Tea Party News

Liberals like to opine that righty Republicans of the fairly recent past, such as Barry Goldwater, William F. Buckley Jr., or even Ronald Reagan, were nowhere near as wild-eyed as the Tea Party crowd.

There are some big stakes in the primary elections less than two weeks away, and fierce fights over congressional and legislative nominations are getting a lot of attention.

Senior White House advisers are taking very seriously the possibility that Republicans in Congress will try to impeach President Obama, especially if he takes executive action to slow deportations.

James Monroe had high hopes for the power of impeachment. It was, he wrote in the eighteen-twenties, "the main spring of the great machine of governmenta .

MASON, Ohio-Couples chatted on Tuesday evening as they carried large sodas into the darkened movie theater in Mason, Ohio, but they weren't there for a typical date night.

A Philadelphia-area branch of the Tea Party movement removed from its title all allegiances to the political splinter group in an announcement Friday before Independence Hall.

Salon , published an infuriating piece on the Kennedy assassination that adds some unbelievably off-kilter context to the president's murder: It was all the fault of gun-toting right-wing proto-Tea Partiers.

Standing in a mostly empty Legislative Plaza in the middle of the day, Gary Odom laughed about the things his political opponent is saying about him.

When Barry Goldwater wrote " The Conscience of a Conservative " in 1960, which became a surprise bestseller, it marked a crucial event in the history of the conservative movement.

National Journal recently visited Greenville and Spartanburg to explore the changes happening in upstate South Carolina.

In Nashville on Thursday, about a half-dozen Tennessee Tea Party leaders gathered with the Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund to denounce current Tennessee Senator Lamar Alexander and promote his Republican challenger Joe Carr.

Tea party activist Chip Maxwell has ended his bid to get his name on the ballot in November to challenge Lee Terry in the 2nd District Congressional race.

Let's recap: First, the message was the oil and gas industry equals jobs and if those who oppose fracking don't back down, those jobs will be taken away from Colorado.

Rogue or no, Tea Party darling and former Alaskan governor and vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is still subject to traffic laws.

Yesterday IRS Commissioner John Koskinen testified on Capitol Hill after news surfaced Lois Lerner's hard drive was scratched and that data Koskinen said was lost, may not be lost at all.

Jody Hice isn't fond of gays, Muslims, or women. He's also on his way to becoming Georgia's next Republican congressman.

Recent polls have showed Tea Party Congressman Cory Gardner is turning out to be a competitive candidate against Senator Mark Udall .

Tea Party Manatee has issued endorsements for the Aug. 26 primary election, choosing Republican Gov. Rick Scott to head its slate, and also recommending Manatee County Commissioners Michael Gallen and Robin DiSabatino.

A town hall meeting held by Texas Tea Party state Rep. David Simpson on Wednesday got heated as Simpson's constituents railed at him for not doing more to stop the influx of unaccompanied, undocumented minors coming to the United States from Central and South America.

The last time, on June 23, that Christie Watch paid attention to Texas Governor Rick Perry's presidential hopes , it was pretty hard to take the gaffe-prone, oops!-inducing, goofy Texan seriously.