Tea Party News

Gays are bullying Americans, the congresswoman says. That's not even the wildest claim she's made in the last 12 months.

The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has released a scathing report on Lois Lerner's involvement in the Internal Revenue Service's scrutiny of conservative advocacy groups.

During the March 5, 2014 House Oversight Committee hearing, former IRS official Lois Lerner invoked the Fifth Amendment...again.

Last week's GOP primary showed the continued strength of the Tea Party in Texas.

And yesterday , the conservative talk show hosts were hit with a barrage of blow back from rank and file Republicans angry over Senator McConnell's comments.

It's an oddly lefty movement, looking to push change from the outside. Why can't liberals build anything like it? The left has spilled pages of ink and innumerable pixels wondering why the middle class votes against its interests, debating the effect of the Democratic Leadership Council, and which candidate would be the best presidential contender ... (more)

Lots of people in the Republican party are fed up with Sen. Ted Cruz, but Sen. Rand Paul is the guy who is doing something about it.

Since that movement's peak in 2010, the sentiment of those original voters - a pretty even split of Republicans, Democrats and independents - has been hijacked by every political circus-barker able to buy a domain name that includes such key words as "freedom," "liberty," "warrior," "conservative" or "tea party."

In early 2009, amateur conservative Tea Party activists took to the streets to protest newly-elected U.S. President Barack Obama's economic stimulus package and health reform, a ragtag army that helped win the U.S. House for Republicans in 2010, then waged internecine war with the party establishment.

It's with mixed reviews that the Tea Party is celebrating the fifth anniversary of its emergence onto the nation's political scene.

Big-business and establishment groups vowed they would wage war on conservatives and Tea Party candidates, particularly incumbents, in 2014, but they are backing off after realizing they may not want to throw money at losers.

The activist lawyer wants the digital currency bitcoin accepted as campaign contributions.

Historic City News readers are patriotically invited to attend the general meeting of the Saint Augustine Tea Party on Tuesday, March 11, beginning at 6:30 p.m. at the Village Inn located at 900 North Ponce de Leon Boulevard in St Augustine.

I write this words today, two days after voters in the Conservative Political Action Conference's straw poll selected Sen. Rand Paul as their preferred candidate for president in 2016, but they could have just as easily been written in 1964 as Arizona Sen. Barry Goldwater was consolidating the support he'd need to become the GOP's presidential ... (more)

Mark Fisher makes no apologies for being a tea party member or for his belief in a minimalist government even while running for office in a state where many Republicans prefer to stay closer to the political center.

Senator Rand Paul is smart enough not to place too much importance on his victory in the presidential straw poll held at the recently concluded CPAC conference.

Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell predicted the GOP establishment will destroy conservative insurgents attempting to unseat a trio incumbents in an interview with the New York Times published on Sunday.

Over cocktails and chocolate-covered strawberries, a group of west Michigan Republicans gathered at a Tudor-style home in Grand Rapids and vented frustrations with Congressman Justin Amash and his Tea Party tactics that they blame for Washington's gridlock.

NATIONAL HARBOR: Senator Rand Paul, a potential Republican White House contender in 2016, electrified conservative activists on Friday by warning that President Barack Obama was taking America down the road to tyranny.

American Conservatism becomes increasingly fractured and Ronald Reagan isn't coming back from the dead to unite the party.