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Kuttner on Americans Elect: No Such Thing As Radical Center Party

Robert Kuttner, Huffington Post. December 27, 2011.

Don't fall for another attempt to balance the hard-right with centrism that undermines progressive values and causes.

Secretive Millionaires Funding Online Primary For 'Independent' White House Run

Justin Elliott, Salon. December 12, 2011.

They won't tell us who they are, but they are spending tens of millions as part of 'Americans Elect' to nominate and to field an 'Independent' presidential candidate in 2012.

GOP Can't Erase Dems From Political Map

Steven Rosenfeld, AlterNet. December 2, 2011.

The GOP has faced unexpected setbacks in the redistricting process.

2012 Spoiler Alert: What Exactly Is 'Americans Elect'?

Siddhartha Mahanta, Mother Jones. November 21, 2011.

A privately funded effort seeks to nominate an independent presidential candidate using Internet voting.

Despite White Supremacist Ties, Nativist Minutemen Project Founder Gilchrist Stumped For GOP Candidates

David Holthouse, Media Matters for America. August 30, 2011.

Jim Gilchrist is sought by GOP candidates to burnish their tough-on-immigrant credentials, and treated by the media as a legitimate authority on immigration issues.

Will Obama and Boehner Pay Ransom to Extremists In Debt Ceiling Deal?

Riane Eisler, AlterNet. July 21, 2011.

Obama needs to show leadership and political spine by refusing to pay ransom for preserving our nation's solid international credit rating.

Tea Party Smackdown in Florida

Tristram Korten, AlterNet/The Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute. October 26, 2010.

In a spate of lawsuits, the Republican Party of Florida is trying to put a stop to a third party called the Florida TEA Party.

Republicans Spar Over Health of Tea Party Movement

David Edwards and Daniel Tencer, Raw Story. July 6, 2010.

South Carolina's Republican senators take issue over the Tea Party movement: Lindsey Graham says it's destined to "die out." Jim DeMint begs to differ.

Party of No: How Republicans and the Right Have Tried to Thwart All Social Progress

Arun Gupta, TruthOut.org. May 23, 2010.

You name it, the right has opposed it: civil rights, school desegregation, women's rights, labor organizing, the minimum wage, LGBT rights, welfare, immigrant rights.

Fox News, Health Care, and the Right-Wing Nervous Breakdown

Eric Boehlert, Media Matters for America. March 26, 2010.

How did health care go so terribly wrong for the Tea Party's true believers? They made the mistake of believing their own hype -- and Fox News.

Sarah Palin Aims to Bust Up the Republican Party -- And the Tea Party Movement

Adele M. Stan, AlterNet. February 8, 2010.

Palin's speech was her boilerplate of non sequiturs and cognitive disconnections, but in the interview that followed, she revealed her hand in a game for the presidency.

Bachmann: GOP Should "Allow Themselves to Be Re-defined By the Tea Party Movement"

Matt Corley, ThinkProgress AlterNet: PEEK. January 5, 2010.

She's not alone. "We need to stop looking at the tea parties as separate from the Republican party," Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) said last month.

Has the GOP Collapse Begun? Hypothetical "Tea Party" Outpolls Republicans

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

Something is afoot among the conservative base -- voting Republican doesn't seem to cut it anymore, and incumbents are getting nervous.

The Tough New White House Line on FOX News: It's War

Ari Melber, TheNation.com AlterNet: PEEK. October 12, 2009.

White House Communications Director Anita Dunn: "We don't need to pretend this is the way legitimate news organizations behave."

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.

'The Worst Thing I've Ever Done': GOP Senator Ensign Admits Affair

Agence France Presse June 16, 2009.

Nevada Senator John Ensign, 51, who has a record of 'family-values' stances, has vowed to remain in office.

Turns Out George W. Bush Was a 'Uniter' After All

Melissa McEwan, Shakesville AlterNet: PEEK. May 19, 2009.

The GOP "has maintained its support only among frequent churchgoers, with conservatives and senior citizens showing minimal decline."

GOP Base Rejects Pro-Choice Republicans: 'We Would Never Bend On That'

Ryan Grim, Huffington Post AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. May 16, 2009.

House Republicans, in search of an identity, are playing with fire.

DNC Ad Hits 'The New GOP' Sunday Show Guests

Sam Stein, Huffington Post AlterNet: Media and Technology. May 10, 2009.

No new ideas. No new faces.

Robert Gibbs Zings Steele for Limbaugh Apology

Ali Frick, ThinkProgress AlterNet: Media and Technology. March 3, 2009.

Press Secretary Robert Gibbs: 'I was a little surprised' by the speed of Steele's apology 'to the head of the Republican Party.'

Republicans Embarrass Themselves With Desperate Attempts to Act 'Cool'

Steve Benen, Washington Monthly AlterNet: PEEK. February 27, 2009.

These guys are making The Daily Show's "Reagraham Lincool" skit look like it was sincere.

Crist: There's Only One National Leader, 'His Name Is President Obama'

Sam Stein, Huffington Post AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. February 22, 2009.

"The people elected him. And I'm willing to give him a good shot and try to help make this work."

The Far Right's All Out Offensive Against Medical Research

Howard Dean, AlterNet. February 20, 2009.

"Medicine is and should always be science based -- not driven by ideology."

RNC Chair Candidate Distributes 'Barack the Magic Negro' as His Christmas Greeting

Amanda Terkel, ThinkProgress AlterNet: PEEK. December 27, 2008.

The Hill reports that for his Christmas greeting this year, Chip Saltsman sent out a CD of the song "Barack the Magic Negro."

Evangelicals and Rural Americans Are Breaking Big for Obama

Robert S. Eshelman, TomDispatch.com. October 30, 2008.

A mass defection from the Republican Party may be underway in counties that were once GOP strongholds. Call it the reverse Bradley Effect.