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Tea Party Jesus: Koch's Americans For Prosperity Sidles Up to Religious Right for 2012 Campaign

Peter Montgomery, AlterNet. April 15, 2011.

David Koch's key operative, Tim Phillips, is moving to merge the religious right with the Tea Party movement -- just in time for the presidential race.

Tea Party Inc.: The Big Money and Powerful Elites Behind the Right Wing's Latest Uprising

Adele M. Stan, AlterNet/The Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute. October 24, 2010.

The Tea Parties are billed as a people's movement. But they wouldn't exist without the help of deep-pocketed billionaires.

Conservative and Tea Party Rallies and Trainings Dominate the Capital: Are Progressives and Liberal Democrats About to Be Out-Organized?

Adele M. Stan, AlterNet. September 13, 2010.

Conservative protests in Washington show the breadth of energy and money marshaled to organize the right-wing base, while progressives lag behind.

Ralph Reed is Back, Hoping to Harness the Energy of the Tea Party Movement

Sarah Posner, Religion Dispatches. September 9, 2010.

Ralph Reed hopes to bury his past by bringing together the two most energetic right-wing movements: the Tea Party and the religious right.

Russian Spies, the Religious Right, Casinos, Mob-Style Killing: Jack Abramoff and the GOP's Unbridled, Shameless Greed

Terrence McNally, AlterNet. May 30, 2010.

Award-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney tells the sordid story of super lobbyist Jack Abramoff from Beverly Hills High to federal prison.

Religious Right Has-Beens Try for a Resurrection

Rob Boston, Church & State Magazine. September 16, 2009.

Will financial and sex scandals sink the hopes of middle-age culture warriors Ralph Reed and Randall Terry? Don't count them out just yet.

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.

Utilizing Public Airwaves, Media Mogul Murdoch Is Big Muscle Behind Fraudulent Astro Turfers

Adele M. Stan, AlterNet. August 20, 2009.

Burrowing inside the radical right's gathering of astroturfers and mouthpieces, AlterNet Reporter Adele Stan discovers what makes the anti-health reform machine tick.