The Oliver/ter Maat campaign supports inclusive debates.

Mike and I are not "presumptive nominees." We are the Libertarian ticket and should be on the debate stage.

Open and inclusive discourse is what America wants to see. CNN should think about actually airing a debate viewers want.

[color="transparent"]ATLANTA - The liberty movement lost one of its foundational voices when David Boaz passed, one that clearly observed how past actions stomped through the present.[/color]

[color="#ffffff"]“History is not a bunch of new things. It's one damn thing, over and over,” [/color][color="#ffffff"]Boaz said in a Reason interview this past March. [/color]

[color="transparent"]Chase Oliver remembers Boaz, longtime Vice President of the Cato Institute, as a communicator who broke down Libertarianism in ways that people could readily understand.“David Boaz was - and always will be - someone who I think of when I list the giants of the movement for human liberty,” says Oliver, the Libertarian Party candidate for president. “His legacy and memory is one I will carry with me always.” [/color]

[color="transparent"]Boaz died Friday, June 7 after a long battle with cancer. He was 70.[/color]

[color="transparent"]Boaz had been editor of [/color][color="transparent"]New Guard[/color][color="transparent"] and on the Council for a Competitive Economy when he was tapped in 1981 to join the Cato Institute, which had been founded 4 years before. He spent the rest of his career at Cato.[/color]

[color="transparent"]“So the idea was to set up a think tank that was neither liberal or conservative, and put a libertarian ideas on the policy map as well as the pure theory map,” Boaz said in a Reason interview called Libertarianism: The Intellectual Core of Liberalism in March.[/color]

[color="transparent"]He identified three big influences throughout the ‘70s: Vietnam, Watergate, and stagflation. He became an authority on domestic issues - what he called “t[/color][color="#ffffff"]he same issues over and over.”[/color]

[color="#ffffff"]“For Cato, the original agenda was: ‘Well, we're going to take on Social Security, the linchpin of the welfare state. We're going to take on school choice, which underlies so many problems. And we're going to take on the foreign interventionist state,’ ” [/color][color="#ffffff"]Boaz said in the Reason interview. [/color]

[color="#ffffff"]His books include [/color][color="#ffffff"]The Libertarian Mind [/color][color="#ffffff"](previously called [/color][color="#ffffff"]Libertarianism: A Primer), Politics of Freedom, [/color][color="#ffffff"]and [/color][color="#ffffff"]Cato Handbook for Policy Makers.[/color]

[color="transparent"]Boaz will continue to inspire Oliver in his candidacy and activism.[/color]

[color="transparent"]“David Boaz understood how to positively sell our brand to the average American who needs to hear about the power of free markets, voluntary exchange,” Oliver says, “and the power that comes from allowing others to live in peace alongside you, even if they enjoy freedom differently than you or I would choose.”[/color]

[color="transparent"]ATLANTA - Chase Oliver describes Joe Biden’s sudden interest in immigration policy as politics over substance, and his asylum restrictions go in the wrong direction.[/color]

[color="transparent"]Monday’s announcement reestablishes inhumane restrictions that echo Trump’s policies, including Biden’s unmanageable limits on asylum. The new policy offers exceptions for unaccompanied minors, victims of trafficking, and those facing medical and safety threats. The American Civil Liberties Union immediately promised a lawsuit, as the policy walks back U.S. legal obligations to asylum seekers. [/color]

[color="transparent"]Oliver agrees that Biden’s politically motivated policies cruelly target people whose crime is wanting a better life - just like the 12 million people who came through Ellis Island, including some of his ancestors.[/color]

[color="transparent"]Oliver became the first Libertarian presidential candidate to campaign in all 50 states, and is the only candidate in the 2024 field to do so. [/color]

[color="transparent"]Learn more at [/color][color="transparent"]www.votechaseoliver.com[/color]

One of the best interviews I have seen in years by a #Libertarian please share #chaseoliver

Chase Oliver sat down with Scripps News to talk about his vision for the country. (Scripps News)
Source:%20klax-tv.com search.app/vX862Qc7hPY5om6s8

https://nitter.privacydev.net/ChaseForLiberty/status/1798009342832316757#m

"If I don't win, we're still building up a mechanism that can grow a foundation for the future."

@, Libertarian presidential nominee, joins @_brittanylewis on "Forbes Newsroom" to discuss the 2024 presidential race.

https://nitter.privacydev.net/ChaseForLiberty/status/1797726630531731629#m

Within less than a week, this clip has had 23.7 million views, been bookmarked by 283K people or more by the time I share this post, and the audios been even used over 1,000 times.

I knew when I answered honestly about the prospect of Trump vs Biden that people would agree with my assessment. I wasn’t prepared for how quickly that message would spread across tiktok to millions of potential voters, most of which are Gen Z. I’m going to keep being honest, and I think young voters will continue to respond to that authenticity.

https://nitter.privacydev.net/ChaseForLiberty/status/1797662670725828774#m

More press #libertarian

Meet Chase Oliver, the Libertarian presidential nominee giving voters an alternative option in a Trump v Biden rematch.
Source:%20BBC%20News search.app/eBFF2BBb4k8yHK5m6

Justice should apply to all, not just whiny former presidents. Trump’s trial exposes systemic flaws, but our focus must extend to those truly marginalized by the system. As a Libertarian nominee, my pledge stands firm: equality in justice, and dismantling mandatory minimum laws.

votechaseoliver.com/blog/unf…

"Gun to your head, who would you vote for? Joe Biden or Donald Trump?"

Chase: "The gun would go off."

https://nitter.privacydev.net/ChaseForLiberty/status/1795843706958053637#m

This is why @ won. He didn't make his campaign about himself. He made it about the party and tearing down the authoritarian regime.

It makes sense why they're coordinating attacks on him. He has a vision to grow the party and reach people who have never heard of the Libertarian Party before so we can experience real liberty in our lifetimes.

This is from December 9, 2023, during the LP Travis County Christmas party in Texas.

* He did a question-and-answer segment, but I didn't record it. Hopefully, Chase's team will still have his full copy to share.

We send our congratulations and well-wishes to @ on becoming the Libertarian nominee for President of the United States.

Let the next year see liberty advanced north and south of the 49th parallel.

#cdnpoli

You have an alternative to the tired duopoly candidates for President this November.

Libertarian Party nominee Chase Oliver is anti-war, pro-choice, pro-drug law reform, and a protector of individual liberty and rights. @ votechaseoliver.com

[color="transparent"]ATLANTA - The right to self-defense is inalienable (that pesky “life, liberty, etc.” part of the Declaration of Independence), but the methods allowed by law have been hotly debated for nearly a century, dating back to the National Firearms Act of 1934, the first gun legislation passed in America. For Chase Oliver, gun control is about much more than the boilerplate talking points addressed by talking heads like clockwork every election cycle and further exploited in syndication without pause following every gun-related tragedy. Oliver, a Libertarian candidate for President who has recently topped the field in 5 polls and participated in the Free and Equal debate with other candidates stonewalled by Democrats and Republicans, is an unrelenting, unambiguous supporter of the 2nd Amendment. [/color]

[color="transparent"]It’s a running joke that if Democrats really want gun control, they should arm every minority in America, and Republicans would race to ban firearms faster than the most ardent progressive. But we don’t need jokes to see this in practice; it’s already happened. In 1967, Ronald Reagan (yes, THAT Ronald Reagan), at that time the Governor of California, signed into law the Mulford Act, banning permitless carry of firearms in public as a response to the Black Panthers in Oakland, who armed themselves to defend their communities, predominantly from race-based harassment by police.[/color]

[color="transparent"]Since that time, the prevalence of mass homicides and school shootings has only ramped up the furor under which this conversation about self-defense is held. Every time a tragedy occurs, proponents of gun control attempt to whack-a-mole the unique circumstances surrounding it into ever-expansive, one-size-fits-all regulations. They play on the pain and fear while it’s all still fresh to push the line of infringement further and further upon law-abiding citizens, but the regulations in place don’t address the root cause, only the symptoms. [/color]

[color="transparent"]Recently, Maine rolled out a new set of firearm regulations in the wake of the Lewiston shooting, even though it wasn’t for a lack of laws that the shooting happened in the first place, but rather a failure to follow the laws already on the books. Passing new laws makes us feel safe because any action looks like progress. The sad truth is that the people of Lewiston are no safer today than they were 6 months ago because all the regulations in the world can’t stop an otherwise law-abiding citizen undergoing a mental health crisis from wreaking havoc. [/color]

[color="transparent"]The adage is apt that “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” We have a mental health crisis in this country masquerading as a gun crisis. We have a broken economy that is propped up and protected by the Federal Government. We have a broken healthcare system that neither the government nor the individual citizen can afford. To top it all off, we have a broken media catering to clicks, trafficking in politically stoked fear because it sells. The mental health crisis we experience in this nation isn’t a bug in the system, it’s a feature. People walk through stores openly wearing firearms not because of lax gun regulations, but rather because they’ve been convinced that they need to do so to stay safe. [/color]

[color="transparent"]Chase Oliver wants to remove the debate over self-defense from the equation. If elected president, he has promised to roll back existing gun restrictions and nominate Justices committed to protecting the inalienable right to self-defense. Furthermore, Oliver is also dedicated to treating the disease at the core of our national mental health crisis with a full platform of policies designed to restore the American dream of liberty, prosperity, and opportunity within a more perfect union. [/color]

[color="transparent"]As the only libertarian candidate to campaign in all 50 states, Oliver has shattered expectations and ignited a movement for change. Oliver brings a fresh perspective and unwavering commitment to his quest for a freer, more prosperous America. [/color]

[color="transparent"]Atlanta - Presidential candidate Chase Oliver supports Defend the Guard initiatives that reaffirm that Congress - not the president - has the sole power to declare war.[/color]

[color="transparent"]Three Army Reserve troops from Fort Moore, Ga. died, and 41 National Guard troops were injured when an Iranian-backed Shia group launched the lethal attack Jan. 28 on Tower 22, a U.S. military post in Rukban, Jordan. The injured troops came from Guard units from Arizona, California, Kentucky, and New York.[/color]

[color="transparent"]These deaths and injuries bring added cruelty - these deployments would not have happened if Defend the Guard had been in place.[/color]

[color="transparent"]Defend the Guard initiatives seek to enforce existing constitutional provisions requiring a formal declaration of war by Congress before National Guard troops are deployed into active combat zones overseas. These initiatives would restore state authority over their Guard troops, ensuring that the decision to send troops into harm's way is made with the utmost deliberation and accountability - through a declaration of war.[/color]

[color="transparent"]As of today 26 states, including Oliver’s home state of Georgia, have introduced Defend the Guard legislation.[/color]

[color="transparent"]According to a press release from the National Guard Bureau, more than 27,000 National Guard troops serve “in support of overseas operations, including 8,300 in the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility.” [/color]

[color="transparent"]Oliver got his start in politics opposing the war under former President George W. Bush, and he describes himself as anti-war to the core. [/color]

[color="transparent"]ATLANTA - Chase Oliver is the first Libertarian presidential candidate to visit all 50 states ahead of the nomination. [/color]

[color="transparent"]Chase Oliver, the unstoppable force behind libertarian principles, has achieved an unprecedented milestone: Campaigning in all 50 states, with Hawaii as the electrifying finale of the primary season. Oliver's relentless dedication to spreading the message of individual freedom and limited government has captivated audiences nationwide, setting him apart as a true agent of change.[/color]

[color="transparent"]From bustling metropolises to remote communities, Oliver has traveled the country, igniting a firestorm of enthusiasm among voters hungry for a fresh perspective.[/color]

[color="transparent"]As the only libertarian candidate to campaign in all 50 states, Oliver has shattered expectations and ignited a movement for change. Oliver brings a fresh perspective and unwavering commitment to his quest for a freer, more prosperous America. [/color]

[color="transparent"]ATLANTA - In light of recent protests on college campuses nationwide over Gaza, Chase Oliver vehemently opposes any attempts to suppress free speech and peaceful assembly.[/color]

[color="transparent"]While acknowledging the sensitivity and complexity surrounding the Gaza issue, universities must uphold their role as hubs of open dialogue and intellectual discourse. Suppressing voices, regardless of their stance on a particular issue, erodes the very essence of higher education and the principles of free expression it champions.[/color]

[color="transparent"]The right to peaceful protest and discussions on contentious topics lies at the core of democracy. Progress, understanding, and solutions stem from the free exchange of ideas. Any efforts to silence dissent curtail individual expression while hindering the collective pursuit of knowledge and comprehension.[/color]

REFERENCE:

https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2024/04/24/university-of-southern-california-protests-pro-palestinian-digvid.cnn

[color="transparent"]ATLANTA - Culture and laws have improved lives for LGBTQ+ individuals in the past two decades, yet the memorial to slain activist Matthew Shepard reminds presidential candidate Chase Oliver that more work remains.[/color]

[color="transparent"]Oliver visited Laramie, Wyoming, on Saturday, March 23, to commemorate the life of Matthew Wayne Shepard, a student at the University of Wyoming. [/color]

[color="transparent"]On Oct. 7, 1998, two men abducted the 21-year-old openly gay man and drove him to a remote area outside of Laramie. The men tied him to a fence, beat him with the butt of a pistol, and left him in the night’s cold. A bicyclist found him 18 hours later. Shepard died Oct. 12 in a hospital in Fort Collins, Colorado.[/color]

[color="transparent"]"Celebrating accomplishments should not deter us from what remains to be done," he adds. [/color]

[color="transparent"]“The anti-individual mindset persists in our country. No matter which side of the aisle you stand on, there is a great “they” somewhere to oppose."[/color]

[color="transparent"]Libertarians will choose the party’s standard bearer at the Libertarian National Convention in Washington DC on Memorial Day weekend.[/color]

[color="transparent"]ATLANTA - After spending years in maritime logistics, Chase Oliver has witnessed firsthand the detrimental impact of the Jones Act. This legislation must come to an end as it harms everything it comes into contact with.[/color]

[color="transparent"]The Jones Act was enacted in 1920 to strengthen maritime shipping, to make the U.S. maritime fleet available to back up defensive ships in times of war. It restricts shipping between U.S. ports to ships that are built, flagged, crewed, and owned by Americans.[/color]

[color="transparent"]It has preposterous consequences that harm a surprising number of Americans:[/color]

[color="transparent"]NATURAL GAS: [/color][color="transparent"]The United States leads the world in natural gas production - more than No. 2 Russia and No. 3 Iran combined. And yet, the eastern United States and Puerto Rico get no U.S. liquified natural gas from U.S. ships, the cheapest way to ship it. [/color]

[color="transparent"]Why? [/color]

[color="transparent"]Dominican Republic, which is about 130 miles from Puerto Rico, gets 65 percent of its LNG from the United States because it is not bound by the Jones Act. Puerto Rico? None.[/color]

[color="transparent"]Beef: [/color][color="transparent"]Hawaii’s Parker Ranch is one of the largest and oldest cattle ranches in the country. Because of the Jones Act limitations, the ranch cannot directly ship its grass-fed cattle to the mainland. Instead, it ships many of its young cattle aboard aircraft to the mainland. [/color]

[color="transparent"]Yes, by air.[/color]

[color="transparent"]They’re shipped in livestock containers dubbed “cowtainers”, which cause problems with waste disposal in harbors, lead to lower-weight cattle upon delivery, and a higher mortality rate. [/color]

[color="transparent"]SHIPBUILDING: [/color][color="transparent"]Proponents of the Jones Act claim that requiring U.S.-built ships for merchant use has a defensive use. This falls on its face: Airliners and trucks that are made abroad fill our skies and highways. Why should watercraft be treated differently from aircraft or land vehicles? [/color]

[color="transparent"]Our shipbuilding costs have skyrocketed so much that even the spendthrift Department of Defense buys ships from outside sources. In a 2019 congressional hearing, the head of the U.S. Transportation Command said that new U.S. ships would cost 26 times more than the $26-60 million for used ships built in other countries.[/color]

[color="transparent"]To learn more about the Jones Act:[/color]

[color="transparent"]https://www.maritime.dot.gov/ports/domestic-shipping/domestic-shipping#:~:text=An%20often%2Dasked%20question%20is,defense.%E2%80%9D%20There%20are%20two%20types[/color]

[color="transparent"]https://www.cato.org/project-jones-act-reform[/color]

[color="transparent"]https://www.cato.org/blog/jones-acts-role-encouraging-puerto-ricos-use-russian-energy[/color]

[color="transparent"]https://www.grassrootinstitute.org/2021/01/jones-act-closed-loophole-that-could-help-hawaii/[/color]