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Zach Poskevich, a relative unknown with little money, is mounting a primary challenge against Tennessee Republican Sen. Bob Corker, in the name of protecting the Constitution. (more)

The leader of a tea party group is calling for scandal-embroiled GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain to drop out of the race. (more)

American Majority President Ned Ryun called for Minnesota Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann to drop out of the presidential race Thursday, claiming that she was damaging the tea party movement. But other tea party groups told The Daily Caller they disagree. (more)

The “Occupy Wall Street” protest movement, based in New York City and inspiring similar protests across the country, has been described as the left’s response to the tea party. But do the two movements share any common ground? (more)

President Barack Obama may have opened a door he won’t be able to close on Wednesday morning when he finally released his long-form birth certificate, after two years of mounting rumors. Tea Partiers and conservative activists, in addition to birther champion and potential 2012 GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump, have asked for more information about the president’s past. (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)

Mark Skoda says the first Tea Party convention he was involved in was “too country club,” so he’s breaking away and helping to organize a separate convention this spring. (more)

Tea Party Nation founder Judson Phillips explained why he sent out an e-mail that included the Muslim faith of Minnesota Democratic Rep. Keith Ellison on a list of reasons not to support him, claiming that Tea Party members ought to “seriously consider” whether they should vote for a candidate who adheres to Islam. (more)

A new report called Tea Party Nationalism, backed by the NAACP, links the Tea Party with racists and extremists.  Amazing.  How pre-post-racial could we possibly be?  And when will liberals cease this preposterously lame narrative about right-wing racists? (more)

One of the most prominent Tea Party groups says a new report about extremism and racism in the movement is a politically motivated “smear.” (more)

Tell most socialists – actual socialists — that they seem a lot like Tea Partiers and the reaction is a visceral denial. Say the same thing about socialists to most Tea Partiers and, sure enough, the reaction is identical. (more)

A national Tea Party convention slated for next month in Las Vegas has been cancelled, organizer Judson Phillips told The Daily Caller. (more)

Republican Senate candidates Sharron Angle of Nevada and JD Hayworth of Arizona will rally with supporters of Arizona’s law targeting illegal immigration along the southwestern border in Arizona this weekend. (more)

The bad blood between some of the country’s most well known Tea Party organizations was unmistakably on display by two prominent activists from rival groups Monday. (more)

Tea Party activists from across the country will pour into Las Vegas in October, just days before Republican Sharron Angle, a favorite of the conservative grassroots, faces Democratic Sen. Harry Reid. (more)

Republican Sharron Angle was polling in the single digits, hardly a serious contender to take on Nevada Sen. Harry Reid in November, when the Tea Party Express endorsed her candidacy in April. (more)

Will Tea Party activists — who have a keen interest in protecting the Constitution, but are mostly focused on ousting incumbents in midterm elections — sign up for the fight against Elena Kagan’s nomination to the Supreme Court? (more)

Tea Partiers may return to Nashville’s Gaylord Opryland Resort, the sprawling venue where earlier this year hundreds of activists and media gathered for the National Tea Party Convention. (more)

No more Tea Parties at the Gaylord Opryland Resort in Nashville — or so the organizer of one conservative group said he was told. (more)

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