In a different kind of election year twist on Tuesday, a Tea Party conservative Republican from Kansas was defeated in his bid for re-election to the Congress, as the Chamber of Commerce and GOP ...

MADISON, Wis.—The tea party, at least its widespread influence on Republican congressional candidates, "is over," declared the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the party group charged with ...

Whatever happens in Kentucky's GOP primary, the populist right no longer even pretends to care about spending or government ...

Likewise, House Republicans were badly burned by their intransigence over the payroll tax cut last December. The GOP cannot afford to again be seen risking economic growth in favor of ideological ...

It’s certain that the Tea Party was ecstatic over rescinding $1.1 billion allocated to public broadcasting, even though it was but pocket change in the Federal budget. But where was the Tea Party — so ...

In the first test of the 2014 mid-term elections, voters in Texas stuck with their incumbent members of Congress, turning back almost every challenger in both parties, as Republicans shrugged off ...

A recent study by the New York Times estimates that about 30 Tea Party candidates have a chance of getting to Congress and eight or so to the Senate. We talk with Tea Partiers and others about where ...

Progressives are fired up, but some districts are still backing centrist Democrats in primaries ahead of the November ...