Tea Party movement
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Occupy Wall Street: tea party leaders admit similarities - but not too many
7 Oct 2011:Right-wing activists say they share same frustration over the treatment of big banks. But that's where the comparisons end
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Tea Party-backed candidates swept into the 2010 midterm elections – helping the Republicans win control of the House of Representatives, but possibly also losing it the Senate.
In the lead up to voting, we asked what the movement was and what it wanted -
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Ed Pilkington visits Reno, where the Tea Party movement's 'queen' says hello to the Guardian
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What is the Tea Party?
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Calls online for a tea bag protest and a now-famous rant from a cable TV commentator were the movement's origins
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It presents itself as a leaderless, grassroots phenomenon. To some extent, it is. But that's not to say the Tea Party doesn't have a few stars
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Tea Party Express, Tea Party Patriots, FreedomWorks and the other groups who vie to organise and speak for the movement
Most recent
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5 Jan 2012: Why have US conservatives, and not the left, monopolised political fury since the banks went down? This timely polemic by one of the best leftwing commentators provides the answer, says Nick Cohen -
23 Dec 2011:
Gary Younge: The Tea Party has been dictating the pace of reform in America – and the speaker has been doing their bidding on payroll tax
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20 Dec 2011:
Ana Marie Cox: House Republicans can't blame their resistance to compromise on a Tea Party monster they helped create
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12 Dec 2011:
Patriot Freedom Alliance said US president was like skunk – 'half black, half white, and almost everything it does stinks'
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6 Dec 2011:
Paul Harris: Just when Paul looks set to break out of his base, he unleashes a rabid Rottweiler of a campaign ad. Down, Ron!
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2 Dec 2011:
Nearly two-thirds of moderate or liberal Republicans believe there is solid evidence for global warming, Pew poll finds
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27 Nov 2011:
Newspaper snubs Mitt Romney six weeks ahead of Republican primary and backs former Speaker of House of Representatives
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25 Nov 2011:
Sadhbh Walshe: The conservative talk hosts despair over the Republican party settling on a credible candidate to beat arch-enemy Obama
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20 Nov 2011: Lobbyists, permanent campaigning and a deadlocked elite are turning American voters off
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18 Nov 2011:
Sadhbh Walshe: The Occupy movement has caused conservative talkshow hosts deep consternation – chiefly about protesters' personal hygiene
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15 Nov 2011:
Ana Marie Cox: The right was sure that Occupy anarchists would cause anarchy. But they're wrong about where the violence is coming from
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8 Nov 2011:
Ashley Sayeau: Initiative 26 would give new legal status to a fertilised egg – and deprive women of any right to contraception and abortion
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3 Nov 2011:
TV campaign by front group accuses president of rewarding political donors through scheme actually set up by George Bush
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28 Oct 2011:
A Tea Party group calls on Michele Bachmann to give it up while Obama's 2008 donors are less enthusiastic about 2012
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27 Oct 2011:
Ana Marie Cox: The Tea Party has generated a series of political figureheads – Cain the latest. But it's the political system people are protesting
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