Tea Party News

For those who enjoy lowbrow political theater, it's Christmas come early. Steve Stockman, a Texas congressman so far to the right he's in danger of falling into the Gulf of Mexico, is challenging Sen. John Cornyn in the Republican Primary.

Fifty-one percent of Americans viewed the Tea Party unfavorably as public support for the conservative bloc in the Republican Party declined to the lowest, according to a Gallup poll released Wednesday.

Billionaire David Koch, funder of numerous Tea Party and conservative political campaigns and lobbying institutions.

House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, left, joined by House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., takes reporters' questions, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Dec. 11, 2013.

The Republican Tea Party can no longer be accused of not having an alternative to Obama Care, according to presidential contender Sarah Palin.

Stan Cooke announces his candidacy for the Republican nomination for lieutenant governor at the State Capitol in Montgomery, Ala., on Aug. 20, 2013 MONTGOMERY, Alabama --- Stan Cooke said today he is seeking endorsements from Alabama's Tea Party groups in his run for lieutenant governor.

A man charged with threatening a state representative from Wheaton for her radio show comments disparaging gay marriage is attempting to have the charges dismissed, claiming his perceived threats are constitutionally protected free speech.

The Washington Post is painting the Tea Party as all "threat" and no benefit to the Republicans.

The political director of a prominent Tea Party Super PAC predicts that 'big punches' will be thrown within the GOP as groups like his gear up for primary challenges in the 2014 midterm elections against Republicans whom they view as not conservative enough.

Fifty-seven percent of Americans have a positive impression of Pope Francis while just five percent view him negatively, according to a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.

Seven tea party challengers are running against Republican incumbents in next year's Senate primaries, and it's entirely possible that every last one of them will lose.

Compromise has become not only impossible within Congress, but also a very bad word.

Rep. Steve Stockman Texas participates in a mock swearing-in ceremony with House Speaker John Boehner in Washington in January.

Conservative radio host Mark Levin, here in 2009 protesting the new health care law, advocates for a state-based plan to amend the Constitution.

On Monday's All In on MSNBC, during a discussion of whether the Tea Party has helped conservatism, host Chris Hayes accused the Tea Party of being "reckless" in several ways, including "with people's lives," as he contrasted the GOP and Democratic bases, while MSNBC's Karen Finney asserted that GOPers only agree on "how much they hate Barack ... (more)

Appearing on FoxNews' "Your World with Neil Cavuto" Tuesday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell reiterated his support of the Tea Party movement.

Recently, I attended a speech that attempted to lay out a case that Ronald Reagan would not have been a Tea Party President.

A new strategy is emerging to halt the advancement of the far right wing "purists" know as the Tea Party, whose politicians run as Republicans but even further to the far right, of the right wing Republican.

The Senate Conservatives Fund has endorsed tea party activist Milton Wolf, President Barack Obama's distant cousin, for the Senate primary challenge against incumbent Republican Pat Roberts in Kansas next year.

The Democratic pollster Democracy Corps, commissioning research from Greenberg Quinlan Rosner, recently dug into that foreign species commonly referred to as "the conservative voter."