Conservative activism, these days, is spread out over a handful of groups with member lists under 800,000, working together in loose affiliations around tea party events and other cooperative alliances (some of the groups, like Tea Party Patriots, are tea-party-centric). Here's what they're planning for August.

First of all, there will be tea parties. A conservative coalition has planned a national day of health-care-specific tea parties on August 22--organizers hope for a tea party in each of the nation's 435 congressional districts, according to one official--and another coalition has planned one in DC September 12, when Congress comes back.

There's a national website set up (recessrally.com) to help conservatives find the August 22 tea parties in their areas, along the same lines as TaxDayTeaParty.com, which served as a (more or less) official hub for the national tea party activity on April 15.

The same three groups who helped coordinate the April 15 tea parties are working to organize the August 22 events: American Liberty Alliance (formerly the Don't Go movement), FreedomWorks, and Americans for Prosperity. They've joined in a coalition with new media/community organizing group The Sam Adams Alliance and political training institute American Majority.

"Organize" is used in a loose sense here. The model is to provide information about where tea parties will take place (via the recessrally.com website and the websites of the organizing groups), alert group members via email or telephone, and largely leave it up to individuals to access that information and find out where to go.

Tea party organizers have always insisted, and still do, that their movement is, in that way, fundamentally organic. But they do, as this coalition has done, set the dates...so while August 22 events may be more or less organic, they're not spontaneous.

The tea parties will be promoted through an affiliation with conservative blogs and websites including RedState, Michelle Malkin, NetRightNation, and Smart Girl Politics, who have also signed onto the coalition, as well as through the e-mail lists kept by the organizing groups (as mentioned above, generally comprised of fewer than 800,000 people) and through a Facebook group of 50,000 tea partiers handled by American Liberty Alliance.

Organizers hope for a tea party in each of the nation's 435 congressional districts August 22, according to American Liberty Alliance Communications Director Corrine Williams.

The September 12 tea party, headed up by FreedomWorks (over 760,000 members), will include some more established/establishment players in Republican advocacy: Americans for Tax Reform, the National Taxpayers Union, and The Club for Growth will all pitch in. FreedomWorks spokesman Adam Brandon says his group expects 20,000 people to show up.