The Comedic Side of Political Filings

This chapter explores the humorous side of forming a political party in the U.S., centered around the absurd attempt to create the American Fart Party. It delves into the bureaucratic challenges of filing with the FEC and shares amusing anecdotes of other prank candidacies that highlight the absurdity of the political landscape.

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The American Freedom Party and the American Fart party have a couple things in common - the acronym, for one thing. They've also both filed paperwork with the federal election commission claiming to be a national political party. One is a silly little joke about farts, the other is a group of white nationalists who don't know how to do paperwork.

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https://www.splcenter.org/resources/extremist-files/american-freedom-party/

https://www.splcenter.org/resources/extremist-files/identity-evropaamerican-identity-movement/

https://www.splcenter.org/resources/extremist-files/kyle-bristow/

https://idavox.com/index.php/2015/10/15/national-youth-front-forced-to-change-name-angelo-john-gage-is-out-as-chairman-the-new-guy-is-an-ex-con-with-a-hell-of-a-story/

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