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American fiscally conservative political movement
Conservative activist groups and right‑wing commentators have used "RINO" (Republican In Name Only) as a political cudgel against many Republican officeholders since 2010, frequently targeting senator...
Turning Point USA (TPUSA) was founded in 2012 by Charlie Kirk with mentor and businessman Bill (William) Montgomery; Kirk was 18 at the time and soon left college to build the organization . Accounts ...
The provided materials identify key MAGA-era ideologies as ; analysts link these elements to overlaps with recognized hate movements while disputing how uniform or direct that overlap is . Reporting a...
Available empirical reporting does not support a simple claim that “”; rather, surveys and event counts show that participants in many recent large protests have tended to be younger, more urban and m...
Both major U.S. parties — Republicans and Democrats — have played roles in past federal government shutdowns; historical shutdowns occurred under presidents and Congresses controlled by each party at ...
Turning Point USA was founded in 2012 with Charlie Kirk as the public founder and principal leader; multiple accounts say Kirk co-founded the group alongside Bill Montgomery, a conservative mentor and...
grew from ’s activist network into a formal political-action operation that combined eccentric ideology, aggressive grassroots canvassing, and periodic fundraising success, but also a history of legal...
Turning Point USA (TPUSA) is a conservative student-focused nonprofit founded in 2012 by Charlie Kirk (and co‑founded with Bill Montgomery by some accounts) that says its mission is to identify, educa...
Charlie Kirk’s high school years at Wheeling High School are presented by multiple accounts as an influential formative period that reinforced an already self-described identity, provided early opport...
The October 2013 federal shutdown happened because Congress failed to enact appropriations or a continuing resolution before the new fiscal year began on October 1, 2013, producing “a lapse in appropr...
The Trump 2025 protests are broader in scale and more frequent than Tea Party-era demonstrations, driven by heightened polarization and rapid grassroots mobilization across all 50 states, but they sha...
that produced the largest reversals in congressional control—most notably , and —dramatically reshaped presidential governing capacity by flipping committee chairs, altering floor calendars and forcin...
Charlie Kirk's conservatism was forged in a mix of suburban Midwest upbringing, early religious formation, youth civic organizations and targeted encounters with conservative activists and media that ...
Charlie Kirk’s suburban Chicago upbringing, early engagement with conservative media and student leadership, and the mentorship of Tea Party activist Bill Montgomery directly shaped Turning Point USA’...
Conservative outside groups such as the Tea Party movement, FreedomWorks and allied organizations have criticized and targeted Republican senators they view as insufficiently conservative—especially t...
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) was the central policy flashpoint that triggered the 16‑day federal government shutdown in October 2013: House Republicans conditioned funding on defunding or delaying th...
The No Kings protests are presented in the supplied materials as a large, nationwide movement asserting opposition to perceived authoritarianism, with organizers reporting millions of participants acr...
The claim that " as a right-wing movement" is false as a historical generalization: the ideas labeled libertarian have roots in both radical left anti‑statist currents (notably Levellers and 19th‑cent...
The phrase “Don’t Tread on Me” emerged from a longer, older colonial visual language: ’s mid‑18th century rattlesnake imagery helped seed a symbol of colonial unity, and crystallized that imagery into...
(2009–2017) were broad, frequent, and ideologically diverse, ranging from large conservative to and linked to . The era saw recurring tensions: mass peaceful mobilizations pressing for policy change a...