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Conservatives: This Story About Conservatives Makes Us Sound Too Conservative

By | 02.01.10 | 4:42 pm

On the front page of The Washington Post, Jerry Markon has an excellent, lengthy look at the conservative movement’s newfound — or at least newly invigorated — online organizing. RedState, for example, has long pushed news favorable to candidates liked by the site’s readers, and has long included fundraising More…

Tea Party Convention Drama Fueled by Emerging GOP Alliance

By | 01.14.10 | 12:13 am

PALIN

Late last year, Judson Phillips of Tea Party Nation came to Eric Odom with a proposition. Odom’s group, the American Liberty Alliance–a free market, anti-tax group launched in March 2009, after its leaders had helped put together the first Tea Party protests–could sign on with the National Tea Party More…

RedState, Club for Growth Go After the Newest House Republican

By | 12.22.09 | 11:43 am

Erick Erickson, in a show of serious ideological consistency, labels Rep. Parker Griffith’s party switch a “huge blow to Obama” and quickly puts the heat on the newest Republican member of Congress.

Here are Griffith’s earmark requests. He voted for Pelosi for Speaker. He’s actually been more regularly with

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Steve King to Lead Another March on Congress

By | 11.06.09 | 3:07 pm

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:

Leon Panetta Is Not Leaving CIA

By | 08.26.09 | 3:47 pm

Crack intelligence reporter Erick Erickson posted that he was hearing “a very credible rumor” that CIA Director Leon Panetta has “dispatched a resignation letter to Barack Obama on vacation.” And what the hell, I figured I’d chase it. People are speculating that Panetta’s on the verge of quitting More…

Quote of the Morning: Death Panels Forever

By | 08.15.09 | 9:47 am

“I’m one of the only people Barack Obama is helping, other than gravediggers.”

- Erick Erickson, managing editor of RedState.com, speaking at RightOnline.

Analogy of the Day

By | 06.22.09 | 11:02 am

From RedState’s Erick Erickson, who really doesn’t love Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.)

McConnell is, in his mind, Darth Vader — the man who oversaw the loss of two Death Stars and in the end betrayed his own side.

In this analogy, I think Sen. Ben Nelson (R-Neb.) is Lando More…

RedState Building Opposition to War Supplemental

By | 06.12.09 | 1:05 pm

The conservative site sends a message to its members, penned by Erick Erickson:

Get on the phone ASAP. The vote has not happened and it looks like it won’t until next week. Why? Because we are bringing pressure to bear and the Democrats are having a very hard time keeping

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Bloggers to NRSC: Drop Dead

By | 05.20.09 | 1:37 pm

John Hawkins of Right Wing News has gotten a number of A- and B-list conservative bloggers to co-sign an open letter to the National Republican Senatorial Committee, a reaction to last week’s endorsement by the group of Gov. Charlie Crist (R-Fla.) in the Florida U.S. Senate race.

We the

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