Al Jazeera's Fault Lines team follows the Iowa campaign trail ahead of the 2012 Republican primaries to trace how the Tea Party movement and Christian conservative activists have come to shape GOP strategy. Reporters sit in on evangelical gatherings and Tea Party rallies, interviewing candidates, organizers, and voters about what actually holds the coalition together: shared commitments to limited government, fiscal conservatism, and a strict reading of the Constitution. The film also tracks the friction, showing how Tea Party leaders work to keep some distance from overt religious messaging so the movement can appeal past its evangelical base. Money runs through the reporting as a throughline, with conservative donors and organizations funding candidates who run further right than establishment Republicans are comfortable with. Rather than treating the Tea Party as a single bloc, the film maps where religion, ideology, and campaign financing overlap and where they pull apart, using the Iowa race as a real-time test case for how far-right conservatism was remaking Republican politics heading into the 2012 election.