All posts tagged "Tea Party"

Joe Walsh, a former far-right Tea Party Rep. from Illinois who recently switched parties, says he's "seriously considering" a run for Lindsey Graham's (R-SC) Senate seat.

Walsh told Politico he registered as a Democrat last week and still considers himself a "conservative."

"I am seriously considering moving to South Carolina and challenging Lindsey Graham next year, because he’s a piece of s---,” Walsh told the outlet. “He’s everything that is wrong about our politics, and he’s the worst, most pathetic Trump enabler.”...

An opinion piece in The Washington Post urged Democrats to avoid making the same mistakes conservative Republicans did when they created the Tea Party in the 2000s to take on what they saw as spineless congressional leadership during the Obama administration.

Today, Democratic anger is at its own boiling point after Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) voted with Republicans to pass the recent funding bill. Since then, both Republican and Democratic town halls across the country have been packed with constituents demanding answers about the actions of Trump's Department of Government Efficiency, among other issues.

In his WaPo opinion piece, columnist Ramesh Ponnuru wrote, "In 2009, Democrats controlled a unified government, and many conservatives were disgusted by what they viewed as their party’s spinelessness — much like progressives feel today."...

This is the first part of a two-part Raw Story series exploring pro-Trump organizer Cindy Chafian's actions before, during and after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. Read Part 2 here.

Two golf carts sped toward the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, lurching forward as space in the torrent of Trump supporters opened, then abruptly closed. Sirens wailed as Washington, D.C., police units responded to the chaotic scene.

The carts, driven by pro-Trump rally organizer Cindy Chafian and her husband, Scott, carried an assortment of passengers, including the wife of conspiracy trafficker Alex Jones and Nathan Hughes, an Arkansas man who’d later be charged with assaulting law enforcement, disorderly conduct and other offenses for actions he would allegedly take in the hours to come....

Former President Donald Trump’s tweet on Dec. 19, 2020 — it summoned his supporters to “be there” for Congress’ Jan. 6 certification of the electoral vote and promised that it would be “wild” — electrified far-right militants.

One person who answered the call was Joseph Pavlik, a 65-year-old retired firefighter from Chicago.

Pavlik’s social media posts in November and December 2020 reflected a mounting sense of desperation about what America would look like with Trump forced to leave the White House. His Facebook posts manifested a logical response to the existential choice — Donald Trump or dystopian collapse — that the United States’ 45th president first defined during his 2016 campaign....

Chris McDaniel failed to unseat U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran in the Mississippi Republican primary, and Tea Party activists are taking the loss as hard as the candidate.

Conservative groups that often try to push U.S. Republican lawmakers toward more hardline policies are stepping cautiously ahead of the leadership election in the House of Representatives.