Exposing the Libertarian Party

The Libertarian Party is
corrupt. unprincipled. going broke. antisemitic. fostering hate. spreading racism. rejecting science. pro-war. conspiratorial. attacking members. fracturing. alienating candidates. in collapse. selling out.

In May of 2022, an organization known as The Mises PAC took over the Libertarian National Committee after multiple takeovers of state affiliates.

Since these takeovers, party leadership has engaged in repeatedly egregious unethical and corrupt behavior, has maligned libertarians across the world, and misused donor funds.

Here’s an outline of their behavior since the takeover.

This list is not yet comprehensive, and will continue to be updated as we receive information. You can view our Updates Page for new additions since you last checked in.

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Party membership and financials in collapse

October 2023 – 1 of 3 members have ended their membership
September 2023 – LNC members admit they are to blame for failing membership and donors
August 2023 – Former Vice Chair Joshua Smith says that the Mises Caucus “drove the party straight down immediately”.
July 2023 – Libertarian Party fundraising has been set back by 30 years
June 2023 – LNC fails to meet its fundraising goal of 100k by only raising 82k
May 2023 – Report on the health of the party from the Classical Liberal Caucus
May 2023 – A Twitter thread summarizing the trend
May 2023 – Confidential LNC memo shows LNC Chair Angela McArdle stating:
- “The takeover is turning into a disaster”
- “The caucus is demoralized. The members are demoralized. As Miguel would put it, we have put on the face of ‘Hide The Pain Harold’.”
- “If we don’t want the party to be a train wreck, we are going to have to change the way we function as a board.”

Leadership engaging in corrupt and incompetent behavior

November 2023 – Angela McArdle uses party resources to promote her organization (allegedly a non profit, no proof of this has been provided) without permission of the LNC:
October 2023 – LP Development Director Luke Troxell says he wont answer questions unless someone donates $10k
October 2023 – Mises controlled Michigan affiliate holding “trials” that require members to prove their innocence.
October 2023 – Former LNC Vice Chair Joshua Smith claims that LNC Chair Angela McArdle refuses to make donor calls
August 2023 – Nepotistic Hire of LNC Chair Angela McCardle’s fiance
August 2023 – Former Vice Chair Joshua Smith says that the Mises Caucus “drove the party straight down immediately”.
June 2023 – Mises controlled LPCO board suggests defrauding donors by lying to them about where their money is actually going.
April 2023 – Anti-trans Makeup line
April 2023 – Firing and rehiring of Development Director Luke Troxell
March 2023 – LNC Chair Angela McArdle sends a letter to the LP Michigan affiliate that is almost identical to the letter previous LNC Chair Joe Bishop-Henchman resigned over
February 2023 – Rage Against the War Machine
- LNC Chair Angela McArdle registers a non-profit using the LP Headquarters address. No official relationship between her non-profit and the LP existed at this time.
- At Angela’s request, the Libertarian Party votes to sponsor Angela’s non-profit despite it being a major conflict of interest.
- The Libertarian Party advertises and raises money for Angela’s non-profit.(source2) (source3).
- The bookkeeping of Angela’s non-profit is unknown, over $55,000 was raised and there is almost no accountability for where the money went.
- Angela agrees to do a fundraiser for a candidate of the LaRouche Party who helped support Angela’s non-profit. (Source 2) (Source 3)
March 2023 – Mises Caucus controlled LPCO promotes a Mises Caucus event from official LP accounts
January 2023 – The Libertarian Party is caught lying about who invited Scott Ritter (the convicted pedophile invited to speak at the Rage Against War Rally)
March 2022 – Angela McArdle threatens legal action against LPCO if they don’t remove a video of her saying that she should use party funds to pay for therapy of people who disagree with her.
2021-2023 – Mises Controlled LPCO board engages in retaliation against whistleblower.
- December 2021 – LPCO holds a fundraiser and a whistleblower realizes that the funds have disappeared
- March 2022 – Whistleblower approaches members of the LPCO board and is lied to by them.
- January 2023 – LPCO is fined $12,500 (reduced from $20,150) because of late filings
- March 2023 – Whistleblower is censured by the LPCO board
- March 2023 – After the censure, the whistleblower finds out that what had happened was a “straw donations” a serious crime.
- April 2023 – Whistleblower files a complaint with the Colorado Secretary of State
- Whistleblower is harassed online by Jessica “Forest Mommy” Fenske and Caryn Ann Harlos for revealing the corruption, receiving multiple threats.
- May 2023: Complaint is dismissed because more than 180 days had passed. The dismissal notes that the whistleblower should have known that major violations were going on and that they should have reported them sooner.
January 2022 – Mises Leader Co-founder Jeff Douglass tells Libertarian Party staff “fuck your donors, we’ll get new ones”
November 2021 – Mises Caucus state chair of Iowa is removed from office for embezzling funds

Creating negative press

November 2023 – After a warm reception on a Mises Caucus podcast, Jacob Chansley aka “QAnon Shaman” files to run for Congress as a Libertarian
- Daily Beast: “Libertarian Party Embraces Remorseless QAnon Shaman’s Run for Office”
- World Times Today: “The Libertarian Party welcomes QAnon shaman Jacob Chansley’s run for office”
- Yahoo News: “[the QAnon shaman] is considering running for the Libertarian Party in 2024, in a seat freed up by a retiring Republican.”
- KNAU: “Capitol rioter plans 2024 run as a Libertarian candidate in Arizona’s 8th congressional district”
October 2023 – Washington Examiner: “The so-called Mises Caucus, which took over the party last spring, has been trashing the good name of libertarianism ever since, destroying the movement’s reputation one idiotic tweet at a time.”
October 2023 – 1819 News: Libertarian Party of Alabama fined $2,400 by Ethics Commission
September 2023 – Rumors about RFK running as a Libertarian
- The Messenger: “RFK Jr. Met With Libertarian Party Chair Over the Summer: Report”
- Epoch Times: ‘“If he made the decision and did the work that needs to be done within the party, I could see him having a massive impact,” Angela McArdle’
- NY Times: ‘“We’re aligned on a lot of issues. My perspective is that we are going to stay in touch in case he does decide to run,” Ms. McArdle said. “And he can contact me at any time if that’s the case.”’
September 2023 – Libertarian Party files for “conservatorship” over Biden
- NY Sun: The Libertarian Party is moving to file for conservatorships for President Biden and Senator McConnell
- Newsweek: “Libertarians Want Control Over Joe Biden, Mitch McConnell”
September 2023 – Montana Libertarian Party allows endorsement of Republicans and Democrats:
- Helen Air: “new bylaw that allows the Montana Libertarian Party to endorse any candidates, regardless of party”
- NBC Montana; Montana Libertarian Party passes bylaw to loosen restrictions on endorsements
July 2023 – LPNH tells a black congresswoman to “pick crops”
- New Republic: Libertarian Party Thinks It’s OK to Tweet at Black People About Picking Crops
- The Mary Sue: “New Hampshire Libertarian Party Hurls Shameless Racist Insults”
- Yahoo News: “Ohio Ex-lawmaker Slams New Hampshire Libertarian Party’s Racist Tweet”
- News One: “Apparently, the New Hampshire Libertarian Party is all for socialism when it comes to the redistribution of the Republican dog-whistling strategy of throwing racist stones.”
- Mediaite:
  “Libertarian Party Twitter Account Tells Black Former Lawmaker, ‘You Should Pick Crops For Free’”
August 2023 – SPLC: “LIBERTARIAN LEAK: EXTREMIST TIES, ANTI-LGBTQ+ REMARKS, GOP COLLABORATION”
August 2023 – 9 News: “A couple of us Libertarians spoke out on the welcoming nature of the Libertarian Party towards white supremacy, the hateful nature towards the LGBTQ+ community. The day I left the party was the day that the national chair announced that she was starting a make-up line for CIS women only.”
August 2023 – SPLC: “A year after the far-right Mises Caucus took over the Libertarian Party, its membership and financial numbers are down.”
August 2023 – The Hill: Angela McArdle: “The people bringing these indictments [against Trump] seek to play kingmaker outside of the electoral process”
June 2023 – Colorado LP decides to keep libertarians off the ballot in favor of “liberty Republicans”
- Colorado Newsline: “Libertarians say they won’t run candidates if ‘liberty minded’ Republican is on Colorado ballot”
- CPR News: “Colorado Libertarians look to work with defeat-weary Republicans by getting out of their way in future elections”
- Colorado Politics: “The Colorado Libertarian Party is asking Republicans who want the third party to stand down in competitive congressional districts next year to sign a pledge”
- Colorado Politics: “Colorado’s Libertarian Party has agreed with state Republicans to stay out of competitive races in next year’s election where a right-leaning, third-party candidate could be a spoiler”
- Complete Colorado: “My question for Libertarians content to elect Williams-like Republicans to office is this: Why not just become Republicans?”
- Complete Colorado: “Armstrong: Libertarian pledge for GOP an exercise in buffoonery”
March 2023 – San Antonio Current: Mises Caucus county chair threatens violence: “I am here to testify to you that there are men, women, organizations and individuals across the state of Texas that are very much prepared to sacrifice much more to prevent your theft of this man’s property'”
February 2023 – Westword: “The Libertarian Party of Colorado has taken liberties with its finances, causing the Colorado Secretary of State to impose $12,500 in fines on the party.”
January 2023 – Rage Against the War Machine Rally
- Washington Examiner: “Libertarian Party slammed for featuring convicted child sex offender at anti-war rally”
- Free Beacon: “Libertarian Party To Feature Child Sex Predator at Isolationist Rally”
- Free Beacon: “[Rally Speaker] McKinney, who served in the House until 2007, has an extensive history of peddling anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.”
- World Socialist Web Site: “The forces behind the “Rage Against the War Machine” rally: Libertarian Party turns to anti-Semites and the fascist right”
- The Minnesota Daily: “Far from being anti-war, [rally Speaker] Hinkle vehemently supports Russian imperialism. He has also expressed support for LaRouche on social media”
- Truthout: “Fascists Are Attempting to Win Followers by Rebranding as Antiwar”
- Polygraph: “Misleading: Chinese State Media Depict Pro-Russia Rally as ‘Real Voices’ of American People”
- Dissent Magazine: “Reject the Left-Right Alliance Against Ukraine”
- Canada Dimension: “On February 19, no fewer than 1,000 protestors converged in Washington, DC for the Rage Against the War Machine rally”
- San Francisco Bay Area Independent Media Center: “a political freak show attended by a motley crowd of several hundred Libertarian Party supporters, neo-fascists, and disoriented and demoralized middle-class individuals “
- The Daily Beast: “Anti-War Protesters in Washington Praise ‘Russian Patriot’ Vladimir Putin”
- Daily Kos: “Then you notice the one thing [the speakers] all have in common: Fervid support for the cause of Russia and Vladimir Putin. This isn’t a peace march; it’s a propaganda operation.”
December 2022 – Cowboy State Daily: “In a rare stance about a personal choice issue, the National Libertarian Party central committee has categorized sex reassignment surgeries for minors as child abuse. “
November 2022 – The Nation: “A Libertarian Candidate Shares Her Abortion Story to Push Back on the Party’s Right-Wing Shift”
November 2022 – Marc Victors, Mises endorsed Candidate for Senate in Arizona, drops out and endorses right wing Republican Black Masters
- Fox 10 Phoenix: “Libertarian ends Arizona Senate bid, endorses GOP’s Masters”
- NY Times: “Libertarian Candidate Drops Out of Arizona Senate Race and Endorses Masters”
- Reason Magazine: “Arizona Libertarian Senate Candidate Marc Victor Drops Out, Endorses GOP’s Blake Masters”
October 2022 – Deseret News: “The takeover of the national Libertarian Party by a more extreme faction has divided the party and could have implications for the 2024 election”
October 2022 – Sydney Morning Herald: “I have been horrified by the libertarian coverage of events in Ukraine. Much of it has been such an uncritical parroting of Kremlin propaganda”
October 2022 – Jerusalem Post: “New Hampshire Libertarian Party likens Zelensky to Hitler”
October 2022 – SPLC: “LIBERTARIAN PARTY LOSES STATE PARTIES, DONORS AFTER HARD-RIGHT TURN”
October 2022 – The Hill Opinion: “the [Libertarian] party was taken over at its national convention by the so-called Mises Caucus, a far-right group, some of whose members have been associated with racist and antisemitic ideas.”
September 2022 – The Daily Beast: “Across the country, aspiring Libertarian activists and entire state-level Libertarian parties are voluntarily quitting.”
September 2022 – Dissolution of the LP VA:
- NY Sun: ““If … you’re pushing a message that’s so antisemitic and racist and misogynistic, who’s going to be your candidate?””
- Daily Kos: “Now after the end of Roe, today’s libertarians don’t think your sexuality can be self-governing, because fascist religious liberty needs to use state power to prevent your sexual practices.”
- AP News: “Virginia’s Libertarian Party votes to dissolve itself”
- Reason Magazine: “Over the past three weeks… the state Libertarian affiliates in New Mexico and Virginia have indeed divorced themselves from the party’s national leadership.”
- The Virginian Pilot: “Virginia’s Libertarian Party votes to dissolve itself”
- Virginia Mercury: “Libertarian Party of Virginia dissolving after national party’s ‘bigoted’ turn”
- Blue Virginia: “Libertarian Party of VA Dissolves Itself, Rips National Party as “destructive of Liberty and to all fundamental principles that we hold dear””
September 2022 – Idaho Press: Joe Evans said the Mises Caucus leadership “were coming in behind me and telling everybody that libertarianism stood for something else.
September 2022 – LPNH tweets picture of Zelensky, who is Jewish, with a Hitler mustache
- Jerusalem Post: “New Hampshire Libertarians tweet image of Zelensky with Hitler mustache”
- Business Insider: “New Hampshire Libertarian Party draws criticism for posting photo of Ukraine’s Zelenskyy with a Hitler mustache”
August 2022 – LPNH tweets picture of Meghan McCain crying over her father’s coffin, with the title: “Happy Holidays.”
- NY Sun: “”This is a horrible, disgusting tweet” – Justin Amash”
- Union Leader: “”Horribly insulting. That is not leadership. That is not what people want to vote for.’ – Sununu”
- Boston.com: “The Libertarian Party of New Hampshire has come under criticism for posting controversial tweets mocking the Holocaust and the death of Senator John McCain.”
- Boston Globe: “Stop Antisemitism, a watchdog group, denounced the offensive message”
- CNN: “Sununu calls out ‘horribly insulting’ NH Libertarian Party tweets”
- ABC 7 KATV: “Libertarian Party of NH mocks death of John McCain, draws fierce backlash”
- NY Post: “Meghan McCain slams NH Libertarian Party over celebrating dad’s death”
July 2022 – Lawndale News: “the Mises Caucus will completely take the Libertarian Party into a very dark alt-right direction. Already, the Mises Caucus has stripped away the platform on abortion, and there are many members in the Libertarian Party who are in fact anti-gay and anti-trans-people.”
June 2022 – The Nation Opinion: “The Libertarian Party Goes Alt-Right. By embracing bigotry, Libertarians are poised to help reelect Trump.”
May 2022 – SPLC: “The MC and its members have argued for limited immigration enforced by property owners on the border and police action against Black Lives Matter and antifa protesters. They’ve also made anti-trans remarks.”
December 2021 – “Former Libertarian Party of Iowa [Mises Caucus] chair arrested, accused of stealing party funds”
October 2021 – “Former Congressman, [Libertarian] Presidential Candidate Ron Paul Endorses [far right Republican] Huffines for Governor”
June 2021 – “N.H. Libertarian party calls for end to child labor laws; Gary Johnson disagrees”
March 2021 – Mises Controlled LPKY tweets ““Are the vaccine passports going to be yellow, shaped like a star, and sewn on our clothes?”
- ABC 11 WHAS: “Libertarian Party of Kentucky tweet linking vaccine passports to Holocaust sparks debate, outrage”
- Forbes: “the Libertarian Party of Kentucky was called out for what can only be described as an extremely poor comparison of vaccination passport programs to the yellow Star of David that was forced to be worn by Jews during the Holocaust.”
- ABC 11 WHAS: “‘Clearly these comparisons should not be made’: Jewish Federation of Louisville on Libertarian Party’s tweet linking vaccine passports to Holocaust”
- Baptist News: “I’m a child of immigrants, and my mother was a Holocaust survivor. And the misuse of the rhetoric of the Holocaust is appalling. And it just shows the desperation and ignorance of those using it,” University Synagogue Rabbi Arnold Rachlis“

Undermining and attacking LP candidates, staff, and affiliates

Promoting antisemitism

Promoting hate and racism

November 2023 – Mises Caucus Presidential Candidate Micheal Rectenwald likes tweet comparing abortion to child sacrifice
October 2023 – LNC Secretary Caryn Ann Harlos posts transphobic meme.
September 2023 – Jeremy Kaufman from LPNH says that Ron Paul shouldn’t have apologized for saying that ending Apartheid in South Africa was the “destruction of civilization”
August 2023 – LNC Chair Angela McArdle replies to a tweet supporting the racist “great replacement” theory and says it’s a good argument against open borders.
July 2023 – LPNH tweets to a trans person: “The only people genociding trans people, are trans people. They need help.”
July 2023 – LPNH tweets out a variation of the white supremacist “14 words” creed
July 2023 – LPNational retweets people defending LPNH telling a black congresswoman to pick cotton
July 2023 – LPPA affiliate from Bucks County is suspended from Twitter for making a violent threat.
July 2023 – LP Georgia tweets “The claim of a Uyghur genocide is a fabricated narrative designed to make us hate China”
July 2023 – Mises Caucus tells the black congress woman that LNPH told to pick crops that she isn’t smart enough to understand the point
July 2023 – LPNH tells a black congresswoman to pick crops
July 2023 – LPNH tells a black congresswoman to go to Africa.
July 2023 – LPNH tweets “The Uyghur genocide is fake, and Ukraine is gay.”
June 2023 – Mises Caucus controlled LP Nevada tweets a picture of a bombed out building that says “Let Ukraine Burn”.
June 2023 – LPNH tweets “Ukraine is a Nazi-infested shit hole”
June 2023 – LPNH calls Martin Luther King Jr. a “violent socialist”
May 2023 – LPNH posts transphobic meme
May 2023 – LNC members make transphobic remarks about an elected transgender Libertarian
April 2023 – Angela McArdle uses her position as chair to advertise her anti-trans makeup line venture
April 2023 – LPNH tweets “No child is trans.”
April 2023 – Maj Toure says “If you do a drag Queen story hour for children in my community, ima pull up and assault you.”
April 2023 – LPCO tweets “The liberal gay world order/totalitarian chaos Left has completed its march through every institution.”
April 2023 – LNC members make homophobic and transphobic remarks about a former staffer in a private chat
February 2023 – LPNH tweets out a picture of all the assassinated American Presidents and says “Libertarians don’t have much respect for any American presidency, but we can at least respect the way some of them ended.”
January 2023 – LPNH tweets “Zelensky is a bigger threat to humanity than Putin is.”
January 2023 – LP National makes fun of police officers for crying about Jan 6th
January 2023 – Mises Caucus Massachusetts replies to a Vermin Supreme tweet with a picture saying “The only good communist is a dead one”
November 2022 – LPNH says the Uyghur genocide is a scam to make you hate the Chinese
November 2022 – Libertarian Party Communication Director accuses LGBTQ people of “recruiting children”
October 2022 – Jeremy Kaufman complains that he can’t say blacks aren’t as smart as whites without being called a racist
October 2022 – Vice Chair of the LNC, Joshua Smith, posts homophobic tweet
October 2022 – LPNH tweets “Ukraine is causing a world war”
October 2022 – LPCO tweets “This season, kick the anti-civilization satanists out before they do any more damage”
October 2022 – LPNH replies to Megan McCain telling her “Daddy’s in hell pork chop”
September 2022 – LNC Vice Chair Joshua Smith, VC of LP, calls something “fucking gay”
September 2022 – LP National tweets that teachers should be imprisoned for wrong teachings
September 2022 – LNC Vice Chair Joshua Smith calls for ending the 19th amendment
August 2022 – LP Chair Angela McArdle claims that multiculturalism is a “failed experiment”
July 2022 – Jeremy Kauffman from LPNH Comms tells black people “you can either have a one-way plane ticket to Africa or shut the fuck up forever”
July 2022 – Joshua Smith says that women who try to have an abortion are “potbelly goblin vampires”
July 2022 – LP Comms Director accuses LBGT of trying to destroy Christianity
July 2022 – Mises controlled LP Deleware tweets “The consequences of the degeneracy being weaponized to this end are very, horribly real”
July 2022 – Jeremy Kaufman says that blacks that don’t “shut up” should get a one way ticket to Africa.
July 2022 – Vice Chair of the LNC, Joshua Smith, goes on a rant about the “globohomo agenda.”
June 2022 – LP Delaware blames child sex abuse on the LBGT movement.
May 2022 – Jeremy Kauffman says he supports abortion because he “knows who has the most abortions”
May 2022 – LPKY tweets “There were no mass shootings in schools when they were remote during covid.”
May 2022 – Jeremy Kaufman, Robbie “The Fire” Bernstein, and others harass a woman at the Reno Convention asking her if she “was going to cry” and calling her hysterical.
March 2022 – LPKY tweets “Watching people who masturbate to the blood of dead brown children in the middle east call @RonPaul a racist is comedic levels of irony.”
March 2022 – Minnesota Mises Caucus tweets “Bigot’s rights are human rights.”
January 2022 – LPNH tweets transphobic, hateful remark towards elected Libertarian candidate
January 2022 – Mises Caucus members used racist language against a black member of the state committee of LLAMA
2022-2023 – LPNH tweets out multiple times that “war is gay”
December 2021 – Mises Caucus South Carolina tweets support for arsonist of an abortion clinic.
December 2021 – LP MN tweets “Forced integration is absolutely an issue”
December 2021 – LPNH Mises Caucus tweets out a threat of violence and is retweeted by LPCT
November 2021 – LP Mises Caucus Texas tweets out that “policemen who enforce vaccine and mask mandates… should be resisted by any means necessary”
November 2021 – LPNH tweets “Racism is pretty much a non-issue in America. Libertarians suffer more oppression than black people.”
September 2021 – Mises Caucus of Massachusetts calls the Massachusetts’s affiliate a racial slur
September 2021 – Mises Caucus of Massachusetts asks “Were the lives of the slaves really materially different after their freedom?”
September 2021 – Jeremy Kauffman tweets out the n-word.
September 2021 – LPKY gets banned from Twitter for telling a reporter to kill himself, LP Mises Caucus Kentucky says that makes them proud.
September 2021 – Maj Toure tells gay LP candidate “I would tell you to eat a dick, but you’d probably feel right at home.
March 2021 – Jeremy Kaufman tweets “if 1,000 transpeople were murdered every year but there were no taxes, we’d live in a substantially more moral world” and is supported by the Mises Caucus of Nevada
September 2016 – Mises Caucus Presidential Candidate Michael Rectenwald tweets that he hopes that liberal students commit suicide if Trump is elected

Promoting antilibertarian positions

Promoting anti-science, conspiratorial nonsense

Engaging in hateful rhetoric and attacking members

Sabotaging the LP to favor Republicans

November 2023 – LPPA went from 173 elected libertarians in 2021 down to only 18 in 2023 because of Mises Caucus leadership.
August 2023 – Attempting to influence Republican primaries aka “Operation Warhawk Removal”
September 2023 – LP Montana changes its bylaws to allow endorsement of Republicans and Democrats.
August 2023 – LNC Chair Angela McArdle states that a matchup between Democrat Gavin Newsome vs Republican Ron DeSantis would be “An archetypal battle between good and evil”
June 2023 – LPCO announces that it has signed a deal with the GOP to keep libertarians off the ballot in favor of Republicans
- November 2023 – Mises Caucus presidential candidate Micheal Rectenwald supports LPCO selling out to the GOP
April 2023 – LPCO responds to RFK announcing his plan to challenge Biden with “Bravo and godspeed hero”
April 2023 – Marshall Burt, former State Representative in Wyoming, says “I am 100% certain the intent of the MC is not to help candidates win. I saw absolutely no help or interest from their caucus during my re-election campaign.”
March 2023 – LPNH tweets “There’s no need for another political party that is never going to win. We’ve got that covered.”
January 2023 – LPNH changes their bylaws to allow endorsement of Republicans and Democrats. (source2 )
September 2022 – LPVA dissolves, citing Mises Caucus attempts to prevent them from running candidates and messaging from LP National
October 2022 – Marc Victors (Arizona candidate for Senate) Drops out and endorses Republican Blake Masters
May 2022 – Mises Caucus takes LPPA over and sabotages the Mouton Maneuver, the strategy that had gotten of hundreds of Libertarians elected.
April 2022 – Mises Caucus successfully prevents the Libertarian Party of Minnesota from having a candidate for governor in order to benefit the Republicans. Chair Chris Holbrook resigns in disgust
January 2022 – LPNY Retweets the Republican for governor
January 2022 – Mises Caucus members tried to get the LP Massachusetts to support “liberty leaning Republicans”

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Update Log

Update #6

November 29, 2023

December 2019 – Rectenwald comes out in favor of the Nick Fuentes-led “groypers” and complains about people being vilified for opposing “forced immigration.”
June 2022 – Rectenwald has his Facebook account temporarily suspended for saying “I blame the truck for not running them all over”
June 2023 – Rectenwald says the “Unabomber Manifesto was excellent and insightful”
October 2023 – Rectenwald tries to get another Libertarian Party candidate cancelled from a debate
October 2023 – In response to seeing the news that Russia had killed 51 civilians, Rectenwald responds mockingly “Quick! Send a few more billion to Lockheed Martin and Raytheon!”
October 24, 2023 – Rectenwald blames pograms against Jews on the Israeli government, 20 years before the Israeli government was founded.
November 14, 2023 – Rectenwald reaches out to antisemite David Icke
October 29, 2023 – Rectenwald responds in Twitter thread that contains extremely anti-semetic imagery with a post claiming that most of the Jews killed on October 7th were killed by the Israeli government.
November 1, 2023 – Rectenwald tweets out antisemetic “blood libel” conspiracy theory that Israel is sacrificing children to “Moloch”
November 3, 2023 – Rectenwald tweets out 911 conspiracy theory video featuring antisemite Cynthia McKinney
November 9 2023 – Rectenwald posts a meme stating “Ladies. Mansplaining, is short for Man explaining”
November 9, 2023 – Rectenwald tweets out conspiracy video from antisemite “Max Igan”
November 27, 2023 – Rectenwald likes tweet that implies the Jews control porn and the government
November 2023 – Angela McArdle uses party resources to promote her organization (allegedly a non profit, no proof of this has been provided) without permission of the LNC:

Update #5

November 15, 2023

November 2023 – After a warm reception on a Mises Caucus podcast, Jacob Chansley aka “QAnon Shaman” files to run for Congress as a Libertarian

Added new page about Mises Caucus Presidential Candidate Michael Rectenwald

November 2016 – Professor Michael Rectenwald lies about being “canceled” from NYU

October 2016 – NY Post: Rectenwald lies and says that he was forced to go on leave
October 2016 – NYU News: Rectenwald lies and says that NYU made him take the leave of absence, but goes on to say it wasn’t a “mandatory” leave of absence
November 2016 – In a Washington Post Op-ed, Rectenwald lies and claims that he “was strongly encouraged to take a paid leave of absence “
November 2016 – NY Mag: Rectenwald says “I do intend to remain on leave” which shows he could have sought to return to NYU
November 2016 – NYU releases email correspondence showing that the leave of absence was Rectenwald’s decision with him saying “I unequivocally need the leave of absence” and that Rectenwald declined the offer to return to teaching

Rectenwald’s denying his support for Trump and the GOP:

November 2023 – At the LP South Carolina debate Rectenwald claims “I have never.. I have not been any kind of promoter of the Republican Party”
October 2023 – Rectenwald claims that he never supported Donald Trump

Rectenwald’s support for Trump and the GOP is well documented:

Between October 2019 and June 2023 – Rectenwald donated 53 times to a GOP PAC.
August 2023 – Rectenwald is still registered as a Republican
July 2023 – Rectenwald’s backup twitter account tweets that he will be voting for Trump
February 2023 – Rectenwald writes an article stating that “the Republican Party represents the only” path to “salvaging what remains of the constitutional republic”
November 2022 – Rectenwald tweets “Trump is giving a world-historical speech right now. It’s almost over. It was so moving I am actually crying”

Update #4

November 9, 2023

November 2023 – Mises Caucus Presidential Candidate Micheal Rectenwald likes tweet comparing abortion to child sacrifice

November 2023 – Mises Caucus Presidential Candidate Micheal Rectenwald tweets out anti-semetic conspiracy theory that Israel is sacrificing children to “Moloch”

November 2021 – LPNH tweets “Racism is pretty much a non-issue in America. Libertarians suffer more oppression than black people.”

March 2023 – LPNH calls for violence against socialists

November 2023 – Mises Caucus KY tells libertarians to “stop being retarded” and “autistic” because Joshua Smith and Micheal Rectenwald were better than past LP presidential candidates.

November 2023 – LPPA went from 173 elected libertarians in 2021 down to only 18 in 2023 because of Mises Caucus leadership.

November 2023 – Mises Caucus Endorsed Candidate Jessica “Forest Mommy” Fenske tweets out nude picture after losing her race

December 2022 – The Mises Caucus accuses the Libertarian Party of Spain of being run by the CIA.

November 2023 – Mises Caucus presidential candidate Micheal Rectenwald supports LPCO selling out to the GOP

February 2023 – LNC Region Rep Dave Benner tweets “Russia’s president is elected through a far more democratic system than the United States president is”

March 2023 – LPPA tweets that “Taiwan is not a country.”

Update #3

November 5, 2023

November 2023 – LNC Chair Angela McArdle makes false claims that donations had significantly increased because of her fiance, LNC decides to extend his contract based on that claim.

March 2023 – LNC Chair Angela McArdle sends a letter to the LP Michigan affiliate that is almost identical to the letter previous LNC Chair Joe Bishop-Henchman resigned over

December 2021 – Mises Caucus South Carolina tweets support for arsonist of an abortion clinic.

December 2021 – LP MN tweets “Forced integration is absolutely an issue”

December 2021 – LPNH Mises Caucus tweets out a threat of violence and is retweeted by LPCT

November 2021 – LP Mises Caucus Texas tweets out that “policemen who enforce vaccine and mask mandates… should be resisted by any means necessary”

September 2021 – LPKY gets banned from twitter for telling a reporter to kill himself, LP Mises Caucus Kentucky says that makes them proud.

June 2021 – Jeremy Kauffman tweets “Jews went from the Holocaust to running the world in 50 years.”

November 2021 – LPNH tweets “Racism is pretty much a non-issue in America. Libertarians suffer more oppression than black people.”

Update #2

October 30, 2023

January 2023 – Mises Caucus Massachusetts replies to a Vermin Supreme tweet with a picture saying “The only good communist is a dead one”

October 2023 – LNC Member and LPCA Chair Adrian Malagon attacks a candidate for having a “boomer” website

October 2023 – LNC Member and LPCA Chair Adrian Malagon, when a former candidate tells him that Adrian’s behavior is why he won’t run again, says “bye, bitch”

October 2023 – LNC Member and LPCA Chair Adrian Malagon calls a former staffer a “cunting twat”

October 2023 – LNC Member and LPCA Chair Adrian Malagon calls a former candidate a “broad”, “annoying” and “insufferable”

Update #1

October 27, 2023

September 2022 – LPVA dissolves, citing Mises Caucus attempts to prevent them from running candidates and messaging from LP National

July 2022 – LPNH says that city governments should be able to discriminate against people for their race.

June 2023 – Sasha Cohen, elected libertarian, leaves the LP citing the bigotry of LPNH

December 2021 – Shane Hazel tweets “You should try the @LPMisesCaucus we aren’t open borders.”

April 2018 – Shane Hazell supports Trump’s plan to us troops to “Secure [the] Southern Border”

December 2021 – Shane Hazel tweets “You should try the @LPMisesCaucus we aren’t open borders.”

April 2022 – LPNH says that it doesn’t believe in freedom of movement for socialists.

March 2022 – Mises Caucus Connecticut complains about having to delete a tweet that threatened violence.

July 2021 – Jeremy Kauffman tweets that no one should be allowed to vote

August 2022 – LP National tweets “Liz Cheney for Prison” because she stood up to Trump.

September 2022 – Mises Caucus Oklahoma tweets “Defund Reason” because Reason opposed DeSantis shipping refugees out of Florida.

September 2022 – LPCO tweets “The Constitution was an illegitimate coup”

September 2022 – Mises Caucus Texas tweets out support for putting teachers in jail

August 2022 – LP National tweets paleo gibberish: “There’s no place in the liberty movement for woke Marxists or Cathedral centrists.”

June 2022 – LP Delaware blames child sex abuse on the LBGT movement.

May 2022 – LPKY tweets “There were no mass shootings in schools when they were remote during covid.”

October 2022 – LPCO tweets “This season, kick the anti-civilization satanists out before they do any more damage”

June – 2022 – LNC Chair Angela McArdle tweets “The LP has attracted a lot of woke Republicans. We welcome libertarians who’ve left their old parties, but please self actualize or check your baggage at the door“

August 2022 – LNC Chair Angela McArdle celebrates people leaving the party.

July 2022 – LPNH tweets that Isreal is “facilitating American politicians and elites to live out their sick pedophile fantasies in order to blackmail them”

August 2022 – Mises Caucus says that FDR “compelled” Japan to attack Pearl Harbor

September 2022 – LP National tweets out meme claiming that marxism is a religion

September 2022 – LNC Chair Angela McArdle blocks an elected Libertarian official for asking questions.

August 2022 – LNC Chair Angela McArdle attacks an LP candidate for questioning her celebrating people leaving the party.

August 2022 – LP National likes a tweet from Tho Bishop celebrating that they drove off Elizabeth Nolan Brown, who left because LP National endorsed McCarthyism.

September 2022 – LP National retweets LNC Chair Angela McArdle “I understand your reluctance to engage in the culture war. It’s the front line of a larger war to rip away your individual liberty“

October 2022 – LNC Secretary Caryn Ann Harlos threatens the writer of an opinion piece titled “The Libertarian Party is collapsing. Here’s why” with a lawsuit for “defamation”.

May 2022 – LPKY says that “Foreign Libertarian parties are likely CIA operations” to a Russian Libertarian.

January 2022 – LPNY Retweets the Republican for governor