Group Location 9.12 Project Polk Co NC Columbus 9-12 Project - Haywood County (Haywood County Tea Party) Waynesville Alamance Conservatives Burlington Alamance County Tea Party Alamance Alleghany County Tea Party Sparta Anti-Islam Anti-Illegal North Carolina Onslow Asheville Tea Pac Asheville Asheville Tea Party Asheville Beaufort Patriot Tea Party Beaufort…

The data in this report was derived from a collection of online directories on the major national Tea Party faction websites: Tea Party Nation, Tea Party Patriots, 1776 Tea Party (also known as TeaParty.org), FreedomWorks Tea Party, and Patriot Action Network (formerly known as ResistNet). The data for the sixth…

  Appendix B: Tea Party Support and Opposition Ratings - NC Senate District  Representative  Party  Assumed office Rating 1 Bill Cook Republican 2013 Strong Tea Party 2 Norman Sanderson, Jr. Republican 2013 Mild Tea Party 3 Clark Jenkins Democratic 2003 None 4 Angela R. Bryant Democratic 2013 Opposition to Tea…

  Appendix A: Tea Party Support and Opposition Ratings - NC House District  Representative  Party Assumed office Rating 1 Bob Steinburg Republican 2013 Strong Tea Party 2 Winkie Wilkins Democratic 2005 Opposition to Tea Party 3 Michael Speciale Republican 2013 Tea Party 4 James Dixon Republican 2011 Tea Party 5…

On November 19, 1863, Abraham Lincoln dedicated the Soldiers’ National Cemetery at Gettysburg on a portion of the grounds where so many had fought bravely and died in a war-changing battle just four months before.  The nation’s first Republican president gave a speech that day that has lived on into…

using together an engaged membership, an extensive network of local chapters, and support from national organizations, the Tea Party movement in North Carolina has become bigger than the sum of its parts. Other studies, such as the Democracy North Carolina Annual Report Card on the legislature have done a superb…

While a large number belong to national Tea Party organizations, many Tea Party members also belong to one or more local Tea Party chapters. These groups help create an intricate web of Tea Party organizations across the state. More than 80 local Tea Party chapters were active in North Carolina…

Wealthy donors like the Koch Brothers and North Carolina’s Art Pope have been extensively examined.  National groups with an impact on North Carolina, such as Americans for Prosperity, have been similarly investigated and exposed.  Nevertheless, significant indicators suggest that the current political conjuncture is a result of more than just…