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SOURCE: Talking Points Memo
5/25/2023
The Path to January 6 Ran Through the Obama-Era Tea Party
The closeness of the Oath Keepers militia group to the Tea Party movement was hardly a guarded secret in the 2010s.
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12/11/2022
The Selective Appropriation of Christopher Gadsden's Famous Flag
by Jordan Baker
The Gadsden Flag originally symbolized the unity of the American colonies against oppression by the Crown and Parliament. It's an irony of history that the symbol has been adopted by some who reject centralized authority.
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SOURCE: The New Republic
8/10/2021
How the Far Right Weaponized America’s Democratic Roots
by Joe Lowndes
By steering away from overt white nationalism, the far right is able to engage a politics of white innocence and portray themselves as heirs to America's revolutionary heritage.
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SOURCE: New York Magazine
2/8/2021
The Forces That Stopped Obama’s Recovery Will Not Stop Biden’s
by Jonathan Chait
Has the bipartisan Washington elite preoccupation with budget deficits faded since the Obama Administration's troubled efforts to promote economic recovery in 2009? Will austerity wreck Biden's goals too? Jon Chait says that moment has passed.
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4/30/2020
Right-Wing Protests Intensify over COVID Closures
by HNN Staff
The Michigan legislature has closed its session due to the threat of armed mobs at the state capitol.
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SOURCE: The New York Times
4/21/2020
The Quiet Hand of Conservative Groups in the Anti-Lockdown Protests
Groups in a loose coalition have tapped their networks to drive up turnout at recent rallies in state capitals and financed lawsuits, polling and research to combat the stay-at-home orders.
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SOURCE: Vox
4/19/2020
What the Anti-Stay-At-Home Protests Are Really About
They’re part of a Trumpian strategy from some conservative groups to reshape public opinion.
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SOURCE: Politico
5-30-17
Tea Party Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) says liberal historians have ignored the role of Anti-Federalist Founding Fathers
by Mike Lee
What the historians forget is "the essential truth that underlies a full understanding of the Constitution: the fact that nearly every founder shared a healthy skepticism of a large federal bureaucracy."
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SOURCE: Time Magazine
4-6-16 (accessed)
The Secret Origins of the Tea Party
by Jeff Nesbit
How big oil and big tobacco partnered with the Koch brothers to take over the GOP.
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SOURCE: Politico
9-1-14
The Original Tea Partier Was an Atheist
by Matthew Stewart
Remembering America's forgotten founding father.
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SOURCE: NYT
8-12-14
The South’s Lesson for the Tea Party
by Curtis Wilkie
We remember the dangers of nativism and populist rebellion.
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SOURCE: University of Notre Dame
7-18-14
Tea Party support linked to educational segregation, new study shows
"Acceptance or rejection of the Tea Party's views on the government's role in redistributing wealth is shaped, to a large degree, by the extent to which those who have benefited from higher education are set apart in their daily lives from those who have not."
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SOURCE: Salon
5-22-14
Yale-educated history professor is Nebraska's GOP candidate for US Senate and a Tea Party conservative
by Heather Digby Parton
"Ben Sasse believes that our right to the free exercise of religion is co-equal to our right to life."--Ben Sasse website
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4-11-14
The Tea Party's Weird Ideas About the Original Tea Party (Interview)
by Ron Formisano
The differences between the original Tea Party and the current Tea Party that borrows its name.
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SOURCE: Democracy: A Journal of Ideas
Winter 2014
Why the Tea Party’s Hold Persists
by Theda Skocpol
Pundits keep predicting the Tea Party's demise, but it never sticks. Here's why.
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SOURCE: Democracy: A Journal of Ideas
Winter 2014
The Anti-Jacksonians
by Sean Wilentz
Historical analogies are oft imperfect, and the Tea Party=Jacksonian Democrats meme is more imperfect than most.
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SOURCE: Alternet
11-14-13
Sorry, Tea Partyers: Religious Right Rooted in Radical Progressivism
by Ira Chernus
How quickly Christian evangelicals forget their movement has a long history of demanding government intervention.
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SOURCE: New York Times
11-5-13
The Decline of the Tea Party
by Bruce Bartlett
There are signs of a pushback.
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SOURCE: The American Interest
11-2-13
Is The Tea Party Really All About Alger Hiss?
by Walter Russell Mead
Hiss is the quintessential liberal establishment elite (and closet communist).
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SOURCE: Center for American Progress
10-31-13
The Tea Party’s Forebears Are a Movement of the Rich
by Eric Alterman
The Tea Party has roots that date back to the passage of the income tax amendment.