…of state — the precinct delegates decide the party’s nominees at a statewide convention. These conventions were often sleepy affairs, the outcome predetermined. But this time, when the party’s chair,…

…Tea Party purity, forcing candidates and elected officials from the party itself if they don’t meet the issue-by-issue test and effectively repelling moderate voters by a message that they are…

…federal fiscal policy to the Tea Party. Others thought that, too, among them an unidentified senior White House official, who wrote to Fournier to complain. But Fournier says he doesn’t…

…on Slate, Dahlia Lithwick reports on Justice Clarence Thomas’s wife Ginni’s appearance at the Virginia Tea Party Patriots Convention on Friday. Ginni Thomas is an activist in the Tea Party…

…only way that our dysfunctional Congress–with far-right-wing/Tea Party dominance in the House and the minority-control rule through the filibuster in the Senate–will be able to undo the disastrous emphasis on…

…also turned out to be a big nothing, although this fact has probably had less reporting. So after the big Tea Party win in 2010 a bunch of their groups…