Tea Party

We spoke with three artists swept up in this unprecedented wave of intimidation to see how they are in the aftermath.

New name. Same flavor.

Lax enforcement of IRS policies allow anti-LGBTQ hate groups and white nationalists to masquerade as tax-exempt charities, saving them millions in taxes.

She sent her daughter to a Jesuit school for “one year of brainwash,” she said as the crowd laughed.

Buttigieg tops recent polls in Iowa and New Hampshire, but will his recent gaffes make him stumble at the debate?

He made up a scandal about having sex with male prostitutes to “inoculate” himself to the real scandal: a heterosexual affair with one of his fellow legislators.

He accused Fox News of promoting “romantic sodomy” and suggested that gay men should just find straight men to lust after.

The far right believes it has a winning strategy to go after the social safety net and social progress, including same-sex marriage.

How free are we when needed services that benefit many people have to be cut to make a small group of people even richer?

A Republican who wanted to ban fetuses in food was caught in a hotel room with a teenage boy… this is not a focus on “economic issues.”

“I have been shown to be a hypocrite.”

WICHITA, Kan. — A Wichita, Kan.-based tea party group has launched an email campaign urging its members to pepper state lawmakers with messages in support of a bill that allows service refusal to same-sex couples on religious grounds.

The co-founder of the Florida Tea Party says the local Republican Party in Broward County, Fla., is being taken over by gay “thugs.”

INDIANAPOLIS — The opposing sides in Indiana’s same-sex marriage battle continued lining up supporters Wednesday ahead of the 2014 legislative session.

BOSTON — Congressional hopeful and Democratic state Rep. Carl Sciortino is playing up his liberal credentials in new ad featuring a light-hearted back-and-forth with his tea party dad, Carl Sciortino, Sr.

Doug Mainwaring, the openly gay founder of the National Capital Tea Party Patriots, spoke towards the end of the National Organization for Marriage’s rally on the National Mall today where he warned that same-sex marriage will “unravel” marriage and “undefine children.”

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will lose a huge percentage of the African-American vote in his bid for re-election becuase he said he now supports full marriage equality, says GOP Congressman Allen West, (R-Fla.) a member of the House Tea Party Caucus.

BOSTON — A Tea Party rally in Boston on Sunday — featuring guest speakers from two noted anti-gay hate groups — drew a crowd of counter protesters from LGBT advocacy group Join the Impact Massachusetts and members of the Occupy movement, and led to arrests of at least three people.

Last year when the Southern Poverty Law Center named several religious right groups as anti-gay hate groups, many of them united (with the Family Research Council – one of the groups named – leading the way) in a campaign with the semi- catchy title of Start Debating/Stop Hating…

Taking a page out of the Michele Bachmann playbook, tea party favorite and failed candidate for U.S. Senate Christine O’Donnell abruptly ended a CNN interview to avoid answering questions about gay marriage and “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.”