[1] Victor Kline and three friends founded TNL in 2019 in response to what they saw as "a government that had apparently mastered the art of bare-faced corruption and an opposition that seemed incapable of calling them out".

[citation needed] In the 2020 Eden-Monaro by-election, Karen Porter ran as an independent under the party banner.

[9] At the 2022 federal election, the party endorsed eight candidates for the House of Representatives, in four states.

The party also endorsed a total of eight candidates for the Senate, two in New South Wales and six in Queensland.

[11] In June 2021, Kline announced that he, along with party candidate and former prosecutor Vania Holt, would be pursuing a private criminal case against Christian Porter over rape allegations he is facing.