We watched it happen, the corporate media taking this little fringe "Tea Party", huffing and puffing until it looked like a national grassroots movement.
You look a little closer, it's frauds and hucksters taking in the credulous. We looked really closely. A few of us got right up inside this thing. It's nothing really, we're here to show you just exactly how little the Tea Party factions really matter, and we're going to make sure those that have been taken in know the nature of the game.
There are almost 36,000 of us now on the Americans Against The Tea Party Facebook group. We hope you'll join us from time to time. We'll be coming here periodically to provide you Kossacks with updates.
If you want to really dig in and learn the details the very best thing we have found is the Tea Party Nationalism site. This was produced by the Institute for Research & Education on Human Rights. These guys go all out - academic research, charts, maps, briefs on the Tea Party factions and their leaders - this site has got it all.
Our part in all this is keeping people informed. Our members are active in talking about (and poking fun at) the Tea Party. There were 21,000 at the start of the year and we should cross over 36,000 as people see this blog post. Nearly 4,000 real Americans show up every month, look at our page, say to themselves "What is this bullshit?!?!", then they press the Like button. We hope you'll do the same.
We're getting some advice on what to do here from a couple of Kossacks who are also members of our group. We get a lot of views every month - something like 12,000,000 - and they say we can help crush the Tea Party in 2012. We really like the sound of that.
We know what Facebookers want to see - a news link and a little bit about why it's important, then some comments if it's really crunchy. You guys are different, you want more content in a post. Tell us how we're doing, what kind of stuff you want us to cover, etc. We've been told we need to start a group here and then pick a time slot for our weekly report. When do you want us to post?