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U.S. POLITICAL PARTIES
THE TWO
MAJOR PARTIES:
DEMOCRATIC
PARTY (DNC)
-
(Barbara Lee,
Dennis Kucinich and
the Congressional
Progressive Caucus) and traditional liberals (Russ
Feingold, Nancy
Pelosi, Dick Durbin
and John Kerry) to the
Dem center-right (Joe
Lieberman, Evan Bayh,
Harry Reid and the
New Democrat Network) to
the GOP-style conservative right (Ben
Nelson, Gene
Taylor, and Allen Boyd)
... Democratic Leadership Council's
(Howard
Dean, Barack Obama,
Joe Biden,
The Third Way).
College Democrats of America ("College Dems").
REPUBLICAN PARTY
(RNC)
President
George W. Bush,
Denny Hastert,
Bill Frist,
Rick Santorum and the
Club for Growth),
the Religious Right (Sam
Brownback, the National
Federation of Republican Assemblies and the
Christian Coalition),
Arnold Schwarzenegger,
Rob Simmons,
Christie Whitman and
the Republican
Main Street Partnership, libertarians (Ron
Paul and the Republican
Liberty Caucus), (Tom
Tancredo and Pat
Buchanan).
TheNRCC
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The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) is a
political committee devoted to increasing the Membership of the
Republican Conference in the U.S. House of Representatives.
The current Chairman is Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX).
Country:
United States
Website:
http://www.nrcc.org
Website:
http://www.nrcc.org
THE THIRD PARTIES:
(Listed in Alphabetical Order - Note:
"One-State-Only" parties are listed on ONLY on the appropriate
STATE pages)
AMERICA FIRST PARTY
- Bo Gritz
AMERICAN PARTY
-
US Senator
Jesse Helms (R-NC) and Governor
Mel
Thomson (R-NH). Former GOP State Senator
Don
Rogers of California -- the 2000 nominee for Preside. Of
course, the AP also opposes the
United Nations, the New World Order, communism, socialism
and the Trilateral
Commission
AMERICAN
INDEPENDENT PARTY
- Governor
George C.
Wallace (D-AL) founded the AIP and ran as the its first
Presidential nominee in 1968. The 1972 AIP nominee,
John Birch Society leader and
Congressman John G.
Schmitz (R-CA), The 1976 AIP Presidential nominee was former
Georgia Governor
Lester Maddox, they nominated white supremacist
ex-Congressman
John Rarick (D-LA).
AMERICAN NAZI PARTY
AMERICAN REFORM PARTY
CHRISTIAN
FALANGIST PARTY OF AMERICA
COMMUNIST
PARTY USA
The
CPUSA's
underlying communist ideology
Gus Hall and
Angela Davis
-- was fielded in 1984
Related
CPUSA websites include the
People's Weekly World party newspaper,
Political Affairs
monthly party magazine, and the
Young Communists League youth organization.
CONSTITUTION PARTY
Former
Nixon Administration official and one-time Conservative
Coalition chair
Howard
Phillips founded the US Taxpayers Party (USTP) in 1992 as a
potential vehicle for
Pat Buchanan
to use for a third party White House run. The party received a
brief boost in the media when conservative US Senator
Bob Smith
of New Hampshire -- an announced GOP Presidential hopeful --
bolted from the Republican Party to seek the Constitution Party
nomination in 2000. Conservative attorney
Michael Peroutka
was the CP's 2004 Presidential nominee. Immigration reform
activist Jim Gilchrist -- a close ally of Congressman Tom
Tancredo (R-CO) and founder of the controversial "Minuteman
Project" civilian border patrols -- appears likely to be the
party's 2008 nominee. The Constitution Party appear to have
generally cemented their place as the third largest third party
in the nation.
FAMILY VALUES PARTY
FREEDOM
SOCIALIST PARTY / RADICAL WOMEN -
Related FSP links include the
Freedom Socialist newspaper and
Red Letter Press
(book publishers).
GREEN PARTY OF
THE UNITED STATES (GREEN PARTY)
The
Green Party -- the informal US-affiliate of the leftist,
environmentalist
European Greens movement. They scored a major political
points when it convinced prominent consumer advocate
Ralph Nader to run as their
first Presidential nominee in 1996.The party regularly fields
candidates for local, state and federal offices in many states,
and has Green Party General Counsel
David Cobb of Texas
won the Presidential nomination (ballot status in 29 states
established active
state affiliate parties in nearly all 50 states. Other
official Green Party links include:
Green Pages
(quarterly newspaper),
Global Green Network,
Green Party News
Center, Campus Greens,
Lavendar Greens Caucus,
National Women's Caucus,
Disability Caucus,
Coordinated
Campaign Committee, and
Green Party Election
Results. The
Green Party Platform 2004 sets forth the party's official
stances.
THE
GREENS/GREEN PARTY USA (G/GPUSA)
G/GPUSA 2000
Platform (which remains the current G/GPUSA platform).
The G/GPUSA
maintain formal
local
affiliates only Chicago, St. Louis and Philadelphia.
Related
G/GPUSA links include
Synthesis/Regeneration (party magazine), and
Green Politics
(quarterly newspaper).
INDEPENDENCE
PARTY
Former Minnesota Governor
Jesse
Ventura. IP co-founder
Dean Barkley. Other related links include:
Independence Party of Florida
(state affiliate), and the
Independence Party of Illinois (state affiliate)
INDEPENDENT
AMERICAN PARTY
LABOR
PARTY
Ideologically, they seem close to the style of the late,
labor-friendly Vice President
Hubert Humphrey and US Senator
Scoop Jackson
wing of the Democratic Party circa 1960s
LIBERTARIAN PARTY
Computer consulant and tax-resister
Michael Badnarik
was the LP Presidential nominee in 2004.
The LP
also has
active affiliate parties in every state. Moderates seized
control at the 2006 national convention and gutted the party's
original
platform. Other related LP sites are: the
Libertarian Party News
(official LP newspaper),
College Libertarians (official student group),
LP Ballot Base
(official GOTV site),
GrowTheLP.org (official LP outreach),
Libertarian Reform Caucus
(LP moderates), LP Radicals
(LP purists), Libertarian
Leadership School (official LP training program),
LPedia (official LP Wiki
history site).. The LP web site features a link to the
World's Smallest
Political Quiz -- designed by LP co-founder David Nolan
LIGHT
PARTY
NATIONAL
SOCIALIST MOVEMENT
NATURAL
LAW PARTY
A New Age entity founded and run by followers of
Maharishi Mahesh
Yogi (the founder of the TM movement. the
Ohio NLP remaining the
most active one. The NLP seems to have entirely abandoned using
electoral politics to advance their agenda and, instead, are now
advocating something they call the
US Peace Government.
The party ran nuclear physicist
John Hagelin as the NLP
Presidential nominee
NEW PARTY
Chicago
Congressman Danny K. Davis
NEW UNION
PARTY
PEACE AND FREEDOM PARTY
Prohibition Party
An
additional party-related organization is the
Partisan Prohibition
Historical Society,
Gene
Amundson -- supported by the party leadership -- will also
be on the Colorado ballot under another name.
REFORM
PARTY
Billionaire Texas businessman
Ross Perot founded the Reform Party in 1995
ReformPartyUSA.org
The Revolution
The
party's leader -- a digital culture journalist and
cyberprankster who uses the pen name
R.U. Sirius
Socialist Party USA
Socialist Party USA
Campaign Clearinghouse. The SP-USA's
Socialist Net is a resource
site covering the international democratic socialist movement
and the American
Socialist Foundation and an SP-USA affiliated educational
group. Peace activist and former SP-USA National Chairman
David
McReynolds was the party's 2000 Presidential nomineeFor
2004, former Democratic State Senator
Walt Brown
of Oregon is the SPUSA Presidential nominee. The party's youth
wing -- the Young People's
Socialist League.
Socialist Action
Youth for Socialist
Action
Socialist Equality
Party
The
SEP's news site -- the World
Socialist Web Site (WSWS) -- is updated daily with articles,
analysis, history, etc., written with a hardcore
internationalist, Trotskyist perspective.
Socialist Labor Party
The SLP
newspaper The People
Socialist Workers Party
Marxist
political organizer
James Harris was the SWP Presidential nominee in 1996.
SWP's
newspapers The Militant
(English) and
Perspectiva Mundial (Spanish) online.
U.S. Marijuana Party
The
party -- which already has chapters formed in
several states -- is seeking marijuana legalization on a
state-by-state basis
U.S.
Pacifist Party
Lyttle did not wage an active campaign
Veterans Party of
America
The
party's
platform preface.
We The People Party
Workers World Party
WWP
Presidential nominee
Monica Moorehead
was on the ballot in 12 states in 1996.
he WWP
also sponsors or directs numerous popular front groups including
International
ANSWER, International
Action Center, Stop War
on Iran, US Troops
Out Now, No Draft No
Way, People Judge
Bush, Nicaragua Network, Alliance for Global Justice,
Pastors for Peace, and many others.
OTHER PARTIES:
(This "Other" category is for parties
that have yet to field or endorse any candidates for office.)
American Patriot
Party
American
Socialist Party
Constitutionalist Party
Democratic Socialists of
America
The
DSA is the official US full member party of the
Socialist
International (which includes Tony Blair's UK
Labour Party, the French
Parti Socialiste
and nearly 140 other political parties around the globe).
Libertarian National Socialist
Green Party
Multicapitalist Party
Pansexual Peace Party
Pot Party
. They
also seem to be actively involved in an online fantasy
government entitled the
USA Parliament
Progressive Labor Party
Revolutionary Communist
Party USA
Maoist
activist C. Clark Kissinger
seems to be running the day-to-day operations of the RCP. The
party's newspaper --
Revolutionary Worker -- is available online in English and
Spanish versions. Prominent RCP popular front groups include
Refuse & Resist!
and the the anti-war Not
In Our Name project.
Social Democrats USA
SD-USA
is the other official US full member party of the
Socialist
International.
The Third Party
Workers Party, USA
Thorburn's
Anti-Imperialist News Service ("assisting the people's
struggles against war and militarism") is also affiliated with
the WP-USA.
World Socialist
Party of the USA
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