Past History

Amy Kremer was an early national Tea Party organizer, a founding member of Tea Party Patriots, and later chair of Tea Party Express. After the 2020 election, she helped lead the “Stop the Steal” campaign and helped organize the lawful January 6, 2021, rally near the White House that preceded the attack on the Capitol. She has not been shown to have planned or participated in the Capitol breach. Kremer is now an RNC member from Georgia and chair/co-founder of Humans First, a conservative organization mobilizing opposition to rapid AI and hyperscale-data-center development.

Calling her “the founder of the Tea Party movement” is too sweeping. The Tea Party had numerous founders and organizations. “Early Tea Party leader,” “co-founder of Tea Party Patriots,” or “one of the organizers who helped launch the Tea Party movement” is more defensible.

This account is current through September 21, 2026.

1. Before and during the Tea Party movement

Period	Documented actions
Before 2009	Kremer attended Auburn University and worked about nine years as a Delta Air Lines flight attendant. She later described herself as previously uninvolved in politics. After leaving the airline for health reasons, she became active on conservative websites, Facebook and Twitter.
February 2009	Following CNBC commentator Rick Santelli’s widely publicized call for a “tea party,” Kremer was reportedly one of approximately 22 people using the “Top Conservatives on Twitter” network who helped coordinate the first Tea Party demonstrations on February 27, 2009.
Spring–September 2009	She helped organize subsequent tax protests and the large September 12, 2009, Washington rally. She became a founding member of Tea Party Patriots, one of several organizations emerging from the decentralized movement.
October 2009	Kremer left Tea Party Patriots and joined Tea Party Express. The departure led to an organizational dispute and litigation over access to Tea Party Patriots’ online and organizational resources.
2009–2010	She rose to chair Tea Party Express and became one of its principal national speakers. She participated in its first three cross-country bus tours, which mixed rallies, media events, online fundraising and intervention in Republican primary contests.
2010 elections	Kremer personally campaigned in Alaska for Joe Miller, remaining there through his Republican Senate-primary upset. Tea Party Express also spent heavily promoting Scott Brown in Massachusetts, Miller in Alaska and Sharron Angle in Nevada. Kremer said its expenditures included approximately $380,000 for Brown, $600,000 for Miller and more than $1 million for Angle. Those are figures she supplied to a reporter, not an independent accounting.
2010	She endorsed or campaigned for candidates including Miller and Colorado gubernatorial candidate Tom Tancredo. Contemporary reporting described her as one of the movement’s most influential figures.
2011–2012	She defended Tea Party Express’s willingness to support the eventual Republican presidential nominee, including Mitt Romney, creating tension with activists who wanted the Tea Party independent of the Republican establishment. Tea Party Express also backed primary challengers such as Richard Mourdock against Senator Richard Lugar.
2011 public claim	On The Colbert Report, Kremer argued that existing federal revenue could cover debt interest, Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security while leaving $300–400 billion. PolitiFact rated that narrowly “Half True”: the arithmetic matched those selected categories but omitted defense, homeland security, veterans’ programs and other major obligations.
2013	She joined a national campaign pressuring Republican members of Congress to defund the Affordable Care Act. This reflected Tea Party Express’s evolution from protest rallies into candidate intervention and pressure on Republican officeholders.
April 2014	Kremer resigned from Tea Party Express. She said she wanted to concentrate on Matt Bevin’s Kentucky Senate campaign, while Tea Party Express was supporting Curt Clawson in a Florida congressional race.

The strongest contemporary overview of this period is The Guardian’s 2010 profile of Kremer and Tea Party Express. It documents her pre-political background, participation in the February 2009 organizing network, bus tours and candidate campaigns. See also PolitiFact’s review of her 2011 federal-budget statement.

Between the Tea Party and “Stop the Steal”

Kremer did not leave national politics after 2014:

• In early 2016, she chaired TrumPAC, a pro-Donald Trump super PAC later renamed Great America PAC. She left after disagreements over decisions reportedly made without her participation.
• In June 2016, she helped establish Women Vote Trump, another pro-Trump super PAC intended to organize volunteers and advertising. It later became Women Vote Smart because campaign-finance rules restricted the use of a candidate’s name.
• In 2017, she ran in the Republican special election for Georgia’s Sixth Congressional District. She received 351 votes—about 0.18%—and did not advance.
• By 2018 she was publicly identified as a co-founder of Women for Trump.
• In 2019, Amy Kremer and her daughter Kylie Kremer created Women for America First. Before the 2020 election, it organized pro-Trump activities opposing impeachment, protesting COVID-19 shutdown orders and supporting Amy Coney Barrett’s Supreme Court confirmation.

This period is important because Women for America First—not Tea Party Express—became Kremer’s principal organizing vehicle after the 2020 election.

2. “Stop the Steal”: before January 6

November 2020: Facebook organizing

Immediately after the election, Women for America First created a Facebook group called “Stop the Steal”; Amy Kremer was one of its moderators. It grew to more than 300,000 members in roughly a day.

Facebook removed it on November 5, saying the group was organizing around delegitimizing the election and contained troubling calls for violence. Removing the group does not establish that Kremer personally made those violent posts. It establishes that she moderated an organization-run group in which Facebook found such content. TIME reported the group’s rapid growth and Facebook’s stated reasons for removing it.

November–December 2020: rallies and bus tours

Kremer and Women for America First then:

• Helped organize the November 14 “Million MAGA March” in Washington.
• Spoke at rallies claiming that Trump’s defeat resulted from fraud.
• Criticized Facebook, Eventbrite and Mailchimp for removing her group or event listings.
• Conducted a two-week “March for Trump” bus tour, partly sponsored by MyPillow, to promote election challenges.
• Helped organize the December 12 Washington rally and additional events.
• Launched another bus tour encouraging people to come to Washington on January 6, when Congress was scheduled to certify the electoral vote.

It is accurate to say that Kremer was not merely a rally attendee: she was an organizer, speaker and fundraiser promoting the effort to prevent or delay acceptance of Joe Biden’s certified victory. The Associated Press described her as “among the most active fundraisers” in the movement advancing the false stolen-election claim. AP/WABE profile.

Distinction between two organizing factions

“Stop the Steal” was not one unified organization. Investigative reporting identified two competing factions:

• Women for America First, led by Amy Kremer, controlled the National Park Service permit for the large Ellipse rally.
• Ali Alexander’s separate Stop the Steal organization wanted a march to the Capitol and sought speaking roles for Alexander and Alex Jones.

Kremer reportedly opposed allowing Alexander and Jones to speak at the Ellipse, considering their tactics too extreme. Members of her organizing team also expressed concern that the proposed march to the Capitol was unpermitted and potentially unsafe.

ProPublica reported conflicting evidence about how Kremer handled those warnings. Organizers said she indicated the White House would address the problem; Kremer denied speaking with Mark Meadows or other White House officials about it. A December 27 text from Kremer stating that the White House and Trump team knew about the conflict appeared inconsistent with at least part of that denial. ProPublica’s detailed reconstruction.

During January 6, 2021

Documented actions by Kremer include:

• Women for America First secured the permit for the “Save America” rally at the Ellipse. Kylie Kremer was listed as the responsible official on the permit.
• Amy Kremer spoke from the Ellipse stage before Trump. She repeated allegations that the election was fraudulent, criticized Facebook for deleting the Stop the Steal group and urged Republican members of Congress to challenge electoral votes.
• She presented the MAGA movement as an outgrowth of the Tea Party movement.
• Her group’s permit did not authorize an organized march from the Ellipse to the Capitol.
• Trump subsequently told attendees to march to the Capitol. Portions of the crowd later breached the Capitol and attacked police.

The essential factual distinction is:

Kremer helped organize and spoke at the Ellipse rally that immediately preceded the Capitol attack. Credible reporting does not place her inside the Capitol or establish that she planned the breach or violence.

The Associated Press specifically reported that she “wasn’t part of the mob” that stormed the Capitol. Business Insider similarly stated that she did not plan or participate in the riot itself. Kremer has said, “We never went to the Capitol” and “We didn’t tell people to go to the Capitol.” AP/WABE, Business Insider.

After the attack, Kremer issued a statement condemning the violence and attributing it to a “handful of bad actors.” That condemnation did not include a withdrawal of her underlying claim that the election had been stolen.

After January 6

• 2021: Kremer said she would testify about January 6. The House January 6 committee subpoenaed her and other Women for America First figures for documents and testimony concerning rally planning, financing and contacts with the Trump White House. Reporting in October 2021 said she was cooperating with the committee.
• 2022: Kremer said Women for America First received a federal grand-jury subpoena in the Justice Department’s January 6 investigation. A subpoena is an investigative demand; it is not a finding of criminal responsibility.
• 2023: She testified for Trump in the Colorado Fourteenth Amendment case seeking to exclude him from the ballot. She characterized rally attendees as “freedom-loving citizens” and said she had not seen indications that they would become violent.
• 2024: Kremer campaigned for Georgia’s female seat on the Republican National Committee. She argued that the RNC had not done enough to defend Trump or the Georgia Republicans who falsely claimed to be valid Trump electors. She won the RNC position. Associated Press.
• 2025: As an RNC member, she helped support Joe Gruters’s successful campaign for RNC chair, illustrating her continuing influence within Trump-aligned Republican politics. Associated Press’s account of the MAGA takeover of the GOP.

Her present campaign against AI and data centers

In early 2026, Humans First emerged as an AI-policy organization. After an internal split, its conservative wing retained the Humans First name and selected Kremer as chair. WIRED described that transition and identified her as the conservative group’s leader. WIRED.

Humans First officially describes itself as a conservative “America First” organization and is operated through Humans First Action, a 501(c)(4). Its stated objectives include:

• Giving ordinary residents more influence over AI development.
• Opposing data-center projects approved without meaningful public disclosure or community participation.
• Protecting electricity customers, water supplies, environmental health and local control.
• Seeking safeguards for advanced AI, employment and children.
• Criticizing technology companies and Republicans who, in its view, give “Big AI” excessive influence.

Its own website explicitly identifies the organization as conservative—not politically neutral—even though Kremer says the data-center issue itself crosses party lines. Humans First’s description.

Kremer told Business Insider that she began paying attention to data centers around 2024 after seeing local opposition videos. She connected them to AI infrastructure and later cited:

• Electricity, water and environmental burdens.
• Closed-door negotiations between developers and local governments.
• Potential job displacement.
• Risks involving children and AI chatbots.
• The concentration of decision-making power in large technology companies.

Her stated position is not an unconditional ban. She has opposed national and statewide moratoriums and instead argues that each community should be able to accept, regulate or reject a project. Business Insider.

On July 18, 2026, Humans First coordinated 142 data-center demonstrations across 42 states. Reuters characterized it as the first nationally coordinated protest effort against the current AI-data-center expansion. Demands included transparency, resource and health protections, enforceable developer promises and well-paid or union employment. Kremer compared the emerging movement to the Tea Party’s early organizing, while presenting the issue as nonpartisan. Reuters.

Most defensible short description

Amy Kremer is a longtime conservative organizer who helped launch the Tea Party movement, later built pro-Trump organizations, promoted the false claim that the 2020 election was stolen, and helped organize the permitted January 6 Ellipse rally. She did not enter the Capitol and has not been shown to have planned the attack. Now an RNC member from Georgia, she leads Humans First, a conservative campaign pressing for local control, transparency and stronger safeguards around AI and hyperscale data centers.

The recurring thread is her organizing method: social media recruitment, national tours, rallies, pressure on elected officials and an effort to turn local anger into a national political movement. Her current data-center work is therefore a continuation of her political organizing career, not an unrelated departure from it.