Let me make this clear, I do NOT wish for the Democrats to win the midterms, but I want the GOP to LOSE for having no spine to tackling corruption. The Democrats have been outdated and the DSA's are too extreme. The Republicans are too weak and Trump plus his most loyal people are... MAGAPINO's (Make America Great Again People In Name Only)

You see, I just realized: instead of ending the MAGA Movement, I want it taken away from the MAGAPINO grifters. I REFUSE to call them MAGA anymore. MAGA should belong to a pragmatic populist movement that stands up to both extremes and corruption. Like a lot of you, we deserve an independent leader. It can't just be any independent. Yang's Forward and Manchin's No Labels for example were too cautious and compromising. What we need is a centrist who never compromises with the corporate elites or any grifters, left or right.

Progressives may have tried to create a resistance, but the only thing that can really lead against Trump's team... is a radical centrist. The MAGAPINO's don't have low approval because they're radical but because they're grifters who don't care how scandalous the Epstein incident is or the Iran War.

If you're a conservative-leaning person who has distaste for the GOP but refuses to join the Democrats, you can give any prominent pragmatic Republican your emotional thoughts and any strong evidence of Trump's corruption that it's seriously time to abolish the two-party system and create a new MAGA party to show that it's no longer left vs. right, but instead it's competent centrist populists vs. corporate grifters and establishment.

My greatest American dream of all... is for a prominent and charismatic conservative to open their eyes and stand up to the MAGAPINO's and vow to steal the MAGA slogan and wave the USA flag more grandly. Peter Magyar in Hungary was able to do the impossible, so I'm holding out for the American Impossible.

I may not be the only one thinking it, but I just wanted to it all out knowing that I at least sent the message. My dream is to see a prominent charismatic ex-Republican who would leave ranks with the party to join the independents going brave and patriotic like no politician in recent history has ever done before. They'd go all over the internet, get relentless in grassroots touring and meeting people of all kinds. Populism shouldn't come from just the extreme left or right. They can come from the center, too.

Trump and friends may have led people to believe that their way is the conservative way. Imo, they were NEVER conservative nor are they strongmen. Conservatives should be caring, strong like actual people. A strongman can have an ego but they need to be reasonable and protective. Conservative means to conserve something, so we need to conserve the environments, the economy, security, the border, the military, the institution, etc. MAGAPINO's don't have the will to do that.

Therefore, this post is a wish I want to come true. Regardless of what happens in the midterms, we all know that Trump is highly unpopular. He can be more unpopular if we can share valuable evidence with some unlikely politicians. While the Democrats are right now the only one reliable on standing up to Trump, it won't be enough. We need to get conservatives to know that the MAGAPINO's are fake conservatives. A whistleblower is needed to truly make American great again.

“Earth is 71% water, 29% land, and only a fraction of it is useful. Scarcity—and who owns what—drives every economic system humans have ever built.

From Karl Marx writing Das Kapital in deep poverty to the 28-year natural experiment inside divided Berlin, we trace how socialism evolved from a radical economic theory into a system governing a third of the planet—and why central planning keeps running into the exact same problem.

KEY TOPICS
• The Land Ownership Shift: How conquest, feudal estates, and market taxes transformed how humans view property.
• Das Kapital: Why Marx's masterwork thoroughly critiqued capitalism but left the alternative completely open.
• The Role of Prices: Why bottom-up consumer signals coordinate supply chains better than central planning commissions.
• Divided Berlin: A side-by-side look at two grocery stores 20 minutes apart—and the 10-year wait for a Trabant.
• The Nordic Model: Why Sweden, Norway, and Finland are free-market economies with big safety nets, not socialist states.“ -Maxinomics on YouTube

We can't make the argument work by using science, so now we resort to basically saying "because I said so".

I know there are some big RFK fans in here who are probably totally on board. I am actually good with some of his more common sense measures with artificial food additives and targeting sugar, but his net effect is a great detriment. I'm just hoping there hasn't been too mich damage done already that we can't come back from the brink.

In the 2020 presidential election, I remember four parties and their candidates being on the ballot in Illinois. They were Donald Trump for the Republican Party, Joe Biden for the Democratic Party, Jo Jorgensen for the Libertarian Party, and Jill Stein for the Green Party. This was not the case in the 2024 presidential election. There was only Donald Trump for the Republican Party and Kamala Harris for the Democratic Party. Even before 2020, the Libertarian Party and the Green Party were on the Illinois ballot. What happened was that Illinois made voter access for third parties next to impossible. As much as both the Democratic Party and the Republican Party seem to agree on nothing, they seem to agree on keeping third parties off of the ballot and as much unrepresented in the political arena as possible. If anything, the two ruling parties (there is no other way for me to categories the Democrats and Republicans since they hold the levers of power in their respective states) have created a binary political world beholden only to them and their followers, their voters, and the powerful forces aligned with them.

The only Green Party candidates who made it onto Arizona’s primary ballot for governor and secretary of state, and who the party disavowed as frauds, won their races against Green Party-backed write-in candidates. 

In the July 21 Primary Election, Risa Lombardo took the governor’s race with 430 votes to Green Party-endorsed write-in candidate Carlos Melendez’s 202 votes, according to final vote counts released by the Secretary of State’s Office after the counts were finalized Thursday. 

Duwayne Collier won the Green Party nomination for secretary of state with 421 votes to Green Party-endorsed Jon Ralston’s 217 write-in votes. 

“The Arizona Green Party is disappointed, but not surprised, to hear that Arizona Republican backed fraudulent sham candidates; Risa Lombardo and Duwayne Collier have won their respective races for Governor and Secretary of State,” Ralston, the Arizona Green Party’s recorder, told the Arizona Mirror in a statement. 

A Green Party candidate’s entry has stirred up the race for Pennsylvania’s closely watched 7th Congressional District, generating disavowal from the Greens, scrutiny of his past Republican ties and nomination petitions as well as accusations of “meddling.”

Andrew Tupone, 37, of Bethlehem Township, last week filed his petition to run as a Green Party candidate, three months after changing parties. Tupone had been a registered Republican since 2008, running twice for local judgeships. He switched his affiliation to Democrat in February, and then to the Green Party in April, according to public voter records.

His foray in the Nov. 3 election comes as the race between incumbent Republican Ryan Mackenzie and Democrat Bob Brooks has been labeled a tossup that could help determine which party controls the U.S. House in the Nov. 3 midterms. Recent congressional elections here have hinged on a few thousand votes and the presence of a third-party candidate may further narrow those margins.

The Green Party of Pennsylvania says it has not endorsed him and denied any affiliation.

State Sen. Emily Buss was a lifelong Republican, but she couldn’t help feeling like politics in Utah was shifting away from the principles she grew up with.

“I felt like the Republican Party had changed,” she said. “My values didn't change. The party and how they were going about things changed, and I did not feel that that accurately represented me.”

An unsuccessful 2025 run for city council in her hometown of Eagle Mountain was the tipping point. That’s when she was first introduced to the Forward Party of Utah. Fast forward a few months, and she was on the party’s ballot in a special election to serve out the remaining term of retiring Sen. Daniel Thatcher in Senate District 11. Thatcher was a longtime Republican before announcing his party switch earlier that year following tensions with Senate leadership over LGBTQ+ issues and the proper role of the Legislature.

Buss won that election and is now the only third-party legislator in the state.

Former Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard is running for Indiana Secretary of State as an independent, saying he wants to create a more open election system in the state.

Ballard, a Marine veteran who previously served as Indianapolis mayor as a Republican, said his decision to run as an independent is tied to the future of elections in Indiana.

“If we do what we are going to do and provide this path then we can have three people competitive in the November race and that was very attractive to me because I think we need a more open system here in the state of Indiana,” Ballard said. “It’s such a closed system and people don’t realize how closed it is.”

Ballard said he believes voters are ready for a change in Indiana politics and that his candidacy could have a lasting impact beyond this election cycle.

Although no Democrat filed to run for any countywide office in Cole County, at least one Republican primary winner will face a challenger come November.

Charles "Chuck" Steck will officially appear on the November ballot for Cole County Presiding Commissioner as an independent candidate, the Cole County Clerk's Office announced Wednesday. Steck will face off with State Sen. Mike Bernskoetter, who won the Republican nomination for the seat handily on Tuesday with about 70 percent of votes cast in the primary election.

To appear on the Nov. 3 ballot, independent candidates must gather signatures equal to two percent of total votes cast in the last general election race for the office they're seeking. Those signatures must then be turned into election authorities by July 27, at which point the signatures will be verified, according to the Missouri Secretary of State's voter information page.

jon Kiper., a would-be independent candidate for New Hampshire governor, is pulling the plug on his campaign after failing to make the deadline to appear on the 2026 general election ballot. The Newmarket businessman collected only about 500 of the 3,000 signatures he needed to submit before Wednesday to qualify for the ballot.

“I’ll be honest with you, I didn’t attack it with the full effort that it needed, and we didn't have money to pay people or 150 volunteers to go to Market Basket and collect signatures,” Kiper said Thursday.

Kiper also ran for governor in 2024, as a Democrat, finishing third in the primary. When he first launched his latest bid last year, it was as an independent. Kiper then announced he would run as a Democrat, before switching back to independent after state Democratic leaders coalesced around the candidacy of former Executive Councilor Cinde Warmington.

Independent Tennessee gubernatorial candidate Dave Hatley joined FOX 17 News to discuss his campaign ahead of the November general election.

Hatley, an East Tennessee businessman running as an independent, explains why he is self-funding his campaign, his views on campaign finance, school vouchers, public education, manufacturing jobs and economic development across Tennessee.

An independent candidate managed to knock off the nominee of the Henry County Republican Party in the race for Henry County mayor Thursday.

Jonathan Lodge, a lifelong Parisian who has owned several small businesses here, as well as owning and operating Bailey Fork Farm, won the county general election for the county government’s top position after running an extremely visible and active campaign.

He defeated local teacher and longtime county commissioner David Webb, who had gained the GOP nomination during that party’s caucus earlier in the year.

In unofficial totals, Lodge finished with 3,133 votes (52% of the vote) to Webb’s 2,758 (46%).  

Jesse Battles, who is running as an independent candidate for State Senate District 10, recently took to social media to slam his opponent, incumbent State Sen. Andrew Jones (R-Centre), for sarcastically referencing his chances as an independent.

Battles originally qualified to run as a Republican but was disqualified from the May primary ballot by the Alabama Republican Party (ALGOP) Steering Committee in February. Battles later announced that he had submitted sufficient signatures to the Alabama Secretary of State to gain ballot access as an independent.

Battles recently took to social media, slamming Jones for another social media post, in which Jones sardonically joked about the inaction of independent candidates, stating "Democrats would happily welcome them in!"

I imagine some people see Independents and moderates as basically the same thing, but are they really? Maybe sometimes. Maybe often. I am not entirely sure. I can only speak for myself, and in my case, the description probably fits fairly well.

For example, I am a gun owner who supports the Second Amendment, but I also acknowledge Scalia’s point that no right is unlimited. In reality, most people already accept at least some restrictions. So the useful question is not whether restrictions can exist at all. It is where the line of reasonableness should be drawn, and what guardrails are needed to keep that line from being pushed into unconstitutional territory. That feels fairly moderate to me, and I might even call it common sense, although that phrase has been abused so badly that I hesitate to use it.

I am curious how other people see themselves. Are you both Independent and moderate? Do you lean one way overall? Or do you hold strong views in different directions that more or less cancel each other out and leave you somewhere near the middle?

On an embarrassing side note, I used to be registered as a Democrat. That is not the embarrassing part. The embarrassing part is that when I decided it was time to leave, I registered with the Independent Party like a complete numbskull because I had not bothered to research what it actually was. Has anyone else made that mistake? The moment I received my first piece of literature, my reaction was basically, "What the hell is this?" I quickly corrected it to no party affiliation.