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"What I'm doing is I've been traveling the state for the last four months. We are trying to grow a movement of people in Illinois to tell their politicians - they want to grow up, keep more of what we've make... We already have 2,000 members," Walsh told the Chicago Sun-Times.

Walsh, who lost his race to Democrat Tammy Duckworth in 2012, said that he's mostly focused on candidates in Illinois, though would like to expand so that the Super PAC can support national candidates as well.

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"We're at war, and this country got a stark reminder last week again that we're at war," Walsh said on MSNBC. "And not only should we take a pause, when it comes to our immigration, we need to begin profiling who our enemy is in this war: young Muslim men."

He continued: "You know, there's also a piece of this legislation that bans our law enforcement officials of profiling. We need to profile even when it comes to our immigration policy." Walsh added: "These two guys weren't just losers. They were part of radical Islam. They were radicalized."

Watch, via TPM:

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“We’re at a point in this stupid state where we need to begin to break the law,” Walsh, R-Ill., wrote, adding: “It’s time for civil disobedience.”

“Yeah, the media is going to say I’m irresponsible. Yeah, the media is going to say I’m crazy. I don’t care if we don’t have a conceal carry law right now,” he continued. “There isn’t a law-abiding citizen in this city that doesn’t have the right to protect themselves … and if that means breaking the law to do it, we’re going to do it.”

As The Huffington Post reports, Walsh was referring to an ongoing debate in the state over concealed carry laws, following an order by a federal court for the state to propose a new concealed carry law by June 8, after a previous version of the law was ruled unconstitutional.

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And then you’d realize that every single one of them either lost their job or abandoned being a voice of the movement.

The 2012 election was devastating for the outspoken leaders in Congress. Allen West lost after a protracted battle, Joe Walsh was trounced by rising star Tammy Duckworth, and Ron Paul retired. Other, lesser-known members like Roscoe Barlett also lost. The two House Tea Party Caucus members who ran for the Senate last year both lost -- Reps. Denny Rehberg in Montana and Todd Akin in Missouri.

Meanwhile Jim DeMint, the most prominent Tea Party leader in the Senate, who funded primary challenges against more moderate Republicans, left the Senate a month after the election to head the Heritage Foundation.

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In a February 1st filing, Walsh, R-Ill., filed a  “motion to terminate child support obligation," the Sun-Times first reported.

Walsh, who was painted as a "deadbeat dad" during the 2012 campaign after his ex-wife filed a suit claiming he owed over $100k in child support, ultimately lost his seat to Tammy Duckworth.

“Joe’s employment has been terminated through no voluntary act of his own and he is without sufficient income or assets with which to continue to pay his support obligation,” the filing says. “Due to substantial change of circumstances, Joe requests that his child support obligation be terminated based on his present income and circumstances.”

Walsh asked to reduce his payments to 20 percent of his income, which is currently zero. "But once again, Walsh insists he’s no deadbeat," the Sun-Times wrote.

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“This is not Tea Party versus the establishment,” Rove said on Fox News. “I don’t want a fight.”

"Some people think the best we can do is Todd Akin and Richard Mourdock. They’re wrong. We need to do better if we hope to take over the United States Senate. We need to get better conservative candidates and win," he continued.

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Walsh tweeted on Tuesday:

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He wrote on his Facebook page that "if we had listened to Karl Rove in 2010, there would be no [Florida] Sen. Marco Rubio. Rove backed Charlie Crist, who was last seen raving about President Obama at the Democrat National Convention last year." Walsh also referenced Sens. Mike Lee of Utah, Rand Paul of Kentucky and Ted Cruz of Texas, whose opponents were also backed by Rove.

"In fact, if we had listened to Karl Rove in 2010, there never would have been a congressman Joe Walsh. Rove thought openly Tea Party candidates like Walsh couldn't win," wrote Walsh, who lost his seat in 2012 to Democrat Tammy Duckworth.

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The New York Times reports:

"The list of those who lost this year includes Representative Laura Richardson, Democrat of California, who was reprimanded in August by the House Ethics Committee for illegally forcing her staff to help her run for re-election and then obstructing the investigation by altering or destroying evidence. There is Representative David Rivera, Republican of Florida, who last month was charged by the Florida Commission on Ethics with concealing a $1 million consulting contract with a Miami gambling business while serving in the State House."

Rep. Shelley Berkley, a Nevada Democrat, lost her race for U.S. Senate after allegations that she used her office to help out her husband's medical practice. And, of course, Rep. Joe Walsh, R-Ill., lost out to Tammy Duckworth after he "had long been plagued by financial questions, including about tax liens, a foreclosure on a condominium and failing to pay child support," as the Times put it.

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At the ultrasound eight weeks later, we laughed when we found out the baby was a girl. Her older sister was vibrating in anticipation of learning her sibling’s gender and entirely unprepared to accept the possibility of a little brother. The ultrasound technician found nothing troubling when she scanned the baby’s anatomy. Turning her attention to my ovaries, though, she saw a black circle that she couldn’t interpret. When they told me I could get dressed before the doctor came to talk to us, my spouse and I exchanged an anxious look: They never let you put your pants back on. The cyst on my ovary had grown significantly, it seemed, and now they thought they saw another growth on the other ovary, developments that could put my health and the baby’s at risk.

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“With modern technology and science, you can't find one instance,” he said. “... There is no such exception as life of the mother, and as far as health of the mother, same thing.”

Walsh, who is running for reelection, was quoted by WGN Radio after a debate with Democrat Tammy Duckworth. Walsh's theory about medical technology is something that anti-choice doctors have been arguing for some time, including before a recent House subcommittee over D.C.'s proposed ban of abortions after 20 weeks.

Michael Greene, a professor at Harvard Medical School, told Salon that this argument is "blatantly false."

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At a debate last night, Walsh held up a photo of Duckworth and said: “I was marching in a parade in Schaumburg [Ill.[, Sunday, two days before the Democratic convention, when Tammy Duckworth was on a stage down in Charlotte [N.C.[ — if you can look at the picture — picking out a dress for her speech Tuesday night.”

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"People, my friend, those who are not American citizens. I'm not, they are trying to kill me and my kids. They are trying to kill you and your fellow Americans. I'm concerned with protecting Americans. I could give a darn about their rights, or their freedoms, or how we treat them if they are not American citizens," Walsh added. Video of the event was captured by a tracker from the CREDO super PAC, a liberal outside group connected to the progressive cellphone provider CREDO mobile.

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In TPM, Evan McMorris-Santoro reports that Walsh, R-Ill., was speaking at a campaign stop in Illinois on Saturday, and slammed Fluke's DNC speech, in which she expressed support for contraception coverage. "Think about this, a 31-32 year old law student who has been a student for life, who gets up there in front of a national audience and tells the American people, ‘I want America to pay for my contraceptives.’ You’re kidding me. Go get a job. Go get a job, Sandra Fluke," Walsh said.

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The back story that Tammy Duckworth, the Democrat running against Tea Party Rep.  Joe Walsh, R-Ill., told tonight stands above the rest -- on a pair of prosthetic legs. Duckworth, whom Salon interviewed a few months ago when she was at a center of a national firestorm after Walsh insulted her military service, has a story that could hardly be written by a central casting.

She is the daughter of a Marine and a Thai-Chinese immigrant, and her family fell on hard times. “At 15, I was the only one with a job -- after school, for minimum wage. Thank God for the food stamps, public education and Pell grants that helped me finish high school and college,” she said tonight, a casual slight, perhaps at programs that would be slashed by vice-presidential nominee Paul Ryan’s budget. Later, she said, she joined the Army and became an assault helicopter pilot, becoming one of the first Army women to fly combat missions in Iraq.

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“It’s a real threat,” Walsh said at a town hall meeting in Elk Grove Village, Ill.  “And it’s a threat that is much more at home now than it was right after 9/11.”

“It’s here,” he continued, referring to “radical Islam” in the suburbs of Chicago. “It’s in Elk Grove, it’s in Addison, it’s in Elgin. It’s here.”

The remarks -- captured on tape -- came in response to an Egyptian-American audience member who said Muslims are taking over America and charged the freshman congressman to take a more aggressive stance against the religion.

“I’m looking for some godly men and women in the Senate, in the Congress, who will stand in the face of the danger of Islam in America without political correctness,” the man said.  “Islam is not the peaceful, loving religion we hear about.”

The line was met with applause.

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What was your first reaction when you heard Walsh's comments?

Unfortunately, I was not surprised at all. This is typical of the type of things that he says. We didn’t responds the first two times. And this time, we didn’t respond at first either, but then I just felt like we had to because I think he’s undermining a lot of veterans out there. There are 23 million veterans in this country, and they should not be criticized for talking about their military service.

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His initial comments came during a town hall last week, when he said of her service, "My God, that’s all she talks about." When asked about the swipe by Politico, he explained, “I have so much respect for what she did in the fact that she sacrificed her body for this country. ... Ehhh. Now let’s move on."

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But Illinois Rep. Joe Walsh, best known for not paying child support, has taken neither route to heroism. Instead, the Tea Party blowhard is now denying his Democratic opponent, Iraq war veteran and double amputee Tammy Duckworth, is a "true hero." (Think Progress has the whole video.) Apparently because she's been open about her military service, Walsh thinks she's showing off her sacrifice. But it's sort of hard to hide the fact that you've lost both your legs and the use of one arm (insurgents blew up her helicopter in Iraq).

That Duckworth: She's such a showoff when she enters a room in a wheelchair.

Walsh has apparently had enough of her histrionics. He told an Elk Grove town hall on Friday that Sen. John McCain was a "noble hero" because he didn't often talk about his military service. “Now I’m running against a woman who, my God, that’s all she talks about,” Walsh said.

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