It’s a gloomy, cold tax day in Chicago, but area Tea Party activists hope to make the most of it by holding a rally in Daley Plaza. The rally kicked off at noon, and Steve Stevlic of the Chicago Tea Party helped bring local activists, politi…
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Likely Republican presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty, speaking to conservative Tea Party backers, separated himself from potential party rivals like Donald Trump over the “birther” issue on Saturday.Read More…
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WASHINGTON — Montana lawmaker Denny Rehberg was one of just four Republican House members to vote against Rep. Paul Ryan’s (R-Wis.) budget proposal on Friday, a move that could complicate his relationship with Tea Party supporters in the st…
MANCHESTER, N.H. – Gauging what the Tea Party thinks about any given topic is always difficult, since there is no real centralized leadership and even the nationally known groups have limited connections to the grassroots.But the reaction …
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’s wife Virginia “Ginni” Thomas has a new job in conservative journalism that keeps her involved with the recent focus of her political activism and business dealings – the tea party movement.Read More……
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid claimed Sunday that GOP leadership, and particularly Speaker of the House John Boehner, were allowing themselves to be controlled by the Tea Party in the current government spending battle because they were …
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Pro-labor organizations and one of the country’s largest tea party groups are pouring money into Tuesday’s Wisconsin Supreme Court election in an effort to turn the normally sleepy race into a referendum on the national fig…
She started as a congressional aide in the 1980s, became a midlevel Republican operative, then briefly left politics, reemerging in 2009 as founder of a tea party group before stepping down amid continued questions about whether her actions …
Would you feel safer knowing that your tea was tested on pig intestines? Where should the line be drawn for animal testing? After scathing reports that Unilever, owner of Lipton and PG Tips teas, conducted torturous experiments on animals, t…
Among the key lessons for first-time Tea Party candidates: Talk about issues that “regular people” care about. That means candidates should not “geek out about the Fed,” and other pet issues debated within the movement, said Chris Faulkner…
A tea party caucus of U.S. senators convenes Thursday for the first time, but one of the movement’s biggest stars doesn’t plan to be there — at least for now.Read More…
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DERRY, N.H. — New Hampshire Republicans elected a tea party figure as their leader and rejected the establishment-backed candidate, a sign that activists in this early voting presidential state have embraced the anti-government message…
WASHINGTON — Welcome to Washington, tea partiers.Now that they’re freshmen in a GOP-run House, the political movement’s candidates are running smack into the traditions, partisan divisions and powerful competing interests that make it …
A man wounded in last weekend’s shootings in Tucson was arrested today for threats he allegedly made towards a man who expressed support for gun ownership during a taping of an ABC News town hall. AZ Central reports:The Pima County Sheriff’…
Tea Party Nation founder Judson Phillips described Jared Loughner — the suspected perpetrator of a fatal shooting in Arizona on Saturday — as a “liberal lunatic” in an e-mail to members of the conservative group in the wake of the tragedy,…
In an exclusive interview set to air on NBC’s “Meet the Press” this weekend, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid predicts that once the nation’s economy improves, “the Tea Party will disappear.”The Nevada Democrat shared his take on the future…
Billionaire businessman David Koch, a benefactor of conservative organizations such as Americans for Prosperity and FreedomWorks and “funding father” of the Tea Party movement, is throwing a party ostensibly to reward congressional Republica…
Mitch McConnell is a master manipulator and strategist– the unheralded architect of the Republican resurgence. Now that his relentless tactics have made his party victorious, he is poised to take down the president and win the Senate majori…
When Republicans take over the House next week, they will do something that apparently has never been done before in the chamber’s 221-year history:Read More…
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Three potential Republican contenders for the 2012 presidential nomination would have higher hurdles to clear to win the Tea Party vote in the primary, leaders of the movement say.Read More…
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Failed Delaware Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell reeled in an impressive $7.3 million in her insurgent campaign that brought her past establishment favorite Rep. Mike Castle, only to fall to Democrat Chris Coons in November.According to …
WASHINGTON — Tea party backers fashion themselves as “we the people,” but polls show the Republican Party’s most conservative and energized voters are hardly your average crowd.According to an Associated Press-GfK Poll this month, 84 p…
In spite of that expectation, Boehner is threatening to axe the Office of Congressional ethics. Established in March of 2008 after the Jack Abramoff scandal, the Office of Congressional Ethics is responsible for “launching investigations of …
Two weeks after the midterm elections, Republicans have scored another win. Illinois Democrat Melissa Bean conceded to Tea Party favorite Joe Walsh Tuesday, in the very close race to represent Illinois’ 8th Congressional District.According t…
WASHINGTON — Tea party activists and other conservatives, eager to transform electoral gains into clout on Capitol Hill, are pressuring Republican leaders to take a hardline approach in the next Congress, shunning compromise for confro…
The conservative tea party groups that helped elect dozens of new candidates to Congress on Nov. 2 are now delivering a warning to them: We’re watching you.Read More…
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WASHINGTON — Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) called for compromise and cooperation between Democrats and Republicans during remarks in Virginia on Monday, and equated the Tea Party movement on the right with progressive MoveOn.org activists. “Ther…
WASHINGTON — Signaling how difficult it will be for the Republican Party to live up to its campaign promises of cutting spending while preserving the Bush tax cuts and not cutting benefits for seniors, Tea Party favorites Sen. Jim DeMint (R…
