Tea Party activist Lawrence Crane secures a large U.S. flag while preparing for a Tea Party rally to be held at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif., Thursday, April 15, 2010. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

(CNSNews.com) – The first national magazine for, by and about the Tea Party movement is making its debut at a conservative gathering in Washington this week.

The Tea Party Review is described as a response to demands for a magazine that tea party conservatives can call their own.

Katrina Pierson of the Dallas Tea Party is the magazine’s national grass roots director. “People are weary of the distorted version of the Tea Party movement that we see in most of the media,” she said Tuesday in a news release announcing the magazine’s launch.

“Tea Party members want a magazine for the movement, created by members of the movement and reflecting the values of the movement.” The magazine will enable subscribers and other Tea Party supporters to track key issues in addition to the movement’s activities across the country.

The monthly magazine, to be unveiled at this week’s Conservative Political Action Conference, has an annual subscription rate of $34.95.   A companion Web site will update Tea Party developments between issues.

Topics in the first Tea Party Review range from grassroots lobbying to foreign policy, from Big Business political corruption to ways in which the Tea Party movement can appeal to Latino immigrants.  “There’s a profile of the first Tea Partiers elected to statewide office, a look at key figures in history such as Alexis de Tocqueville and Booker T. Washington, and even a comic strip about a Tea Party congressman dealing with the Red Chinese,” Pierson said.

“Tea Party Review follows in a long tradition of movement-oriented publications,” Pierson said.  “Throughout American history, successful movements – abolitionists, women’s suffragists, the civil rights movement, the conservative movement, etc. – all had their own print publications.  TPR will fill that need for the Tea Party movement.”

Pierson said the magazine will give all Tea Party members and groups the opportunity to communicate ideas, create initiatives, share information on best practices, and define the movement’s principles and platform. "This magazine will ensure the integrity and sustainability of the movement, and bring together Tea Party members who are interested not only in making a statement but in making a real change."