While in Africa Sunday, Obama pledged to redistribute $7B of taxpayer dollars to bolster the sub-Saharan electrical grid. All this while American workers are being furloughed/laid off, soldiers are waiting for healthcare, and we hear that the earth is about to crack in half because of the modest "sequester" reductions in the increase in [...]
Audit the IRS Rally Washington DC Wednesday, June 19th The National Tea Party Patriots organization is holding a rally, 12-3 p.m. on the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol. We are looking into chartering a bus for the rally in DC (see below). We can get a coach bus, leaving at 8:00 a.m., returning [...]
Greetings Fellow Patriots! There will be a meeting of the Richmond Tea Party on Thursday, June 27th at 7 p.m. Agenda items include: Update on RTP lawsuit vs. the IRS, Action ideas presented by Family Foundation, Action Team planning session, and other topics. The location of the meeting is: Grace Alive Outreach Church 4912 E. [...]
Huge news all over the Internet today detailing how your personal data (to include emails & photos) are being harvested and archived by the federal government. More on this story at TheBlaze.
The Richmond Tea Party began the quest for tax-exempt status in December, 2009. Approval was finally granted in July, 2012. It is what happened during those 31 months that lead to this lawsuit. Thanks to all of our supporters who stand with us in support of Constitutional adherence and the rule of law. Here is the press [...]
Greetings Fellow Patriots! There will be a meeting of the Richmond Tea Party on Thursday, May 23rd at 7 p.m. Wow...what a week. It's been a wild ride recently over this IRS inquiry issue. Please join us Thursday 5/23 to discuss the IRS story, the RPV convention, and taking the next steps to grow RTP [...]
Treading on Us.... As reported Friday, a senior executive for the IRS (Lois Lerner) admitted that tea party and patriot groups had been inappropriately targeted for additional reviews, specifically regarding requests for non-profit tax status. These reviews contained requests for information that were intrusive and offensive in nature, further delaying non-profit status requests from being [...]
Greetings Fellow Patriots! “Fight!” That was the theme of our meeting on Thursday night. If we are to restore the Republic, we must fight for it, as did our patriot forefathers. I was heartened to see a “packed house” at our meeting. Many more emailed me and expressed their regret that they were unable to [...]
The RTP Minority Outreach and Action Committee (RTPMOAC) is very involved on the local level, bridging the gaps between communities and volunteering its time and resources to bring truth about the 5 Tea Party principles (among other goals) to ALL communities. Kevin Jackson of The Blacksphere said on his visit here with Joe "the Plumber" [...]
Greetings Fellow Patriots! There will be a special meeting of the Richmond Tea Party on Thursday, May 2nd at 7 p.m. This is an important meeting, and you are strongly encouraged to attend! The main purpose of the meeting is to inform our supporters of the results from the recent "candidate vetting weekend," sponsored by [...]
You won't believe this (well, yes you probably will). From The Hill on Friday: With little fanfare, the House quickly voted Friday to repeal a financial transparency requirement for senior government officials, which was part of a much-heralded government transparency bill last year. Members passed S. 716 by unanimous consent, with no debate and [...]
From the Executive Director Greetings, fellow Patriots! It seems every week the national and local news gets worse. Just within the past 2 weeks we’ve had our elections “nationalized” through executive order, unemployment numbers unmasked an abysmal picture of the job market, 2nd Amendment rights continued to be assaulted, apparently another massive cache of bullets [...]
