Intellectual libertarians and conservatives ignore the reality of their Tea Party shock troops at their peril. New York Times columnist Ross Douthat is only the latest conservative unwilling to ...

Michele Bachmann has worked hard to court the Tea Party vote -- even founding the Tea Party Caucus in the House of Representatives long before she decided to run for president. But among Tea Partiers, ...

Two-term Tennessee Sen. Lamar Alexander has pulled off a surprise for Washington-based Tea Party groups eagerly looking for a more conservative alternative to make a primary challenge in 2014: He’s ...

Candidates with strong Tea Party support are doing well enough across the nation that they could end up with a "sizable caucus" in Congress that's able to push the movement's conservative agenda, The ...

The NAACP and the Institute for Research & Education on Human Rights (IREHR) today fired the second official salvo in the battle between civil rights groups and the Tea Party movement. In a report ...

WINDHAM — The Republican and tea party leaders of Greene County spoke with confidence as they garnered further support from party faithful Saturday during the county GOP’s annual dinner. Candidates ...

Once a political oddity, Tea Partiers have firmly entrenched themselves in the political discourse. So it's worth asking, who are the Tea Partiers and what do they believe? A New York Times-CBS News ...

A low-key Tucson Tea Party rally suffered from a lack of actual tea - or many other beverages - on a warm, wind-swept Saturday. Some attendees at the DeMeester Outdoor Performance Center were left ...

Tea Party leaders say Republican budgets don't go far enough. March 1, 2011— -- Days away from a potential government shutdown, the Republican leadership is facing increasing pressure from the ...

WASHINGTON - The Tea Party movement is officially welcomed into the Republican mainstream today as the first presidential debate sponsored by a Tea Party group takes place in Tampa, Fla. Tonight's ...

Waving colorful signs and enjoying hot rhetoric, thousands of tea-party supporters crowded into Richmond's Kanawha Plaza yesterday evening to show their contempt for President Barack Obama and big ...