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Dick Armey Wants Tom Tancredo Out Of His Tea Party Tent

Andrea Nill, The Wonk Room. March 9, 2010.

In the battle over whether or not the “tea party tent” will include hardliner opponents of immigration and immigration reform, the rhetoric is heating up.

Shocker: Tea Party Convention Opening Speaker Suggests a Return to Jim Crow Voting Laws

John Byrne, Raw Story. February 5, 2010.

GOPer Tom Tancredo suggests "literacy test" to protect America from presidents like Obama -- a segregation-era method employed by southern US states to keep blacks from voting.

Video: Tancredo Storms Off MSNBC Set, "Insulted" by Markos Moulitsas

Adele Stan, AlterNet AlterNet: Politics. November 7, 2009.

The former Colorado congressman demanded an apology from Moulitsas for reference to his Vietnam War deferment.

Will the Fight Over Gay Marriage Be the End of Right vs. Left Thinking?

Arianna Huffington, Huffington Post AlterNet: Media and Technology. June 2, 2009.

"The first thing that happens in a revolutionary era is the great figures of the old era get discredited."

El Salvador is Poised to Break With the Past; Is the U.S. Ready to Change its Policy Toward Latin America?

Mark Engler, Foreign Policy in Focus. March 13, 2009.

Washington's past policies in El Salvador have been deadly. With Salvadorians poised to vote for change, the U.S. should embrace it.

Xenophobe Tom Tancredo Quits GOP Race, But There's Little Reason to Cheer

Roberto Lovato, AlterNet. December 21, 2007.

Anti-immigrant leader Tancredo leaves the 2008 election with more power than when he started.

Tom Tancredo Hired Illegal Laborers to Renovate His McMansion

Max Blumenthal, AlterNet. December 1, 2007.

Anti-immigration zealot and GOP presidential candidate Tom Tancredo hired what he often refers to as "criminal aliens" to renovate his Colorado house.