Dan Bischoff, AlterNet/The Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute. October 29, 2010.
Rand Paul came to to the GOP table as an outsider, but there's no way to win without holding hands with the ultimate insider -- the Senate minority leader. So he is.
With an assist from FreedomWorks, Mike Lee grabbed Utah's Senate nomination from incumbent Bob Bennett. Now he shows he's not a states' rights kind of guy.
We need to focus on those shadowy players who're pulling the strings from behind the scenes to impose their special interest over America's public interest.
In the battle over whether or not the “tea party tent” will include hardliner opponents of immigration and immigration reform, the rhetoric is heating up.
Adele Stan, AlterNet AlterNet: Politics. December 16, 2009.
As chairman of the astroturfing group FreedomWorks, National Press Club staff thought former House Majority Leader Dick Armey would be a draw. Turns out, not so much.
Presented by FreedomWorks, the front group that organized the 9/12 March, a new documentary on the tea parties attempts to suggest that the protests were spontaneous.
Lee Fang, ThinkProgress AlterNet: PEEK. September 14, 2009.
Standing proudly on stage during the rally in D.C. FreedomWorks leader Matt Kibbe proclaimed ABC News was reporting that 1 million to 1.5 million people were in attendance.
If you haven't been paying attention to the rise of Astroturf in Washington, in the media and at your local town hall meeting, now's the time to tune in.
Burrowing inside the radical right's gathering of astroturfers and mouthpieces, AlterNet Reporter Adele Stan discovers what makes the anti-health reform machine tick.
