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.

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 ...

The Louisa Tea Party will host an Election Integrity Forum on January 29 at Roma’s Italian Restaurant, with doors opening at ...

While Republicans in some parts of the country try to hold the emerging “tea party” movement at arm’s length, Virginia GOP leaders appear to be embracing the conservative activists who could change ...