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The city of New Rochelle, N.Y., has removed the historic Gadsden "Don't Tread On Me" flag from a military armory, deeming the flag "too partisan" because it often is used by the tea party movement. And in response, veterans groups have tapped the Thomas More Law Center to take up the fight. It was after…

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Highlights "Poison Tea shines a spotlight on the shadowy Koch brother network and reveals hidden connections between the tobacco industry, the reclusive billionaire brothers, and the Tea Party movement. About the Author: JEFF NESBIT was the director of public affairs for two federal science agencies. 272 Pages Political Science, Political Ideologies Description About the Book "An incredible expose of the Koch brothers and the tobacco industry's twenty-year plot to manufacture a phony grassroots uprising, this is the true story of the Tea Party"-- Book Synopsis "Poison Tea shines a spotlight on the shadowy Koch brother network and reveals hidden connections between the tobacco industry, the reclusive billionaire brothers, and the Tea Party movement. It's a major story that for too long has been underreported and poorly understood."--REP. HENRY WAXMAN, a former chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee How did today's Tea Party movement really come to be? Did it suddenly appear in 2009 as a spontaneous response to Barack Obama and health-care reform? Or was its true purpose and history something far different. Was it in fact a careful, strategic effort by two of the planet's wealthiest individuals, the tobacco industry, and other corporate interests to remake the government and seize control of one of our two national parties, ultimately gaining both the White House and Congress? Jeff Nesbit was in the room at the beginning of the unholy alliance between representatives of the world's largest private oil company and the planet's largest public tobacco company. There, they planned for a grassroots national political movement--one that would later be known as the Tea Party--that would promote their own corporate interests and political goals. Drawing from his own experience as well as from troves of recently released internal tobacco industry documents, Nesbit reveals the long game that these corporate giants have played to become a dominant force in American politics. Review Quotes "Poison Tea is essential reading for those interested in the inner workings of a key element of the conservative insurgency." --Bruce Bartlett, BookForum "The hijacking of American politics by the Tea Party is one of the most important stories of our time, and Jeff Nesbit offers an inside account of how it happened. Poison Tea is compelling, richly reported, and utterly chilling." --Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction "Without exaggeration or vitriol, Jeff Nesbit has enlightened readers to the influence and unabashed manipulation by the Koch brothers over industry, politics, and the American public. Too few citizens recognize the name Koch brothers, and even fewer understand their tactics and the power they wield. The author has had first-hand information regarding their stronghold on Republican politicians. He writes with facts and without emotion. All citizens of the United States need to read this book." --Senator Harry Reid (NV), Democratic Leader, United States Senate "If there is a 'vast right-wing conspiracy, ' as Hillary Clinton famously said, Poison Tea makes a compelling case that it is alive and well-funded. Jeff Nesbit's exhaustive research connecting seemingly disparate groups is impressive." --Owen Ullmann, USA TODAY "Jeff Nesbit meticulously traces the origins of the Tea Party movement, and the ways in which its creators hoped to disrupt the Republican Party. By all accounts, they've succeeded - perhaps more than they could have imagined." --David A. Kessler, MD, former Commissioner, US Food and Drug Administration, and author of A Question of Intent "Many Americans think that the Tea Party is a grass roots movement, born of voter discontent with Washington, DC. Jeff Nesbit shows us otherwise: that it is, in fact, a highly orchestrated movement with roots in the tobacco industry, designed to discredit government action to reign in industries who are doing damage to our health, well-being, and natural environment. Poison Tea is a truly frightening book. Read it and weep." --NAOMI ORESKES, coauthor of Merchants of Doubt "Poison Tea shines a spotlight on the shadowy Koch brother network and reveals hidden connections between the tobacco industry, the reclusive billionaire brothers, and the Tea Party movement. It's a major story that for too long has been under-reported and poorly understood." --Rep. Henry Waxman, former chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee "In Poison Tea, Jeff Nesbit draws on his own first-hand insider knowledge plus extensive research to reveal that, contrary to conservative mythology, the genesis of the Tea Party was neither spontaneous nor did it come from the grassroots. Poison Tea demonstrates that the birth of the Tea Party was the result of an unholy alliance between the Koch brothers and the tobacco industry that began in the 1980s. Nesbit also reveals how this decades-long campaign to capture the American political system helped spark the civil war within today's Republican Party." --Andrew Claster, Deputy Chief Analytics Officer, Obama for America 2011-2012 About the Author JEFF NESBIT was the director of public affairs for two federal science agencies. He was once profiled in The Wall Street as one of the seven people who ended the Tobacco Wars. Nesbit was a journalist, communications director for Vice President Quayle, and manager of a strategic-communications business for nearly fifteen years. Now the executive director of Climate Nexus, he writes a weekly science blog for U.S. News & World Report. He lives in New York.

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Highlights How the political beliefs of Tea Party supporters are connected to far-right social movements Are Tea Party supporters merely a group of conservative citizens concerned about government spending? About the Author: Christopher S. Parker is associate professor of political science at the University of Washington, Seattle. 400 Pages Political Science, Political Ideologies Description Book Synopsis How the political beliefs of Tea Party supporters are connected to far-right social movements Are Tea Party supporters merely a group of conservative citizens concerned about government spending? Or are they racists who refuse to accept Barack Obama as their president because he's not white? Change They Can't Believe In offers an alternative argument--that the Tea Party is driven by the reemergence of a reactionary movement in American politics that is fueled by a fear that America has changed for the worse. Providing a range of original evidence and rich portraits of party sympathizers as well as activists, Christopher Parker and Matt Barreto show that the perception that America is in danger directly informs how Tea Party supporters think and act. In a new afterword, Parker and Barreto reflect on the Tea Party's recent initiatives, including the 2013 government shutdown, and evaluate their prospects for the 2016 election. From the Back Cover "Parker and Barreto have conducted exacting research to probe the contours of support for the Tea Party, and their innovative, scientific, and critical book highlights how Tea Party sympathizers differ from mainstream conservatives in crucial ways. The authors demonstrate that despite the public image of the Tea Party, its supporters cannot be characterized as either patriotic or freedom loving. This is a must-read for all students of American politics and anyone concerned about democracy in America."--Michael C. Dawson, University of Chicago "This original and important book is the most well-researched and significant scholarly study of the Tea Party movement and its members yet to appear. Unfolding a profile of Tea Party activists threatened by liberal changes and ill-formulated images of big government and state regulatory power, Parker and Barreto tease out core beliefs and views, ranging from commonplace conservatism to racist antagonism. Their book is an outstanding contribution to understanding American politics."--Desmond King, University of Oxford "The Tea Party has attracted a great deal of attention since it burst on the scene in 2010, but few books about the movement have rested on as impressive an empirical foundation as this one. The portrait Parker and Barreto paint of the model Tea Party sympathizer is chilling and sure to anger movement apologists who insist the group is made up of typical patriotic conservatives. This timely, important work deserves the widest audience possible."--Doug McAdam, Stanford University "Through a statistically and historically informed analysis of the views of Tea Party sympathizers, Parker and Barreto show that at bottom, many condemn America as it has come to be: a country in which white straight Christian men do not set standards for all. Precisely because their American dreams must go unfulfilled, the passions of these sympathizers will remain forces in American life for years to come."--Rogers M. Smith, University of Pennsylvania "This book's main contribution to the growing literature on the Tea Party movement is its focus on the characteristics and political beliefs of Tea Party supporters--rather than activists--and its theoretical framework, which locates the Tea Party in the broader structure of far-right social and political movements in the United States."--Alan Abramowitz, Emory University Review Quotes "Change They Can't Believe In offers valuable empirical data on the Tea Party, and its focus on supporters' antagonism toward Obama is critical to understanding the movement."---Michael O'Donnell, New Republic "[A] rigorous scholarly investigation of the tea party. . . . Parker and Barreto make the case that tea party supporters are driven above all by 'anxiety incited by Obama as President.' Intuitively, this may already make sense to many readers, but the authors muster the evidence in support, dividing and subdividing different categories of political activity and belief to arrive at a firm basis for their conclusion. . . . [S]upported by reasoned facts in place of political passions."-- "Kirkus Reviews" "[Parker and Barreto's] statistically informed analysis helps us understand the Tea Party's priorities, its fervor, and its contempt for compromise."---Glenn C. Altschuler, Huffington Post "A scathing analysis of the Tea Party movement, linking it in spirit to the Ku Klux Klan and the John Birch Society. Taking today's conservative populists to be dangerous and their ideas self-incriminating, the authors speculate that Tea Party supporters may perceive of social change as subversion. Based on research and interviews, they suggest racism, desire for social dominance . . . drives the Tea Party."-- "Publishers Weekly" "In Change They Can't Believe In, Parker and Barreto examine the emergence of the Tea Party in the wake of the Obama presidency. . . . In addition to marshaling a great deal of original data, the authors capably place the Tea Party movement in a historical context."-- "Choice" "Winner of the 2014 Best Book Award, Race, Ethnicity, and Politics Section of the American Political Science Association" About the Author Christopher S. Parker is associate professor of political science at the University of Washington, Seattle. He is the author of Fighting for Democracy (Princeton). Matt A. Barreto is associate professor of political science at the University of Washington, Seattle, and director of the Washington Institute for the Study of Ethnicity, Race and Sexuality. He is the author of Ethnic Cues.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2010 im Fachbereich Politik - Internationale Politik - Region: USA, Note: 2,0, Universität Trier, Veranstaltung: Parteienwettbewerb in Konsensus- und Mehrheitsdemokratien, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: ¿Ich habe eine Nachricht von der Tea Party. Wir sind gekommen um uns die Regierung zurück zu holen!¿ (Spiegel Online 1, 2010) ¿Super Tuesday¿ am 07. Juni 2010 in den USA. In elf Staaten finden Vorwahlen zu Posten in Senat und Repräsentantenhaus statt. Traditionell werden diese unter einem hohen persönlichen und finanziellen Aufwand unter den einzelnen Kandidaten ausgetragen. Doch seit kurzer Zeit mischt sich ein neuer Akteur in die Rekrutierungsabläufe der beiden grossen amerikanischen Parteien, überwiegend auf Seiten der Republikaner, ein. Unter dem Motto: ¿Taxed Enough Already¿ gewinnt die Bürgerprotestbewegung ¿New Tea Party¿ immer mehr Sympathisanten und Einfluss, den sie versucht auf der politischen Bühne Washingtons zu nutzen, um ihre politischen Ziele, wie geringere Steuern, einen schlankeren Staat und die Verhinderung einer Gesundheitsreform durchzusetzen. Sie handelt bei der Formulierung ihrer Forderungen und bei deren Durchsetzung augenscheinlich wie eine organisierte Interessengruppe, ist aber eher als stark fraktionierte Grass Roots Bewegung zu verstehen, die inzwischen von ca. 35% der amerikanischen Bürger unterstützt wird (CNN Opinion Research, 2010, S.4). Als Sympathisanten der ¿NTP¿ bezeichnen sich sogar ca. 52% der Amerikaner. Allein aus diesen Werten heraus liesse sich eine grosse Bedeutung für die amerikanische Politik und damit die Relevanz für die Rekrutierung von Legislativeliten begründen. Doch ist dieser Einfluss wirklich vorhanden, und wenn ja, ist er so stark wie er subjektiv wahrgenommen werden kann? Und mittels welcher Strukturen und Prozesse innerhalb des amerikanischen Parteiensystems und innerhalb der New Tea Party selbst könnte dies von statten gehen? Dies zu untersuchen und zu erläutern soll Inhalt dieser Arbeit sein. Die forschungsleitende Fragestellung soll also lauten: ¿Wie stark und mit welchen Mitteln beeinflusst die New Tea Party Bewegung die Kandidatenrekrutierung der Parteien zur Wahl des Senats und des Repräsentantenhauses?¿In Verbindung mit dieser Fragestellung wird hier zudem folgende, in der Arbeit zu diskutierende These aufgestellt:¿Durch einen erhöhten öffentlichen Druck, mithilfe von Protesten und medialer Präsenz, können die Parteien in den Vereinigten Staaten in der Rekrutierung ihrer Legislativeliten beeinflusst werden.¿

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