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Dangerous Levels of Overlap Between Xenophobic 'Minuteman' Movement and Tea Party

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

Glenn Spencer's land was once a meeting ground for anti-immigrant vigilantes. Now, with many of the same faces present, he hosts the Tea Party Nation.

5 Professional Tea Partiers: Who's Sucking the Most Money From the Movement?

Adele M. Stan, AlterNet. May 12, 2011.

These five Tea Party leaders are nicely compensated for leading the allegedly leaderless movement.

Tea Party Nation Prez Wants to 'Rewrite' Constitution; Thinks Allowing Only Landowners to Vote 'Makes Sense'

Adele M. Stan, AlterNet. December 3, 2010.

Judson Phillips runs one of the largest Tea Party social networks, and thinks too many young and poor people are voting. So he'd like to change the Constitution.

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.

Tea Party Convention Featuring Palin Will Lock Out Media

Adele Stan, AlterNet AlterNet: Politics. January 12, 2010.

Don't expect media coverage of the big Tea Party Nation convention in Nashville next month. Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann have nixed the press.