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"Fertile Ground": White Nationalists Are Organizing Within the Tea Party

David Holthouse, Media Matters for America. August 15, 2011.

There is plenty of evidence that overt racists have entered Tea Party affiliated organizations.

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 Patriots Investigated: 'They Use You and Abuse You'

Stephanie Mencimer, MotherJones.com. February 15, 2011.

Pricey political consultants and fame-seeking leaders: A grassroots group cozies up to the DC establishment and alienates the activists who put it on the map.

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.

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.

Tea Party Activist: Lieberman Staffer Threatened to Have Me Arrested

deleted, AlterNet. December 15, 2009.

At a Capitol Hill rally today, the Tea Party Patriots' Mark Meckler claimed that a Lieberman staffer threatened to have the right-wing activist arrested.

Is the Right-Wing Tea Party Kettle Starting to Losing Its Steam?

Stephanie Mencimer, Mother Jones. November 5, 2009.

What if they gave a Tea Party and nobody came? Michele Bachmann and company promised a barrage of protest calls to the Capitol but, so far, things are kind of quiet.

Teabagging Alan Grayson

Nick Baumann, Mother Jones Online. October 15, 2009.

Rep. Alan Grayson reduced the GOP's health-care program to two words: "Die quickly." At Grayson's town hall, Tea Party activists revealed themselves to a bit confused.

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.

Photos: Feel the Hate: 912 Sign-Makers Target Obama

deleted, AlterNet. September 13, 2009.

The 912 march sponsored by FreedomWorks and Glenn Beck was about a lot of things, but mostly hatred of Obama

Photo Gallery: Tens of Thousands Right-Wing Activists March on Washington

deleted, AlterNet. September 12, 2009.

Washington, D.C. is hosting something the town has never before seen: streets full of right-wingers, egged on by the corporate interests behind Glenn Beck and FreedomWorks.

Photos: Worshiping Joe Wilson at Glenn Beck's 912 March

deleted, AlterNet. September 11, 2009.

Tea Partyers and 912 marchers got right to work on their arrival in Washington today, making signs.