Last week, I started as the new Executive Director at Progress Texas. I was only here for a few hours before our team was making national news in leading the way to debunk nutty claims about the IRS from right wing groups. It was a wild first day, and by 5pm, Progress Texas had shaped news coverage on ABC News, Bloomberg, CNN, MSNBC, NPR, Slate and many others.Read More »
An overwhelming majority of organizations screened by the IRS after 2010 were not Tea Party groups, including Progress Texas. However, that hasn't stopped the paranoid Tea Party from thinking they shouldn't have to play by the same rules.Read More »
Dan Backer, a Washington-based Tea Party attorney, went on NRP yesterday morning and said that the IRS in 2010 should have simply hired more employees to process requests . . . all while fighting everyday to eliminate the IRS entirely.Read More »
The IRS sent our organization, Progress Texas, the same letter it sent various Tea Party organizations that you're reading about in the news. It took 479 days for our tax-exempt request to be approved. Read more about this - including the documents we received - here.Read More »
