Tea Party News

Four years after the tea party rocked the political world by ousting several prominent Republicans in Congress, the ultra-conservative movement finds itself with slimmer prospects as it moves into the new election season.

In St. Petersburg this afternoon, Congresswoman Kathy Castor said she understood how the Wall Street bailout in 2008, followed by the federal stimulus plan in 2009, was such a shock to the economic system for so many Americans that it fed the fuel for the creation of the Tea Party.

It's only been done once since the Civil War, but that isn't stopping J.D. Winteregg.

During its five-year lifetime, the Tea Party has lost some of its original focus on national spending and national debt.

Tea party Sen. Mike Lee has set up a potential intramural confrontation with GOP establishment by endorsing Greg Brannon in the North Carolina Senate race against embattled Democratic incumbent Kay Hagan.

The IRS targeting scandal may have faded from the headlines of major newspapers, but Tea Party groups renewed their battle cry against the tax agency on Thursday as the Conservative Political Action Conference got underway.

Conservative Americans certainly did not need a genie to wish Obama's poll numbers into a free fall, because according to the latest Fox News poll he has done this quite on his own.

Yesterday, Cato Institute senior fellow Michael Tanner made the case at National Review Online that the Tea Party is waning.

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Tea party activists attend a rally on the grounds of the U.S. Capitol in Washington.

They arrived in January of 2011, unfamiliar with the ways of Washington, and promising never to adapt.

Not long after starting work at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Mark Alliegro's wife was opening a surf clam for the couple's research when someone walked inside the Marine Resources Center and cracked a joke.

Five years ago, Americans in cities across the country gathered with a collective rallying cry -- we are Taxed Enough Already.

"Tigard citizens should decide on their city's future," it read. "Don't let wealthy outside developers and construction companies influence local decisions."

Like kissing the ring of a mafia don, a Republican who wants to run for president has to speak at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference .

One of the reasons the DISCLOSE Act - legislation designed to squelch 501 political speech in and around election time - was defeated in 2010 was the presence of carve-outs written into the bill to exempt favored special interests.

Democrats today launched their first campaign attack on John Katko, only days after he received the Republican and Conservative Party endorsements in the 24th Congressional District.

Dressed as a patriot, Tea Party activist William Temple stands for the Pledge of Allegiance at the Conservative Political Action Conference at National Harbor, MD., March 14, 2013.

As the Tea Party celebrates its five-year anniversary, many commentators are asking whether the grassroots anti-Big Government movement is still relevant.

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