A Word Edgewise
Dear President Trump: We have high hopes for 2018 following a stellar 2017
Tea Party Patriots and our supporters would like to congratulate President Trump on a tremendous first year in office and we are grateful for all that we’ve accomplished together in 2017. As we move into 2018, we wanted to communicate a list of issues that are very important to the tea party movement and ensure that…
Read MoreConservative leaders: AT&T, Time Warner merger is a threat to free speech
The proposed AT&T merger with Time Warner has several conservatives concerned that their free speech could be hugely impacted within our news environment. Jenny Beth Martin pointed out that Democrats’ obstruction of nominees meant the merger was not properly vetted by President Trump’s appointees. Other conservatives voiced additional concerns and even liberal lawmakers have also…
Read MoreTea Party Patriots Applaud President Trump’s Comprehensive Iran Strategy
Atlanta, GA – Tea Party Patriots co-founder Jenny Beth Martin released the following statement today after President Trump’s speech laying out his comprehensive Iran strategy. “Tea Party Patriots and our supporters across the country applaud President Trump’s comprehensive Iran strategy laid out in his speech today, and for bucking the DC Establishment and keeping his…
Read MoreTea Party Patriots Applaud President Trump for Taking Action to Provide Relief From ObamaCare
Atlanta, GA – Tea Party Patriots co-founder Jenny Beth Martin released the following statement today, applauding President Trump for taking action to provide Americans relief from the burdens of ObamaCare. “Tea Party Patriots applauds President Trump for taking action to give American families relief from ObamaCare at a time when Senator McConnell and other so-called…
Read MoreTea Party Patriots: McConnell Has Failed to Deliver. Time For Him to Go.
Republicans hold the White House, and majorities in the House and the Senate, because of the long, hard hours grassroots volunteers worked on their campaigns over the last four election cycles. Those grassroots volunteers – millions of whom I represent, as Co-Founder and CEO of Tea Party Patriots – were motivated to work by the…
Read MoreTea Party Patriots calls on President Trump to enforce Open Skies agreements
Tea Party Patriots Weekly Report from Washington for 10/1/17
CALENDAR: The House will return Monday, and will stay in session through Thursday. The Senate will also return Monday, and will also stay in session through Thursday. LAST WEEK ON THE HOUSE FLOOR: The House came back last Monday and took up H.R. 3823, the Disaster Tax Relief and Airport and Airway Extension Act, under…
Read MoreTea Party Patriots Calls for an End to Judicial Gridlock
Atlanta , GA – Tea Party Patriots co-founder Jenny Beth Martin released the following statement urging Senate Republicans to support Sen. Lankford’s proposed reforms that will ensure well-qualified judges will be appointed to the federal bench. “It is unacceptable that Democrats are abusing the rules of the Senate to create gridlock intended to stop President…
Read MoreJenny Beth’s Journal: White House needs to use the ‘bully pulpit’ to make the case for border wall funding
According to reports, Reince Priebus, John Kelly, Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner, pushed for the president to strike a deal with Congress offering 800,000 illegal immigrants, known as “dreamers,” protection in exchange for legislation funding a border wall. Jenny Beth argues that President Trump should not break one major campaign promise to implement…
Read MoreChris Christie: Number 14 in Your Program, Number 14 in Your Heart
Chris Christie declared for President this week and 320 million Americans asked as if with a single breath, “Why? Why are you running, Chris?” Christie has fallen so far behind in the national polls that he’s now in the neighborhood of Trumpville: the notorious WSJ-NBC poll found last week that 55 percent of Republicans would…
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