Tea Party News

If the conservative insurgency has been crushed, why was Mitch McConnell walking around onstage at CPAC with a musket? He couldn't have sucked up to the right any harder if he wore a tri-corner hat and had the Gadsden flag tattooed on his rear.

It was a force to be reckoned with in Maine. It propelled a little known, poorly funded Waterville mayor from "dark horse" in a wide Republican primary field into the Blaine House in 2010.

My friend and long-time business associate Rich Pezzullo is running for the GOP nomination for the US Senate from New Jersey.

He was a Tea Party idol when he ran for Ted Kennedy's Senate seat-but does anyone want him in New Hampshire? Barack Obama's second set of midterm elections appear likely to resemble his first: Republican gains-or a Democratic " shellacking ," to use the president's terminology-fueled in part by a popular backlash against Obamacare.

The Tea Party movement is now five years old. With the 2014-midterm elections on the horizon, we should take account of who we were, where we are, and how to restore our lost momentum moving forward.

California Republicans wrapped up their annual state convention on Sunday with a roar of approval for a charismatic Tea Party-backed candidate seeking to unseat popular Democratic Governor Jerry Brown as he vies for an unprecedented fourth term.

"We asked Mr. Turiano not to attend our event because we have no intention of allowing him a platform to spread hate and intolerance," said Jennifer Owen, Yellowstone County Republican chairwoman.

If the 2016 presidential election were around the corner, a new poll would have good news for Rand Paul, Paul Ryan, Rick Perry and Mike Huckabee.

During a March 5 House Oversight Committee hearing, former IRS official Lois Lerner invoked the Fifth Amendmemt - again.

There is no better example of the need to have the Tea Party continue its cleansing of the U.S. Senate than the looming primary in Mississippi.

Bailing on the Democratic Party was Gene Taylor's only chance. Taylor said as much himself and a researcher at the University of Minnesota's Humphrey School of Public Affairs backs him up.

Framing the Mississippi Senate primary as a "clear fight for the future of the Republican Party against the entrenched interests of the permanent political class in D.C.," former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin endorsed conservative Mississippi state Senator Chris McDaniel on Thursday in his upstart bid against six-term incumbent Mississippi Senator Thad ... (more)

So Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell had quite a week. After his latest appearance at CPAC where he brought out musket to his buddy Senator Tom Coburn , Mitch then released a new campaign ad that tried to paint himself as a true public servant: Advertising executives know that the information an ad conveys is less important than the feeling it ... (more)

Mike Comstock is running as a Democrat for Montana's Senate District 34, although he won a Republican primary for District 32 in 2010 but lost in the general election.

"When conservatives are unhappy, bad things happen to the Republican Party." So wrote Richard Viguerie, the "Funding Father" of the modern conservative movement, in his 2006 book "Conservatives Betrayed."

In 1931, the Internal Revenue Service finally succeeded where the police and FBI had failed for years, when it successfully prosecuted Chicago bootlegger Al Capone for failure to pay income tax , an offense for which he received an 11-year prison sentence.

During a February 2012 briefing, Lerner told committee staff that the criteria for evaluating tax-exempt applications had not changed.

South Carolina GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham has long been one of the Tea Party's least-favorite Republicans, owing to many factors, with his pro-immigration reform stance and close friendship with John McCain chief among them.

In his analysis of Florida Republican David Jolly's special election win over Democrat Alex Sink on Tuesday, Republican establishment strategist Karl Rove failed to fully acknowledge the importance of both mobilizing the Republican base for this fall's midterm elections and opposing amnesty.

Last week we highlighted and handicapped the statewide races for the top five constitutional offices of governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general, treasurer and agriculture commissioner.