Would anyone support a party that is fiscally conservative and pro national security. For example increased surveillance through expanding the patriot act. While abolishing the income tax for people making less than 150k.

Thoughts and opinions?

My independent campaign is meant as a bridge to a 3rd party in Ohio. And it's picking up steam!

What person would be best to head a third party and make an impact like Ross Perot did? Is there any specific person we could support?

I have been continuously trying to get the Wikipedia setup, but everytime it has been reversed. Someone.

Election reformer Lee Drutman advocates a revival of fusion voting as a way of building multiple parties in preparation for proportional representation. But fusion voting seems rather gimmicky to me, I must say.

• How fusion voting builds the new parties that can break the two-party doom loop - "Some reforms just rearrange the gridlock. This one unlocks the pieces that matter."

• The Case for Fusion Voting and a Multiparty Democracy in America - "How to Start Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop"

• Reviving the American Tradition of Fusion Voting

What is it? Electoral fusion in the United States - Wikipedia It is two or more parties supporting the same candidate, but with voters able to choose which party to vote as.

Thus, a candidate supported by both the Democratic Party and the Working Families Party can be voted for by voting either Democratic or Working Families.

Fusion voting was common in the 19th cy., but the success of the Populists provoked some politicians to outlaw it, and full-scale fusion voting survives only in New York State and Connecticut, with a few other states having partial fusion voting.

New guy gives a really detailed plan that's essentially about destroying the two parties and focusing on America.

https://youtu.be/8qpUDOhFlZU

Thoughts?

We have a sub, r/laborpartyoftheusa

I'm launching an explicitly Radical Centrist new party in Ohio shortly. Have petitions ready, aiming for 2026 minor party formation as ambitious target, 2028 as a fall back. Currently running as an Independent candidate for governor to draw in interest to the party.

I've formerly been chair of the Ohio Forward Party which is dissolved now.

I've been in third party politics a long time and it seems to draw in a lot of cranks and egoists and, well, fringe types. Learning from experiences with Unite America, the Libertarian Party, and Forward, I intend to keep this party focused, ideologically coherent, and grassroots.

Thought I'd share here. I consider the future of the country to be at stake so this is all a bit existential for me.

Forward-Independence Minnesota has broken up.

Hi, I’m Alex Moreau, Chairman Of The IPM,

Following up on the merger deal, several hundred members of the IPM have signed up to leave the party, which we have consequently decided to do. Party Politics isn’t our thing, I was voted in by 320-4 votes against my opponent James Richards who is now the vice chairman, I was elected on the 27th of December 2025, and only now have we organised the party together, we have Endorsed Marisa Simonetti For Senate and Calvin Larson Jr. For Governor, if anyone has any questions to what happened, you can leave them below.

Given that disapproval for the primary parties is at an all time low, and Gallup polls show that more than 50% of Americans would prefer to see a third party, I think it's time we gave this thing one last push, ya know, before we literally can't anymore.

I'd like to know, what are some third party's you've seen getting any traction or voice out so far this year, on local levels? I Believe if we can hit local and state elections hard in 2026, it will be the wakeup call we need.

To that end, I am endeavoring to start creating some multimedia campaigns and privately fund them, to get the ball rolling. If we can work off of the momentum of the "No Kings" protests and the Iran war, and gain some traction by the years end, I Believe we may actually have a bear in this fight.

I'd be interested in any and all thoughts and perspectives to this end. The time to pounce is now, let's do this thing.

Third party, or minor party, is a term used in the United States' two-party system for political parties other than the Republican and Democratic parties. The winner take all system for presidential elections and the single-seat plurality voting system for Congressional elections have over time helped establish the two-party system. Third parties are most often encountered in presidential nominations and while third-party candidates rarely win elections, they can have an effect on them through vote splitting and other impacts.With few exceptions, the U.S. system has two major parties which have won, on average, 98% of all state and federal seats. According to Duverger's law two main political parties emerge in political systems with plurality voting in single-member districts. In this case, votes for minor parties can potentially be regarded splitting votes away from the most similar major party. Third party vote splitting exceeded a president's margin of victory in three elections: 1844, 2000, and 2016.There have only been a few rare elections where a minor party was competitive with the major parties, occasionally replacing one of the major parties in the 19th century. No third-party candidate has won the presidency since the Republican Party became the second major party in 1856. Since then a third-party candidate won states in five elections: 1892, 1912, 1924, 1948, and 1968. 1992 was the last time a third-party candidate won over 5% of the vote and placed second in any state.

This post is inspired by several thirdparty community members who have eloquently spoken very wisely about this very topic. Please, everyone give your views, and all views are respected, even if you find yourself having a minority position! We welcome different, and all, good-faith views on this, and on all matters relevant to third parties! •

ProDane was founded in the fall of 1992 as a local chapter of the New Party, which was dissolved in 1998, which itself was a successor to the Citizens Party, which was dissolved in 1990. ProDane survived past the demise of the earlier national parties, being a second party and even sometimes the leading party in Dane County, having held the Mayorship and other high local offices in the past, and still having many politicians in office at the city level in Madison and at the county level in Dane County, currently being a second party behind the Democratic Party in a very progressive community where right-wing parties are on the fringe, with even other small left-wing parties electing candidates, but right-wing parties not having a path to power locally, with Democrats being the right-wing within the more leftward local Overton Window. ~ ProDane often works with and cross-endorses with the Democratic Party and the Green Party, so those three parties usually work more cooperatively together rather than competitively or adversarily. ~ ProDane has left-wing, progressive, socially liberal, and economically social-democratic policies. ~ ProDane advocates for progressive taxation, affordable social services, a robust social safety net, living wages, environmental protection, transparent and accountable governance, strongly protecting civil rights and human rights for all people, workers' rights, an extensive public health system, safe, efficient, and accessible public transportation, sustainable economic development that protects the environment and communities and provides prosperity to all, and promoting democratization in government and in the economy. ~ ProDane holds regular Progressive Caucus meetings with local politicians to connect and talk with local leaders to bring their views to all local politicians, not only those who are in ProDane. ~ ProDane follows a progressive fusion political strategy similar to Richmond Progressive Alliance - RPA in California, to the Working Families Party in many states, and to the DSA in many areas of the USA, though ProDane is indeed a political party which runs its own candidates, not itself merely a political alliance, fusion organization, or a political organization that backs other political parties, nor a caucus within some other political party, as is sometimes the case in other local areas. ~ ProDane is flourishing and strong locally within Dane County Wisconsin but does not work to grow itself beyond Dane County or to again affiliate with a larger political party, nor to merge with or into any other political party or parties, though political factions in other locales, whether progressive or of any political stance, could learn a lot from this third party that is successful and thriving within a local area, finding great success in a distinct local community without growing beyond that community, or needing or wanting to grow beyond their home community. •

The yellow-dog factor? Yellow dog Democrat - Wikipedia Before the Great Realignment of the decades around half a century ago, many Southerners voted straight-ticket Democrat, saying that they'd rather vote for a yellow dog of a politician than a Republican.

This is also true of many Democrats elsewhere and more recently, and many Republicans may be called yellow-dog Republicans.

This is a big problem for third parties, one IMO not appreciated enough. The greatest success of such parties has been on the local level, where the two major parties are often weak.

How might one try to get the votes of yellow-dog Democrats or Republicans? I think that a good strategy would be to argue that one's candidate is a better Democrat than the Democrats or a better Republican than the Republicans, to provide an off-ramp that is based on political identity.

Thomas Massie himself said: "We stirred up something. There is a yearning in this country for someone who will vote for principles over party." ~ But are there enough people who put principles over party to go over to third parties in major way? ~ Will enough Republicans go to third parties as they leave the party dominated by Jeffrey Epstein's best friend, or will those go to the Democratic Party, or will they mostly simply not vote? ~ Can third parties gain most voters from past non-voters or people of conscience even if at such a minimal level such as not supporting a pro-Jeffrey-Epstein-cult like the Republican Party and factions of the corporate wing of the Democratic Party (mainly the Clinton/Podesta clique and allied right-wing Democrats of that type)? ~ Are MTG, Massie, and other Republicans like them just an expelled minority faction of the Republican Party, or will that faction affect or join the sphere of third parties? •

CNP is modeled and named after the SNP , or Scottish National Party , which is a progressive political party working for the independence of Scotland from the UK. ~ The CNP vocally denounces right-wing California secessionist groups that were Russian backed and literally run out of Moscow Russia , but the right-wing California secessionist movement is now defunct and non-existent after being shuttered in 2024 after winning zero public support and not being able to refute the fact that it was a Russian project. ~ The CNP has several Core Values for the party : Building And Defending California ; Fact-Based, Compassionate Policy ; Individual Rights And Social Responsibility ; Locally-Focused Political Empowerment ; and : Prosperity For All Californians. ~ CNP advocates for greater funding and powers for Californian local governments. ~ CNP is party of a larger movement for the independence of California by the USA that encompasses many centrist, center-leftist, leftist, and far-leftist factions, which range from inclusive big-tent efforts to make California an independent country which partially ideologically overlap with the CNP, to far-left factions seeking California independence which seek to end capitalism at the same time as becoming independent from the USA. The movement for the independence of California has broad general support in California, but little electoral support, as even most who support Californian independence go for one of the two major parties in elections to pursue policies that more closely align with their values and to prevent those who widely diverge from their values from coming to power, though California independence does have mainstream support within the Democratic Party, but not serious moves by the Democratic Party to actually pursue independence for California. ~ CNP remains a tiny, minor party with several thousand avowed supporters but millions of supporters in a general ideological sense who nonetheless mostly vote for the Democratic Party in elections, leaving the CNP with no elected politicians and little chance of even getting on ballots or challenging elections unless the party can bring in much more committed support who would actually vote for the party in elections. ~ The CNP would likely fare best in small local elections until it is a far bigger party and could actually have the possibility of winning any state-level race. ~ Nevertheless, CNP remains as a tangible expression of an actually widespread public desire by Californians for the independence of California from the USA, a sentiment that has vastly grown in popularity in recent years all across California. •