Mike ter Maat: Libertarian VP Candidate
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The Libertarian Party presidential ticket condemns all political violence as well as rhetoric that invites such violence. No one who supports such rhetoric represents an acceptable element of the American political process.
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AFUERA! Ending the bureaucratic tyranny requires eliminating federal agencies. Learn how at:
#GoldNewDeal
#afuera
#MileiPresidente
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I want to make this clear: the Libertarian Party is the party of individual freedom and the torchbearer for the protection of individual rights. We find all forms of prejudicism abhorrent.
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One man's socialism is every person's tyranny.
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Support a candidate who shares your skepticism toward federal agencies.
#GoldNewDeal
#ChaseandMike
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@ZelenskyyUa
GIVING MONEY TO UKRAINE IMPOVERISHES EVERY AMERICAN WHO IS NOT DIRECTLY IN ON THE GRIFT. You undermine American workers. You express gratitude to a military-industrial complex using you to pad its bottom line with dollars forcibly removed from American taxpayers. Military
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Only a very silly person would deny that all tariffs are taxes and all taxes increase costs to consumers.
#Vance
#2024Election
#ChaseYourDreams
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Verdad!
"The only way out of poverty is with more freedom"
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Robert Kennedy supporters looking for a third party candidate, don’t lose hope. The Chase Oliver campaign is the most viable option to lead a movement against an entrenched political system.
#ChaseYourDreams
#rfkjr
@ChaseForLiberty
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Does this mean he won't be able to vote for me and Chase Oliver?
@ChaseForLiberty
Donald Trump is convicted of a felony. Here's how that affects the 2024 presidential race
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Walking out as Trump begins his “I’m a Libertarian” speech at the 2024 Libertarian National Convention.
@LPNational
#GoldNewDeal
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Congrats to
@JMilei
, the Argentine economist making history as the first Libertarian President in Argentina! This is a great day for limited government and personal freedom worldwide.
#LibertarianVictory
#JavierMilei
#FreedomPresidency
#Argentina
#america
#MileiPresidente
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Stop putting up with the abuse. It’s time for a Gold New Deal. And it’s time for a great new campaign video.
#GoldNewDeal
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The reason RFK supporters are upset by him stopping the campaign is that they have been fighting for principle, not for Donald Trump. We welcome them to continue that same fight with our campaign.
#RFKJr
#RFK
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It is time for real police reform.
1. End Qualified Immunity
2. Require Personal "liability" insurance for police officers
3. End Victimless Crimes
4. End Civil Asset Forfeiture
5. End the War on Drugs
6. End the War on Guns
7. End "No Knock" Raids
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While we wish Zuckerberg had stood up to the White House, the government's ability to force censorship is a deep and long-term problem.
#Zuckerberg
#WhiteHouse
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Today, I have challenged Robert Kennedy to a debate in advance of the Libertarian Party presidential nominating convention on Memorial Day weekend in DC.
@RobertKennedyJr
Yesterday, Kennedy tweeted that he will attend the convention and he challenged former President Trump to a
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Hats off to
@RandPaul
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@RepThomasMassie
, and the bipartisan squad pushing
@POTUS
to ditch the Assange prosecution. No room for unnecessary legal theatrics that could stifle journalism. Julian Assange is locked up for exposing others' crimes. His incarceration is a blatant human
Proud to join
@RepThomasMassie
and a bipartisan coalition urging
@POTUS
to drop the prosecution of Julian Assange. The US shouldn’t pursue an unnecessary prosecution that risks criminalizing journalism and chilling freedom of the press.
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CrowdStrike has demonstrated the vulnerability of our globally interconnected economic systems to thousands of pain points. THIS IS WHY WE NEED A MODERNIZED APPROACH FROM THE DEFENSE DEPARTMENT.
#LibertarianCandidate
#ChaseandMike
#GoldNewDeal
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For centralized authority, it's DC or bust. Gotta take away the power politicians lust. It all comes down to: WHO DO YOU TRUST?
#GoldNewDeal
#politicsasusual
#freedom
#PoliticalScoop
#2A
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CONSTITUTIONAL DUTY is an ironic concept for libertarians, as we wish the government to be as small as possible - most especially at the federal level. There really are only two things we want the federal government to do: Guard the perimeter and protect our civil liberties.
NEW: Texas is doubling down on their effort to secure the border as Gov. Greg Abbott issues blistering statement to Biden, claiming he has broken his constitutional duty to protect the U.S.
Gotta love Texas 🔥
The Texas National Guard is now reinforcing barriers along the Rio
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Just to clarify, my post about bigotry was specifically addressing the comments caught on the hot mic.
#clarification
#bigotry
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Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again. What has the duopoly done to promote your individual freedoms and promote peace and prosperity the last few decades?
#MiketerMaatforPresident2024
#libertarian
#goldnewdeal
#endtheduopoly
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@DeAngelisCorey
@mkibbe
She'll be taught not to wonder whether teachers are truly public servants, not to consider alternative curricula, not to question authority. She won't learn Marxism is an evil obscuring the true source of prosperity: Self-interested decisions made in freedom.
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Congrats to Javier Milei, the Argentine economist making history as the first Libertarian President! I have reached out to his campaign staff and plan to congratulate President-elect Milei personally. This is a great day for limited government and personal freedom worldwide.
Congrats to
@JMilei
, the Argentine economist making history as the first Libertarian President in Argentina! This is a great day for limited government and personal freedom worldwide.
#LibertarianVictory
#JavierMilei
#FreedomPresidency
#Argentina
#america
#MileiPresidente
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"We are here to tell you that collectivist experiments are never the solution to the problems that afflict the citizens of the world, rather they are the root cause"
-Javier Milei WEF2024
Agreed! Absolutely ! Freedom is the only solution!
#WEF2024
#freedom
#Liberty
🔴🇦🇷 Javier Milei addresses the World Economic Forum (English)
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A GOLD NEW DEAL: THE BOOK!
Including an essay by Aleksandar Svetski author of the best seller UnCommunist Manifesto and the upcoming Bushido of Bitcoin!
#GoldNewDeal
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POLICE REFORM NOW!
Changing police culture is - like any other cultural transformation – a long-term and multi-faceted project, but one that can be accelerated by specific changes that we could make right now.
#GoldNewDeal
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Your life is your life, your property is your property, your body is your body.
#ChaseMike
#OliverterMaat
#GoldNewDeal
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Libertarian Party chooses Chase Oliver as presidential nominee
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LISA, the Libertarian Intelligence System Application: “We believe that the government should not be involved in the issuance of currency, and that private citizens should have the freedom to use whatever currency they choose.”
TRY FOR YOURSELF:
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If you believe in living your life by your own standards, and letting your neighbor do the same, you might be a Libertarian. If you resent the government censoring your ideas while the government hides their own ideas, you might be a Libertarian. And if you believe in fiscal
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Views from the debate stage in Colorado Springs!
@LPCO
@ChaseForLiberty
@LibertarianLars
@JacobforLiberty
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SCOTUS to hear bump stock ban! This case is a twofer. At stake is both (1) our Second Amendment rights and (2) the limits of power that agencies can assume without the explicit support of Congressional legislation.
#GoldNewDeal
#2ndAmendment
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Neither Trump nor Harris have a plan to resolve the Israel-Palestine war. Neither has a plan to resolve Russia-Ukraine. Neither has a plan for China-Taiwan. What’s really scary about the Republican/Democrat approach is that neither understands that their joint neocon policy led
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Just a reminder that:
* governments kill,
* governments lie, and
* governments cover up.
John F. Kennedy was assassinated 60 years ago today.
Just a reminder that a whistleblower has stated that the CIA was involved his murder.
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JUNETEENTH! Fun and laughs in Sanford, Florida, but let's remember this date in 1865 marked merely the end of the beginning, not even the beginning of the end, of the American battle to secure liberty for all. So, too, do we celebrate Sanford's remarkable and laudable efforts to
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LEGAL immigration is good for America.
ILLEGAL immigration is bad for Americans.
LEGAL IMMIGRATION IS A DEFINING CHARACTERISTIC OF AMERICA, setting us apart from other nations culturally, economically, entrepreneurially, and tolerantly. If we believe in our way of life as
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It's a DOUBLE-CONVENTION weekend! Art Olivier and I were in Iowa today for the LPIA presidential candidate debate while the campaign is up and running in North Carolina where I will be for tomorrow morning's LPNC debate!
@LPNC
@LPIowa
#GoldNewDeal
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Officers should be required to be bonded by private-sector liability insurance – like malpractice insurance carried by surgeons - at their own expense, to create a third-party check on police adherence to best practices. The key to the success of such a plan is to avoid the
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WAR WITH CHINA?
The US government is preparing to go to war. Shouldn’t it be preparing to go to peace?
· Bring the troops home.
· Stop foreign aid.
· End strategic ambiguity.
· Tell investors to build chip manufacturing facilities not in Taiwan but in
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If you have been supporting the Robert Kennedy campaign out of frustration with America's duopolistic political system, welcome home to the Libertarian Party.
#Libertarian
#2024Election
#rfkjr
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There is an old saying in the Libertarian Party: Taxation is “theft.” The reason we say this is because taxation is theft . . .
#ChaseandMike
#OliverterMaat
#GoldNewDeal
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Cold weather, ice and snow are small deterrents for libertarians! As the philosophical descendants of our nations' founders, we have faced greater challenges. Even as we speak, political forces gather to thwart ballot access for our party.
#IowaCaucus
#IowaCaucuses
#IACaucus
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As libertarians, we are the philosophical descendants of those who founded this nation, who wrote the Declaration of Independence and who crafted the Constitution, delimiting the powers of a pluralistic democratic republic, and did so for only one legitimate purpose, to protect
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YouTube is not a classically liberal company. YouTube is effectively censoring. YouTube is therefore legally a publisher. YouTube should no longer be protected by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act which gives special status to censors and must be ended as written.
As the world watched China erupt in protest today, YouTube once again censored our coverage. Our episode on the enormous protests at Foxconn was age-restricted, essentially killing the viewership. No reason was given. This is a travesty
@TeamYouTube
#China
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Robert Kennedy supporters, you have reason to be upset. Continue the fight! Let us join this fight together.
#RFK
#RFKJr
#ChaseYourDreams
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Campaign stud Lemichael Wilson representing our team in Nebraska!
@TNGovernor2026
@LPNebraska
#GoldNewDeal
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It’s time for a new path to restore our constitutional republic! Aren’t you tired of the same old duopoly? Aren’t you tired of the infringement of your civil liberties, endless foreign wars, and the destruction of our economy?
It’s time for a Gold New Deal!
It’s time for a
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NORD STREAM 2 SABOTAGE: DID YOU BLOW UP THAT PIPELINE?
One year ago today, evidence of US involvement was revealed by Seymour Hersh, the guy who has won a Pulitzer Prize, five George Polk Awards, two National Magazine Awards and a National Book Critics Circle Award for . . .
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NEVER NIKKI!
"Based on her record and campaign, I don’t see how any thoughtful or informed libertarian or conservative should vote for Nikki Haley . . . Nikki Haley supports Biden and McConnell and the forever-war crowd on funding for the war in Ukraine. Her thirst for war is so
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Because this candidate works harder than all others, this was another thrivention weekend (3 state conventions in 3 days), and the third consecutive weekend of attending presidential candidate events that the other campaigns skipped.
@lpnyofficial
@Mass_LLAMA
@LPWV
#GoldNewDeal
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That's right, the Mike ter Maat for President campaign is busy in four states this weekend, after having spoken to Liberty on the Rocks in Denver Wednesday!
#GoldNewDeal
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End the war on drugs. If you hadn’t been an economist before becoming a cop, serving as a police officer will turn you into an economist, for having seen the results of bad public policy up close and personal. Our values are at stake. The difference between good policing and bad
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Politically Homeless podcast! From host David Spuria: “Honestly this is the best interview I've ever done on either one of my channels. This man has the right set of ideas and the intellect to understand all of the crucial issues of out time. He is running for president in the
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Joe Biden finally does the right thing. For the second time in two cycles, we saw a president try to hang on to power for too long.
#ChaseandMike
#LibertarianCandidate
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"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
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The Binance prosecution is not a story about cryptocurrency. Unlike the FTX/SBF prosecution, it's not even a story about crime. This is a story about government control and the power that government is willing to exert to maintain that control.
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On Holocaust Remembrance Day, we respectfully remember the countless lives lost during a tragic period in history. It's a time to reflect on the horrors of the Holocaust, a result of extreme authoritarianism, and to acknowledge the critical importance of safeguarding individual
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MY INTERVIEW OF JACOB HORNBERGER AT LPAL (OTHER CANDIDATES TO FOLLOW!)
Jacob Hornberger, founder of the Future of Freedom Foundation and hardcore libertarian is a fellow candidate for the Libertarian Party presidential nomination. Enjoy this fascinating discussion of his research
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POLICE REFORM NOW!
The transformation of police culture can be accelerated by the institution of free-market principles, reduction of federal interventionism, and decentralization of control down to the community level . . . not by slogans like defund "the police" or "back the
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Mike ter Maat, former White House economist, pro-reform police officer and Libertarian Congressional candidate announces bid for LP presidential nomination.
@LarrySharpe
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FREE ROSS NOW. One of our inaugural balls will be themed FREE POLITICAL PRISONERS. Ross will be the guest of honor. I will appear at his prison myself to pick him up.
Ross Ulbricht's freedom must be a litmus test for every presidential candidate.
Those who put him behind bars are the actual criminals.
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POLICE REFORM NOW!
Having served as a police officer for eleven years in south Broward County Florida until 2021, I believe there to be an overarching problem in law enforcement, a police culture which, broadly speaking, emphasizes police control and dominance rather than liberty
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Andrew Horning! Leading Constitutional expert Andy Horning and I discuss freedom, Indiana and Freedom, Indiana; as well as Andy's run for Senate, his book, and of course, the Constitution.
@HorningSenate
@LPINorg
#GoldNewDeal
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Constitutional duty is an ironic concept for libertarians, as we wish the government to be as small as possible - most especially at the federal level. There are only two things we want the federal government to do: Guard the perimeter and protect our civil liberties.
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Changing police culture is - like any other cultural transformation – a long-term and multi-faceted project, but one that can be accelerated by specific changes that we could make right now.
#GoldnewDeal
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Having served as a police officer for eleven years in south Broward County Florida until 2021, I believe there to be an overarching problem in law enforcement, a police culture which, broadly speaking, emphasizes police control and dominance rather than liberty and public safety.
We need a
#President
who believes in
#Police
reform. This should not even be a question. It needs to be a main issue this election.
@terMaatMike
@ChaseForLiberty
@LibertarianLars
@JoshuaAtLarge
@Ballay2024
@RecTheRegime
@JacobforLiberty
@LP_Florida
@LPNational
#PoliceReform
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A New Approach to Foreign Policy should be Based on Reality and Principles
1. Stop foreign aid. The reality is that our annual investments of billions of dollars to Palestinian organizations and billions of dollars to the government of Israel comprise a strategic failure in terms
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Kiko’s Freethinker’s Forum! Check out this lively podcast as we discuss the Gold New Deal and the government we will tolerate.
#GoldNewDeal
@KikoFreethinker
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LISA, the Libertarian Intelligence System Application: “. . . municipalities should be allowed to contract out police services to private-sector organizations. This would provide more flexibility and choice in terms of the type of policing services that are available, and it
LISA, the Libertarian Intelligence System Application: “We believe that the government should not be involved in the issuance of currency, and that private citizens should have the freedom to use whatever currency they choose.”
TRY FOR YOURSELF:
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Liberty, is the cornerstone of American values, it's non-negotiable. No exceptions. I'm Mike ter Maat and I am seeking the Libertarian nomination for president learn more at 🗽
#LibertyFirst
#IndividualFreedom
#Libertarian2024
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A New Approach Based on Reality and Principles
1. Stop foreign aid. The reality is that our annual investments of billions of dollars to Palestinian organizations and billions of dollars to the government of Israel comprise a strategic failure in terms of influence, deterrence,
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MY INTERVIEW OF MICHAEL RECTENWALD AT LPAL (OTHER CANDIDATES TO FOLLOW!)
Michael Rectenwald, accomplished author, former academic and antagonist of woke, is a fellow candidate for the Libertarian Party presidential nomination. Enjoy this lively discussion of his books and NYU’s
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An assassination attempt on a foreign leader? Who does PUTIN think he is, a KENNEDY?
#FidelCastro
@LPNational
@LarrySharpe
@JacobforLiberty
@ChaseForLiberty
@JoshuaAtLarge
@LibertarianLars
@RealSpikeCohen
@RecTheRegime
BREAKING
It appears that Putin’s army attempted to assassinate President Zelensky earlier today
Zelensky’s motorcade, which was 150 meters from that of Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, was attacked by a ballistic missile in Odessa earlier today. Five people were
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COLORADO RADIO: The Jeff & Bill Show on WKNUS! Listen to my discussion with Jeff and Bill on immigration and 2A in preparation for the LPCO convention.
@LPCO
@jeffhunt
#GoldNewDeal
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Tommorrow at the California Libertarian Party Convention-
@LPofCal
, I will join
@RobertKennedyJr
,
@DrJillStein
, and
@RecTheRegime
for a Presidential Candidate Panel. Looking forward to an interesting discussion as we look to end the duopoly control of country. Let’s do this !
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Thank you Libertarian Party of Texas-
@LPTexas
! Looking forward to participating in the debate with my esteemed colleagues in liberty! Many thanks to all my supporters for all the money that they donated!
#goldnewdeal
Official results are in for our Vote With Your Dollars presidential debate fundraiser!
Congrats to
@LibertarianLars
,
@terMaatMike
,
@RecTheRegime
, and
@ChaseForLiberty
for making the stage, and we'll see you in Corpus Christi on Apr. 12th!
#Libertarian
#Convention2024
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Harris’s claim that federal policy could create growth in housing without causing higher inflation, higher taxes, and higher home prices is a policy for people who are bad at math. Devalue the dollar once, shame on you. Devalue the dollar again, shame on the duopolistic status
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YOUR BODY, YOUR DEATH.
Worst idea since honor killings.
The government's death penalty violates our most cherished tradition of placing the sanctity of the human spirit ahead of governmental authority.
The government's War on Drugs is an affront to our Western ethic. It shares a
BREAKING: Former President Trump says the death penalty for drug dealers is the only solution to the drug problem.
"You'll never really solve the drug problem unless you do what other countries do – and that's the death penalty for drug dealers.
A drug dealer on average will
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Yes. Let’s get this passed. This would remove the liability protection for COVID biologics and vaccines. No product should have liability protection especially a medical product. We must go further and remove product liability protection for all
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Can you take a position on school choice in just 60 seconds? LP-Illinois debate answer . . .
#GoldNewDeal
#SchoolChoice
@LPIllinois
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IN THE GOLD NEW DEAL: Every State shall have the right to exit from its present Constitutional subjugation to future Federal regulation, executive order, and court oversight, and to remain subject to taxation only for the purpose of supporting the defense. Every State shall have
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I urge everyone who can, to back
@Getz4PA
in his walk to raise funds for suicide prevention. Let’s show the power of voluntary support for important causes.
#LibertyForLife
Will a presidential candidate help spread awareness of my suicide prevention fundraiser?
@ChaseForLiberty
@terMaatMike
@JoshuaAtLarge
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