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The tea-party movement is trying to regroup after taking some licks in this month's elections. Several groups already are setting their sights on 2014 congressional races, in which they plan to promote their preferred candidates and hope to weed out Republicans they consider insufficiently conservative.

Alaska's bitterly contested Senate election went to state court Monday when Republican Joe Miller sued the state over the way write-in ballots ...

One of the most important and underreported results of the midterms was the GOP picked up at least 675 state legislative seats.

Tea party backed Senate candidates in several states significantly underperformed more establishment Republican candidates running on the same ballot last Tuesday, data that provides further evidence that the tea party movement may have cost the GOP seats.

Republicans don't just control much of the electoral map. In some cases, they now have the power to redraw it.

'Tea party' opponent Joe Miller isn't conceding even though Lisa Murkowski's lead reaches 41% in the three-way race. The long process of scrutinizing write-in ballots lies ahead.U.S. Sen.

Congressional races across the country saw Republicans and "tea party" forces trying to fan the flames of voter dissatisfaction, while Democrats were trying to spark some of the fervor that swept Barack Obama into the presidency in 2008. Riding a wave of popular anger over a sluggish economic recovery and disappointment with Democratic policies, Republicans won control of the House of Representatives on Tuesday.

Republicans are signaling that they plan to push bills and strategies to undermine labor’s political clout and ability to grow.

Top Republicans conceded Sunday that they could fall short of winning control of the Senate in Tuesday's congressional elections. With the Republican wave in danger of falling short in the Senate, tensions rose over a ...

The tea party's volatile influence on this election year appears to be doing more harm than good for Republicans' chances in some of the closest races in the nation, in which little-known candidates who upset the establishment with primary wins are now stumbling in the campaign's final days.