FW: Resolution received from New Hampshire

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From: Alfa Shaw <alfa...@lp.org>
Sent: Friday, June 5, 2026 11:40:33 AM (UTC+00:00) Monrovia, Reykjavik
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Subject: Resolution received from New Hampshire

Greetings, 

This resolution was sent to me, apparently having been passed by the New Hampshire board last night. 

Mr. Secretary, could you add this document to the LNC archives of documents? 

Thank you. 

Alfa Shaw 

Region 6 

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From: Richard Longstreth <richard.l...@lp.org>
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Subject: Re: Resolution received from New Hampshire

Mr. Chair,

As there is no longer an affiliate in New Hampshire that this board recognizes, I object to this rogue organization asking for anything to be added to our archives.

They are welcome to appeal to the Judicial Committee and those records can be retained through that venue.

Respectfully,

Richard Longstreth

At-Large Representative 

Libertarian National Committee

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From: Alfa Shaw <alfa...@lp.org>
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Subject: Resolution received from New Hampshire

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From: Keith Thompson <keith.t...@lp.org>
Sent: Friday, June 5, 2026 1:52:22 PM (UTC+00:00) Monrovia, Reykjavik
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Subject: Re: Resolution received from New Hampshire

Good morning,

I believe there's some confusion regarding the status of the former New Hampshire affiliate. 

Some have asserted that the former affiliate still exists until the automatic JC appeal is complete - however, that's not the process. They can appeal the disaffiliation within 30 days, but that reinstates them - disaffiliation is not contingent upon that process being exhausted.

The process is that the LNC disaffiliates, which starts a timer allowing them to overturn the disaffiliation if there's valid cause to void the LNC's decision (which there's not). The potential JC appeal doesn't postpone the disaffiliation - it's a mechanism to overturn an unjust disaffiliation, if one were to occur. 

Point being: They are not our affiliate, and we should not be treating their board as a legitimate entity. 

Thanks,

Keith Thompson

At-Large Representative Libertarian National Committee

Keith.Thompson@LP.org LP.org/ThompsonDonor

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From: Richard Longstreth <richard.l...@lp.org>
Sent: Friday, June 5, 2026 8:32 AM

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Subject: Re: Resolution received from New Hampshire

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From: Alfa Shaw <alfa...@lp.org>
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Subject: Re: Resolution received from New Hampshire

Greetings, 

Maybe the request and it's reason was unclear. 

The request to add the document to the LNC's records is from the Region 6 representative. 

An LNC member. 

I made this request in order to put the document on record, having received it as an official communication from an outside entity. 

I feel that as a member of the LNC it is my right to place into our archives, any document I receive in the course of, and related to my duties. 

I welcome discussions on the matter. 

Thank you. 

Alfa Shaw 

Region 6

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Subject: Re: Resolution received from New Hampshire

The bigotry from the anti-LPNH crowd is irrational and repugnant. 

Ua mau ke ea o ka ʻāina i ka pono

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From: Richard Longstreth <richard.l...@lp.org>
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Subject: Re: Resolution received from New Hampshire

All bigotry is irrational and repugnant.

An organization archiving documents unrelated to itself is just silly. I guess I could submit a quote I gave for some freelance work to, but some things just don't belong in our official records because they are irrelevant to this body.

Respectfully,

Richard Longstreth

At-Large Representative 

Libertarian National Committee

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From: Austin Martin <austin...@lp.org>
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From: Steven Nekhaila <steven....@lp.org>
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Subject: Re: Resolution received from New Hampshire

Good afternoon, all,

There really isn’t such thing as a formal entering into the records for the LNC. The LNC can certainly receive these documents, and I believe the way that Mr. Shaw shared the documents to the board is as close to an “official record” as it comes.

I hope that satisfies Mr. Shaw’s intentions, and it would probably also be submitted to the JC if and when appropriate from Mr. Kauffman.

Sincerely,

Steven Nekhaila

At-Large, LNC

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From: Austin Martin <austin...@lp.org>
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Subject: Re: Resolution received from New Hampshire

Perhaps I am mistaken, but it seems clear your own rank, hypocritical bigotry is what led most of you to shred due process and form a lynch mob. 

Do you suppose I am mistaken? 

Keith certainly displayed it. 

The "bigotry" issue would be something I could get behind, if it applied to stopping actual irrational behaviors, rather than controlling state affiliate speech. 

You are what you hate. 

Ua mau ke ea o ka ʻāina i ka pono

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Subject: Re: Resolution received from New Hampshire

All bigotry is irrational and repugnant.

An organization archiving documents unrelated to itself is just silly. I guess I could submit a quote I gave for some freelance work to, but some things just don't belong in our official records because they are irrelevant to this body.

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From: Keith Thompson <keith.t...@lp.org>
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Subject: Re: Resolution received from New Hampshire

Bigotry against innate human qualities such as sex, gender, race, ethnicity, or national origin is irrational and repugnant. 

But I would not consider pushback to storing documents for those who have openly expressed a desire to sue us to be bigotry.

I have a CVS receipt in my wallet, but the LNC wouldn't be "bigoted" against me if they didn't want to save it to our OneDrive account.

Keith Thompson At-Large Representative Libertarian National Committee   Keith.Thompson@LP.org LP.org/ThompsonDonor

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Subject: Re: Resolution received from New Hampshire

So bigotry is okay for you to express when its politically motivated, Keith? 

But its irrational and repugnant when you're using it to silence dissenting opinions from your political opposition?

Pilau!

Ua mau ke ea o ka ʻāina i ka pono

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From: Keith Thompson <keith.t...@lp.org>
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Subject: Re: Resolution received from New Hampshire

Racism is not okay. Sexism is not okay. Collectivist hate against innate human qualities is not okay.

Telling black people to go back to Africa or repeatedly posting homophobic slurs about our Presidential nominee is not okay in any professional organization.

Condemning bigotry is not itself bigotry to any reasonable person.

However - while our former affiliate did sometimes express ideas anathema to our principles, or publish statements that violated our platform, arguing that is entirely beside the point: the reason for disaffiliation was their open violation of the bylaws in endorsing President Trump.

Keith Thompson At-Large Representative Libertarian National Committee   Keith.Thompson@LP.org LP.org/ThompsonDonor

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Subject: Re: Resolution received from New Hampshire

Mr. Shaw,

Thank you for notifying me.  For everyone's information, all emails and attachments forwarded to the public business list are automatically posted the lp.org website.

The business list, as well as minutes and votes can be accessed here: https://lp.org/lnc-minutes-and-discussion/

This current thread in particular can be accessed here: https://groups.google.com/g/lnc-public/c/Gi7g0Xr9l9M

In Liberty,

Jonathan McGee

Secretary, Libertarian National Committee

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Subject: Re: Resolution received from New Hampshire

I am not motivated to nor do I find any joy in appearing to defend this affiliate (I find their communications repugnant and would be content  to ignore them), but it alarms me to learn that their entire committee was replaced just this past March. 

What overtures have been made to them since that time? Would a hearing or investigative committee have brought this fact to light, giving them a formal opportunity to renounce their endorsement?

I don't think we've so much as passed a censure in the last two years and I fear, as I opined it would be approaching convention, we've jumped the gun in our haste. 

Travis L. Bost

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Subject: Re: Resolution received from New Hampshire

(I began writing the foregoing message prior to the most recent three in this thread, so apologies for any disjointedness that might ensue:)

Regarding the New Hampshire organization, it is unclear what "silencing", or attempted silencing, is taking place. No one is calling for the organization to be removed from any social media platform; nor is anyone attempting to silence its speech that I have seen. If there have been any efforts to this effect, they should be condemned. The New Hampshire organization may say whatever it wishes; and the state has absolutely no place intruding on that or attempting to remove it from the public square simply because (or if) it finds that expression distasteful. That, too, is repugnant.

Yet, while I would remind the body that the primary cause for the New Hampshire organization's disaffiliation owed to its endorsement of Donald Trump, which it only denounced post-disaffiliation, it seems worthwhile to note as well that as a private organization the Party has a right to free association, which is an integral part of free speech.

Consider: Were the Party forced to associate and share branding with an organization that engaged in speech antithetical to libertarianism (and for purposes of making the point, you may envision whatever hypothetical entity you like), such that their speech was taken to represent an extension of, or to be "affiliated" with, our own, then to forbid our disassociation on grounds of "freedom of speech" for them would constitute a form of compelled speech for us. 

The only way to avoid this interpretive impasse is to recognize that freedom of association is a dimension of freedom of speech: that freedom of speech is, simultaneously, the freedom from any compulsory association between one party and another, especially when the speech of the one is antithetical to the principles of the other.

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Amanda

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Subject: Re: Resolution received from New Hampshire

So bigotry is okay for you to express when its politically motivated, Keith? 

But its irrational and repugnant when you're using it to silence dissenting opinions from your political opposition?

Pilau!

Ua mau ke ea o ka ʻāina i ka pono

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Subject: Re: Resolution received from New Hampshire

Bigotry against innate human qualities such as sex, gender, race, ethnicity, or national origin is irrational and repugnant. 

But I would not consider pushback to storing documents for those who have openly expressed a desire to sue us to be bigotry.

I have a CVS receipt in my wallet, but the LNC wouldn't be "bigoted" against me if they didn't want to save it to our OneDrive account.

Keith Thompson At-Large Representative Libertarian National Committee   Keith.Thompson@LP.org LP.org/ThompsonDonor

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Subject: Re: Resolution received from New Hampshire

I am calling all members to order.

it is not in order to make accusations or to assign motivations to the votes of other board members. 

Under our bylaws, the due process comes through a former affiliate's automatic right to appeal said disaffiliation. So, the former affiliate's due process has been preserved. There is no right to be heard or even noticed prior to a vote to disaffiliate.  

To the matter of the resolution submitted to the LNC. The document was shared with the board and posted to the public list. I see no further need for us to officially hold in record a document from an outside organization. If they believe it pertinent to their cause, they can include it in their Judaical Committee appeal should they decide that there is some value in their being reinstated as an affiliate of the Libertarian Party.

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Subject: Re: Resolution received from New Hampshire

Greetings.

This escalated quickly. 

I'm not sure how:

 "I received a communication, please save it in our document storage", turned into this big blow up in this thread. 

It could have been as simple as:

"Ok, it's been stored, have a good day". 

Alfa Shaw 

Region 6

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Subject: Re: Resolution received from New Hampshire

Travis,

The current Chair of the previous affiliate has as his *professed goal* the end of this organization, the national Libertarian Party. The sham respect shown with this resolution is just another attempt at creating internal havoc in the Party. 

Spare us the "maybe they've changed" narrative. 

Susan Hogarth

R5 Rep

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Subject: Re: Resolution received from New Hampshire

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Subject: Re: Resolution received from New Hampshire

I already told you how I feel about them—I’m concerned with this organization, our organization, the one we’re sitting on now. Please don’t cast aspersions inward. 

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Subject: Re: Resolution received from New Hampshire

Mr. Chair, 

Due process consists of two essential, non-negotiable elements — notice and opportunity to respond — notice must be in advance, and the opportunity to respond must be reasonably fair and made directly to the decisionmakers governing the process. 

However, you said: "Under our bylaws, the due process comes through a former affiliate's automatic right to appeal said disaffiliation." If this wasn't bad enough, you continue: "So, the former affiliate's due process has been preserved. There is no right to be heard or even noticed prior to a vote to disaffiliate."

This seems like the opposite of due process, which consists of the very same two essential elements which you specifically acknowledge were denied to LPNH: notice and opportunity to respond.  These elements are required regardless of the procedural forms prescribed in our bylaws. If you were correct, the disaffiliation cannot have possibly occurred, since due process must come before, not after, the infliction of punishment. 

Was this a ruling, or just a casual remark? 

Also: what Judicial Committee?  

Are you referring to the one where some sitting board members recently plotted and manipulated their election outcomes, effectively rigging the process to circumvent the will of the delegates? 

I have heard credible reports that those responsible were caught on a hot mic explicitly discussing the need to engage in what appears to be election fraud. Therefore I am deeply concerned that you see no problem in relying solely on this tainted, quorum-less JC, with "due process" as if such could provide basic fairness to this committee's Kafkaesque process — after the fact. 

To me, Due Process is a fundamental libertarian value — willfully disposing of it renders one "not a libertarian", in my perspective. It's a clean line. It is a crucial, non-negotiable element of what we stand for; it is also a good "hill to die on", so to speak. 

Mr. Thompson,

How is your point any different? Bigotry is bigotry. It doesn't matter the "motive" for being an irrational, prejudiced, and unfair prick — it's the "irrational, prejudiced, and unfair prick" part that consists in making one an actual bigot. It is not merely expressing unapproved or inappropriate opinions. True bigots deny fairness to their targets. 

Am I mistaken? 

Austin Martin

Ua mau ke ea o ka ʻāina i ka ponoUa mau ke ea o ka ʻāina i ka pono

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Subject: Re: Resolution received from New Hampshire

Racism is not okay. Sexism is not okay. Collectivist hate against innate human qualities is not okay.

Telling black people to go back to Africa or repeatedly posting homophobic slurs about our Presidential nominee is not okay in any professional organization.

Condemning bigotry is not itself bigotry to any reasonable person.

However - while our former affiliate did sometimes express ideas anathema to our principles, or publish statements that violated our platform, arguing that is entirely beside the point: the reason for disaffiliation was their open violation of the bylaws in endorsing President Trump.

Keith Thompson At-Large Representative Libertarian National Committee   Keith.Thompson@LP.org LP.org/ThompsonDonor

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Subject: Re: Resolution received from New Hampshire

So bigotry is okay for you to express when its politically motivated, Keith? 

But its irrational and repugnant when you're using it to silence dissenting opinions from your political opposition?

Pilau!

Ua mau ke ea o ka ʻāina i ka pono

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Sent: Friday, 05 June 2026 06:36:12
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Subject: Re: Resolution received from New Hampshire

Bigotry against innate human qualities such as sex, gender, race, ethnicity, or national origin is irrational and repugnant. 

But I would not consider pushback to storing documents for those who have openly expressed a desire to sue us to be bigotry.

I have a CVS receipt in my wallet, but the LNC wouldn't be "bigoted" against me if they didn't want to save it to our OneDrive account.

Keith Thompson At-Large Representative Libertarian National Committee   Keith.Thompson@LP.org LP.org/ThompsonDonor

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From: Richard Longstreth <richard.l...@lp.org>
Sent: Friday, June 5, 2026 11:32 AM
To: Austin Martin <austin...@lp.org>; Alfa Shaw <alfa...@lp.org>; Keith Thompson <keith.t...@lp.org>; LNC Public <lnc-p...@lp.org>; LNC Board <lncb...@lp.org>; lnc-public_forward <lnc-publi...@lp.org>

Subject: Re: Resolution received from New Hampshire

All bigotry is irrational and repugnant.

An organization archiving documents unrelated to itself is just silly. I guess I could submit a quote I gave for some freelance work to, but some things just don't belong in our official records because they are irrelevant to this body.

Respectfully,

Richard Longstreth

At-Large Representative 

Libertarian National Committee

Richard.L...@lp.org

865.321.1130

www.lp.org/donate

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From: Austin Martin <austin...@lp.org>
Sent: Friday, 05 June 2026 12:28:25
To: Alfa Shaw <alfa...@lp.org>; Keith Thompson <keith.t...@lp.org>; Richard Longstreth <richard.l...@lp.org>; LNC Public <lnc-p...@lp.org>; LNC Board <lncb...@lp.org>; lnc-public_forward <lnc-publi...@lp.org>

Subject: Re: Resolution received from New Hampshire

The bigotry from the anti-LPNH crowd is irrational and repugnant. 

Ua mau ke ea o ka ʻāina i ka pono

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From: Alfa Shaw <alfa...@lp.org>
Sent: Friday, 05 June 2026 04:15:44

To: Keith Thompson <keith.t...@lp.org>; Richard Longstreth <richard.l...@lp.org>; LNC Public <lnc-p...@lp.org>; LNC Board <lncb...@lp.org>; lnc-public_forward <lnc-publi...@lp.org>

Subject: Re: Resolution received from New Hampshire

Greetings, 

Maybe the request and it's reason was unclear. 

The request to add the document to the LNC's records is from the Region 6 representative. 

An LNC member. 

I made this request in order to put the document on record, having received it as an official communication from an outside entity. 

I feel that as a member of the LNC it is my right to place into our archives, any document I receive in the course of, and related to my duties. 

I welcome discussions on the matter. 

Thank you. 

Alfa Shaw 

Region 6

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From: Keith Thompson <keith.t...@lp.org>
Sent: Friday, 05 June 2026 09:52:22

To: Richard Longstreth <richard.l...@lp.org>; Alfa Shaw <alfa...@lp.org>; LNC Public <lnc-p...@lp.org>; LNC Board <lncb...@lp.org>; lnc-public_forward <lnc-publi...@lp.org>

Subject: Re: Resolution received from New Hampshire

Good morning,

I believe there's some confusion regarding the status of the former New Hampshire affiliate. 

Some have asserted that the former affiliate still exists until the automatic JC appeal is complete - however, that's not the process. They can appeal the disaffiliation within 30 days, but that reinstates them - disaffiliation is not contingent upon that process being exhausted.

The process is that the LNC disaffiliates, which starts a timer allowing them to overturn the disaffiliation if there's valid cause to void the LNC's decision (which there's not). The potential JC appeal doesn't postpone the disaffiliation - it's a mechanism to overturn an unjust disaffiliation, if one were to occur. 

Point being: They are not our affiliate, and we should not be treating their board as a legitimate entity. 

Thanks,

Keith Thompson At-Large Representative Libertarian National Committee   Keith.Thompson@LP.org LP.org/ThompsonDonor

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From: Richard Longstreth <richard.l...@lp.org>
Sent: Friday, June 5, 2026 8:32 AM

To: Alfa Shaw <alfa...@lp.org>; LNC Public <lnc-p...@lp.org>; LNC Board <lncb...@lp.org>; lnc-public_forward <lnc-publi...@lp.org>

Subject: Re: Resolution received from New Hampshire

Mr. Chair,

As there is no longer an affiliate in New Hampshire that this board recognizes, I object to this rogue organization asking for anything to be added to our archives.

They are welcome to appeal to the Judicial Committee and those records can be retained through that venue.

Respectfully,

Richard Longstreth

At-Large Representative 

Libertarian National Committee

Richard.L...@lp.org

865.321.1130

www.lp.org/donate

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From: Alfa Shaw <alfa...@lp.org>
Sent: Friday, 05 June 2026 07:40:33

To: LNC Public <lnc-p...@lp.org>; LNC Board <lncb...@lp.org>; lnc-public_forward <lnc-publi...@lp.org>

Subject: Resolution received from New Hampshire