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The article profiles the efforts of Dick Armey's FreedomWorks to «turn local Tea Party groups into a standing get - out - the - vote operation in Congressional districts across the country,» in part through a series of trainings that would be right at home in the 2008 Obama grassroots operation.
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Both the Tea Party and wrestlers form into groups or teams only because they have to.
Colin and I also discuss the philosophies in Jaron Lanier's «You Are Not a Gadget» and Kurt Vonnegut's «Player Piano,» and how organizations, from advocacy non-profits to citizens groups like the Tea Party, turn their online networks into offline political influence.
Liberal groups are organizing hard in part because they took such a beating in the 2009 congressional recess (most notably in «town hall» meetings that turned into viral - video - ready Tea Party rallies), but both sides are cranking up their efforts to reach congressmembers while they're home in their districts: witness Heritage Action's nine - stop rally tour, featuring Ted Cruz.
That is, unlike the Republican county machines, which have traditionally been able to leverage patronage into electoral muscle, the Tea Party groups depend entirely on volunteers.
Flanagan, a 57 - year - old trade - directory publisher who once had aspirations of running for office, is now a study in conservative grassroots activism, illustrating both the way in which Tea Party groups can figure into policy fights even in a liberal state like New York, and how they maximize the influence they have with public officials.
One of the groups that participated in this summit, the Tea Party in Space, advocates «applying the core principles of fiscal responsibility, limited government, and free markets to the rapid and permanent expansion of American civilization into the space frontier.»
Three years later, when Pence took office, local Tea Party groups and other activists began a campaign to repeal the standards they saw as a federal overreach into classrooms.