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Judson Phillips

Judson Phillips

Judson Phillips is the founder of Tea Party Nation, one of the largest Tea Party Groups in the country and the number one national tea party site on the Internet.A lawyer by profession, Judson has been involved in politics since his teens. “Ronald Reagan inspired me,” he says.Judson became involved in the Tea Party movement in February 2009 after hearing Rick Santelli’s rant on CNBC. “I heard there was going to be a Tea Party in Chicago inspired by Santelli, but didn’t know if anyone was doing a rally in Nashville where I was based. Finally I emailed Michelle Malkin and asked her if there was a Tea Party in Nashville. Malkin sent an email back saying, ‘No, why don’t you organize one?’ I did.”The first Tea Party in Nashville was held late February 2009 which drew a crowd of about 600. Judson then organized the Tax Day Tea Party in Nashville, which drew over 10,000 people into downtown. It was at this time that Tea Party Nation was formed. Later that year, Judson decided to bring activists from across the country together, so he organized the first National Tea Party Convention in February 2010, which featured Alaska’s former Governor and Republican Vice Presidential Nominee, Sarah Palin as it’s keynote speaker.He currently manages the Tea Party Nation website, writes several daily columns and is working on more projects than any one person should. He is a frequent guest on cable and broadcast news shows, including on Fox, MSNBC, CNN and others.

Articles by Judson Phillips

President Obama is pressing for fast-track powers now so that he can finalize an Asian trade deal, the Trans-Pacific Partnership, that he's negotiating with 11 other countries. A European trade deal could also be on the horizon. (Associated Press)

JUDSON PHILLIPS: ‘Obamatrade’ is here, Congress is on the spot

The Republican Party slowly self destructed last week. While that drama worthy of the Netflix series "House of Cards" played out, there was other major news developing. The opening shots in what will probably be the last major congressional battle with the Obama Regime were fired.

October 12, 2015
A video released July 21, 2015, by the pro-life Center for Medical Progress as part of a three-year investigation, shows Planned Parenthood's Dr. Mary Gatter haggling over the price of aborted fetal tissue and contemplating the use of an alternative abortion method to obtain an intact fetus. (Screen grab from undercover video released by the Center for Medical Progress)

JUDSON PHILLIPS: Tackle federal government waste with BRAC-like panel

One media outlet is reporting the story of a group called Enterprise Community Partners, a non-profit group that received more than $33 million in tax dollars in 2014. This group utterly failed in projects to help eradicate poverty, which is its mission.

September 30, 2015
House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio wipes his face during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Sept. 25, 2015. In a stunning move, Boehner informed fellow Republicans on Friday that he would resign from Congress at the end of October, stepping aside in the face of hardline conservative opposition that threatened an institutional crisis. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

JUDSON PHILLIPS: John Boehner departs - finally

On March 1, 2011, I became the first Tea Party leader to call for John Boehner to step down. On Friday, September 25, 2015, he announced he was resigning from Congress.

September 26, 2015

JUDSON PHILLIPS: 9/11 scars have not faded, but the reality has

Fourteen years after Sept. 11, 2001, the scars have not faded but the reality of 9/11 has faded. America elected a president in 2008 who advocated retreat, who cheered America's Islamic enemies, who pandered to them and did everything possible to enable Islamic terrorism.

September 11, 2015
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at FreedomFest in Las Vegas on July 11, 2015. (Associated Press) **FILE**

JUDSON PHILLIPS: Numbers don’t lie. Politicians do.

At the end of the day, politics is a numbers game and it is a very simple equation. Who has enough votes to win? Politicians, news agencies and pundits spend a lot of money and time analyzing data to tell everyone before the election who is going to win.

September 1, 2015

JUDSON PHILLIPS: Will Republicans or the Grand Old Party win?

In early 2009, the Republican Party was on the political endangered-species list. It had lost the White House, the House of Representatives and the Senate. Things were so bad that the Democrats were on their way to a super-majority in the Senate.

August 23, 2015
FILE - In this May 19, 2015 file photo, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky. pauses during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, May 19, 2015. Key Patriot Act anti-terror provisions, including bulk collection of Americans’ phone records, expire at midnight unless senators come up with an 11th hour deal in an extraordinary Sunday afternoon session. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) **FILE**

JUDSON PHILLIPS: The great Republican train wreck

The highway train began to go off the rails when Texas senator and presidential candidate Ted Cruz took to the Senate floor and in a highly unusual move, called Majority Leader McConnell a liar on the floor.

July 29, 2015