Tea party

ABC News' Amy Walter reports: The last major primary contests of 2010 went out with a bang. In Delaware and New York.. In the last biggest primary race before the November midterm elections, the Tea Partiers tested the GOP's chances at winning a majority in Congress. Daily Beast contributors Peter Beinart, Nicole Wallace, Tunku Varadarajan, . Then came the Tea Party Express, a California-based organization whose PAC, Our Country Deserves Better, vocally supported O'Donnell. Exhilarated by an upset primary victory in Alaska, in which the group had propelled tea party . Tea Party activists on Tuesday punctuated a primary season with no shortage of surprises by delivering its sharpest blow yet to the Republican establishment..

For the protest events themselves, see Tea Party protests. The name "Tea Party" is a reference to the Boston Tea Party of 1773—a protest by American colonists against . Tea Party protesters fill the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol and the National Mall on September 12, 2009. The Tea Party focuses on smaller government, fiscal responsibility, . Offers information about various Tea Party events throughout the United States..