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Shortly before the Iowa Republican Party Caucuses, both Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund (the Tea Party Patriots Super PAC) and Tea Party Nation endorsed Sen. Ted Cruz for President.

It is unknown whether or not the endorsements were enough to push Cruz into the winning spot Monday night, but there are at least 4,462 hardcore Tea Party members in the State of Iowa, according to IREHR’s 2015 report on Tea Party membership.

Leonard Zeskind

is founder of IREHR. For almost four decades, he has been a leading authority on white nationalist political and social movements. He is the author of Blood and Politics: The History of White Nationalism from the Margins to the Mainstream, published by Farrar Straus & Giroux in May 2009. [more..]