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Tea Party Activist: Lieberman Staffer Threatened to Have Me Arrested

Adele Stan, AlterNet AlterNet: Politics. 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

Adele Stan, AlterNet AlterNet: Politics. 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

Adele M. Stan, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. 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

Adele Stan, AlterNet AlterNet: Politics. September 11, 2009.

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