Pick a candidate you can believe in and think is truthful and donate directly. Honestly, I don’t even think most of the Tea Party associated groups are what I’d call ideologically true with their finances. IOW, there is a heck of a rake off in $ to the road. IMO, Club for Growth has the best admin rakeoff, but I am not telling you to give them money. Go for the candidate and your ideals that match his/hers.
There is no such thing as a candidate you can believe in, only a candidate you have control over. The politician you have control over is working for you, all others are working for someone else, which means against you.
You’ll want a small group of dedicated power-grabbers who want to work together, behind-the-scenes to take control your county/local politics.
Not a political group per se, but a group of business owners, professionals, etc., who want to not just “have an effect” on local politics, but actually take it over, pulling the strings behind both the Dem and Repub machines.
Your group will want two publicly-known political fronts, one a faction within the Repubs, the other one a faction within the Dems. While the fronts will be publicly known, your group will want to stay secret. You’ll want a hierarchical organization with a small committee at the top to call the shots.
Your plans will have to be gradual, and include being able to change local puplic opinion. Without that, you can’t really rule behind-the-scenes.
You’ll want a few lawyers in your group, and a few political types who will be loyal to your group and, though they are presently Pubbies or Dems, will actually be minions working for your group. You’ll want a few fundraising types who can squeeze contributions and backing out of wealthy folks. You’ll want a few grassroots organizer types in your group.
Your group will then pick nice young people who are not in politics that might be able to one day be nice political puppets: loyal to you and able to learn how to play politics. To ensure that you have good control over your puppets, you’ll need to develop a powerful mental hold over them by having “the goods” on them. The more corrupted they are, the better control you’ll have.
Your small merry band of puppetmasters will gradually get more and more of their own puppets elected and one day will be calling the shots in your area. That’s the only group worth spending money and time on and the only way to avoid government working against you and have government working for you.
Club for Growth is just another front, like all the Dem and Repub fronts. They have no moral stance based on the Bible, just a push to allow elitest free trade to do whatever it wants, holding that out as a mysterious “carrot” which will bring “prosperity”. In truth, their programs do bring prosperity, but it’s prosperity for the elites. Any prosperity of the sheeple is just incidental and temporary as far as elites are concerned, but they’ll never admit that.