“FreedomWorks” on The Daily Caller

It’s official: Utah Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch is the first Republican incumbent who will be targeted by one of the nation’s most influential Tea Party-aligned organizations. (more)

DERRY, N.H. — Mitt Romney says he can appeal to Tea Partiers, even though activists and groups aligned with the movement are stressing that they need to defeat him in 2012. (more)

FreedomWorks – the country’s most influential Tea Party group – doesn’t think much of potential presidential candidate Jon Huntsman. (more)

FreedomWorks is adding 500 to 2,000 members a day to its network of like-minded Tea Party activists. Those activists will provide an army of volunteers for a presidential candidate who supports their small-government goals, say FreedomWorks’ staffers. (more)

FreedomWorks, the Washington-based tea party group led by former House Majority Leader Dick Armey (R-Texas), is starting a super PAC.
The new political action committee will likely be called FreedomWorks Action, though the official name is still being hashed out, Matt Kibbe, the group’s president, said during a conversation with reporters in Roll Call’s newsroom. (more)

If Mitt Romney wins the Republican nomination for president, Tea Party activists may not show up at all to vote in the general election, one leading group associated with the Tea Party movement is warning. (more)

Just days after news reports indicated that FreedomWorks would use its sphere of influence in 2012 to prevent former Massachusetts governor and presumed 2012 front-runner Mitt Romney from winning the Republican presidential nomination, the Tea Party organization’s president and CEO Matt Kibbe was hesitant to fully unleash on him. (more)

National Tea Party movement leaders are divided when it comes to whether or not they support the 11th hour budget deal House Speaker John Boehner, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and President Barack Obama cut late Friday night. (more)

That could happen, former House Majority Leader Dick Armey, R-Texas, said Thursday. (more)

A leading Tea Party group is recommending lawmakers adopt a “tag team” approach when questioning Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, so he can not evade their questions with an excess of economic jargon. (more)

President Ronald Reagan, who would have turned 100 on Sunday, was a bold and inspirational conservative visionary. His ability to effectively communicate both the failures of bureaucratic central planning and the virtues of a free market are unparalleled in modern American political history. To commemorate Reagan’s birth, General Electric is sponsoring the two-year Reagan Centennial Celebration, which coincides with GE’s release of a short documentary on the anniversary of Reagan’s famous “A Time for Choosing” speech. (more)

FreedomWorks will host a premier of the trailer for the film adaption of Atlas Shrugged at the Conservative Political Action Conference. (more)

Tea Party groups FreedomWorks and Tea Party Express are both rolling out some new technology to keep grassroots conservatives connected with each other and with their elected leaders in Washington. (more)

Some leaders of Tea Party groups say there are no “sacred cows” when it comes to spending cuts in Washington, and the traditionally Republican Party-protected Department of Defense budget is no exception — while other leaders in the grassroots movement say they are wary of cutting funds necessary to protect the nation. (more)

Two conservative groups launched an ad campaign Monday against General Electric CEO Jeffery Immelt. The campaign will include television and online ads and an online petition to generate support to have Immelt fired after President Obama appointed him to head his new Council on Jobs and Competitiveness. (more)

With The Daily Caller approaching its first birthday (the site was launched on January 11, 2010), I thought it would be appropriate to recount the 20 most interesting Daily Caller op-eds of 2010 (according to me). Collectively, these op-eds garnered hundreds of thousands of page views and over ten thousand Facebook recommendations (though, due to a Facebook glitch, the Facebook recommendations for most Daily Caller articles that were published before December 10th have disappeared. You’ll have to trust me on this one.) The articles are listed in no particular order. (more)

Every declared candidate for the chairmanship of the Republican National Committee (RNC) has confirmed his or her attendance at a Jan. 3 debate co-hosted by The Daily Caller and Americans for Tax Reform except for one: Michael Steele, the current chairman. (more)

The defeat of a pork-laden $1.1 trillion “omnibus” spending bill in the Senate Thursday night was the first serious indication after the Nov. 2 election that the Tea Party movement has staying power and will be a force into 2011. (more)

It’s inevitable. A new party is forming. (more)

FreedomWorks – the Washington, D.C. based conservative activist organization released a statement late Monday praising the Virginia court ruling on the constitutionality of the individual mandate in the health care bill, essentially calling it the beginning of the end of Obamacare. The organization called the decision a “blow on behalf of limited government and common sense.” (more)