A little googling on both names comes up with a bunch of links -- and I'm going to quote several at them, since I think this is important.
http://blog.reidreport.com/2010/02/a-tea-party-patriot-movement-convergence/February 16, 2010
Hm … The New York Times has a fascinating, extensive piece on the convergence, at least in the American northwest, of the “tea party movement” and something that has popped up (armed) at various locations where the president was speaking last year (and during the 1990s when Tim McVeigh became its most infamous face) … the militia or “patriot” movement. Read the article, and if you’re in South Florida and used to listen to the talk radio show I used to do, tell me if this doesn’t sound a lot like my second co-host, Andre, right down to the food and gun stockpiling, Ron Paul devotion, and federal reserve conspiracy theories …
Alternet connects more dots, including to the paranoid, highly compensated fantasies of Glenn Beck. Now simmer down, folks — I’m not saying everyone who calls themselves a member of the tea party movement falls into the “patriot movement”/Resistnet/Alex Jones/Andre Eggelletion category, and these are still very disparate groups (here in Florida, I have yet to come across two that are connected to each other.) But it does seem like the groups are starting to converge ideologically, just as the Republican Party is sucking up whatever parts of it they can, and various interest groups, not least of which being Sarah Palin’s political plotters, are grabbing for a piece of the action. At the end of the day, I think some of these people are simply Libertarians, and I continue to wonder how much longer they stay in the fold …
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/16/us/politics/16teaparty.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=patriot%20movement&st=cseThese people are part of a significant undercurrent within the Tea Party movement that has less in common with the Republican Party than with the Patriot movement, a brand of politics historically associated with libertarians, militia groups, anti-immigration advocates and those who argue for the abolition of the Federal Reserve.
Urged on by conservative commentators, waves of newly minted activists are turning to once-obscure books and Web sites and discovering a set of ideas long dismissed as the preserve of conspiracy theorists, interviews conducted across the country over several months show. In this view, Mr. Obama and many of his predecessors (including George W. Bush) have deliberately undermined the Constitution and free enterprise for the benefit of a shadowy international network of wealthy elites.
Loose alliances like Friends for Liberty are popping up in many cities, forming hybrid entities of Tea Parties and groups rooted in the Patriot ethos.
http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/willl-ex-military-patriots-form-moreMarch 05, 2009
One of the more disturbing trends we've been observing is the return of far-right "Patriot" rhetoric about government oppression with the election of President Obama. Fueled in no small part by mainstream right-wing talkers proclaiming we're headed into "socialism" -- not to mention a "radical communist" who must be "stopped" or else America will "cease to exist" -- the overheated rhetoric has been gradually getting higher in volume, intensity, and frequency with each passing week.
The initial concern that this raises is the possibility of a new wave of citizen militias, particularly when you have mainstream pundits like Glenn Beck out there helping to promote the concept. As Glenn Greenwald observed, the "Patriots" are back with a vengeance. . . .
The context in which this is bubbling up is perhaps the most troubling. We're seeing an increase in hate-group activity nationally. Much of the animus is directed at President Obama (see, for instance the "Birthers" -- led by Alan Keyes and his compatriots), and much of it is more generically directed at liberals and immigrants.
In any event, it isn't long after right-wingers name their "enemies" that we start seeing violence directed their way.