FreedomWorks

The Tea Party-bolstered group has sent a blast e-mail out to its supporters, offering strategy and talking points to block a health care reform vote.
“Over the recent August Recess,” writes FreedomWorks Chairman Dick Armey in the email, “we were able to arm thousands of activists with talking points that exposed how government-run health care would [...]

Even tea partiers have their limit.

So, how many people showed up at the 9/12 taxpayer march on Washington? One signal of the confusion over crowd counts came from the stage. Speakers alternately thanked a crowd that numbered in the “tens of thousands” and the “hundreds of thousands.” The source of that confusion, however, seemed to come from Twitter. The plugged-in [...]

As I recount in this morning’s story, the first of three days of Tea Party events in D.C. consisted of a political rally followed by direct lobbying between Tea Party activists and members of Congress — more typically, their staffs. Here is some of the material Tea Party activists got when they showed up at [...]

Here’s a fairly representative video from the Freedom Summit — Annie Rupp, a conservative activist from Hawaii, going nuclear on the Obama administration. She took the microphone twice during the morning’s sessions, both times finishing to a rousing ovation from the crowd.

The resilient “Tea Party” movement, seven months on from its first protests against the economic stimulus package, is proud of its success.

After today’s FreedomWorks-organized rally outside on Capitol Hill this afternoon, former GOP Majority Leader Dick Armey talked with reporters and knocked the press for piling on Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.). Armey’s response to the first of two questions on this, the first from The Washington Post’s Dana Milbank:
Joe Wilson probably feels worse today then anybody [...]

The full agenda for the Sept. 12 “Tea Party” march on Washington is up at the event’s Website. Co-sponsored by FreedomWorks and a constellation of conservative and libertarian groups, the event is heavy on local and D.C. organizers and light on Republican politicians. “No one who supported TARP will be on that stage,” said Brendan [...]

Ben Smith has the not-so-shocking news that FreedomWorks, the chief organizer of a large September 12 anti-tax, anti-spending “march on Washington,” has been charging other conservative groups to sponsor, drop lit, and speak at the event. The new minimum donation: $10,000. Writes Smith’s source:
“Their ‘organizing’ is tending to dominate and overformalize what would’ve otherwise been [...]

Thirty-seven years after his death, community organizer Saul Alinsky has a surprising new fan base.