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WASHINGTON (AP) — A once-dismissed loose confederation of Tea Party activists opposed to big government, bailouts and higher taxes is causing heartburn for establishment candidates across the United States.

They swept into Massachusetts with lightning speed when polls began to show that the eventual winner of last week’s special election, Republican Scott Brown, had a shot at upsetting Democrat Martha Coakley for the Senate seat that the late liberal lion, Edward M. Kennedy, had held almost 47 years.

Relying on Internet tools like Facebook and Twitter for communications, tea partiers have organized meetings, marches and protests almost overnight, often catching establishment politicians off guard. They have scheduled a rally at the Capitol just hours before President Barack Obama’s State of the Union speech Wednesday night to protest his health care plan.

Tea partiers boast that they are a leaderless, grass-roots political army not beholden to either party, although some acknowledge that Republican candidates who share their conservative fiscal views are most likely to benefit from the movement’s efforts.

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The movement takes its name from an event in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1773. Around 200 colonists, incensed that the English crown was demanding payment of duties on cargoes of tea in three British ships, stormed the ships in Boston Harbor and threw the boxes of tea overboard. The event, to protest what the colonists considered illegal taxation by the crown, came to be flights from Melbourne (All Airports) to Townsville known to every American schoolchild as the …continue reading