Texas GOP Vote

Since the last Tea Party organizer interview posted here, the Tea Party has been praised for its tenacity in demanding that Congress hold the line on spending, and credited with the fact that the debt ceiling deal does not include new taxes. Yet the capacity of the Tea Party to flummox even Republicans was in evidence when the Party’s 2008 Presidential candidate mocked Tea Party members as “hobbits” in a speech criticizing fiscal conservatives’ determination to hold the line on spending and taxes in the recent budget negotiations, pointedly refused to apologize for his remarks when confronted, but days

Stephen Broden describes himself as a Frederick Douglass Republican, reflecting the original thinking that formed the Republican party and moved our nation away from the tyranny of slavery. That was a revolution. However, some establishment Republicans still need to learn this. Broden, running for U.S. Congress in CD-30, was recently endorsed by the Dallas Morning News in the wake of the scholarship ethics scandal of incumbent Eddie Bernice Johnson. Broden has gained broad support within his 30th congressional district from a range of conservatives and people

On September 4, 2010, the middle of Labor Day holiday weekend, an auditorium in Forth Worth, Texas, was crowded with activists concerned about individual liberty and state sovereignty in the face of the crisis of a power-hungry, bloated U.S. federal government.   Read more »