Tea Party News

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.

Sarah Palin has to do something to fill the hours that aren't taken up by parody-Dr.-Seuss storytime at CPAC.

This is where Palin is at her most dangerous to the GOP establishment, rallying the base and putting a hurting on the ole' boys club in D.C..

Tea party activists have been waging war for months against the Common Core academic standards.

There aren't many issues that bring together conservative Tea Party Republicans and Attorney General Eric Holder, but one of them-sentencing reform for nonviolent drug offenders-is making serious headway, and advocates are thrilled.