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Oklahoma Grassroots Leaders Oppose T.W. Shannon in GOP Senate Primary

A group of 32 local Oklahoma Tea Party, 9-12, and liberty movement activists have written an open letter disagreeing with a series of high-profile Tea Party affiliated individuals and groups who have endorsed the candidacy of former Oklahoma Speaker of

Oklahoma Grassroots Leaders Oppose T.W. Shannon in GOP Senate Primary

Boehner Challenger Loses Adjunct Job Over 'Electile Dysfunction' Ad

Bob Dole may have made tens of thousands of dollars for appearing in an erectile dysfunction television ad back in the 90s, but Speaker John Boehner’s (R-OH) Republican primary challenger, J.D. Winteregg, lost his job. Winteregg lost his adjunct teaching

Boehner Challenger Loses Adjunct Job Over 'Electile Dysfunction' Ad

John Boehner's Tea Party Whopper

Politicians may be known for stretching the truth, but Speaker John Boehner’s claim he’s attended “hundreds of Tea Party events” over the past four years apparently pulled it well past the point of breaking. In reviewing press reports, Breitbart News

John Boehner's Tea Party Whopper

McConnell Pounces on Video of Bevin at Cockfighting Rally

Citing an explosive undercover video taken at a March 29 cockfighting rally that aired Thursday in a Louisville television station’s investigative report, a spokesperson for Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on Friday called his primary opponent, Matt Bevin, a pathological liar.

McConnell Pounces on Video of Bevin at Cockfighting Rally

Warren Ancestry Scapegoat Leads Back To Her

As Elizabeth Warren tells it in her new book, A Fighting Chance, it all began with a single question from the press about a long-ago forgotten Harvard Crimson story. “It started in April with a question,” she writes. “Sixteen years

Warren Ancestry Scapegoat Leads Back To Her

Tea Party Scores Another Victory in FL GOP Congressional Primary

The Tea Party scored another electoral victory in a Republican Congressional primary in Florida on Tuesday. In a special election caused by the resignation of disgraced former Rep Trey Radel (R-FL), Tea Party-backed Curt Clawson, a relatively unknown businessman, won

Tea Party Scores Another Victory in FL GOP Congressional Primary

Meet The Drone-Shooting Montana Congressional Candidate

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) shot a cap-and-trade bill, and an Alabama congressional candidate shot a printed copy of Obamacare, but Matt Rosendale, the Montana GOP congressional candidate, took the meme to a new level when he shot a drone that

Meet The Drone-Shooting Montana Congressional Candidate

Amy Kremer Resigns from Tea Party Express

Amy Kremer, one of the original Tea Party activists who participated in the February 20, 2009 call that launched the movement and played a key role as scheduler of the April 15, 2009 Tax Day Tea Party rallies, resigned on

Amy Kremer Resigns from Tea Party Express

Tea Party Patriots Sues IRS

On Tuesday, the fifth anniversary of the 2009 Tax Day Tea Party rallies that forced the mainstream media to acknowledge the existence of the Tea Party movement, Tea Party Patriots filed a lawsuit in federal court against the IRS and

Tea Party Patriots Sues IRS

Professor Hopes To Be Tea Party's David To Eric Cantor's Goliath

David Brat, an economics professor at Randolph-Macon College, is hoping to play the role of David to House Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s Goliath in this June’s Republican primary in Virginia’s 7th Congressional District. But he’s got his work cut out

Professor Hopes To Be Tea Party's David To Eric Cantor's Goliath

A Challenger to Lindsey Graham Who Can Raise Money Emerges

On Tuesday sources close to Det Bowers, a well known Christian pastor, reported that he has raised $417,000 in the two months since he joined the race to defeat incumbent Senator Lindsay Graham in South Carolina’s Republican U.S. Senate primary this

A Challenger to Lindsey Graham Who Can Raise Money Emerges

Franken Issues Dire Warning Over Palin Endorsement Of GOP Rival

Senator Al Franken (D-MN) is having a bit of a freak out out over Sarah Palin’s endorsement on Thursday of state senator Julianne Ortman, the leading candidate to win the Republican nomination for the United States Senate in Minnesota and

Franken Issues Dire Warning Over Palin Endorsement Of GOP Rival

Glenn Beck: Matt Bevin 'Called of God'

LOUISVILLE, Kentucky–Speaking at Saturday’s FreePAC Kentucky gathering sponsored by FreedomWorks, talk radio host Glenn Beck said of Matt Bevin, the Tea Party-endorsed challenger to Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY), “I believe that man was called of God.” Beck’s speech was wildly

Glenn Beck: Matt Bevin 'Called of God'

Kentucky Tea Party Activists Utilize Left's Community Organizing Tools

LOUISVILLE, Kentucky–FreedomWorks President Matt Kibbe, one of the featured speakers at the organization’s FreePAC Kentucky event in Louisville Saturday, told Breitbart News that the estimated 2,000 Tea Party activists attending the event will focus on the tools and techniques of community

Kentucky Tea Party Activists Utilize Left's Community Organizing Tools

Conservative Victory in Virginia GOP With Appointment of Shaun Kenney

The Republican Party of Virginia is picking a top conservative blogger as its executive director. Pat Mullins, Chairman of the Republican Party of Virginia, announced on Tuesday that Shaun Kenney, the founder of the respected conservative blog Bearing Drift, has

Conservative Victory in Virginia GOP With Appointment of Shaun Kenney

Sebelius Can't Rule Out More Obamacare Delays

MADISON, Tennessee–Obamacare is too “complicated” to know whether there will be further delays to its implementation, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said Thursday. Asked by Breitbart News at a press conference here whether there are any parts of

Sebelius Can't Rule Out More Obamacare Delays

CFPB Payday Loan Hearings in Nashville Backfire for Obama Administration

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Richard Cordray and an entourage of CFPB employees, several of whom are veterans of the Obama and Elizabeth Warren campaigns, descended on Nashville, Tennessee, for a payday loan field hearing Tuesday at the Country Music

CFPB Payday Loan Hearings in Nashville Backfire for Obama Administration

John Bolton Steps Up Super PAC Game With Eye On 2016

With an eye on 2016, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton is stepping up his Super PAC game. The former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations raised over $800,000 in 2013 and is looking to make a

John Bolton Steps Up Super PAC Game With Eye On 2016

Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund Endorses Matt Bevin in Kentucky

On Friday, the Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund endorsed Matt Bevin, who is challenging Mitch McConnell (R-KY) in this May’s Kentucky Republican primary. Jenny Beth Martin, President of Tea Party Patriots and its Citizen Fund Super PAC, told the Washington Times, “Senator

Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund Endorses Matt Bevin in Kentucky

Citizens United Head David Bossie: Conservatism Under Attack from Within

Earlier this month at the Conservative Political Action Conference, David Bossie, the president of Citizens United and a veteran congressional investigator during the Clinton years, did not mince words. “The conservative movement,” he said, “is always under attack from the

Citizens United Head David Bossie: Conservatism Under Attack from Within