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Kevin Porter, a U.S. Marine Corps drill instructor, had a tea party with his 4-year-old daughter, Ashley, in honor of April being the Month of the Military Child. (Photo: kyndalrosephoto/Facebook)

(ABC NEWS) -- One military father recently had a very magical tea party with his 4-year-old daughter, Ashley, and the special moment was captured on camera.

My husband had no idea what was going to happen until we showed up to the shoot, Lizette Porter said of her husband Keven Porter, a U.S. Marine Corps drill instructor. He was hesitant at first but after a little talking I was able to convince him. He would do anything for Ashley.

Kevin Porter, a U.S. Marine Corps drill instructor, had a tea party with his 4-year-old daughter, Ashley, in honor of April being the Month of the Military Child. (Photo: kyndalrosephoto/Facebook)

She added, He was kind of embarrassed, but then my daughter had seen the whole set up and was so excited. He couldnt say no.

The timing also worked out perfectly for the daddy-daughter photo shoot as April is the Month of the Military Child.

I figured that would make it a little more special to the both of them, said the proud mom.

Kevin Porter, a U.S. Marine Corps drill instructor, had a tea party with his 4-year-old daughter, Ashley, in honor of April being the Month of the Military Child. (Photo: kyndalrosephoto/Facebook)

Although the two are really close, Lizette said her daughter often misses out on one-on-one time with her dad due to his rigorous work schedule.

She doesn't get to see him much due to work, deployment, and most recently his job as a drill instructor, said Lizette, of Oceanside, California. Any time they can get together she is sure to take advantage of.

Kevin Porter, a U.S. Marine Corps drill instructor, had a tea party with his 4-year-old daughter, Ashley, in honor of April being the Month of the Military Child. (Photo: kyndalrosephoto/Facebook)

Lizette wanted the photo shoot to help show that military men have a softer side to them.

Drill instructors still have a life after working long and hard hours, she explained. Many of them have families that after hours they still have to attend to ... and yes, a lot of them have a completely different side to them.

Kevin Porter, a U.S. Marine Corps drill instructor, had a tea party with his 4-year-old daughter, Ashley, in honor of April being the Month of the Military Child. (Photo: kyndalrosephoto/Facebook)

She added that she wants people to realize how resilient military children [are] to have their parents away, or not near them as much as possible.

Its safe to say the precious pair had a blast together at their photo shoot. The family plans to hang the pictures in Ashleys room when they move into their new house.

I got emotional watching them just be themselves and see how much she loves her daddy, said Lizette.

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The Internal Revenue Service, the much-feared federal agency, has been ordered by a federal judge in Washington, D.C., toopen its records to groups victimized by its obstruction of conservative political activist groups seeking tax-exempt status prior to the 2012 election.

The order came in a case brought by the American Center for Law and Justice on behalf of some of thetargeted organizations.

ACLJ said ina report on itswebsitethe ruling stated the groups are entitled to seek additional information about the IRSs targeting scheme.

Like the D.C. Circuit, which previously rejected the IRSs position essentially a just trust us plea without the evidence necessary to back it up the district court rightly confirmed that the IRS may no longer hide behind its unsupported assertions but instead must turn over information about its discriminatory treatment of these organizations.

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ACLJ said it will now be able to dig in to discover the IRSs past acts of alleged discrimination stemming from the alleged illegal targeting scheme, as well as the current status of the [IRSs] tax-exemption application process, in order to determine not only the entire scope of the IRSs discriminatory treatment of these organizations but, more importantly, whether any such discrimination is continuing to affect the groups, including one group of citizens that has a pending application for tax-exempt status and will therefore be subjected to whatever policies and practices the IRS is currently using to make tax-exemption determinations.

The bad news for the IRS comes in a case in which an appellate court criticized the agency.

WND reported in August 2016 the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals refused to let the agency off the hook. It ruled that the IRS did, in fact, discriminate against tea party groups and that its word was not enough. Ithad to prove it had halted the negative actions.

The Washington Times at the timedescribed the ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit as a rebuke.

The higher court ordered the case, launched on behalf of 41 organizations the IRS had targeted, back to the district court, and the IRS sought to dismiss the case.

The judge wasnt convinced.

While it has taken far longer than it should have for them to get here (several years of waiting for determinations, plus nearly four years of litigation), these organizations are, at long last, poised to pull back the curtain behind which the IRS has been hiding, discover the full extent of the IRSs discrimination against them, and ensure that it is finally brought to an end, ACLJ said.

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In a commentary Monday on FoxNews.com, ACLJ Chief Counsel Jay Sekulow wrote that the IRS official in charge of the tax-exempt division at the center of the scandal, Lois Lerner, got off easy.

She was never prosecuted. She was permitted to retire with a taxpayer funded pensions.

He pointed out, as WND reported, GOP lawmakers are urging the Trump Justice Department to review evidence that Lerner engaged in criminal misconduct by targeting tea-party and conservative groups for their political beliefs.

Sekulow said notonly should Lerner be held accountable, We have repeatedly called for the removal of IRS Commissioner John Koskinen.

He said the most recent court order was encouraging, as it means, We will be able to obtain critical documents from the IRS documents that will be instrumental in determining how this scandal unfolded and who was involved.

He cited former PresidentObamas claimed that there was not a smidgeon of corruption at the IRS, calling it an assertion [that] was never based on facts.

When the casewas at the appeals court, Judge David B. Sentelle said the IRS still was causing troublebecause some organizations were still awaiting approval years after they applied.

ACLJsaid last week an organization from Washington state finally got its tax-exempt status,seven years after making the request.

It was revealed that IRS agency workers at the time deliberately delayed processing tax-exemption applications for some groups that clearly were opposed to Obamas agenda.

The IRS investigators asked invasive questions, such as the subject of group members prayers. They also tried to coerce groups to promisethey would drop their opposition to the Planned Parenthood abortion business agenda.

WND reported a year ago Sentelle had noted the IRS actions intruded upon the constitutional rights of tea-party groups by delaying their applications for nonprofit status, and by asking questions that went above and beyond what was necessary to process their paperwork.

Its hard to find the IRS to be an agency we can trust, Sentelle said at the time.

The IRS inspector general confirmed the allegations that hundreds of conservative groups were targeted.

ACLJ has explained a lower court had dismissed the constitutional violation claims of the groups, opining that there was no remedy that the court could provide for the IRSs misconduct.

The appeals court then took an interest in what was going on.

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Activist Debbie Dooley has some choice words for individuals who believe that fossil fuels have no impact on the environment. If you think fossil fuel is not damaging the environment, she says, pull your car in a garage, start up your engine, and inhale the exhaust fumes for a few minutes and see what happens.

You could be forgiven for suspecting that Dooley might be a Democrat. According to a Gallup poll conducted last year, 85 percent of Democrats believe humans are contributing to increases in global temperature. But shes not. Dooley is a conservative, gun-owning Trump supporter who also happens to be a co-founder of the Tea Party.

Dooley runs Conservatives for Energy Freedom, where she advocates for the expansion of renewable energy and for cuts to government regulations she believes hinder that growth. Through her efforts, she has even won over unlikely allies such as Al Gore.

According to Dooley, the problem with her fellow conservatives is that they've been brainwashed for decades into believing we're not damaging the environment. As a result, Dooley speaks with them about renewable energy in a political language conservatives respect, using phrases like energy freedom, energy choice, and national security.

When speaking to conservatives in these terms, you have a receptive audience and they will listen to you, Dooley says. If you lead off with climate change, they're not going to pay a bit of attention to anything else you say.

Watch this episode of Vox Voices to learn more about how Dooleys discusses the environment with fellow conservatives and why she thinks caring for the environment is not necessarily anti-Republican.

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Activist holds a sign as others belonging to the tea party movement rally at the State Capitol in 2011. Tea party groups returned Monday to register their discontent at how the legislature is moving on some issues.

Activist holds a sign as others belonging to the tea party movement rally at the State Capitol in 2011. Tea party groups returned Monday to register their discontent at how the legislature is moving on some

These politicians are Texas Tea Party-approved.

These politicians are Texas Tea Party-approved.

Tea party groups blast Texas House over sanctuary cities, budget

AUSTIN -- Get it done or face payback at the polls.

That was the message that hundreds of tea party activists brought to the Texas Capitol on Monday, displaying their anger over a plan to tap the state's savings account to balance the budget, the failures of a strong ban on sanctuary cities and property tax reforms to quickly pass into law.

Also on their list: passage of the Senate's version of the so-called "bathroom bill," repealing gun licensing laws to allow any Texans who can own a pistol to carry one, a halt on new toll roads, a ban on dismemberment abortions and passage of legislation to guarantee religious liberties.

"I would grade the House with an F at this point, and the Senate a B-plus," said JoAnn Fleming, executive of Grassroots America, a leading conservative activist group.

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"Once again in this building, there are elected Republicans -- particularly in the House -- who are saying they don't care what they promised during the campaign, what voters elected them to do, and the people of Texas are here to make them care.

"If they get a C rating, they should be fired. C is not good enough," she said. "There's no space alien criteria that will save them."

The activists, many of them wearing black t-shirts emblazoned with the slogan "Don't California My Texas," said the budget and property tax reforms, along with a ban on sanctuary cities, are at the top of their list to be passed by the Legislature.

"People are hot. They're mad about their property taxes," said Aaron Harris, executive director of Direct Action Texas, applauding a Senate bill that would limit how much local officials can raise property taxes without voter approval. "This is the single biggest issue at the local level we encounter . . . And I'll tell you this, they will remember this bill, come election season."

He said property taxes in Texas are the fourth highest among all states in the nation.

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Echoing the sentiment that some key bills for conservatives may die because lawmakers are not acting fast enough, Dana Hodges, state director of Concerned Women for America, said the Senate version of the so-called "bathroom bill" needs to to pass the House, not a House-revised version, before time runs out.

Terri Hall, founder of Texans Uniting for Reform and Freedom, said the continuing proliferation of toll roads -- and the Legislature's reluctance to stop new ones from being built -- "is the fastest ticket to destroying Texas' stable economy.

"Our message to the Republicans in this building is that you should do what you say you're going to do and, if you don't, there will be consequences at the polls," Fleming said.

Senate and some House leaders declined to respond publicly to the criticism, saying privately the activists were entitled to their opinions.

"The Texas House has approved a balanced budget that reduces overall spending while prioritizing public education and the protection of vulnerable children," said Jason Embry, a spokesman for House Speaker Joe Straus. "Speaker Straus appreciates the input of Ms. Fleming and the 35 other people who came to her rally today."

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By Curtis Houck, Newsbusters.org

On Saturday, the major broadcast networks dedicated airtime to the liberal Tax Day protests against President Trump as one network aired a crowd chanting lock him up, another refused to acknowledge the anti-Trump violence in California, and all of them declined to label the demonstrations.

This coverage of April 15 protests by liberals stood in stark contrast to how ABC, CBS, and NBC dismissed and smeared the Tea Party-led Tax Day events on this date eight years ago.

CBS Weekend News did not give the leftists their own segment, but shamefully ignored the violence in Berkeley, California.

As nationwide Tax Day protests reached the sunny streets of West Palm Beach, Florida, today, President Trump spent time at his International Golf Club and Mar-a-Lago resort nearby, correspondent Errol Barnett explained.

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