On February 20, 2009, The Nationwide Tea Party Coalition also helped launch the Tea Party movement via a conference call attended by around 50 conservative activists. The Tea Party movement was popularly launched following a February 19, 2009, call by CNBC reporter Rick Santelli on the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange for a 'tea party'. According to the American Enterprise Institute, various polls in 2013 estimated that slightly over 10% of Americans identified as part of the movement. It has sponsored multiple protests and supported various political candidates since 2009.

It was composed of a mixture of libertarian, right-wing populist, and conservative activism. The Tea Party movement has been described as both a popular constitutional movement and as an ' astroturf movement' purporting to be spontaneous and grassroots, but created by hidden elite interests. The movement supported small-government principles and opposed government-sponsored universal healthcare. Members of the movement called for lower taxes and for a reduction of the national debt and federal budget deficit through decreased government spending. The Tea Party movement was an American fiscally conservative political movement within the Republican Party that began in 2009.

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