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Erick Erickson of RedState, whose stature in the conservative movement has risen with the Doug Hoffman insurrection, blasts out an announcement of a second anti-health care bill protest on the steps of Congress. Whole e-mail after the jump:

TWI was on the scene at Rep. Michele Bachmann’s (R-Minn.) Tea Party rally on Capitol Hill today. The first batch of photos is after the jump. Video and more coming soon.

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 [...]

For the most part, today’s Tea Party was harmonious, with the crowds chanting in unison, “No Obamacare” and “You lie” and such. But there were small pockets of counterprotest that led to a few heated debates.
The most elaborate counterprotest came in the form of an a cappella ensemble, dressed in formal wear and posing as [...]

Here are some photos from today’s Tea Party protest in Washington, D.C. (Click images to enlarge.)

Amy Harder spoke to Charmaine Yoest, the president of Americans United for Life, before and after four anti-abortion protesters interrupted the Sotomayor hearings and were ejected from the room for misbehavior. Yoest — who’s the lone anti-abortion expert on the GOP’s witness list — didn’t sound too bothered.
The outbursts “underscore that the grassroots really are [...]

@PersianKiwi, the world’s most vital journalist — Mike Crowley should stop hating –  tweets about today’s big Tehran demonstration:
Everybody is peaceful and quiet – everybody is wearing black – the number of people is unbelievable – SEA OF GREEN
S/he says s/he’s going to report back when the march ends. Please. Please. Listen to their demo.

Byron York, covering the 2006 immigration rallies:
At the big pro-illegal-immigration rally on the Mall in Washington on April 10, thousands of demonstrators held aloft dark blue signs that read, “We Are America.” Below those words, in smaller letters, was the name “New American Opportunity Campaign,” and below that was a web address, www.cirnow.org.
Although not obvious [...]

Code Pink activists went after Obama economic adviser Larry Summers this afternoon, bounding to the conference room stage where Summers was speaking and unfurling a banner behind his back that read “We Want Our $$$ Back.”
But the most fascinating thing about the episode — aside from the fact that it took event organizers about an [...]