
Sept. 12, 2009, Washington march photo taken by Barbara Hauchter
Something in the air: Tea-party movement launches
Feb. 25: 2009: WND’s coverage played a pivotal role in helping to launch the tea-party movement. The news site was the first media outlet to provide a comprehensive list of more than 40 planned tea parties across the nation, using information gathered through Facebook and other online searches.
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In 2010, WND reported as taxpayers from across the nation descended on the White House and took their fight against excessive spending, growth of big government and soaring deficits to more than 700 rallies in U.S. cities.
In February 2010, WND also provided the most in-depth coverage of America’s first national tea-party convention in Nashville, Tennessee, featuring former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and WND founder Joseph Farah as its keynote speakers.
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Group trains volunteers to stalk Minutemen's kids
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Feb. 25: 2006: A group that ran government-funded day-labor hiring centers got tired of opponents of illegal immigration monitoring their activities, so they decided to kick it up a notch by training volunteers to stalk the children of members of the Minuteman group.
"We are going to target them in a specific way," said Gustavo Torres, executive director of Casa de Maryland, who was training volunteers to photograph the the Minutemen who stood across the street from his facility.
"Then we are going to picket their houses, and the schools of their kids, and go to their work," he said. "If they are going to do this to us, we are going to respond in the same way, to let people know their neighbors are extremists, that they are anti-immigrant. They are going to hear from us."
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