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...that make campaigns hum. Jenny Beth Martin, national coordinator of the Tea Party Patriots and co-chair of the Atlanta Tea Party, says her group is teaching members how to set up phone banks in their homes, knock on doors to disseminate literature and spread the word about the movement's core values. Honey Marques, a full-time physician's assistant in Arizona, says she spends up to 40 hours per week in her capacity as president of the Tea Party Patriots of Scottsdale, which has divided itself into committees - including a finance team and a research and investigative unit...
...government, fiscal responsibility and free markets. Channeling frustration with the Obama Administration's policies into boisterous protests and fiery rhetoric has helped shape the national debate - and has likely provided a measure of catharsis as well. But with a new set of Tax Day protests looming, the Tea Party movement is nearing a tipping point. "Our biggest challenge," Mandile says, "is to get people to do more than come to rallies and sit at their computers trading e-mail stories." (Watch TIME's video "Meet the Tea Party...
...Swapping e-mails and toting signs has been pretty effective so far. The current of anger coursing through the Tea Party movement has been the loudest chord of opposition to the Obama Administration's agenda, and it has forced Democrats to spend more time than they'd like playing defense, even after a landmark health care reform victory. Over time, fuzzy depictions of the movement have grown sharper, and polls - like this week's USA Today/Gallup survey that found 28% of people identified themselves as Tea Party supporters, with 70% of those classifying themselves as conservative - have helped define...
...pave the way for the candidates of the future, the Tea Party has to maintain its character as it swells in size. "One of the biggest challenges for the coordinators of Tea Party Patriots is keeping the grass-roots integrity of this movement," says Martin. "There is a fine line you have to walk. There are so many people interested in what we're doing, and we have to have a structure in place to support those people." Yet others believe building such structures could blunt a phenomenon whose power seems to flow from its inchoate nature. "Too much structure...
...idea of a freshman seminar is that you can try something totally out of your comfort zone, something that you are not sure you are going to excel at whatsoever,” said Miriam E. Psychas ’13, who took the “Movement and Meaning” seminar...