Talk:Arizona Independent Party

Draft: Arizona Independent Party was merged with this draft.

Article creation

@Esolo5002: I've updated your draft and I think it's ready for creation. I'll be moving it to mainspace soon. Philosopher Spock (talk) 21:01, 7 December 2025 (UTC)

Sounds good. Thanks for working to improve it! Esolo5002 (talk) 21:17, 7 December 2025 (UTC)

Page moved. Article created. Philosopher Spock (talk) 15:33, 27 December 2025 (UTC)

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Article Name?

Shouldn't this article be called the Arizona No Labels Party? ~2026-30717-74 (talk) 14:44, 24 July 2026 (UTC)

Since the party is registered as the "No Labels Party" and appears on the ballot as such, should the article not be titled "No Labels Party"? Their lawsuit to keep the "Arizona Independent Party" name was unsuccessful and, beyond their own website, the party doesn't seem to be referred to by this name in outside sources. Stanloona2020 (talk) 19:53, 27 July 2026 (UTC)

To clarify, it wasn't their lawsuit; it was their critics' lawsuit which successfully reversed the name change. In any case, the judge's ruling has been appealed. If we move the page, should it be called "No Labels Party", "Arizona No Labels Party", or "No Labels Party of Arizona"? Perhaps we should wait for a final ruling from the courts, though I don't know how long that will take. Philosopher Spock (talk) 09:24, 6 August 2026 (UTC)

We should make the article name change now. The Appeal was dismissed and the status quo is that the Party is called "No Labels" and thus the article name should reflect as such ~2026-43487-84 (talk) 23:27, 6 August 2026 (UTC)

When was the appeal dismissed? Do you have a reference? The most recent one I could find is this. Philosopher Spock (talk) 23:58, 6 August 2026 (UTC)

There never was a lawsuit. That is why you can't find one. Nothing was ever filed. Paul Johns ~2026-49040-26 (talk) 19:58, 10 September 2026 (UTC)

There definitely was a lawsuit. Was there an appeal? Yes. https://storageccec.blob.core.usgovcloudapi.net/public/docs/1429-Updated-Meeting-Packet-4-23-26.pdf

But there is a distinction between appealing the decision of the Clean Elections Commission and a lawsuit appealing Judge Como's ruling. The contemporaneous record does not establish that the April 13 notice of appeal was an appeal from Judge Como's March 18/25 judgment. What it establishes is that a notice of appeal was filed in the broader matter, and the wording of the CCEC's own minutes is somewhat ambiguous.

The key evidence is the April 23 CCEC meeting transcript. The Commission's executive director said:

“The No Labels Party did -- Arizona Independent Party group did file a notice of appeal finally on April 13th…”

and then immediately said there was no effort to obtain a stay or accelerate the matter.

We need to identify exactly what the April 13 notice of appeal appealed. Until we see that document or the appellate docket, the CCEC's statement isn't sufficient to establish that Judge Como's judgment was appealed.

And there's another striking piece of evidence: Arizona's own 2025 Election Procedures Manual says that there were three separate lawsuits challenging Fontes's approval of the name change, including the CCEC case, the Democratic Party case, and the Republican National Committee case.

So I think the next step is very specific: find the April 13 notice of appeal itself and/or the Arizona Court of Appeals docket associated with it. That should tell us whether it was an appeal of Judge Como's judgment, an appeal concerning some earlier CCEC proceeding, or something else entirely.

But contemporary reporting after the ruling explicitly describing the party as reverting to No Labels. Arizona Mirror, for example, described Hugh Lytle as running with the No Labels Party, “formerly the Arizona Independent Party,” after the court ruled that the party had to revert to its former name. All recent articles regarding the primary refer to the party as No Labels. ~2026-49357-93 (talk) 17:39, 12 September 2026 (UTC)