Caryn Ann Harlos

Caryn Ann Harlos
Secretary Libertarian National Committee
2018—Incumbent
Predecessor:	Alicia Mattson
Region 1 Representative Libertarian National Committee
2016—2018
Predecessor:	Norm Olsen
Successor:	Richard Longstreth
Secretary Libertarian Party of Colorado
2021—2022
Predecessor:	Mike Spalding
Successor:	Andy Buchkovich
Personal Details
Birth:	October 18, 1967 Bridgeport, Connecticut
Education:	Associates Degree in Legal Assisting
Occupation:	Paralegal, Author, Activist
Residence:	Castle Rock, Colorado
Party:	Libertarian Party
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Caryn Ann Harlos is the current Libertarian Party National Secretary (LNC terms 2018-2020, 2020-2022, and 2022-2024) and former Region 1 Representative on the Libertarian National Committee. She is also the two-term Chair of the Libertarian Party Preservation Committee, National Convention 2022 interim Platform Committee Chair, National Convention 2020 Platform Committee Chair, National Convention 2018 Platform Committee Chair, former Communications Director for the Libertarian Party of Colorado, and former Colorado State Coordinator with the Libertarian Party Radical Caucus. She is also a Life Member of the Libertarian Party. She is married to Wayne Harlos who is the former and current chair of the Libertarian Party of Colorado and the current four-term chair of the Libertarian Party of Douglas County which they helped revive in 2014 after over a decade of dormancy. Beginning in October 2021, Caryn Ann became a regular Saturday host on a radio program airing on KHNC 1360 in Weld County, Colorado.

Ideology

Caryn Ann is an ideological anarchist/voluntaryist who has become distinguished for presentations on the Dallas Accord and the Statement of Principles. She is also widely known as a pro-life Libertarian having authored "Abortion and the Libertarian Conscience." though has since changed her mind on the desirability of the deletion of the abortion plank, now believing that it was best to have remained as the plank said nothing about rights, but practically recognized this is an issue that is best dealt with by culture changes to value life rather than government force. She is also a pacifist, but this is for religious, rather than political, reasons. She is politically involved to bring about peaceful change and believes in a future where everyone can have what they want - those who voluntarily want a lot of government can have it, and those that don't, aren't forced to.

She has done multiple presentations about Libertarian anarchy:

• From Apathy to Anarchy: Why I am an Anarchist , What that means, and Why you should be one too
• Libertarian Party: Anarchists Welcome (The Dallas Accord)
• The Agony and the Ecstacy of Anarchy (and why don't you just move to Somalia!)

Organizational Positions

Libertarian Parties

Organization	Position	Term Start	Term End
National Libertarian Party	National Party Secretary	July 2018	Present
National Libertarian Party	National Social Media Team	August 2015	February 2018
National Libertarian Party	Region 1 Representative	May 2016	July 2018
National Libertarian Party	Gary Earl Johnson Campaign Advisory Committee	July 2016	November 2016
National Libertarian Party	Advertising and Publication Review Committee	May 2016	September 2021
National Libertarian Party	Advertising and Publication Review Committee Chair	June 2022	Present
National Libertarian Party	Historical Preservation Committee Chair	January 2017	Present
National Libertarian Party	Candidate Support Committee	August 2017	July 2018
National Libertarian Party	Bylaws and Rules Committee	2018	2018
National Libertarian Party	Platform Committee Chair	2018	2018
National Libertarian Party	Platform Committee Chair	2020	2020
National Libertarian Party	Platform Committee Chair	2022	2022
National Libertarian Party	Convention Voting Process Committee	2019	2021
National Libertarian Party	Policies and Procedures Committee	2020	2021
National Libertarian Party	Convention Oversight Committee	2022	Present
National Libertarian Party	Ballot Access Committee	2022	Present
National Libertarian Party	Bylaws Committee Chair	November 2022	Present
Libertarian Party of Colorado	Social Media Chair	January 2015	March 2018
Libertarian Party of Colorado	Historical Committee	2016	2016
Libertarian Party of Colorado	Standing Rules Committee	2016	2017
Libertarian Party of Colorado	Credentialing Committee Chair	2016	2017
Libertarian Party of Colorado	Bylaws Committee	2016	2017
Libertarian Party of Colorado	Colorado Convention 2017 Planning Committee- Party Business Subcommittee Chair	2016	2017
Libertarian Party of Colorado	Communications Director	January 2016	March 2018
Libertarian Party of Colorado	Platform Committee Chair	2015	2016
Libertarian Party of Colorado	Bylaws Committee	2015	2016
Libertarian Party of Colorado	Platform Committee Chair	2016	2017
Libertarian Party of Colorado	Bylaws Committee	2016	2017
Libertarian Party of Colorado	Policy Manual Committee	August 2017	March 2018
Libertarian Party of Colorado	Policies and Procedures Committee	2020	2021
Libertarian Party of Colorado	Platform Committee Chair	2017	2018
Libertarian Party of Colorado	Platform Committee Chair	2017	2018
Libertarian Party of Colorado	Platform Committee Chair	2018	2019
Libertarian Party of Colorado	Bylaws Committee	2017	2018
Libertarian Party of Colorado	Bylaws Committee	2018	2019
Libertarian Party of Colorado	Standing Rules Committee	2018	2018
Libertarian Party of Colorado	Bylaws Committee	2018	2019
Libertarian Party of Colorado	Convention Oversight Committee - Business Planning Chair - Emergency Ad Hoc Convention Committee Chair	2019	2019
Libertarian Party of Colorado	Newsletter Committee Member	2019	2020
Libertarian Party of Colorado	Platform Committee Chair	2021	2021
Libertarian Party of Colorado	Secretary	2021	2022
Libertarian Party of Colorado	Convention Oversight Committee Chair	2022
Libertarian Party of Colorado	Style Committee Member	2022	2022
Libertarian Party of Colorado	Historical Preservation Committee Member	2022
Libertarian Party of Colorado	Bylaws Committee Chair	2023
Libertarian Party of Colorado	Platform Committee Member	2023
Libertarian Party of Colorado	Judicial Committee Chair	2025
Libertarian Party of Douglas County (Development Group)	Bylaws Committee- Chair	2016	2016
Libertarian Party of Douglas County	Libertarian Party of Colorado Constitution and Bylaws Committee- Douglas County Representative	2017	2018
Libertarian Party of Douglas County	Libertarian Party of Colorado Constitution and Bylaws Committee- Douglas County Representative	2019	2020
Libertarian Party of Douglas County	Communications Director	2019	2020
Libertarian Party of Douglas County	Secretary	2020	Present
Libertarian Party of Douglas County	Libertarian Party of Colorado Platform Committee	2021	2021
Libertarian Party of California	Member	2019	2020
Libertarian Party of Ventura County	Member	2019	2020
Libertarian Party of Pennsylvania	Member	2019	2022

Party Caucuses

Caucus	Position	Term Start	Term End
Libertarian Party Radical Caucus	Convention Committee	October 2017	2018
Libertarian Party Radical Caucus	Bylaws Committee	October 2017	2018
Libertarian Party Radical Caucus	Platform Committee	October 2017	2018
Libertarian Party Radical Caucus	Branding Committee	October 2016	2018
Libertarian Party Radical Caucus	Colorado State Coordinator	April 2016	August 2017
Libertarian Party Radical Caucus	Platform Committee- Chair	October 2016	May 2017
Libertarian Party Radical Caucus	Bylaws Committee	2016	2016
Libertarian Party Radical Caucus	Platform Committee	October 2015	March 2016
Libertarian Party Radical Caucus	Platform Committee	September 2017	2018
Libertarian Party Radical Caucus	Member	2015	2022
Libertarian Party Mises Caucus	Member	November 2021	Present

Public Office Candidacy

Election Year	Position
2020	Colorado State House District 45
2022	Castle Rock Colorado Town Council, District 5

Other Organizations

Organization	Position	Term
Colorado RCV	Policy Committee member	2020-present
Colorado Association of Parliamentarians	Member	2019-present
National Association of Parliamentarians	Member	2019-present
Colorado Beta Gaveliers	Member	2020-present
Colorado Beta Gaveliers	Member	2020

Party and Public Office Positions-Related Gallery

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  Caryn Ann at 2016 National Convention, photo by Matt Welch

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  2018 Libertarian Party of Colorado

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  Pledge to support term limits

"Ballot Selfie" Lawsuit

On local TV news coverage of "ballot selfie" lawsuit

In 2016, Caryn Ann and several other defendants sued the Colorado Secretary of State, State Attorney, and Denver Attorney General over a Colorado statute forbidding the disclosure of the contents of one's own ballot. This came in the wake of multiple similar suits, including a successful overturning of a similar law in New Hampshire. View a copy of the Complaint and the Order for Injunctive Relief as well as a copy of the Colorado statute that was overturned.

Close the Back Door

At the 2018 national convention in New Orleans, Caryn Ann successfully organized an initiative to protect the Statement of Principles.

Whistleblower Activities

Threats, Soft Sexism, Wokeism

• The LP Needs to Check Itself Before it Wrecks Itself
• The Libertarian Party Needs to Hear a Who

The National Party's Tepid Response to the COVID Regime

Caryn Ann was stridently vocal about what she and others saw to be a tepid-at-best response of the national Party to the depredations on human rights in response to COVID. When even the tame suggestion of forming an advisory committee was shot down, she said that if the national Party can't respond to this issue, it might as well disband as useless.

New Hampshire Coup Attempt

Caryn Ann was prominent in bringing the issues in the Attempted Coup June 2021 of the Libertarian Party of New Hampshire to light to general Party membership after which she was the subject of several attempts by other LNC members to remove her from the LNC which she considers to be retaliation against a whistleblower - particularly considering her comments to the LNC after meeting adjournment condemning their inaction. During that time, she received more messages of support from Party members since the time that the "Contact the LNC" form was put on the website in 2018. This chain of events led to her receiving a veritable's hero's welcome at Porcfest and an invitation to a speaking spot on bold Libertarian messaging.

Delaware Coup

And like with New Hampshire, she exposed that the LNC was utterly incapable of handling this when presented, see Libertarian Party of Delaware Leadership Controversy 2021

Massachusetts Purge

See Libertarian Association of Massachusetts Leadership Controversy 2022

2021 Suspension From the Libertarian National Committee (Later Determined to be Null and Void)

See: In re: The Suspension of Caryn Ann Harlos - LNC Secretary-in-Exile

At the National Convention 2022, she was re-elected with over 70% of the vote and the delegates ruled that her prior removal was null and void due to the denial of basic due process rights to an officer and therefore a continuing breach of the bylaws and that she never ceased to be LNC Secretary.

2024 Attempted (outcome undetermined) From the Libertarian National Committee

Once Harlos departed from the Mises Caucus (according to her account), and opposed their support including allegedly by the Party Chair, retaliatory events unfolded. Harlos' position is to do always do what she feels is right despite costs of whom she though were friends and describes her time in the Caucus as cult-like (leadership, not rank and file) which the Caucus disputes strongly. She describes what was sold as single issue coalitions as a wholesale selling out of the Party to Republican interests.

Featured Guest Convention Appearances

Caryn Ann delivered a historical presentation and/or keynotes on the Statement of Principles and the Dallas Accord at many of these conventions. She has also participated in panel discussions and spoke as national Party membership recruiter.

Affiliate	Dates	Video
Arizona Libertarian Party	January 2017	None
Montana Libertarian Party	March 2017	None
Libertarian Party of Colorado	March 2017	None
Libertarian Party of New Mexico	April 2017	None
Libertarian Party of Washington	June 2017	Link
Libertarian Party of Oregon	June 2017	None
Arizona Libertarian Party	January 2018	None
Libertarian Party of Washington	February 2018	None
Libertarian Party of California	April 2018	None
Libertarian Party of Louisiana	April 2018	None
Libertarian Party of New Hampshire	April 2018	Link
Libertarian Party of Oklahoma	April 2018	None
Libertarian Party of Utah	April 2018	None
Libertarian Party of Texas	April 2018	None
Libertarian Party of Indiana	May 2018	None
Libertarian Party of Ohio	May 2018	None
Libertarian Party of Massachusetts	September 2018	None
Libertarian Party of Arkansas	April 2019	None
Libertarian Party of California	April 2019	None
Libertarian Party of Colorado	April 2019	None
Libertarian Party of Florida	May 2019	None
Missouri Libertarian Party	June 2019	None
Libertarian Party of Hawaii	November 2019	None
Libertarian Party of Delaware	March 2020	None
Libertarian Party of South Dakota	March 2021	Link ?
Libertarian Party of Kansas	April 2021	Link
Libertarian Party of Wisconsin	April 2021	Link
Libertarian Party of Pennsylvania	May 2021	None
Libertarian Party of Florida	June 2021	None
Libertarian Party of New Hampshire	January 2022	Link
Libertarian Party of New Hampshire	January 2023	None
Libertarian Party of Florida	January 2024	None	-	Libertarian Party of Minnesota	April 2024	None	-

Campaign Convention Appearances

Libertarian Party of Texas || April 2024

Convention Appearance Related Gallery

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  Promo photo for the presentation of the framed SOP

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  Harlos and O'Brien at the 2018 California convention

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  Harlos and Hayes at the 2018 Lousiana Convention

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  Libertarian Party of Colorado convention 2018

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  Libertarian Party of Washington convention 2017

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  Montana Libertarian Party convention 2017

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  Libertarian Party of New Hampshire convention 2018

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  Libertarian Party of Ohio convention 2018

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  Roads to Freedom Unconvention 2018

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Training Seminars

Organization	Dates	Topic
Libertarian Party of Colorado	June 2018	New Delegate Orientation
Libertarian Party of Maine	September 2019	Candidate Training with Cara Schulz
National Libertarian Party	October 2019	Your questions about the 2020 Libertarian National Convention Answered
Libertarian Party of Florida Executive Committee	November 2021	Robert’s Rules of Order
Libertarian Party Mises Caucus Various Chapters	November and December 2021	How to be a Good Convention Delegate
Libertarian Party Mises Caucus Various Chapters	Up through May 2022	Robert’s Rules of Order

Other Media Appearances and Interviews

2010s

Date	Media Outlet	Title
May 2016	Politico	Photo Gallery from the 2016 Libertarian Party Convention
May 2016	The Washington Post	The Washington Post, Libertarians Pick Johnson and Weld After Close Contest
July 2016	Reason	"Hit and Run," Did the Libertarian Radicals Lose Their Inter-Party Fight? Not So Fast, Says One
August 2016	The Denver Post	Denver Post, Small but growing number of Colorado voters shift to Green, Libertarian parties
August 2016	Westword	How "Terrible" Trump and Clinton Help the Libertarian Party in Colorado and Beyond
August 2016	Theopologetics	Voting Third Party Advocacy
September 2016	The Johny Rocket Launchpad	Party-Archy, the Libertarian Wing of the Libertarian Party
October 2016	Colorado Independent	How a Libertarian plans to challenge Colorado’s ‘ballot-selfie’ law
November 2016	Westword	Libertarian Party: It's Great to Be Blamed for Hillary's Loss
February 2017\	Tom Woods Show	After 2016, Where Is the Libertarian Party Today, and Where Is It Going?
February 2017	Reason Magazine	Did the Libertarian Party Blow It in 2016?
February 2017	Libertopia Cartoons	Find What You Love and Let it Kill You
May 2017	Colorado Independent	The Libertarian Party’s national archives now live in Colorado
June 2017	Dankertarian Podcast	Larry Sharpe and Caryn Ann Harlos, Uniting the Clans
August 2017	Colorado Public Radio	Libertarianism Was Born In Westminster And Other Historical Party Facts
September 2017	Reason	The Libertarian Party's Paid Membership Numbers Take a Dive
Late 2017	Ask a Libertarian	Ask Me Anything Part 1
Late 2017	Ask a Libertarian	Ask Me Anything Part 2
January 2018	Westword	Kratom Ban in Denver Ripped by Libertarian Party of Colorado
February 2018	Reason Magazine	LPedia
February 2018	Reason	None
May 2018,	Washington Times	Libertarian Party rescues its original founding document from eBay
May 2018	Punk Rock Libertarians	Surviving Thunderdome
May 2019	Reddit	AMA
July 2018	Reason	Candidate Kicked Out of New Hampshire Libertarian Party Nonetheless on House Primary Ballot as a Libertarian
December 2018	Ask a Libertarian	AMA
April 2019	Dave Elswick Show 101.1 Little Rock, Arkansas	Appearance

2020s

Date	Media Outlet	Title
April 2020	Youtube Interview	Interview with Aya Katz and Julia regarding the COVID-19 lockdowns (code-named as "Cat in the Hat")
September 2020	Black Side of Liberty with Nickolas Wildstar	Guest Appearance
November 2020	Porcupine Pundit Productions	Liberty on Caffeine
November 2020	Roads 2 Liberty	Is the LP Soft on Lockdowns?
November 2020	Late to Liberty	Show Appearance
January 2021	Aya Katz	Talking with Caryn Ann Harlos about Corporations & Censorship
February 2021	Tom Woods Show	Did the Libertarian Party Ignore the Biggest Issue of 2020?
February 2021	Decentralized Revolution	Decentralized Revolution with Dave Smith
February 2021	Part of the Problem	Interview with Caryn Ann Harlos
April 2021	Derailed with Arcaicskidz	The One and Only Caryn Ann Harlos
March 2021	Godarchy	Liberty in Pink
March 2021	Don't Tread on Anyone	A Libertarian Message to Progressives and Conservatives
March 2021	Hedgehog Watchdog	Interview
March 2021	Life & Liberty	Interview
June 2021	Aquarian Anarchy	Caryn Ann Harlos - The Evolution of the Revolution
June 2021	Tom Woods	Corruption in the Libertarian Party]
June 2021	Drunk ’N Disorderly	With Guest Caryn Ann Harlos
June 2021	PorcFest	Bold Libertarian Messaging: Don't Be Afraid
June 2021	The System is Down	Caryn Ann Harlos on LP Assassins & #McAfeeDidntKillHimself
July 2021	Cajun Libertarian	Live with Caryn Ann Harlos
July 2021	Dave vs. Goliath	Gritty in Pink
July 2021,	Sara Higdon's We the People	The State of The Libertarian Party w/ Caryn Ann Harlos
July 2021	Break the Cycle w/Joshua Smith	CouchStreams Ep 70 w/ Caryn Ann Harlos
August 2021	Unsafe Spaces	Inside a Libertarian Coup
September 2021	Break the Cycle w/Joshua Smith	Couchstreams Ep 97 w/ Caryn Ann Harlos
September 2021	Part of the Problem	The Railroading of Caryn Ann Harlos
September 2021	Daniel 3: Biblical Anarchy	Caryn Ann “Pink Flame” Harlos
September 2021	Turbine Guy	Libertarian National Party Shenanigans Exposed by the Pink Flame of Liberty
September 2021	The Liberty Revolt	Caryn Ann Harlos joins the Liberty Revolt
October 2021	Liberty Late Night	LLN Live
October 2021	O’Donnell for Liberty	Ep. 37: "The Pink Flame of Liberty" feat. Caryn Ann Harlos
November 2021	FritzCast	Caryn Ann Harlos
December 2021	Rise to Liberty	You Want to Battle the State but You Can't Handle a Pink-Haired Secretary?
February 2022	Westword	Colorado's Caucuses Return March 1, Kicking Off Election Season
April 2022	LP Mises Caucus	Caryn Ann Harlos, Dave Benner, and Steven Nekhalia with Michael Heise from the #RenoReset Money Bomb
June 2022	The Road to Providence	THE RENO RESET w/ Angela McArdle, Caryn Ann Harlos, and Dave Benner
June 2022	Lunatic Liberation	LNC Secretary Caryn Ann Harlos
June 2022	People We Love	Caryn Ann Harlos Loves Her Husband, Wayne Harlos
July 2022	Westword	Castle Rock's Caryn Ann Harlos Wants to Return the Libertarian Party to Its Roots
October 2022	Liberty Speaks II	And Having Done All... to Stand
August 2023	Just Listen' with Eric John	Interview with Caryn Ann Harlos

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  Interview with Libertopia

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  Interview on Punk Rock Libertarians

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  Interview on the Black Side of Liberty

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Mentions in Media

• The Opposition, Exile and Restitution of Caryn Ann Harlos and What it Symbolizes for the Libertarian Party, May 31, 2022

Parliamentarian

In December 2021, Harlos passed the Registered Parliamentarian examination and said she is working now on obtaining the Professional Registered Parliamentarian designation though that is at least several years away. She is a member of the National Association of Parliamentarians and the American Institute of Parliamentarians.

She has additionally been retained to advise individuals in various parliamentary situations in the Party including Delaware, Massachusetts, and New Mexico as well as being the official parliamentarian for the Libertarian Party of California for the first part of 2024.

Libertarian Party Sponsored Appearances

• National Libertarian Party Facebook Spotlight, January 2017
• Libertarian National Party Conference Call "How to Get Involved With the Libertarian Party", April 12, 2017
• Libertarian National Party Conference Call "How to Get Involved With the Libertarian Party", July 2017
• "Abortion and the Libertarian Conscience" with the Flathead County Libertarian Party
• Libertarian Party Snapchat Takeover, January 6, 2018
• Libertarian National Party Conference Call "How to Get Involved With the Libertarian Party", January 8, 2018
• National Libertarian Party Facebook Spotlight, July 2018
• Libertarian National Party New Member Orientation, June 2019
• Libertarian National Party Election Night Livestream, November 2022
• Libertarian Party hub at Porcfest 2023, Liberty Evangelism, June 2023
• Libertarian Party of Ohio Regional Training Conference, July 2023

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  New Member hangout

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  Snapchat Takeover

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  Member meeting on Abortion and the Libertarian Conscience

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  Conference call about the National Convention 2020

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  Retrospective on 2018 election season

Other Noteworthy Appearances

• 2016 Nomination Speech for Libertarian Presidential candidate Darryl W. Perry (video not available)
• 2016 Nomination Speech for Libertarian Vice-Presidential candidate Will Coly
• Clip on CNN promo on Libertarian Party
• Defending Markets at Warm Cookies of the Revolution, December 2016
• Libertarian Party Snapchat Takeover, January 2018
• Porcfest, Bold Libertarian Messaging, June 2021
• Anarcon, The Humanitarian Responsibility of Freedom (headline speaker),August 2023

In 2019, Harlos was deemed noteworthy enough as a woman in politics to have a Wikipedia page and is included as part of the WikiProject Women and Wikiproject Libertarianism. This page was later deleted which Harlos did not dispute as it had been used to highlight Party controversies negatively impacting her private employment.

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  Wikipedia Article

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  Warm Cookies of the Revolution 2016

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Video Channels and Podcast

Caryn Ann has two YouTube channels Pink Flame of Liberty, the Cult of RONR The Cult of RONR, and formerly hosted the Big L Podcast. The Cult of RONR was mentioned in the National Parliamentarian.

Tutorials

Caryn Ann also creates tutorials on how to participate in various Libertarian Party activities.

Radio Show Hostess

Beginning October 2021 and ending about one year later, Caryn Ann became host of a Saturday afternoon radio show on 1360 KHNC in Weld County, Colorado. The show bears the same name as her YouTube Channel, Pink Flame of Liberty. She has vowed to use any platform she has to continue to expose corruption, if it happens, in the Libertarian Party, proving the effectiveness of the Streisand Effect following her suspension.

LNC Involvement

In 2015, Caryn Ann was inspired to get involved on a national level after researching and becoming deeply interested in the schism that then existed in Oregon between the Libertarian Party of Oregon and the PAC also calling itself the Libertarian Party of Oregon while not the officially recognized affiliate. She became convinced that the LNC had grossly overstepped its authority and wanted to protect the Libertarian Party of Colorado from ever suffering a similar fate and thus ran and won the race for Region 1 Representative at the National Convention 2016 against incumbent Norm Olsen. She considers bringing the Libertarian Party of Oregon into Region 1 at the end of her term one of her proudest moments of that term and remains fiercely protective of that affiliate and disturbed by what had happened to them. Her commitment to limiting the power of the LNC and fidelity to the Bylaws has remained a constant theme of her LNC involvement.

2016 Run for Region 1 Representative

Caryn Ann ran for Region 1 representative at the National Convention 2016 and won in a close three-way race against incumbent Norm Olsen and fellow challenger M Carling. Steven Nielson won Region 1 Alternate. Caryn Ann's first motion as Region 1 alternate was to preserve and protect LPedia. By the end of this term, the Historical Preservation Committee was set up and the records archive moved to Parker Colorado under her direction.

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2017 Appointment to Platform Committee

At the LNC Meeting on April 15017, 2017, Caryn Ann was appointed to the Platform Committee for the 2018 Convention. In the first round of voting there was a 4-way tie between Adam Bates, Aaron Starr, Joe Henchman, and Caryn Ann Harlos. Those four were the only ones included in the second round which then had a tie between Aaron Starr and Caryn Harlos at 9 votes each (and a majority). In round three of voting Aaron Starr and Caryn Ann Harlos each received 8 votes, and Adam Bates received 6 votes. For the next round, the rules were suspended to allow only one vote rather than approval voting. In round four, no one received a majority with Aaron Starr receiving 8 votes, Caryn Ann Harlos receiving 6 votes, and Adam Bates received 3 votes. A motion to suspend the rules to appoint Aaron Starr failed and voting went to another round. In the fifth round, no candidate received a majority with Arron Starr receiving 6 votes, Caryn Ann Harlos receiving 8 votes, and Adam Bates receiving 2 votes. In round 6, Aaron Starr and Caryn Ann Harlos each received 8 votes, and Adam Bates received 1 vote. The rules suspended to have the results determined by a coin flip between Aaron Starr and Caryn Ann Harlos. The minutes describe the results as follows:

Using a New Jersey quarter which Mr. Redpath purportedly obtained from The Sopranos on his last visit, Mr. McKnight conducted the coin toss, and Ms. Harlos called the “New Jersey / tails” side of the coin. Ms. Harlos won the coin toss, thus she was appointed to the fifth position on the Platform Committee, and Mr. Starr was appointed as an alternate.

In February 2018, Caryn Ann and Alicia Mattson both sought the Platform Committee Chair position. The results came in as follow:

Voting for Mattson: Carling, Clift, Craig, DiBenedetto, Mattson, Robson, Van Horn

Voting for Harlos: Cholko, Fulner, Harlos, Knapp, Longstreth, Morris, Nanna, Perry, Rosenbeck, Scheetz, Watts

Express abstentions: Fockler, Miron

With 11 votes out of 18 ballots cast, Caryn Ann Harlos is elected as committee chair, having received a majority vote.

New Jersey has remained very kind to Caryn Ann, overwhelmingly voting for her re-election to LNC Secretary in 2020.

2018 Run for LNC Secretary

On February 28, 2018, Caryn Ann announced her run for LNC Secretary and launched her campaign website in March 2018.. Her campaign is managed by Sarah Daggers. She won against incumbent Alicia Mattson and fellow challenger Jeff Wood on the first ballot with 56.621% of the votes. Caryn Ann's campaign was run with zero negative campaigning and in fact, she was cited by Alicia Mattson in Mattson's campaign materials as someone who called Ms. Mattson "one of the best secretaries" she has ever worked with.

Popular Libertarian evangelist Larry Sharpe endorsed Caryn Ann for this position.

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  Vote Results

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  Ruwart, Harlos, and Hogarth wait to give nominating speeches

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  Harlos campaigning for LNC Secretary

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  Emotional after victory

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  Nominating Speech for Secretary

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  After winning race

2020 Run for Re-election as LNC Secretary

At the second sitting of the National Convention 2020, Harlos won re-election to LNC Secretary on the first round with 51.80% of the vote again Evan McMahon (46.85%) and Dave Jones (8.31%). However, it is noted that there was a prior motion to suspend the rules for both the Vice-Chair and Secretary race to conduct both by approval voting and in one round only regardless if anyone received a majority. However, both Caryn Ann Harlos and Ken Moellman did win their races with a majority. Harlos credits her win to her dedication to stand up for the delegates who wanted an in-person convention in opposition to then-Chair Nicholas Sarwark as she had a very healthy majority of support from the in-person delegates despite both her and Evan being present in person while she had had only a slight lead with the remote delegates. Harlos believes this is due to misinformation that she did not support any remote attendance, which she did, and voted for it. In fact, less than fifteen delegates opposed remote person when the vote came up on the floor. Like Alicia Mattson last term, Mr. McMahon was a very competent and worthy competitor. Because two entirely different voting methods were used, it is impossible to statistically compare the two races, particularly since so many delegates reported voting for both Harlos and McMahon, and it is unknown who would have been chosen had they been only able to to choose one. In the same way, it is impossible to know what effect that late entrance of Dave Jones had and whether his votes included either Harlos or McMahon or were for him alone. Mr. McMahon accepted her offer to be her unofficial Assistant Secretary, a role that she has been working on making something official and permanent, similar to the Assistant Treasurer. However, his life circumstances changes, and he could not assume that role.

Harlos produced an informational video for her re-election bid:

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  Vote Results

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  Ruwart, Harlos, and Hogarth wait to give nominating speeches

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  Evan McMahon congratulating Harlos and conceding the race

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  Emotions flowed once the convention was over, and the race was won

2022 Run for Re-Instatement as LNC Secretary

For more detail about this period of time and the voiding of the removal of Harlos, see In re: The Suspension of Caryn Ann Harlos - LNC Secretary-in-Exile. She raised approximately $20,000 in support.

Harlos was re-elected at the National Convention 2022 with %70.82 of the vote over the LNC's chosen interim replacement's %24.39 of the vote (694 votes v. 239 votes). Note: The two write-in "abstentions" should not have been counted so that the percentage of win was actually %70.96.

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2024 Run for Re-Election as LNC Secretary

Harlos announced her re-election campaign on X|Twitter in December 2023.

Inclusion in 50th Anniversary Tribute Book to John Hospers

Caryn Ann has two essays in that book titled as follows:

• Unearthing and Preserving . . .”
• An Essentially Libertarian View of Abortion is Neither Conservative Nor Progressive

Notable Other Accomplishments

Caryn Ann is a paralegal with over twenty years of experience. She has also authored a book on Christian eschatology that had been used as a reference work in a class at Liberty University. She has appeared in radio shows and podcasts all over the world on this topic and was a guest lecturer at Appalachian State University. Caryn Ann has been involved in various other non-profit activist and service organizations including volunteering for a teen runaway and suicide hotline, regular head and assistant cook volunteer at Gold Coast Via de Cristo events, and served as Treasurer on the Gold Coast Via de Cristo Secretariat, as well as archivist of its banner collection spanning multiple decades. She has also been involved in street activism no matter where she was on the political spectrum at the time. Also, there *might* have been a double reference to Harlos and Fortnight on a 2018 episode of South Park. Considering the libertarian position of the creators, it is possible.

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  Protest against COVID-19 protest

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  Tax protest

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  Getting ready for Johnson banner wave

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  Campaigning for Johnson

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  Apperance on South Park??

Professional Memberships

• NALA (National Association of Legal Assistants) since 1999
• NAP (National Association of Parliamentarians) since 2019
• AIP (American Institute of Parliamentarians) since 2022

An article on a YouTube education series on Robert's Rules of Order, Cult of RONR that Caryn Ann hosts with Mike Seebeck was featured in the National Parliamentarian.

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Past Volunteer Activities

Activity	Organization	Dates
Junior Class President	Blanche Ely High School	1984
Fill-in Host	AM1400	1991-1992
Trainer	Youth Evangelism Explosion	2001-2003
Class Leader	Junior Achievement	1998-2001
Office Volunteer	WayFM	2004-2005
Treasurer	Gold Coast Via de Cristo	2006
Head and Assistant Cook	Gold Coast Via de Cristo	multiple times in the 2000s
Speaker on Leadership and Ideals	Gold Coast Via de Cristo	several occasions in the mid-2000s
Historic Banner Preservation and Custodian	Gold Coast Via de Cristo	2007-2008

Autism Advocacy

In May 2019, after some profound life struggles, Caryn Ann was diagnosed with high-functioning ASD (autism spectrum disorder, f/k/a/ Aspberger's Syndrom) which has sparked in interest (of course it has!) in ASD issues in the Libertarian Party and bullying surrounding same. Caryn Ann was also diagnosed as a young adult with Obsessive Compulsion Disorder which she puts to good use for liberty. After the state convention in 2019, she became involved in a group of members expressing dissatisfaction with the then present Colorado leadership. One of her main complaints was what she felt was ableist bigotry and bullying in response to her disclosure of her autism diagnosis. The Libertarian Party of Colorado has made no official comment but it can be assumed they would dispute her assertion. She and Mike Seebeck started an alternative discussion group at Libertarian Party of Colorado Uncensored for LPCO members who believe they were wrongly silenced. She noted that the intention was for the group to be temporary, to be archived when the controversies between the various sides are eventually resolved.

Kratom and Pain Patient Advocacy

Re-Legalize All Drugs

Caryn Ann speaks out regularly on how the "war on opioids" is victimizing pain patients and has been an advocate for kratom.