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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)

Coffee may be their poison of choice, but that doesn’t mean you can’t get tea at their party too. (more)

Democrat Rep. Jason Altmire wouldn’t commit one way or the other during a Wednesday meeting with Tea Party activists on how he will vote for President Obama’s health-care bill — and the now the group’s spokesman said he considers Altmire “a yes vote.” (more)

In an attempt to thwart passage of President Obama’s health-care bill, an alliance of Tea Party groups plan to “take the town halls to Washington” during the next three weeks and encourage activists to travel to the capital and lobby the 60 or so Democrats who have yet to publicly announce their position on the bill. (more)

Who’s running the Tea Party? As with most questions debated by its activists, there is no consensus. Members of the cross-country network of conservative grassroots groups will say only that they shun formal leadership. (more)

Following the weekend’s National Tea Party Convention in Nashville, the conservative grassroots activists made clear they don’t want any more NY-23’s in 2010. (more)

Three men who were involved in the early stages of planning of the National Tea Party Convention — but who eventually resigned over disagreements with the organizers — showed up to the event Saturday and blasted its organizers over a number of issues, including its emphasis on top-down leadership. (more)

Three men who were involved in the early stages of planning of the National Tea Party Convention — but who eventually resigned over disagreements with the organizers — showed up to the event Saturday and blasted its organizers over a number of issues, including its emphasis on top down leadership. (more)

Jeffrey McQueen lost his auto industry job in Detroit a year ago, but now he’s making a few bucks off of Tea Party activists — income he said comes from real anger. (more)

The organizers of this weekend’s National Tea Party — who have been accused of trying to take a leadership role in the grassroots movement largely defined by its lack of centralized leadership — announced on Friday that they are forming a political action committee to “address the next step in the growing impact of the citizen activist movement.” (more)

Here at the National Tea Party Convention in Nashville, there are no plans to turn the movement into a third party. Rather the group’s aims to channel its following into “a force to be reckoned with in the traditional party structure.” (more)