But then the 2008 financial crisis, which severely damaged public trust in government, banks, and economic elites ...

News agency AFP is examining how the Republican Party will respond to a series of surprise setbacks, some suffered at the hands of their own “archconservative political shock troops” in the Tea Party.

The former state senator from Dallas challenged Gov. Greg Abbott from the right four years ago. He’s now in line to oversee the $1 billion voucher program championed by the governor.

AUSTIN — State Rep. Dan Branch, locked in a Republican primary with two other candidates, has morphed in the past few months from a seemingly moderate Republican into a tea party firebrand, creating a ...

Karl Rove and other Republicans who have long been in the political realm are not too pleased by the surge of Tea Party victories in the primaries. These underdog wins over favored Republican nominees ...

Our Founding Fathers established a government "of the people, by the people, and for the people." They did not establish a government "of the rich, by the rich and for the rich." The Republican and ...

From North Carolina to Texas to Illinois to New York, establishment favorites all face challenges from progressive insurgents ...