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This article explores how TEA Party activists frame racial inequality, concluding that the three central right-wing ideologies used by right-wing organizations (conservative moral order, libertarianism, and the sovereign nation state) lead to distinct frames that reflect nonconformity in the TEA Party’s racial stories. Activists engage with four racial frames: racism denial, individual responsibility, cultural responsibility, and structural responsibility. The TEA Party nonetheless unites using frame amplification to create an organizational-level frame that allows activists, regardless of the frame with which they engage, to unite under the broader notion that they are all idyllically colorblind.