Some members of the Tea Party are leading a movement to reclaim conservation as a conservative value. But their efforts to back solar power in the name of economic freedom are still far from mainstream in the conservative world.
What is the ‘new American Tea Party?’ And where is it headed?
The House of Representatives passed a landmark deal yesterday as the United States inched closer to defaulting on its debts. As the bill makes its way over to the Senate many are noting the influence that the Tea Party had on the outcome.
A Takeaway listener and Tea Party member says GOP is hijacking the movement
David Sloan, an early Tea Party member, fears the Tea Party is being co-opted by the Republican Party. We spoke with him about what his particular fears were, and where he draws the lines of difference between the Republican agenda and his own.
The NAACP has released a report called ‘Tea Party Nationalism’ that has renewed accusations that the Tea Party groups ‘have given platform to anti-Semites, racists and bigots.’ Tea Partiers are again disputing that claim.
Examining the Tea Party’s divine claim to nation’s founding
We talk with Harvard historian Jill Lepore who says Tea Party members embrace a narrative about America’s founding that is not only a fiction, but also a variety of religious fundamentalism.