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At the height of the Cold War during the late 1950s, a conservative fringe group, created by some of America's richest businessmen gathered with a lofty mission in mind: to eliminate the so-called "Communist conspiracy" they believed gripped the country, and to preserve the foundation of the Constitution and the nation'sChristian roots.

At its peak, the John Birch Society had some 100,000 dues-paying members who were focused on quashing communism and promoting small government. But as the Cold War faded, so did the organization.

Today, however, a Birch Society revival is underway, andTexas is at the epicenter.

Freelance reporterJohn Savagesrecent Politico article,The John Birch Society Is Back,explains how the group developed its stronghold in Texas. Savage says todays organization has some valid concerns but also leans toward conspiracy theories not much different than it was nearly 60 years ago.

They really tapped into anti-illegal immigration, they say, anti-globalism, anti-big-government passion. Those main core principles are still their main core principles, he says.

Written by Caroline Covington.

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Before The Tea Party And The Alt-Right, There Was The John Birch Society. Now They're Back In Texas. - KUT

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ALBUQUERQUE The Albuquerque Tea Party has been granted tax-exempt status by the Internal Revenue Service after applying eight years ago.

Graham Bartlett, president of the local Tea Party, said he was informed about a month ago that the groups request was going through, the Albuquerque Journal reported.

The Albuquerque Tea Party requested tax-exempt status because it relies on donations, and people tend to donate more when they know they can write it off on their taxes, Bartlett said.

The group filed its request in December 2009. Several months later, the IRS demanded more documentation concerning the organizations activities. The group complied, and then the IRS requested even more documentation. The Tea Party provided more than 1,000 pages of documentation about the groups activities.

What I understand is the IRS was targeting any organization that had the name Tea Party in it or the word conservative, Bartlett said. We werent the only ones.

In 2012, the American Center for Law and Justice filed a lawsuit against the IRS on behalf of the Albuquerque Tea Party as well as other conservative groups whose requests for tax-exempt status seemed to be put on hold during the Obama administration. In 2015, a bipartisan review from the U.S. Senates Finance Committee found management flaws at the IRS contributed to a dysfunctional culture that allowed agents to mistreat conservative groups when they applied for tax-exempt status.

Both Bartlett and Moore said that since President Donald Trump and the Republicans assumed power in Washington in January, there seems to have been a change in policy and tone at the IRS.

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Albuquerque Tea Party given tax-exempt status after 8 years - Santa Fe New Mexican

Some of us will be taxed without benefit under this new road tax proposal. Many of the homeowners in Green Valley have private streets that we maintain from homeowner dues. In our case, the per-resident cost is $70 each year for preventive maintenance and $230 each year for future replacement.

Many residential areas have county streets that are maintained by the county. Now we have the increased taxation for county streets. These neighborhoods have not, in general, been paying for their street maintenance in addition to road taxes as some of us have.

Will the Board of Supervisors consider spreading the increased tax revenue for road maintenance by formula around to HOAs who are funding their own roads? While it may not be the new American way, it does seem fair that all those who are taxed receive the benefits of taxation.

E. James Perkins, Green Valley

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Boston Tea Party? - Green Valley News

The Tony Abbott-aligned group urging NSW Liberals to attend a party reform meeting this weekend is campaigning with a political app used by the organisation behind the 2010 National Tea Party Convention in the United States.

The app being used by the group, the Democratic Reform Movement, is created by Right Mobile Pty Ltd.

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It gives mobile phone users access to videos and articles featuring Mr Abbott and others arguing for an overhaul of the NSW Liberal Party preselection rules and urges party members to attend.

The same template was used by Right Mobile to create an app for Tea Party Nation, which organised the 2010 convention for the Tea Party conservative Republican splinter group at which former Republican governor Sarah Palin was keynote speaker.

Fairfax Media has also learnt questions are being asked about $10,000 in party funds spent on the Democratic Reform Movement campaign by the Federal Electorate Conference for Mr Abbott's seat of Warringah.

The reform group is led by Warringah FEC president Walter Villatora.

Internal documents show Warringah FEC spent $10,334.90 on a "Democratic Reform Workshop".

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This is understood to be the subject of a complaint to NSW Liberal head office ahead of the Party Futures Convention to be held at Rosehill racecourse this weekend.

The convention is set to thrash out changes to how state and federal candidates are preselected by the NSW Liberals.

The Democratic Reform Movement is pushing a Warringah FEC motion to introduce plebiscites whereby every local party member would get a vote. At present, voting is restricted to branch representatives and some party officials.

The ruling left and centre right factions claim this will open the door to large-scale branch stacking by Mr Abbott's "hard" right faction.

They support a compromise that would introduce plebiscites but with strict safeguards such as a member activity test and a requirement for several years' membership.

On Monday Fairfax Media reported the Democratic Reform Movement was accused of trying to "stack" the convention, including by paying the $150 fee for members to attend.

The convention is being seen as the next potential flashpoint between Mr Abbott and Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull over the Liberal Party's direction.

Former party member and plebiscite campaigner John Ruddick has predicted a split in the Liberals should the Warringah motion fail.

Right Mobile has created apps for numerous US Republican party groups as well as for charity.

Sasha Reid, a founder of Sydney company Hyper Apps, estimated the Democratic Reform Movement app would cost between $10,000 to $15,000 to set up, plus potential ongoing fees.

However, a source close to the Democratic Reform Movement said Right Mobile was owned by a "mate" and therefore cost "next to nothing" and denied the owner had Tea Party or Republican links.

A Warringah FEC source said it had passed the Warringah motion unanimously twice and that "gives the Warringah conference the mandate to spend [the $10,000]".

But a Liberal source accused the Warringah FEC of "spending party funds to support the hard-right faction in its campaign to introduce the branch stacker's plebiscite".

"They should have their guns pointing at Labor, not fellow Liberals," the source said.

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Tony Abbott-aligned Liberal reform group using Tea Party political app - The Sydney Morning Herald