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Judson Phillips, Michael Patrick Leahy Grade the Country on Tea Party Values 17 Years After Tax Day Protest

Judson Phillips, Michael Patrick Leahy Grade the Country on Tea Party Values 17 Years After Tax Day Protest

by Kaitlin Housler | Apr 15, 2026 | News, Politics, Tennessee, The Michael Patrick Leahy Show, The South

Seventeen years after the Tax Day Tea Party protests galvanized a nationwide grassroots movement, two of its early architects, Tea Party Nation Founder Judson Phillips and The Tennessee Star’s CEO Michael Patrick Leahy, graded how the U.S. has measured up to the...

Michael Patrick Leahy Reflects on Tea Party Movement 16 Years Later

by Kaitlin Housler | Feb 27, 2025 | National, News, Politics, Tennessee, The Michael Patrick Leahy Show

Michael Patrick Leahy, CEO and Editor-in-Chief of The Tennessee Star, reflected on the Tea Party movement’s impact on the nation exactly 16 years after the movement’s first notable public events took place in February 2009. Leahy, an original organizer of the Tea...

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