President Donald Trump rose to power on a wave of anger from many of the same voters and politicians who, a little over half a decade before him, organized the "Tea Party" movement of the early Barack ...

It has finally happened: The Tea Party is dead. The grassroots movement that fought so hard for fiscal sanity in government over the past decade is no more. It was killed off by the very same ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Since the election, progressives have been huddling on social media to plan ways to ...

Remember the tea party? Ten years ago its activists looked omnipresent. They railed against the Affordable Care Act, swept a slate of far-right Republicans into office, got Paul Ryan on the GOP’s 2012 ...

The Tea Party movement's get-out-the-vote operation is built on two slightly contradictory realities: the party is indisputably a grassroots, volunteer-driven movement, and Tea Partiers are working ...