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Tea Party Patriots: The Second American Revolution – Jenny Beth Martin and Mark Meckler In 2009, an unemployed mother of two and a politically inexperienced northern California attorney met on a conference call that would end up starting one of the largest grassroots political organizations in American history, the Tea Party Patriots. Fueled by the…

Congress Must Reject the Internet Sales Tax  Current Event: On April 25, the U.S. Senate passed a key procedural vote to consider S. 743–the so-called Marketplace Fairness Act–nearly ensuring passage.  The bill expands the authority of individual states to cover out-of-state retailers, allowing them to force those retailers to collect sales taxes for them.  This…

Tea Party Patriots: The Second American Revolution – Jenny Beth Martin and Mark Meckler In 2009, an unemployed mother of two and a politically inexperienced northern California attorney met on a conference call that would end up starting one of the largest grassroots political organizations in American history, the Tea Party Patriots. Fueled by the…