August 2024
Like trying to get a drink of water from a fire hydrant
Hello Liberty Lovers of Riverside County!
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From the Chair
August marks the curtain beginning to close on summer. As we head into autumn, especially this year … wow there’s too much to talk about in one place.
How to describe the last six weeks? You’ve been firehosed just as badly as the rest of us, carried along with massive globs of information on and reaction to events that feel enormous. Trump got shot, a moment that produced some Pulitzer-worthy photos. Biden cashed out of the presidential race, in a way that bears more than a whiff of an actual coup, and for about three days there was real suspicion he had died and nobody knew how to announce it. CrowdStrike crashed computer systems worldwide. Astronauts are stranded on the space station and Boeing can’t seem to figure out how to get them home. Whistleblowers confirmed that army veteran and former congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard got put on a watchlist by the TSA, so she gets shadowed by Air Marshals every time she flies. The Olympics happened. It’s been a lot. We’ve felt it too here at the RCLP. Sometimes the times are just, you know, a lot.
This newsletter will be short as we all catch our breaths as best we can before plunging into the sprint to November.
Stay alert, my fellow libertarians or Riverside County. And check the reading and calendar below for some things you can go to that you can actually get your head around.
–Loren Dean
In the News
Well, when you put it THAT way …
Election 2024 Updates
Want to get involved with the Chase Oliver for President campaign (hint, yes you do)? Start here: https://votechaseoliver.com/get-involved/
After filling that out online, you should get an invite to a Slack server where volunteers and supporters are chatting and organizing. Now’s the time to get involved!
More Suggested Reading/Viewing/Listening This Month
RivCo county chair Loren Dean went on the Knuckleheads of Liberty podcast to chat about liberty and a few of the current events in the avalanche of current events that landed in July. Check it out here:
This wasn’t his only appearance lately. He spoke at the Unity Rally in July in Riverside. Watch his remarks here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UQ9OzyE2ulonl7eDbCufcw_KSXvdj26q/view?usp=sharing . And come to the next Rally this month! Check the calendar section for details.
https://news.lp.org/ is the website for the newly launched Libertarian Party news portal. What was once a periodic newsletter is now a 24/7 web presence. Check it out, subscribe there for updates, and check out how to contribute yourself!
Calendar Notes
As always, bookmark and regularly check our website for the most up-to-date event details: https://rclp.us
21 August 2024: Unity Rally. Congressional candidate David Serpa has been hosting these for several months now, and this might be the last one going into the final runup to the November election. Come do some coalitioning for freedom, and clap for Chairman Loren Dean, who is on the speaker list for the event!
Get tickets at www.makecaliforniagreatagain2024.com
18 September 2024: Free & Equal Debate. The Free & Equal Elections Foundation has held several presidential debates now, featuring the LP’s own Chase Oliver. The next one will be in California (in Hollywood, in fact)! Check our website for details.
21 September 2024: LPCA Executive Committee meeting. The state EC will be meeting in Riverside for their annual in-person meeting. Get it on your calendar, and check the website for details.
Voter Registration and Party Membership
If you vote, be sure your registration is Libertarian. Whether you vote or not, stay abreast of your registration details on the California Secretary of State page at this link: https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/cavoter
Being a registered Libertarian voter certainly allows you to call yourself a real libertarian. However, there is more you can do. You can join the national Libertarian Party as a “sustaining member" by signing the membership application statement and paying dues (currently a minimum of $25 per year) to the national organization. Note that while paying dues at the state level (California) makes you a local "central committee member," national membership is separate.
If you aren't a dues-paying member at all, you can join as a national member AND as a state/county member using a single online form:
Combined National/State/County Membership Form
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