I was born and raised on a farm on the Rio Grande in Laredo, Texas. I graduated with a BA degree in economics from Virgnia Miiitary Institute and a law degree from the University of Texas. I was commissioned an infantry officer and served 8 years in the Reserves. I was a trial attorney in Texas for 12 years and also served one year as an adjunct professor of law and economics at the University of Dallas. In 1987, I left the practice of law to accept a position with The Foundation for Economic Education, the oldest libertarian educational foundation in the country. In 1989, I left FEE and founded The Future of Freedom Founation, which has published many books on various aspects of liberty. Among the honors I have received along the way: elected class valedictorian at VMI, awarded the Libertarian Party's Thomas Paine Award for outstanding communication of libertarian principles, and being selected as the keynote speaker at the 1996 LP national convention. My newest book, My Passion for Liberty, is autobiographical in nature and includes an introduction by former GOP libertarian presidential candidate Ron Paul.

I am libertarian. For 30 years, I have been advancing the principled case for liberty, free markets, and a limited-government republic at The Future of Freedom Foundation (fff.org), the educational foundation I founded in 1989. I want to move America in a different and better direction--in the direction of liberty, peace, prosperity, normality, and harmony with the people of the world.

A genuinely free society is one in which people are free to keep everything they earn and decide for themselves what to do with their own money. Moreover, freedom and free markets are the only things that work. That's why I favor repealing all socialist mandatory-charity programs, including Social Security, Medicare, corporate bailouts, farm subsidies, foreign aid, and all other programs that take money from people to whom it belongs to give it to people to whom it does not belong.

A free society also entails the right to ingest anything you want, no matter how harmful it might be. Drug abuse belongs in the private sector in groups like Alcoholics Anonymous and narcotics rehab groups, not the criminal justice system.

The government's war on immigrants has brought nothing but death, suffering, and a police state to our society. The only way to end America's decades-old never ending immigration crisis is through freedom and free markets, i.e., open borders.

The Constitution brought into existence a limited-government republic. After World War II, the federal government was converted into a national-security state, which is a totalitarian governmental structure. A necessary prerequisite to a free society is the restoration of a limited-government republic along with a relatively small military force, which necessarily entails the dismantling of the Pentagon, the vast military-industrial complex, the CIA, and the NSA, and the end of all foreign interventionism and its dark side practices (eg, assassination, torture, coups, invasions, occupations, sanctions, embargoes, alliances with dictatorial regimes, etc.), which has not only brought death and suffering overseas but also has destroyed our liberty and well-being here at home. 

Dr. Jo Jorgensen was the Libertarian Party Vice-Presidential Nominee with Harry Browne in 1996. 

She campaigned in 38 states and appeared as a Libertarian spokesperson on over 300 radio shows all across America. She regularly lit up the call-in boards, helping listeners discover the Libertarian Party and generating inquiries and new LP members.

In 1992, she was the Libertarian Party’s candidate for South Carolina’s 4th Congressional District. After a statewide televised debate with her Democratic and Republican opponents, Dr Jorgensen’s debate performance was widely praised in the media, and the Greenville News referred to her as “a rose between two thorns”.

Dr. Jo Jorgensen currently is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Clemson University. She holds a Ph.D in Industrial/Organizational Psychology (Clemson 2002) and has taught full-time since 2006. She graduated in 1979 from Baylor University with a B.S. in Psychology and in 1980 from Southern Methodist University with an M.B.A.

After earning her M.B.A., she put her education to work as a Marketing Representative for IBM. Relocating to Greenville, SC in 1983, she started her own software sales business.After taking a break to be a stay-at-home mom for her two children, she joined a software duplicating company as part owner, later taking over as president and full owner. She founded a business consulting company in 2002 and continues working with select clients.

Dr. Jo Jorgensen is a Life Member of the Libertarian Party. She supported Ed Clark for president in 1980 and has been voting Libertarian ever since. She officially joined the Libertarian Party in 1983 and has served as Greenville County chair, state vice-chair, and national marketing director for the Libertarian Party.

Jo proudly embraces the Libertarian Party Statement of Principles and fully supports the LP Platform.

Vermin Love Supreme (born c. 1961) is an American performance artist and activist who has run as a candidate in various local, state, and national elections in the United States. Supreme is known for wearing a boot as a hat and carrying a large toothbrush, and has said that if elected President of the United States, he will pass a law requiring people to brush their teeth. He has campaigned on a platform of zombie apocalypse awareness and time travel research, and promised a free pony for every American.

In 2011, he participated in the Occupy Boston protests. He is the subject of the 2014 documentary, Who Is Vermin Supreme? An Outsider Odyssey, which follows his 2012 campaign and explores his life as an activist and political prankster.

Supreme grew up near Boston, Massachusetts and is said to be the oldest of three children. He graduated from Gloucester High School in 1979, then moved to Baltimore to attend art school, but he dropped out and began booking bands for underground clubs.

In 1986, he joined the Great Peace March for Global Nuclear Disarmament in protest of nuclear weapons. In 1987, he began running for public office. He legally changed his name to Vermin Supreme in the 1990s while still in Baltimore.

In 2006, Supreme donated one of his kidneys to save his mother. He is married and has no children.

Supreme discussed his political views in a 2008 promotional video. He stated he was registered as a Republican at that time, but that he leaned toward anarchism. He asserted that libertarians "are just about abolishing the government and letting shit fall where it may, "which he called a mistake, though he later said that assertion was based on a "prejudice" for "lack of knowing," and that "[t]he Libertarian Party is the only party that aligns with my core principles of anti-state, anti-war, and anti-authority." He also asserted that Republicans want to nullify the government, but "offer no alternative to helping people other than charity." Supreme's vision of anarchism holds no need for government, but depends on citizens to take responsibility for themselves and for others, citing "mutual aid and support and care to our fellow citizens" as key elements. To that end, Supreme called for a gradual dismantling of the government, while citizens take up the slack. He asserted that Americans no longer know how to be citizens, placing some of the blame on schools that teach in "very twisted and jingoistic fashion".

In the video, Supreme discussed his presidential campaign. He describes his "joke humor" campaign as a response to the lies people are fed by the media and by the government.

Ken Armstrong’s campaign is becoming a breakaway phenomenon. Not since Harry Truman has any presidential candidate taken a campaign so truly to the people. But people have the right to ask, “How can Ken truly consider himself qualified to serve as President of the United States?”
 
Here is the simple answer: In the past forty years, there has only been one president-elect with more experience in federal government, diplomatic relations, or national defense. (That president-elect, just for the record, was George H. W. Bush.)

Ken brings to the table a background rich in those experiences, and a management style of surrounding himself with brilliant people who excel in their subject areas, and then equipping them to do their jobs.

Ken was born in Pasadena, California. At seventeen, he was assistant manager of one of the largest cinemas in Los Angeles County, and at eighteen, he was working on the Alaskan Pipeline, some 300 miles north of the Arctic Circle.

He would later enlist in the United States Coast Guard, and quickly go on to become a commissioned officer. He served in joint commands with all five military branches, commanded a NATO base in Italy, and was a NATO and United Nations adviser aboard foreign naval ships during the Bosnian War. When Hurricane Iniki devastated the island of Kauai, he was immediately assigned by Rear Adm. Bill Donnell to command the Coast Guard’s humanitarian response.

He was a principle architect, in finance and logistics, of major international joint service operations under the auspices of Vice President George H. W. Bush, and he served outside of his specialty as a federal health care executive, working with U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop. (Dr. Koop would ultimately recognize Ken’s expertise in health care management by nominating him to become the first Coast Guard line officer to be granted full membership in AMSUS — the association of federal health care professionals.)

During a significant human smuggling case in the Pacific, he led international media relations in coordination with the White House Situation Room.

He served as representative to the Pelagie Islands for the U.S. Consul General at Palermo.

As a joint service military officer, Ken was certified on the Enhanced Naval Wargaming System at Point Loma, California. He received Coast Guard and Navy training and was assigned in littoral defense operations, mine warfare, and inshore-undersea warfare. He also attended highly classified training under the auspices of the FBI and CIA in Management of Terrorist Situations.

He was a heavily decorated officer, and was nominated as Federal Executive of the Year by the Federal Executive Board of Los Angeles.

In addition to federal service, Ken was twice elected to the Honolulu County Neighborhood Board. He served at one time as Executive Director of Habitat for Humanity’s Hawaii Statewide Organization, and both Oahu affiliates, substantially increasing the productivity of those organizations. He had a brief, successful career in real estate (he says he just didn’t like it), and he was a weekly columnist for Pacific Business News, among other things.

He is a graduate of U.S. Coast Guard Officer Candidate School, and a Weinberg Fellow of Hawaii Pacific University.

On May 10, 2019, he announced that he is running as a Libertarian candidate for President of the United States

Ken's philosophy is simple: Government shouldn't do anything it doesn't absolutely need to do. The rest should be left to The People. This is not intended to be a cold, dispassionate concept, but one that lifts people to the station and the potential that only true Liberty and Freedom can offer. We should not have any preferred classes of people, but all should enjoy equal protection under law. The government should not be in the business of controling or promoting behavior, except where absolutely necessary to protect and defend our rights.

Adam Kokesh joined the US Marines at age 17 and volunteered for combat duty in Iraq in 2004. This critical experience showed him that war is a racket and led him to deeply question his most cherished statist beliefs. He first rose to fame as an anti-war activist before branching out into other areas, often taking action too risky for other activists. In 2010, he became an independent journalist as ADAM VS THE MAN. He has been arrested and gone to jail dozens of times standing up for his convictions. He began writing FREEDOM! while caged in Washington, DC. While he has inspired millions with his speeches, videos, and civil disobedience, his greatest contribution to the cause of freedom is the concept of localization as a way to overcome statism and achieving a free world. He is running for President of the United States with the Libertarian Party (LP.org) on the platform of the peaceful, responsible dissolution of the entire federal government. To learn more and to get involved, please go to KokeshForPresident.com.

Freedom, self-ownership, live and let live!

Click here to get Adam's book, FREEDOM! for free!

Sam Robb is a Pittsburgh native, a former US Navy officer, and a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University. Fed up with the continued failure of the GOP to do anything to reduce the debt, the deficit, or the size of the Federal government, Sam changed his voter registration to Libertarian in 2012.  He made the change official earlier this year, joining his local and state LP affiliates as well as the national Libertarian Party. As President, Sam pledges to work to drastically reduce the size and scope of the Federal government; to take steps to increase state and local government autonomy; and to increase individual freedom and liberty.

As a Libertarian, I seek a world of liberty: a world in which all individuals are sovereign over their own lives and are not forced to sacrifice their values for the benefit of others.

I believe that respect for individual rights is the essential precondition for a free and prosperous world, that force and fraud must be banished from human relationships, and that only through freedom can peace and prosperity be realized.

Consequently, I defend each person’s right to engage in any activity that is peaceful and honest, and welcome the diversity that freedom brings. The world I seek to build is one where individuals are free to follow their own dreams in their own ways, without interference from government or any authoritarian power.

Dan Taxation Is Theft Behrman is an international speaker and advocate for the idea that Taxation Is Theft. Out of contempt for the violent collection and immoral enforcement of taxation, Dan changed his middle name to “Taxation Is Theft”.  To make this change, he did not petition any court, but changed it by declaration, insisting free men don’t ask for permission.

Born and raised in Los Angeles, California, it was at a young age when Dan first took note of the coercive and oppressive nature of the government, and witnessed first hand how unwritten law and procedure can turn a government created to protect people, into one that uses violence against them. Dan Taxation Is Theft Behrman has joined the fight for freedom in American politics, to stand up against these injustices and restore integrity and fairness to this once free country.

Dan is a self taught software engineer, with unique views about education and the value of self-learning. He has worked with multi-million dollar international startups and Fortune 500 companies. Having a private career in software creation and development has allowed Dan to become a digital nomad and move across borders as a free man. In his career and in his life, he has never found a problem too big to solve, recognizing that the best solution is often the simplest.

Libertarian principles of free markets, individual rights, environmental and social issues are at the core of Dan’s beliefs. He has worked tirelessly to deliver this message to audiences in 6 continents, empowering people in some of the world's most impoverished nations. The smallest minority is the individual and their rights should always be protected.

As a digital nomad, he is currently running his presidential campaign from Cancun, Mexico. As president, he seeks to transform the federal government into one that interacts with its citizens on a purely voluntary basis, so that we can be free from the coercive nature of abusive taxation and regulations. His campaign is one to promote ideas that can be easily understood by individuals regardless of their race, religion, socio-economic background or political affiliation. 

Dan believes that government belongs to the people and we are not government property. The purpose of government is to protect our rights, not to force us to live our lives in any particular way that a simple majority has deemed preferable. Any person should be free to live their life however they prefer, so long as they don't hurt others and don't take their stuff.

Foremerly a merchant mariner, bringing our troops and military hardware out the Middle East.  Dispatched out of Los Angeles and San Francisco.  Max Abramson grew up in both public and private housing and attended school on the West Coast, attended maritime school in San Diego, and worked in ports along the Californa coast, especially in LA County.

Rep. Max Abramson currently works on issues affecting local towns and schools and serves on his town's planning board.

I believe that individuals have the right to make the decisions that affect their own lives.  You shouldn't have to worry about the decisions being made in Congress or by unelected government bureaucrats and lawyers.  Government has grown too big, too bureaucratic, and too intrusive into our daily lives.  We need to work to get money, power, and decision making back down to the local level and, as much as possible, back to the people.

However, the greatest crisis affecting the country, as I see it, is the breakdown of the American family and the loss of strong father figures and of our values.  Too many young men are now growing up without a father figure in their lives, seeing how a man is supposed to conduct himself.  Too many young women are growing up not knowing how a woman is supposed to be treated.  Our communities are becoming overrun with drugs, crime, opportunism, and people looking for an easy way out of work.  Too many people are walking away from their responsibilities and trying to live at the expense of others.

Souraya Faas was born on December 19, 1981 in New York City to a middle-class Armenian Catholic family from Aleppo, Syria. Souraya's dad Michael Faas migrated to Utica, New York in 1971 after the passing of his father. Souraya's father worked at McDonald's, at a steel factory and washed floors at St Luke's hospital while learning English at night. Her parents meet and married in Venezuela where her mother Dolly was raised. Souraya was raised in Brooklyn, New York and attended Catholic school at Regina Pacis. 

Throughout her life Souraya learned the value of hard work, sacrifice & dedication having watched her parents work together hand in hand till they became the successful business owners that they are today. Souraya's conservative family values and upbringing led her to develop a kind and generous heart whose concern for the well being others would have her become an activist from a very young age. Souraya won numerous awards and recognition due to her superiority as a public speaker, researcher as well as organizer of various community outreach projects. 

At the age of 14 Souraya was told that she would make a good politician's wife but that she could never be a politician because she was a woman. It was at that very moment Souraya was determined not only to become a politician, but more importantly a role model for other women as well as the youth in that they can accomplish anything they set their mind to. Knowing she wanted to be a politician, Souraya made sure she covered all the bases and went on to received a Bachelor Degree in Political Science from Florida International University: minored in International Relations & Certified in European Studies in 2001. She later continued her education and received a Graduate Certification in Regional Studies with specialization in Latin American Comparative Politics in 2003, and another Certification in Asian Studies specializing in Middle East in 2005. She also received a Master’s degree in Political Science and Sociology in 2006.

Souraya has been an educator for 20 years and is fluent in English, Arabic & Spanish and understands Italian & French.

In 2016 Souraya Faas made history as being the youngest presidencial candidate, first Latina woman, first millennial, first Armenian Catholic and first woman of Arab origin to be running for President of the United States. 

Souraya Faas is currently a Presidential Candidate seeking the nomination of the  Libertarian Party for the 2020 United States  President elections. 

My past is the same as yours:

1. When I was young, I worked to survive.

2. Later, I worked so my family could thrive.

3. Now, I work to benefit others. 

Some of us have trouble making it through all the steps, that's why we should never stop working at it.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all humans are created equal, and enjoy unalienable Rights including Life, Liberty, and the pusuit of Happiness. That the purpose of instituting Government among a People is to secure these Rights. - modified excerption from the Declaration of Independence.

1. Government has no business accumulating debt except in times of extreme duress

2. Government has no business fighting wars except in defense of it's own territory

3. Government has no business exploiting our environment and natural resources for profit. 

Government was created to protect Individual Rights, not to determine through regulation and convenient enforcement who succeeds and who fails. 

    As a boy scout senior patrol leader of my troop and den chief durring my time as a scout I learned leadership and mutual respect for all is key for and team to succeed.  And in the last 17 years I learned carpentry in its fullest from the building side to the bussiness side and aritecture and design.  My struggles and fails made me the man I am today.  I plan to bring the values I have learned to the office of president.

Sincerely Erik Gerhardt 

The role of politician is to serve the needs and fight for the rights the people a tyrannical government wishes to take.  I believe that for integrity is an the responsibility of the individual and the people should have the right to remove those of lesser integrity.

Keenan Wallace Dunham is running for President 2020 as a Libertarian. Mr. Dunham has qualified to be placed on the primary ballots in California and New Hampshire and will be attending many Libertarian Party debates and state conventions this year. Mr. Dunham is Chair of the Horry County Libertarian Party and has aided numerous local candidates running for office since 2016. He is highly active in politics and community service. His campaign for US President consists of four domestic plans to expand the US economy.

Those are to Legalize Cannabis and Hemp nationwide, Legalize Gambling nationwide, Legalize and Regulate Bitcoin and Blockchain ledger technology, and Eliminate the Personal Income Tax.

His campaign also highly focuses on justice and rollback of the police state, the “Deepstate” and foreign intervention. Trade should be the focus of foreign dialogue and the sharing of knowledge. There should not be a restrictive national ID system limiting travel. The NSA, FBI, and HLS should not be allowed to gather citizen’s information without a crime specific warrant, and the 4th and 5th amendments followed regarding seizing or gathering personal information. Personal information is private property. Foreign aid and military bases should be rolled-back to stop foreign countries’ dependence on our resources.

Learn more about Keenan Wallace Dunham on his website:

http://dunham2020.com/volunteer

Contact Information: Keenan Wallace Dunham for United States President 2020 dunhamkeenan@gmail.com (202) 503-9301

https://think-liberty.com/candidates/keenan-wallace-dunham/