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An anonymously sourced Fox News story claiming the defunct voter mobilization organization ACORN is behind the Occupy Wall Street movement has served as a springboard for the latest fundraising effort from the Houston-based tea party group King Street Patriots, and its nationwide drive to recruit poll watchers.
Campaign finance spending will exceed $6 billion this year, and one man deserves a fair amount of the credit — election lawyer James Bopp, architect of the infamous Citizens United Supreme Court case and ideological crusader against state-based campaign finance laws that limit corporate expenditure, as The Texas Independent recently reported.
Catherine Engelbrecht is just a suburban Houston soccer mom, an accidental activist with a cowboy hat and a dream to help get America back on track. That’s the story in a year’s worth of nationwide media hype, and in her legal defense against a suit from the More…
Since the Texas Democratic Party sued the Houston tea party group King Street Patriots last fall, accusing the group of engaging in partisan politics without disclosing its donors, the case has ballooned into an all-out challenge of the constitutionality of Texas’ corporate campaign donation ban.
The U.S. Department of Justice has one week to object to Texas’ new photo ID requirement at polling places, and a coalition of opponents to the new law made their case for the DOJ earlier this week, with in a letter calling the new law discriminatory and “unlawful under the More…
In the first of a series of forums hosted by tea partiers across Texas, six U.S. GOP Senate candidates vying to win the seat being vacated by U.S. Rep. Kay Bailey Hutchison fielded questions – ranging from entitlement reform to whether or not a mosque should be built at Ground More…
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