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Parent topics

• American conservatism [r]: A diverse mix of political ideologies that share support for market economics, some view of American exceptionalism and, generally, decentralization of government; differing views of individual liberties versus enforcement of morality; in opposition to liberalism, socialism and communism; factions include libertarianism, social conservatism, nativism (politics) and neoconservatism ^[e]
  • Fiscal conservatism [r]: A political position (primarily in the United States) that calls for lower levels of public spending, lower taxes and lower government debt. ^[e]
  • Constitutional conservatism [r]: An especially strict view of U.S. constitutional law, principally regarding the U.S. Constitution as a document to be read literally and not interpreted ^[e]
• Restructuring of the U.S. political right [r]: A broad category of efforts to regain U.S. political dominance by various combinations of social, fiscal, and national security ideologies, generally seen as of the Right and possibly U.S. Republican Party, as opposed to the center-left position of the Barack Obama administration and the Democratic-controlled Congress ^[e]
• Community organizing [r]: A widely used term that can refer both to a type of civil society organization (one closely associated with a particular community) and to the process of forming, creating and operating such organizations. ^[e]

Subtopics

Issues

• Sixteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution [r]: Authorized national income tax ^[e]
  • Internal Revenue Service [r]: Agency of the U.S. Department of the Treasury, primarily responsible for collecting individual and organizational income tax; also makes determinations of nonprofit status, including issue and political organizations such as IRS categoriies 501(c)(3), 501(c)(4) and 527 ^[e]
• Seventeenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution [r]: Permitted direct popular election of the U.S. Senate, rather than by state legislatures ^[e]
• Health care reform [r]: Rubric used for discussing major health policy creation or changes in governmental policy, that affects healthcare delivery in a given place. ^[e]
  • Affordable Health Care for America Act [r]: H.R. 3962, a health care reform bill passed by the Democratic-controlled U.S. House of Representatives in November 2009 ^[e]
  • Obamacare [r]: The health care plan of the Obama Administration, authorized by the Affordable Health Care for America Act ^[e]
• 2010 U.S. Congressional election [r]: Issues in, campaigns for, and the conduct of the November 2010 election for all of the U.S. House of Representatives and one-third of the U.S. Senate ^[e]
• Birther Movement [r]: A movement that claims Barack Obama is not a native-born American citizen and thus is ineligible to be President ^[e]

National groups

• Tea Party Patriots [r]: A national organization supporting local Tea Party movement groups and doing national education but not chartered to endorse candidates; an outgrowth of Keli Carender's original organization ^[e]
• Chicago Tea Party [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Tea Party Express [r]: Headed by Republican campaign consultant Sal Russo, faction of the Tea Party movement, named for the bus on which its activists travel, which has a website with virtually no information; it is vilified by Tea Party Patriots; ejected by Tea Party National Federation over alleged racist remarks ^[e]
• Tea Party Nation [r]: For-profit corporation that organized the February 2010 National Tea Party Convention, and runs a website with Tea Party Movement communications and sales of related materials ^[e]
• Tea Party National Federation [r]: Add brief definition or description
  • Tea Party Leadership Team [r]: An informal leadership coalition that participates in regular Tea Party strategy conference calls; derives from the first major conference call in February 2009 ^[e]
• 1776 Tea Party [r]:

1. REDIRECT TeaParty.org/Definition ^[e]

• ResistNet [r]: Add brief definition or description

Supportive conservative organizations

• Freedomworks [r]: An American conservative group that trains and supports local activists, founded in 1984 by Dick Armey ^[e]
• American Liberty League (formerly DontGO) [r]: American pressure group formed in 1934 challenging New Deal policies and advocating the Constitution. ^[e]
• Americans for Prosperity [r]: A voluntary organization in the United States, supporting enterpeurship and fiscal concervatism; associated with the Tea Party Movement ^[e]

Affiliated candidates, including incumbents

• Todd Akin [r]: U.S. Representative (R-Missouri), Republican Study Committee ^[e]
• Michele Bachmann [r]: U.S. Representative (R-Minnesota), House Financial Services Committee; Republican Study Committee; 100% American Conservative Union rating, 2008; active in Tea Party Movement ^[e]
• John Boehner [r]: U.S. Representative and House Minority Leader, (R-Ohio); strong supporter of Iraq War and rejected Iraq Study Group report; supportive of Tea Party movement ^[e]
• Paul Broun [r]: Primary care physician and U.S. Representative (R-Georgia), House Homeland Security Committee, House Committee on Science and Technology: ranking Republican: Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight; House Committee on Natural Resources; Republican Study Committee; National Rifle Association; Gun Owners of America; 100% American Conservative Union rating, 2008 ^[e]
• Ken Buck [r]: Defeated 2010 Republican U.S. Senate candidate from Colorado; supported by Tea Party movement groups ^[e]
• Eric Cantor [r]: U.S. Representative (R-Virginia), U.S. House Minority Whip; House Committee on Ways and Means; Republican Study Committee; Congressional Internet Caucus ^[e]
• Bill Cassidy [r]: Physician and U.S. Representative (R-Louisiana), House Committee on Natural Resources, Agriculture Committee, Committee on Education and Labor; Assistant Whip for the House Republican Conference; Republican Study Committee; associate professor of medicine, Louisiana State University ^[e]
• Steve King [r]: U.S. Representative (R-Iowa), House Committee on Agriculture; House Committee on Small Business; House Committee on the Judiciary; Republican Study Committee; Conservative Opportunity Society ^[e]
• Mike Lee [r]: 2010 Republican U.S. Senate candidate from Utah; supported by Tea Party movement groups ^[e]
• Christine O'Donnell [r]: 2010 U.S. Republican Party nominee for the U.S. Senate seat from Delaware; supported by the Tea Party Movement; past spokesman for Concerned Women for America ^[e]
• Rand Paul [r]: 2010 U.S. Republican Party candidate for U.S. Senate from Kentucky, identified with the Tea Party Movement, libertarianism and constitutional conservatism; son of Ron Paul and named for Ayn Rand ^[e]

Supportive public figures

• Dick Armey [r]: Chairman of Freedomworks, a group guiding bottom-up activism for "lower taxes, less government, and more freedom"; affiliated with Tea Party Movement; lobbyist; retired as U.S. House Majority Leader in 2003, after 18 years as a Republican representative from Texas ^[e]
• Glenn Beck [r]: U.S. conservative political opinion broadcaster and author, with a show on Fox News and a political action effort, the 9-12 Project ^[e]
  • 9-12 Project [r]: A political opposition movement, positioned as of cooperating individuals, organized by Glenn Beck of Fox News ^[e]
• Andrew Breitbart [r]: Publisher of Breitbart web news portals, Big Government, and of Big Hollywood, covering Hollywood and politics from the center/right perspective. His latest group blog endeavor; developer for Huffington Post ^[e]
• Joseph Farah [r]: Co-founder, Editor and Chief Executive Officer, WorldNetDaily; contributing expert, Ariel Center for Policy Research; expert list, Middle East Forum; weekly columnist for the International Edition of the Jerusalem Post; former editor-in-chief of the Sacramento Union ^[e]
• Sarah Palin [r]: (1964–) Governor of Alaska (2006–2009) and Republican Party vice presidential nominee (2008). ^[e]
• Ron Paul [r]: (1935–) libertarian U.S. Representative (R-Texas) and physician; sought Republican Presidential candidacy in 2008; father of Rand Paul; advisory board and national chair, 1996, Republican Liberty Caucus ^[e]
• Tom Tancredo [r]: American conservative activist who addressed the 2010 National Tea Party Convention; major issue is illegal immigration; U.S. Representative 1998-2008; Republican presidential nomination candidate 2008; columnist, WorldNetDaily ^[e]

Financial supporters

• Richard Fink [r]: Board member and head of the refining division of Koch Industries; cofounder of Americans for Prosperity; president of the Charles R. Lambe Charitable Foundation ^[e]
• Charles Koch [r]: Major owner of privately held Koch Industries; brother of David Koch; contributor to American conservative causes ^[e]
• David Koch [r]: Major owner of privately held Koch Industries; brother of Charles Koch; contributor to American conservative causes, including cofounding Americans for Prosperity ^[e]

Activists

• JoAnn Abbott [r]: Washington, DC Tea Party movement activist, who calls herself the "grandma of the Tea Party", who challenged Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele not to take the movement for granted as pro-Republican; member Tea Party National Leadership Team ^[e]
• Don Adams [r]: Public affairs consultant; Tea Party National Leadership Team ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; organized April 2009 rally ^[e]
• Gary Aminoff [r]: First vice chairman of the Republican Party of Los Angeles County ; Tea Party National Leadership Team ; Los Angeles, California ^[e]
• Brooks Bayne [r]: Tea Party Movement National Leadership Team; Los Angeles, California; The Bill of Federalism Project Contact ^[e]
• Glenda Caldwell [r]: Tea Party Movement National Leadership Team;Cookeville, Tennessee ^[e]
• Keli Carender [r]: Seattle, Washington conservative activist who organized some of the first, if not the first, Tea Party movement rallies in February 2009 ^[e]
• Brian Campbell [r]: Tea Party Movement National Leadership Team; Denver, Colorado; co-organizer of first Colorado Tax Day Rally; candidate for 7th Congressional District; co-founder, Hear Us Now!; endorsed Tom Tancredo for Governor of Colorado ^[e]
• Christie Carden [r]: Tea Party Movement National Leadership Team; Cofounder of Huntsville, Alabama Tea Party; state Tea Party coordinator ^[e]
• Ben Cunningham [r]: Nashville, Tennessee conservative activist; Tea Party Movement National Leadership Team; involved in earlier anti-tax protests; compiles headlines on the Tea Party Movement ^[e]
• Phillip Dennis [r]: Tea Party Movement National Leadership Team; Dallas, Texas ^[e]
• James Dickey [r]: Tea Party National Leadership Team; Dallas, Texas ^[e]
• Debbie Dooley [r]: Tea Party Patriots national coordinating group ^[e]
• Kenneth Emanuelson [r]: Tea Party National Leadership Team; Dallas, Texas ^[e]
• Mike Gaske [r]: Tea Party Patriots national coordinating group ^[e]
• Kellen Giuda [r]: Add brief definition or descriptionTea Party Patriots national coordinating group
• Kevin Hard [r]: Add brief definition or description Tea Party Movement National Leadership Team; Tyler, Texas
• Ryan Hecker [r]: Add brief definition or descriptionTea Party Patriots national coordinating group
• Bill Hennessy [r]: Add brief definition or description Tea Party Movement National Leadership Team; St. Louis, Missouri
• Wendy Herman [r]: American conservative activist in Corpus Christi, Texas; Tea Party National Leadership Team; blogs on Smart Girl Politics ^[e]
• Michael Johns [r]: Add brief definition or description Tea Party Movement National Leadership Team;Deptford, New Jersey
• Tony Katz [r]: Add brief definition or description Tea Party Movement National Leadership Team; Los Angeles, California
• Amy Kremer [r]: Cofounder of Tea Party Patriots, who left to become Director of Grassroots & Coalitions at Tea Party Express; her departure was acrimonious ^[e]
• Michael Patrick Leahy [r]: Among the first organizers of Tea Party movement rallies and member of National Leadership Team; Thompsons Station, Tennessee; The Tea Party Caucus Project Contact; self-described "conservative radical"; Evangelical Christian; Conservative new media publisher of Top Conservatives on Twitter, Bill of Federalism website ^[e]
• Dana Loesch [r]: Conservative blogger and radio host in St. Louis, Missouri; Tea Party Movement National Leadership Team; named one of the top 16 most powerful moms online by Neilsen; selected as one of St. Louis’s “30 Under 30″ by the St. Louis Business Journal in 2008; appears on Fox News and CNN ^[e]
• Gina Loudon [r]: Based in St. Louis, Missouri, a broadcaster and blogger focused on politics, faith in action, life design, travel and effective Christian living; doctorate in human development; Tea Party movement activist ^[e]
• Geoffrey Ludt [r]: Add brief definition or description Tea Party Movement National Leadership Team; Portland, Oregon
• Karen Mack [r]: Leader of the Wood County Tea Party in Louisiana, self-described as a “A Christian, a Tea Party Member, a Constitutionalist and a Patriot;” as a teenager, she had been affiliated with the Ku Klux Klan ^[e]
• Mark Meckler [r]: Originally a disk jockey, then a business attorney and Internet political enterpreneur in southern California; his firm, Opt-In Movement, worked for Republican causes including FreedomWorks; local Tea Party movement activist before co-founding Tea Party Patriots ^[e]
• Brad Marston [r]: 2010 Republican losing candidate for Massachusetts House of Representatives; associated with the Tea Party movement; opposed by NARAL Pro-Choice on reproductive issues with incumbent strongly supported; wants waste out of state services but not their abolition ^[e]
• Jenny Beth Martin [r]: Former U.S. Republican Party political consultant; cofounder and current CEO of Tea Party Patriots ^[e]
• Rod Merrill [r]: Add brief definition or description Tea Party Movement National Leadership Team; Western Michigan
• Eric Odom [r]: Early Tea Party movement organizer, who was affiliated with the former "dontgo", now American Liberty Alliance; now the administrator of the Tax Day Tea Party Web site ^[e]
• Sally Oljar [r]: Add brief definition or descriptionTea Party Patriots national coordinating grou
• Mike Perez [r]: Tea Party Movement National Leadership Team; Covina, California; The Mustard Seeds Project Contact ^[e]
• Katrina Pierson [r]: Add brief definition or description Tea Party Movement National Leadership Team; Dallas, Texas
• Diana Reimer [r]: Add brief definition or descriptionTea Party Patriots national coordinating group

• Chris Shirey [r]: Add brief definition or description Tea Party Movement National Leadership Team; Laurel, Delaware
• Mark Skoda [r]: Add brief definition or description Tea Party Movement National Leadership Team; Memphis, Tennessee
• Pam Stout [r]: Add brief definition or description Tea Party Movement National Leadership Team; Sandpoint, Idaho
• Gene Sweeney [r]: Add brief definition or description Tea Party Movement National Leadership Team; Bradenton, Florida
• Billie Tucker [r]: Add brief definition or descriptionTea Party Patriots national coordinating group
• Jon Wallace [r]: Add brief definition or description Tea Party Movement National Leadership Team; Rutland, Vermont
• Tom Whitmore [r]: Leader of the Washington D.C. Tea Party, living in suburban Manassas, Virginia; appeared in an 60 Plus Association political advertisement; associated with Freedomworks; involved in the "Red Dog Express train of conservative change" ^[e]
• Dawn Wildman [r]: Add brief definition or descriptionTea Party Patriots national coordinating group

Other related topics

• Boston Tea Party [r]: A 1773 protest by Boston revolutionaries against the British Tea Act, which lowered the duty on tea but emphasized Parliamentary authority over the British North American colonies. ^[e]
• Saul Alinsky [r]: (1909-1972) A leftist community organizer probably best known for developing procedures for groups to work the political system to their benefit, written as Rules for Radicals ^[e]
• George Soros [r]: Extremely wealthy investor who makes large sums available both for philanthropy and charity, as well as progressive politics; Chairman, Open Society Institute ^[e]
• Moveon.org [r]: A family of political action and advocacy organizations on the American left ^[e]
• Coffee Party [r]: Self-described independent grassroots political movement formed in reaction to the conservative Tea Party Movement. ^[e]
• Larry Sabato [r]: University Professor of Politics and director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, a frequent news analyst ^[e]
• One Nation Working Together [r]: A new coalition of American progressives to express frustration similar to that which forms the thread of the Tea Party Movement, but with very different solutions; held 2 October 2010 rally on the U.S. National Mall ^[e]
• American progressivism [r]: A changing term in American political ideology, from the Progressive Era to the Cold War to the present time, when it tends to refer to a wide spectrum from center-left to far left, often positioned as an alternative to American conservatism ^[e]
• Restructuring of the U.S. political left [r]: Changes in the U.S. Democratic Party and American progressivism, variously to win elections in a center-right country and to focus on ideological goals ^[e]