THE ALLIANCE

LPAlliance is a cross-caucus coalition dedicated to uniting the Libertarian Party under a “liberty first” strategy that puts libertarian leadership, activism, and principles above all else—inside and outside the Party.
 
We recognize that a clear vision for powerful change is needed in order to move the Party forward. We are allies in liberty: Radicals, Classical Liberals, right-, left-, and Ron Paul libertarians, Anarchists, and non-affiliated members committed to moving from vision to victory.
 
LPAlliance is not a bloc. We are not a multi-issue coalition. We have one goal and one goal only: Creating a Libertarian Party that celebrates the power of the individual in championing the cause of liberty. Those of us who belong to caucuses still belong to our respective caucuses. Our members continue to hold different views as to how the Party should fight for our shared principles. What we are united in is our fight to make sure that all of those views have a voice.
 

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Strategically:

In the months leading to Grand Rapids 2026, we will stage and execute a multi-front effort toward:

• The election of a multi-caucus LNC that includes non-committed representatives; as well as factional diversity and transparency in our discourse, debates, and committee endorsements, via:
  • LPMerit: A “ballotpedia”-style web page designed to help members and delegates choose the candidates who are most deserving of, and best suited to, every LNC and JC role. Our delegates need to know who they are voting for and why. LPMerit, a true neutral platform for candidate selection, will serve as the main tool for caucuses to select their slate of candidates and coalesce around a ticket in advance of 2026. The site’s “endorsement” and “opposition” message boxes will also allow supporters to appeal to uncommitted delegates, defending their candidate endorsements and recruiting others to sign onto their slate.
  • The Torch: A free online journal igniting broad-range discussions in libertarian theory and Libertarian Party strategy, and a home for original reporting on Libertarian Party news and events. Open to all contributors and edited by a team representing multiple caucuses and schools of libertarian thought, The Torch is designed to be a beacon for vigorous yet constructive debate on the future of libertarianism and the Libertarian Party in an era defined by civic apathy, political demagoguery, and bureaucratic engorgement. 

 

• A more functional, democratic, efficient LNC that gives greater power and voice to individual Party members, via:
  • A public LNC business list, including complete disclosure of all operations and expenditures, that makes your leadership accountable to you.
  • Structural changes, including voting and representation reforms, that render the Party more democratic and less bureaucratic. We continue to debate several members’ proposals toward this end; and while we do not expect to endorse any in the near term, we do intend to make these debates public and put into writing in the months before the Grand Rapids Revolution.
  • Streamlining the LNC while creating issue-specific committees composed of members outside the National Committee. We know from observing our federal government’s misadventures in policy-making that bigger boards are not better—and they are certainly no more representative. Yet streamlining the LNC does not mean shrinking participation in national matters: The LNC can and must have many committees with non-LNC members to which it delegates responsibility or from which it receives specialized advice.
  • Establishing, in counsel with our membership, defensive mechanisms to prevent our leadership from sabotaging Libertarian Party candidates, misappropriating funds, using Party resources to promote non-libertarian candidates and causes, silencing the voices of Party members and officers, and weaponizing their own incompetence.​​

Tactically:

• Our organizing philosophy uses individualist principles to augment the goals of collective action. What that means is that we craft, for ourselves, natural roles that allow us to deploy our strengths, knowledge, and creativity in service of our mission. All of us act as leaders—pitching, collaborating on, and executing projects—absent any formal hierarchy. We are self-directed; and in being self-directed, we are able to maximize our collective capacity to serve a cause beyond ourselves.
• While we endorse the necessity, and applaud any efforts, to build cross-partisan coalitions, we reject as strategically bankrupt any initiatives to form joint fundraising committees with established political opposition.
• As the sole U.S. political party dedicated to fiscal transparency and responsibility, we are uncompromising in our demand for full accountability on the matter of Party expenditures and funding: An Allied LNC will make public the targets of any and all incoming and outgoing funds to membership, as soon as such funds are apportioned. No exceptions.
• From past experience inside and outside the Party, we—especially as a coalition of individualists—recognize that “loyal footsoldier” convention voting is an ill-fated effort. When it comes to recruiting votes at state conventions, we understand that the more efficient and surer tactic is not to recruit new delegates for every convention, but rather to take our preferred candidates and issues to already-likely attendees. 

• Once receptive (albeit not necessarily recruited to the Alliance whole-cloth), we will do everything in our power to make sure that the right people are at the state convention on the right day. 
• Each state will have at least one point person from our coalition responsible for guaranteeing the success of these efforts—including by funding (via the coalition) convention attendance, car rides, and airplane tickets as necessary.