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The '''Libertarian Party Mises Caucus''' was founded in [[2017]] by [[Michael Heise]] and other Libertarians to promote Austrian economics within the Libertarian Party, to recruit, train and support the liberty vanguard for perpetual libertarian political,
The '''Mises Caucus''' was founded in [[2017]] by [[Michael Heise]] and fellow Libertarians. The main goal is to promote Austrian economics within the Libertarian Party and to utilize grassroots organization to ensure the party's effectiveness in this direction.<ref>https://lpmisescaucus.com/platform/</ref>
cultural and educational action and to use grassroots organization to ensure that the Libertarian Party is an effective vehicle toward these ends.<ref name="Mises Caucus Platform">{{Citation|url=https://lpmisescaucus.com/platform/|title=Mises Caucus Platform|publisher=Libertarian Party Mises Caucus|accessdate=8 September 2022 |deadurl=no}}</ref>


== The Platform of the Libertarian Party Mises Caucus ==
== Platform ==
'''Statement of Purpose''':
'''Statement of Purpose''': The Mises Caucus aims to recruit, train, and support the liberty vanguard. It focuses on libertarian political, cultural, and educational action. It emphasizes self-ownership, property rights, non-aggression principle, political self-determination, and Austrian school economics.
 
The purpose of the Libertarian Party Mises Caucus is to recruit, train and support the liberty vanguard for perpetual libertarian political, cultural and educational action and to use grassroots organization to ensure that the Libertarian Party is an effective vehicle toward these ends.  
 
We believe in radical libertarian principles based on self ownership, property rights, the non-aggression principle, political self-determination, and an understanding of economics as taught by the Austrian school.
 
We promote peace, radical political decentralization, the non-corportist privatization of state activities and a complete separation of state from money and banking as the most urgent political goals for all libertarians,
 
We will work towards these goals using the following four-point strategy:
 
'''The Four-Point Strategy'''


===The Four-Point Strategy===
* '''Party Organizing''' – This encompasses everything from recruiting members into the Libertarian Party, the state and county Libertarian Parties and creating new county level Libertarian Party affiliates where there are currently none, encouraging attendance and involvement in them and organizing around state and national conventions.
* '''Party Organizing''' – This encompasses everything from recruiting members into the Libertarian Party, the state and county Libertarian Parties and creating new county level Libertarian Party affiliates where there are currently none, encouraging attendance and involvement in them and organizing around state and national conventions.
* '''Candidates''' – Training, equipping, volunteering for, and financially or otherwise supporting local candidates running for offices that have the authority to make an impact on liberty issues, ideally to help a local area nullify federal and/or state laws. Ensuring that candidates for high visibility, difficult-to-win races such as president, governor, etc. are headed by candidates and campaign teams that effectively convey the libertarian message.
* '''Candidates''' – Training, equipping, volunteering for, and financially or otherwise supporting local candidates running for offices that have the authority to make an impact on liberty issues, ideally to help a local area nullify federal and/or state laws. Ensuring that candidates for high visibility, difficult-to-win races such as president, governor, etc. are headed by candidates and campaign teams that effectively convey the libertarian message.
* '''Issue Coalitions''' – Creating issue initiatives and/or building relationships with other organizations, elected officials, and private individuals who support the libertarian position on one specific issue, and coordinating with them to, where possible, achieve a libertarian political outcome.
* '''Issue Coalitions''' – Creating issue initiatives and/or building relationships with other organizations, elected officials, and private individuals who support the libertarian position on one specific issue, and coordinating with them to, where possible, achieve a libertarian political outcome.
* '''Liberty Culture''' – Creating events and media, as well as relationships with other media figures and platforms, that draw in audiences from the general public and the liberty movement to educate them on Austrian economics and libertarian principles, then funnel them into the Mises Caucus, the Libertarian Party in general, or another project in the liberty movement that is suitable for their talents and interests. To foster and sustain a culture and/or counterculture of liberty in the United States of America.
* '''Liberty Culture''' – Creating events and media, as well as relationships with other media figures and platforms, that draw in audiences from the general public and the liberty movement to educate them on Austrian economics and libertarian principles, then funnel them into the Mises Caucus, the Libertarian Party in general, or another project in the liberty movement that is suitable for their talents and interests. To foster and sustain a culture and/or counterculture of liberty in the United States of America.


'''Plank 1 – Property Rights''': We recognize the right to property as natural and self-evident, and advocate private property rights from both a deontological and utilitarian perspective. We affirm that private property rights extend from self-ownership and that scarcity is inherent to our material existence. We condemn all fraud and initiatory violence towards a person’s life, liberty, and property. We contend that private property is the best way to reduce and reconcile conflict among individuals. We advocate non-corporatist privatization wherever possible. We categorically reject socialism, defined as the non-private collective ownership of resources. We hold that the Non-Aggression Principle cannot be properly applied outside the context of sound property rights.
=== Planks ===
 
* '''Plank 1 – Property Rights''': We recognize the right to property as natural and self-evident, and advocate private property rights from both a deontological and utilitarian perspective. We affirm that private property rights extend from self-ownership and that scarcity is inherent to our material existence. We condemn all fraud and initiatory violence towards a person’s life, liberty, and property. We contend that private property is the best way to reduce and reconcile conflict among individuals. We advocate non-corporatist privatization wherever possible. We categorically reject socialism, defined as the non-private collective ownership of resources. We hold that the Non-Aggression Principle cannot be properly applied outside the context of sound property rights.
'''Plank 2 – Economics''': Economics is the study of human action in the context of scarcity. We recognize the Austrian School of Economics as the preeminent body of economic science, whose analysis should inform libertarian policy prescriptions.
* '''Plank 2 – Economics''': Economics is the study of human action in the context of scarcity. We recognize the Austrian School of Economics as the preeminent body of economic science, whose analysis should inform libertarian policy prescriptions.
 
* '''Plank 3 – Money''': We reject all forms of State intervention into money and banking, with the understanding that competing monies are the cornerstone of a functional economy. We define State intervention to include, but not be limited to, private or public central banking, State issue of currency, banking regulations, legal tender laws, and trading and other attempts to manipulate the market by the State or its cronies. We advocate the aggression-free competition of free-market monies and currencies in all their forms.
'''Plank 3 – Money''': We reject all forms of State intervention into money and banking, with the understanding that competing monies are the cornerstone of a functional economy. We define State intervention to include, but not be limited to, private or public central banking, State issue of currency, banking regulations, legal tender laws, and trading and other attempts to manipulate the market by the State or its cronies. We advocate the aggression-free competition of free-market monies and currencies in all their forms.
* '''Plank 4 – Decentralization''': We support decentralization—subsidiarity, secession, nullification, and localism—of political units all the way down to the individual as a moral end and as a means of expanding choice and competition in governance for all individuals. We recognize and affirm that the State is not the same thing as governance.
 
* '''Plank 5 – War''': We advocate the abolition of the empire including ending the terror war, bringing all the troops home, and closing at least all foreign bases. We advocate a policy of armed neutrality in all conflicts where the United States of America are not directly attacked. We advocate the non-corporatist transition of defense and security services from the State to the free market whenever and however feasible, including the abolition of all laws regulating private ownership of firearms. We advocate peace and trade with all and alliances with none. We advocate a precipitous reduction of nuclear weapons. We reject non-defensive war against State actors, and reject war as a means of pursuing justice against non-state aggressors. We reject the first use of sanctions, which are a form of siege and therefore an act of war. We reject the subsidy of corporations through taxpayer-funded security and intelligence services. We reject the State’s use of proxy entities to perform any of these activities.
'''Plank 4 – Decentralization''': We support decentralization—subsidiarity, secession, nullification, and localism—of political units all the way down to the individual as a moral end and as a means of expanding choice and competition in governance for all individuals. We recognize and affirm that the State is not the same thing as governance.
* '''Plank 6 – Lifestyle Choices''': We take no stance on the personal, cultural, or social preferences of individuals or groups. One’s lifestyle is merely an extension of one’s property rights. We assert only that any and all lifestyle choices must not violate the Non-Aggression Principle.
 
* '''Plank 7 – Identity Politics''': We affirm that the rights to self-ownership and to be secure in one’s life, liberty, and property are natural rights inherent in every individual human being and are not contingent on any other characteristic. Therefore, we categorically reject all forms of identity politics, defined as the State persecuting or conferring privilege on any person or group based on real or perceived membership in any identity group. We oppose any effort by the State or non-state actors to enforce abstract notions of equality or equity by any action that violates the Non-Aggression Principle. We also oppose any effort by the State and its corporate, academic, media, or other allies to encourage political tribalism, which only serves to pit individuals against one another and distract from the crimes of the State and its allies. We affirm the right of all individuals to associate voluntarily based on any criteria they wish and to act collectively to achieve their desired ends, so long as they do not violate the Non-Aggression Principle.
'''Plank 5 – War''': We advocate the abolition of the empire including ending the terror war, bringing all the troops home, and closing at least all foreign bases. We advocate a policy of armed neutrality in all conflicts where the United States of America are not directly attacked. We advocate the non-corporatist transition of defense and security services from the State to the free market whenever and however feasible, including the abolition of all laws regulating private ownership of firearms. We advocate peace and trade with all and alliances with none. We advocate a precipitous reduction of nuclear weapons. We reject non-defensive war against State actors, and reject war as a means of pursuing justice against non-state aggressors. We reject the first use of sanctions, which are a form of siege and therefore an act of war. We reject the subsidy of corporations through taxpayer-funded security and intelligence services. We reject the State’s use of proxy entities to perform any of these activities.
* '''Plank 8 – Corporatism:''' We oppose the combination of State, corporate, and/or labor union power known as corporatism or fascism. Likewise, our support of the free market does not compel us to endorse the criminality of individuals, privateers, mercenaries, contractors, proxies, so-called “non-governmental organizations,” academic institutions, media outlets, or any other non-state actor that performs duties in support of the State or any other criminal enterprise, as such actions are as immoral as more obvious violations of the Non-Aggression Principle such as socialism, communism, and welfarism.
 
* '''Plank 9 – Absentee Tyranny:''' When the State appears to remove itself from governing a part of society, and yet prevents the free market from establishing its own governance in its place, it creates a destructive state of manufactured chaos and injustice that we refer to as “absentee tyranny”. We recognise this as a false form of anarchism or the free market that is actually the State using its illegitimate monopoly privilege for the purpose of manipulating and abusing those under its rule to further its aims. We reject the policy of absentee tyranny and advocate for state involvement in the market to be permanently and completely abolished, not temporarily or partially suspended. We advocate that market governance replaces the state when it withdraws from anything.
'''Plank 6 – Lifestyle Choices''': We take no stance on the personal, cultural, or social preferences of individuals or groups. One’s lifestyle is merely an extension of one’s property rights. We assert only that any and all lifestyle choices must not violate the Non-Aggression Principle.
* '''Plank 10 – Omissions:''' Our silence about any other particular government policy, law, regulation, ordinance, directive, edict, control, regulatory agency ruling, or machination should not be construed to imply approval. We seek to enunciate our top priorities, not the entirety of our positions.<ref name="Mises Caucus Platform">{{Citation|url=https://lpmisescaucus.com/platform/|title=Mises Caucus Platform|publisher=Libertarian Party Mises Caucus|accessdate=8 September 2022 |deadurl=no}}</ref>
 
'''Plank 7 – Identity Politics''': We affirm that the rights to self-ownership and to be secure in one’s life, liberty, and property are natural rights inherent in every individual human being and are not contingent on any other characteristic. Therefore, we categorically reject all forms of identity politics, defined as the State persecuting or conferring privilege on any person or group based on real or perceived membership in any identity group. We oppose any effort by the State or non-state actors to enforce abstract notions of equality or equity by any action that violates the Non-Aggression Principle. We also oppose any effort by the State and its corporate, academic, media, or other allies to encourage political tribalism, which only serves to pit individuals against one another and distract from the crimes of the State and its allies. We affirm the right of all individuals to associate voluntarily based on any criteria they wish and to act collectively to achieve their desired ends, so long as they do not violate the Non-Aggression Principle.
 
'''Plank 8 – Corporatism:''' We oppose the combination of State, corporate, and/or labor union power known as corporatism or fascism. Likewise, our support of the free market does not compel us to endorse the criminality of individuals, privateers, mercenaries, contractors, proxies, so-called “non-governmental organizations,” academic institutions, media outlets, or any other non-state actor that performs duties in support of the State or any other criminal enterprise, as such actions are as immoral as more obvious violations of the Non-Aggression Principle such as socialism, communism, and welfarism.
 
'''Plank 9 – Absentee Tyranny:''' When the State appears to remove itself from governing a part of society, and yet prevents the free market from establishing its own governance in its place, it creates a destructive state of manufactured chaos and injustice that we refer to as “absentee tyranny”. We recognise this as a false form of anarchism or the free market that is actually the State using its illegitimate monopoly privilege for the purpose of manipulating and abusing those under its rule to further its aims. We reject the policy of absentee tyranny and advocate for state involvement in the market to be permanently and completely abolished, not temporarily or partially suspended. We advocate that market governance replaces the state when it withdraws from anything.
 
'''Plank 10 – Omissions:''' Our silence about any other particular government policy, law, regulation, ordinance, directive, edict, control, regulatory agency ruling, or machination should not be construed to imply approval. We seek to enunciate our top priorities, not the entirety of our positions.<ref name="Mises Caucus Platform">{{Citation|url=https://lpmisescaucus.com/platform/|title=Mises Caucus Platform|publisher=Libertarian Party Mises Caucus|accessdate=8 September 2022 |deadurl=no}}</ref>


== Executive Committee ==
== Executive Committee ==
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!Position
!Position
|-
|-
|[[Michael Heise]]
|[[Aaron Harris]]
|Chair
|Chairman
|-
|-
|[[David Hynes]]
|[[David Hynes]]
|Secretary
|Vice Chairman and Secretary
|-
|-
|[[Brodi Elwood]]
|[[Brodi Elwood]]
|IT Director
|IT Director
|-
|-
|[[Aaron Harris]]
|[[Jeff Douglas]]
|Communications Officer
|National Coordinator
|-
|[[Kat McElroy]]
|National Coordinator
|-
|-
|[[Jeff Douglas]]
|[[Zach Tatum]]
|National Coordinator
|National Coordinator
|-
|-
|Vacant
|[[Matt Lorence]]
|Candidate Officer
|Candidate Officer
|-
|-
|[[Luke Ensor]]
|[[Luke Ensor]]
|Community Officer
|Community Officer
|-
|[[Josiah Baker]]
|Event Officer and Board Member
|-
|-
|}
|}


== State Teams ==
== State Teams ==
The Libertarian Party Mises Caucus has teams established in many of the states. The following is the current list of state team leaders<ref name="Mises Caucus State and Regional Organizers">{{Citation|url=https://lpmisescaucus.com/meet-the-team/|title=Mises Caucus State and Regional Organizers|publisher=Libertarian Party Mises Caucus|accessdate=8 September 2022 |deadurl=no}}</ref>:
The Mises Caucus has teams in many states. Refer to the "Meet the Team" page on the [https://lpmisescaucus.com/meet-the-team/ Mises Caucus website] for contact details.
 
{| class="wikitable"
|+
! colspan="4" |Mises Caucus Regional Organizers
|-
!Region
!Names
|-
| [[LNC Region 1|Region 1 Organizers]]
|
|-
| [[LNC Region 2|Region 2 Organizers]]
| [[Joshua Hvlaka]]
|-
| [[LNC Region 3|Region 3 Organizers]]
|
|-
| [[LNC Region 4|Region 4 Organizers]]
|
|-
| [[LNC Region 5|Region 5 Organizers]]
| [[Dee Watson]], [[Matt Lucas]]
|-
| [[LNC Region 6|Region 6 Organizers]]
|
|-
| [[LNC Region 7|Region 7 Organizers]]
|
|-
| [[LNC Region 8|Region 8 Organizers]]
|
|-
|}
 
{| class="wikitable"
|+
! colspan="4" |Mises Caucus State Organizers
|-
!Region
!Names
|-
| [[Libertarian Party of Alabama|Alabama Organizers]]
| [[Mike Shaner]], [[Andrew Raines]], & [[John Cochran]]
|-
| [[Libertarian Party of Alaska|Alaska Organizers]]
| [[Leighton Radner]]
|-
| [[Libertarian Party of Arizona|Arizona Organizers]]
| [[Cory Tallman]], [[David Thomas]], [[Stephen Bigelow]], & [[Victor Calvillo]]
|-
| [[Libertarian Party of Arkansas|Arkansas Organizers]]
| [[Jake Simpson]] & [[Zach Lachowsky]]
|-
| [[Libertarian Party of California|California Organizers]]
| [[Matthew Ryan Butts]], [[Gary Alvstad]], [[Charles Byrd]], & [[Adrian Malagon]]
|-
| [[Libertarian Party of Colorado|Colorado Organizers]]
| [[Kyle Furey]] & [[Andy Buchkovich]]
|-
| [[Libertarian Party of Connecticut|Connecticut Organizers]]
| [[Lance Leduc]], [[Stephen Dincher]], [[Matt Lupes]], [[Mike Etter]], & [[Justin Perry]]
|-
| [[Libertarian Party of the District of Columbia|Washington D.C. Organizers]]
| [[Tom Fleming]]
|-
| [[Libertarian Party of Delaware|Delaware Organizers]]
| [[Dave Casey]], [[Chris Velrath]], [[Brett Stuart]], & [[Dylan Griffith]]
|-
| [[Libertarian Party of Florida|Florida Organizers]]
| [[Mitchell Wiecek]], [[Robert Vinson]], [[Richard Perez]], [[Tim Crosby]], [[Josh Hlavka]], [[Hector Roos]], & [[Patrick Leistner]]
|-
| [[Libertarian Party of Georgia|Georgia Organizers]]
| [[Jeffrey Shull]], [[Gerred Bell]], [[Nick Ciesielski]], & [[Zach Varnell]]
|-
| [[Libertarian Party of Hawaii|Hawaii Organizers]]
| [[Ian Day]]
|-
| [[Libertarian Party of Idaho|Idaho Organizers]]
| [[David Hynes]]
|-
| [[Libertarian Party of Illinois|Illinois Organizers]]
| [[Jim Humay]], [[Brad Raschke]], [[Matt Piron]], & [[Derek Evans]]
|-
| [[Libertarian Party of Indiana|Indiana Organizers]]
| [[Zach Lorenzini]]
|-
| [[Libertarian Party of Iowa|Iowa Organizers]]
| [[Jacob Stevens]], [[Paul Vincent]], [[Nathan Kleffman]], & [[Jake Gohlmann]]
|-
| [[Libertarian Party of Kansas|Kansas Organizers]]
| [[Tabre Perez]], [[Sara Isenhour]], & [[Susan Gutschow]]
|-
| [[Libertarian Party of Kentucky|Kentucky Organizers]]
| [[Ryan Patrick]], [[Christian Varney]], & [[Jill Jaco]]
|-
| [[Libertarian Party of Louisiana|Louisiana Organizers]]
| [[Blake Deblanc]], [[Brandon Leleux]], & [[Jonathan Brazzell]]
|-
| [[Libertarian Party of Maine|Maine Organizers]]
| [[Robyn Belcher]]
|-
| [[Libertarian Party of Maryland|Maryland Organizers]]
| [[Alex Schlegel]] & [[Tim Miller]]
|-
| [[Libertarian Party of Massachusetts|Massachusetts Organizers]]
| [[Brodi Elwood]] & [[Jason Brand]]
|-
| [[Libertarian Party of Michigan|Michigan Organizers]]
| [[Andrew Chadderdon]], [[Ryan Roberts]], [[Ryan Brennan]], [[Daniel Ioike]], [[Kevin Ellis]], [[Ben Dejong]], & [[David Bockelman]]
|-
| [[Libertarian Party of Minnesota|Minnesota Organizers]]
| [[Derek James]], [[Jason Klietz]], [[Jake Dahle]], & [[Bill Sorenson]]
|-
| [[Libertarian Party of Mississippi|Mississippi Organizers]]
|
|-
| [[Libertarian Party of Missouri|Missouri Organizers]]
| [[Jeanne Chickanosky]], [[Jared Hausmann]], [[Andrew Domann]], & [[Clay Blake]]
|-
| [[Libertarian Party of Montana|Montana Organizers]]
| [[Liam McCollum]], [[Tom Jandron]], & [[Dru Koester]]
|-
| [[Libertarian Party of Nebraska|Nebraska Organizers]]
| [[Jeremy Westengaard]], [[Randee Otte]], [[Patrick McNally]], [[Tyler Cappel]], [[Matt Lorence]], [[Jeff Pitts]], & [[Jacob Ryba]]
|-
| [[Libertarian Party of Nevada|Nevada Organizers]]
| [[Charles Melchin]], [[Jeff Hurley]], [[Chris Orton]], [[Brad Carpenter]], [[Adam Haman]], [[Mark Packard]], & [[Katie Banuelos]]
|-
| [[Libertarian Party of New Hampshire|New Hampshire Organizers]]
| [[Benjamin Richards]], [[Erik Sawyer]], [[Ryan Hebert]], [[Derek Proulx]], & [[Ben Weir]]
|-
| [[Libertarian Party of New Jersey|New Jersey Organizers]]
| [[Michael Graves]], [[Nikhil Sureshkumar]], [[Francine Abel]], [[Tara Lynn Fisher]], & [[James Ripley]]
|-
| [[Libertarian Party of New Mexico|New Mexico Organizers]]
| [[Tyler Askin]] & [[James Clayton]]
|-
| [[Libertarian Party of New York|New York Organizers]]
| [[Michael Rebman]], [[Andrew Nadeau]], [[Justin Carmen]], & [[Lisa Gansky]]
|-
| [[Libertarian Party of North Carolina|North Carolina Organizers]]
| [[Robery Rayborn]], [[Stephen Sumner]], [[Erik Lindborg]], [[Dee Watson]], [[Ryan Brown]], [[Mike Ross]], [[Sean Acton]], [[Mac Browder]], & [[Noah Zenger]]
|-
| [[Libertarian Party of North Dakota|North Dakota Organizers]]
|
|-
| [[Libertarian Party of Ohio|Ohio Organizers]]
| [[Drake Lundstrom]], [[Carl Farnum]], [[Drew Werley]], [[Caleb Chapman]], [[Marc Cretella]], & [[Chris Vogel]]
|-
| [[Libertarian Party of Oklahoma|Oklahoma Organizers]]
| [[Tim Fick]]
|-
| [[Libertarian Party of Oregon|Oregon Organizers]]
| [[Will Hobson]], [[Willy Johnson]], [[Peter Vandenberg]], & [[Pablo Serrato]]
|-
| [[Libertarian Party of Pennsylvania|Pennsylvania Organizers]]
| [[Calvin Mingione]], [[Marc Jurchak]], [[Jacob Winograd]], [[Kate Crosby]], [[Kareem Maize]], [[Jamie Martin]], [[Autumn Pangia]], [[Brian Goodnight]], [[Fayvan Asia]], [[Greg Burton]], & [[Jamie Smith]]
|-
| [[Libertarian Party of Rhode Island|Rhode Island Organizers]]
| [[Shawn Mizener]]
|-
| [[Libertarian Party of South Carolina|South Carolina Organizers]]
| [[Justin Huff]], [[Jeff Laitinen]], & [[Kevin Shelbrock]]
|-
| [[Libertarian Party of South Dakota|South Dakota Organizers]]
| [[Jescy Rodriguez]]
|-
| [[Libertarian Party of Tennessee|Tennessee Organizers]]
| [[Rich Leach]], [[Josiah Baker]], & [[Brandon Nelson]]
|-
| [[Libertarian Party of Texas|Texas Organizers]]
| [[Colby Meise]], [[Patrick Mitchell]], [[Clint Pohler]], [[Luke Troxell]], [[Jacob Bradley]], [[Hannah Kennedy]], [[Dylan Caylor]], [[Carter Fanning]], [[Agatha Venters]], & [[Rudy Hernandez]]
|-
| [[Libertarian Party of Utah|Utah Organizers]]
| [[Phil Lammi]], [[Matt Johnson]], & [[Jacob Johnson]]
|-
| [[Libertarian Party of Vermont|Vermont Organizers]]
| [[Olga Mar]], [[Susan Seymour]], [[Matthew Strong]], & [[Matthew Arcand]]
|-
| [[Libertarian Party of Virginia|Virginia Organizers]]
| [[Nicolas Kurfees|Nick Kurfees]], [[Maria RePass]], [[James RePass]], [[Rodolfo Falck]], [[Dan John]], [[Joseph Knowles]], [[Andrew Kimbel]], [[Jason Bruce]], & [[Jason Hinkledire]]
|-
| [[Libertarian Party of Washington|Washington Organizers]]
| [[Whitney David]] & [[John Bowen]]
|-
| [[Libertarian Party of West Virginia|West Virginia Organizers]]
| [[Will Hyman]], [[Taylor Richmond]], [[Matt Lucas]], [[Travis Bost]], [[Josh Clegg]]
|-
| [[Libertarian Party of Wisconsin|Wisconsin Organizers]]
| [[Jakob Boldig]], [[Lauren Fisher]], [[Tom Leary]]
|-
| [[Libertarian Party of Wyoming|Wyoming Organizers]]
| [[Jeremy Royer]]
|-
|}


==Conventioneering==
==Conventioneering==
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</gallery>
</gallery>


==References==
*{{MediaNewTab|2022 MC Opinion 1.pdf|Parliamentary Opinion written by Jonathan R. Jacobs for the Mises Caucus regarding the Porcupine voting software at the 2020 National Libertarian Convention}}
<references/>


== External Links ==
== External Links ==
* [http://lpmisescaucus.com/ Libertarian Mises Caucus Website]
* [http://lpmisescaucus.com/ Mises Caucus Website]


[[Category:Libertarian Party Mises Caucus]]
[[Category:Libertarian Party Mises Caucus]]

Latest revision as of 15:37, 13 September 2024

Mises Caucus
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General Information
Chartered: 2017
Officers
Chair: Aaron Harris
Vice-Chair: David Hynes
Secretary: David Hynes
Treasurer: Patrick Mitchell
Contact
Website: Website
Social Media
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Twitter: Twitter
Instagram: Instagram


The Mises Caucus was founded in 2017 by Michael Heise and fellow Libertarians. The main goal is to promote Austrian economics within the Libertarian Party and to utilize grassroots organization to ensure the party's effectiveness in this direction.[1]

Platform

Statement of Purpose: The Mises Caucus aims to recruit, train, and support the liberty vanguard. It focuses on libertarian political, cultural, and educational action. It emphasizes self-ownership, property rights, non-aggression principle, political self-determination, and Austrian school economics.

The Four-Point Strategy

  • Party Organizing – This encompasses everything from recruiting members into the Libertarian Party, the state and county Libertarian Parties and creating new county level Libertarian Party affiliates where there are currently none, encouraging attendance and involvement in them and organizing around state and national conventions.
  • Candidates – Training, equipping, volunteering for, and financially or otherwise supporting local candidates running for offices that have the authority to make an impact on liberty issues, ideally to help a local area nullify federal and/or state laws. Ensuring that candidates for high visibility, difficult-to-win races such as president, governor, etc. are headed by candidates and campaign teams that effectively convey the libertarian message.
  • Issue Coalitions – Creating issue initiatives and/or building relationships with other organizations, elected officials, and private individuals who support the libertarian position on one specific issue, and coordinating with them to, where possible, achieve a libertarian political outcome.
  • Liberty Culture – Creating events and media, as well as relationships with other media figures and platforms, that draw in audiences from the general public and the liberty movement to educate them on Austrian economics and libertarian principles, then funnel them into the Mises Caucus, the Libertarian Party in general, or another project in the liberty movement that is suitable for their talents and interests. To foster and sustain a culture and/or counterculture of liberty in the United States of America.

Planks

  • Plank 1 – Property Rights: We recognize the right to property as natural and self-evident, and advocate private property rights from both a deontological and utilitarian perspective. We affirm that private property rights extend from self-ownership and that scarcity is inherent to our material existence. We condemn all fraud and initiatory violence towards a person’s life, liberty, and property. We contend that private property is the best way to reduce and reconcile conflict among individuals. We advocate non-corporatist privatization wherever possible. We categorically reject socialism, defined as the non-private collective ownership of resources. We hold that the Non-Aggression Principle cannot be properly applied outside the context of sound property rights.
  • Plank 2 – Economics: Economics is the study of human action in the context of scarcity. We recognize the Austrian School of Economics as the preeminent body of economic science, whose analysis should inform libertarian policy prescriptions.
  • Plank 3 – Money: We reject all forms of State intervention into money and banking, with the understanding that competing monies are the cornerstone of a functional economy. We define State intervention to include, but not be limited to, private or public central banking, State issue of currency, banking regulations, legal tender laws, and trading and other attempts to manipulate the market by the State or its cronies. We advocate the aggression-free competition of free-market monies and currencies in all their forms.
  • Plank 4 – Decentralization: We support decentralization—subsidiarity, secession, nullification, and localism—of political units all the way down to the individual as a moral end and as a means of expanding choice and competition in governance for all individuals. We recognize and affirm that the State is not the same thing as governance.
  • Plank 5 – War: We advocate the abolition of the empire including ending the terror war, bringing all the troops home, and closing at least all foreign bases. We advocate a policy of armed neutrality in all conflicts where the United States of America are not directly attacked. We advocate the non-corporatist transition of defense and security services from the State to the free market whenever and however feasible, including the abolition of all laws regulating private ownership of firearms. We advocate peace and trade with all and alliances with none. We advocate a precipitous reduction of nuclear weapons. We reject non-defensive war against State actors, and reject war as a means of pursuing justice against non-state aggressors. We reject the first use of sanctions, which are a form of siege and therefore an act of war. We reject the subsidy of corporations through taxpayer-funded security and intelligence services. We reject the State’s use of proxy entities to perform any of these activities.
  • Plank 6 – Lifestyle Choices: We take no stance on the personal, cultural, or social preferences of individuals or groups. One’s lifestyle is merely an extension of one’s property rights. We assert only that any and all lifestyle choices must not violate the Non-Aggression Principle.
  • Plank 7 – Identity Politics: We affirm that the rights to self-ownership and to be secure in one’s life, liberty, and property are natural rights inherent in every individual human being and are not contingent on any other characteristic. Therefore, we categorically reject all forms of identity politics, defined as the State persecuting or conferring privilege on any person or group based on real or perceived membership in any identity group. We oppose any effort by the State or non-state actors to enforce abstract notions of equality or equity by any action that violates the Non-Aggression Principle. We also oppose any effort by the State and its corporate, academic, media, or other allies to encourage political tribalism, which only serves to pit individuals against one another and distract from the crimes of the State and its allies. We affirm the right of all individuals to associate voluntarily based on any criteria they wish and to act collectively to achieve their desired ends, so long as they do not violate the Non-Aggression Principle.
  • Plank 8 – Corporatism: We oppose the combination of State, corporate, and/or labor union power known as corporatism or fascism. Likewise, our support of the free market does not compel us to endorse the criminality of individuals, privateers, mercenaries, contractors, proxies, so-called “non-governmental organizations,” academic institutions, media outlets, or any other non-state actor that performs duties in support of the State or any other criminal enterprise, as such actions are as immoral as more obvious violations of the Non-Aggression Principle such as socialism, communism, and welfarism.
  • Plank 9 – Absentee Tyranny: When the State appears to remove itself from governing a part of society, and yet prevents the free market from establishing its own governance in its place, it creates a destructive state of manufactured chaos and injustice that we refer to as “absentee tyranny”. We recognise this as a false form of anarchism or the free market that is actually the State using its illegitimate monopoly privilege for the purpose of manipulating and abusing those under its rule to further its aims. We reject the policy of absentee tyranny and advocate for state involvement in the market to be permanently and completely abolished, not temporarily or partially suspended. We advocate that market governance replaces the state when it withdraws from anything.
  • Plank 10 – Omissions: Our silence about any other particular government policy, law, regulation, ordinance, directive, edict, control, regulatory agency ruling, or machination should not be construed to imply approval. We seek to enunciate our top priorities, not the entirety of our positions.[2]

Executive Committee

Mises PAC Executive Committee[3]
Name Position
Aaron Harris Chairman
David Hynes Vice Chairman and Secretary
Brodi Elwood IT Director
Jeff Douglas National Coordinator
Kat McElroy National Coordinator
Zach Tatum National Coordinator
Matt Lorence Candidate Officer
Luke Ensor Community Officer
Josiah Baker Event Officer and Board Member

State Teams

The Mises Caucus has teams in many states. Refer to the "Meet the Team" page on the Mises Caucus website for contact details.

Conventioneering

External Links

  1. ↑ https://lpmisescaucus.com/platform/
  2. ↑ Mises Caucus Platform, Libertarian Party Mises Caucus, https://lpmisescaucus.com/platform/, retrieved 8 September 2022 
  3. ↑ Mises PAC Executive Committee, Libertarian Party Mises Caucus, https://lpmisescaucus.com/meet-the-team/, retrieved 8 September 2022 
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