• FreedomWorks has more than 886,000 registered members and closely coordinates with local and regional Tea Party groups. The group has an e-mail list of more than 600,000 subscribers as well as 90,000 Facebook followers.
   

• The book’s publication coincides with the 9/12 Taxpayer March on Washington, a major rally that drew more than 800,000 attendees in 2009 and will receive enormous media attention in the crucial weeks leading to the November midterm elections.
   

• A former congressman, Armey appears regularly on CNN and Fox News, and on syndicated radio programs including Laura Ingraham, Sean Hannity, Michael Medved, and more. He has been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, Time, Wall Street Journal, Politico.com, and other publications and online sites as well.

“Dick Armey’s FreedomWorks organization has become front and center in the Tea Party movement” New York Times—one of the fastest-growing and most talked-about political phenomena in recent memory. With its strong Anti-Washington bent, Tea Party followers are outraged by the false conservatism of the Bush administration, which did nothing to shrink government spending or the deficit, and are further alarmed by President Obama’s massive bank bailouts, wasteful stimulus spending, and health-care legislation, according to Armey.

In Give Us Liberty, the former House Majority Leader defines what the tea partiers are fighting for—including lower taxes, smaller government, and more deregulation—and how citizens can join the cause. This activist manifesto contains a battle-tested, step-by-step guide to organizing and effecting change in any community. Based on the successful experiences of Tea Party movement leaders, it includes tips on building a local network, composing letters-to-the-editor, signage, organizing effective and well-timed protests, and more.