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    weak state our of economy over the past several years, many organizations and movements have surfaced in order to attempt to make a change to better our country. One of those organizations is the Tea Party and their movement. The Tea Party movement is an effective political force in our society because it is respectable, organized, and focused on common issues. According to the official website for the Tea Party movement, it was formed randomly in 2009 from “the reaction of the American people fiscally

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    The Tea Party, an uprising movement, with specific beliefs have made a major political breakthrough in this year due to strategic framing usages and resources. Their framing usages strongly conveys their social and economical perspective and ideology through an extremist and phenomenological approach. Their framing activities influences generalized belief, collective behavior, irrational behavior, experiential commensurability, and specific grievances among the supporters. The supporters are mainly

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    Although the birth of the modern-day Tea Party movement is, “…still under debate... the actual credit for the idea of the Tea Party [and influence for the modern-day movement, dates] all the way back to the ‘Sons of Liberty’…” and the occurrence on the Boston Tea Party on December 16, 1773 (Teaparty911.com). The Boston Tea Party was key event in the American Revolution. Many supporters for American Independence came to the port, where a shipment of tea had just arrived from England, and they disguised

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    are four kinds of significant “political actors”, “Political Party,” “Social Movement,” “Interest Group,” and “Group Organization,” which citizens in the United States can join and support in order to influence politics and government. These four important “political actors” have a long history and their ability to influence the politics and government can not be underestimated. Moreover, The Tea Party Movement is a political movement that began follow by the Barak Obama’s first presidential inauguration

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    Women’s Suffrage Movement, Civil Rights Movement, and The Boston Tea Party. One example of how protest is and an American concept is The Boston Tea Party protest that occurred on December 16, 1773. This protest is historic because it was the first real protest by the colonist

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    the 50s and 60s to the Tea Party movement in more recent years – have pushed both major US party (the Repopulace and Democrats) toward the fringe of the political spectrum. McAdam and Tarrow (2010) nicely illustrate this process with the example of the antiwar movement and its influence on the American party system after 9/11 (see also Heaney and Rojas 2007, 2015). Similarly, McAdam and Kloos (2014) appearance how mixer apparent motion contributes to the radicalization of party posture and to the polarization

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    The Tea Party Movement by Jonah Garcia The Tea Party Movement was founded on one core principle: downsize the government. The Tea Party feels that the government is too big, and that people can govern themselves. This movement was founded on something unique that originated a long time ago during another movement that happened in 1774, the Boston Tea Party. The foundation of the movement in the eyes of the Tea Party are the citizens. They were the ones to make the Tea Party the Tea Party. Its

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    The effects the Tea Party movement has on politics and our democracy are evident. Due to anger over President Obama’s progressive policies and the Tea Party’s rise to national prominence, Democrats suffered devastating defeats over the years. In 2010, Tea Party nominees Rand Paul of Kentucky and Marco Rubio of Florida saw easy wins in their bids for a U.S Senate seat. With the help of The Tea Party, Marco Rubio defeated the sitting governor in a three-way senate race who was part of the republican

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    presidential nomination in 2008. Rand Paul attended Duke university. Paul iIs and activist who is know for supporting the Tea Party Movement. He has a strong political background and Paul also ran for president in 2015. In September 2008 Paul became active in the kentucky branch of the burgeoning, nationwide anti-tax movement known as the Tea Party. One the 236 university of the boston tea party, Paul announced his intention to run for a seat in the U.S. Senate. Paul has never sought political office. "If

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    Social movements come about as people of small groups which are loosely connected are united by a single purpose. Unlike interest groups who are often bureaucratic, social movements are loosely organized. Protests are often done to express people’s dissent or support on a certain issue or advocacy. However, not all social movements are able to thrive since their existence relies on the existence of a certain event or issue. Some social movements also decline since they succeeded, especially in movements

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