On AlterNet: grassfire

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Right Wingers Marching in DC Is Big News -- But the Same Old Faces Are Pulling the Strings

Adele M. Stan, AlterNet. September 14, 2009.

The men behind the religious right make a comeback with the Tea Party movement.

Big Business's Hidden Hand in the Smear Job on Van Jones

Adele M. Stan, AlterNet. September 8, 2009.

How Americans for Prosperity, the astroturf group that organized town-hall thuggery, teamed up with Fox News to force out Van Jones.

Van Jones Resigns from White House; Targeted by Oil Interests

Adele Stan, AlterNet AlterNet: Politics. September 6, 2009.

Environmentalist and green-jobs advocate Van Jones resigned from his post as White House adviser after targeting by the oil-industry-funded right.

Gun-Nut Outside Obama Townhall Linked to GOP 'Stop ObamaCare' Effort

Adele M. Stan, AlterNet. August 12, 2009.

Strapped with a loaded gun, William Kostric carried a message from the GOP's "break Obama" campaign.

Inside Story on Town Hall Riots: Right-Wing Shock Troops Do Corporate America's Dirty Work

Adele M. Stan, AlterNet. August 10, 2009.

How the health-care industry, the GOP and one media mogul made common cause with the anti-government fringe.