Greens & Libertarians Rally To Secure 5% Of The Popular Vote Ahead Of Election Day

Though third-party nominees received increased attention from both voters and the mainstream media in this year’s election cycle, they’re still up against the historic tendency of voters to ultimately cast their votes for Republicans and Democrats.

Kit O'Connell
By Kit O'Connell
Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson speaks during a campaign rally at Grand View University in Des Moines, Iowa. First it was Bernie Sanders. Now it's Gary Johnson and Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein being sized up by many young people. With a day to go, Hillary Clinton has struggled to convince young voters that she deserves their support.

AUSTIN, Texas --- Although some indicators suggest the 2016 presidential election could be closer than initially expected, prominent third-party candidates are urging voters not to waver in their support for options outside the traditional two-party system. Alternatives to the Democrat and Republican nominees, such as the Green Party’s Dr. Jill

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As Disenfranchisement Rises, Third Parties Start To Shine

This disappointment in the two party system is beginning to show in a sudden unprecedented rise of America’s two major alternative political parties.

James Carey
By James Carey
Dr. Jill Stein, presumptive Green Party presidential nominee, waves at a rally in Philadelphia, Wednesday, July 27, 2016, during the third day of the Democratic National Convention.

Washington, DC  – This week the New York Times revealed that the total number of primary votes cast for Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump only account for about 9% of the US population. With so few voters responsible for the primary victories of two of history’s most disliked candidates it seems more people around the country are seeking out other,

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Daily Kos Issues Call For Unity Among Democrats By Banning Talk Of Third Party Candidates

According to the site’s founder, users are still free to criticize Hillary Clinton, but not to link to right-wing news sources and may not mention their support for Jill Stein or other third-party candidates.

MintPress News Desk
By MintPress News Desk
Blogger with a Kos. The Daily Kos' Markos Moulitsas Zuniga.

MINNEAPOLIS --- In yet another sign of the divisive nature of the 2016 race to the White House, in which both parties are struggling to unite behind their presumptive nominees, a popular liberal website wants to cut down on attacks on Hillary Clinton by Bernie Sanders supporters. Markos Moulitsas, the founder and editor-in-chief of the Daily

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Jill Stein: US Politics Are ‘The Mother Of All Illnesses,’ Third Parties Could Be Cure

Once a practicing doctor of clinical medicine, Stein now practices ‘political medicine’ in her quest for a more just, less warlike U.S. government.

Kit O'Connell
By Kit O'Connell
Green Party candidate Jill Stein believes third parties, including the Green Party, are key to curing what ails democracy.

WASHINGTON --- In a recent TV appearance, Green Party presidential candidate Dr. Jill Stein insisted that American politics, and the nation, are gravely ill. Interviewed on Monday by Abby Martin, host of The Empire Files on TeleSur English, Stein said that she became a politician, after years as a physician, because she realized that “our

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Jill Stein: Time To Reject The ‘Lesser-Evil’ & Stand Up For The Greater Good

Americans are growing weary of the status-quo: choosing between a duopoly of Wall-Street owned parties. Can Jill Stein’s Green Party offer an alternative?

Mnar Adley
By Mnar Adley
Jill Stein, the Green Party’s presidential candidate in 2012, is taking another run at the presidency in 2016;

Correction: We have changed this article's headline to one which more accurately reflects Dr. Jill Stein's viewpoint. The presidential campaign season is upon us, and the corporate-aligned, two-party duopoly is dominating the conversation taking place in American media. In turn, the corporate-funded media is selling only candidates whose agendas

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Poll Shows Americans Have Had It, Want Third Party

With the government shutdown showing a dead-end of the two-party system, the question now is which side will split first.

Mint Press News Desk
By Mint Press News Desk

With partisan politics to blame for a political battle that has resulted in the shutdown of the federal government, Americans are thinking outside of the box, considering third parties as viable options for political, societal and economic reform. A recent Gallup poll indicated those considering joining third-party movements have tipped the scale,

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