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At KSP, Perry lauds fiscal policies; protestors rally against ‘hateful’ immigration bills

By | 05.17.11 | 3:48 pm

Rick Perry (Photo: Flickr Creative Commons/eschipul)“Hey, hey, ho, ho our racist governor has got to go!” chanted demonstrators Monday night outside the grand opening of the new headquarters for Houston tea party group King Street Patriots (KSP). Inside, before attendees and Republican officeholders, Gov. Rick Perry celebrated his “pro-growth” policies steaming through the state Legislature More…

Gov. Perry to appear at grand opening of King Street Patriots’ HQ

By | 05.10.11 | 5:02 pm

Gov. Rick Perry is the featured guest for the grand opening of King Street Patriots’ new headquarters in northwest Houston, according to the tea party group’s website.

KSP has attracted praise and criticism for its True the Vote project, which aims to recruit 1 million poll watchers to monitor More…

King Street Patriots set fundraising goal of $500K

By | 04.05.11 | 12:15 pm

Fresh off the heels of its national True the Vote summit, Houston tea party group King Street Patriots (KSP) is seeking to raise $500,000 to achieve its goal of recruiting 1 million volunteers across the nation to monitor polling places during the 2012 presidential election.

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True the Vote speaker: ‘leftists don’t want free and fair elections’

By | 03.31.11 | 10:30 am

In a column recounting the recent national True the Vote summit, featured speaker Warner Todd Huston contends that the Houston tea party-led effort is not motivated by partisanship — illustrating his argument with attacks on liberals and a photo of another event speaker holding a cartoon of More…

Andrew Breitbart to headline True the Vote National Summit

By | 01.24.11 | 3:10 pm

King Street PatriotsConservative publisher and pundit Andrew Breitbart is slated to headline the King Street Patriot’s “True the Vote National Summit” in Houston in March. The two-day election integrity event is the followup to the tea party group’s recent statewide summit.

In addition to Breitbart, featured speakers also include More…

Texas, U.S. tea partiers attend King Street Patriots’ True the Vote summit

By | 01.18.11 | 1:12 pm

King Street PatriotsReady or not America, here comes the King Street Patriots. During its True the Vote summit this past weekend, the Houston tea party group unveiled plans to roll out a statewide database of voter registration records. Meanwhile, conservative activists said they intend to replicate KSP/TTV’s “voter fraud”-fighting efforts More…

Florida News - October 30, 2010

As voters go to polls, GOP lawyers prepare legal challenges

By | 11.02.10 | 6:00 am

With midterm races in many states coming down to the wire, David Norcross will likely do what a growing cadre of lawyers plans to do on election day: monitor voting trends and results on the ground and help campaigns prepare for the increasingly likely possibility of swift legal challenges.

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Florida News - October 28, 2008

With voting rights groups reeling, new registrations decline

By | 10.15.10 | 6:00 am

After more than a decade of success expanding voter rolls, voting rights advocates are noting a disturbing trend in the run-up to the 2010 elections. Dramatically fewer groups are engaged in registering voters during the current election cycle than in previous midterm elections, and fewer voters, especially in poorer areas More…

Fox News Touts Another Incident of Possible Voter Fraud

By | 10.04.10 | 2:45 pm

Fox News continues its drumbeat on the “rampant, largely ignored and troubling issue” of voter fraud with a story about Daytona Beach City Commissioner Derrick Henry, whose computer was allegedly “used to obtain dozens of absentee ballots prior to the city’s Aug. 24 elections, in which he was re-elected.”

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In Texas, a Fire Kindles Fears of Voter Fraud

By | 09.23.10 | 3:37 pm

Democrats actually have a chance of winning a few races in Texas this year, but to do so, they have to be able to vote. In Harris County, a key county where progressives have targeted voter registration efforts, an August fire destroyed much of the the county’s voting infrastructure.