Tea Party News

Former state Rep. Mark Shelton and Tea Party favorite Konni Burton are vying in a Republican runoff election for the state Senate seat left open by Wendy Davis.

I recently had the pleasure of meeting Eulalia "Lala" Mooney, who spoke at a recent Tea Party meeting.

History suggests that this election year should be friendly to Republicans. That's because Republicans are more likely to turn out in mid-term elections than Democrats, and the party out of the White House, especially in a president's second term, tends to have an advantage.

Liberals, as the tired conservative slander goes, hate America. This, of course, is nonsense.

Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., has endorsed businessman Curt Clawson with days to go in the Republican primary race to replace former Florida Rep. Trey Radel.

"They want to throw us in jail," says Tea Party Patriots leader Jenny Beth Martin about the latest bombshell news of the IRS' targeting of the Tea Party movement.

Amy Kremer, the Tea Party Express chairman who's played a major role in elections for the past five years, is resigning.

Amy Kremer, the chairman of the Tea Party Express who's played a major role in elections since 2009, is resigning, she announced Friday.

Americans have the Tea Party, which isn't a party at all, but British establishmentarians are worried about a similar movement that is an actual party.

In tomorrow's Washington Post, Michael Gerson engages in a bout of concern trolling at the GOP.

A Republican Senate candidate from North Carolina appears to have plagiarized the "on the issues" section of his campaign site from Republican Rep. Justin Amash of Michigan, and his "issue" posts on Facebook are near-direct copies of articles by scholars from the conservative think-tank the Cato Institute.

It was a complete shock when I receive a message from the National office of Tea Party Patriots asking me to come to Washington DC to speak at the "FIVE YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF THE TEA PARTY MOVEMENT."

He's had months to figure it out, but Sen. Rand Paul still hasn't discovered a way to defend his endorsement of Mitch McConnell in a remotely convincing fashion.

It is amazing that something that seems as up-beat as "free" electricity from the sun can have such a dark side.

Glenn Beck worked the crowd like a preacher at a rally this month in Louisville, Ky., declaring that God had responded to conservatives' prayers by sending a slate of tea party candidates to wrest control of the Republican Party from Mitch McConnell.

The chairman of the Mississippi GOP, Joe Nosef, reacted angrily to Tea Party groups calling for his resignation this week, accusing one local activist of secretly working to elect Democrats and saying some 'fanatical' Tea Party groups could jeopardize the GOP's hold on a senate seat in one of the most Republican states in the nation, according to ... (more)

Calling all patriots! The Tea Party Express is back for another nationwide tour called "Fighting for Liberty Tour", and we're launching this Saturday April 19th! We are sick and tired of watching the failed policies of Barack Obama and his big-government pals in Congress push this country closer to the brink of financial disaster, all the while ... (more)

WOODSTOCK, Ga. Tea Party Patriots today filed a lawsuit in US District Court for the District of Columbia against the Internal Revenue Service and the Department of Treasury, asking the court to force the release of documents shedding light on the agency's proposal for burdensome regulations for 501c4 citizens groups, and the roles played by former ... (more)

Last night, certain segments of Twitter were startled to see the Electronic Frontier Foundation publicizing a blog post with the title " Tea Party, Taxes and Why the Original Patriots Would've Revolted Against the Surveillance State ."

New documents show that ex-IRS official Lois Lerner inquired about the possibility of the Department 0f Justice taking action against organizations that "lied" about their political activity, adding yet another dimension to the agency's targeting of conservative groups.