take succeeded, but was "betrayed by Stalinism" and its progeny. When the SWP drifted away from Trotskyism in the early 1980s, the WL broke with the SWP and began fielding its own candidates. The WL fielded its first Presidential ticket in 1984. The WL later renamed itself equally the Socialist Equality Party in 1994. The Michigan-based SEP regularly fields Congressional and local candidates, mainly in Michigan and Ohio. The SEP is very realistic nearly its candidates, acknowledging a entrada is an opportunity to "present a socialist alternative to the demagogy and lies of the establishment parties and the mass media." SEP activist Joseph Kishore was the party'due south nominee in 2020 (30th place - 351 votes). The SEP's news site -- the World Socialist Web Site (WSWS) -- is updated daily with manufactures, analysis, history, etc., written with a hardcore internationalist, Trotskyist perspective. UNITY Political party OF AMERICA - This small centrist political political party was founded past political activist Beak Hammons afterwards the 2004 elections. For the first decade the political party was only active in Colorado, and began fielding candidates there starting in 2006. In 2016, the party began expanding, launching some state affiiates. In 2020, they fielded Hammons for president, and he achieved election access in 3 states (13th place - 6,647 votes). The party supports a balanced upkeep constitutional amendment, federal term limits, replacing the federal income tax with other reveue sources, development of clean alternative energy sources, and ending gerrymandering by having all election districts drawn by nonpartisan panels of judges. WORKERS WORLD Political party - The WWP was formed in 1959 by a pro-Chinese communist faction that split from the Socialist Workers Political party. Although the WWP theoretically supports worker revolutions, the WWP supported the Soviet actions that crushed worker uprisings in Hungary in the 1950s, WORKING Form Political party - The WCP was founded in 2016 equally a socialist, anti-capitalist, anti-racist party which asserts "working people need our own party, a party of our whole class, built around the conviction that the working class and the employing class accept nothing in mutual." The political party looks at the late socialist Eugene Debs as a hero of their motion, although they seem to limited a more radical view that disdains elections. "The working course cannot solve its problems through elections, non in a society where the capitalist class controls all the levels of power. Elections were non the end goal of these candidates, just the beginning," they explain. The WCP wants to have militant unions to fight both "the bosses" and capitalism, and have the WCP deed equally the political entity to deport on the fight in the electoral venue. The WCP has active chapters and routinely fields congressional and state candidates in Michigan and Maryland. OTHER PARTIES AMERICAN PATRIOT PARTY - The APP, established in 2003, was "founded on the bones principals ready forth past our founding fathers, that the federal government should only take the powers prepare forth in the framework of the Constitution and all other ability to be delegated back to the states. Although everyone has their own opinions on all issues, we believe it is up to united states of america to decide what should and should non exist mandated, banned or regulated." The APP supports a crackdown on illegal immigration, making English fluency a requirement of United states of america citizenship, abolishing the IRS and repealing the federal income taxation, imposing steeper taxes and tariffs on imported goods ... oh, and they desire every county in the US to go a split land. They endorsed Donald Trump in 2016 and 2020 - and already endorsed Trump again for 2024 - but did not nominate whatever candidates on their ain to engagement. CANARY Party - Founded in 2011, this political party is solely focused upon health care -- particularly their anti-vaccination beliefs. CONSERVATIVE Political party USA - Founded in 2009, this conservative party has yet to field whatever candidates. The party'southward mission statement reads as follows: "To re-establish the limits and boundaries of Regime as framed in the Constitution." They claim they were formed as a new political party because the GOP cannot exist trusted ("The Republican Party has consistently failed to uphold bourgeois principles ... Trying to change the GOP is similar drilling holes in water considering they don't stand for anything except getting elected"). This is how the party describes their agenda: "The primary duty of the President is to protect America from its enemies, both foreign and domestic; Veterans must be honored and supported for their sacrifices; Marriage is between ane man and one woman; Life begins at conception; Budget Earmarks must exist eliminated and fiscal subject restored; Illegal immigration must be stopped; Healthcare must include meaningful Tort Reform." Annotation: This party has no affiliation with the well-established Conservative Party of New York State. PATRIOT PARTY - In his final days in office, President Trump floated the thought of leaving the Republican Party and creating a new entity - the Patriot Party - as the new abode for his nationalist populist ideology, and his MAGA and QAnon supporters. Various self-proclaimed "Patriot Party" entities immediately sprang to life. Trump'southward official political organization in January 2021 disavowed all these nascent Patriot Party groups as unauthorized and unaffiliated with Trump. A month later, Trump said he had no intention of creating a split up political party to compete against the Republicans, just instead intended to target anti-Trump Republicans in GOP primaries. This didn't terminate one MAGA group from creating an unofficial national grouping, and others from launching diverse self-organized state parties (CT, NJ, etc). PROGRESSIVE LABOR PARTY - The PLP REVOLUTIONARY COMMUNIST PARTY USA - The UNITED AMERICA Party - The UAP is a social conservative party that splintered off from the Constitution Party in 2021. No candidates fielded to date. WORKERS PARTY, U.s. - The WP-United states of america is a hardcore Marxist-Leninist political party founded in 1992 past the late Michael Thorburn. The party was established to "bring the working class out every bit an independent class force." The WP-United states shares much of the CPUSA's ideology. While the WP-Usa has nonetheless to field whatever candidates, the Chicago-based party publishes a bi-weekly paper named The Worker and a quarterly theoretical journal named -- non surprisingly -- The Worker Mag. The WP-USA site features an all-encompassing on-line archive of dogmatic screeds largely denouncing "monopoly capitalists," Western imperialism, the USA, etc. -- and praising the working class and "revolutionary politics." Thorburn'due south Anti-Imperialist News Service ("assisting the people's struggles against war and militarism") is likewise affiliated with the WP-USA. | Follow United states on Twitter: |
GOP too holds several key Governorships (including TX, OH, FL, GA, MO, MA and MD). Pre-Trump, the Republicans could generally be classified into several different sub-sets: traditional establishment conservatives (Mitch McConnell, Kevin McCarthy, Ben Sasse), the "Religious Right" (Mike Pence and the Family Inquiry Council), libertarians (Rand Paul and the Entrada for Liberty), the onetime-style heart-right fly (Larry Hogan and Adam Kinzinger), the firebrand Tea Party motility conservatives (Jim Jordan and the House Freedom Caucus), and - since 2016 - the gadfly conspiracy theorist QAnon faction (Marjorie Taylor Greene, etc). President Donald Trump, notwithstanding, is a political nationalist and economic populist who does non fit neatly into whatsoever of these traditional GOP factions, and in fact handily vanquished 2016 nomination rivals from each of the diverse other wings of the party. The media and political form has also have to calling a group of pro-Trump legislators who incited the MAGA crowds with false claims into making the Jan 2021 insurrectionist assault on the US Capitol as the "Seditionist Caucus" (Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley, Mo Brooks, etc). Since 2016, Trump largely bent the party to his outlook - and many from the rival conservative factions of years past are retooling themselves into versions of Trump-calorie-free to entreatment to the base. In his final days in office, Trump has toyed with launching a new entity - the Patriot Party - and atomic number 82 an exodus of Trump/MAGA and QAnon out of the GOP and to his new party. If information technology occurs, the schism could be electorally devastating to the Republicans. Official, affiliated national GOP sites include:
simply over $five,000, Nader was on the ballot in 22 states and carried over 700,000 votes (quaternary place - 0.8%). In 2000, Nader raised millions of dollars, mobilized leftist activists and grabbed national headlines with his anti-corporate entrada bulletin. Nader ignored pleas from liberal Democrats that he carelessness the race because he was siphoning essential votes away from Al Gore's campaign. In the stop, Nader was on the election in 44 states and finished tertiary with 2,878,000 votes (two.7%). Until 2001, the Greens were largely a drove of fairly autonomous land/local based political entities with only a weak (and sometimes splintered) national leadership structure that largely served to coordinate balloter activities. In 2001, the party officially converted into a formal, unified national political party organization. Light-green Party co-founder and socialist activist Howie Hawkins was the 2020 presidential nominee of both the Greens and the Socialist Party USA (4th identify - 0.3% - 404,000 votes). Hawkins also organized the Green Socialist Organizing Projection to grade a united political front of Greens and Socialists. Official Greenish Party links include: Global Green Network, GPUS Black Conclave, Lavender Dark-green Conclave, Latinx Conclave, and Immature Ecosocialists.
fence, means "more freedom, less authorities and lower taxes." Over 400 LP members currently hold diverse -- though adequately depression level -- government offices (including lots of small-scale appointed officials like "School District Facilities Task Force Fellow member" and "Town Recycling Committee Fellow member"). In 2020, retiring GOP Congressman Justin Amash (MI) changed his registration to Libertarian, making him the LP'south first fellow member to officially sit in the US House. The LP's biggest problem: former Congressmen Ron Paul and Paul Broun, humorist/journalist PJ O'Rourke, the Republican Liberty Caucus and others in the GOP who concenter ideological libertarians into the political arena by arguing they tin can bring nigh libertarian change more hands under the Republican label. In 2012, former GOP New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson was the LP Presidential nominee, had election status in 48 states (third place - 1% - ane,276,000 votes). The party's 2016 ticket featured again Gary Johnson, joined this time by former GOP Massachusetts Governor Bill Weld as his VP runningmate. Johnson-Weld produce the all-time finish in the history of the political party (3rd place - iii.iii% - 4,487,700 votes). Johnson, however, proved to be an unfocused and undisciplined candidate, and seemingly squandered an opportunity to perform significantly better. 2020 LP presidential nominee Jo Jorgensen, a longtime party activist, finished third place with 1,865,000 votes (1.two%). The LP has active affiliate parties in every land. The party has been divided for years betwixt two fighting factions: a more purist/hardcore libertarian group and a more moderate "reform" faction. The hardcore group are uncompromising anarchistic-libertarians in the Ayn Rand mold. By contrast, the moderates (like Gary Johnson) are interested in focusing on just a handful of more popular issues (drug decriminalization, gun rights, tax cuts, etc.) in substitution for attracting a larger number of voters. Allies of the hardcore faction firmly held control of the party from the late-1980s until the moderates seized command at the 2006 national convention and somewhat softened the party'due south platform. Other related LP sites include the LP News, Campus Libertarians and LPedia. 
Running on a fiery populist, right-wing, anti-Washington, anti-racial integration, anti-communist platform, Wallace carried nearly 10 million votes (14%) and won five Southern states. Although Wallace returned to the Democratic Party by 1970, the AIP continued to live on -- but moved even further to the right. The 1972 AIP nominee, John Birch Social club leader and Congressman John Grand. Schmitz (R-CA), carried nearly ane.i million votes (1.4%). The 1976 AIP Presidential nominee was former Governor Lester Maddox (D-GA), an unrepentant segregationist -- simply he cruel far below Schmitz's vote full. The AIP last fielded its own national Presidential candidate in 1980: white supremacist sometime Congressman John Rarick (D-LA), who carried 41,000 votes. Since the mid-1980s, the AIP has just operated and fielded candidates in California. From 1992-2007, the AIP was a state chapter party of the national Constitution Party, simply information technology is entirely contained today of whatever national parties. The party fielded a few write-in candidates in 2014; endorsed Donald Trump in 2016 in lieu of fielding a candidate; and endorsed Alliance Party presidential nominee Rocky de la Fuente in 2020.
funneled millions of dollars to the CPUSA to finance its activities from the 1920s to the 1980s. The flow of Soviet dollars to the CPUSA came to an sharp halt when the Soviet communists were ousted from power in 1991 -- ultimately causing a total overhaul of CPUSA activities. Founded in 1924, the CPUSA reached its acme vote total in 1932 with nominee William Z. Foster (102,000 votes - quaternary place). The last national CPUSA ticket -- headed past Stalinist Gus Hall and 60s radical activist Angela Davis -- was fielded in 1984 (36,000 votes - 8th place). While the party has non direct run any candidates since the late 1980s, the CPUSA sometimes backs some candidates in various local elections (oft in Northeastern industrial communities) and engages in grassroots political and labor union organizing. In 2021, the party announced information technology would outset fielding candidates again going forrad. Equally for problems, the CPUSA calls for gratis universal health care, elimination of the federal income tax on people earning nether $60,000 a twelvemonth, free college pedagogy, desperate cuts in military spending, "massive" public works programs, the outlawing of "scabs and union busting," abolitionism of corporate monopolies, public ownership of energy and basic industries, huge revenue enhancement hikes for corporations and the wealthy, and various other programs designed to "beat the power of the backer class ... [and promote] anti-imperialist freedom struggles effectually the earth." The CPUSA'due south underlying Marxist ideology remains stiff. Even so, it has evolved now -- after the death of Hall in 2000 -- into a Gorbachev-style "democratic reform communist" motion headed by activist Sam Webb. Under Webb's leadership (2000-14), the CPUSA touted a platform of true democratic socialism and merchandise unionism, and often encourages votes for the Democratic presidential nominees as a pragmatic balloter tactic to defeat conservatives. (Webb renounced the political party in 2016 and became a Clinton Democrat -- and even denounced Bernie Sanders as needlessly divisive.) Today, under the leadership of Joe Sims, the party has shifted dorsum to its traditional far-left Marxist stances. Official CPUSA websites include the People'south World party newspaper and Political Diplomacy monthly party mag.
Party in 1999. The political party has fielded presidential tickets since 1992 and congressional and country candidates since 1994 (but but in a pocket-sized number of states). The political party received a brief heave in the media when conservative US Senator Bob Smith of New Hampshire -- an appear GOP Presidential hopeful -- bolted from the Republican Party to seek the Constitution Political party nomination in 2000 (but the erratic Smith quit the Constitution Party race a few weeks later and rejoined the GOP). At the 1999 national convention, the political party narrowly adopted a controversial modify to the platform's preamble which declared "that the foundation of our political position and moving principle of our political activity is our full submission and unshakable faith in our Savior and Redeemer, our Lord Jesus Christ" -- although the political party officially invites "all citizens of all faiths" to get active in the party. Any national candidate seeking the political party'south nomination is explicitly required to tell the convention of whatsoever areas of disagreement with the political party's platform. In 2012, onetime GOP Congressman Virgil Goode was the political party's Presidential nominee (5th identify - 0.09% - 122,000 votes). Longtime party activist and chaser Darrell Castle was the CP'south 2016 Presidential nominee (6th place - 0.xv% - 203,000 votes). Controversial coal mining magnate Don Blankenship - a former GOP U.s.a. Senate candidate in West Virginia - was the political party'southward 2020 presidential nominee (8th identify - threescore,000 votes).
INDEPENDENT AMERICAN Party - The small Independent American Political party has existed for years in several Western states, with an ideology grounded in conservative Mormon political beliefs. In fact, the party'southward name is derived from an 1844 Mormon prophesy past Mosiah Hancock. Converting the unaffiliated IAP state party organizations -- united past a common Religious Correct credo (similar to the Constitution Political party) -- into a national IAP organization was an effort started in 1998 by members of Utah IAP. The Idaho IAP and Nevada IAP afterwards affiliated with the fledgling Usa-IAP in 1998. Since so, the party has established small chapters in another states, but shows no real signs of whatsoever real growth. The bulk of the IAP activities remain concentrated in Utah, Nevada and Oregon. The various IAP land parties endorsed Constitution Party nominee Howard Phillips for President in 1996 and 2000. In December 2000, the IAP's national chairman issued a statement noting tertiary parties in full general registered a "dismal" functioning in the Presidential election -- and questioned the IAP'southward future participation in Presidential campaigns. Instead, he suggested that the IAP limit itself to congressional, state and local races in the futurity. The party routinely fields numerous candidates each election year in Utah and Nevada. Army veteran and frequent candidate Kyle Koptike was the IAP presidential nominee in 2016 (24th place - 1,096 votes) and 2020 (26th place - 815 votes).
(PSL) is alternatately called "a revolutionary Marxist party" created "to exist a vehicle for the multinational working class in the struggle for socialism ... Only a multinational political party can create the unity necessary to defeat the most powerful capitalist class the world has ever seen ... Nosotros aim for revolution in the United States ... We desire a revolution; and, nosotros piece of work hard to go far happen." Additionally, the PSL explains that "the almost crucial requirement for [PSL] membership is the dedication to undertake this most important and most necessary of all tasks: building a new revolutionary workers party in the heart of world imperialism." The PSL was founded in 2006 past a breakaway faction of the communist revolutionary wing of the Workers Globe Party. The PSL espouses a pro-Republic of cuba/pro-China view, and the iconic Che Guevarra's call for continual world revolution against capitalism. The PSL fielded its first candidates in 2008: a Presidential ticket and Congressional candidates. Longtime Marxist revolutionary activist Gloria LaRiva was again the PSL presidential nominee in 2020 (6th place - 85,500 votes), marking her 8th time on a presidential ticket. The PSL as well sponsors and/or directs numerous popular front groups including People'due south Power Assemblies, International Activeness Heart, Congress of Resistance, and many others. The party's offiical newspaper is Liberation and the PSL'south entrada website is VotePSL.org.
Although a convicted felon, Cleaver captured well-nigh 37,000 votes (ironically, Cleaver ultimately became a Reagan Republican in the early 1980s, and was later a cleft cocaine addict in the belatedly 1980s, before emerging as an environmental activist in the late 1990s). Famed "baby physician" Benjamin Spock -- a socialist, pacifist and staunch opponent of the Vietnam War -- was the PFP Presidential nominee in 1972. Since then, the modest party has largely been dominated by battling factions of Marxist-Leninists (aligned with the communist Workers World Party (WWP), which later split up into the militant revolutionary Party of Socialism & Liberation (PSL)), Trotskyists, and true democratic socialists. The PFP today is small-scale is a self-described "feminist socialist political party" with activities centered only in California. In 1996, the PFP successfully blocked an attempt past the WWP to capture the PFP's Presidential nomination for their political party'southward nominee. In a sign of the party's serious refuse in support, the PFP's poor showing in the 1998 statewide elections caused the party to lose its California election status. The PFP finally regained California ballot condition in 2003 -- and immediately fielded a sizable slate of candidates. In 2008, the party allow consumer activist Ralph Nader employ their California election line in support of his Contained run for President. In 2009, the political party announced plans to endeavour expanding into "a nationwide electoral party dedicated to socialism, feminism, democracy, environmentalism, and racial equality." The communist PSL's candidates captured several primal PFP statewide candidate nominations in California in 2010, but and then lost control again in 2012 when the PFP nominated comic actress Rosanne Barr for President (sixth place - 67,500 votes - 0.05%). The PFP did not field their own ticket in 2016 or 2020, and instead endorsed the nominees of the PSL.
United states of america Pirate Political party is the US affiliate of the European-based Pirate Parties International umbrella grouping, a global movement founded in 2006 with affiliates active in nearly 70 nations. The USPP was founded the same year. The diverse Pirate parties back up reform of copyright laws to reverberate open source and free civilization values, government transparency, protection of privacy and civil liberties, rolling dorsum corporate personhood and corporate welfare, prove-based policy, and egalitarianism and meritocracy based on the hacker ethic. "We support the legalization of sharing movies, music and other fine art online, so our opponents would call us the Pirate Political party anyway. We feel it'southward meliorate to reclaim that proper name. Historically, pirate ships had a tradition of egalitarian radical democracy, and provided a refuge for social outcasts and escaped slaves from a society unfriendly to them. We're anti-establishment, so pirates declaring wildcat seems similar a good metaphor for u.s.a.. We believe politics and activism can accept a sense of sense of humor while still being dead serious," they playfully explicate. The USPP began fielding a handful of political candidates in 2012. The USPP has capacity in a few states, but seems adequately dormant for the by few years. 
Prohibition Party wants you," exclaimed an official party message in 2002. The Prohibition Party -- founded in 1869 and billing themselves as "America's Oldest Tertiary Party" -- espouses a generally ultra-bourgeois Christian social agenda mixed with anti-drug and international anti-communist views. The political party'south strongest showing was in 1892, when former Congressman John Bidwell received well-nigh 273,000 votes (2.3% - 4th identify). The late, long-fourth dimension Prohibition Party's leader Earl Contrivance, the party's vi-fourth dimension presidential nominee, scored the all-time low for the party (140 votes in 2004). The party'southward 2020 presidential nomination process was a fiasco. First they nominated a neo-Confederate activist, but his radical views acquired a party rift and forced him to withdraw before long after challenge he was "sabotaged." Then they picked a second nominee, only he withdrew presently subsequently citing health problems. Eventually, they settled on conservative activist and frequent candidate Phil Collins as their 2020 replacement nominee (ballot states in four states - 13th identify - 6,300 votes). The Prohibition Party also fields 1 or two local candidates from time to time. Additional party-related spider web sites are the Partisan Prohibition Historical Society and Facebook: Prohibition Party.
The party originally reflected Perot'south center-conservative financial policies and anti-GATT/NAFTA views -- while avoiding taking any official positions on social issues. The RP was plagued by a lengthy period of nasty ideological battles in 1998-2000 involving three main rival groups: the "One-time Guard" Perot faction, the more than libertarian Jesse Ventura faction, and the social conservative Pat Buchanan faction. After several nasty and public battles, the Ventura faction quit the RP in 2000 and the old Perot faction lost control of the party in courtroom to the Buchanan faction later in 2000. That gave the Buchanan faction command of the party'southward $12.six one thousand thousand in federal matching funds. Along with Buchanan'southward rise to power in the party, the party made a hard ideological shift to the right -- an ideological realignment that continues to dominate the tiny RP today. In the aftermath of the 2000 elections, it was clear that Buchanan failed in his efforts to establish a feasible, bourgeois tertiary party organization. Buchanan was on the election in 49 states, captured 449,000 votes (4th place - 0.4%), and subsequently told reporters his foray into third party politics was probable a mistake. In 2002, the party splintered further, losing most of its conservative activists to other right-wing tertiary parties. The RP was only nearly bankrupt by late 2004, having less than $50 remaining in its bank account. The party concluding fielded a national ticket in 2016 (eighth place - 33,097 votes). A few isolated state Reform Party entities remain active, fielding random candidates from fourth dimension to time - although some are at present affiliates of the national Alliance Party.
of the left-wing faction of the Democratic Party. Unlike most of the other political parties on this page with "Socialist" in their names, the SP has always been staunchly anti-communist. The original Socialist Party United states was founded past labor union leader, ex-Autonomous elected official and pacifist Eugene V. Debs in 1900, the SP was one time a mighty national third party. Debs himself was the SP nominee for president 5 times between 1900 and 1920. Debs received over 900,000 votes (6%) in 1912 -- the SP's all-time showing ever. Former government minister and journalist Norman Thomas was the SP Presidential nominee 6 times between 1928 and 1948 -- his best showing being 883,000 votes (2.ii%) in 1932. The SP as well elected congressmen, mayors and other officials throughout the 20th Century (largely during the 1910s through 1950s). The party withered and splintered then much that, past the last 1972, it barely existed. The Democratic Socialists of American and the Social Democrats Usa -- both linked to a higher place -- are the other splinter groups from the original Debs/Thomas SP entity. Activists from the former SP reconstituted the political party in 1976 and began to again field SPUSA national tickets for the first time in over two decades. SPUSA activist Mimi Soltysik was the party's presidential nominee in 2016 (22nd place - 2,683 votes). In 2020, SPUSA co-nominated Green Political party presidential nominee Howie Hawkins. Hawkins likewise organized the Dark-green Socialist Organizing Project to form a united political front end of Greens and Socialists. SPUSA's youth fly -- the Immature People's Socialist League -- has been in existence since the early 1900s. Other SPUSA sites: Socialist National Committee / VoteSocialist.org (campaigns/candidates) and The Socialist.
SOCIALIST ALTERNATIVE Party - Socialist Alternative, founded in 1986 and originally named the Labor Militant, split from the Labor Party in the 1990s in order to pursue a more than radical leftist and anti-globalization party. The party is the US member of the Committee for a Workers' International (CWI), an international clan of Trotskyist political paries from nearly 50 nations. SocAlt is non as radical as some Marxist parties, as they espouse democratic socialism and accept formed alliances of convenience with non-socialists for political advantage. for example, the party has endorsed the Light-green Party's presidential nominees in multiple years, almost recently in 2020. The political party wants to build a socialist mass workers movement, and is critical of the Leninist-Stalinist historical dictatorships as a perversion of truthful Marxism. The party supports a $15 national minimum wage, universal gratis wellness care, a guaranteed $500/week minimum income for all, public buying of major banks, forcing bankrupt companies into public buying, costless college didactics, and slashing the military budget. In a major upset in 2013, Kshama Sawant became the showtime party member to win an election when she won a seat on the Seattle Metropolis Council -- and was reelected in 2015 and 2019. The SocAlt candidates for Minneapolis city council have also been competitive, making the runoffs only not however winning. The party currently has chapters in a dozen states. 
SOCIAL DEMOCRATS, U.s. - The SD-The states to date has but fielded candidates for local office. The SD-USA is a small group more ideologically centrist, staunchly anti-communist leftists who were more directly aligned with the Democratic Party in the 1970s-1980s than the more traditionally leftist Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). In fact, the views of the SPUSA in 1972 acquired the DSA (and then named the DSOC) to splinter abroad in a ideological rift. The SD-USA refused to back up George McGovern for President that year because of his opposition to the Vietnam War -- versus the DSOC, which supported McGovern and an immediate end to the war. SD-Usa besides disputes the claims of DSA and SPUSA to be the true heirs to the legacy of Eugene Debs and Norman Thomas, claiming instead that the SD-USA "is the only legitimate successor" to the party of Debs and Thomas. However, by 2010, SD-USA somewhen ceded all rights to the proper name "Socialist Party U.s." to the SPUSA. The Socialist International stripped SD-Us of full fellow member status in 2007, deeming SD-Usa to exist a defunct organization. The SD-The states began a reorganizing procedure in 2009, with a new leadership squad. SD-USA held a nation convention in 2012 and is currently focused on rebuilding the group. As of 2021, capacity currently exist in CA, KS, MA, NY and PA.
SOCIALIST WORKERS Political party - Originally a pro-Trotsky faction within the Communist Party, the SWP was formed in 1938 after the Communist Party -- acting on orders from Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin -- expelled the American Trotskyites. The SWP was for many years the leading voice of Trotskyism in the USA. Since the 1980s, the SWP rapidly shifted away from Trotskyism and embraced the make of authoritarian communist politics espoused by the old Soviet Union and former Cuban dictator Fidel Castro (the SWP site described communist Republic of cuba "a shining example for all workers"). During that ideological shift, the SWP expelled their Trotskyist faction in 1983 (which atomic number 82 to the founding of the rival Socialist Action party). The SWP has run candidates for President in every ballot since 1948 -- plus many federal, country and local candidates nationwide. The SWP's best electoral showing was in 1976, when presidential nominee Peter Camejo captured 90,000 votes (notation: Camejo was expelled from the the SWP in 1980 for embracing democratic socialism). Communist political organizer Alyson Kennedy was the SWP's candidate in 2016, and once more in 2020 (11th place - half dozen,791 votes). An interesting quirk is that the SWP requires all members to exist "proletarians" by having them take factory jobs in order to advocate for a worker-based communist class struggle. The party's weekly paper The Militant, which was launched in 1928 and pre-dates the SWP, is the party's merely online presence. The SWP likewise owns a book publishing business firm: Pathfinder Press.
UNITED STATES PACIFIST PARTY - This tiny political party fielded political party founder Bradford Lyttle as a write-in candidate for President in 1996, 2000, 2004, 2012 and 2020 (and ran a US Senate candidate in Colorado in 1998). In 2008, for the start time, Lyttle accomplished ballot status in one country (110 votes), a feat he once more matched in 2016 (382 votes). The USPP opposes military actions in all circumstances and wants to transform the Us armed forces into "a non-tearing defence force and humanitarian service corps." The USPP platform advocates generally left-fly political stances and slashing the military budget to "zero." 
Czechoslovakia in the 1960s and Poland in the early 1980s. The WWP was largely an issue-oriented revolutionary party until they fielded their first candidate for president in 1980. The militant WWP believes that "backer democracy produces nothing but hot air" and that "the power of the workers and the oppressed is in the streets, not in Washington." FBI Manager Louis Freeh attacked the WWP in his May 2001 remarks before a US Senate committee: "Anarchists and extremist socialist groups -- many of which, such as the Workers Earth Party -- have an international presence and, at times, also correspond a potential threat in the United States" of rioting and street violence. The more revoltionary wing of the WWP broke away in 2006 to form the Party of Socialism & Liberation (PSL). Subsequently the WWP-PSL split, the WWP failed to field a Presidential ticket in 2008 and 2012. In 2016, the political party nominated longtime party activist Monica Moorhead for President (18th place - iv,250 votes). Moorhead was previously the WWP presidential nominee in 1996 and 2000. The WWP failed to field any presidential ticket in 2020. Official news site: Workers World.
WORKING FAMILIES PARTY - The WFP, founded in 1998 by a coalition of labor unions, was for many years a one-state political party which operated but in New York. During 2006-08, the WFP expanded by launching new chapters in a few other states. By 2008, the WFP obtained ballot access and nominated congressional candidates in New York, Connecticut and Oregon. The WFP essentially operates equally a "fusion" political party which co-nominates candidates of established parties. This fusion move allows WFP candidates -- who are almost exclusively Democrats -- to appear on a second ballot line in the same election. Fusion "gives voters a way to 'vote their values' without spoiling an election," explain the WFP's website. The WFP exists to advance a pro-labor union political agenda focused most entirely on liberal economic and employment issues. The WFP to appointment has endorsed candidates in the Autonomous presidential contests: Bernie Sanders for President in 2016, and endorsed Elizabeth Warren in 2020. No WFP presidential nominee fielded to date.
They explain they were founded past "a group of parents of children who were suffering from neurological and autoimmune disorders, and who had been active for years in their efforts to get mainstream medicine to address the causes of, and discover treatments for, their children's poor health, faced the realization that while they had been earnest in their date of both the individual medical industry and government public health officials, the medical establishment was not working in skillful religion with them." This party essentially believes vaccines and other medicines cause autism (notation: something widely debunked by decades of scientific studies). This single-issue party wants to address these anti-vaxx concerns with federal government activity.
Autonomous SOCIALISTS OF AMERICA - The DSA is the official US full member party of the Socialist International (which includes Great britain's Labour Political party, the French Parti Socialiste and well-nigh 140 other political parties around the globe). Different nearly other members of the Socialist International, the DSA never fields candidates for role on its ain ballot line. The DSA explains their mission as follows: "building progressive movements for social alter while establishing an openly socialist presence in American communities and politics." Thus, the DSA is less like a traditional US political party and much more like a political education and grassroots activism organization. Working inside the Democratic Party primaries starting around 2010, the DSA fields and endorses Democratic Socialist candidates against more than mainstream Democratic incumbents. In 2018, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) became the beginning DSA members elected to congress. DSA, Social Democrats USA and the Socialist Party USA each merits to be the one true heir to the ideological legacy of Eugene Debs and Norman Thomas (and DSA disputes the Socialist Party-Us's claim to the title arguing it is a modern-era creation that but appropriated the older proper name of the defunct party of Debs/Thomas). The DSA -- and so named the Democratic Socialist Organizing Commission (DSOC) -- split from the SD-USA in 1972 in a rift over the Vietnam War (SDUSA supported the war and opposed McGovern for President; DSOC supported McGovern and opposed the war). Official DSA affiliates include: Young Democratic Socialists, Socialist Forum, Autonomous Left (publication) and Religious Socialism.
is a New York-based, militant, Stalinist-mode communist party dedicated to bringing about a world-broad, armed, communist revolution. The party was formed in 1961 by members of the CPUSA who felt the Soviet Union had betrayed communism and go revisionist and country backer. Founders also felt the CPUSA had adopted unforgivable reformist positions such as "peaceful coexistence" with the US, turning to electoral politics, and hiding communist views behind a veneer of reform-oriented front end groups. In the 1960s, the PLP heavily infiltrated the radical Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) group. Today, the PLP however abhors democracy, elections, freedom of nearly any sort, capitalism and religion -- and praises dictator Joseph Stalin'south Soviet Spousal relationship as their office model. Because they denounce all elections as "frauds," the PLP vows to never field whatsoever candidates for public office (for these guys, its either armed victory or nothing at all). Lots and lots of online ideological articles written in the typical dogmatic communist manner ... with titles like "The Hoax of the 1932-33 Ukraine Fasmine," "Fascism Grows In The Auto Manufacture," "The Road to Revolution." Articles in English language, Castilian, Russian, German, etc.
RCP is based upon the teachings of the tardily Chinese Communist Party Chairman Mao Zedong -- a grade of rigid communism derivative of Leninist-Stalinist Marxism. The party strongly denounces capitalism and advocates a "Marxist-Leninist-Maoist Program" as "a battle plan for destroying the old and creating the new [and] is a kind of road map for how to win the revolution." Even the RCP's logo is consistent with the proletarian revolutionary theme (i.e., note the red flag flight from a rifle bayonet). The RCP clearly advocates modify through revolution (and various popular front groups), not elections -- so don't wait for any RCP candidates on the ballot. The RCP's most visible action is running several branches of a shop chosen Revolution Books. RCP Chairman Bob Avakian and his writings also receive extensive coverage on the party'due south official site, as he has been the political party leader since 1979. © 1997 et seq - by Ron Gunzburger. All rights reserved. Contents tin exist quoted with attribution.
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