Louisiana’s new closed primaries begin next April. State officials are backing a change to dissolve the Independent Party in ...

Kennedy Jr. announced this week that he’ll appear on the 2024 ballot in California thanks to an assist from the formerly segregationist-supporting American Independent Party. The news means ...

The announcement comes after the American Independent Party of California officially nominated him for president over the weekend and filed the paperwork with the Office of the California ...

Placating the South was necessary because Alabama Governor George Wallace entered the election as a third party candidate for the American Independent Party, running on a platform of extreme ...

They believed that the federal government and the Republican Party had abandoned their values by supporting civil rights for Black Americans. In response to this, Alabama Governor George Wallace ran ...

In 1964, 1972, and 1976 he ran as a Democrat, failing three times to receive the party's nomination. In 1968, running as an American Independent, he was popular enough with voters to secure a ...

For years, some Louisianans who don't identify as Republican or Democrat signed up to vote as "Independent," in some cases thinking they were registering unaffiliated with a party. But in fact ...