Exposing the Libertarian Party

The Libertarian National Committee 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 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 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

January 2023 – LNC proposes a blatant power grab to allow themselves the ability to rig the National Convention (archive)
January 2024 – LNC deletes message from LNC member Marcos Tuniewicz in which he criticizes the LNC and removes them from receiving a trust valued at $650,000
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:
- January 08, 2023 – LNC votes only to endorse a single rally in February of 2023 (Rage Against the War Machine, see below for more info)
- November 2023 – The Libertarian Party is listed as an organizer for a new rally, and is seen on all promotional material, despite there not being an LNC vote to endorse either the organization OR another rally
- November 2023 – The Libertarian Party starts promoting a new rally of Angela’s organization
- November 2023 – Angela McArdle calls for a vote in January to endorse the new rally, after her organization used party resources to promote iteself
- November 2023 – There is no record of “Rage Against the War Machine” being a non-profit. (Original corporation filing here)
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 – LNC membership connection group, a Facebook group used by past LNCs to answer questions from members is shut down by Mises Caucus leadership right before the hiring of Angela’s boyfriend was announced.. (link to page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/827796397408808)
August 2023 – Nepotistic Hire of LNC Chair Angela McCardle’s fiance
- Policy manual was changed in October 2022 to allow hiring of family.
- Angela is called out by Washington State Chair Anna Johnson for hiding the fact that her fiance is being hired “Madam Chair, when are you going to disclose publicly that you hired your own domestic partner, putting the Party’s own money in your pocket?”
- Angela’s fiance is hired, and in the LNC announcement there is no mention of his relationship to the Chair.
- Angela states she only spoke with two EPCC members and the treasurer before hiring her fiance.
- Angela’s fiance has no fundraising experience, despite being hired as “Fundraising Contractor”.
- Angela’s fiance was paid $6,840 in his first month
- First month of the hire had the lowest fundraising for the LP in the past 30 years.
- 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.
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
- LNC Chair Angela McArdle uses her position as chair to advertise her anti-trans makeup company in its announcement. (Source 2)
- Took pre-orders for the makeup line
- Angela claimed she was “In the process of setting up a Bona Dea micro investor summit”
- Six months later, there has been no products shipped and website is down.
April 2023 – Firing and rehiring of Development Director Luke Troxell
- Angela McArdle yells at Development Director Luke Troxell “Are you trying to fuck me?” because of his insubordination to Lainie Huston. Angela also claimed to be “a scary boss”.
- LNC Chair Angela McArdle states “I’ve discussed firing Luke [Troxell]”
- Executive Director Lainie Huston fires Luke Troxell
- Mises Caucus Chair Michael Heise and the Texas Mises Caucus pressure LNC Chair Angela McArdle into rehiring 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”
- November 2023 – Rectenwald tweets out support for QAnon Shaman Jacob Chansley running for Congress as a libertarian.
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

December 2023 – Arizona Mises Caucus calls someone a retard
2023 – Scott Horton refers to people as subhuman, often in relation to Israel: “barely human at all”, “barely human”, “no longer a human man”, “barely human scum”, “not a real human” “scum of the earth, equivalent to a dead dog in a ditch”
2023 – David Carl Mintz – Mises Caucus stands by Mises member who made threats of terrorism in Michigan
- March 2023 – David Carl Mintz posts that drag queen story hour is “indoctrination of pedophilia to kids.” (archive link)
- October 2023 – David Carl Mintz posts “Anyone in the Metro Detroit area want to go to Dearborn & hunt Palestinians?”
- October 2023 – David Carl Mintz is charged with making a threat of terrorism
- October 2023 – Mises Caucus controlled Oakland County motion to censure, and ask David Carl Mintz to give up his membership, fails.
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
2014-2023 – Scott Horton refers to people as “retards”: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31
2014-2016 – Scott Horton told people to kill themselves on many occasions 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.

Promoting antilibertarian positions

Promoting anti-science, conspiratorial nonsense

Engaging in hateful rhetoric and attacking members

December 2023 – Mises Caucus Michigan calls a volunteer a “cunt”
2023 – Mises Caucus Michigan calls people “retard”. (example 1) (example 2) (example 3) (example 4)
October 2023 – LNC At-Large Member Adrian Malagon attacks a former staffer as a “cunting twat”
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.
October 2023 – In response to light criticism from LNC Region 6 Rep, Marcos Tuniewicz, other LNC members dogpile and make personal attacks on him.
October 2023 – LPNH responds to another state affiliate “We totally support you queers going to Ukraine in drag and trying to step foot in a Christian church.”
October 2023 – Mises Caucus LPPA Chair attacks volunteer in text messages
October 2023 – LPNH tells another state affiliate “May you heathens burn in hell”
October 2023 – On the LNC business list, Angela McArdle tells people to go to therapy if they have concerns
October 2023 – LP Chair Angela McArdle says that a former Twitter employee is “a prime candidate for tar and feather”
September 2023 – Jeremy Kaufman from LPNH calls to end the 19th Amendment, civil rights laws, and at fault divorce.
September 2023 – LPCO threatens legal action against Twitter for suspending their account.
September 2023 – SPLC Article on leaked documents showing bigotry and backstabbing among the LNC
August 2023 – LNC Chair Angela McArdle has a bizarre appearance on Joe Walsh’s podcast and makes many wild statements and claims
August 2023 – LP Tweets out an advertisement for the Mises Caucus
May 2023 – Robert Kraus, long-time Operations director saying that his contract was not being considered in good faith. His letter was deleted from the LNC business list.
May 2023 – LNC Vice Chair Andrew Watkins call a former LNC member a “fucking psyco”
May 2023 – LPNH tweets “Drag queen story hour is irrational and repugnant”
April 2023 – LP Chair Angela McArdle tweets out deranged rant about the state of the Libertarian Party, claiming that failures were because of “drunken rats”.
March 2023 – LPPA attacks LP Louisiana for supporting arming trans people saying “You guys care more about woke virtue signaling than actually doing anything to expand gun rights in America”
February 2023 – Mises Caucus Chair Michael Heise states “Every state that [the Mises Caucus] has fucked, has ended up loving this dick”
January 2023 – LP tweets out that Jan 6th was “peaceful”
December 2022 – Libertarian Party of Spain denounces the Libertarian Party.
October 2022 – Libertarian Party of Poland calls out LPNH for their anti-libertarian messaging
September 2022 – LPNational retweets “States rights are human rights”
September 2022 – LNC Chair Angela McArdle tweets out opposition to Mark Hamil privately raising funds to support Ukraine.
September 2022 – LNC Chair Angela McArdle blocks an elected Libertarian official for asking questions.
August 2022 – LP National claims the raid on Mar el Lago is “abusive” to Trump, and claim that Trump is a “critic of the state”.
August 2022 – LNC Chair Angela McArdle says that the Forward party is “hoovering up all the garbage so it doesn’t come stinking up the LP”
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.
August 2022 – LNC Chair Angela McArdle celebrates people leaving the party
August 2022 – LNC Chair Angela McArdle attacks an LP candidate for questioning her celebrating people leaving the party.
August 2022 – LP National posts a graphic stating that Joseph Mcarthy underestimated the threat of communism.
August 2022 – LP National tweets that “Social Justice is a Marxist lie”
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“
February 2022 – Jeremy Kauffman says he believes that libertarians are more oppressed than blacks
August 2021 – Jeremy Kauffman tells a minor to “suck his dick”

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”
July 2023 – LNC Chair Angela McArdle says she wants to implement the LPCO GOP deal around the country.
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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