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The Tea Party movement was an American fiscally conservative political movement within the Republican Party that began in 2009.
Tea Party movement, conservative populist social and political movement that emerged in 2009 in the United States, generally opposing excessive taxation and government intervention in the private sector while supporting stronger immigration controls.
The Tea Party, a conservative political group, has been grabbing headlines and upending primary elections in America for over a year now. The BBC's Katie Connolly reports on what the...
Socialism, The Birther Movement, and Tea Party Leaders. Ninety-two percent of Tea Party supporters believe President Obama's policies are moving the country toward socialism.
While the tea party may have formerly started after Obama took office, anger over federal spending and a rapidly bloating government began to surface during the big-spending years of the George W. Bush administration.
This explains why the Tea Party movement was able to mobilize, spread, and network so rapidly, as if by magic.
Depending on where you stand, the Tea Party movement is either a burgeoning grassroots movement filled with anti-establishment patriots or a marginal group of mostly white, mostly...
The Tea Party movement is a populist branch of conservative Republicans. It opposes government spending, taxation, and regulation. Tea Party members believe that the federal government uses these measures to infringe on Americans' personal liberties as outlined in the Constitution.
Conservative activists railed against the Affordable Care Act. They wanted to cut government spending, cut taxes and rein in the debt. It was the birth of the Tea Party, a movement that took...
Understanding the Tea Party Movement addresses these challenges by explaining why and how the movement emerged when it did, how it relates to earlier eruptions of conservative populism, and by raising critical questions about the movement's ultimate fate.