Education & Research Links

Please Note - We are providing these links for the the purposes of research.   We do not necessarily agree with or can monitor everything on the websites.

Tea Party Links - 

• TeaPartyCommand.com - National Tea Party Command

Conservative & Free Market Think-tanks

• For general Conservative Issue - Heritage.org
• For a more Liberaterian Thinktank - Cato.org
• Austrian Economics - Mises.org
• Milton Friedman & Chicago Board of Economics - Milton Friendman Institute
• Library of Economics and Liberty - http://www.econlib.org/
• Liberty Fund - http://libertyfund.org/
• The Goodrich Seminar Room - http://files.libertyfund.org/goodrich/#

Congressional Review

• Find your Elected Officials
• Find your US Congressman and District
• Find your US Senator
• Truth in Accounting - The truth about government spending
• Flip Congress 2010 - Reseach Congressional voting records
• Project Vote Smart - Extensive non-partisan information on elected officials' voting records and candidates' positions
• FEC.gov - The Federal Elections Commission home page with daily news on the results of their oversight activities.
• CHA.House.gov - Committee on House Administration.  This is the "HR" site for House members, and includes lots of interesting information such as a staggering list of reimbursable expenditures.
• LegiStorm.com - Tracks congressional salaries, trip expenditures, and legislative activity.
• MAPlight.org - Tracks the relationship between special interest group money, bills, and the US Congressmen that sponsored them.
• CampaignMoney.com - See who’s giving money, even down to your zip code, and who they gave it to.
• FollowTheMoney.org - Focusing on the donations given at the state Congressional level.
• NewsMeat.com - Not only can you see how much a candidate has spent, but how much money they have on hand and what what their odds of winning look like.
• OpenSecrets.org - Look up any member of Congress and see how their funds were gathered: personal funds, personal donations, and more.

Issues / Party Information / Education

• FairTax Nation - Focused on the FairTax
• FairTax - Americans for Fair Taxation - Replace the Federal Income Tax System
• National Council of Americans - Educating Americans on the words of our Founding Fathers
• Tenth Amendment Center - Working to protect State Rights
• Thomas.loc.gov - Legislative information freely available to the public through the Library of Congress covering all aspects of Congressional activity.
• Govit.com - Outstanding website that allows you to vote in a thumbs up/down manner on various bills, send your votes to your officials, and discuss your opinions with the Govit community.
• FreedomSpeaks.com - Allows you to compose a single letter, and, with a few clicks, send it to every official that represents you. Sends letters free of charge to your officials' email boxes and fax machines.
• Politics1.com - Political clearinghouse with a thorough list and description of major and minor political parties.
• OnTheIssues.org - Look up any candidate, down to state, and see where they stand on a multitude of issues and how they’ve voted.
• PoliticalBase.com - Shows you campaign contributions, compares the candidates on the issues in a simplified grid format and more.
• PoliticalTrends.info - Attempts to give you a visual image of how the blogosphere is reacting to the issues.