- Tea Party Patriots - "Tea Party Patriots, Inc." ("TPP") is a non-partisan, non-profit social welfare organization dedicated to furthering the common good and general welfare of the people of the United States...by educating the public and promoting the principles of fiscal responsibility, constitutionally limited government and free markets. Tea Party Patriots has not endorsed candidates for public office.
- TCOT Report - Provides "Breaking News From the Conservative World!"
- The Libertarian Party - The Party of Principle
- www.direct2congress.org - Provides current petition campaigns
- Grassfire -
"...a million-strong network of grassroots conservatives. It's a place for you to access reliable information on the latest issues impacting grassroots conservatives. And it is a way for you to take action on issues that concern you through citizen petitions and other means that expand your impact."
- FRC Action - The Legislative Action Arm of the Family Research Council
- FreedomWorks - “FreedomWorks recruits, educates, trains and mobilizes hundreds of thousands of volunteer activists to fight for less government, lower taxes, and more freedom.”
- AMERICAN MAJORITY – “American Majority Incorporated is a non-profit, non-partisan political training institute whose mission is to train and equip a national network of leadership committed to individual freedom through limited government and the free market.”
- Congress.org - "a nonpartisan news and information Web site devoted to encouraging civic participation... The heart of Congress.org is an award-winning software program that makes it easy for citizens to write their elected officials. Our software assures that your letter will be delivered directly to the decision-makers whose opinions you hope to influence
- - "The mission of the Media Research Center, 'America's Media Watchdog,' is to bring balance to the news media."
- The Right Scoop - provides audio/video of conservative leaders
- Human Events - "Conservative news media since 1944" - the leading conservative news site for political developments provided by a team of Captiol Hill based reporters.
- CNS News – “The Cybercast News Service was launched on June 16, 1998 as a news source for individuals, news organizations and broadcasters who put a higher premium on balance than spin and seek news that’s ignored or under-reported as a result of media bias by omission.”
- Hot Air - “Welcome to the world’s first full-service conservative Internet broadcast network!”
- World Net Daily – “WorldNetDaily.com Inc. is an independent news company dedicated to uncompromising journalism, seeking truth and justice and revitalizing the role of the free press as a guardian of liberty.”
- ScrappleFace – “News Fairly Unbalanced. We Report You Decipher.”
- Naked Emperor News – “Naked Emperor News" is a Video News site.
- Newsmax - one of the nation's leading independent news site focusing on breaking news, politics, finance, personal health, technology, and entertainment.
- American Thinker - "American Thinker is a daily internet publication devoted to the thoughtful exploration of issues of importance to Americans. Contributors are accomplished in fields beyond journalism, and animated to write for the general public out of concern for the complex and morally significant questions on the national agenda."
- FrontPage Magazine - "The DHFC is dedicated to the defense of free societies whose moral, cultural and economic foundations are under attack by enemies both secular and religious, at home and abroad." Informative website of David Horowitz, one of the founders of the New Left in the 1960s who converted to conservative ideology.
- Michelle Malkin is a conservative syndicated columnist, author, and Fox News Channel contributor.
- Point of View - Website of Christian national daily (M-F) radio talk show that provides a unique presentation of current issues in an understandable way and provides instruction on how we can take action to preserve the values our country was founded on.
- RedState – “RedState is the leading blog for right of center online activities.”
- Instapundit.com – A US political blog produced by Glenn Reynolds, a law professor at the University of Tennessee.
- PajamasMedia – “The PJM portal now provides exclusive news and opinion 24/7 with correspondents in over forty countries.”
- Townhall – “The source for Conservative Political News, Cartoons, Issues and Blogs.”
- Big Government – They broke the ACORN video scandal.
- National Review – The National Review Online
- The Blaze - New news/blog website sponsored by Glenn Beck
- ACT! for America - ACT! for America is the organization founded by Brigitte Gabriel, author of THEY MUST BE STOPPED. Born in Lebanon, she knows first hand the harsh realities of radical Islam, its goals, and its threat to our national security.
- WORLD Magazine - Today's News | Christian Views
- Science & Environmental Policy Project - sign up for newletters reporting updates from the Science & Environment Policy Project.
- Texans for Better Science Education (TBSE) - A group of concerned Texas citizens who support the right of all students and teachers to learn about both the strengths and weaknesses of evolutionary theories free from censorship and intimidation.
- CO2isGreen.org - Congress and federal regulators are trying to classify CO2 as a pollutant. There is not a single piece of scientific evidence that CO2 is a pollutant.
- Report Illegals - "Provides concerned individuals with a fast and efficient method to report illegal aliens and illegal employers to an agency capable of investigating and prosecuting 'undocumented immigrants' and their illegal employers."
- Federation for American Immigration Reform - "The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) is a national, nonprofit, public-interest, membership organization of concerned citizens who share a common belief that our nation's immigration policies must be reformed to serve the national interest."
- www.minutemanhq.com - "It is the mission of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps to see the borders and coastal boundaries of the United States secured against the unlawful and unauthorized entry of all individuals, contraband, and foreign military. We will employ all means of civil protest, demonstration, and political lobbying to accomplish this goal."
- NumbersUSA – “Rely on this website to help you influence Congress to turn away from immigration policies forcing a more and more congested and regimented future for our country, children and our grandchildren...This is a non-partisan site."
- www.obamacaretruth.org - "What the Liberal Media Aren't Telling You About Obama's Healthcare Plans." Website of the Media Research Center
- Congressional Health Care Caucus – “informative look into what the [Congressional Health Care] Caucus is doing to promote a health care system that is focused on patients instead of payments, quality instead of quantity, affordability instead of cheapness, and innovation instead of stagnation."
- Center for Health Transformation - "The Center for Health Transformation calls on Congress to allow C-SPAN or other media outlets to broadcast final negotiations concerning the merging of the House and Senate versions of healthcare reform so Americans can know about one of the most important legislative changes to emerge in 40 years."
- Free our Health Care NOW! - By signing this online petition, you will be saying you are supporting choice, access, fairness, and responsibility in any heath care reform plan. There is also a link to "Let Congress Know How You Feel: Let's Reform Health Care the Right Way." Website of the National Center for Policy Analysis.
- healthcare.ncpa.org - National Center for Policy Analysis articles on Free-Market Health Care Policy.
- Constituting America - Site designed specifically for youth interactive educational opportunities to learn our nation's foundations (sorely lacking in current educational institutions).
- Young Conservatives of Texas - A non-partisan conservative youth organization, has been fighting for conservative values for more than a quarter century in the Lone Star State and publishes the most respected ratings of the Texas Legislature.
- Facebook/Young Republicans TV - A web-interview headquarters designed to engage youth by connecting America's brightest up-and-coming Republican leaders.
- twitter.com/yrtv - Twitter account for YoungRepublicans.tv (a web-interview headquarters designed to engage youth by connecting America's brightest up-and-coming Republican leaders).
- Young America's Foundation "is committed to ensuring that increasing numbers of young Americans understand and are inspired by the ideas of individual freedom, a strong national defense, free enterprise, and traditional values."
- C-SPAN - watch live streaming of the sessions of the U.S. Congress.
- www.govtra - Provides tracking capabilities for legislation and Congressional leaders.
- The Washington Post: The U.S. Congress Votes Database - "This site lets you browse every vote in the U.S. Congress since 1991."
- MegaVote - Sign up for MegaVote's weekly newsletter (when Congress is in session), which provides key votes by your two Senators and U.S. Representative, links to send e-mail to your members of Congress using pre-addressed forms, and upcoming votes for your review and a chance to offer e-mail input before they vote.
- Independent Conservative Republicans of Texas are elected officials who pledge to their new Contract with Texas, with core principles closely aligned with the DTP 5 core principles.
- Texas Public Policy Foundation is a 501(c)3 non-profit, non-partisan research institute. The Foundation’s mission is to promote and defend liberty, personal responsibility, and free enterprise in Texas by educating and affecting policymakers and the Texas public policy debate with academically sound research and outreach.
- Empower Texans exists to create and sustain a system of strong fiscal stewardship within all levels of Texas government.”
- Texas Insider - Conservative view of political issues in Texas.
- Texas GOP Vote - Texas political/election news and issues from the perspective of the GOP.
- Open Society Foundations - "OSI seeks to shape public policies that assure greater fairness in political, legal, and economic systems and safeguard fundamental rights."
- Discover the Networks - "A guide to the political left."
- SourceWatch - "The Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) publishes SourceWatch, this collaborative, specialized encyclopedia of the people, organizations, and issues shaping the public agenda."
- American Values is a non-profit organization committed to uniting the American people around the vision of our Founding Fathers. American Values is deeply committed to defending life, traditional marriage, and equipping our children with the values necessary to stand against liberal education and cultural forces.
- Judicial Watch - "Judicial Watch, Inc., a conservative, non-partisan educational foundation, promotes transparency, accountability and integrity in government, politics and the law."
- Nutbusters – “We are a citizen action group committed to exposing the danger that ACORN and the Working Family Party poses to our democracy.”
- – “The mission of the Cato Institute is to increase the understanding of public policies based on the principles of limited government, free markets, individual liberty, and peace.”
- Eagle Forum - Enabling conservative and pro-family citizens to participate in the process of self-government and public policy-making.
- Texas Eagle Forum - Progress through preservation of traditional values.
- The Heritage Foundation – “Our Mission – To formulate and promote conservative public policies based on the principles of free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom, traditional American values, and a strong national defense.”
- Center for Security Policy - A non-profit, non-partisan organization that specializes in identifying policies, actions, and resource needs that are vital to American security and then ensures that such issues are the subject of both focused, principled examination and effective action by recognized policy experts, appropriate officials, opinion leaders, and the general public.
- Wallbuilders - Presenting America's forgotten history and heroes with an emphasis on our moral, religious, and constitutional heritage.
- "Get Out of Our House" - Recommended links - Many great conservative website links all in one place
- Liberty Legal Institute - Non profit organization dedicated to protecting freedoms and strengthening families.
- Fair Tax - Americans for fair taxation. Abolsih the income tax. Create an economic boom.
- Larry Elder - "The Larry Elder Show" - author of the best-selling book, THE 10 THINGS YOU CAN'T SAY IN AMERICA.
- Charles Krauthammer - Townhall columnist, winner of the 1987 Pulitizer Prize for distinguished commentary.
- Star Parker - Committed to fighting poverty and restoring dignity through faith, freedom, and personal responsibility.
- Jesse Lee Peterson - Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny (BOND) - Rebuilding The Family By Rebuilding The Man.
- Thomas Sowell - Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow, The Hoover Institution, Stanford University; his most recent book is BASIC ECONOMICS.
- Michale Yon - Former Green Beret and author of MOMENT OF TRUTH, provides independent reporting from Iraq and Arghanistan since 2004 and dispatches from the front lines.
- BLACK FIVE - Military support blog.
- Secure Freedom Radio with Frank Gaffney - Frank Gaffney is the Founder and President of the American lobbyist group Center for Security Policy and is a conservative columnist. Secure Freedom Radio is characterized by its high-caliber guests in leading military and policy making positions.
- IBD Editorials - Investor's Business Daily Insights and Issues.
- The Market Center Blog - Focuses on national and international current economic policy.
- iCaucus - The Independence Caucus, taking outr government back one candidate at a time. A national citizens organization focused on integrity over big money.
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Websites added for educational opportunities; they do not necessarily reflect what Ellis County Tea Party stands for.
