Minuteman to Tea Party: A Grassroots Rebranding

by David Holthouse for Media Matters Last August, more than 600 right-wing activists gathered for a Tea Party Nation rally on private land near the U.S.-Mexico border in Cochise County, Arizona. Fluttering in the desert breeze were hundreds of tiny American flags attached to a border fence of 15-foot-tall rusty poles. Sheriff Joe Arpaio at a Tea Party Nation rally on the border last August Rally speakers included Tea Party candidates for the US Senate and House of Rep...