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On this coming Tuesday, January 24, 2017, the Saint Augustine Tea Party will receive a briefing on the ISIS situation now that President Trump has taken office. The report will be delivered by Randy McDaniels.

According to Tea Party chairman, Lance Thate, in an announcement to Historic City News, McDaniels will be evaluating Trumps Cabinet picks as it relates to the War on Terror.

Randy McDaniels knowledge in this area is extensive, Thate told local reporters. It should prove to be a most informative meeting, and your readers are cordially invited.

If you are interested in attending, the meeting is open to the public and free of charge. The program starts at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, January 24, 2017 at the Village Inn, located at 900 North Ponce de Leon Boulevard in St. Augustine.

The special guest speaker is a Marine veteran who served as an operations specialist as well as a member of the 11th Counter-Intelligence Team, which conducted counter terrorism, counter espionage, and counter-subversion operations.

He is the President of ACT! for America, Jacksonville Chapter, and is a mentor. ACT! for America is all about grassroots citizens groups taking effective action to preserve the security of our nation. To that end, McDaniels mission is to expose Radical Islam in our midst, and he will be addressing how the Trump Administration may be expected to react.

Nationwide, about 1000 chapters of ACT! for America are mobilizing to defeat the spread and implementation of Islamic Sharia Law.

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They want to be the Tea Party, but theyre worried theyll be Occupy Wall Street.

Millions of peoplehundreds of thousands in Washington aloneflooded cities across the country on Saturday, completely overwhelming expectations and planned routes for the Womens March. With the stands behind them at the Capitol still in place from President Donald Trumps inauguration on Friday, they covered the Mall well beyond the crowd that showed for him.

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Now they have to figure out what to do next to channel the raw energy of the marches into political action. And what is it that theyre about: Womens equality? Reproductive Rights? Race? Climate change? Stopping Trump from putting someone they dont want on the Supreme Court? Making him release his taxes? All of the above? Signs (and costumes) for all of that and more were all over the place on Saturday.

What we have to do is make sure it becomes an activist, everyday movement that keeps politicians accountable. The key is to turn it into work that leads to elections, said former Secretary of State John Kerry, making a brief surprise walk through the Washington rally, his dog in tow, on his first day since leaving the State Department. A lot of people are going to be working on that.

Among the liberal advocacy groups using the march as a platform to mobilize new supporters were Planned Parenthood, the Natural Resources Defense Council, the American Civil Liberties Union, and the Sierra Club. Organizers drew applause for promising to release a list of targeted political actions that attendees could take during Trumps first 100 days in office, but aside from repeated requests that people in the crowd share their phone numbers with organizers by texting "women," there was no clearly coordinated effort on site in Washington to collect email addresses or other information to build out a network of activists.

The marches tapped into intense opposition to Trump, who embraced a divisive campaign that gave license to hate and attacks, then picked fights through his transition and called people who didnt back him enemies, and capped it Friday with an inaugural address heavy on provocative language and light on outreach.

Saturday afternoon, he kept at it, using a visit to the CIA headquarters mostly to talk about how great his victory was, and how the dishonest media didnt accurately report the size of a crowd for his inauguration that he estimated at 1-1.5 million, but was closer by official estimates to 200-250,000.

What the people who still cant process that Trump is president want is to be a movement that can do what Trump did in his presidential campaign, crowds turned into action and votes, beyond what anyone thought possible. What theyve got for now is a sense of passionate aimlessness, leftover tensions from 2016 and a search for a sense of direction.

This outpouring today is extraordinary and inspiring. But if all this energy isn't channeled into sustained pol action, it will mean little, tweeted David Axelrod, the chief strategist behind Barack Obamas winning campaigns.

As for what to do next, its too early to tell, said Sarah Jaffe, a 28-year-old who works in book publishing and came to Washington for the march there. Immediate outrage and sustained outrage are two different things. Im gearing up to be mad as hell for a long time.

Jaffe, who was carrying a blue Facts Not Fascism sign, said that her next stop will be going to her state legislature in Albany to help lobby for more Planned Parenthood funding. Beyond that, shes taking it day by day. Its going to be a long four years.

Other than lobbying and making phone calls, I dont know. One person feels so small, said Kristi Orr, 40, who came from nearby in Maryland with nine friends, and along the way made a multi-colored sign reading Super Callous Fascist Extra Braggadocious.

Orr said she tried to get involved with some online groups, but none of them panned out. Shes looking for more ways to get involved, but for now, is just donating money.

Vivi Mata, 56, came from Los Angeles with a sign that read just Traitor. She said she stopped her job selling antiques starting on Nov. 9, and has committed herself fully to the resistanceit needs to be every day, in every way, not just marches. What thats entailed for her, she said, is getting active on Twitter.

A devoted Hillary Clinton supporter, she said she was involved with Occupy Wall Street in its early days, but they disappointed her, and she still hasnt forgiven the Bernie Sanders supporters. Those are the people that seem to be doing much of the organizing, and she said thats kept her from getting involved beyond keeping up a network of other Clinton supporters.

My worry is, Im hearing that its all Berners, Mata said. Im not going to help them. Theyre not my tribe.

She wasnt the only one nursing the old divisions. Liberal filmmaker Michael Moore, an initial Sanders backer, made a sharp plea for a more organized opposition.

The old guard of the Democratic Party has got to go, Moore told a crowd that included many Democratic members of Congress. He urged marchers to call their elected representatives every single day to speak up against Trumps policies, and expressed support for Rep. Keith Ellison, one of six candidates to be the new Democratic National Committee chair.

Actress and immigrant-rights activist America Ferrera, who campaigned for Clinton, warned marchers not to "fall into the trap of separating ourselves by our causes and our labels," lest progressives' unity be at risk.

People have been coming up with their own tactics. Katie Gell, originally from Omaha, but currently living in Queens, says shes taken it upon herself to call the two Republican senators from Nebraska and closing down their phone lines. Shes signed a few petitions. Shes connected with people at work and elsewhere whom shes now seen since the election feel the same disappointment with Trump's win.

Sebastian Freeman, 10, of Massachusetts, rests ahead of his march. | M. Scott Mahaskey/POLITICO

Several unions, including the Service Employees International Union, organized buses of supporters from around the northeast to come to Washington. A group called We Rise handed out flyers for a teach-in at a church in northwest D.C. The American Civil Liberties Union set up shop near the rally and gave out pamphlets and other promotional materials like signs and sashes before running out, said Kendrick Holley, the community engagement manager of its D.C. office.

Asked how organizers should turn the enthusiasm around the march into future action, Holley said it's key for protesters to stay engaged, and he said the ACLU encouraged people who came by to donate or become membersand that theyve seen a surge of interest since Trump won the election.

Andrew Bogrand, is one of the people who expressed that interest.

The big concern is that this will be all that happens, said the 30-year-old who works at a non-governmental organization in Washington.

He said hes thinking about trying to volunteer for local candidates, but also how to get involved with the redistricting reform effort that Obama and his former attorney general, Eric Holder, are leading for Democrats.

Amber Walsh, 41, who came to Washington from Connecticut for the march, said she plans to be more active locally, says she's contacted her representatives more in the past two months than she has in the past 10 years. "I really hope that this is not a one-day event but really that this becomes a movement, and I love that it's something that grew very organically, Walsh said.

Laurie Steinke, 59, who came from Charleston, S.C. said that Trumps election has brought out more active Democrats than any of them ever assumed were around. She has 140 people signed up for the Drinking Liberally chapter shes startedshe didnt know what the group was before Novemberand she and small groups shes been talking to have started focusing on making a bigger splash in local politics.

Locally, a lot of Republicans have been running unopposed, Steinke said. Weve all decided thats unacceptable, and were not going to let that happen anymore.

Madeline Conway and Nolan McCaskill contributed to this report.

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Washington Post reporter and CNN contributor Wesley Lowery on Friday defended rioting protesters at President Trumps inauguration, comparing them to the patriots behind the Boston Tea Party.

Nothing is more unAmerican than protesters who are not peaceful. Disgusting, McCaskill tweeted.

In response, Lowery wrote: The participants in the Boston Tea Party would likely beg to differ.

Nothing is more unAmerican than protesters who are not peaceful. Disgusting.

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Rioters went on to vandalize several cars and set a limousine on fire. Hundreds ended up arrested and charged with rioting, and six police officers were injured.

Rioters also vandalized several cars, set a limousine on fire and smashed windows to multiple businesses.

Lowery, who has been with the Washington Post since 2014, was signed by CNN this week to provide political analysis on-air.

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President Donald Trumps inaugural address sends a clear signal that business in Washington is about to change, and his vow of action has an eager Congress ready to work, according to Rep. Ted Yoho, R-Fla.

Yoho, who gained headlines two years ago by challenging sitting Republican House Speaker John Boehner, says the shift from Barack Obama to Trump is huge and needed.

It is a new day in America, and I think Donald Trump did a good job just talking about making America great again at the end of his speech. Its goodbye to the old and hello to the new, said Yoho.

Trump began his inaugural address by proclaiming his presidency served as the moment the power in the United States returned to its rightful owners.

Todays ceremony, however, has a very special meaning because today we are not merely transferring power from one administration to another or from one party to another, but we are transferring power from Washington, D.C., and giving it back to you, the people, said Trump.

What does that look like? Yoho says it means a government who remembers who it works for.

The way I took that is youre going to see a government thats much more responsive to the people, he said.

In his speech, Trump also slammed the business-as-usual approach of Washington.

In America, we understand that a nation is only living as long as it is striving. We will no longer accept politicians who are all talk and no action, constantly complaining but never doing anything about it, said Trump. The time for empty talk is over. Now arrives the hour of action.

Yoho says thats the message the American people have been sending for years.

If you look at the progression of the tea party from 2009 forward, the people being elected now me being one of them are from people who were fed up with the status quo and they wanted people outside of the Beltway. Donald Trump is the epitome of that, said Yoho.

But one message emerged strongest of all from the Trump speech.

From this day forward, its going to be only America first, America first. Every decision on trade, on taxes, on immigration, on foreign affairs will be made to benefit American workers and American families, said Trump.

Trumps America first approach to the presidency is drawing a wide variety of reactions. Yoho is encouraged by it.

Whatever we do from government, we need to do whats best for America. If we do that, thats bringing power back to the people. Lets treat this country first and foremost, said Yoho.

One of Yohos greatest frustrations is thatimportant legislation, such as appropriations bills, isoften derailed or delayed by unrelated issues. He expects that to stop now that the GOP has the power in Washington.

Two years ago we got that whole process stopped on the Confederate flag issue. This last year, in 2016, it got stopped over the LGBT issue. Im not saying theyre not important issues, but they should not be a distraction to getting our legislative work done, said Yoho.

Trump has made it clear to Congress he expects them to be very productive in the early days of this administration. Yoho says Vice President Mike Pence put lawmakers on notice.

Mike Pence came into our conference twice now and he goes, I hope you guys are holding on because Mr. Trump is ready to get going. He has boundless energy and he doesnt accept failure. Hell be pushing the cart rather than waiting for somebody else to lead. Hes going to lead, said Yoho.

And Yoho says Republicans on Capitol Hill are eager to get to work on much of the Trump agenda.

The optimism that we see, not just in America but up here in the legislative body, theres just a whole new atmosphere up here and its all positive, said Yoho.

The top of the legislative agenda is clear.

In the first 100 days, I think youre going to see a push for the replacement of Obamacare. Following that youll see a push for tax reform. Weve already got a good product teed up for tax reform, said Yoho.

While Trump assumed the presidency Friday, scores of protesters were arrested for violence ranging from vandalism to arson. Yoho says the demonstrators fail to appreciate the source of their right to protest.

The American dream comes from opportunity. The opportunity comes from our founding principles, our core values thats held together and protected by the Constitution. Those ideas are neither Republican, Democrat, conservative, liberal, white or black. Those are American ideologies, said Yoho.

Even these lackluster protesters should have the common sense to say: We have something bigger than a party or a political belief. We better all work together to preserve what made this country great, said Yoho.

While Yoho hopes the protesters eventually realize the unique opportunities they have in America, he says America itself has some excellent opportunities in the coming days.

Seems like we were always running away from President Obama or trying to undo what hes done. Weve got a president now in the White House who will be leading the charge, and I think itll be a lot easier to get things done in a positive direction for this country, said Yoho.

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