SOME ADVICE FOR FUTURE TEA PARTY ORGANIZERS: Be sure to have a signup sheet where people can put their emails and other contact information for future events.

Also, consider printing up some postcards addressed to your local Representative and Senators. They should say that they’re from the Tea Party protest, and carry a message of fiscal discipline. Get people to sign them, and solicit donations for postage, then mail them. Local mail from real constituents makes an impression.

Also, encourage them to contact local media after the event, and either compliment them on their coverage, or politely criticize it, as appropriate.

UPDATE: Also read this advice.

ANOTHER UPDATE: A reader emails: “If I could offer one more tidbit: Tea Party organizers should keep separate email lists for those who merely want to be notified of upcoming events and those who want to receive the daily blast of organization news, interviews, etc. I joined one such list in an effort to be made aware of upcoming area events but quickly unsubscribed when I immediately started receiving multiple emails every day.”

MORE: Reader Greg Dougherty notes that printing postcards is cheap.