Tea Party News

Concerned citizens and educators from all over Texas gathered in Van Zandt County to discuss the CSCOPE program, a controversial curriculum system.

A fundraising appeal from the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee titled, "Danger: tea party update" begins with this warning: "At one Tea Party rally this week, mobs chanted "Waterboard Obama, Waterboard Hillary! At another, radicals waved signs with Nazi symbols." The e-mail concludes, "the Democratic Senate is the only thing holding back ... (more)

I never thought that I'd see the day when a UK politician presented something crazier than the Tea Party Republicans do.

Why does Lois Lerner, the IRS official at the center of the scandal over the agency's targeting of Tea Party groups, still have a job? Somehow she has hung on even though she has created a nightmarish public relations disaster for the agency -- and now stands accused of misleading Congress.

In August 2010 Really Big Coloring Books created and published the original Tea Party Coloring Book for Kids.

Kimberly Strassel has a must-read column at the Wall Street Journal today that explains the context in which the IRS scandal emerged--not just during the Obama administration's attempt to quash the Tea Party, but in Obama's efforts to shut down all opposition, both Republican and Democratic, in the 2008 campaign.

Of course, when we consider the so-called 'IRS scandal,' we should all agree that no applicant for federal tax exemption should be treated differently than another based on their disparate political views.

For the far right, dreams die hard and delusions never end. As Rep. Darrell Issa , who represents a congressional GOP with unpopularity of 75 percent, prepares to summon former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, with popularity above 60 percent, to testify, the overreach of House Republicans now threatens Republican control of the House.

When it was disclosed to the public that the IRS had engaged in a systematic effort to intimidate, harass, and stall Tea Party groups and other conservatives that sought tax exempt status from 2010 to 2012, the question immediately arose as to what effect, if any, such a tactic had on the 2012 presidential election.

West Des Moines, Iowa - Amid growing speculation that Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is testing GOP presidential waters in Iowa and elsewhere, progressive activists warned Thursday at a rally here that a Walker presidency would be "terrifying" and disastrous to middle-class families.

The DHS appears to have finally found a use for all those bullets it's been buying.

A tea party rebellion by several U.S. senators blocking progress on a the federal budget may be working for them, but not for their fellow Republican lawmakers - even ones who mostly agree with them.

The news conference was called following the revelation that conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status were given special scrutiny by the IRS.

Jacob Soboroff talked with Tea Party Patriots founder Mark Meckler, whose organization was targeted by the IRS probe into conservative groups, about his lawsuit against the tax organization.

Speaking on Senate floor on Thursday, a fed-up Sen. John McCain scolded Sen. Mike Lee over his objection to initiating House-Senate budget negations unless a debt limit increase is taken off the table.

South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson says he's gotten calls from two conservative groups that feel they were wrongfully targeted by the Internal Revenue Service.

John Frazier stands alone in Durant to join the nationwide Tea Party protest of the IRS during Tuesday's downpour.

The Tea Party wants former Alaska governor Sarah Palin to join their favorites in the Senate, Ted Cruz and Rand Paul .

Lois Lerner, head of the IRS unit that decides whether to grant tax-exempt status to groups, listens on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 22, 2013, during a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing to investigate the extra scrutiny the IRS gave to Tea Party and other conservative groups that applied for tax-exempt status.

IRS official Lois Lerner is sworn in on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 22, 2013, before the House Oversight Committee hearing to investigate the extra scrutiny IRS gave to Tea Party and other conservative groups that applied for tax-exempt status.