Heartland.org has made available for free a great resource for Tea Party activists. Here's their description of The Patriot's Toolbox: This book is offered as a guide to public policy for patriot-activists in the Tea Party movement as well as for candidates for public office, incumbent office holders, civic and business leaders, and journalists assigned [...]
So far, the coverage of the Virginia Tea Party Convention -- the largest Tea Party convention anywhere to date -- has been very positive. Here's an excerpt from what the Richmond Times-Dispatch had to say: Like a student late for class, Suzanne Curran, 71, marched purposefully through the halls of the Greater Richmond Convention Center [...]
Yesterday was quite a day for the Richmond Tea Party and like-minded organizations. The Richmond Times-Dispatch ran seven articles about us and this weekend’s VA Tea Party convention: 1) Tea-party movement in full force ahead of convention 2) Tea Party has some support among blacks 3) Chester Patriots founder has seen group’s membership swell 4) [...]
The attempt of the Media continues. It would be so simple if they could tie the Tea Party to one or the other existing party. But it just isn't going to happen. The Tea Party is growing so rapidly that we don't need any help or guidance from either. In fact, neither party has been [...]
It’s been quite a ride so far, hasn’t it? In less than a year and a half since our first Tea Party, the movement has exploded into more protests and rallies, marches, viral videos of passionate town hall appearances, visits to congressional offices, bus trips to Washington D.C. (and other cities across America), online and [...]
In recent news we read that there remains a lack of trust in government. And rightly so. But emerging is proof that help is on the way. More and more we see that indeed the Tea Party is alive and well, working to hold our government accountable. But as with most such maladies as mistrust, [...]
It depends who you ask. If you ask the GOP leadership, "we're all the Tea Party..." Read about it here. To excerpt: House Republican leader John Boehner says: "There really is no difference between what Republicans believe in and what the Tea Party activists believe in." Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele says: "If I [...]
The old media and many commentators, including many Republican savants, have been saying that candidates endorsed by Tea Parties cannot win in November. The old-guard Republicans whine that RINOs (Republicans In Name Only) and “moderate” Republicans have been defeated in primaries when “they are the only candidates who can win.” The conventional wisdom says that [...]
PRESS RELEASE Nationally Known Speakers, Breakout Seminars & National Policy Experts Forum also Featured Richmond, Va. – One of the first presidential straw polls of the 2012 campaign will be a highlight of the inaugural Virginia Tea Party Patriots Convention on Oct. 8-9 in Richmond, Va. The straw poll, administered by leading conservative media group [...]
RTP has had some questions about our involvement in the VA-9 race and lack of coordination for the 9/12 event. As I said before, we support both efforts, but in light of this discussion, I want to highlight a recent Washington Examiner op-ed written by Mark Llyod -- chairman of the Lynchburg Tea Party and [...]
An excellent new resource was just made available for helping proponents of constitutionally limited government organize their get-out-the-vote efforts more effectively than we have in the past to have a real impact on elections. It’s called the Concord Project and is found at www.concordproject.org. For a detailed post about this initiative, click here.
A few months back, the Richmond Tea Party polled our supporters to find out if you wanted us to organize bus trips to Glenn Beck’s Restoring Honor rally or the 9/12 March on Washington. The strong preference was for Restoring Honor, so that’s the one we organized. But the 9/12 March on Washington is critical [...]