Tea Party movement | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-04

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Tea Party movement


00:02:16 1 Agenda
00:07:03 1.1 Foreign policy
00:08:48 2 Organization
00:10:54 3 Etymology
00:11:39 4 History
00:11:48 4.1 Background
00:13:34 4.1.1 Commentaries on origin
00:16:12 4.2 Early local protest events
00:19:17 4.3 First national protests and birth of national movement
00:22:06 4.4 Health care bill
00:23:19 4.5 U.S. elections
00:27:35 4.6 IRS controversy
00:31:01 4.7 Role in the 2016 presidential election
00:32:49 4.8 Current status
00:35:09 5 Composition
00:35:18 5.1 Membership and demographics
00:38:55 5.2 Polling of supporters
00:42:40 5.3 Leadership
00:42:54 5.3.1 Individuals
00:44:27 5.3.2 Organizations
00:47:10 6 Fundraising
00:47:54 6.1 Support of Koch brothers
00:48:55 7 Public opinion
00:49:05 7.1 2010 polling
00:52:28 7.2 After debt-ceiling crisis
00:53:38 7.3 2012 polling
00:54:12 7.4 2013 and 2014 polling
00:55:55 8 Symbols
00:56:44 9 "Teabagger"
00:57:57 10 Commentary by the Obama administration
01:00:21 11 Media coverage
01:03:37 11.1 Tea Party's views of media coverage
01:04:18 12 Perceptions of the Tea Party
01:06:59 13 Controversy
01:09:46 14 See also
01:10:25 15 Notes
01:10:33 16 Further reading
01:10:42 17 External links



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The Tea Party movement is an American fiscally conservative political movement within the Republican Party. Members of the movement have called for lower taxes, and for a reduction of the national debt of the United States and federal budget deficit through decreased government spending. The movement supports small-government principles and opposes government-sponsored universal healthcare. The Tea Party movement has been described as a popular constitutional movement composed of a mixture of libertarian, right-wing populist, and conservative activism. It has sponsored multiple protests and supported various political candidates since 2009. According to the American Enterprise Institute, various polls in 2013 estimate that slightly over 10 percent of Americans identify as part of the movement.The movement began following Barack Obama's first presidential inauguration (in January 2009) when his administration announced plans to give financial aid to bankrupt homeowners. A major force behind it was Americans for Prosperity (AFP), a conservative political advocacy group founded by businessmen and political activist David H. Koch. It is unclear exactly how much money is donated to AFP by David and his brother Charles Koch. Following a February 19, 2009 call by CNBC reporter Rick Santelli on the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange for a "tea party," over fifty conservative activists agreed by conference call to coalesce against Obama's agenda and scheduled series of protests, including the 2009 Taxpayer March on Washington. Supporters of the movement subsequently have had a major impact on the internal politics of the Republican Party. Although the Tea Party is not a party in the classic sense of the word, some research suggests that members of the Tea Party Caucus vote like a significantly farther right third party in Congress.The movement's name refers to the Boston Tea Party of December 16, 1773, a watershed event in the launch of the American Revolution. The 1773 event demonstrated against taxation by the British government without political representation for the American colonists, and references to the Boston Tea Party and even costumes from the 1770s era are commonly heard and seen in the Tea Party movement.