EPISODE · Jun 4, 2026 · 29 MIN
The House Is Our Only Hope: A New Plan to Pass the SAVE America Act │ Cleta Mitchell
from The Jenny Beth Show · host Jenny Beth Martin, Cleta Mitchell
Cleta Mitchell is the founder of the Election Integrity Network and one of the nation's most prominent election law attorneys. A former state legislator, she has helped lead the coalition behind the SAVE America Act and works to ensure that only eligible American citizens vote in American elections. Key topics covered: Why the SAVE America Act is stalled in the Senate and what the 60-vote threshold really means The new strategy: breaking the bill into pieces and attaching them to House legislation The unelected Senate parliamentarian and the Byrd Rule blocking action How the Byrd Rule even tripped up Border Patrol and ICE funding through reconciliation The President's pledge not to sign bills that leave out the SAVE America Act The coordinated effort aimed at Senator Mike Lee and why grassroots should ignore it Pressuring holdout senators in Alaska and Maine to negotiate to a yes Why Jenny Beth Martin says the Senate is facing a constitutional crisis The exact call to action: how citizens can move the House this week Episode breakdown: 00:14 — Welcome to the Jenny Beth Show 00:40 — Why the SAVE America Act is stalled in the Senate 01:06 — “The Senate is like concrete”: the 60-vote problem 02:06 — The new plan: break the bill into pieces and attach it to House bills 03:01 — The President's pledge and why the House is the only hope 04:25 — The unelected parliamentarian with more power than anyone in Washington 04:46 — Reconciliation blocked: the parliamentarian objects to ICE and Border Patrol funding 05:49 — The Byrd Rule explained 08:42 — A “snowball chance” under the Byrd Rule, and attaching the bill to FISA or housing 10:33 — Combining photo voter ID and citizenship confirmation; Speaker Johnson is committed 13:13 — Call your congressman: 202-224-3121 14:14 — Credit to Speaker Johnson, Chip Roy, and Senator Mike Lee 15:20 — The paid influencer operation aimed at Senator Mike Lee 16:18 — Why you cannot remove the Senate Majority Leader right now 17:40 — Removing a Senate leader is not like removing a House Speaker 18:39 — Pressuring the senators who voted no: Murkowski and Collins 20:10 — “Legislating has become an atrophied muscle in the Senate” 21:29 — The filibuster question 22:39 — Why the talking filibuster no longer works 23:41 — A 1986 ruling and a constitutional crisis in the Senate 24:20 — Speaker Johnson's thin majority vs. the Senate's gridlock 26:21 — The call to action and where to take it 27:30 — How to follow Cleta Mitchell and the Election Integrity Network 28:22 — Closing thoughts Links and resources: teapartypatriots.org jennybethshow.com passthesaveamericaact.com Capitol Switchboard: 202-224-3121 Election Integrity Network: electionintegritynetwork.org SAVE America Act Coalition: saveamericaactcoalition.com
What this episode covers
The SAVE America Act (the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act) is stalled in the United States Senate, and in this bonus episode of The Jenny Beth Show, Jenny Beth Martin and election integrity attorney Cleta Mitchell map out a new plan to finally get it passed. The SAVE America Act would require photo voter ID and proof of citizenship to register and vote, and the House has already passed it three times, yet the Senate's 60-vote threshold has frozen it in place. Cleta Mitchell, founder of the Election Integrity Network and one of the country's leading election law attorneys, joins Jenny Beth to explain why the House of Representatives is now the only realistic path forward: break the bill into pieces and attach those provisions to legislation moving from the House to the Senate, again and again, until the Senate relents. They dig into the unelected Senate parliamentarian's outsized power, the Byrd Rule that blocked even Border Patrol and ICE funding through reconciliation, the coordinated effort aimed at Senator Mike Lee, and why Jenny Beth says the Senate is in a genuine constitutional crisis. This is the grassroots playbook for turning three million activists into pressure Washington cannot ignore, plus the exact phone number to make your voice count. If you care about ensuring only American citizens decide American elections, this conversation is your next step. Learn more and take action at teapartypatriots.org and jennybethshow.com.
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