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Join St. Louis Tea Party Coalition’s 3rd Anniversary Tea Party Weekend

It’s time to prepare for the new Tea Party Revolution. 2012 will be the most important election of our lifetime. We must make sure we are doing everything we can to stop this Administration. Join us February 24th and 25th to learn the MUST know for this election cycle.
This will be two days of speakers, activist training and a complete, end-to-end, mock caucus. This isthe absolute cannot miss event of the season.
Check out the details of this exciting event:
Friday Night: Doors Open 6:30
Dr. Schweikart 7:00, “7 Events That Made America America”
Heavy Hors D’oeuvres plus drink ticket included.
Mingle, meet Dr. Schweikart and enjoy a cash bar and music after the presentation.
Enjoy “7 Events That Made America America” presented by the author and former rocker, Dr. Larry Schweikart. Dr. Schweikart will take us through 7 lessor known events in American history that made this country great.
Early Bird Special: First 50 tickets include DVD of Dr. Schweikart’s documentary Rockin’ the Wall.
To the real work all day Saturday.
Saturday: Doors open 7:30, training starts at 8:30
This is a Super Training Event-start with an end goal and an empty action plan, then spend the day filling it out. We will put you to work doing the things that need doing to get out the vote in November. Bring your favorite technology-you’ll need it!
We will also have favorite St. Louis speaker Bill Federer for our lunch keynote! Bill will entrance you with his knowledge of history and religion. He is one of the most in demand speakers in St. Louis and across the nation.
Our training offering includes several activist tracts-from the beginning to the advanced-you will not be disappointed. We will not only give you the training but we are going to put you to work that day.

Jim Hoft, the GatewayPundit will lead our advanced blogging class, “Take your blog to the next level”
If you want to learn to use Twitter, you will begin using it immediately and you will develop an effective action plan for using it through November to drive opinion.
If you have always wanted to blog-you will start a blog, learn basic design and find out how build your following.
If you want to become a Precinct Captain and learn how to effectively knock on doors and influence voters-you will learn everything you need to know now.
Plus a full Mock Caucus from beginning to end so you are prepared to influence the Caucus process in March.
These are just a few examples of the things we will teach you in one very intense day of activist training.
Breakfast and lunch are included.
It’s been 3 years since we all met for the first time on the steps of the Arch. We’ve become a major force in politics, and perhaps the most powerful faction in the Republican party. This weekend is all about winning! Friday night is fascinating evening with one of America’s foremost historians, Dr. Larry Schweikart. Saturday you get a full day of serious activist training plus breakfast and lunch, amazing speakers and trainers. This final push toward the election is what our movement is all about. Join us. If you can’t join us, please consider sponsoring someone else.
When & Where
Crowne Plaza Hotel–Clayton, MO 7750 Carondolet Ave Clayton, MO 63105
Friday, February 24, 2012 at 6:30 PM (CT)

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Think about what’s at stake:

• The Supreme Court is one liberal away from imposing a radical, unwritten constitution on the United States
• The President has shredded the Constitution by seizing the power to declare when the Senate is or is not in session
• The United States has fallen many notches in world prestige
• We can no longer fight wars on two fronts
• The White House and Democrats in the Senate block every attempt at increasing domestic energy production
• Our debt is approaching Greece’s catastrophic levels
• The economy, after nearly four years, is flat on its back
• America is losing ground on every front
• And Obama made it worse

Only you can prevent the collapse of the United States.

And I’m proud that St. Louis Tea Party Coalition is there to help us get started.

In commemoration of the third anniversary of the Tea Party movement, St. Louis is joining dozens of Tea Party organizations around the country in kicking off a year of getting out the vote and getting better people in office.

In St. Louis, February 24 and 25 kick off our year of winning.

Friday, February 24

Dr. Larry Schweikart will discuss 7 Events That Made America America.  Dr. Schweikart is the New York Times Bestselling author of Glenn Beck’s favorite history book, A Patriot’s History of the United States. 

He’s also a documentarian who documented rock and roll’s role in bringing down the Berlin Wall and breaking up the Evil Empire. 

For the price of a good book, you’ll get to meet Dr. Schweikart, hear his fabulous and entertaining message, and enjoy a free drink (plus cash bar) and heavy hors d’oeuvres.  We’ll hang around and party as late as you want to go after Dr. Schweikart.

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Saturday, February 25

It’s all learning and training.  By 5:00 Saturday night, you’ll be armed, eager, and enabled to carry out the fight for the United States’ future.  You’ll be an elite warrior for liberty.

We’ll have speakers discussing social media campaigning, canvassing, the psychology of voting (you’d be surprised how powerful one person can be), how dominate in the upcoming Missouri Presidential Caucus, and more.

Saturday’s events include breakfast and lunch. We’re asking for a $50 donation for Saturday to help pay for some of the training, transportation for out-of-town speakers, and meals. Bill Federer, one of St. Louis’s finest conservative speakers and political experts, will entertain and inform at lunch.  And Dr. Schweikart will be available, too. If you don’t know Bill, check out his American Minute radio show.

And, if she’s willing, we’ve invited Debbie Wasserman-Schultz to debate the US Constitution on Saturday.  I’d personally love to see what Bill Federer and Dr. Schweikart would make of her . .  . “intellect.” 

Your best bet is to get the whole weekend—Friday and Saturday—for $65. 

The location is the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Clayton—where we kicked off The After Party on September 15.

This Is Why We Started This Thing

When we first gathered at the Arch on February 27, 2009, we didn’t know where it go. We faithfully followed the path that emerged before us.  We took on healthcare, we took on cap and trade, we took on the SEIU and universities and media. 

We made some mistakes, and we shined like the sun at times.

In 2010, we made a difference.  Not enough of a difference, but a difference.

Now we’ve reached the crossroads of our civilization’s existence.  Down one path lies the hard work for restoring sound government, fiscal responsibility, and free markets. 

Down the other path lies the harder work of living in a jungle of tyrannical lords amidst a broader social chaos.

Either way, there’s hard work to be done.  If you join the 300 on February 24 and 25, you’ll choose the hard work of restoring a better society.  The other choice will seem easier . . . until the barbarians knock.

Space is limited.  Get your tickets early.

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This is the fourth in a series. If you haven’t, please read part 1, part 2, and part 3. 

Because so many school systems have driven great English literature out of students’ hands and minds, it’s possible that some kids never read Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol.  If you’ve never read this classic, please do so now.  You need it.

Back?  Good. Fascinating stuff, isn’t it?  And so much more accessible than David Copperfield, which was my introduction to Dickens.

So now you know that Scrooge was a miser who treated the whole world and all of its inhabitants with a cruel contempt.  Scrooge loved money and nothing else.

But during the course of the story, a series of spirits massage Scrooge’s conscience. They begin with his own happy youth, when Scrooge still enjoyed the presence of other people.  They proceed through Scrooges present and into his future.

Somewhere along the way, Scrooge changes.  He has a conversion. He learns to love others as himself.

If I were a Millennial—those born between 1983 and about 2002—I’d ask myself, “why?”

The spirits didn’t argue politics or morality with Scrooge.  They didn’t tell him his taxes were too low, and they didn’t send bureaucrats to audit his books and extract fines.

Instead, they made it personal.  They showed him his real life—past, present, and future—in living color and 3D.  They simply held up a mirror and provided him clear evidence of what his future would be if remained on the path he’d taken.

Scrooge reformed because he knew a lonely, unhappy death awaited him. He knew that people would mock his memory.

Millennials should take a hard look at our national debt. Not just where it stands, but the direction it’s going.

Look at the amount of debt that Gen X, Boomers, and WWII have saddled you with.  It’s about $50,000 and going up every day.

What did you get for that money?  Not a damn thing, really.  Most of that debt went to pay for people who are already retired. In other words, your grandparents are borrowing money, spending it, and passing the bill onto you.

I know you’re a generous group. You want to help. You believe in this country, and you’re willing to sacrifice to make it stronger.

We all are.  That’s a common trait of Americans.

But how much can you bear?  How much of a debt burden can your generation really handle?

On top of Washington’s $15 trillion in debt and $60 trillion in unfunded liabilities, most states hold hundreds of billions or more in combined debt and future pension obligations.  Those aren’t your pensions, but the pensions of people in older generations.

Well, you weren’t asking for all that debt. Now you’re stuck with it.

Again, how much more can you and our society handle? And does it really help anyone for the government to make promises it can’t keep?

Scrooge looked at “Christmas Yet To Come” and saw his horrible death. Unless he changed.

When I look at America’s future, I see the same.

The spirits gave Scrooge the chance to reform, and he took it.

Will you?

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Have you known anyone who turned his life around?

I was in New York last week. Every day I was there, I passed hundreds of people. Each day, I met a dozen new friends.  Everyone in New York, it seems, is ready to smile and have a conversation.

I thought about some of these people– the young couple holding hands, the young man with a hoodie a dozen tattoos, the two models (I was in that part of town) sitting in the hotel lobby talking on their cell phones. I thought about their lives, their secrets, the stuff they wish the whole world knew about them, and the stuff they’d just as soon forget.

I thought about redemption.  About how many people we meet have overcome their own weaknesses.  We’re lucky to have them among us.

I also though about the people who life has kicked in the gut, but they get up and move on.  From them, we learn a lot.

The redeemed.  The survivors.  They make our society stronger. That WWII generation was great because it was full of people who overcame a lot and kept on growing.

Imagine if we could somehow help a whole community to overcome the nasty hand its been dealt, or its self-inflicted wounds. Wouldn’t it be great to see a desolate neighborhood, a broken city, a dangerous street turned around?

Imagine how powerful, how much hope and strength and joy, would come from a whole community surging toward relative peace and prosperity after decades of decline.

What if we could unleash an upward spiral of positivity for thousands of people at once?

We Can

In 2012, one man has the chance to begin that change.  Martin D. Baker, candidate for U.S. House of Representatives from Missouri’s 1st District knows his district, its people, and its problems.

He also knows that doing more of what’s been done for the past 60 years won’t make the 1st District any better.  Martin has the courage to make a change.

I believe that Martin’s district needs a new direction. I know that Martin Baker combines rare strength, courage, and commitment to begin that change.

I urge you to visit this website today.  Visit every day and pray.  Ask for discernment.  Ask for help. Don’t be afraid.

If you can, invest in our future.  Help Martin Baker overcome the decades of damage wrought by Lacy and Bill Clay. Help restore our community.

If not us, who?

If not now, when?

Note: These views do not necessarily reflect the views of St. Louis Tea Party Coalition. But they should.

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America has but one political party capable of winning races on a scale large enough to change government practices: the Republican Party.

When the GOP takes Washington (or Jefferson City), things don’t seem to get better. Wonder why?

Let’s take a little stroll down memory lane.

“To secure the nomination, the Dewey forces spent money and made deals and promises that Taft would never make. Offers were made of Federal jobs that Delegates could not resist. Mississippi’s delegation was headed by a Taft man, but his Delegates voted the other way. After the vote, one Delegate ran for a train and died of a heart attack on it. He had $1,500 in fresh money on him and the other Delegates claimed it should be divided among them.”                                    –Phyllis Schafly, A Choice, Not an Echo

Little has changed since 1948, the year Mrs. Schlafly described above.

In 2012, the Republican machine, in races all across America, will nominate candidates chosen by the Kingmakers.  This year, those kingmakers are making their investments.  Wisely.  They’re buying just the right people with just the right promises and just right access to just the right celebrities.

The Grassroots Problem

Kingmakers laugh at grassroots candidates and activists.  We amuse them with our principles and idealism, our willingness to work for free, knocking on doors, sweating in the summer, shivering in the winter.

Kingmakers don’t deign to knock doors and meet ordinary people–they have deals to cut. They have staff to do the dirty work of meeting voters.

But the grassroots stress the kingmakers, nonetheless. When a big movement like the tea party rises up and dares to challenge the established powers, the kingmakers scowl. They understand that enough tea partiers with enough time and enough energy and the right candidates could–just might–upset their plans. And then what?

What if another Reagan reached the White House?  Another Taft in the Senate?  Imagine the horror of another Rand Paul or  Paul Ryan stirring up the rabble. What if someone actually ended crony capitalism?

So the Mr. Potters of the GOP crawl into their cobwebby dens and spin their plans. And their plans begin and end with money.

Money Is the Problem

Establishment Republicans operate on a single principle: government is money.  For that matter, Democrats operate on the same principle.  Both parties use government precisely the same way.  They borrow against future generations to buy more power from contemporary friends.

When it comes to Constitutional limits and fiscal responsibility, the only real difference between Democrats and establishment Republicans is who gets the spoils.

Money–and the establishment view of money–is the reason things won’t get better just because a Republican wins an election.  The kingmakers don’t want fiscal responsibility in Washington.  They just want the debt laundered through their banks and spent on their businesses.

The GOP establishment doesn’t want to cut regulations; it wants regulations that favor their donors’ businesses.

The GOP establishment doesn’t to strengthen America’s image in the world, but to make more money overseas.

In 2011, the established Republican Party works overtime to regain the Senate and the White House. If it does, it will reward its friends with our grand-children’s fortunes as surely as the Democrats have rewarded their friends.

In short, the establishment can’t fix our problems, because the establishment is the problem.

But there is another way.

Anti-Establishment Candidates

In almost every race in America, voters have a choice. A real choice, like the ones Phyllis Schlafly wrote about in 1964.

Candidates like Ed Martin and Todd Akin in Missouri, Richard Mourdock in Indiana, and Rodger Cook in Illinois. These candidates don’t have money with which to buy allies. They don’t get invitations to royal balls.  Instead, they rely on ordinary men and women to walk neighborhoods, banging doors, and asking relatives to vote.

If these  conservatives are to win their primaries, though, the grassroots must remain strong against the seductions of the establishment.  In tough economic times, those seductions–almost always monetary–will be strong.

But the tea party that carried Rand Paul and Marco Rubio to the Senate can surely win one more for the Gipper, can’t we?

Mrs. Schlafly told us how the grassroots prevailed in 1964 against establishment tactics of smears, intimidation, and bribes:

These tactics were not successful because in 1964 the majority of Convention Delegates were independent citizens elected in their districts who sought — not personal advancement or political jobs — but only the nomination and election of a candidate who would end the America Last policies of the past 30 years.

Amen, sister. Amen.

If we’re to reverse America’s drift toward socialism, away from the Constitution, we must rekindle the spirit of ’64 and the Reagan Revolution of 1980.

In both of those years, “independent citizens” rose up and slapped down the Republican establishment.  They said “no” to the jobs and the bailouts the kingmakers offered.  The Goldwater and Reagan delegates stood by their principles, putting America’s future before their own egos and wealth.

Yes, Goldwater lost. But Reagan won. And Reagan’s victory owed much to the lessons conservatives learned in 1964.

For history to judge us well, we tea partiers must drive a stake through the heart of the establishment.

If not us, who?

If not now, when?

 Note: These views do not necessarily reflect the views of St. Louis Tea Party Coalition. But they should.

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