FW: Email Ballot Results - Opposing Foreign Influence

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From: Evan McMahon <evan.m...@lp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2026 12:16:57 AM (UTC+00:00) Monrovia, Reykjavik
To: Entire LNC <entir...@lp.org>
Cc: lnc-public_forward <lnc-publi...@lp.org>
Subject: Email Ballot Results - Opposing Foreign Influence

Mr. Chair,

Below are the results for ExCom email ballot 20260412-01 Opposing Foreign Influence

Resolution:

Opposing Foreign Influence, Foreign Aid, and Entangling Commitments

WHEREAS, the Libertarian Party holds that the government of the United States exists solely to secure the liberty, safety, and property of the American people, and has no authority to act as financier, guarantor, or enforcement arm for foreign states, foreign wars, or foreign pressure campaigns; and

WHEREAS, libertarians oppose all foreign aid, undeclared wars, entangling alliances, coercive sanctions, intelligence partnerships, and any political arrangements that convert foreign priorities into domestic American obligations; and

WHEREAS, the Constitution vests in Congress alone the power to declare war, and libertarians reject the bipartisan practice of presidential war-making on behalf of foreign interests, ideological projects, or permanent-security-state priorities; and

WHEREAS, foreign states and their domestic lobbies routinely bypass or exploit Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) requirements to steer U.S. policy, creating a corrupt framework that binds American taxpayers, troops, and diplomacy to the interests of foreign governments; and

WHEREAS, the pro-Israel lobby represents the most visible and successful example of this pattern, with organizations such as AIPAC openly reporting more than $53 million in direct PAC support to 361 candidates in the 2024 cycle alone, successfully making the U.S.-Israel relationship the centerpiece of American Middle East policy, as documented by scholars John J.

Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt; and

WHEREAS, the same mechanisms of influence operate on behalf of numerous other foreign principals, including but not limited to Israel, France, Ukraine, Georgia, Germany, Taiwan, Saudi Arabia, and the member states of NATO, as well as through other multilateral arrangements; and

WHEREAS, the bipartisan foreign-policy establishment has entangled the United States in multiple simultaneous geopolitical flashpoints, including the Israel-Iran conflict, the Russia-Ukraine war, deepening commitments surrounding Taiwan and China, and the long-standing military standoff on the Korean peninsula, each carrying the grave risk of direct confrontation with nuclear-armed or near-peer adversaries at enormous cost in blood, treasure, debt, and the erosion of constitutional restraint; and

WHEREAS, the United States currently maintains hundreds of active Foreign Military Sales cases, many accompanied by implicit, multi-billion-dollar security commitments that further bind American policy to overseas conflicts; and

WHEREAS, these arrangements fundamentally violate the principle of strict political independence and a foreign policy of peace, commerce, and non-intervention;

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Libertarian National Committee condemns the systematic redirection of American foreign policy by any foreign state or domestic lobby, and declares that no foreign government, whether Israel, Germany, Ukraine, Taiwan, France, Saudi Arabia, Georgia, the member states of NATO, or any other, has any rightful claim on the blood, treasure, debt capacity, political obedience, or military service of the American people; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Libertarian National Committee reaffirms and operationalizes the existing Libertarian Party Platform planks on personal liberty and foreign policy by calling for the immediate and complete end of all foreign aid, including military aid, economic aid, intelligence assistance, security assistance, loan guarantees, and subsidized arms transfers, to all foreign governments without exception; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Libertarian National Committee calls for the United States to withdraw from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Libertarian National Committee calls upon the United States Department of Justice to enforce the Foreign Agents Registration Act equally and without exception against all agents representing foreign principals, including persons operating within domestic political organizations on behalf of foreign governments or foreign political parties; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Libertarian National Committee calls for legislation requiring full public disclosure of all foreign-government or foreign-principal funding to U.S. political campaigns, PACs, 501(c)(4) organizations, think tanks, congressional junkets, and influence operations, regardless of current FARA registration status; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Libertarian National Committee opposes all entangling alliances, mutual-defense commitments, undeclared security guarantees, forward war commitments, and open-ended obligations that risk dragging the American people into war with Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, or any other foreign power; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Libertarian National Committee calls for the restoration of Congress's exclusive constitutional authority to declare war, and rejects all unilateral or open-ended military action undertaken without clear congressional authorization; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Libertarian National Committee rejects the doctrine that America must serve as arsenal, paymaster, diplomatic shield, or military guarantor for the world, and instead reaffirms a foreign policy of peace, commerce, non-intervention, and strict political independence; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Chair is directed to publish this resolution upon adoption.

Sponsors: Bost, Vinson, Chadderdon, Nekhaila

Vote: 9-6-0

Yes: 9 votes (Bost, Chadderdon, Dassing, Ford, Knebel, Thon, Vinson, Watkins, Nekhaila)

No: 6 votes (Bohler, Robson, McMahon, Coffell, Redpath, Thompson)

Abstain: 0 votes (N/A)

Not Voted: 2 (Darr, McGee)

Threshold: 3/4

Notes:

Alt Thon vote counted per Region 1 agreement

Bost moved Resolution on behalf of Thon

Vote Tracker:  https://tinyurl.com/LNC20260412-01

Evan McMahon Secretary Libertarian National Committee evan.m...@lp.org ‪(317) 455-6986 lp.org

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From: Austin Martin <austin...@lp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2026 1:00:08 AM (UTC+00:00) Monrovia, Reykjavik
To: Evan McMahon <evan.m...@lp.org>; Entire LNC <entir...@lp.org>
Cc: lnc-public_forward <lnc-publi...@lp.org>
Subject: Re: Email Ballot Results - Opposing Foreign Influence

Say it. 

Join the fight and support the removal of unregistered foreign agents from the LP by donating at the link below:

Lp.org/martindonor 

Ua mau ke ea o ka ʻāina i ka pono

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From: Evan McMahon <evan.m...@lp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2026 2:16:57 PM

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From: Keith Thompson <keith.t...@lp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2026 1:32:18 AM (UTC+00:00) Monrovia, Reykjavik
To: Austin Martin <austin...@lp.org>; Evan McMahon <evan.m...@lp.org>; Entire LNC <entir...@lp.org>

Cc: lnc-public_forward <lnc-publi...@lp.org>
Subject: Re: Email Ballot Results - Opposing Foreign Influence

Say what? That the motion fails? 

Keith Thompson

Region 3 South Rep

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From: Austin Martin <austin...@lp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2026 8:00 PM

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From: Austin Martin <austin...@lp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2026 1:39:28 AM (UTC+00:00) Monrovia, Reykjavik
To: Keith Thompson <keith.t...@lp.org>; Evan McMahon <evan.m...@lp.org>; Entire LNC <entir...@lp.org>

Cc: lnc-public_forward <lnc-publi...@lp.org>
Subject: Re: Email Ballot Results - Opposing Foreign Influence

Say it, Mr. Chair. 

Join the fight and support the removal of unregistered foreign agents from the LP by donating at the link below:

Lp.org/martindonor 

Ua mau ke ea o ka ʻāina i ka pono

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From: Keith Thompson <keith.t...@lp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2026 3:32:18 PM