Thousands of activists with the right-wing Tea Party group gathered in Washington, DC Thursday for an anti-tax rally on Capitol Hill. The Tax Day protest capped a nationwide bus tour that began three weeks earlier in Nevada. Progressive critics have warned the Tea Party is tapping into widespread anger against corporate dominance of the US political system. One protester said he was drawn to the rally to oppose government bailouts of Wall Street.

Protester: “What I care about is seeing what Obama’s done with the bailout, and he’s going to continue to bail out these banks. And I want to see the banks stop getting bailed out and start bailing out the people, start investing in small business, start investing in the middle class, not Wall Street, not GE, not GM, not these big companies.”