#American independent party

[fafefae]

the american voting system is NOT EQUIPPED to support a 3rd party without ranked choice voting. and until we get RCV, it's one or the other. and it WILL be one or the other.

a lot of 3rd party candidates sound great, but they do not have a realistic chance at winning. be realistic. you know who does have a chance at winning? the household names, trump or harris.

splitting the vote by going 3rd party is what made trump happen in 2016, it was hillary clinton's downfall. it was USED by state sponsored internet trolls to spread propaganda, destabilize and divide the left. it was endorsed by trump himself, he tried it in 2020 too, and he's doing it again now because he knows it might be the only chance he has at winning.

be VERY wary of anyone telling you vote 3rd party. it's trump or harris. it won't be stein, de la cruz, or sherman, or fucking anybody else ive never heard of, because nobody is talking about independent candidates, and EVERYONE is talking about trump and harris.

it will be trump or harris for president, and it will be trump if you vote 3rd party. and ill tell you as an anarchist, i would rather have kamala harris and all her flaws in office over the fascist donald trump who would see me and my queer siblings and my friends and family of color dead.

do not split the fucking vote.

[thalkonvotes]

Rico Cortez Dukes

Statement of Candidacy Filed on 8/17/21

Identification Number: P00011163

Party: American Independent Party

Political Committee: TheyFearTruth (C00700591)

Political Committee Email: civilrightsleaderricodukes@gmail.com; theyfeartruthnews33@gmail.com

Political Committee Website: www.2024ricodukes.com

Vice President Choice: None Stated

From: Plano, TX

Rico Cortez Dukes was born in August 26, 1979 in Shreveport Louisiana. He was raised by Robert Charles Dukes and Teretha Meritt. He is the only biological child of Dr. Huey P Newton, who was the founder and leader of the 1966 Black Panthers Party for Self Defence. He also ran for congress (information unverified(link))

Here is a news link that supports the above mentioned facts, although I don't feel that the pictures are incredibly reliable. (link)

This article, seems to support above claims, although is written by Rico Dukes (link).

Courtcase mentioned in the article linked in above paragraph has a supporting court document for Dukes v AA Bail Bonds and Denton Court (link)(link)(link).

I've fallen down a rabbit hole. Another court case document that has a listing of other court cases that you can look up yourself, as I need to move onto other people. I may come back to this one and do more research in the future. (link)

Rico states that there is a documentary coming February 17th, 2024 titled Bloodline Documentary. There is also a book written titled "True Story of a King Son of Huey P Newton: A King Story by Rico Cortez Dukes (link), you can read a sample through the link I provided. There is also another book, which was written before the aforementioned book, titled "Ultimate Family Betrayal: Betrayal by Rico Dukes (link), there is also a sample included on the link provided.

Key Campaign Issues

Legalize Recreational Marijuana Nationwide

End Felony Job Discrimination

Raise the Hourly Wage to 16-20 Dollars an Hour

Herbal Medicine Healing

Fight to end Human Trafficking

End the Age Limit to collect Your Retirement Money

Build Better Schools for the Minority Communities

Provide Free Health Care to Those Who Make Under 40,000 a Year

Increase Veterans Pay

Better Care & Protection at Elderly Homes

Reparations for All Indigenous Aboriginal Native Americans & African Americans

Free the Black Panthers Members & Political Freedom Fighters Who Stood of the People

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[disloyalroyal]

On my dmv application for my ID I put that I was in the American Independent Party thinking it meant that I didn’t belong to any political party and had my own beliefs but I looked it up and turns out it’s the far-right🧍

[emilythedog661-tf2]

American Day Date

Soldier asks Engineer out on a 'American Themed' Date which was then having a evening picnic and then watching the fireworks display 😊

(Happy american independence day to all you american, i'm british so i don't celebrate the day but i know about it 😁)

[maripoorsa]

Seeing a lot of voter suppression in the tags so here is your reminder:

If you are someone who claims to care about democracy and fair voting and voter suppression the ONLY thing you should be doing is encouraging people to vote!

Voter suppression is when you discourage people from voting and that includes discouraging people not to vote for a specific political party. Because that is ALSO discouraging people from voting!!

So you should not be DISCOURAGING anyone from voting how they want by fear-mongering, mass reporting people, or anything else like that just because you don't like who they're voting for

If you're making posts accusing people of wasting their votes, saying they're Russian psyops/ 3rd party shills/Republican bots, fear mongering, or harassing people just because they are not voting how YOU want them to OR because they are encouraging people to vote for someone YOU disagree with: THAT'S VOTER SUPPRESSION.

You are suppressing their vote.

Everyone has a right to vote how they want regardless of how anyone else feels about it! You are allowed to debate and change minds, but if you're telling people to specifically NOT vote for Democrats or Trump or for third parties because YOU personally see it as a "wasted vote" or "immoral" THATS ILLEGAL. YOU ARE BREAKING THE LAW.

Anyone telling you otherwise is not to be trusted and is themselves participating in voter interference, voter suppression, and spreading misinformation.

Report them. Americans currently still have a democracy which allows us to vote for whoever we support. If anyone is telling you ANYTHING different, REPORT THEM.

That's all, thank you for coming to my TED talk

[jccheapalier]

The End of the Obama Era

[afloofybat]

thoughts on third party voting

Recently I saw a post on Instagram that made me very mad. It was advocating for voting for a third party candidate in the upcoming American 2024 presidential election because “Harris is still a cop,” “both [Harris and Trump] are h*tlers,” and so on. It took me a while to think through why I was so angry, but I think I have some words for it now. 

First off, the United States currently has a two-party system where the winner takes all. For a third party candidate to win, they would have to overcome both the Democratic and Republican parties with popularity and votes. The US does not currently have a good system for voting. We do not get election days off, voting is not compulsory, we do not have ranked voting (see ref 1), and a lot of people are not interested in voting. A single third party candidate would need to build an incredibly powerful coalition, built over more time than 3 ½ months, to realistically have a chance at winning, and none of the current third party candidates do. In fact, this original poster listed three different third party candidates, including Jill Stein and Cornel West, running right now and said to just pick your favorite. The lack of support for a single one in this post illustrates the complete lack of a coalition that could take on the two major parties and win. 

Secondly, even if there is a miracle and a third party candidate wins the presidency, they must have a Congress that will support their initiatives, and, right now, the House of Representatives has 212 Democrats, 220 Republicans, 3 vacancies, and 0 Independents (see ref 2). The Senate currently has 47 Democrats, 49 Republicans, and 4 Independents (see ref 3). Hopefully, the third party candidate’s coalition would have inspired a lot of people to run as third parties for Congress so that the new president would have enough support to pass any legislation. Otherwise, they would be stuck with very limited power to affect change. 

Thirdly, I’m beyond frustrated with the seemingly lack of understanding of the US President’s power; there is no one person who will be able to fix everything, especially in 4 or 8 years. They have to be able to work with a lot of people to get even some changes passed. That is largely what politics boils down to. If you want a third party candidate or many third party candidates to have a chance, then you need to start thinking ahead now for the 2028 Presidential election and beyond. You need to vote in every single election you can, from local to national. You need to campaign for them and for policies that would allow for a multi-party system in the US and other policies you want and get millions of other people to vote with you. Otherwise, your vote for a third party or no vote at all helps one of the two main candidates. If you want that to change, then work needs to be done over time, not less than 3 ½ months from the election.

I have seen arguments that it should not matter whether you win or not, that you personally win by exercising your right to vote for whomever you want. I find that argument incredibly short-sighted and completely callous to the needs of other people. I am absolutely an advocate for balancing your needs with others’ needs, but to not consider the broader picture of how advocating for voting third party when they do not have the infrastructure in place to support them is grossly irresponsible. 

There are real and valid criticisms against Harris. One of the most serious ones is that she comes from an administration that supports Israel in its unconscionable genocide of the Palestinian people through sending weapons and not taking a stronger stance against the genocide and mass cruelty. But it is a grave mistake to ignore everything else and the broader picture, including the many good initiatives that she stands for, such as restoring Roe vs Wade in legislation, calling for police reforms after the murder of Sonya Massey (see ref 4), and more. Unfortunately, we as individuals cannot pick a single person who embodies all that we want in a leader. We can pick the leader who will get us closer to where we want to be as a nation and then continue to move in that direction the best we can, while also continuing our own efforts to support the causes that we believe in. I will include a list of groups and activists who are fighting to free Palestine at the end of this post. 

Another argument that presented itself in the comments of the original Instagram post was that we should “REVOLT” and “BURN IT DOWN AND START OVER.” I get incredibly angry when I see calls to “burn it all down and start over.” It is cruel to the world around us. Sure, you can delete a draft or toss out a drawing, but it doesn’t work that way with people or the world at large. The scars left behind run terribly deep. I’m so tired of people who are calling for fighting and revolution when revolution and war destroys so many things for generations. I grew up listening to stories about my grandparents who lived behind the Iron Curtain during World War II and who were exiled to Siberia and imprisoned. I read so much bloody history, from all the warfare around the world, the rampant destruction of so many Native cultures, the Nanjing Massacre, the Crusades, the Inquisition, the French Revolution, and beyond. I do not wish that on anyone, especially if it can be avoided by voting and participating in our current system to try to make it better and to help it heal. Revolution should be a last resort, and we don’t need that now. What we need is for people to vote, to hope, and to believe that we can move in a better direction without burning everything to the ground. 

I don’t know the original poster’s life. I don’t know what they face, but what they expressed in this post showed me a combination of disinterest to affect meaningful change and dogmatism to a grave fault, and for my life I cannot see how it helps anyone. In this system, we have to poke it and correct it along until it heads where we want to go, even though it often means that we vote for someone that we don’t 100% agree with. I want a multi-party system in the US. Many other countries, such as Australia, France, and New Zealand, have their governments allocated by representative percentages, which I think is far more effective for the actual population’s needs. There is a lot we, as Americans, could do to make our system better. But pretending that “everyone just needs to vote for a third party candidate” when almost no one knows their names and will not remember them after the election is not understanding how to affect actual change. 

Is Harris perfect? No. No one is, and no one can or should be. But she’s a hell of a lot better than Trump and his cronies and broligarchs. But it’s not just fear that motivates my choice. Kamala Harris is the means to get us closer to a better world this time around, and she has a real, meaningful shot to do it. That’s why I’m voting for her. 

List of individuals and groups that advocate for the Palestinian People:

Rashida Tlaib, Palestinian American Congresswoman: https://tlaib.house.gov/ 

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières: https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/ 

US Campaign for Palestinian Rights: https://uscpr.org/ 

AJP Action: Lobbying for Palestinian Rights: https://ajpaction.org/passionate-advocates-for-justice-its-your-time-to-advocate-for-palestine-in-congress/ 

Jewish Voice for Peace: https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/ 

References:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranked_voting

https://pressgallery.house.gov/member-data/party-breakdown 

https://www.senate.gov/history/partydiv.htm (all the way at the bottom has the current 118th Congress statistics)

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/23/kamala-harris-sonya-massey-killing-police-reform 

[priafey]

things the US needs to address:

the collective psychosis that leads people to make posts like these

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

[Langston Hughes]

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LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

November 3, 2024

Heather Cox Richardson

Nov 03, 2024

I’m home tonight to stay for a bit, after being on the road for thirteen months and traveling through 32 states. I am beyond tired but profoundly grateful for the chance to meet so many wonderful people and for the welcome you have given me to your towns and your homes.

I know people are on edge, and there is maybe one last thing I can offer before this election. Every place I stopped, worried people asked me how I have maintained a sense of hope through the past fraught years. The answer—inevitably for me, I suppose—is in our history.

If you had been alive in 1853, you would have thought the elite enslavers had become America’s rulers. They were only a small minority of the U.S. population, but by controlling the Democratic Party, they had managed to take control of the Senate, the White House, and the Supreme Court. They used that power to stop the northerners who wanted the government to clear the rivers and harbors of snags, for example, or to fund public colleges for ordinary people, from getting any such legislation through Congress. But at least they could not use the government to spread their system of human enslavement across the country, because the much larger population in the North held control of the House of Representatives. 

Then in 1854, with the help of Democratic president Franklin Pierce, elite enslavers pushed the Kansas-Nebraska Act through the House. That law overturned the Missouri Compromise that had kept Black enslavement out of the American West since 1820. Because the Constitution guarantees the protection of property—and enslaved Americans were considered property—the expansion of slavery into those territories would mean the new states there would become slave states. Their representatives would work together with those of the southern slave states to outvote the northern free labor advocates in Congress. Together, they would make enslavement national. 

America would become a slaveholding nation. 

Enslavers were quite clear that this was their goal. 

South Carolina senator James Henry Hammond explicitly rejected “as ridiculously absurd, that much lauded but nowhere accredited dogma of Mr. Jefferson, that ��all men are born equal.’” He explained to his Senate colleagues that the world was made up of two classes of people. The “Mudsills” were dull drudges whose work produced the food and products that made society function. On them rested the superior class of people, who took the capital the mudsills produced and used it to move the economy, and even civilization itself, forward. The world could not survive without the inferior mudsills, but the superior class had the right—and even the duty—to rule over them. 

But that’s not how it played out. 

As soon as it became clear that Congress would pass the Kansas-Nebraska Act, Representative Israel Washburn of Maine called a meeting of thirty congressmen in Washington, D.C., to figure out how they could fight back against the Slave Power that had commandeered the government to spread the South’s system of human enslavement. The men met in the rooms of Representative Edward Dickinson of Massachusetts—whose talented daughter Emily was already writing poems—and while they came to the meeting from all different political parties, often bitterly divided over specific policies, they left with one sole purpose: to stop the overthrow of American democracy.

The men scattered back to their homes across the North for the summer, sharing their conviction that a new party must rise to stand against the Slave Power. They found “anti-Nebraska” sentiment sweeping their towns; a young lawyer from Illinois later recalled how ordinary people came together: “[W]e rose each fighting, grasping whatever he could first reach—a scythe—a pitchfork—a chopping axe, or a butcher’s cleaver.” In the next set of midterm elections, those calling themselves “anti-Nebraska” candidates swept into both national and state office across the North, and by 1856, opponents of the Slave Power had become a new political party: the Republicans. 

But the game wasn’t over. In 1857, the Supreme Court tried to take away Republicans’ power to stop the spread of slavery to the West by declaring in the infamous Dred Scott decision that Congress had no power to legislate in the territories. This made the Missouri Compromise that had kept enslavement out of the land above Missouri unconstitutional. The next day, Republican editor of the New York Tribune Horace Greeley wrote that the decision was “entitled to just so much moral weight as would be the judgment of a majority of those congregated in any Washington bar-room.”

By 1858 the party had a new rising star, the young lawyer from Illinois who had talked about everyone reaching for tools to combat the Kansas-Nebraska Act: Abraham Lincoln. Pro-slavery Democrats called the Republicans radicals for their determination to stop the expansion of slavery, but Lincoln countered that the Republicans were the country’s true conservatives, for they were the ones standing firm on the Declaration of Independence. The enslavers rejecting the Founders’ principles were the radicals.  

The next year, Lincoln articulated an ideology for the party, defining it as the party of ordinary Americans defending the democratic idea that all men are created equal against those determined to overthrow democracy with their own oligarchy.

In 1860, at a time when voting was almost entirely limited to white men, voters put Abraham Lincoln into the White House. Furious, southern leaders took their states out of the Union and launched the Civil War.

By January 1863, Lincoln had signed the Emancipation Proclamation ending the American system of human enslavement in lands still controlled by the Confederacy. By November 1863 he had delivered the Gettysburg Address, firmly rooting the United States of America in the Declaration of Independence. 

In that speech, Lincoln charged Americans to rededicate themselves to the unfinished work for which so many had given their lives. He urged them to “take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion, that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”

In less than ten years the country went from a government dominated by a few fabulously wealthy men who rejected the idea that human beings are created equal and who believed they had the right to rule over the masses, to a defense of government of the people, by the people, for the people, and to leaders who called for a new birth of freedom. But Lincoln did not do any of this alone: always, he depended on the votes of ordinary people determined to have a say in the government under which they lived.

In the 1860s the work of those people established freedom and democracy as the bedrock of the United States of America, but the structure itself remained unfinished. In the 1890s and then again in the 1930s, Americans had to fight to preserve democracy against those who would destroy it for their own greed and power. Each time, thanks to ordinary Americans, democracy won.

Now it is our turn. 

In our era the same struggle has resurfaced. A small group of leaders has rejected the idea that all people are created equal and seeks to destroy our democracy in order to install themselves into permanent power. 

And just as our forebears did, Americans have reached for whatever tools we have at hand to build new coalitions across the nation to push back. After decades in which ordinary people had come to believe they had little political power, they have mobilized to defend American democracy and—with an electorate that now includes women and Black Americans and Brown Americans—have discovered they are strong. 

On November 5 we will find out just how strong we are. We will each choose on which side of the historical ledger to record our names. On the one hand, we can stand with those throughout our history who maintained that some people were better than others and had the right to rule; on the other, we can list our names on the side of those from our past who defended democracy and, by doing so, guarantee that American democracy reaches into the future. 

I have had hope in these dark days because I look around at the extraordinary movement that has built in this country over the past several years, and it looks to me like the revolution of the 1850s that gave America a new birth of freedom. 

As always, the outcome is in our hands. 

“Fellow-citizens,” Lincoln reminded his colleagues, “we cannot escape history. We…will be remembered in spite of ourselves.”  

LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

[thalkonvotes]

Terrance Morkeech Abraham

Statement of Candidacy Filed on 2/18/23

Identification Number: P40007429

Party: American Independent Party

Political Committee: Terrance Morkeech Abraham 2024 For President (C00806166)

Political Committee Email: generation 2024x@outlook.com

Vice President Choice: Steven S Brettler

From: Newark, NJ

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[thewhimsyturtle]

Happy Independence Day, U.S.A. friends!  Huzzah for the red, white, and blue! 🇺🇸❤️🤍💙💥

[hannahs-quirky-moments]

The best thing about July fourth isn't the fireworks. It’s not our family and friends , the parades or picnics. The best thing about this day is the freedom we’ve been given to enjoy these things.

Happy 4th to all! 🇺🇸❤️💙🤍🇺🇸

[existentialcrisisetcetera]

can you guys not fall for the fucking "ohhhh both parties are the same theres no point in voting" bullshit again. like point a im sick of the fact that the us election year is half the fucking politics on the english speaking part of this websit, point b your choice is a genocide supporting racist dickwad who has made some material positive change in your country vs a genocide supporting racist dickwad who fully intends to start a christofascist dictatorship upon being elected. like this is very easily searchable

the genocide in palestine will be supported no matter who gets elected, but you guys do understand that your choices are a guy who will enthusiastically throw every single resource he can to israel to continue it VS a guy with an ounce of fucking sense? you understand the concpet of harm reduction. right? you know that theres no difference in result between someone who says "im not voting in protest bc i disagree with both candidates" and "im not voting bc i agree with both candidates so it doesnt matter who wins".

idk im just sick of watcing americans on my dash throw a bitch fit bc the best of two shit options isnt perfect and refuse to take any fucking action about it at all

[dumb-butch-syndrome]

Seeing all the discussions between USAmericans lately about the presidential election is so frustrating because like. y'all know you're going to have a president even if you don't vote for one, right?

It just feels like such a self-indulgent approach to morality because the only thing not voting does is coddle the feelings of the person refusing to vote bc they can be like 'well at least it's not MY fault'

Like the trolley problem isn't really about whether more or less death is better - less death is self-evidently better. That part is taken for granted. It's about your personal willingness to take an active role in the situation - to feel responsible for the outcome.

But the USA will have a president after the election and I haven't actually seen anyone arguing that trump would be the better choice, just that harris is also evil and voting for either candidate makes you morally repugnant. But listen. Listen. refusing to participate in the election doesn't absolve you from the outcome - it just shows you care more about your personal sense of moral superiority than the lives of the thousands of people worldwide who will be impacted by the results of the election and don't get a say.

Obviously we'd all prefer if there was an option on the ballot other than "genocide" and "more genocide than the other guy" but I'm seriously yet to see anyone who argues against voting harris properly acknowledge that if you don't vote then the election still has a winner.

If you're able to vote in the US presidential election then your hand is already on the lever. You're already involved. Choosing to walk away because 'they're both bad' does not morally absolve you from the outcome of the election, it just coddles your personal feelings.

It just feels like such a short-sighted and egocentric view on morality to go "well I'M going to remain morally pure. I'M not going to vote so I'M not culpable for whatever happens." Yes you are. You had the opportunity to pull the lever and you chose not to. Can you genuinely, hand to god, look me in the eye and tell me you think trump is the better choice. One of them IS going to be president and if you don't vote for kamala it IS going to be trump. The system sucks but if you're within it you have to choose one. There's no opting out if you opt out that's just a vote for the other guy so who are you picking.

[flagoftheusa]

Boston Tea Party

"Americans go overboard for the 4th” ~ Non-Americans

"I’m sorry but the last time I checked the only thing going overboard was tea." ~ The Sons of Liberty included John Adams, John Hancock, James Otis, Josiah Quincy, Paul Revere, and Dr. Joseph Warren.

[queenerdloser]

i'm not trying to be mean but if you're not american and you have no idea how the american voting system works, maybe just shut the fuck up about the 2024 election. thanks.