American Freedom Party

Third Position American political party that promotes white nationalism

American Freedom Party

Chairperson| William Daniel Johnson
Founded| January 5, 2010; 14 years ago (2010-01-05)[1]
Headquarters| Westminster, California, United States
Ideology|

* White nationalism
* American nationalism
* Third position[citation needed]
* Paleoconservatism
* Anti-immigration

Political position| Far-right
Website
americanfreedomparty.us

* Politics of United States
* Political parties
* Elections

The American Freedom Party (formerly the American Third Position Party or A3P) is a white supremacist political party in the United States.[2][3][4][5][6] In November 2009, it filed papers to be on a ballot in California, and was launched in January 2010.[7] It was created after the collapse of the Golden State Party, a party founded by the racist skinhead group Freedom 14, after its leader was exposed as a two-time felon.[8]

## Leadership

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Logo of the American Third Position Party, the former name of the American Freedom Party

The party chairman is Los Angeles attorney William Daniel Johnson. Kevin B. MacDonald, a retired evolutionary psychology academic at California State University, Long Beach, has been named one of the eight party directors. MacDonald is also a principal contributor to The Occidental Quarterly[9][10] where his articles have claimed that traits that he attributes to Jews, including higher-than-average verbal intelligence and ethnocentricism, have eugenically and culturally evolved to enhance the ability of Jews to out-compete non-Jews for resources. MacDonald believes this advantage has been used by Jews to advance their group interests and end potential antisemitism by either deliberately or inadvertently undermining the power and self-confidence of the European-derived majorities in the Western world.[11][12][13]

A 2006 article in The Nation magazine by Max Blumenthal reported that MacDonald's 2004 Understanding Jewish Influence: A Study in Ethnic Activism (originally published in the Occidental Quarterly) "has turned MacDonald into a celebrity within white nationalist and neo-Nazi circles."[14] Writing in the Journal of Church and State, Professor George Michael wrote that MacDonald's work "has been well received by those in the racialist right, as it amounts to a theoretically sophisticated justification for anti-Semitism," and that on the far-right MacDonald "has attained a near reverential status and is generally considered beyond reproach".[15]

## Electoral activities

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William Daniel Johnson, Chairman of A3P, speaking at a Tea Party rally.

New Hampshire state party chairman Ryan Murdough ran in the Republican primary for a seat representing the Eighth District of the Grafton County delegation to the New Hampshire House of Representatives,[16] but he was refused support by the Republican party, which called him a "despicable racist".[17] He placed fifth out of five candidates in the Republican primary, garnering 296 votes (11%).[18] Murdough was the National Political Director for the National Socialist American Labor Party, a party which espouses Nazi beliefs.[19]

In November 2009, the American Third Position Party filed papers with the office of the Secretary of State of California, with the intention of becoming a fully ballot-accessible party by the time of the June 2010 California primary election.[20] However, the party failed to qualify and was not entered on the 2010 ballot in California[21] or any other state.[22] The party received enough signatures to get Harry Bertram on the ballot for the 2011 West Virginia gubernatorial special election.[23] Bertram's campaign ran a television ad emphasizing his desire to advance the interests of white Americans. Bertram was soundly defeated in the election, coming in last place out of 5 candidates on the ballot and netting only 1,111 votes; less than 0.4 percent of the total.[24]

### 2012 presidential election

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In January 2012, the American Third Position Party announced Merlin Miller as its presidential nominee for the 2012 presidential election. Virginia Abernethy was announced as his running mate.[25] According to an AmericanFreedomUnion.com posting, they obtained ballot access in Colorado, New Jersey, and Tennessee.[26]

### 2016 presidential election

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Kenn Gividen was nominated by the party as its candidate for president and Bob Whitaker was nominated for vice president in March 2015.[27] Gividen resigned from the nomination on July 26, 2015, after holding the role for 4 months; Whitaker then stepped into the role as candidate for president.[28] Tom Bowie took Whitaker's place as the vice president candidate.[29] Whitaker, whose favored term "White Genocide" was blocked by the AFP leadership, gave up the nomination on April 7, 2016, in protest over the party's growing support for Donald Trump and the toning down of its use of language.[30]

### Electoral results

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Year | Office | Candidate | On the ballot as | Votes | Position

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2011 | Governor of West Virginia | Harry Bertram | American Third Position | 1,111 (0.37%)[31] | 5/5
2012 | West Virginia House of Delegates, District 51 | Harry Bertram | American Third Position | 1,110 (0.88%)[32] | 11/11
2012 | President of the United States | Merlin Miller & Virginia Abernethy | American Third Position | 2,703 (0.00%)[33] | 18/27

## History

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### Origins

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The party traces its roots to a California-based white power skinhead group that called itself "Freedom 14", a name partially derived from the Fourteen Words slogan created by neo-Nazi David Lane. In 2009, the members of Freedom 14 announced the creation of a new political party called the "Golden State Party" on Don Black's hate site Stormfront. When the Orange County Register revealed that Golden State Party spokesperson Tyler Cole had felony assault and weapons charges, the group abandoned the name and formed American 3P, before changing the name again to American Third Position. When Bill Johnson took over the group, the name was changed to the American Freedom Party.[34]

### 2012 hacking incident

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In early February 2012, members of the hacker group Anonymous released statements claiming to have hacked the website of the party and various forums and email accounts connected with the group, including that of Jamie Kelso, the website's operator.[3][35] The front page of the party's website was defaced with #OpBlitzkrieg (the designated name used in January 2012 for a series of Anonymous cyber-attacks on German neo-Nazi websites) and private information about the organization's members was released.[36]

## See also

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* National Justice Party

## References

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1. ^ "A3P Launch Marked by Tabletop Outreach". American Third Position. Archived from the original on March 14, 2010. Retrieved January 13, 2010.
2. ^ "White Supremacists Gather for Nationalist Solutions Conference". www.adl.org. ADL. Retrieved February 25, 2024.
3. ^ a b "Ron Paul campaign denies white supremacist ties alleged by Anonymous". Yahoo! News. February 3, 2012. Retrieved February 18, 2012.
4. ^ Larry Keller. "New White Supremacist Party has Mass Electoral Ambitions". Southern Poverty Law Center. Retrieved February 3, 2012.
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8. ^ Southern Poverty Law Center (Spring 2010). "Prof Has New Job Running Racist Political Party: Academic Anti-Semitism". Archived from the original on April 24, 2010. Retrieved April 28, 2010.
9. ^ "Controversial CSULB professor MacDonald is director of new political party". Presstelegram.com. Archived from the original on July 28, 2013. Retrieved January 30, 2016.
10. ^ Arellano, Gustavo (January 21, 2010). "Long Beach State Professor Kevin MacDonald Helps Mainstream a New White Supremacist Political Party". OC Weekly. Archived from the original on March 26, 2010. Retrieved January 30, 2016.
11. ^ MacDonald, Kevin. "Understanding Jewish Influence I: Background Traits For Jewish Activism" (PDF). Toqonline.com. Retrieved January 30, 2016.
12. ^ *Kevin MacDonald:Understanding Jewish Influence II: Zionism and the Internal Dynamics of Judaism. TOQonline.com. Retrieved on October 25, 2011.
13. ^ Kevin MacDonald:Understanding Jewish Influence III: Neoconservatism as a Jewish Movement. TOQonline.com. Retrieved on October 25, 2011.
14. ^ Blumenthal, Max (March 23, 2006). "Republicanizing the Race Card". The Nation. Archived from the original on August 19, 2015. "Occidental Quarterly ... contained Long Beach State University evolutionary psychology professor Kevin MacDonald's article 'Understanding Jewish Influence: A Study in Ethnic Activism', which contends that Jews have special psychological traits that allow them to out-compete white Gentiles for resources and power. The 2004 tract has turned MacDonald into a celebrity within white nationalist and neo-Nazi circles."
15. ^ George Michael. "Professor Kevin MacDonald's Critique of Judaism: Legitimate Scholarship or the Intelleetualization of Anti-Semitism?" (PDF). Kevinmacdonald.net. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 20, 2019. Retrieved January 30, 2016.
16. ^ Ray Duckler (July 11, 2010). "Candidate: Keep state's complexion white". Concord Monitor. Archived from the original on July 16, 2010. Retrieved July 17, 2010.
17. ^ "John DiStaso's Granite Status: State GOP rejects Ashland NH House candidate as 'despicable racist'". New Hampshire Union-Leader. July 7, 2010. Archived from the original on June 20, 2013.
18. ^ "REPUBLICAN : STATE REPRESENTATIVES : GRAFTON COUNTY" (PDF). Sos.nh.gov. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 4, 2016. Retrieved January 30, 2016.
19. ^ "The National Socialist American Labor Party". N.S.A.L.P. Archived from the original on January 8, 2011. Retrieved February 22, 2013.
20. ^ Office of the California Secretary of State, "County Clerk/Registrar of Voters (CC/ROV) Memorandum #09175," by Deirdre Avent (November 13, 2009 - retrieved on January 13, 2010).
21. ^ "Qualified Political Parties for the General Election". 2010. Archived from the original on September 15, 2010. Retrieved September 28, 2010.
22. ^ "American Third Position Web Page Most-Visited of Any U.S. Political Party". May 3, 2010. Retrieved January 29, 2016.
23. ^ "Sos.wv.gov". Archived from the original on July 21, 2011.
24. ^ "News from The Associated Press". Hosted.ap.org. October 5, 2011. Retrieved January 30, 2016.
25. ^ "American3rdposition.com". Archived from the original on January 11, 2012.
26. ^ "American Eagle Party Ready to Soar". AmericanFreedomUnion.com. Archived from the original on January 30, 2016. Retrieved January 29, 2016.
27. ^ Ziggler, Jed (March 23, 2015). "Kenn Gividen & Bob Whitaker to Run for President & Vice President for the American Freedom Party". Independent Political Report. Retrieved April 13, 2016.
28. ^ "Kenn Gividen Steps Down as American Freedom Party Presidential Nominee, Bob Whitaker to Take His Place at the Top of the Ticket", Independent Political Report. July 26, 2015.
29. ^ "Meet the New Wave of Extremists Gearing up for the 2016 Elections".
30. ^ "White Nationalist Support for Trump Falters with Resignation of American Freedom Party Presidential Candidate Bob Whitaker". Southern Poverty Law Center. April 6, 2016. Retrieved September 8, 2019.
31. ^ "WV SOS - Elections - Election Results - Online Data Services". Apps.sos.wv.gov. October 4, 2011. Retrieved January 30, 2016.
32. ^ West Virginia gubernatorial special election, 2011#cite note-25 West Virginia SOS Elections, accessed November 10, 2012.
33. ^ "2012 Presidential General Election Results" (PDF). Uselectionatlas.org. Retrieved January 30, 2016.
34. ^ Tanner, Chuck (June 15, 2018). "What is the American Freedom Party? ⋆ Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights". Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights. Retrieved February 25, 2024.
35. ^ Gianluca Mezzofiore (February 1, 2012). "Ron Paul, the American Third Position Party and Stormfront". International Business Times. Retrieved February 4, 2012.
36. ^ "'ANONYMOUS' hits White Supremacist sites". Intelwire. February 1, 2012. Retrieved February 4, 2012.

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