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LPAlliance is an inter-caucus coalition rebuilding and revolutionizing 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, Anarchists, Libertarian Socialists, Ron Paul Libertarians, Classical Liberals, Green Libertarians, and non-affiliated members committed to moving from vision to victory.
LPAlliance is not a bloc. We are not an intra-Party issue faction. We have one goal and one goal only: Creating a Libertarian Party and building a world 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.
LPAlliance is the organizational hub for two interrelated and concurrent initiatives. The first is to strengthen and revitalize the Party internally in order to realize the libertarian vision for radical political change. The second is to make that change happen.
We’re doing more and demanding better for our Party, our country, and our world.
A Party of Principle—and Power.
Political parties run candidates. The Libertarian Party has a duty to place as many libertarians on as many ballots—national and local—as possible.
Yet the Libertarian Party—and each of its members—are not the stewards of any candidate. We have seen what happens to a party’s principles when the candidate runs the party instead of the converse. Our candidates, together with our Party and ourselves, are stewards of our cause.
A campaign is one of many means to an end for a political party, and particularly a minor party, where a national campaign serves more or less as a PR campaign for that party’s ideology. But we cannot afford to propagate our ideology only once every two to four years. Nor can we afford to concentrate on winning elections only: If winning elections becomes our sole interest, we will cease to run libertarian candidates in fairly short order.
We also cannot wait for public attention to turn toward elections before we begin jockeying for earned media in an environment already saturated with better-funded candidates. It is our job to turn public attention toward our causes—libertarian causes—in between elections in order to build up votes for libertarian candidates during them.
That is why no successful political party, major or minor, has ever only run candidates. Parties educate, agitate, advocate, ally, and empower; and the most powerful parties are always doing all five at once.
We believe in using a range of tactics and strategies to make the Libertarian Party powerful—and always toward the realization of libertarian principles.
In the months leading to Grand Rapids 2026, we are staging and executing a multi-front effort toward making our Party an engine of education, agitation, advocacy, coalition alignment, and individual empowerment—and, through all this, electoral victory—via:
A multi-caucus and caucus-neutral Libertarian National Committee; along with factional diversity and transparency in Party discourse and debate.
Why: During the growth stages of a movement, open discourse and principled policy disagreement are essential for member recruitment and platform visibility. There is not enough of any one type of Libertarian sufficient to effect lasting political change on any issue. Solidarity is critical for recruitment and strength—but solidarity is necessarily the product of disparate groups working together toward a definitive purpose.
In order to demonstrate solidarity, we must demonstrate that we are indeed comprised of disparate groups with differing ideas—and that means publicly expressing our competing ideas alongside our common purpose.
This runs counter to what people have come to expect from our present political environment, where partisans’ insistence on “unity” above all else sows division and weakness in fact. Most Americans have experience only with institutional parties—like the Republican and Democratic parties—which boast short-term consistency when it comes to policy demands but lend themselves out to the loudest or highest-bidding interest groups when it comes to their principles. Ideological parties, by contrast, which are typically minor parties, enjoy long-term consistency when it comes to principles but competition when it comes to the policies prescribed in their name.
Because our two major parties are strictly institutional, the public has learned to regard politics as tribal rather than ideological. Political participation and representation have become identitarian spectator sports, rather than matters of purposive, individual action. The only way to shift the prevailing political paradigm away from the tyranny of the former is to demonstrate the virtue of the latter.
How:
- Recruiting, creating, endorsing, and electing a cross-caucus slate of National representatives and committee members: Bylaws, Candidate Support, Communications, Executive, Judicial, and Platform.
- Recruiting and electing mission-friendly Executive Committees in each Libertarian Party state affiliate to help spread liberty locally and support our joint mission nationally: Through convention strategy, information-sharing, data analytics, and GOTV efforts, we help members strengthen their state parties before, during, and after conventions. Our national convention victory map, displayed on our home page, illustrates our ongoing success in supporting Allied affiliates and electing Allied slates.
- Recruiting mission-friendly delegates to state and national conventions: We believe in choice, not conscription. While we never dictate to our delegates how to vote, we do—through direct, individual communication and public Alliance channels—arm them with the information that they need (often, information that has been hidden from them by prior or present leadership) to make their own decisions.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 National Committee role. Our delegates need to know who they are voting for and why. LPMerit, a neutral platform for candidate selection, will serve as the main tool for Allied 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 members to show their work for uncommitted convention delegates, defending their candidate endorsements and recruiting others to support their slate.The Torch: An online movement journal igniting broad-range discussions in libertarian theory and Party strategy, and a home for original reporting on Party news and events. Open to all contributors and edited by a team representing multiple schools of libertarian thought, The Torch is designed to be a beacon of vigorous yet constructive debate on the future of libertarianism and the Party in an era defined by civic apathy, political demagoguery, and bureaucratic glut.
- A public LNC business list and Party newsletter, along with a mechanism of coordinating and communicating with members about state and local events of individual interest: We are in the early stages of developing an app that allows users to organize, advocate, and spread the word on issues important to them.
A more functional, democratic, efficient Libertarian Party and National Committee that gives greater power and voice to individual members.
Why: Individual liberty requires individual action—and it requires that we act not only as Libertarians, but as human beings who believe in the power of the individual self-owner to declare his own destiny.
Action, in this case, means two things. First, it means organizing with other human beings who believe similarly and who are willing to fight to return that power to those from whom it has been deprived. Second, it means leading that fight and spearheading the movement that buoys it—because if we do not, then either no one will or someone else will; and we cannot predict the motives of that other, nor what causes they might attach to the ones that we share.
It is our responsibility to bring our own uniquenesses and skills to the work we do together, and to realize our individuality through the realization of our cause. This is not a time for passivity. Whatever is happening that we know to be wrong, it is incumbent upon us to right.
How:
- Establishing, in counsel with our membership, bylaws that guarantee transparency, accountability, and representation across divides in the Party: These include provisions for recalling bad-faith representatives, membership seasoning requirements for convention voting, and restructuring or removing regional representation to prevent the creation of single-faction “super regions”.
- Publicly proposing and debating bylaws amendments that would reform member, delegate, and committee voting processes: Currently our members have suggested proposals to shift to ranked-choice voting, cumulative voting, proof-of-work/stake hybrid token voting, and other changes to make the LNC more democratic and representative of our body as a whole.
- Debate around a bylaws amendment to shift from regional to at-large representation: Our existing regional system places undue power in the hands of state chairs and executive committees while silencing the voices of our delegates when it comes to the critical question of forming regions. With eight states currently lacking a region altogether, moreover, 16 percent of states are “represented” only by the Vice Chair of the Party. This is the Libertarian Party: Our voices matter. The move to at-large representation is, once again, vital to restoring democratic process within the Party.
- Creating inter-state and inter-Party communication and coordination mechanisms for local and national direct action initiatives that back causes as well as candidates: With campaign events, demonstrations, petition drives, and lobbying efforts, we’re putting power in our members’ hands to create community—and a unique role for themselves within it—at the local, national, and international level.
A vibrant, empowered liberty movement that defies state borders and defends the cause of liberty wherever people cry out for it.
Why: Ours is an inherently international movement. As individuals who reject the cult of the omnipotent state, we refuse to allow national borders to dictate the boundaries of libertarian struggle. There are Libertarian Parties in 21 countries officially, including six former Soviet republics (which routinely boast the strongest Libertarian showings electorally). Many of these parties’ leaders and members are regularly arrested, persecuted, and intimidated by authoritarian governments.
Solidarity is both a moral and a pragmatic imperative: Especially in a globally interconnected and interdependent world, our ambitions, whether for a decentralized state or for a stateless society, can only realistically be achieved absent the aggression or opportunism of other political powers. We must buoy, in speech and in action, the efforts of other parties and persons globally who share our demand to live freely and enjoy the fruits of one another’s commerce absent exploitation. Only then will the force of the liberty movement be strong enough, and the allure of isolationist statism weak enough, that our movement can attain lasting and far-reaching success.
How:
- Increasing outreach toward our libertarian counterparts worldwide: Sharing their stories, exchanging ideas, learning from their successes, promoting visibility, and providing support for the work that they are doing to create a freer world for each of us. A victory for one is a victory for all.
- Continuing communication and heightening coordination with the International Alliance of Libertarian Parties and other aligned organizations: Developing a decentralized yet interlinked international movement network, both to augment the impact of local efforts and to organize global campaigns and demonstrations, has never been easier technologically or more imperative politically.
- Creating single-issue coalitions that meet people where they are, where we are: Allying with individuals in other minor parties and outside of politics when we share a common cause and recruiting them to our mission through issue-driven direct action.