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An anti-amnesty group is working to bring a Grover Norquist-like pledge to the immigration issue, and the highest-profile Republican primary challenger of the cycle is the first to sign. Mississippi state senator Chris McDaniel endorsed a new pledge from the

It is “unbecoming” of a member of Congress like Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) to refuse to debate a credible primary challenger like state Sen. Chris McDaniel, a top Mississippi newspaper’s editorial board wrote Sunday. “We understand such decisions are based

JACKSON, Mississippi — Hours before two major Tea Party rallies in this state, the American Conservative Union endorsed state Senator Chris McDaniel over incumbent Sen. Thad Cochran, providing the imprimatur of an organization that remains the most highly-sought validator of

BILOXI, Mississippi–“You feel it don’t you? The momentum is growing. The people are waking up again,”state senator Chris McDaniel told a crowd of about 150 Tea Party activists here. McDaniel was in his element at the event, part of the

BILOXI, MS–South Mississippi Tea Party chairman John Rhodes is fairly involved in politics. The Tea Party chapter he leads meets twice a month. An active supporter of state Senator Chris McDaniel in the U.S. Senate primary here, Rhodes has been

The chairman of the Mississippi GOP, Joe Nosef,  reacted angrily to Tea Party groups calling for his resignation this week, accusing one local activist of secretly working to elect Democrats and saying some “fanatical” Tea Party groups could jeopardize the

Five years after an estimated one million Tea Party activists turned out at more than 900 rallies across the country on April 15, 2009 to participate in the historic national Tax Day Tea Party, there are only a few such

The possibility that opponents of Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) will coalesce around a single challenger in the June Republican U.S. Senate primary in South Carolina took an interesting turn on Monday when an influential Tea Party leader in the state

A statewide Mississippi Tea Party group called Monday for the resignation of state GOP chairman Joe Nosef over negative comments he recently made about state senator Chris McDaniel, who is challenging Sen. Thad Cochran in the GOP primary there. The

Mississippi state Sen. Chris McDaniel laid out the national case for grassroots conservatism in a speech that fired up the crowd at the FreedomWorks-sponsored FreePAC Kentucky event on Saturday. “We’re fighting, and so it begins again,” McDaniel opened his ten-minute

LOUISVILLE, Kentucky–FreedomWorks President Matt Kibbe, one of the featured speakers at the organization’s FreePAC Kentucky event in Louisville Saturday, told Breitbart News that the estimated 2,000 Tea Party activists attending the event will focus on the tools and techniques of community

Friday morning, Sen. Thad Cochran’s (R-MS) campaign sent out a press release criticizing his GOP primary challenger, state senator Chris McDaniel, for planning to attend a major Tea Party rally this weekend.  “This Saturday, Kentucky will focus on the Final

Momentum is building around the campaign of Tea Party backed state senator Chris McDaniel in his challenge to incumbent Senator Thad Cochran (R-MS) in the June 3 Mississippi Republican U.S. Senate primary.  A recent poll by Tea Party Express show

A new poll from the Tea Party Express shows that Tea Party primary challenger and state Sen. Chris McDaniel is locked in a tight race with 36-year incumbent Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) two months from the election. A poll of

One of the nation’s top political forecasters declared Tuesday that six-term incumbent Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) is in “deep trouble” against conservative challenger state Sen. Chris McDaniel in this year’s Mississippi GOP senate primary on June 3. Stuart Rothenberg wrote

vSen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) confirmed on Wednesday evening that he is still unaware of the five-year-old Tea Party movement that has rocked U.S. politics, including the U.S. Senate in which he has served for 36 years. “I said I didn’t

Mississippi’s GOP senate primary is quickly becoming ground zero in 2014 for the fight between the establishment and the conservative grassroots for control of the Republican Party’s future. The state’s former governor Haley Barbour’s establishment political machine is in full

On Wednesday, the Tea Party Patriots’ super PAC endorsed Mississippi State Senator Chris McDaniel in his campaign against six-term incumbent Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS).  “Chris McDaniel is a citizen leader committed to fighting for personal freedom, economic freedom, and a

Sen. Thad Cochran’s (R-MS) spokesman says he’s voted “against amnesty in every chance he’s gotten.” However, a review of his voting record shows that’s not true. Cochran voted against an amendment to strip amnesty provisions from a 2006 bill, as

At a Jan. 23 fundraiser at the Whispering Woods hotel and conference center in Olive Branch, MS, a suburb of Memphis, TN, across the state line, the senior senator from Mississippi let his $500-a-plate audience know what he really wants

Incumbent Mississippi Senator Thad Cochran said he was unfamiliar with the Tea Party movement, which has rocked Washington and the GOP establishment by giving a voice to Americans who believe Washington no longer represents them. That ignorance of the movement

Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) announced Friday he would seek reelection to a seventh term in the U.S. Senate. “I’m comfortable with my decision,” Cochran, who turns 76 years old this weekend, told Gannett on Friday. “I’m looking forward to it.

State Sen. Chris McDaniel (R-MS) told Breitbart News in an exclusive phone interview that he is running against U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) in the GOP primary next year because he sees a massive problem with the Republican Party on