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[[File:Sept 12, 2009 - Tea Party Tax Payer Protest, Washington DC.jpg|thumb|[[Tea Party movement]] protest in Washington, D.C., September 2009]]
2009 saw the rise of the [[Tea Party movement]], an American political movement known for advocating a reduction in the United States national debt and federal budget deficit by reducing government spending and taxes, which had a significant libertarian component<ref name="libertarian">{{cite web |url=http://www.cato.org/publications/policy-analysis/libertarian-roots-tea-party?mc_cid=6b9d637298&mc_eid=a1708a475b |title=Libertarian Roots of the Tea Party |last1=Kirby |first1=David |last2=Ekins |first2=Emily McClintock |publisher=[[Cato Institute]] |date=6 August 2012 |journal= |access-date=7 June 2017 |archive-date=4 December 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181204005725/https://www.cato.org/publications/policy-analysis/libertarian-roots-tea-party?mc_cid=6b9d637298&mc_eid=a1708a475b |url-status=live}}</ref> despite having contrasts with libertarian values and views in some areas such as [[free trade]], [[immigration]], [[nationalism]] and [[social issues]].<ref>{{cite book |title=Libertarianism What Everyone Needs to Know |last=Brennan |first=Jason |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |date=2012 |page=142 |quote=Is the Tea Party libertarian? Overall, the Tea Party movement is not libertarian, though it has many libertarian elements, and many libertarians are Tea Partiers. [...] They share the libertarian view that DC tends to be corrupt, and that Washington often promotes special interests at the expense of the common good. However, Tea Party members are predominantly populist, nationalist, social conservatives rather than libertarians. Polls indicate that most Tea Partiers believe government should have an active role in promoting traditional "family values" or conservative Judeo-Christian values. Many of them oppose free trade and open immigration. They tend to favor less government intervention in the domestic economy but more government intervention in international trade.}}</ref> A 2011 ''Reason''-Rupe poll found that among those who self-identified as Tea Party supporters, 41 percent leaned libertarian and 59 percent [[Social conservatism in the United States|socially conservative]].<ref>Ekins, Emily (26 September 2011). [http://reason.com/poll/2011/09/26/is-half-the-tea-part-libertart "Is Half the Tea Party Libertarian?"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120511064727/http://reason.com/poll/2011/09/26/is-half-the-tea-part-libertart |date=11 May 2012 }} ''[[Reason (magazine)|Reason]]''. 26 September 2011.</ref> Named after the [[Boston Tea Party]], it also
In 2012, anti-war and pro-[[drug liberalization]] presidential candidates such as Libertarian Republican Ron Paul and Libertarian Party candidate [[Gary Johnson]] raised millions of dollars and garnered millions of votes despite opposition to their obtaining ballot access by both Democrats and Republicans.<ref>Raimondo, Justin (6 November 2012). [http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2012/11/06/election-2012-ron-pauls-revenge/ "Election 2012: Ron Paul's Revenge!"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130112211817/http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2012/11/06/election-2012-ron-pauls-revenge/ |date=12 January 2013 }} [[Antiwar.com]]. Retrieved 7 November 2012.</ref> The [[2012 Libertarian National Convention]] saw Johnson and [[Jim Gray (jurist)|Jim Gray]] being nominated as the 2012 presidential ticket for the Libertarian Party, resulting in the most successful result for a third-party presidential candidacy since 2000 and the best in the Libertarian Party's history by vote number. Johnson received 1% of the popular vote, amounting to more than 1.2 million votes.<ref name="million">{{cite web|url=http://reason.com/blog/2012/11/07/gary-johnson-pulls-one-million-votes-one|title=Gary Johnson Pulls One Million Votes, One Percent|work=[[Reason (magazine)|Reason]]|date=7 November 2012|access-date=7 November 2012|author=Tuccile, J.D.|archive-date=9 November 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121109061252/http://reason.com/blog/2012/11/07/gary-johnson-pulls-one-million-votes-one|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2012/11/08/Libertarian-Party-buoyant-Greens-hopeful/UPI-46151352363400/|title=Libertarian Party buoyant; Greens hopeful|work=United Press International|access-date=9 November 2012|archive-date=18 February 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130218223524/http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2012/11/08/Libertarian-Party-buoyant-Greens-hopeful/UPI-46151352363400|url-status=live}}</ref> Johnson has expressed a desire to win at least 5 percent of the vote so that the Libertarian Party candidates could get equal [[Election threshold|ballot access]] and [[Presidential election campaign fund checkoff|federal funding]], thus subsequently ending the [[two-party system]].<ref>{{cite news|author=Karoun Demirjian|url=http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2012/oct/05/libertarian-candidate-makes-push-nevadas-ron-paul-/|title=Libertarian candidate makes push for Nevada's Ron Paul supporters|newspaper=Las Vegas Sun|date=5 October 2012|access-date=2 November 2012|archive-date=28 October 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121028015413/http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2012/oct/05/libertarian-candidate-makes-push-nevadas-ron-paul-/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Why 5% matters to Gary Johnson|url=http://ivn.us/2012/11/01/why-5-matters-to-gary-johnson/|author=Lucas Eaves|date=1 November 2012|publisher=Independent Voter Network|access-date=6 November 2012|archive-date=18 June 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130618034013/http://ivn.us/2012/11/01/why-5-matters-to-gary-johnson/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>Texas Politics Today, 2013–2014 Edition – p. 121, William Maxwell, Ernest Crain, Adolfo Santos – 2013.</ref> The [[2016 Libertarian National Convention]] saw Johnson and [[Bill Weld]] nominated as the 2016 presidential ticket and resulted in the most successful result for a third-party presidential candidacy since 1996 and the best in the Libertarian Party's history by vote number. Johnson received 3% of the popular vote, amounting to more than 4.3 million votes.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://transition.fec.gov/pubrec/fe2016/federalelections2016.pdf|title=Official 2016 Presidential General Election Results|publisher=Federal Election Commission|date=December 2017|access-date=30 December 2019|archive-date=27 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190427072618/https://transition.fec.gov/pubrec/fe2016/federalelections2016.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> Following the [[2022 Libertarian National Convention]], the [[Mises Caucus]], a [[Paleolibertarianism|paleolibertarian]] faction, became the dominant faction on the Libertarian National Committee.<ref>{{cite web |last=Doherty |first=Brian |date=2022-05-29 |title=Mises Caucus Takes Control of Libertarian Party |url=https://reason.com/2022/05/29/mises-caucus-takes-control-of-libertarian-party/ |access-date=2022-06-07 |website=[[Reason (magazine)|Reason]] |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Mas |first=Frederic |date=2022-06-01 |title=United States: the libertarian party veers to the right |url=https://www.contrepoints.org/2022/06/01/431241-etats-unis-le-parti-libertarien-vire-a-droite |access-date=2022-06-07 |website=[[Contrepoints]] |language=fr-FR}}</ref>
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