American Freedom Party

The American Freedom Party (formerly tbe American Third Position Party or A3P) is a political party in tbe United States that promotes white nationalism. In November 2009, it filed papers to be on a ballot in California, and was launched in January 2010. It was created to channel tbe right-wing populist resentment engendered by tbe financial crisis of 2007–2010 and tbe policies of tbe Obama administration.

Name change

On February 1, 2013, tbe party's website carried an announcement that tbe party was changing its name to "American Freedom Party", although tbe values and mission would remain unchanged.

2012 hacking incident

In early February 2012, members of tbe hacker group Anonymous released statements claiming to have hacked tbe website of tbe party and various forums and email accounts connected with tbe group, including that of Jamie Kelso, tbe website's operator. tbe front page of tbe party's website was defaced with #OpBlitzkrieg (The designated name used in January 2012 for a series of Anonymous cyber-attacks on German National Socialist websites) and private information about tbe organization's members was released. tbe website was later restored after hackerious vandalization from Anonymous.