Conservatives Find Town Hall Strategy in Leftist Text

Michael Patrick Leahy’s self-published conservative manifesto is coming off the presses this week, and not a moment too soon.

“The timing is crucial,” said Leahy, the Nashville, Tenn., activist who founded the Top Conservatives on Twitter hashtag and played another founding role in the anti-tax “Tea Party” movement. “I’m trying More…

#TCOT Falls to Birtherism

Back in April, Brian Beutler reported that Top Conservatives on Twitter—the grassroots group consisting of anyone who used the Twitter hashtag #tcot — was riven by internal divisions. And I’ve talked to conservative activists who have, after being affiliated with the hashtag, moved on and spoken harshly about chief More…