It's not on our beat, but we Cola kids are a little obsessed with the Sen. Harry Reid race in Nevada. You've got the (Democratic) Senate Majority leader vs. a Tea Party candidate, Sharon Angle. It's theee zeitgiest story of 2010.

And there is a hometown angle.

So, yeah, pretty hard to ignore. And whoa. The latest news, broken by Democratic site Talking Points Memo, is impossible to ignore.

Here's their lead:

The far-right third party that Nevada GOP Senate candidate Sharron Angle called home in the 1990s supported abolishing "the debt money system" and ran a vitriolic anti-gay insert in state newspapers that portrays LGBT people -- or, as Angle's party called them, "sodomites" -- as child-molesting, HIV-carrying, Hell-bound freaks, according to documents obtained by TPM.

As we reported earlier this month, Angle was a member of Nevada's Independent American Party, a Christian conservative-cum-libertarian third party, for at least six years while she was getting her feet wet in politics in the 1990s. Independent American Party members told us that Angle switched to be a Republican in 1997 out of political expediency as she was preparing to make a run for state-level office.

But the details of her time in the Independent American Party have been somewhat shrouded in mystery -- which brings us to the two documents we obtained from that era.