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The Republicans need 50 votes to repeal Obamacare in 2012 (through reconciliation) after they retake the presidency. Right now, they have 47 conservative members who voted to repeal the bill. So why ...

The Tea Party Express is a California-based group founded in the summer of 2009 to support the Tea Party movement. Founded as a national bus tour to rally Tea Party activists, the group's leadership ...

The Tea Party Express, one of the most influential national tea party groups, paid $103,000 this summer to send six staffers on four consecutive cruises, Politico's Kenneth P. Vogel reports. The ...

Tea Party Express organizer Mark Williams joined Anderson Cooper and Roland Martin on CNN last night to discuss the races today, and mainly what’s happening in New York’s 23rd congressional district.

Last Saturday night, Tea Party Express Chairman Mark Williams gained legendary status among right-wingers for bravely standing up to the unfair stereotypes of the Tea Party movement perpetuated by… ...

Following a week of intense debate over alleged racist elements in the tea party, a national coalition of tea parties has expelled one of its groups for offensive comments. The National Tea Party ...

The guys at Taiwan-based Next Media Animation, which has its own way of covering the news, offered up this assessment of the Tea Party Express. Both Sarah Palin and Lisa Murkowski are featured. John ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. But Sanders isn’t the only one who leveraged the Tucson tragedy into cash. On Monday, ...

The road to Tampa — and the first tea party presidential debate — will start here in Napa. On Aug. 27, the grassroots, conservative Tea Party Express group will be hosting the first stop on its nearly ...