Republicans are announcing that their much touted “Contract With America,” will be unveiled in Virginia on Thursday and they promise that it will present a clear and constructive alternative to voters before midterms. While the GOP is riding a strong anti-incumbent wave of sentiment among voters, its two year More…
American Crossroads, the conservative political action organization associated with Karl Rove and Ed Gillespie, is declaring its intention today to spend more than $10 million on a midterm get-out-the-vote effort in eight battleground states called “MOVERS” (Mobilizing Our Voters to End Reckless Spending):
The New York Times has written a good profile of the group FreedomWorks, the most successful organizing force in building the Tea Party movement. Like Americans For Prosperity, FreedomWorks is backed by the Koch brothers, who may be bringing more influence to bear on the 2010 election than More…
Jane Mayer has written a thorough and engaging piece about the Koch brothers for the latest issue of the New Yorker. While some have quipped that it falls short of penetrating the veil of secrecy that David and Charles prefer to operate behind, it is nonetheless required reading for anyone More…
Since mid-May, a grinning Glenn Beck has popped up to greet visitors to the FreedomWorks website. Standing in front of his trademark chalkboard, the conservative host is the official face of FreedomWorks’ newest free offering: the “Take America Back! Action Kit.”
[GOP1] Together with a souvenir Gadsden Flag, the Tea More…
“Might as well not even be here,” grumbled Georgia Holliday. “I can’t believe that Dick Armey screwed up like this!”
Holliday was not alone. Having traveled into the city from the suburbs for the 10 a.m. “Code Red” rally on the Capitol grounds, More…
Here’s the top part of the packet FreedomWorks handed out this morning to participants in “The People’s Surge,” the effort directing a few hundred Tea Party activists to meetings with the key members of the House who will vote on health care reform. Note the detailed list of ayes and More…
There’s some waning enthusiasm in the most powerful Tea Party-organizing groups for staging more protests against health care reform legislation. In comparison to the “House call” rallies that preceded the House and Senate votes on reform, the much-reported-on “Take the Town Halls to Washington” campaign has made no visible More…
Yesterday, Judson Berger of Fox News filed a story that framed the Democratic push for final passage of a health care bill as a “race” to beat a wave of voter anger at town halls.
“We’re about to ratchet it up,” said Debbie Dooley, a Tea Party Patriots organizer
Before Ryan Hecker presented the Contract from America to his Sunday night audience — 63 activists huddled inside of a meeting room in the Washington, D.C. office of FreedomWorks — the free-market think tank’s spokesman promised great things.
“You watch,” Adam Brandon told TWI. “This is the idea that’s going More…
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