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Beau Lindsey is the only anonymous presidential candidate running for president in the 2024 presidential election. He is from Tennessee. 

As of February 16, 2024, Beau Lindsey’s website did not contain information on this issue.

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Believes that corruption is the most pressing governmental issue, and that it can be solved by implementing direct democracy. 

Plans to establish direct democracy in all 50 states.

Said, "Direct Democracy... is the CORNERSTONE of my campaign and the reason I am running."

Said, "the current system consists of representatives getting elected on the dollars of corporations and mega donors and selling their message of lies to the people of this nation. In a direct democracy this would not occur."

- Believes that corruption is the most pressing governmental issue, and that it can be solved by implementing direct democracy. 
- Plans to establish direct democracy in all 50 states.
- Said, "Direct Democracy... is the CORNERSTONE of my campaign and the reason I am running."
- Said, "the current system consists of representatives getting elected on the dollars of corporations and mega donors and selling their message of lies to the people of this nation. In a direct democracy this would not occur."

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- Said, "In my campaign for President I have found that one of the most pressing issues for voters is corruption. While attempts to solve this corruption crisis in America have been tried before none will work as well as direct democracy..."
- Plans to establish direct democracy in all 50 states.
- Said, "Direct Democracy... is the CORNERSTONE of my campaign and the reason I am running."
- Said, "the current system consists of representatives getting elected on the dollars of corporations and mega donors and selling their message of lies to the people of this nation. In a direct democracy this would not occur."

Charles Ballay is from New Orleans, Louisiana. He attended public school, and went to medical school in Louisiana. 

Charles Ballay is an otolaryngologist who owns his own practice in Texas and Louisiana. 

This is Charles Ballay's first entry into politics. 

Plans to focus education on "essential skills" to prepare young people for new opportunities.

Supports a variety of educational options, including vocational training, and believes that many different educational paths can lead to success.

Wants to encourage international educational experiences to promote cultural understanding.

- Plans to focus education on "essential skills" to prepare young people for new opportunities.
- Supports a variety of educational options, including vocational training, and believes that many different educational paths can lead to success.
- Wants to encourage international educational experiences to promote cultural understanding.

Plans to reduce government regulation in health care, and to instead focus on the choice of the patient, and competition between health care providers.

Wants to reduce fraud in health care by promoting protections for whistleblowers and creating private fraud detection services.

Supports honest communication and transparency from companies about the price of health care.

Supports a government focus on longterm health of the American population by encouraging preventative health and wellness.

Plans to allow insurance purchases regardless of location within the US, and encourage states to acknowledge medical credentials from other states, in order to create competition between health care providers.

Wants to make the processes of the Federal Drug Administration more  efficient to increase the safety and accessibility of patients and promote innovation.

- Plans to reduce government regulation in health care, and to instead focus on the choice of the patient, and competition between health care providers.
- Wants to reduce fraud in health care by promoting protections for whistleblowers and creating private fraud detection services.
- Supports honest communication and transparency from companies about the price of health care.
- Supports a government focus on longterm health of the American population by encouraging preventative health and wellness.
- Plans to allow insurance purchases regardless of location within the US, and encourage states to acknowledge medical credentials from other states, in order to create competition between health care providers.
- Wants to make the processes of the Federal Drug Administration more  efficient to increase the safety and accessibility of patients and promote innovation.

Said, "the government's primary role is to safeguard individual liberties and ensure public safety."

Believes that states should regulate their own drug policy, and plans to promote federal decriminalization of drugs, citing the 'War on Drugs' as a failure.

Supports a consistent age requirement for all regulated substances across states.

Plans to address drug addiction as a health issue, promoting rehabilitation programs instead of incarceration.

- Said, "the government's primary role is to safeguard individual liberties and ensure public safety."
- Believes that states should regulate their own drug policy, and plans to promote federal decriminalization of drugs, citing the 'War on Drugs' as a failure.
- Supports a consistent age requirement for all regulated substances across states.
- Plans to address drug addiction as a health issue, promoting rehabilitation programs instead of incarceration.

Plans to "deal only with nations that embrace open and fair-trade practices."

Plans to implement a merit-based immigration system, and to make the current system more efficient by simplifying visa procedures, and offering a path to citizenship for immigrants who "contribute positively" to the United States.

- Plans to "deal only with nations that embrace open and fair-trade practices."
- Plans to implement a merit-based immigration system, and to make the current system more efficient by simplifying visa procedures, and offering a path to citizenship for immigrants who "contribute positively" to the United States.

Supports the continued exploration of space through partnerships with private companies and emphasizes global peace and cooperation in the realm of outer space.

- Supports the continued exploration of space through partnerships with private companies and emphasizes global peace and cooperation in the realm of outer space.

As of February 16, 2024, Charles Ballay’s website did not contain information on this issue.

Plans to decrease national debt by implementing a constitutional amendment that requires U.S. fiscal responsibility, and to decrease wasteful federal spending, which he believes will prevent irresponsible financial practices.

Said, "The government’s duty is to serve and protect its citizens, not to engage in social engineering."

Supports modernizing taxes in the United States, inspired by the examples of states like Texas and Florida, which do not have income taxes.

Plans to create tax limits, reduce government intervention, and ensure that American businesses are protected through equitable trade conditions, to encourage economic independence and growth.

Wants to encourage free-market capitalism by decreasing regulation and tariffs.

Plans to minimize bureaucracy in important services within federal administration, and to encourage local and state governments, as well as private companies, to be the dominant sources of public authority.

Plans to encourage private investment in infrastructure by offering tax incentives to businesses, and allow the market to communicate the infrastructure needs of the public.

- Plans to decrease national debt by implementing a constitutional amendment that requires U.S. fiscal responsibility, and to decrease wasteful federal spending, which he believes will prevent irresponsible financial practices.
- Said, "The government’s duty is to serve and protect its citizens, not to engage in social engineering."
- Supports modernizing taxes in the United States, inspired by the examples of states like Texas and Florida, which do not have income taxes.
- Plans to create tax limits, reduce government intervention, and ensure that American businesses are protected through equitable trade conditions, to encourage economic independence and growth.
- Wants to encourage free-market capitalism by decreasing regulation and tariffs.
- Plans to minimize bureaucracy in important services within federal administration, and to encourage local and state governments, as well as private companies, to be the dominant sources of public authority.
- Plans to encourage private investment in infrastructure by offering tax incentives to businesses, and allow the market to communicate the infrastructure needs of the public.

Supports implementing term limits at all levels of federal governance in an attempt to increase the presence of new perspectives in government.

Said, "Beyond the Democratic and Republican parties, voices like the Libertarian, No Labels, Green, Independent, and others deserve consideration. Inclusivity, not exclusivity, is critical to a unified nation."

- Supports implementing term limits at all levels of federal governance in an attempt to increase the presence of new perspectives in government.
- Said, "Beyond the Democratic and Republican parties, voices like the Libertarian, No Labels, Green, Independent, and others deserve consideration. Inclusivity, not exclusivity, is critical to a unified nation."

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Ballotpedia - Chase Oliver

The Guardian -  The ‘armed and gay’ Senate hopeful who helped force Georgia’s runoff

Chase was born in Nashville, Tennessee but currently lives in Georgia. He earned a bachelor's degree in aeronautical engineering and a master's degree in business administration from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and a master's degree and PhD degree in economics from The George Washington University. He is married to his wife, and they have 4 children.

Chase is a sales account executive for a financial services company and a human resources representative for a securities firm. He also has experience working in import shipping for a multinational liner service. 

Chase Oliver ran for the Unites States Senate in Georgia in 2022, and for the House of Representatives in Georgia's 5th district in 2020. 

Plans to abolish the Department of Education (DoE), return funds for the DoE to taxpayers.

Promises to end government provided student loans, make all student loans interest free, end future government-guaranteed loans, and permit individual bankruptcy to cancel student loan debt.

- Plans to abolish the Department of Education (DoE), return funds for the DoE to taxpayers.
- Promises to end government provided student loans, make all student loans interest free, end future government-guaranteed loans, and permit individual bankruptcy to cancel student loan debt.

Opposes government intervention on the issue of abortion as well as government funding for abortion, labels himself as "pro-choice".

Plans to invest in employer regulated insurance models like the "Direct Primary Care model", believing that government overregulation increases health care costs.

Plans to reform the health care drug market process to reduce high drug prices with free markets.

- Opposes government intervention on the issue of abortion as well as government funding for abortion, labels himself as "pro-choice".
- Plans to invest in employer regulated insurance models like the "Direct Primary Care model", believing that government overregulation increases health care costs.
- Plans to reform the health care drug market process to reduce high drug prices with free markets.

Plans to reform the criminal justice system by ending qualified immunity for federal law enforcement, ending mandatory minimum sentencing requirements, and ending the prosecution of "victimless crimes".

Promises to decriminalize cannabis, remove federal banking regulations on the cannabis industry, and issue presidential pardons to people convicted for non-violent drug offenses.

Said, "It’s time to end more than two generations of regressive, harmful, and unproductive drug policy and move America into a new chapter."

Opposes the death penalty, believes that it does not discourage crime, and may result in the death of innocent people.

Opposes gun restrictions, and plans to repeal existing restrictions.

Opposes warrantless wiretaps, the Patriot Act, and perceived overreaches of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. 

Promises to protect individual privacy and civil liberties by pardoning people who have exposed illegal government overreach and violation of privacy.

- Plans to reform the criminal justice system by ending qualified immunity for federal law enforcement, ending mandatory minimum sentencing requirements, and ending the prosecution of "victimless crimes".
- Promises to decriminalize cannabis, remove federal banking regulations on the cannabis industry, and issue presidential pardons to people convicted for non-violent drug offenses.
- Said, "It’s time to end more than two generations of regressive, harmful, and unproductive drug policy and move America into a new chapter."
- Opposes the death penalty, believes that it does not discourage crime, and may result in the death of innocent people.
- Opposes gun restrictions, and plans to repeal existing restrictions.
- Opposes warrantless wiretaps, the Patriot Act, and perceived overreaches of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. 
- Promises to protect individual privacy and civil liberties by pardoning people who have exposed illegal government overreach and violation of privacy.

Said, "There are few better examples of “bad government” than the overly complex current laws and regulations involving immigration. The President needs to take the lead and work with Congress to radically simplify our immigration system... Immigrants built this country and they can help keep it growing and prospering..."

Opposes drone strikes and frequent intervention of the United States into international conflicts, and instead believes that international peace is created by free trade and free markets.

Said, "It’s time we focus our foreign policy on Peace... Our nation has long had the moniker ‘leader of the free world.’  It is time we earn that distinction by insisting that Peace is the way forward..."

Plans to neutralize the loss of interest revenue from student loans by cutting costs in the Department of Defense, closing military bases overseas, and withdrawing troops abroad.

- Said, "There are few better examples of “bad government” than the overly complex current laws and regulations involving immigration. The President needs to take the lead and work with Congress to radically simplify our immigration system... Immigrants built this country and they can help keep it growing and prospering..."
- Opposes drone strikes and frequent intervention of the United States into international conflicts, and instead believes that international peace is created by free trade and free markets.
- Said, "It’s time we focus our foreign policy on Peace... Our nation has long had the moniker ‘leader of the free world.’  It is time we earn that distinction by insisting that Peace is the way forward..."
- Plans to neutralize the loss of interest revenue from student loans by cutting costs in the Department of Defense, closing military bases overseas, and withdrawing troops abroad.

As of February 16, 2024, Chase Oliver’s website did not contain information on this issue.

Supports reforming tax policy, eliminating "unnecessary" taxes, and ending subsidies for large companies in order to aid small businesses.

Said, "People create jobs, not the Government. The best I can do as President is to keep the government out of your way."

Said, "I want a well-educated populace that can compete with the minds of any other nation, but not at the cost of our nation's financial and retirement security."

Plans to balance the government budget to reduce inflation.

- Supports reforming tax policy, eliminating "unnecessary" taxes, and ending subsidies for large companies in order to aid small businesses.
- Said, "People create jobs, not the Government. The best I can do as President is to keep the government out of your way."
- Said, "I want a well-educated populace that can compete with the minds of any other nation, but not at the cost of our nation's financial and retirement security."
- Plans to balance the government budget to reduce inflation.

Advocates ranked choice voting in elections.

- Advocates ranked choice voting in elections.

Chase Oliver

Chase Oliver was born in Nashville, Tennessee but currently lives in Georgia. 

Chase Oliver is a sales account executive for a financial services company and a human resources representative for a securities firm. He also has experience working in import shipping for a multinational liner service. 

- Plans to abolish the Department of Education (DoE), return funds for the DoE to tax payers.
- Promises to end government provided student loans, make all student loans interest free, end future government-guaranteed loans, and permit individual bankruptcy to cancel student loan debt.

- Said, "I don't care how you live, who you love, how you worship, how you express yourself, if you do it in peace, that’s your business, not the government's."

- Plans to abolish the Department of Education and return funds for the department to tax payers, and supports no government intervention on the issue of student loans.
- Promises to end government backing of student loans, make all student loans interest free, ending future government-guaranteed loans, and making student debt able to be discharged when declaring bankruptcy.

- Opposes government intervention on the issue of abortion as well as government funding for abortion, labels himself as "pro-choice".
- Plans to invest in employer regulated insurance models like the Direct Primary Care model, believing that government overregulation increases health care costs.
- Plans to reform the health care drug market process to reduce high drug prices with free markets.

- Plans to reform the criminal justice system by ending qualified immunity for federal law enforcement, ending mandatory minimum sentencing requirements, and ending the prosecution of "victimless crimes", to focus on the rights of individuals.
- Promises to decriminalize cannabis, remove federal banking regulations on the cannabis industry, and issue presidential pardons to people convicted for non-violent drug offenses.
- Said, "It’s time to end more than two generations of regressive, harmful, and unproductive drug policy and move America into a new chapter."
- Opposes the death penalty, believes that it does not discourage crime, and may result in the death of innocent people.
- Opposes gun restrictions, and plans to repeal existing restrictions.

- Said, "There are few better examples of “bad government” than the overly complex current laws and regulations involving immigration. The President needs to take the lead and work with Congress to radically simplify our immigration system... Immigrants built this country and they can help keep it growing and prospering..."
- Opposes drone strikes and frequent intervention of the United States into international conflicts, and instead plans to grow peace by advocating for free trade and free markets.
- Said, "It’s time we focus our foreign policy on Peace... Our nation has long had the moniker ‘leader of the free world.’  It is time we earn that distinction by insisting that Peace is the way forward..."
- Plans to neutralize the loss of interest revenue from student loans by cutting costs in the Department of Defense, closing military bases overseas, and withdrawing troops abroad.

- Supports reforming tax policy eliminating unnecessary taxes, and ending subsidies for large companies in order to aid small businesses.
- Said, "People create jobs, not the Government. The best I can do as President is to keep the government out of your way."
- Said, "I want a well-educated populace that can compete with the minds of any other nation, but not at the cost of our nation's financial and retirement security."
- Plans to balance the government budget to reduce inflation.

- Opposes warrantless wiretaps, the Patriot Act, and perceived overreaches of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, and promises to protect privacy and civil liberties by pardoning those who have exposed these practices.
- Said, "I don't care how you live, who you love, how you worship, how you express yourself, if you do it in peace, that’s your business, not the government's."

Backstage - David Dunlap

David Dunlap lives in Florida. He attended Robinson High School in Illinois. 

David Dunlap is a visual storyteller, twitch streamer, and musician. 

This is David Dunlap's first entry into politics. 

Supports "educational efforts to inform the public about libertarian principles."

- Supports "educational efforts to inform the public about libertarian principles."

As of February 16, 2024, David (TrimeTaveler) Dunlap’s website did not contain information on this issue.

Plans to promote ranked-choice voting at all levels of governance to promote electoral competition.

Opposes gerrymandering, and supports non-partisan redistricting processes.

Promises to "advocate for campaign finance reform to level the playing field for third-party candidates."

- Plans to promote ranked-choice voting at all levels of governance to promote electoral competition.
- Opposes gerrymandering, and supports non-partisan redistricting processes.
- Promises to "advocate for campaign finance reform to level the playing field for third-party candidates."

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Jacob received his law degree from the University of Texas School of Law, and his bachelors in economics from the Virginia Military Institute. He attended J.W. Nixon High School in Laredo, Texas. He currently lives in Broadlands, Virginia.


Jacob Hornberger is a lawyer, author, army veteran, and the founder of The Future of Freedom Foundation, with the mission of defending libertarian philosophy. He has served as the director of programs for the Foundation for Economic Education, and an adjunct professor of law and economics at the University of Dallas. He worked as a lawyer for Hornberger and Hornberger, worked on the board of trustees for the Laredo Legal Aid Society, and as an ACLU representative. 

Jacob Hornberger has campaigned two previous times for the Libertarian Party presidential nomination, in 2000 and 2020. He also ran for senate in Virginia in 2002. 

Plans to separate the education system from the government by amending the constitution to prevent states and federal government from creating or limiting education systems.

- Plans to separate the education system from the government by amending the constitution to prevent states and federal government from creating or limiting education systems.

Plans to repeal social security and medicare.

Promises to repeal all legislation around healthcare, and amend the constitution to prevent federal or state intervention into healthcare systems.

Said, "Leave healthcare to the free market... Leave businesses free to establish their own mask and vaccine requirements. Leave consumers free to make their own healthcare decisions."

- Plans to repeal social security and medicare.
- Promises to repeal all legislation around healthcare, and amend the constitution to prevent federal or state intervention into healthcare systems.
- Said, "Leave healthcare to the free market... Leave businesses free to establish their own mask and vaccine requirements. Leave consumers free to make their own healthcare decisions."

Said, "Adults have the fundamental, natural, God-given right to possess, ingest, and distribute whatever they want, no matter how harmful or dangerous it might be... It simply is no business of the government to control, monitor, or interfere with what a person puts into his mouth."

Believes that "drug use and drug addiction belong in the private sector with therapy and rehabilitation."

Said, "People have the natural, God-given right to keep and bear arms. They have a right of self-defense from violent criminals... They also have the right to resist the tyranny of their own government, should that need ever arises. A gun-free society inevitably becomes a submissive, compliant, obedient, and subservient society."

Said, "the CIA is, without any doubt whatsoever, the most evil and malevolent agency in the history of our country... there is no way that the American people can ever be free with this evil and malevolent agency as part of our governmental structure... the CIA needs to be permanently eradicated."

Plans to abolish the FBI, CIA, and NSA, believing that these organizations unjustly intervene in the lives of American people and the affairs of foreign countries.

Promises to create a foreign policy approach of non-intervention, and reduce hostile foreign relations, beginning with the closing of all foreign U.S. military bases, starting with Guantanamo Bay.

Supports issuing presidential pardons to Julian Assange and Edward Snowden, and all people who have committed a non-violent crime.

- Said, "Adults have the fundamental, natural, God-given right to possess, ingest, and distribute whatever they want, no matter how harmful or dangerous it might be... It simply is no business of the government to control, monitor, or interfere with what a person puts into his mouth."
- Supports legalizing all drugs.
- Believes that "drug use and drug addiction belong in the private sector with therapy and rehabilitation."
- Said, "People have the natural, God-given right to keep and bear arms. They have a right of self-defense from violent criminals... They also have the right to resist the tyranny of their own government, should that need ever arises. A gun-free society inevitably becomes a submissive, compliant, obedient, and subservient society."
- Said, "the CIA is, without any doubt whatsoever, the most evil and malevolent agency in the history of our country... there is no way that the American people can ever be free with this evil and malevolent agency as part of our governmental structure... the CIA needs to be permanently eradicated."
- Plans to abolish the FBI, CIA, and NSA, believing that these organizations unjustly intervene in the lives of American people and the affairs of foreign countries.
- Promises to create a foreign policy approach of non-intervention, and reduce hostile foreign relations, beginning with the closing of all foreign U.S. military bases, starting with Guantanamo Bay.
- Supports issuing presidential pardons to Julian Assange and Edward Snowden, and all people who have committed a non-violent crime.

Plans to create open borders, abolish border patrol and ICE, and remove all controls of the movement of people across American borders.

Said, "Genuine open borders is the only system that is consistent with the principles of liberty, morality, religion... free markets, and a limited-government republic."

Supports "the dismantling of the national-security state form of government and the restoration of our founding governmental system of a limited government republic and a small, basic military force."

Promises to withdraw from NATO (the North Atlantic Treaty Organization), and withdraw all foreign aid.

- Plans to create open borders, abolish border patrol and ICE, and remove all controls of the movement of people across American borders.
- Said, "Genuine open borders is the only system that is consistent with the principles of liberty, morality, religion... free markets, and a limited-government republic."
- Supports "the dismantling of the national-security state form of government and the restoration of our founding governmental system of a limited government republic and a small, basic military force."
- Promises to withdraw from NATO (the North Atlantic Treaty Organization), and withdraw all foreign aid.

Criticizes both the Environmental Protection Agency and the Interstate Highway System for using privately owned land, and the Highway System and automobile industry for increased pollution.

- Criticizes both the Environmental Protection Agency and the Interstate Highway System for using privately owned land, and the Highway System and automobile industry for increased pollution.

As of February 16, 2024, Jacob Hornberger’s website did not contain information on this issue.

Said that social security "has no legitimate place in a genuinely free society. It is an immoral and fraudulent Ponzi scheme that fleeces young people and destroys family values. It also produces a mindset of dependency on socialism among American seniors."

Promises to abolish the Federal Reserve and institute a free-market monetary system.

Said that "sanctions and embargoes are the utmost in moral depravity because, like terrorism, they target innocent people with the aim of achieving a political objective."

Plans to repeal all sanctions and embargoes.

Opposes trade negotiations, trade treaties, and supports adopting free trade.

Plans to abolish income tax and the IRS, to encourage individual economic productivity.

Plans to end all economic regulation through amending the constitution to prevent any "regulation of commerce."

- Said that social security "has no legitimate place in a genuinely free society. It is an immoral and fraudulent Ponzi scheme that fleeces young people and destroys family values. It also produces a mindset of dependency on socialism among American seniors."
- Promises to abolish the Federal Reserve and institute a free-market monetary system.
- Said that "sanctions and embargoes are the utmost in moral depravity because, like terrorism, they target innocent people with the aim of achieving a political objective."
- Plans to repeal all sanctions and embargoes.
- Opposes trade negotiations, trade treaties, and supports adopting free trade.
- Plans to abolish income tax and the IRS, to encourage individual economic productivity.
- Plans to end all economic regulation through amending the constitution to prevent any "regulation of commerce."

Jacob Hornberger

LibertyTwist - Joshua Smith Announces Candidacy for Libertarian Presidential Nomination

Joshua Smith is a navy veteran and trade worker. He served in Afghanistan. 

Joshua Smith has served as the National At-Large Representative of the Libertarian National Committee for 2 terms and the Vice Chair of The Libertarian National Committee.

Supports the abolition of the Department of Education, and letting schools compete for students.

Plans to repeal Title IV-D, removing unequal parenting time and child support payments in divorce settlement in order to incentivize family time.

- Supports the abolition of the Department of Education, and letting schools compete for students.
- Plans to repeal Title IV-D, removing unequal parenting time and child support payments in divorce settlement in order to incentivize family time.

Said, "I’ll push to launch a full investigation of everyone involved in the federal covid regime including the federal covid task force, “Safer”, Fauci, Pfizer, and many more. I will advocate for them to be prosecuted to the fullest extent for crimes against humanity."

Said, "“Gender affirming care” would consist of helping individuals who are in crisis come to terms with reality. Like all other unrealistic mental health crises... pushing children who cannot consent towards permanent life altering drugs and permanent mutilating surgeries... should be a crime. Doctors and therapists who use their positions to prescribe... these permanent life changing treatments should be prosecuted under federal law... for child sex trafficking."

Promises to appoint Supreme Court justices that will "protect life" beginning at conception.

- Said, "I’ll push to launch a full investigation of everyone involved in the federal covid regime including the federal covid task force, “Safer”, Fauci, Pfizer, and many more. I will advocate for them to be prosecuted to the fullest extent for crimes against humanity."
- Said, "“Gender affirming care” would consist of helping individuals who are in crisis come to terms with reality. Like all other unrealistic mental health crises... pushing children who cannot consent towards permanent life altering drugs and permanent mutilating surgeries... should be a crime. Doctors and therapists who use their positions to prescribe... these permanent life changing treatments should be prosecuted under federal law... for child sex trafficking."
- Promises to appoint Supreme Court justices that will "protect life" beginning at conception.

Promises to repeal the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) for gun ownership, repeal the Gun-Free Schools Act, nullify the pistol-brace ban, institute national conceal and carry laws, and abolish the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

Plans to pardon  Ross Ulbricht, Julian Assange, and Edward Snowden in order to create a precedent for protecting whistleblowers.

Said, "Day one, we will designate The Southern Poverty Law Center and the Anti Defamation League as hate groups. They have, for too long, used the power of mass formation psychosis to paint peaceful people as hateful, or extreme... they need to respect that people are allowed to have differing opinions without some perceived specialist outlet trying to ruin their lives."

- Promises to repeal the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) for gun ownership, repeal the Gun-Free Schools Act, nullify the pistol-brace ban, institute national conceal and carry laws, and abolish the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
- Plans to pardon  Ross Ulbricht, Julian Assange, and Edward Snowden in order to create a precedent for protecting whistleblowers.
- Said, "Day one, we will designate The Southern Poverty Law Center and the Anti Defamation League as hate groups. They have, for too long, used the power of mass formation psychosis to paint peaceful people as hateful, or extreme... they need to respect that people are allowed to have differing opinions without some perceived specialist outlet trying to ruin their lives."

Said, "We must close our international bases, bring our troops home, and stop the constant death and destruction foisted upon the world by an out of touch and downright evil foreign policy."

Opposes foreign aid to Ukraine and Israel.

- Said, "We must close our international bases, bring our troops home, and stop the constant death and destruction foisted upon the world by an out of touch and downright evil foreign policy."
- Opposes foreign aid to Ukraine and Israel.

As of February 16, 2024, Joshua Smith’s website did not contain information on this issue.

Plans to abolish the Federal Reserve to institute free trade.

Opposes all federal income tax, and plans to fund the government through crowd sourcing and user fees.

Said, "my administration would see to it that businesses sink or swim by their own perseverance and merits by removing bailouts. If you can’t make it as a business without using taxpayer money, then you don’t have what it takes to be in business."

- Plans to abolish the Federal Reserve to institute free trade.
- Opposes all federal income tax, and plans to fund the government through crowd sourcing and user fees.
- Said, "my administration would see to it that businesses sink or swim by their own perseverance and merits by removing bailouts. If you can’t make it as a business without using taxpayer money, then you don’t have what it takes to be in business."

Joshua Smith

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Lars Mapstead attended Cabrillo College in Santa Cruz, California. 

Lars Mapstead is a tech entrepreneur who has co-founded several companies, including FriendFinder Networks, Fupa Games, and Legendary Speed. He has also worked in marketing. 

This is Lars Mapstead's first entry into politics. 

As of February 16, 2024, Lars Mapstead’s website did not contain information on this issue.

Supports eliminating regulatory measures in healthcare unrelated to safety, including electronic health records certification requirements, and restrictions on telehealth, to increase access the number of healthcare workers.

Plans to withhold federal funding from hospitals that do not publicly post the costs of their care.

Promises to grant Medicaid and Medicare recipients the option to spend $5,000 of their federal health care dollars per year to increase choice in the health care.

Wants to create Healthcarecosts.gov to track government spending on health care, and identify excessive spending.

Plans to reduce government spending to lower the costs of Medicare and Medicaid.

- Supports eliminating regulatory measures in healthcare unrelated to safety, including electronic health records certification requirements, and restrictions on telehealth, to increase access the number of healthcare workers.
- Plans to withhold federal funding from hospitals that do not publicly post the costs of their care.
- Promises to grant Medicaid and Medicare recipients the option to spend $5,000 of their federal health care dollars per year to increase choice in the health care.
- Wants to create Healthcarecosts.gov to track government spending on health care, and identify excessive spending.
- Plans to reduce government spending to lower the costs of Medicare and Medicaid.

Promises to stop the Department of Justice's investigation, prosecution, and sentencing of drug crime, as well as decriminalize all drugs mentioned in Controlled Substances Act.

Plans to give pardons to people convicted of non-violent drug offenses, and erase that offense from their record through the REDEEM Act, and encourage states to do the same.

Supports "treating the drug war as a... medical problem, by directing the federal control budget of $41 billion to support state, local, and nonprofit SAMHSA block grants for rehabilitation, moving our nation’s priority from interdiction and punishment to rehabilitation and recovery."

Promises to pass the End Qualified Immunity Act to create accountability in the judiciary and law enforcement.

Plans to stop the Department of Justice and the Internal Revenue Service from continuing with Civil Asset Forfeiture cases, and return all property to initial owners, requiring the government to file criminal cases instead.

Promises to end the compiling of several criminal charges to make people plead guilty in court

Plans to impose large monetary costs on prosecutors that attempt to prosecute those proven innocent to ensure that only important cases get prosecuted, and to protect the rights of innocents.

- Promises to stop the Department of Justice's investigation, prosecution, and sentencing of drug crime, as well as decriminalize all drugs mentioned in Controlled Substances Act.
- Plans to give pardons to people convicted of non-violent drug offenses, and erase that offense from their record through the REDEEM Act, and encourage states to do the same.
- Supports "treating the drug war as a... medical problem, by directing the federal control budget of $41 billion to support state, local, and nonprofit SAMHSA block grants for rehabilitation, moving our nation’s priority from interdiction and punishment to rehabilitation and recovery."
- Promises to pass the End Qualified Immunity Act to create accountability in the judiciary and law enforcement.
- Plans to stop the Department of Justice and the Internal Revenue Service from continuing with Civil Asset Forfeiture cases, and return all property to initial owners, requiring the government to file criminal cases instead.
- Promises to end the compiling of several criminal charges to make people plead guilty in court
- Plans to impose large monetary costs on prosecutors that attempt to prosecute those proven innocent to ensure that only important cases get prosecuted, and to protect the rights of innocents.

Supports ending all authorizations of force by the United States military, requiring congress to declare war before using force abroad, and plans to repeal all currently active national emergencies.

- Supports ending all authorizations of force by the United States military, requiring congress to declare war before using force abroad, and plans to repeal all currently active national emergencies.

Believes that ending war overseas and making a one-time investment in energy development will cause an immense expansion of American energy innovation.

Promises to eliminate all regulations on energy production, and promote American citizens to invest in energy innovation.

- Believes that ending war overseas and making a one-time investment in energy development will cause an immense expansion of American energy innovation.
- Promises to eliminate all regulations on energy production, and promote American citizens to invest in energy innovation.

Plans to ban the government from issuing credit through the Federal Reserve, shut down the federal reserve loan program, and move regulatory and statistical activities from the Federal Reserve to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC).

Wants to decrease interest rates on Federal Reserve balances to 0% over the course of one year, to prevent Federal Reserve loans to banks.

Supports making Bitcoin a recognized form of legal tender to settle public or private debts, in order to avoid inflation.

Plans to abolish the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), and restructure the tax code so that there is no income tax, and instead a single national sales tax.

- Plans to ban the government from issuing credit through the Federal Reserve, shut down the federal reserve loan program, and move regulatory and statistical activities from the Federal Reserve to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC).
- Wants to decrease interest rates on Federal Reserve balances to 0% over the course of one year, to prevent Federal Reserve loans to banks.
- Supports making Bitcoin a recognized form of legal tender to settle public or private debts, in order to avoid inflation.
- Plans to abolish the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), and restructure the tax code so that there is no income tax, and instead a single national sales tax.
- Wants to expand Health Savings Accounts so that Americans can save tax-free money for healthcare.
- Plans to pass the REINS act, to make sure that the government cannot pass a regulation that impacts the economy by more than one-million dollars.

Lars Mapstead

- The President is the leader of the federal Executive Branch. They are primarily responsible for implementing and enforcing laws written by Congress.
- The President influences the national laws and regulations by proposing legislation and winning support from members of Congress. They can also veto legislation that was approved by Congress, which can only then be overridden by a two-thirds vote.
- The President can pass executive orders without the approval of Congress. Examples of historic executive orders include Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, which freed all slaves, and Franklin Roosevelt's establishment of internment camps during World War II.
- The President is the Commander in Chief of the US Armed Forces, which includes the Army, Marines, Navy, Air Force, Space Force, and Coast Guard. Only Congress can declare war, but the President plays a key role in deciding when and where to deploy troops, even when war hasn't been declared. The President also has sole nuclear launch authority.
- The President appoints and manages the Vice President and their Cabinet, which includes the heads of 15 executive departments that impact a wide range of issues, including agriculture, education, housing, and transportation.
- Outside of their official powers, the President can act as a leader to the American public, as seen in moments of crisis, like Franklin D. Roosevelt's fireside chats during the Great Depression. Additionally, their advocacy for certain policies or social issues can shape public opinion and create action, similar to how President John F. Kennedy galvanized the nation around the space race in the 1960s.

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