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The Jenny Beth Show
by Jenny Beth Martin
Jenny Beth Martin is an original organizer of the Tea Party movement and the co-founder of Tea Party Patriots. She is an author, a filmmaker, and one of TIME Magazine's 100 most influential people in the world. The title she is most proud of is "Mom" to her boy/girl twins. She has been at the forefront, fighting for America's core principles for more than a decade.
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The Mayflower Compact: The Document 156 Years Ahead of the Declaration | Lawrence Reed
Lawrence W. Reed is president emeritus of the Foundation for Economic Education, where he served twelve years as president. Before that he ran the Mackinac Center for Public Policy in Michigan for twenty-one years, led a think tank in Idaho for three, and taught economics and history at Northwood University for seven. History is his first love and economics a close second, which is the shape of all nine of his books. The newest is Born of Ideas: How Principles, Faith, and Courage Forged America. Jenny Beth Martin is the host of The Jenny Beth Show, co-founder of the Tea Party movement, and Chairman of Tea Party Patriots Action. Key topics: The Mayflower Compact of 1620, and why it is the first governing agreement in world history that no monarch signed The fifty strangers the investors put on the ship, and the storm that made the compact necessary The Flushing Remonstrance of 1657, written by people who were not Quakers on behalf of Quakers Congress could not tax, so Congress printed, and by 1780 the continental dollar bought nothing The British warship that anchored off Staten Island and ran counterfeit American currency ashore How the best ideas of the Enlightenment and the Great Awakening arrived at the same conclusion at the same time Why the Boston Tea Party was never an argument about the amount of the tax The French Revolution began fourteen years after ours and went somewhere else entirely The sin of presentism, and the Wright brothers test for judging people of the past Nathan Hale at twenty-one, disguised as a Dutch schoolteacher Kosciuszko, Pulaski, Salomon, and a nineteen-year-old Lafayette who broke his own country's law to get here Mercy Otis Warren, the conscience of the American Revolution Thomas Paine, a bankrupt corset maker, writes Common Sense in January 1776 Esther Reed raises three hundred thousand dollars in private voluntary funds for the troops Twenty-seven American ships against two hundred fifty British ones, and the letters of marque John Witherspoon, the only clergyman to sign the Declaration of Independence, who saved Princeton twice Why the founders gave us a republic with democratic elements and not a democracy Timestamps: 00:18 — Meet Lawrence Reed: Foundation for Economic Education, the Mackinac Center, nine books 01:57 — Born of Ideas: from the Mayflower Compact in 1620 to the Bill of Rights in 1791 03:17 — The Mayflower Compact, and the first governing agreement in history without a monarch 06:59 — The religious Magna Carta: the Flushing Remonstrance of 1657 09:57 — Congress could not tax, so Congress printed: the continental dollar collapse 12:36 — The British warship Phoenix and the counterfeit American currency 14:57 — The Enlightenment, the Great Awakening, and the Boston Tea Party 20:40 — Why the French Revolution went the other way 23:58 — Slavery, presentism, and what actually made America exceptional 29:43 — Nathan Hale at twenty-one 32:31 — Kosciuszko, Pulaski, Salomon, and Lafayette 35:19 — Mercy Otis Warren, the conscience of the American Revolution 37:31 — Thomas Paine and Common Sense 39:57 — Joseph and Esther Reed of Pennsylvania 43:28 — How Washington won a fight he kept losing 47:47 — Black Americans and Native Americans in the Revolution 52:20 — Twenty-seven American ships against two hundred fifty British ones 54:51 — John Witherspoon saves Princeton twice 57:16 — A republic with democratic elements, not a democracy Links mentioned: jennybethshow.com, teapartypatriots.org, Born of Ideas by Lawrence W. Reed, the Foundation for Economic Education, the National Archives correspondence between Esther Reed and General Washington.
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Oklahoma Puts Voter ID in Its Constitution & a Judge Blocks Ohio 39 Days Out | Washington, McNeily
Guests: Robert McNeely and Stacy Washington Robert McNeely is Director of Grassroots Engagement and Broadcasting at Tea Party Patriots Action and the show's co-host. He is a former broadcaster who worked in the mainstream media in Anchorage, Alaska, later worked at Truth Social, and ran for the Georgia House. He appears for the full hour. Stacy Washington hosts Stacy on the Right on SiriusXM and Stacy Washington Now on Salem News. She is a Missouri conservative, an Air Force veteran's perspective on surveillance and civil liberties, a mother of grown children and an empty nester who grew up partly in Germany. She joins for the second half of the show. Key topics: Two states, 900 miles apart, giving opposite answers on voter identification in the same week Oklahoma voters writing photo identification into the state constitution, so a simple legislative majority cannot undo it A federal judge appointed by President Bill Clinton blocking Ohio from requiring proof of citizenship at motor vehicle offices, 39 days before the registration deadline What a rules change weeks before ballots go out actually does to a turnout election, from a former candidate Marc Elias's firm bringing the Ohio case, and the National Voter Registration Act argument the judge relied on How the SAVE America Act, the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, actually began: a coalition conference call with Senator Mike Lee, and Cleta Mitchell describing what was happening in Arizona Arizona's statewide referendum, the Supreme Court challenge, and the bifurcated ballot that came out of it Why a voter in Arizona who has not shown proof of citizenship still votes for president, Senate and Congress Checking a box that says you are a citizen, versus showing proof of citizenship The legal jeopardy noncitizens are put in when they are registered without asking for it Alaska's own elections website telling recipients a voter registration card does not mean they may vote Three ballots for prior residents arriving in one mailbox in Anchorage The Carter-Baker Commission on fraud in the mail-in ballot process, and the case for requiring a reason to request one Oklahoma's model of enshrining voter identification in a state constitution, and the 36 states that require some form of it The Supreme Court's six to three ruling on August 24 letting the mail-in voting executive order proceed, without ruling on its legality Citizenship list compilation and Postal Service rulemaking on ballot envelope and barcode design The injunction vacated in the League of Women Voters case, and the 23 states and District of Columbia that sued again two days later Poll watcher versus poll worker: what each one does, which one is paid, and which deadline comes first The Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioning three far-left networks under a counterterrorism executive order written after September 11 The Justice Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation seizing platforms used by state-sponsored hackers targeting United States critical infrastructure A public broadcaster's memo instructing its journalists not to call the September 11 attacks terrorist attacks How to read what is put in front of you: who wrote it, why, and what it does for them Secretary of State Marco Rubio suspending every immigrant visa interview worldwide for retraining Senator Eric Schmitt on legal and illegal immigration, and the abuse inside temporary visa categories Congressman Chip Roy's letter to federal officials about a planned development near a military installation in San Antonio The call to action: sign up to be a poll worker or a poll watcher before the deadlines close California Proposition 40, a one-time 5 percent tax on the assets of billionaires, on the November 3 ballot Why taxing net worth is taxing a number that moves every day, and how it mirrors property tax on unrealized value A surplus blown through, a deficit every year since, and homelessness worse than ever The pitch that 90 percent of the money goes to state health care, and why that framing is the campaign Senator Josh Hawley's letter to the chief executive of Flock Safety and what he calls an unprecedented national surveillance network More than 120,000 cameras in 49 states, scanning 20 billion vehicles a month, with company policy as the only guardrail Senator Bernie Sanders posting against Flock, and what it means when the left and the right land in the same place The referendum nobody ever held: no local or state entity asked its citizens before buying license plate readers Data centers as a manufactured campaign issue, and 16 people at a county meeting reading the same three lines Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez rejoining the Democratic Socialists of America and the organization confirming her membership Why this is not your grandfather's Democrat party, and the platform planks that come with the membership Abolishing the Senate, the presidency, the police and prisons, measured against an oath to uphold the Constitution Meta settling with 29 state attorneys general over what its platforms did to children Two-hour teen limits, overnight app blocks, and the age verification problem nobody has solved Why anonymous speech matters, from Poor Richard's Almanac to the Federalist Papers The charging table by the door, the phones in the middle of the dinner table, and eighteen summers Timestamps: 00:00 — Two states, 900 miles apart 01:07 — What we are covering today 03:27 — A federal judge blocks Ohio 05:32 — How the SAVE America Act began 06:40 — Arizona's bifurcated ballot 09:12 — Alaska's own elections website 12:01 — The Carter-Baker Commission and mail-in ballots 13:18 — Oklahoma writes voter ID into its constitution 14:53 — The Supreme Court lets the mail-in order take effect 17:45 — Poll watcher or poll worker 21:17 — Treasury sanctions three far-left networks 22:55 — Seizing the platforms used by state-sponsored hackers 23:33 — The memo telling reporters not to say terrorist 26:23 — How to read what you are being fed 28:54 — Rubio suspends every immigrant visa interview 30:41 — Senator Schmitt on legal and illegal immigration 33:44 — Chip Roy's letter on a San Antonio development 37:04 — The call to action: work the polls 40:16 — Stacy Washington joins 40:55 — California Proposition 40 42:40 — Taxing a number that moves every day 43:29 — A surplus blown through, and homelessness worse 44:13 — Ninety percent to health care, they say 46:03 — Josh Hawley takes on Flock Safety 46:51 — Even Bernie Sanders says stop Flock 48:42 — Nobody ever put this to a vote 51:49 — AOC rejoins the Democratic Socialists of America 53:25 — Not your grandfather's Democrat party 55:40 — The seed and the apples 56:47 — They swear an oath to the Constitution 58:06 — No real ideas, and what the platform already says 01:00:12 — Meta settles with 29 state attorneys general 01:01:28 — The charging table that worked in her house 01:02:21 — Anonymous speech, and the Federalist Papers 01:04:51 — The power is with moms and dads 01:05:19 — Put the phone down and look them in the face 01:06:59 — The guardrails we called being mean 01:11:35 — Doom scrolling, and one hour a day 01:12:27 — Close: sign up to work the polls Links mentioned: Sign up to work or watch the polls: helpatthepolls.com Election integrity training: honestelectionsproject.org The show: jennybethshow.com Tea Party Patriots Action: teapartypatriots.org
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Job Board for Illegal Aliens & a Database of 51,942 Crimes | Victoria Manning
Guest: Victoria Manning Victoria Manning is Senior Investigative Researcher at Restoration News, where she reports on election integrity, illegal immigration, and public education. She served eight years as an elected member of the Virginia Beach School Board, where she and her allies flipped the board from an eight to three Democrat majority to a six to five Republican majority, and she co-founded the School Board Member Alliance, which provides governance training to school board members across Virginia. She is the author of "Behind the Wall of Government Schools." She is a Navy spouse; her husband served thirty years and retired as a Navy captain. This is her return visit to the show. Key topics: The job board built for people who are not legally allowed to work in this country, and the listing that recruits campaign door knockers for Democrats at 25 to 40 dollars an hour The line in that listing encouraging applicants with a criminal record, and why Victoria Manning read it as a safety problem first The founder of the site, who came to this country illegally and stayed under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program Why a tax identification number lets someone pay federal income tax without holding legal status or a work permit Federal law, 8 U.S.C. 1324a: unlawful to knowingly hire, recruit, or refer for a fee an unauthorized worker, and it carries prison time Why the business is set up in California, and what years of non-enforcement produced Cornell Law School on the conference sponsor page, and the dozens of other colleges Manning says are referring students to the site Merrimack and the Progressive Turnout Project, and the door knocking work in seven states The argument that this takes jobs and opportunity from American citizens and from immigrants who came the right way IllegalAlienCrimes.com: a year of public records requests to sheriffs, immigration enforcement records, and news reports compiled into 51,942 documented crimes Most of the records go back to 2020, and some are older Walking the database live, picking Wyoming, and finding page after page of filings in a state nobody calls a border state Jenny Beth Martin on the Phoenix airport during the Biden administration, and the app that flew people into the interior of the country Why every state and every county became a border state and a border county The nonprofits with tax exempt status helping people come across, and what Manning found most disturbing in the records The victims behind every entry, and why this is not only about the two cases everybody can name Senator Mark Warner calling the USS Abraham Lincoln crew pushed to the brink after more than 260 days at sea, in his own reelection year What the deployment record shows: 295 days for the Lincoln in 2019, 256 days for the USS George H.W. Bush in 2022, and 290 days for the Lincoln in 2002, when a Democrat senator praised the mission The Secretary of the Navy's response, and what a senator's words do to the leadership of a ship at sea Navy recruiting climbing again, and the military families who told their sons to wait Eight years on the Virginia Beach School Board, and flipping it from eight to three to six to five Slipping standards in Nashville, at the University of Michigan, and at Berkeley, where a calculus professor is teaching middle school fractions When Manning brought the evidence to her own board, they told her it was not happening Superintendents work for the school board, not the other way around Show up, help the members who are on your side, and consider running yourself Why local control of education beats a federal department nobody can get on the phone Timestamps: 00:00 — The job board built for illegal aliens 00:48 — Meet Victoria Manning of Restoration News 01:48 — Senator Mark Warner and the USS Abraham Lincoln 03:41 — An election year, and a fourth term he promised not to seek 05:23 — 295 days in 2019, 256 days in 2022, 290 days in 2002 07:01 — What the Secretary of the Navy said 08:28 — Life as a Navy spouse, and parents of adult sailors 10:31 — Navy recruiting climbing again 12:40 — Merit replacing the social justice agenda 17:32 — Undocuprofessionals: the Restoration News exclusive 17:56 — Criminal records encouraged to apply 18:13 — The founder, who came here illegally and stayed under Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals 18:53 — A tax identification number is not a work permit 19:12 — Published Monday, and the site was scrubbed 20:04 — Federal law, 8 U.S.C. 1324a, and the prison time attached 21:38 — Colleges and universities referring students to the site 22:27 — Cornell Law School on the conference sponsor page 24:54 — Merrimack and the Progressive Turnout Project 25:56 — Taking jobs from American citizens 28:35 — IllegalAlienCrimes.com and the database her team built 30:43 — How far back it goes, and how it was compiled 31:24 — Walking the site: picking Wyoming 33:13 — The app that flew people into the interior of the country 34:43 — What astounded her in the records 36:04 — The victims behind every entry 38:18 — Eight years on the Virginia Beach School Board 40:02 — Flipping an eight to three board to a six to five majority 40:39 — Nashville, Michigan, and Berkeley: slipping standards 43:15 — When she told the board, they said it was not happening 44:33 — Show up, help, and consider running 46:21 — Why local control of education wins 48:53 — The call to action Links mentioned: Restoration News: restoration-news.com The database: illegalaliencrimes.com Campaign training: leadershipinstitute.org The show: jennybethshow.com Tea Party Patriots Action: teapartypatriots.org
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Foreign Money in Elections: The Swiss Billionaire Behind 26 States | Jason Snead
Guest: Jason Snead Jason Snead is Executive Director of the Honest Elections Project, which develops model election legislation, lobbies for it in state capitols through its charitable and advocacy arms, and defends those laws in court when they are challenged. His team wrote the first state ban on foreign money in ballot measure campaigns, and eleven states have now passed a version of it. He works alongside Tea Party Patriots Action, Heritage Action and Turning Point in a coalition running in-person poll worker trainings in battleground states. This is his return visit to the show. Key topics: The difference between a poll worker and a poll watcher, and why the job that can actually speak up is the one conservatives skip Poll worker shifts that run twelve to fifteen hours with no rotation, and an average American poll worker age of 67 The coalition training schedule: Alpharetta, Georgia on August 28, Reno on September 11, Las Vegas on September 12, and Waukesha and Brown Counties in Wisconsin on October 2 and 3 Why the National Voter Registration Act, thirty years on, makes it harder for states to clean their own voter rolls Jenny Beth Martin on the gap nobody fixed: your old driver's license gets voided when you move, and your old voter registration does not Roughly 20 million voting eligible Americans move every year, and the two federal election cycles, up to four years, most states must wait before removing a stale registration The interstate list maintenance model bill, and why the American Legislative Exchange Council adopted it as model policy Four priorities for the 2027 state legislative sessions Why states need their own upfront proof of citizenship law even if the SAVE America Act, the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, passes The Supreme Court ruling that forced Arizona to accept the federal registration form, and the bifurcated ballot Arizona has run ever since Jenny Beth Martin on asking Senator Mike Lee to write what became the SAVE America Act, and carrying it to 27 states in two and a half years Thirty six states require voter identification, and it takes only 38 states to amend the Constitution The hardship exemptions still sitting inside strong photo identification laws in Georgia and Texas, and how Ohio removed all of its exemptions but one Foreign money in elections: the federal ban covers candidates and political action committees and stops at ballot measures Roughly 300 million dollars from a Swiss billionaire to the Sixteen Thirty Fund, and 130 million dollars spent driving ballot measures in 26 states Ohio, redistricting, and three to six congressional seats Every Democrat in the Ohio legislature voting against the foreign money ban, and Marc Elias suing to overturn it in Ohio and Kansas The Easy Wins Program: how a good election law is usually not as good as it could be Voter identification for mail ballots, and why signature matching can reject a real ballot and accept a fraudulent one Timestamps: 00:18 — Jason Snead returns to the show 00:40 — Why the poll worker trainings come first 02:35 — Poll worker versus poll watcher 06:43 — Twelve to fifteen hours on your feet 07:07 — The average American poll worker is 67 11:48 — The training schedule: Georgia, Nevada and Wisconsin 13:48 — The National Voter Registration Act problem 15:47 — They void your driver's license. Nobody voids the registration. 17:56 — The interstate list maintenance model bill 21:07 — Four priorities for the 2027 state sessions 27:29 — Arizona's bifurcated ballot and the Supreme Court ruling 34:42 — What the polling actually says about voter identification 37:08 — Foreign money: the loophole Congress left open 39:03 — Roughly 300 million dollars to one fund, 130 million across 26 states 40:02 — Ohio bans it, and every Democrat votes no 46:10 — Easy Wins: making good laws better 49:16 — Voter identification for mail ballots 52:07 — Where to follow the Honest Elections Project Links mentioned: The show: jennybethshow.com Tea Party Patriots Action: teapartypatriots.org Capitol switchboard: 202-224-3121
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South Carolina Senate Runoff & the Fake Poll That Fooled the Press | Pfaff, Connelly
Guests: Jim Pfaff and Chad Connelly, with Robert McNeely Jim Pfaff is the president of The Conservative Caucus and a recurring guest on this show. He spent roughly thirty years on Capitol Hill and around national politics, and he convened the private meetings that became the House Freedom Caucus, sitting in the room as the only staffer. Chad Connelly is the founder of Faith Wins, an organization that has registered more than two million new evangelical voters over the last two election cycles, and the former chairman of the South Carolina Republican Party. He joins from a pastors' meeting in South Carolina the day before the runoff. Robert McNeely, a former broadcaster and a regular contributor to the show, joins for the closing Rapid Round. Key topics: The South Carolina special primary runoff, and how many votes actually decide a United States Senate seat in late August Chad Connelly's turnout model: 265,000 projected, 342,000 delivered, and what early voting at 104 percent of the primary means The endorsement split, with President Trump, Governor Henry McMaster and Majority Leader John Thune on one side and Senators Mike Lee and Rick Scott on the other Why Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund endorsed Ralph Norman after polling its South Carolina supporters The debate answer on national security, the audible gasp in the room, and why honesty is not the same as readiness Frustration with the Senate over the SAVE America Act, the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, and John Thune's vote count Senator Chris Van Hollen on whether Democratic Socialists belong in the Democratic Party, and what he said about accepting their endorsement Chad Connelly on recruiting and training poll watchers and poll workers, and why the parties keep signing people up and never following through Jim Pfaff on Republicans conceding the argument instead of fighting for an eighty percent issue John McCain suspending his campaign for the bailout vote, the stimulus that followed, and where the Tea Party movement came from Milton Friedman answering Phil Donahue on greed, and the rise of government greed Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service proposing that four refundable tax credits are federal public benefits under the 1996 welfare reform law Enes Kanter Freedom entering the 2027 Women's National Basketball Association draft, and getting removed from a game in Chicago Data centers as a live campaign issue, small nuclear power generation, and why the old industrial power plants disappeared Elon Musk's plan to put data centers in orbit The fake polling firm, the 23.5-point miss in Wisconsin, and the four questions to ask before you believe any poll How to sign up as a poll worker or a poll watcher, and the difference between them The national debt crossing 40 trillion dollars, and what that works out to per household Timestamps: 00:02 — Cold open: fewer than 400,000 voters pick a senator 03:32 — The panel: Jim Pfaff and Chad Connelly 04:24 — An August runoff nobody is watching 05:46 — Why Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund endorsed Ralph Norman 07:25 — President Trump's endorsement against Senator Mike Lee's 10:46 — The debate clip: national security is not her thing 15:17 — What South Carolina said about that debate 18:10 — What changes the day after Labor Day 19:54 — Senator Chris Van Hollen on Democratic Socialists in his party 24:53 — Chad Connelly: Christian eyeballs on the process 27:44 — Jim Pfaff on Republicans conceding the argument 34:02 — John McCain, the bailout, and the campaign he threw away 37:03 — Where the inflation actually came from 42:15 — Milton Friedman on greed, and government greed 48:04 — Rapid Round: Robert McNeely joins 48:23 — Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service move on four tax credits 50:17 — Enes Kanter Freedom and the Chicago Sky 54:47 — Data centers, power generation, and the election 01:03:39 — Elon Musk wants the data centers in space 01:06:09 — The fake poll that fooled the press 01:11:10 — Four questions to ask about any poll 01:13:09 — The call to action: poll workers and poll watchers 01:18:19 — The national debt crosses 40 trillion dollars Links mentioned: Sign up to be a poll worker or a poll watcher: HelpAtThePolls.com The show: jennybethshow.com Tea Party Patriots Action: teapartypatriots.org Capitol switchboard: 202-224-3121
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The Ninth Amendment: The Forgotten Right the Supreme Court Barely Cites | Bill Norton
Guest: Bill Norton Bill Norton is a constitutional scholar and author who has spent roughly thirty five years studying the founding principles and keeps a personal library of about four thousand books. He is the author of Behind the Bill of Rights, co-authored with Jeremy Nelson of the National Center for Constitutional Studies, with Behind the Declaration of Independence and Behind the Constitution of the United States to follow. This is the bonus conversation that closes his four-lesson founding principles training series with Jenny Beth Martin. Key topics: The Ninth Amendment, the amendment scholars call forgotten, and why the Supreme Court has cited it only a handful of times Why "enumerated in the Constitution" cannot mean the Bill of Rights, which did not exist when the Ninth was written James Madison telling George Washington that protecting rights and limiting powers are two sides of the same coin Why the Ninth Amendment was originally numbered the Eleventh, and how two failed amendments shift every number in the founders' letters The rarely read preamble to the Bill of Rights and the phrase "misconstruction or abuse of its powers" The natural law principle behind the Second Amendment, which Norton says is simply the right of self preservation Why English law once required a man to own a longbow and to be trained on it Freedom of conscience versus religious tolerance, and why Thomas Paine and George Washington called tolerance condescending John Adams on mixing religion and government, and Norton's argument that the church tax exemption silences pastors The trial of William Penn, the jury held without food or sleep, and the verdict they would not change Jury nullification, what it actually does, and why a judge can overturn a guilty verdict but never an acquittal The Third Amendment's single court case and the principle of pre-consent How Arizona's governor cited the wrong constitutional sections during the pandemic lockdowns Jenny Beth Martin on leading the fight to reopen America's schools What James Madison's most misquoted letter really says about an Article Five convention Timestamps: 00:14 — Cold open: the last conversation in the founding principles series 00:57 — Behind the Bill of Rights, and the three books 03:14 — What surprised him: the founders barely explained the principles 05:50 — The Second Amendment and the right of self preservation 07:38 — The research: a dozen books, Magna Carta, and Jamestown 10:37 — Freedom of religion, or freedom of conscience 11:23 — The Pilgrims, Holland, and the freedom they did not want 14:53 — Thomas Paine and George Washington on tolerance 19:42 — John Adams: religion and government corrupt each other 21:42 — The paradox of tolerance 24:30 — Superiority, captivity, and cancel culture 29:05 — Jury nullification and how to get out of jury duty 32:09 — The trial of William Penn 41:14 — The Third Amendment and the principle of pre-consent 44:42 — Arizona's governor and the wrong emergency sections 47:45 — Jenny Beth Martin on the fight to reopen the schools 50:52 — The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and on-call judges 52:58 — The Ninth Amendment we have been reading wrong 55:14 — Why the Ninth was originally the Eleventh 58:37 — Enumerated in the Constitution, not the Bill of Rights 59:34 — Madison to Washington: two sides of the same coin 01:02:40 — The amendment the Supreme Court barely cites 01:03:41 — Madison, Patrick Henry, and the Virginia ratification fight 01:06:44 — Jenny Beth Martin on the SAVE America Act, the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, and proof of citizenship to register to vote 01:08:14 — What Madison's letter about a new convention really says 01:13:01 — Two hundred fifty years, and a government you can change 01:14:43 — Closing: you do not have to become a scholar Links mentioned: The full four-lesson founding principles training: teapartypatriots.org/1776 The show: jennybethshow.com Tea Party Patriots Action: teapartypatriots.org
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Democratic Socialist Wins Florida Senate Nomination & $40 Trillion Debt | Snead, Spencer, Mitchell
Jason Snead is Executive Director of the Honest Elections Project. He joins to talk about the poll worker training his organization is running in Alpharetta, Georgia on Friday, August 28, co-sponsored by Tea Party Patriots Action alongside Heritage Action, Turning Point, and the American Constitutional Rights Union, with more events planned in Nevada and Wisconsin. William Spencer is Vice President of Membership for the Atlanta Young Republicans, the largest Republican club in Georgia, and a Marine Corps veteran. This is his first appearance on the show. Robert McNeily is Director of Broadcasting and Grassroots Engagement for Tea Party Patriots Action and a regular on the program. Joe Mitchell is the Republican nominee for Iowa's Second Congressional District. He was sworn into the Iowa House at 21, the youngest member ever elected to it, served as chief of staff to the Federal Housing Finance Agency in the Trump administration, and is a developer and business owner in Iowa. He faces Democratic state representative Lindsay James in November. Jenny Beth Martin hosts. Key topics: Alexander Vindman raised 16.3 million dollars, Angie Nixon raised 975,000, and she beat him by double digits The first member of the Democratic Socialists of America to win a statewide nomination in the Democratic Party What the platform actually says: abolish the Senate, the presidency, the Electoral College, and the Supreme Court The Democratic National Committee resolution urging a bill to abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement, adopted alongside a competing resolution to reform the agency instead Chuck Schumer and the Democratic senatorial committee funding her opponent all primary, then praising her within hours The national debt passes 40 trillion dollars, two years ahead of the Congressional Budget Office projection Six billion dollars borrowed a day, more than half of it interest, more than the entire national defense budget The difference between a poll worker and a poll watcher, and which one Jason Snead wants you to be What actually happens after you sign up, and why some shifts run fifteen hours The average poll worker in this country is about 67 years old Why a message beat sixteen times the money in Florida, and what young voters heard Running for the institution your own platform wants abolished Repealing the Seventeenth Amendment South Carolina Republicans pick a Senate nominee, and the debate moment that went viral Georgia: Jon Ossoff, Natalie Harp, and Mike Collins Georgia governor: Rick Jackson's foster care story against Keisha Lance Bottoms' record in Atlanta Your assignment this week: pick one campaign, sign up, and come back and say who No corporate political action committee money, term limits, banning congressional insider trading, and ending the lawmaker to lobbyist pipeline A balanced budget constitutional amendment on day one A projected trillion dollars of waste, fraud, and abuse at the federal level alone The 22-year-old with a camera and a YouTube channel who exposed more than the networks did Lying, cheating, and stealing, which is what Jenny Beth Martin says we should be calling it Tax cuts or spending cuts, and which comes first The ninety-ten issues Republicans should be running on Charlie Kirk, six years to the date, and what Joe Mitchell says the last conversation was Timestamped breakdown: 00:51 — The national debt passes forty trillion dollars 01:21 — Six billion dollars a day, and half of it is interest 01:49 — Angie Nixon at her victory party 02:50 — The platform: abolish the Senate, the presidency, the Court 03:34 — The Democratic National Committee and Immigration and Customs Enforcement 03:58 — Chuck Schumer praised her within hours 04:34 — Seventy five days to Election Day 05:44 — Jason Snead and the poll worker training 06:11 — Poll workers are the machinery of elections 08:13 — Poll worker versus poll watcher 10:08 — What the job actually involves 10:45 — The average poll worker is sixty seven 11:10 — Where to sign up 12:35 — William Spencer and Robert McNeily on the Florida result 14:02 — The left keeps leaving the left behind 16:26 — Running for the institution you want abolished 16:45 — Repeal the Seventeenth Amendment 18:04 — South Carolina and the debate moment 18:58 — Grieving, honest, and in over her head 20:35 — Show the Democrats how many of you there are 21:37 — Georgia: Jon Ossoff and Natalie Harp 24:43 — Talk to me about housing 25:20 — Georgia governor: Rick Jackson and Keisha Lance Bottoms 27:56 — Two Democrat sheriffs endorsed Rick Jackson 29:44 — Your assignment: sign up with a campaign today 30:35 — What the radical left wants to abolish 32:49 — Joe Mitchell, Republican nominee in Iowa's Second District 34:11 — No money from BlackRock, Pfizer, or Goldman Sachs 34:31 — Term limits: twelve years in each chamber 35:51 — Day one: a balanced budget constitutional amendment 36:58 — Newt Gingrich, 1994, and the Contract with America 38:14 — A trillion dollars of waste, fraud, and abuse 38:32 — The twenty two year old with a camera 40:35 — Lying, cheating, and stealing 41:35 — Tax cuts or spending cuts 44:24 — The ninety ten issues 46:53 — Running against literal communists 51:09 — Why the founding documents matter 52:52 — Charlie Kirk, six years to the date 55:06 — Favorite founding father: George Washington 55:47 — The call to action one more time Links: jennybethshow.com, teapartypatriots.org
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Cuban Refugee Family: Her Parents Waited 10 Years to Have Children | Driena Sixto
Driena Sixto is Spanish Media Director at the Lincoln Media Foundation, where she has run the Spanish-language media operation since November of last year. She hosts a weekly Spanish-language news program on Claro y Directo América, appears regularly on Fox Noticias, and spent six years at Turning Point USA beginning in 2016 before helping build the voter registration and ballot chasing operation at Turning Point Action. She grew up in Hialeah, Florida, and this is her second appearance on the show. Jenny Beth Martin hosts. This is the long-form conversation about how Sixto came to be who she is, rather than the news of the day. Key topics: Her grandparents leaving Franco's Spain for Cuba, and everything the family built there before Fidel Castro took power Her grandfather dying young of a heart attack, and what her father believes caused it Her father arrested as a political dissident, and the refugee visa he obtained at the United States embassy after his release Why her parents stayed married ten years in Cuba and refused to have children until they could leave Remembrance events, and learning as a child about boats full of women and children shot down by the Castro dictatorship Growing up in Hialeah, the city with the largest Cuban population of any city outside Cuba Why Cuban Americans are, in her account, the only Latino bloc that votes majority Republican Ten years in the movement: Turning Point USA starting in 2016, then Turning Point Action Why she says the right ceded Spanish-language media to Univision and Telemundo for decades, and what that cost Losing the mother tongue, assimilation, and why she believes learning English is a matter of respect Using artificial intelligence to translate and dub American political clips so Spanish speakers hear the words directly instead of reading captions Claro y Directo América, and where Spanish speakers can watch daily news without a left-leaning filter The hardest part of her job, which is finding one politically fluent Spanish speaker who can also create content Taking a camera out to Doral and to the Versailles restaurant to let Cubans and Venezuelans speak for themselves The Cuban American entrepreneurs organizing capital in South Florida to rebuild the island the day it is free Her case for abolishing the Department of Education and ending federal student loans and federal grants Tuition outrunning inflation, and holding universities accountable for degrees with no career prospects Why Republicans were wrong to stay off TikTok, and how young audiences actually take in news Why she says conservatives left academia to the left, and the two ways she thinks it gets taken back The clip of an assistant professor telling future school staff that parents are not to be trusted Why she plans to homeschool, and what she says parents give up at the door of a private school The Chinese student at Florida Atlantic University who would only speak about the Chinese Communist Party with his face blurred Immigrants who, she argues, hold more American values than many Americans Jenny Beth Martin on the border sheriffs, and what happens when the world learns the door is open Timestamped breakdown: 00:00 — Cold open: a family that escaped two dictatorships 00:42 — Meet Driena Sixto 01:12 — Take it all the way back 01:38 — Franco's Spain to Cuba, and what Fidel Castro took 02:19 — Her father, arrested as a political dissident 02:35 — Ten years married, and no children in Cuba 04:05 — Finding Turning Point in her last year of college 06:10 — Hialeah: Cuba with freedom 07:14 — Freedom can be lost in one generation 08:08 — Spanish Media Director at the Lincoln Media Foundation 10:56 — Nature abhors a vacuum 13:39 — Her weekly Spanish-language show 14:30 — Claro y Directo América 14:50 — Training the people who will replace you 18:54 — Let them say it in their own language 20:30 — Who is actually watching 21:52 — Out in the street with a camera 24:37 — The Cubans organizing capital to rebuild the island 26:10 — Reaching young people who think socialism sounds good 31:03 — Abolish the Department of Education 35:49 — Why academia was left to the left 37:54 — The professor who said not to trust the parents 39:00 — Why she plans to homeschool 42:09 — The Chinese student who would not show his face 46:43 — The era of information 47:06 — What she watched happen in Ceuta, Spain 53:41 — What the border sheriffs told her Links: jennybethshow.com, teapartypatriots.org
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Abolish the Senate: Jeffries Says No, His Caucus Says Yes & Florida Votes | Martin, Carroll, McNeily
Rod Martin is the founder and chief executive of Martin Capital and the author of The Rod Martin Report. He was on the startup team at PayPal, he lives in Florida, and he spends most of this hour connecting energy, shipbuilding, and drones into a single geopolitical argument. Conn Carroll is the commentary editor at the Washington Examiner and the author of Sex and the Citizen. He brings two pieces to the table this hour: one on the split between autonomy conservatives and common good conservatives, and one on what the New York Times wrote about the end of the Boy Scouts of America. Robert McNeily, Director of Broadcasting and Grassroots Engagement at Tea Party Patriots Action, co-hosts. Jenny Beth Martin hosts. Key topics: The platform the Democratic Socialists of America published on July 14, which calls for abolishing the United States Senate and replacing the president and the Supreme Court with an executive and a judiciary chosen by Congress What House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries actually said on Sunday, in his own words, and what a broad caucus means for that agenda Jenny Beth Martin walking the platform against the Constitution article by article, including proportional representation, ranked choice voting, a thirty-two-hour work week at full pay, and amnesty regardless of status Florida votes, with an open governor's race, the special election for the Senate seat Marco Rubio left, and more than 1,200 offices down the ballot Why an election is decided by the people who physically show up to work the polls, and the 35,000 poll watchers and poll workers Tea Party Patriots Action has recruited and trained over the last two election cycles Robert McNeily on what the last hours of a primary feel like from inside a campaign Rod Martin on Byron Donalds, Florida's first Republican voter registration majority in state history, and why South Florida moved Conn Carroll on South Carolina going first, and the three lanes forming in the 2028 Democratic presidential primary Rod Martin on what the party did to Bernie Sanders in 2016, and why a primary vote is not the same as a nomination Conn Carroll on the Texas convention vote to abolish rather than reform Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and what it says about the establishment Rod Martin on Charlie Cook's latest numbers and the two thirds of competitive House races the Democrats would need Four Democratic Senate nominees who have refused to back Chuck Schumer as leader, and who is actually leading that party Georgia gets loud: the president in Marietta on Senator Jon Ossoff, and Ossoff answering back in Atlanta The Atlanta Jewish Times publisher's open letter accusing Ossoff of voting one way when it is free and another way when it counts Conn Carroll on autonomy conservatives versus common good conservatives, Milton Friedman, John Stuart Mill, and what James Madison and John Adams actually wrote Rod Martin on closing the undersea gap: one shipyard that can build a nuclear surface combatant, two that can build a submarine, and four guided missile boats retiring by 2029 The fifth public shipyard, fourteen Virginia class attack submarines, five Columbia class boats, and why a long contract brings the cost down Conn Carroll on the New York Times piece celebrating the end of the Boy Scouts of America, and what it never said about boys Why gender-specific spaces matter, and what Conn Carroll watched at scout camp after his own father died young Rod Martin on energy: coal, eight billion people fed on a third of the farmland, and moving the center of gravity from the Persian Gulf to the Gulf of America Rapid fire: the president's Truth Social post on the Strait of Hormuz, and three very different readings of it The pipelines already under contract that route around the strait, and what that does to Iran's leverage Roughly six hundred drones over Moscow, and why Jenny Beth Martin says drone warfare is sliding under the radar Why you cannot shoot down a thirty-five-thousand-dollar drone with a million-dollar missile, and what a directed energy weapon costs per shot Golden Dome, Israel's Iron Beam, microwave systems, and small modular reactors near the front Ukraine taking more than half of Russia's oil refining and transport capacity offline, and the Reagan and King Fahd precedent Conn Carroll on Chinese components in phones, laptops, and military equipment Your job for today, with seventy-seven days until the election Timestamped breakdown: 00:00 — Cold open: they wrote it down 00:55 — Which is it, support the agenda or not 01:42 — Florida votes: more than 1,200 offices on the ballot 02:59 — Why 35,000 poll watchers and poll workers matter 03:43 — Iran's negotiating window closes with no announced path 04:25 — Four Democratic Senate nominees refuse Chuck Schumer 04:40 — Meet the panel 05:35 — Robert McNeily on the last hours of a primary 07:16 — Rod Martin on Florida and Byron Donalds 10:29 — South Carolina, and the lanes in the 2028 Democratic primary 13:37 — Ask Francesca Hong: what they did to Bernie Sanders 14:57 — The platform next to the Constitution 17:20 — What Hakeem Jeffries actually said 18:01 — A management problem he cannot solve 21:19 — Who is really leading the Democratic Party 22:49 — Georgia gets loud: Trump and Jon Ossoff 26:19 — The Atlanta Jewish Times open letter 29:17 — Autonomy conservatives and common good conservatives 33:15 — Closing the undersea gap 38:25 — The New York Times and the end of the Boy Scouts 44:08 — Everything runs on energy 49:03 — Rapid fire: the Strait of Hormuz 52:31 — The pipelines that bypass the strait 55:53 — Six hundred drones over Moscow 57:51 — Directed energy and the cost of shooting down a drone 1:01:07 — Chinese components, and learning from Ukraine 1:04:33 — Your job for today: volunteer 1:05:38 — Closing Links: jennybethshow.com | teapartypatriots.org
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Berkeley Calculus: A Professor Is Teaching Middle School Fractions | Angela Morabito
Angela Morabito is spokeswoman for the Defense of Freedom Institute and a visiting fellow at the Independent Women's Forum. She served as press secretary at the United States Department of Education, she came up through the Atlanta-area school system, and she spends most days making the case against the teachers unions. This is her first appearance on the show, and she stays for the full hour. Robert McNeily, Director of Broadcasting and Grassroots Engagement at Tea Party Patriots Action, co-hosts the full hour. Jenny Beth Martin hosts. Key topics: The University of Michigan's largest college will stop putting first-semester freshman grades on the official transcript, while the registrar keeps those same grades for athletic eligibility, financial aid, and academic honors Morabito on why the stated mental-health rationale does not hold, and what she calls college with training wheels Two former Metro Nashville teachers who say administrators directed them to change failing grades to passing ones, one of whom was her school's teacher of the year and has now left teaching Why Morabito calls it academic fraud, and the Atlanta eraser parties that ended in racketeering convictions A Berkeley teaching professor of mathematics who published her own students' readiness numbers, where the most common score was zero The calculus student who could not solve seven x minus five equals nine Seven in ten Berkeley calculus students arrived ready before 2020, fewer than half afterward More than a thousand University of California faculty signing a petition to restore standardized testing, including more than two thirds of the system's mathematics faculty Why the University of California ignored its own academic senate recommendation in May 2020 and dropped the entrance exam anyway Taxpayers paying twice: once for the K-12 education that failed the student, again for the federally backed loans The Department of Education's twenty directed investigations into passing the trash, and the Defense of Freedom Institute report behind them The argument that the SAT measures wealth, and Morabito's answer about which advantage a capable poor kid can actually overcome A CBS News and YouGov poll of 2,287 adults finding 58 percent of Democrats view socialism positively and 71 percent of college-educated Democrats do Civics proficiency for high schoolers running under one in four, and what that means in a voting booth One in three American men over 15 neither working nor looking for work, and male labor force participation down to 66 percent from 73 percent in 2006 Why Morabito says pulling competition out of schools hurts everyone but hurts young men most Mississippi going from forty-ninth in reading and fiftieth in math in 2013 to ninth and sixteenth today, on roughly half of New Jersey's per-pupil spending Mississippi's Literacy-Based Promotion Act, the read-by-three law, plus literacy coaches and three screenings a year Where the SAVE America Act stands after a five-week Senate recess, and the eleven senators who filed statements saying they would have voted against going home Laken Riley, and the officer who says he arrested the same man six months earlier Timestamped breakdown: 00:00 — Cold open: the most common score was zero 00:59 — The theme: when big government gets involved, the results are not good 02:22 — The Supreme Court, mail-in ballots, and citizenship verification 04:19 — Primaries in Florida, Alaska, and Wyoming 05:52 — Iran's army chief puts a price on American soldiers 06:32 — Twenty-five denaturalization complaints in two weeks 07:31 — The heart of the hour is education, and meet Angela Morabito 08:26 — The University of Michigan stops putting freshman grades on transcripts 12:48 — Nashville: teachers say they were told to change failing grades 21:57 — Berkeley: a calculus class learning middle school fractions 29:07 — The Department of Education moves against passing the trash 29:40 — What passing the trash actually means 31:30 — The case against bringing back the SAT 33:50 — Two years to drop the test, and how long to get it back 36:22 — Final thoughts: school choice and the 2027 scholarship tax credit 39:50 — An alarming new poll on socialism 44:11 — One in three American men out of the workforce 46:40 — Raising twins through the same school system 48:52 — The woke era ripped competition out of schools 50:46 — Mississippi: from dead last to ninth in reading 54:48 — Thank you to Angela Morabito 55:47 — Where the SAVE America Act stands 59:57 — On losing a battle and refusing to quit 01:00:25 — August 17, 1943: Patton reaches Messina 01:02:14 — What happened to math at Berkeley happens everywhere 01:02:59 — Your job for today 01:04:53 — Laken Riley, and the officer who had arrested the man six months earlier 01:07:13 — Closing Links: jennybethshow.com | teapartypatriots.org
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The Bill of Rights: The Ten Amendments Were Never a Gift From Government | Bill Norton
Bill Norton is a constitutional scholar and the author of Speaking the Language of Liberty, the book he describes as a liberty self-help book, and the coauthor of Behind the Bill of Rights, written with Jeremy Nelson of the National Center for Constitutional Studies. Companion volumes on the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution are in progress. This is the fourth and final lesson in his founding principles training series with Jenny Beth Martin, following two lessons on the Declaration of Independence and one on the Constitution, with bonus episodes accompanying each. Jenny Beth Martin hosts. Key topics: Why the Bill of Rights protects rights rather than granting them, and what changes the moment you read it the other way The Bill of Rights as a restriction on Congress alone, and what the courts did with the Fourteenth Amendment George Mason refusing to sign the Constitution, and Madison's answer that the government had not been given enough power to abuse anyone Hamilton and Madison's argument against listing rights at all, and why Norton says both of their fears were validated More than two hundred state suggestions cut to seventeen, twelve sent out, and only ten ratified Why the two that failed were numbered one and two, and how that shifts every amendment number in the founders' letters The Twenty-Seventh Amendment, unratified for two centuries until a law student finished the job The preamble to the Bill of Rights, and Congress writing down that its purpose was to prevent misconstruction or abuse of the government's powers Freedom of conscience as the founders' original framing, and Thomas Paine calling toleration the counterfeit of intolerance The 1735 trial of publisher Peter Zenger, and Gouverneur Morris calling that jury the germ of American freedom The Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798, the expiration date set for the next election, and the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions The Second Amendment read militia first and individual right second, and why Norton says the individual right survives either way The Third Amendment, the one court case it ever produced, and the principle of pre-consent it left behind Writs of assistance, and how Norton applies the Fourth Amendment to the Internal Revenue Service The Fifth Amendment past pleading the fifth: charge stacking, spousal testimony, civil asset forfeiture, and the takings clause The Ninth Amendment misreading Norton says he made for years, and Madison telling Washington that protecting a right is the same as listing it Timestamped breakdown: 00:14 — Cold open: the concluding lesson on the founding documents 01:42 — Philadelphia, 1787: four months in a stuffy building 02:04 — George Mason stands up and refuses to sign 03:40 — Hamilton and Madison argue against listing rights at all 06:12 — The states say no ratification without a bill of rights 08:46 — Two hundred suggestions cut to seventeen, twelve sent out 09:22 — Why the two that failed were numbered one and two 10:18 — The Twenty-Seventh Amendment, two centuries later 12:37 — The Bill of Rights does not grant you anything 13:11 — A restriction on Congress, and what the Fourteenth changed 16:03 — The preamble to the Bill of Rights 19:40 — Amendment One, and freedom of conscience 23:55 — Thomas Paine on toleration 25:14 — Freedom of speech 26:46 — The Peter Zenger case, 1735 28:53 — The Alien and Sedition Acts 32:57 — Freedom of the press 33:55 — The right to peaceably assemble 37:11 — Petition for a redress of grievances 38:28 — The Second Amendment 48:25 — The right of self-preservation 49:34 — The Third Amendment 53:21 — The pandemic and the principle of pre-consent 56:14 — The Fourth Amendment 57:45 — Writs of assistance 59:54 — Income tax and the Internal Revenue Service 01:02:10 — The Fifth Amendment 01:06:47 — Eminent domain and the takings clause 01:11:48 — The Sixth Amendment 01:18:42 — The Seventh Amendment 01:19:33 — The Eighth Amendment 01:21:28 — The Ninth Amendment 01:24:56 — The Tenth Amendment, the catch-all 01:28:55 — Closing: keeping the republic takes work 01:30:28 — The books behind the lessons Links: jennybethshow.com | teapartypatriots.org ————————————————————
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FBI's Disinformation List & the Southern Poverty Law Center Arrest | Schilling, D'Souza
Terry Schilling is the president of the American Principles Project, a political organization that invests in pro-family candidates and then works with them in office on legislation covering children, parental rights, and working families. He has spent his career on the front line of the fight over gender ideology in schools and medicine, working closely with detransitioner Chloe Cole, and he is the father of eight children. His organization is releasing its first documentary, Fathers Wanted, in the coming weeks. Dinesh D'Souza is a New York Times best-selling author and the director of 2016: Obama's America, Hillary's America, and 2000 Mules. He worked in the Reagan administration and wrote Ronald Reagan: How an Ordinary Man Became an Extraordinary Leader. His new book, The Stones Cry Out, covers a hundred and fifty years of biblical archaeology, prophecy, and the last days, and is available for preorder ahead of an early October release. This is his first appearance on the show. Robert McNeily guest hosts for Jenny Beth Martin. Key topics: Round River declassified: Grassley and Jordan named as Russian disinformation, the Biden family logged as victims, and the fourteen confidential sources Kash Patel shutting down the Foreign Influence Task Force and looking at whether it buried real investigations Heidi Beirich charged with wire fraud, bank fraud, and money laundering, and what twenty years of hate-group labels cost ordinary conservative and Christian groups One arm of government, one arm a nonprofit, both sorting Americans into the protected and the targeted Michigan's Democratic Senate nominee on Medicare for All covering procedures on children The Democratic Socialists of America's own education video: abolish the Senate, abolish prisons, abolish ICE Why the establishment spent tens of millions trying to stop the socialist wing and could not Education Secretary Linda McMahon, Title Nine funding, and the girls' locker room Chloe Cole, Medicaid, and what actually changed for parents Woke Two: the difference between the wave everyone remembers and the takeover happening now Dinesh D'Souza on biblical archaeology, the artifacts that corroborate the Bible's tiniest details, and dispensationalism Reagan and Trump compared by a man who worked in the Reagan administration Iran from the 1983 Marine barracks bombing in Beirut to the nuclear question today Identity socialism, the red and the green, and why Mamdani and El-Sayed are both at once Karoline Leavitt stepping down as White House press secretary Timestamped breakdown: 00:00 — Cold open: the FBI's list, the Southern Poverty Law Center arrest, and today's guests 01:02 — Round River declassified: Grassley and Jordan named, the Bidens logged as victims 02:20 — Heidi Beirich charged, and twenty years of hate-group labels 03:20 — Two fast items on your vote: the Supreme Court and the mail-ballot case 05:18 — Terry Schilling: the same story told twice, in government and in a nonprofit 10:14 — Michigan's Senate nominee on government health care for children 13:26 — The Democratic Socialists' own video: abolish the Senate, prisons, and ICE 20:27 — Minnesota's Senate nominee calls a federal fraud investigation racist 24:03 — Linda McMahon, Title Nine, and the girls' locker room 27:23 — Chloe Cole, Medicaid, and what actually changed 34:16 — Woke Two: the establishment takeover Terry Schilling names 39:56 — What parents can actually do 42:34 — Fathers Wanted: the American Principles Project documentary 44:49 — Dinesh D'Souza joins the show for the first time 45:30 — The Stones Cry Out: three years in biblical archaeology 48:37 — Reagan and Trump, and the institutions that broke faith 51:58 — Iran, Beirut 1983, and the martyrdom problem 56:37 — The red and the green: socialism meets Islam 59:45 — Brandon Gill, candidate quality, and 82 days to the midterms 1:02:45 — Closing thread: the institutions being made to answer 1:03:14 — Karoline Leavitt steps down as press secretary Links: jennybethshow.com | teapartypatriots.org | americanprinciplesproject.org | fatherswanted.org | dineshdsouza.com
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19,000 COVID Patients: No Federal Agency Ever Asked Him What Worked | Dr. Brian Tyson
Dr. Brian Tyson is an urgent care physician at All Valley Urgent Care in Imperial County, California, where he practices with three locations near the southern border. He has been in medicine for more than twenty years, previously serving as an emergency room physician and an intensive care unit attending. During the pandemic his county became the epicenter of Southern California's outbreak, and his clinic became one of the few in-person treatment centers still operating, seeing three to four hundred patients a day. Jenny Beth Martin hosts. She founded Tea Party Patriots Action and spent 2020 organizing physicians and pressing state and local officials on lockdown policy, and she brings that firsthand account into the conversation. Key topics: The first 1,800 patients, day seven of illness, and why he stopped counting at 19,700 What supportive care is supposed to mean in a physician's hands Why he argues evidence-based medicine belongs in chronic disease and falls apart in acute illness The California Medical Board investigation and the investigator's own conclusion Off-label prescribing, how Food and Drug Administration approval actually works, and the coding question that ended the argument Monoclonal antibodies, the supply chain, and why they were pulled while the Delta variant was still circulating Ten months of state data collection inside his clinic, and the email he got the day after he asked one question The AIDS epidemic parallel: AZT, and the treatment he says was already working What he wants Washington to change, and the $250,000 loan he took out when no help came Timestamped breakdown: 00:00 — Cold open: 19,000 patients, and what he thought of the Fauci hearing 00:47 — All Valley Urgent Care, Imperial County, and the epicenter on the border 03:16 — He stopped counting at 19,700, and what the first 1,800 patients showed 05:21 — "There's nothing we can do": what supportive care is supposed to mean 12:56 — A cookbook society: evidence-based medicine versus acute illness 17:10 — The California Medical Board investigation, and the investigator's verdict 17:43 — Trust the doctors on the front line 22:07 — Government management, and the Ivory Towers 24:52 — Fauci's diaries and his testimony 27:26 — The Wuhan cover-up and the 2005 coronavirus research 29:43 — Hydroxychloroquine, off-label prescribing, and how approval actually works 33:34 — Monoclonal antibodies, the supply chain, and why they were pulled 35:34 — No federal agency has ever asked him what worked 35:46 — Ten months of state data collection inside his clinic 38:14 — The email: no longer a sentinel site 40:06 — Saying there was treatment on the local news, and losing his accounts 44:19 — Fear and anger, tracking the virus, and Georgia's reopening 48:06 — Essential-business absurdity, and closing the schools 52:39 — The AIDS epidemic parallel: AZT and the treatment that already worked 58:19 — If he was wrong, the outcome was the same. If he was right, people lived 59:54 — The lessons he wants Washington to learn 1:01:26 — Applying to Health and Human Services, the vaccine question, and the $250,000 loan Links: jennybethshow.com | teapartypatriots.org
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Vitamin D Cut Intensive Care Risk 90%: The Study Washington Buried | Dr. Daniel Stock
Dr. Daniel Stock is a functional family medicine physician practicing in Indiana. He spent years employed by a hospital system before complaining about its interference in his practice cost him the job, and he has run his own direct pay functional family medicine practice full time since 2017, accepting no third party payment of any kind. He describes the arrangement simply: the only person who can hurt him financially is his patient. Key topics in this episode: Why he stopped taking money from insurers, employers, drug companies, supplement companies, and laboratories, and what that changed about his patients' trust The placebo controlled, randomized, double blinded trial on activated vitamin D that cut intensive care admissions by about 90 percent, published roughly two months before the first vaccine Why the cost matters: about 30 dollars over the counter, with side effects lower than placebo His charge that the federal response was not to ignore that trial but to pay for a badly designed one and use it to declare the question settled The hydroxychloroquine study he says used eight times the dose he would prescribe and started a week into the illness The hierarchy of evidence, and what it means when a physician is told to discount the strongest study in favor of the weakest What he calls the financial gun to the doctor's head, and why doctors in the third party payment system are punished for thinking Reading Anthony Fauci's Senate testimony as a physician who studies body language and neurobiology every day Robert Malone as the counterexample: what it looks like when someone handed a microphone speaks more carefully rather than less Why he refused to give the Indiana legislature a pass when it could have overridden the governor with a simple majority The laws he says made all of it possible and remain law today What to do right now: the highest deductible policy you can carry, the rest into a health savings account, and a provider outside the system The data on direct primary care, including about 60 percent fewer surgeries and lab work at one third to one tenth the insurance price Timestamped breakdown: 00:00 — Cold open: the lessons Dr. Stock says we all need to learn 00:35 — Meet Dr. Daniel Stock, direct pay functional family medicine physician 06:47 — Why practicing outside the system left him free to read the data in 2020 09:03 — March 2020: the practice that never closed 12:28 — Inside the hospitals: a week on a ventilator with no fluids and no nutrition 14:54 — The activated vitamin D trial: about 90 percent fewer intensive care admissions 19:04 — The vitamin D trial he says was funded to fail 23:50 — Why doctors inside the system are punished for thinking 27:24 — The hierarchy of evidence, and being told to ignore it 28:10 — Reading Anthony Fauci's Senate testimony as a physician 35:16 — Robert Malone and the power of a microphone 37:22 — Why he will not let the Indiana legislature off the hook 44:06 — Your government is for sale: the laws still on the books 46:45 — Get your money out of the health care system 49:19 — How to find a direct pay doctor near you 52:30 — Closing Links: jennybethshow.com | teapartypatriots.org The Jenny Beth Show is a production of Tea Party Patriots Action, hosted by Jenny Beth Martin.
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Ivermectin in His Pocket: The Hospital Said No, He Went In Anyway | Dr. John Littell
Guest: Dr. John Littell is a board certified family physician in Ocala, Florida, in practice since 1990. He served seven years as an Army physician, including a 1992 deployment to Guantanamo Bay caring for Haitian refugees picked up at sea, and he later served as chief of staff of a Florida hospital system. During the pandemic he was one of a very small number of American physicians treating COVID patients with early, off-label therapy, and he organized the meeting in San Juan that produced the Rome Declaration and the COVID summits that followed. He is the author of The Hidden Truth. Key topics: Why he calls the exam room sacred ground, and the paper he wrote on the patient physician relationship for a group of Republican physician congressmen The Medicare annual wellness visit he demonstrated live on Congressman Pete Sessions, and why he calls it the Obamacare Medicare nightmare The hospital system that told its own doctors in 2021 they no longer needed to walk into a COVID patient's room The chief executive who disciplined him for walking a hallway without a mask and told him doctors needed to be lockstep on policy The nurse who cared for the county's first COVID fatality for twelve straight hours and was refused a test at the hospital where she had worked for twenty years The twelve doctors on the Zoom call, the Last Supper hanging behind one of them, and the mission he believes they were handed Respiratory therapists telling him patients were being put on ventilators too quickly, and what BiPAP did to brittle lungs The frontline protocol: ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, high dose steroids, blood thinners, montelukast, colchicine, inhaled budesonide, antihistamines Off label prescribing in plain English, from trazodone for insomnia to quinine from the cinchona tree Labor Day weekend 2020 in San Juan, the Rome Declaration, and the first COVID summit at the World Equestrian Center in Ocala The new mother, hypoxic with her baby in the crib beside her, and the ivermectin he carried into that room in his own pocket The mayor who got the full therapeutic dose from the hospital formulary and was duck hunting a week later His best friend, the priest who took off a glove to anoint him, and the security alert the hospital placed on the family Montana and Michigan in the 1990s: labeled an impaired provider, blackballed as a pro-life physician, and entered in the National Practitioner Data Bank Why he believes his children's generation will never sit still for it again Timestamped breakdown: 00:00:00 — Cold open: thirty years in family medicine 00:00:30 — Why he was born to be a family doctor 00:04:05 — The sacred bond between a patient and a physician 00:08:45 — Personalized health care, and what Obamacare did to the exam room 00:09:33 — 2021: doctors told they no longer needed to enter the COVID ward 00:10:43 — The Medicare annual wellness visit, demonstrated on a congressman 00:12:11 — Guantanamo Bay, 1992, and the only triage that compares 00:13:10 — The nurse he pulled out of the emergency room 00:13:47 — Lockstep: disciplined for walking a hallway without a mask 00:15:23 — The first fatality in Ocala, and the nurse refused a test 00:16:36 — Twelve doctors on a Zoom call, and the Last Supper behind one of them 00:17:51 — Jenny Beth Martin on Bannon, Simone Gold, and the white coat event 00:24:00 — The letter to the White House and how the doctor networks were built 00:27:24 — Respiratory therapists in the hallway: they are going on ventilators too fast 00:27:50 — What BiPAP did to lungs that had gone brittle 00:28:37 — What the hospitals were paid per COVID patient 00:29:45 — Inflammation, microthrombosis, and the treatment cocktail 00:31:20 — Delta hits, and the scramble to change the protocol 00:32:03 — Pharmacies, prescriptions, and public enemy number one 00:32:20 — Labor Day weekend 2020: the meeting in San Juan 00:34:00 — No one size fits all, and the tenets of the declaration 00:36:00 — Off label prescribing, quinine, and where ivermectin came from 00:40:28 — Puerto Rico to Rome, and roughly ten thousand signatures 00:41:47 — The first COVID summit at the World Equestrian Center 00:44:29 — Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and the calls about coming to Washington 00:46:15 — Two cities, six hospitals, and why he will not give up privileges 00:47:57 — Ivermectin in his pocket: the new mother who was turning blue 00:51:28 — The mayor who was duck hunting a week later 00:52:20 — His best friend, the priest, and the security alert 00:54:23 — This morning in the doctors' lounge 00:55:26 — The Giver, and who sees the red apple 00:56:04 — Jenny Beth Martin on her father the minister, and what COVID really cost 01:00:28 — The personal price: letters, a medical board, and an investigation 01:01:45 — Montana: labeled an impaired provider for being too zealous 01:02:53 — Hillsdale, Michigan, and being kicked off staff for making house calls 01:04:22 — Blackballed in two states, and the letters that got him to Florida 01:07:48 — Why he is an optimist about the next generation 01:08:30 — Closing Links mentioned: Tea Party Patriots Action: teapartypatriots.org The Jenny Beth Show: jennybethshow.com
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The Seventeenth Amendment: The Case That It Was Never Valid | Bill Norton
Guest: Bill Norton is a constitutional scholar, author, and founding-principles educator. He has taught the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence for more than thirty years, and his book Behind the Constitution is in draft and expected later this year. This is the bonus conversation following Lesson 3 of his founding-principles training with Jenny Beth Martin, and the final lesson in the series will cover the Bill of Rights. Key topics: Why the founders never intended the three branches to be equal, and why the legislative branch was built to be the most powerful The mixed form of government traced from Polybius to Montesquieu to John Adams What the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Amendments did to federalism, and the two federalist structures still standing The Seventeenth Amendment in 1913: what changed, who pushed it, and the bought Senate seat that gave it momentum Norton's Article Five argument that the amendment required unanimous ratification rather than three quarters Bring our senators home: the answer to the claim that repeal would cost you your vote The filibuster, supermajorities, and rule by the minority The supremacy clause, and why an unconstitutional law is not the supreme law of the land Nullification in practice: Real ID, marijuana, and sanctuary states Judicial review, Article Three, and the power Congress has to limit the courts Timestamped breakdown: 00:00:00 — Welcome, and where this conversation sits in the founding-principles series 00:01:15 — Why the three branches were never designed to be equal 00:04:22 — John Adams, Polybius, and Montesquieu on the mixed form of government 00:07:27 — Why the Electoral College stops looking like a unicorn 00:10:31 — The founders' logic behind the seven articles 00:14:41 — Federalism versus a national government, and the amendments that damaged it 00:16:30 — The push to replace the Electoral College with a national popular vote 00:24:56 — The Seventeenth Amendment: what changed in 1913 00:27:40 — The bought Senate seat that gave the amendment its momentum 00:32:34 — Why the Senate is poorly designed to function as a democracy 00:35:46 — The irony: more corruption after 1913, not less 00:38:28 — Article Five and how amendments actually pass 00:44:57 — The case that the Seventeenth Amendment was never validly ratified 00:50:28 — Answering the objection: would repeal cost you your vote? 00:55:15 — Bring our senators home 00:56:14 — Who has their United States senator's cell phone number? 01:04:04 — The filibuster, supermajorities, and minority rule 01:13:23 — The supremacy clause and what "in pursuance thereof" requires 01:18:24 — Nullification: Real ID, marijuana, and sanctuary states 01:23:33 — When the Supreme Court gets it wrong: judicial review and Article Three 01:35:48 — No kings: what the founders meant by an executive monarchy 01:41:14 — Closing, and the Bill of Rights conversation ahead Links mentioned: Free founding-principles training: teapartypatriots.org/1776 Tea Party Patriots Action: teapartypatriots.org The Jenny Beth Show: jennybethshow.com
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Fauci's Diaries: What a Frontline Doctor Says They Actually Prove | Dr. Kat Lindley
Dr. Kat Lindley is a board certified family physician practicing in Texas and a past president of her state medical society. Born in Croatia when it was still part of Yugoslavia, she grew up under communist rule and left the country at 18, one day before her hometown was attacked. She came to the United States on a visitor visa, worked as a nanny while attending college, and went to medical school at the urging of one of the physicians whose children she cared for. During the pandemic she joined the frontline doctors group that spoke out on early treatment, and she became one of the most persistent American critics of the World Health Organization pandemic treaty, which she fought in Geneva. Key topics: Growing up Catholic under Josip Broz Tito, and why she says you do not dream under communism The one suitcase, the ferry to Italy, and the hometown attacked the day after she left The Florida surgeon who asked why she was not in medical school Recognizing communist machinery in the American pandemic response Annual mask fit testing with saccharin, and the moment the CDC started recommending bandanas The order to close offices and send patients home until they could not breathe "Safe and effective" asserted with 100 percent certainty, and the walk back that followed Fauci's diaries: the school closure recommendation, the later denials, the ballpark, the Streisand entry The proximal origins meeting and the conspiracy theorist label The World Health Organization pandemic treaty, Geneva, and the January 2026 withdrawal The public health math that trades 5,000 lives for a million, and why she rejects it Families saying goodbye over Zoom and the elderly celebrating birthdays through nursing home windows Jenny Beth Martin inside the White House in July 2020 How the six-foot rule was actually chosen The SAVE America Act, the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, and why the citizenship debate baffles an immigrant Timestamps: 00:00 — Cold open: the doctor who escaped communism 00:34 — Croatia, Josip Broz Tito, and a childhood that could not mention church 03:12 — Sent to Italy at 18 with one suitcase, and the attack the next day 04:38 — Florida, the nanny job, and the question that made her a doctor 05:55 — Medical society president, and then COVID arrives 12:36 — How she knew they were lying: mask fit testing and the saccharin test 15:49 — Close the offices and stand down 16:16 — Something completely new, called 100 percent safe 19:00 — Inside Fauci's diaries: "I am the science" 23:12 — Proximal origins and the 10 of 12 scientists 24:11 — Why the pardon reaches back to 2014 25:07 — The World Health Organization pandemic treaty 27:12 — Geneva, and how they beat it 27:42 — Officially out in January 2026 30:28 — The public health math that forgets the patient 35:14 — Zoom goodbyes and nursing home windows 35:57 — On Fauci invoking the Fifth 37:53 — What Senator Rand Paul said at the end of the hearing 40:35 — Jenny Beth Martin inside the White House, July 2020 43:52 — The real story behind six feet apart 45:42 — Why she says it was a plan 46:55 — What she wants Americans to remember 49:27 — This country is worth fighting for Links: teapartypatriots.org · jennybethshow.com
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Pediatrician Punished for Senate Testimony: The Package Insert Was Blank | Dr. Renata Moon
Dr. Renata Moon is a pediatrician double board certified in general pediatrics and hospital pediatrics by the American Board of Pediatrics, with nearly thirty years in practice. She has worked in a clinic, as a hospital physician, and as a professor of medicine at several medical schools. In the fall of 2022 she testified at a United States Senate hearing held by Senator Ron Johnson about the COVID shot and children. Her medical school opened an investigation, declined to renew her faculty contract in June 2023, and then reported her testimony to her state medical board. KEY TOPICS The blank mRNA package insert she pulled from the box and showed a Senate hearing Testifying as a private citizen, at her own expense, with a written disclaimer on the record The investigation, the nonrenewal, and the report to the state medical board Myocarditis: two cases in nearly thirty years, then a wave of reports after the shots rolled out First responders called to middle school and high school track fields, and the question they learned to ask Children sobbing in the exam room, and the kids who had not left the house in over a year Growing up first generation American to parents who fled the communist Iron Curtain Why the COVID shot remains on the childhood schedule for children six months and up What a parent should do when a pediatric office refuses to take a question TOPIC BREAKDOWN 00:00 — Censored for speaking to the United States Senate 02:25 — Children sobbing in the exam room, asking if they were going to die 03:21 — The kids who had not left the house in over a year 06:34 — The Senate hearing Senator Ron Johnson held 08:05 — The package insert was blank on both sides 09:25 — The investigation, the nonrenewal, and the medical board report 11:14 — First generation American, Iron Curtain parents 16:06 — Her mother tried in her absence and sentenced to hard labor 19:08 — Even if I lose my entire career 22:57 — Why can a pediatrician not even question the COVID shot 24:38 — Myocarditis: two cases in thirty years 26:38 — First responders called to school track fields 28:42 — The message her termination sent to medical students nationwide 32:07 — Come back when you are dying 36:46 — Georgia reopened, and the pediatrician who yelled at Jenny Beth Martin 43:14 — Child protective services and the end of the second opinion 46:03 — What parents should do now 47:29 — Closing LINKS teapartypatriots.org jennybethshow.com
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Maine Addresses Switched Voting Districts & the SAVE America Act's Final Four Days | Sands, Bagshaw
Ambassador Carla Sands served as the United States Ambassador to Denmark and is a longtime advocate for the America First agenda. She joins Jenny Beth Martin for the news of the day, covering Iran, the economy, the attorney general confirmation, election integrity, and the constitutional stakes of what Democratic leaders are now saying openly. Barbara Bagshaw represents District 106, Windham, in the Maine House of Representatives. She discovered that voters had been shifted between legislative districts while canvassing her own neighborhood on foot, and she has sent a formal letter to Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows demanding an explanation. Key topics: The SAVE America Act with four scheduled Senate days left before the August recess New Jersey's 6,600 noncitizen registrations and roughly 400 ballots cast Alaska's admission of more than 3,000 noncitizens on its voter rolls 110 Maine voters relocated between legislative districts and called a glitch Kamala Harris and Pete Buttigieg on the Electoral College and expanding the Supreme Court Iran talks, the Strait of Hormuz, and negotiating from strength American manufacturing at a four-year high Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Dana Bash, and the Declaration of Independence 00:00 — Photo ID to buy groceries, no ID to vote 00:46 — Four scheduled Senate days and the SAVE America Act off the calendar 01:58 — Ambassador Carla Sands joins the show 02:10 — Iran talks called a last chance, and the Strait of Hormuz 13:30 — American manufacturing hits a four-year high 20:32 — Todd Blanche and the attorney general vote 23:13 — The SAVE America Act and the four days before recess 26:23 — New Jersey admits 6,600 noncitizens on its voter rolls 30:44 — Alaska admits more than 3,000 noncitizens on its rolls 33:24 — New York City's government grocery stores and the identification double standard 37:14 — Call to action: 202-224-3121 and passthesaveamericaact.com 39:25 — Kamala Harris and Pete Buttigieg on the Electoral College and 13 justices 42:17 — Carla Sands on court packing and rigging the system 51:07 — Representative Barbara Bagshaw joins the show 51:32 — Door knocking in Windham and the building that was not in her district 52:45 — 110 voters relocated from District 107 to District 106 53:02 — The Secretary of State's office calls it a glitch 53:42 — The letter, the seven-day demand, and a race won by 23 votes 01:05:10 — Why election integrity is worth the fight 01:06:10 — The Election Integrity Network and how to get involved 01:07:07 — Final call to action before the recess 01:07:55 — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Dana Bash on CNN 01:09:57 — The Declaration of Independence and why rights come first Links: teapartypatriots.org, jennybethshow.com, passthesaveamericaact.com. Capitol switchboard: 202-224-3121.
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Gen Z's Socialist Swing & the SAVE America Act's Last Five Days | DiMeglio, Gaines, Pfaff
Drew DiMeglio is a student at Hampden-Sydney College and the president of his College Republicans chapter. He writes for Restoration News, the Carolina Journal, and The College Fix. His latest piece is "Gen Z's Socialist Swing Cannot Be Ignored." Houston Gaines is a Georgia state representative serving his fourth term and the Republican nominee for Georgia's 10th Congressional District. He has passed more than 20 pieces of legislation in the Georgia House, including bills stopping local governments from defunding police, holding jurisdictions that refuse to cooperate with immigration enforcement accountable, and cracking down on district attorneys who decline to prosecute. Jim Pfaff is the president of The Conservative Caucus, the oldest conservative grassroots organization in the country. He previously ran Americans for Prosperity of Colorado during the founding period of the modern Tea Party movement. Key topics: The SAVE America Act's last five days before the Senate's August recess 6,600 noncitizens on New Jersey's voter rolls and more than 3,000 in Alaska Trump v. California and mail-ballot citizenship verification at the Supreme Court Kamala Harris on the Electoral College, 13 Supreme Court justices, and statehood for Puerto Rico and D.C. Why Gen Z swung right in 2024 and has drifted toward socialist candidates since Anthony Fauci, the lockdowns, and the collapse of a generation's trust in institutions The affordability crisis, housing, and the conservative answer to "free" Georgia's tax record and what Houston Gaines tells families worried about inflation Why the socialist surge on the left is not a Tea Party moment Timestamps: 00:00 — Five days left before the Senate leaves town 01:48 — The votes are not the problem, the calendar is 02:05 — 6,600 noncitizens on New Jersey's voter rolls 03:02 — Trump v. California at the Supreme Court 03:57 — South Carolina's special primary and five state primaries tomorrow 05:15 — Kamala Harris on the Electoral College and 13 justices 06:58 — Todd Blanche, Iran, and the water system cyberattacks 09:20 — Drew DiMeglio on Gen Z's socialist swing 10:02 — Where a generation's distrust of institutions comes from 19:02 — How the Democratic Socialists reach young Americans 21:25 — What conservatives should take away about Gen Z 24:19 — Addressing the economic concerns driving young voters 27:42 — Socialism is diametrically opposed to liberty 29:25 — Call the Capitol switchboard 31:41 — Houston Gaines on Georgia's 10th Congressional District 36:15 — Top issues for Washington and the SAVE America Act 40:32 — Defining conservatism 41:56 — Inflation as voters' number one concern 45:38 — Jim Pfaff on Kamala Harris and packing the Court 47:04 — Pfaff: they want unilateral control of the country 53:42 — The SAVE America Act's last five days 58:55 — Why the socialist surge is not a Tea Party moment 01:01:30 — One message for every senator packing a suitcase 01:02:52 — Closing call to action Links: teapartypatriots.org | jennybethshow.com | passthesaveamericaact.com | houstongaines.com | Capitol switchboard 202-224-3121
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America Is Not a Democracy: The Mixed Government the Founders Built | Bill Norton
Bill Norton is a constitutional scholar and civics educator, coauthor of Speaking the Language of Liberty, and author of the forthcoming book Behind the Constitution, a companion to Behind the Bill of Rights and Behind the Declaration of Independence. He is the third-lesson instructor in this Constitution and first principles training series and runs a concrete business in Arizona, where he once ran for town council. Jenny Beth Martin is the host of The Jenny Beth Show, co-founder of the Tea Party movement, and Chairman of Tea Party Patriots Action. Key topics: The founders studied democracy and rejected it, in James Madison's and John Adams's own words The five basic forms of government and the simple definition of each Why Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa all call themselves republics How anarchy devolves into monarchy, and how democracy devolves into oligarchy The 365-day test that separates a republic from every other system Rule by balance as the working definition of an American republic Elizabeth Powell, the founders' confidante, and the letter that changed George Washington's mind Which form of government the founders placed in the House, the Senate, the presidency, and the courts Why the Seventeenth Amendment broke the Senate and what the filibuster is patching over Good behavior, impeachment, Marbury versus Madison, and judicial review The 20 powers granted to Congress and the roughly six granted to the president Article Five, the fix-it article, and the two things that can never be amended 00:18 — Welcome and where this lesson sits in the series 04:19 — We are not a democracy, and the founders rejected it 07:29 — Why Russia, China, and Brazil all call themselves republics 10:45 — The five forms of government: anarchy, monarchy, oligarchy, democracy 14:11 — John Adams on why democracy never lasts 21:30 — Anarchy becomes monarchy, democracy becomes oligarchy 25:54 — Polybius, Montesquieu, and the mixed form of government 29:06 — Madison on the accumulation of all powers 34:50 — The 365-day test that defines a republic 43:01 — Elizabeth Powell and a republic, if you can keep it 52:50 — Rule by balance 56:17 — Which form of government lives in each branch 59:06 — How the Seventeenth Amendment broke the Senate 1:01:25 — Washington's tea saucer and what the Senate is for 1:13:50 — The presidency as the monarchy element 1:23:54 — Marbury versus Madison and judicial review 1:34:06 — Gouverneur Morris and the preamble 1:39:46 — The 20 powers of Congress 1:48:17 — Article Five, the fix-it article 1:54:19 — Why there were 13 colonies but 11 original states 1:57:22 — If men were angels Links: teapartypatriots.org | jennybethshow.com
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Fauci Pleads the Fifth 100 Times & Florida Opens a Criminal Case | Harris, Vargas, McNeily
Congressman Mark Harris represents North Carolina's Eighth District. A pastor for more than three decades before his election, he serves on the House Judiciary Committee, has introduced two bills to move education programs out of the Department of Education, leads an effort to protect food assistance from retailer fraud, and authored the PARITY Act to end the double standard against career and trade schools. Mark Vargas is Editor-in-Chief of Illinois Review and writes the Potomac Perspective column for Newsmax. He worked on three high-profile clemency cases under President Trump and has called for a Justice Department Civil Rights Division investigation of the Illinois House leadership. Robert McNeily is Director of Broadcasting and Grassroots Engagement at Tea Party Patriots Action and co-hosts the hour. He lost a broadcast position in Anchorage, Alaska over a denied medical exemption during the mandates. Key topics: the Fauci hearing and the Fifth Amendment, the diaries, the federal pardon and Florida's criminal investigation, the August 5 contempt vote, the SAVE America Act and the Senate standoff, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and the Fourth Amendment, the Department of Education, the postponed Todd Blanche confirmation, crime at a 126-year low, Freedom Haulers, and Illinois corruption. 00:01 — Cold open: Anthony Fauci pleads the Fifth more than 100 times 00:41 — Six years since the White Coat Summit on the Supreme Court steps 04:49 — The clip: Fauci will not turn around and look at the people he harmed 06:47 — Congressman Mark Harris joins 09:42 — Closed churches, graveside services, and the funerals families never got 12:29 — What the House passed before August: Reconciliation 3.0, defense, stock trading, and the continuing resolution 17:49 — The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, the warrant requirement, and the Fourth Amendment 22:58 — Cutting the Department of Education and the PARITY Act for trade schools 29:36 — Call to action: the Capitol switchboard at 202-224-3121 31:23 — Mark Vargas and co-host Robert McNeily join 32:03 — The diaries, the heart condition, and what Fauci never disclosed 35:15 — Robert McNeily on losing his job over a medical exemption 37:49 — The pardon, Florida's criminal investigation, and the state attorneys general path 41:01 — A blind trust with 20/20 vision and a COVID testing contract 42:56 — Todd Blanche postponed: Cornyn, Tillis, and the retribution question 46:24 — Homicides down 18 percent, on pace for the lowest rate in 126 years 48:04 — Freedom Haulers puts military veterans behind the wheel 51:55 — Illinois: Speaker Chris Welch, a three-month delay, and a buried report 54:58 — Stacking salaries, pensions, and two government paychecks at once 59:25 — Is Illinois fixable from the inside, or does it take Washington? 1:02:36 — Final call to action on the SAVE America Act 1:04:13 — The letter a critical-care doctor sent in May 2020 1:09:08 — How history will judge Anthony Fauci Links mentioned: passthesaveamericaact.com, teapartypatriots.org, jennybethshow.com, Illinois Review, and the Capitol switchboard at 202-224-3121.
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America's 250th: The Man Putting the Declaration Back in Every Classroom | Mark Hill
Mark Hill is the owner of the Theodore Ohman collection and the founder of BigParty250.com. With his brother, Hill purchased the complete Ohman collection in 1995 — the original lithographs, glass plates, and printing plates behind Ohman's restorations of the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution — and he is now carrying Ohman's every-school mission into America's 250th anniversary. Key topics: Theodore Ohman: the Bohemian immigrant lithographer who restored the founding documents How Ohman rebuilt the Declaration from an 1823 William Stone print and 1903 glass-plate negatives The 1942 Declaration, the 1953 Constitution with the Bill of Rights, and the 25-year every-school mission The stone print the Library of Congress received in 1939 and cannot explain The on-camera tour: glass plates, printing plates, and the originals The signature Constitution: President Trump, Ted Cruz, Charlie Kirk, Jesse Watters, and more How to put the founding documents in your local school Timestamped breakdown: 00:00 — The mission: the Declaration and Constitution in every school in America 01:33 — Who was Theodore Ohman: a schoolboy in Bohemia who never forgot the Declaration 03:05 — Ohman's authentic restoration: the William Stone print and the Handy negatives 05:13 — The 1953 Constitution lithograph with the Bill of Rights 05:51 — A set in every school: 25 years of selling sets to hometown banks 07:35 — How Mark Hill ended up with the collection 12:21 — Human Events sells 1,200 original Declarations in six months 16:01 — The Library of Congress mystery: a stone print with no record 19:34 — The mission today: America's 250th and finding a partner 23:00 — Human nature, checks and balances, and why socialism always ends in tyranny 25:36 — On-camera tour: glass plates, silvering, and the printing plates 31:17 — The signature Constitution and President Trump's five tries 33:24 — Promo code JENNY and putting these documents in your local school Links mentioned: BigParty250.com — the Ohman prints, the Ohman story, and the signature-piece photo gallery jennybethshow.com — all episodes teapartypatriots.org — Tea Party Patriots Action
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New Poll: 82% Back Citizens-Only Voting, 78% Back Voter ID | John McLaughlin
Guest: John McLaughlin — the pollster behind Tea Party Patriots Action's new national survey of 1,000 likely voters, and a veteran pollster for President Trump's campaigns who has also polled for state and federal candidates across the country, including in Georgia and Alaska. Key topics: 82% of Americans, including 72% of Democrats, say only citizens should vote in American elections Voter ID at 78% support, with 95% of Americans already holding a valid photo ID 56% tell the Senate to keep working and pass the SAVE America Act this year Noncitizen registration admissions in New Jersey and Alaska, and the 743-vote margin 72% say the Strait of Hormuz cannot be blocked; 61% say finish the job on Iran The free market versus big government socialist ballot test: 49 to 36 Timestamps: 00:00 — Cold open: the new poll on the SAVE America Act 00:35 — Inside the poll: 1,000 likely voters and Trump at 49% 02:07 — Strait of Hormuz: 72% say Iran cannot block it 05:14 — 47 years of Iran and why Americans want it resolved 07:41 — The case President Trump must make to the public 13:26 — Going straight to the people: lessons from the Trump campaigns 16:00 — The ceasefire numbers split by media diet 18:47 — Free market vs big government socialist: 49 to 36 22:15 — 82% of Americans back citizens-only voting 24:31 — Noncitizens on the rolls: New Jersey, New York, Alaska 30:35 — 3,000 names and a 743-vote margin 31:34 — Voter ID: 78% support and 95% already have one 37:42 — The Senate's path: NDAA, reconciliation, and the filibuster 41:37 — 98 days out: early voting and the midterm convention Links: teapartypatriots.org | jennybethshow.com | Capitol switchboard: 202-224-3121
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SAVE America Act Stalls as the Senate Packs Up & Fauci's Diaries Go Public | Sixto, Houck, McNeily
Driena Sixto is the Spanish Media Director at the Lincoln Media Foundation, a Cuban American voice who has spent more than a decade getting citizens engaged and to the polls. Her work has appeared everywhere from Fox News to Univision. Her parents were married in Cuba for ten years and chose not to have children under the communist dictatorship; her father was jailed as a political prisoner before receiving a visa at the United States embassy. Curtis Houck is the Managing Editor of NewsBusters at the Media Research Center, where he has spent years documenting how the national press covers conservatives. He is one of the most-cited media critics in the country. Robert McNeily is Director of Broadcasting and Grassroots Engagement at Tea Party Patriots Action and co-hosts the full hour. Key topics: The SAVE America Act, fifty senators on record, and the August recess standoff Three legislative vehicles: the National Defense Authorization Act, the Stop Insider Trading Act, and reconciliation Iran, the pause on new strikes, and what Tehran actually conceded Why "already illegal" and "actually verified" are two different things The executive order on the Smithsonian and a billion tax dollars a year Inside the rescheduled White House Correspondents' Dinner The release of Anthony Fauci's personal diaries ahead of Senate testimony Thirty-three Illinois counties vote to explore separating from Cook County Timestamps: 00:00 — Cold open: the Senate is trying to leave town 00:50 — Ninety-nine days out and what the SAVE America Act actually does 04:38 — Robert McNeily and Driena Sixto join the show 05:14 — Iran: the pause, Tehran's answer, and peace through strength 12:14 — The SAVE America Act: fifty senators and an August recess 18:08 — "Already illegal" is not enough: the Olive Garden pasta pass 23:32 — The Smithsonian order and a billion tax dollars 24:15 — Driena Sixto's Cuban story and the rise of democratic socialists 33:23 — Curtis Houck: inside the White House Correspondents' Dinner 44:01 — Trump on Bruce Springsteen 46:58 — Peter Baker, Brian Stelter, and the push to end the dinner 49:33 — How the press covered the Smithsonian fight 53:39 — A Democratic Socialists of America co-chair says it out loud 56:43 — Robert McNeily closes the hour 57:25 — The Fauci diaries: Rand Paul releases the personal notes 1:00:30 — Thirty-three Illinois counties vote to explore separating 1:03:31 — Call to action: 202-224-3121 Links: teapartypatriots.org, jennybethshow.com, passthesaveamericaact.com
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Property Rights: The Founding Principle Mamdani Wants New York to Forget | Bill Norton
Constitutional scholar and author Bill Norton joins Jenny Beth Martin for a bonus conversation following Lesson 2 of his First Principles training on the Declaration of Independence. Norton is the author of Behind the Bill of Rights and Behind the Declaration of Independence, a co-author of Speaking the Language of Liberty, and is at work on a third book about the Constitution. His recorded training for Tea Party Patriots Action is available at teapartypatriots.org/1776. Together they trace the founding principles of life, liberty, and property from Jefferson's draft of the Declaration to the property fights making headlines today, including New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani's plan to transfer building ownership away from private owners. Key topics: The slavery grievance Jefferson wrote and Congress deleted Why Jefferson signed the ban on importing slaves the first day the Constitution allowed Cotton was not king: the real engine of the Southern economy Life plus liberty equals property, and what John Locke taught about it Zohran Mamdani's property plan and a Venezuelan builder's warning How wealth is actually created, and why socialism requires force Government waste measured in human lives When does the individual begin: a scientific reframe of the abortion debate Timestamps: 00:00 — Welcome: Bill Norton and Lesson 2 on the Declaration of Independence 02:16 — The slavery grievance Congress cut from Jefferson's draft 03:28 — John Quincy Adams: the bridge from the founders to Lincoln 11:12 — The three complaints inside Jefferson's slavery grievance 14:01 — Squaring Jefferson the slaveholder with his own words 16:21 — Feudal law and the estate he could not legally free 19:36 — The 1808 import ban Jefferson signed the first day possible 21:36 — Cotton is not king: the real engine of the Southern economy 25:37 — Eye for an eye: when a person can lose an unalienable right 29:35 — Rightful liberty: your rights end where another's begin 32:08 — Property, Marxism, and workers of the world unite 33:27 — Life plus liberty equals property, with John Locke 37:02 — The Mamdani clip: transferring building ownership 38:53 — Oscar's warning: losing a home in Venezuela 45:31 — One pie or infinite pies: how wealth is created 50:24 — Speaking the language of liberty to counter socialism 52:25 — Socialism requires force: the Obamacare mandate 56:31 — Inflation, spending, and the affordability trap 59:07 — Addressing Medicaid fraud and Nick Shirley's reporting 01:05:01 — What is a life worth? The true cost of government waste 01:08:47 — When does the individual begin? 01:13:15 — DNA, conception, and the identical-twins test 01:22:31 — Why these principles should not be a partisan issue Links: teapartypatriots.org/1776, jennybethshow.com, teapartypatriots.org
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6,600 Noncitizens on New Jersey's Rolls & Jack Smith's Criminal Referral | Winslow, Clark, McNeily
Jenny Beth Martin is joined by co-host Robert McNeily of Tea Party Patriots Action; investigative researcher Bronson Winslow of Restoration News, formerly a reporter at the Daily Caller News Foundation, who covers the Second Amendment and crime policy; and Georgia State Representative David Clark, a Green Beret combat veteran who has sponsored 159 bills in the Georgia House and recently ran for lieutenant governor. Key topics: New Jersey admits 6,600 noncitizens were registered to vote and about 400 cast ballots The Department of Homeland Security puts New Jersey's noncitizen registrations at 35,152 Jim Jordan formally refers Jack Smith to the Justice Department for criminal prosecution The House passes four major bills in one day, three carrying SAVE America Act provisions A Georgia open-records request reveals at least 130 unreported crimes by illegal aliens The Supreme Court agrees to hear the rifle-ban case after a circuit split President Trump at Wheeler High School in Marietta, Georgia, and Rick Jackson's run for governor Timestamps: 00:00 — New Jersey admits 6,600 noncitizens registered to vote 01:02 — Two and a half years in the trenches: the bus tour and the checkbox problem 04:49 — The Department of Homeland Security's 35,152 figure 06:48 — Inside the Capitol: the Speaker Johnson meeting and Scott Presler's day 203 08:58 — Mark Meadows: the thing that never happens has happened 10:31 — Breaking: will the Senate take up Reconciliation 3.0? 13:07 — Robert McNeily on the New Jersey fallout 16:15 — Jack Smith referred for criminal prosecution 18:56 — Four major bills in one day 23:19 — Bronson Winslow: Georgia's illegal alien crime records 25:43 — More than 51,000 documented crimes at illegalaliencrimes.com 31:54 — The Supreme Court takes the rifle-ban case 35:11 — AI policy and China's push to set the standards 39:54 — David Clark: President Trump at Wheeler High School 42:40 — Rick Jackson and the Georgia governor's race 51:41 — Georgia's special session, new maps, and QR codes 1:02:35 — Closing: elections belong to citizens 1:04:03 — Call to action: 202-224-3121 1:04:58 — The Phyllis Schlafly lesson Links mentioned: teapartypatriots.org jennybethshow.com restoration-news.com illegalaliencrimes.com
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Eagle Forum: Phyllis Schlafly's Playbook for Winning Fights | Kris Ullman
Guest: Kris Ullman, President of Eagle Forum Kris Ullman leads Eagle Forum, the pro-family organization founded by Phyllis Schlafly. A Catholic University-trained attorney, she first served as the group's executive director in the 1990s, later worked for Senator John Ashcroft, spent two decades raising her family, and returned to lead Eagle Forum as president in 2022. Topics covered: Phyllis Schlafly and the eight-year fight to defeat the Equal Rights Amendment A Choice, Not an Echo and how the grassroots reshaped the Republican Party The SAVE America Act, voter ID, and proof of citizenship Banning stock trading by members of Congress Protecting children from high-potency marijuana The Chloe Cole Act and protecting kids from gender ideology How the Biden DOJ subpoenaed Eagle Forum's Alabama chapter, and lost Eagle Council 54 in Nashville, September 24 through 26 00:00 — Who is Kris Ullman and what Eagle Forum does 00:38 — The history of Eagle Forum and Phyllis Schlafly 03:09 — Why Schlafly fought the Equal Rights Amendment 05:34 — The draft, women, and what the ERA would have erased 06:57 — Eagle Forum's founding issues beyond the ERA 09:03 — Reshaping the GOP and A Choice, Not an Echo 11:44 — The Tea Party, St. Louis, and Schlafly's influence 15:37 — Kris Ullman's own path to Eagle Forum 18:20 — Eagle Forum's fights today: SAVE America Act and life 21:48 — Why Eagle Forum took on marijuana 23:25 — Medical versus recreational marijuana 25:56 — Protecting kids in states that legalized 27:25 — Alex Berenson and the science on psychosis 31:22 — Banning stock trading by members of Congress 33:52 — Extortion and the corruption in Congress 36:36 — The SAVE America Act and why change is slow 39:50 — Protecting children from gender ideology 42:32 — The Biden DOJ subpoena and the fight to defend it 43:20 — Eagle Council 54 comes to Nashville 48:55 — Never give up: carrying on Schlafly's legacy Learn more at teapartypatriots.org and jennybethshow.com.
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Murkowski's SAVE America Act No & the Socialists Coming for the Senate | Rod Martin & Robert McNeily
Host: Jenny Beth Martin, co-founder of the Tea Party movement and Chairman of Tea Party Patriots Action, opens the show, then travels to Washington to fight for the SAVE America Act. Co-host: Robert McNeily hosts the remainder of the hour. Guest: Rod Martin, founder and chief executive of Martin Capital. A member of the PayPal founding team alongside Peter Thiel and a former policy advisor to Governor Mike Huckabee, he has spent his career writing on capitalism, technology, and the fight against communism. Key topics: Senator Murkowski's Wall Street Journal op-ed against the SAVE America Act, answered point by point Alaska's Permanent Fund Dividend already collects proof of citizenship by mail from every village Alaska's election website warns a voter identification card does not prove citizenship Iran's collapsing proxy empire and the war powers question The New York immigration-court arson and the climate of political violence The Neville Roy Singham grand jury and China's pursuit of 220 million voter files Election day in Arizona, Missouri, and Wyoming, plus Maine, South Carolina, and Michigan The Democratic Socialists of America platform to abolish the United States Senate Timestamps: 00:00 — Murkowski's no on the SAVE America Act, and where she and Jenny Beth agree 04:20 — Alaska's Permanent Fund Dividend already proves citizenship by mail 07:45 — Three amendments that turn a no vote into a yes 11:04 — The Capitol switchboard ask: 202-224-3121 12:56 — Robert McNeily takes the chair; Rod Martin joins 13:53 — Iran: the human cost and the collapse of the proxy empire 19:17 — War powers and what the Constitution actually says 22:02 — The Strait of Hormuz, oil prices, and American energy dominance 25:42 — The New York immigration-court arson and political violence 32:46 — The grand jury probing China-linked funder Neville Roy Singham 36:43 — China and the voter files of 220 million Americans 39:36 — Election day lap: Arizona, Missouri, Wyoming, Maine, South Carolina, Michigan 44:24 — The Democratic Socialists of America plan to abolish the Senate 52:27 — The SAVE America Act call to action and a World Cup close Links: teapartypatriots.org | jennybethshow.com
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China Got 220 Million American Voter Files & the SAVE America Act Vote | Kerpen, McNeily
Phil Kerpen is president of American Commitment, a free-market advocacy organization in Washington. He writes and testifies on federal spending, energy policy, health care prices, and taxes, and he was working alongside Jenny Beth Martin in the earliest days of the Tea Party movement. Robert McNeily is Director of Broadcasting and Grassroots Engagement at Tea Party Patriots Action and co-host of The Jenny Beth Show. He anchors the back half of this episode while Jenny Beth joins a scheduled America First Policy Institute meeting. Key topics: Declassified intelligence showing China obtained the voter files of 220 million Americans The FBI official who wrote that she was running a shadow government, and the analysts who deliberately massaged the President's Daily Brief More than 250,000 noncitizens found on American voter rolls by the Department of Homeland Security The SAVE America Act attached to Reconciliation 3.0, and the ten billion dollar grant fund meant to move the states How the SAVE America Act actually started, on a coalition call with Senator Mike Lee and Cleta Mitchell about Arizona's bifurcated ballot Iran, the Strait of Hormuz, and why gas is knocking on four dollars a gallon Ninety three billion dollars out the door at the Energy Department in the last administration's final seventy six days Maine Democrats coalescing around Troy Jackson against Senator Susan Collins The Democratic Socialists of America manifesto: abolish the Senate, abolish the Electoral College, put the Supreme Court under Congress Hospital price transparency, why fewer than half of hospitals comply, and why price caps backfire Food stamp fraud, work requirements, and the HHS finding on poverty Timestamps: 00:00 — Cold open: someone inside our own government ran a shadow government 00:36 — China obtained the voter files of 220 million American voters 05:22 — Rogue bureaucrats buried the intelligence 06:34 — This makes me so angry: unelected officials do not outrank the elected President 09:46 — Homeland Security finds more than 250,000 noncitizens on the voter rolls 12:54 — What I am asking you to do: call 202-224-3121 13:47 — Panel: Phil Kerpen of American Commitment 14:11 — Robert McNeily, and the service members lost in Jordan 16:14 — Gas near four dollars: Phil Kerpen on Hormuz and the pump 19:59 — Honoring the fallen 21:57 — Ninety three billion dollars out the door at the Energy Department 26:51 — Maine Democrats coalesce around Troy Jackson 28:28 — The Democratic Socialists want to abolish the Senate 30:17 — Phil Kerpen: restoring the system versus destroying it 33:52 — The SAVE America Act rides Reconciliation 3.0 34:28 — The ten billion dollar offer to the states 36:56 — How the SAVE America Act actually started 42:54 — What happens if the Senate goes home in August 44:32 — Health care price transparency and who is not complying 47:15 — Why price caps hurt the patients they claim to help 50:11 — Food stamp fraud, work requirements, and the HHS study 52:26 — Thank you, Phil Kerpen 53:29 — The World Cup came to America 56:05 — Apollo 11 at fifty seven years 59:57 — Closing: keep the pressure on Links: teapartypatriots.org | jennybethshow.com | Senate switchboard 202-224-3121
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Life, Liberty & the Pursuit of Happiness: What Jefferson Really Meant | Bill Norton
Guest: Bill Norton is a constitutional scholar and founding-principles educator and the author of Behind the Bill of Rights. He is a recurring guest on The Jenny Beth Show, where he leads a lesson-by-lesson training on America's founding documents. His companion books Behind the Declaration of Independence and Behind the Constitution continue the same project of returning to the principles behind the text. In this lesson, Jenny Beth Martin and Bill Norton cover: Why "endowed" and "unalienable" are the two most powerful words in the Declaration Why the founders rejected the divine right of kings and any claim to rule without consent The right to life as the right to self-preservation, and its link to self-defense Jefferson's "rightful liberty": freedom bounded only by the equal liberty of others John Locke and property as the fruit of your labor: life plus liberty equals property The pursuit of happiness understood as the pursuit of things of true value The people's right to alter or abolish a destructive government, and the duty that comes with it Madison's warning that liberty is lost by gradual, silent encroachment Timestamps: 00:00 — Welcome and Lesson 2 introduction 01:02 — Endowed by our Creator with unalienable rights 02:10 — John Adams: a Constitution for a moral and religious people 03:46 — Rejecting the divine right of kings 07:00 — What "unalienable" really means 11:53 — The right to life and self-preservation 15:29 — Rightful liberty: freedom within limits 22:35 — Consent of the governed 36:15 — Property and the fruits of your labor 45:33 — Time plus choices equals property 54:50 — The pursuit of happiness, rightly understood 01:10:21 — The right to alter or abolish government 01:17:10 — Prudence and the long train of abuses 01:19:41 — How liberty is lost: gradual encroachment 01:51:33 — Jefferson and Adams: friends, enemies, and July 4, 1826 Learn more at teapartypatriots.org and jennybethshow.com.
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Democrats Vote to Cut Israel Aid & the SAVE America Act's Last Push | Conn Carroll
Guest: Conn Carroll, Commentary Editor of the Washington Examiner and host of the daily podcast The Debrief. Carroll oversees the Examiner's commentary page and writes on politics, economics, and culture. Key topics: 103 House Democrats vote to cut off aid to Israel, with Thomas Massie the lone Republican John Fetterman's warning that he may leave a party turning against Israel A special counsel who pulled the texts of 44 members of Congress, then denied it under oath The Todd Blanche attorney general confirmation and the Cornyn-Tillis holdouts The SAVE America Act's move through budget reconciliation The Washington Examiner commentary page: data centers, the "barista electorate," and marriage Timestamps: 00:52 — Jack Smith pulled the texts of 44 members of Congress 03:06 — The Todd Blanche attorney general confirmation 07:16 — 103 House Democrats vote to cut off aid to Israel 09:50 — Fetterman and the Democrats' anti-Israel turn 12:20 — Shapiro vs Hochul and the socialist takeover 16:45 — The SAVE America Act and budget reconciliation 23:08 — Iran, war spending, and the Strait of Hormuz 25:22 — Call to action: pass the SAVE America Act 27:17 — Best of the Washington Examiner commentary 33:59 — JD Vance, Hamilton vs Friedman, and getting married young Take action and learn more at teapartypatriots.org and jennybethshow.com.
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Jack Smith Spied on 44 Members of Congress & the SAVE America Act Showdown | Teresi, McNeily
Host: Jenny Beth Martin, co-founder of the Tea Party movement and Chairman of Tea Party Patriots Action. Co-host: Robert McNeily joins for the full hour to break down the news. Guest: Bri Teresi is the host of "Free the Money," a program educating audiences on cryptocurrency, self-custody, and financial sovereignty. She is a longtime advocate for sound money and financial privacy. Key topics: The Grassley-Johnson records showing Jack Smith's team pulled the texts of 44 members of Congress The SAVE America Act's two-front push: reconciliation, a state-grant workaround, and the MIRV maneuver The Todd Blanche Attorney General confirmation hearing and the senators to watch June inflation, gas prices, and half a trillion dollars a year in federal fraud Justices Barrett and Kagan on the rising danger to federal judges Bri Teresi on crypto, self-custody, and central bank digital currencies Timestamps: 00:00 — Two fights in Washington: who does the government answer to? 00:44 — SAVE America Act: reconciliation and the bolt-on strategy 02:43 — Jack Smith pulled the texts of 44 members of Congress 03:40 — June inflation cools and gas prices fall 03:52 — Iran, the Strait of Hormuz, and the President's address 04:35 — Todd Blanche's Attorney General hearing begins 05:41 — Call to action: pass the SAVE America Act 06:00 — Bri Teresi on crypto, self-custody, and financial privacy 22:40 — SAVE America Act deep dive: why the Senate is the wall 25:08 — NDAA or NSSA? The MIRV maneuver explained 29:18 — The Byrd rule and the state-grant workaround 32:40 — A million dollars a minute: federal fraud 45:15 — Jack Smith: spying on Congress and the IRS parallel 51:48 — The Todd Blanche hearing: Durbin, Whitehouse, and Cornyn 01:05:39 — Constitution Minute: the Attorney General and 1789 01:07:19 — Supreme Court Justices testify on rising danger 01:18:31 — Closing call to action Links: teapartypatriots.org, jennybethshow.com, passthesaveamericaact.com. Capitol Switchboard: 202-224-3121.
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A Million Dollars a Minute of Federal Fraud & SAVE America Act | Pfaff, Fundner, McNeily
Jim Pfaff is the president of The Conservative Caucus and a former chief of staff on Capitol Hill, bringing an insider's read on how legislation actually moves through the House and Senate. Robert McNeily is the Director of Broadcasting and Grassroots Engagement at Tea Party Patriots Action and a veteran broadcaster who has covered these fights on the ground for years. Anne Fundner is an Angel Mom and fentanyl-awareness advocate. After her 15-year-old son Weston was poisoned by a counterfeit pill laced with illicit fentanyl, she testified before Congress, spoke at the Republican National Convention, and stood beside the President as he signed the HALT Fentanyl Act. Key topics: South Carolina seats its first woman U.S. Senator to finish Lindsey Graham's term The SAVE America Act and the Reconciliation 3.0 path around the 60-vote threshold Cooling June inflation and the economists who got it wrong Five hundred billion dollars a year in federal fraud and the power of the purse The Todd Blanche confirmation hearing Unqualified foreign truck drivers and the crisis on American highways Counterfeit fentanyl, the open border, and how to protect your kids 00:00 — Lindsey Graham's final call and the fight he left the Senate 03:36 — The power of the purse and five hundred billion a year in federal fraud 06:34 — Call to action: the Capitol Switchboard and the SAVE America Act 07:16 — Jim Pfaff and Robert McNeily on passing the SAVE America Act through Reconciliation 3.0 13:36 — June inflation cools: prices fall 0.4 percent, annual rate down to 3.5 percent 17:28 — Where the fraud goes and whether Congress can claw it back 19:30 — Why the Todd Blanche confirmation matters to fraud accountability 40:18 — Sixty-seven economists bet against the economy and got it wrong 46:15 — Reconciliation 3.0 heads out of committee 51:41 — Assessing Speaker Mike Johnson and House leadership 52:55 — Angel Mom Anne Fundner on the fentanyl that took her son Weston 01:00:47 — Anne Fundner at the Republican National Convention, two years later 01:08:26 — The Chinese Communist Party's role in America's fentanyl crisis 01:10:48 — Closing call to action: three phone calls to honor Lindsey Graham 01:12:12 — Who is looking out for women: the safety of women on the November ballot Learn more at teapartypatriots.org and jennybethshow.com.
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Lindsey Graham's Last Call to Trump & the Fight He Left the Senate | Marianos, Murray, McNeily
Jenny Beth Martin is co-founder of the Tea Party movement and Chairman of Tea Party Patriots Action. Guest host Robert McNeily is the organization's Director of Broadcasting and Grassroots Engagement. Rich Marianos spent 27 years at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, rising to Assistant Director, and now serves as Executive Director of the Tobacco Law Enforcement Network, working with law enforcement, legislators, and educators to fight illicit tobacco and vape crime. Justine Brooke Murray is a journalist with the Media Research Center and host of Woke of the Week, covering media bias with a sharp comedic edge. Key topics: Remembering Senator Lindsey Graham and his final push for the SAVE America Act A 52-47 Senate and the road to the August 11 South Carolina primary The Charlie Kirk case: forensic evidence, DNA, ballistics, and the conspiracy theories Communist China, illicit vapes, and the smoke-shop epidemic hitting American kids Made in the USA claims, the FDA's registered-product list, and tobacco harm reduction The Todd Blanche confirmation hearing and the DOJ subpoena of four New York Times reporters The end of the Iran ceasefire and how the coverage gets it wrong $42 billion recovered from fraud and the 83 percent who want it stopped for good Timestamps: 00:00 — In memoriam: Senator Lindsey Graham 02:48 — Graham's last call and the SAVE America Act 04:33 — The Iran ceasefire is over 04:53 — $42 billion recovered from fraud 05:30 — Robert McNeily takes the show; SAVE America Act call to action 06:55 — Rich Marianos joins: ATF and the Tobacco Law Enforcement Network 07:06 — The Charlie Kirk case: forensic evidence, DNA, and ballistics 11:21 — Illicit Chinese vapes and the smoke-shop epidemic 13:39 — Made in the USA claims and tobacco harm reduction 25:21 — Justine Brooke Murray joins: remembering Graham 27:52 — Does his passing move the SAVE America Act? 29:08 — A 52-47 majority and the August primary 31:31 — Iran coverage and media spin 34:15 — The Todd Blanche confirmation hearing 36:51 — DOJ subpoenas four New York Times reporters 39:42 — $42 billion in fraud and the 83 percent 42:31 — The story the media won't tell 45:24 — A lighter turn: the World Cup and America 250 50:31 — Closing call to action: pass the SAVE America Act 52:02 — Graham in his own words: the 2018 Kavanaugh moment 53:27 — The Man in the Arena and a final farewell Learn more at teapartypatriots.org and jennybethshow.com.
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SAVE America Act Left for Dead & an Australian Voted in Two US Elections | King, Jones, Kahn
Janelle King serves on the Georgia State Election Board and has become one of the country's clearest voices for election transparency and voter confidence. She explains Georgia's new vote-tabulation transparency rule and why the board is fighting for observers in the state's centralized vote-reporting room. Ned Jones studies the vulnerabilities of voting by mail for the Election Integrity Network. He walks through how election mail actually moves through the Postal Service, what the redefined postmark means for ballot deadlines, and what the Supreme Court's Watson decision got wrong. Jon Kahn is a singer-songwriter, the writer of "Fighter" and "American Heart," and the COO and Minister of Culture at Breitbart News. He shares the America 250 American Soundtrack project, ten original songs from Nashville songwriters celebrating the country.
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Graham Platner Scandal & SAVE America Act Standoff: Character Is Negotiable | Ives & McNeily
Jeanne Ives is a former Illinois state representative, a West Point graduate from a family of West Point graduates and active-duty service members, and the CEO of Breakthrough Ideas, where she writes a weekly newsletter on state and local policy. She hosts a daily radio hour on AM 560 from 11:00 AM to noon, Monday through Friday. Robert McNeily is Director of Broadcasting and Grassroots Engagement at Tea Party Patriots Action. A former RSBN anchor, he spent the July 4 weekend on the ground at the America 250 kickoff in Washington, D.C., where he filmed the flyover footage featured at the close of this episode. Key topics: What Democrats knew about Graham Platner before Maine's primary Breaking: an Illinois Democrat state representative indicted for federal fraud Florida vs. Illinois: DeSantis and Pritzker each signed eight budgets, with opposite results The Todd Blanche confirmation fight and the letter from 1,200 former Justice Department employees President Trump declares the ceasefire with Iran over The SAVE America Act: 50 senators on record and a Senate that went home Abdul El-Sayed's defund-the-police audio and the Planned Parenthood funding fight Timestamped breakdown: 00:00 — Cold open: the party that chose ideology over character 00:57 — Welcome and today's headlines 04:18 — Take action: two calls to make today 05:21 — Guest introductions: Jeanne Ives and Robert McNeily 05:52 — Graham Platner and how Democrats vet their own 08:58 — Breaking: an Illinois Democrat state representative indicted for fraud 11:35 — Florida vs. Illinois: DeSantis and Pritzker by the numbers 17:47 — What the Left actually values 22:51 — Todd Blanche and the letter from 1,200 former employees 31:19 — Breaking: the Iran ceasefire is over 40:49 — The SAVE America Act: 50 senators on record 47:36 — Abdul El-Sayed's defund-the-police audio 49:58 — The Planned Parenthood funding fight 53:53 — Where to follow Jeanne Ives 55:03 — July 4 flyover footage and closing calls to action Links mentioned: passthesaveamericaact.com tpp.me/ombcomment whitehouse.gov/contact breakthrough-ideas.com teapartypatriots.org jennybethshow.com Capitol switchboard: 202-224-3121
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Birthright Citizenship: What the Supreme Court Got Wrong | Dr. John Eastman
Dr. John Eastman is one of the country's leading constitutional scholars. He clerked at the United States Supreme Court, has been involved in more than 200 cases before the Court, and founded a constitutional litigation center more than 25 years ago dedicated to restoring the principles of the American founding. Host Jenny Beth Martin is co-founder of the Tea Party movement and Chairman of Tea Party Patriots Action. Key topics: Why the 6-3 birthright citizenship headline is wrong and the real vote was 5-4 What "subject to the jurisdiction thereof" meant to the men who wrote the Fourteenth Amendment The 1898 Wong Kim Ark decision and the history the majority ignored Justice Thomas's 91-page dissent and Justice Alito's warning Trump v. Slaughter, the end of Humphrey's Executor, and restored presidential power What Congress can do now, and the Dred Scott precedent for pushing back The Court's ruling protecting girls' sports Timestamps: 00:00 — The SAVE America Act sits stalled in the Senate 01:49 — Maine's Senate race and the Susan Collins math 03:21 — Trump at the NATO summit; the Charlie Kirk hearing begins 04:51 — A landmark Supreme Court term 05:23 — Call to action: pass the SAVE America Act 06:37 — Dr. John Eastman joins; celebrating America's 250th 07:20 — Was this really a consequential term? 08:47 — Trump v. Slaughter and restored presidential power 16:31 — Birthright citizenship: why the number is wrong 21:01 — Wong Kim Ark and the history the Court ignored 25:42 — The dissents and what Congress can do 41:19 — Judicial supremacy, Lincoln, and Dred Scott 46:37 — Ten years from the escalator to the border 49:16 — The Court protects girls' sports 52:09 — Calls to action and a 250-year close Links: teapartypatriots.org, jennybethshow.com, passthesaveamericaact.com. Call the Capitol switchboard at 202-224-3121.
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Declaration of Independence: Why We Were Never the Rebels │ Bill Norton
Bill Norton is a constitutional scholar, civics curriculum author, and co-author of Speaking the Language of Liberty (with Mark Herr). He has spent thirty-five years studying the Founders and teaches the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence to grassroots activists, civic groups, and elected officials across the country. His forthcoming book, Behind the Declaration of Independence, is a companion volume to Behind the Bill of Rights, with Behind the Constitution releasing in September. Host: Jenny Beth Martin, co-founder of the Tea Party movement and Chairman of Tea Party Patriots Action. Key topics covered: Why the American colonists were never the rebels — and who actually broke the social contract The power of words and how the Declaration of Independence freed more people than any military conquest King George III's secret post-war essay conceding that American self-governance worked Who actually wrote the Declaration — and why Thomas Jefferson called it "an expression of the American mind" What "the laws of nature and of nature's God" really means for believers and for secular readers Cicero, John Locke, and the difference between primitive and sophisticated natural law The three kinds of self-governance: individual, relational, and societal Why "all men are created equal" was always about mankind, not just males — and the etymology behind it The John Adams principle: we are born to equal rights, not to equal talents, property, or outcomes Thomas Jefferson's final letter and "the dawn of day" Why education is the true corrective of constitutional abuses Timestamped topic breakdown: 00:00 — Cold open and welcome to the Constitution training series 01:09 — Levi Preston: "Those redcoats never meant for us to govern ourselves" 03:30 — The power of words: Genesis, the Declaration, and the language of liberty 08:51 — King George III's secret post-war essay 12:57 — Why only three countries lack written constitutions — and one of them is England 14:46 — Were the colonists really rebels? John Locke on who broke the social contract 17:48 — Being smeared as "anti-government," from King George to Janet Napolitano's list 22:50 — Pro-Constitution, not anti-government: the line we hold 24:38 — Who actually wrote the Declaration: the committee of five, then three 27:01 — Jefferson on borrowing ideas: "An expression of the American mind" 33:13 — Brilliant and flawed: the Founders' contradictions and our duty to keep growing 35:51 — Jefferson's permission to amend: "Forty years of experience is worth a century of book reading" 40:08 — Pouring concrete and skipping fundamentals: why first principles matter 42:13 — "Laws of nature and of nature's God": room for the secular and the religious 44:43 — What natural law actually is: Cicero's universal, unchanging law 51:50 — "I can beat you up and take your stuff": primitive vs. sophisticated natural law 56:32 — "The powers of the earth": where governing power really originates 1:00:38 — Society serves the individual: Bastiat and the Judeo-Christian flip 1:04:17 — How this is NOT communism: voluntary contribution and three kinds of self-governance 1:06:25 — Government protects rights — until it builds a cage 1:10:14 — "We hold these truths to be self-evident": what self-evident really means 1:13:55 — "All men are created equal": the etymology of man, wifeman, and wereman 1:18:20 — Equal in rights, not in things: John Adams and the $20 / $15 / $0 example 1:26:25 — From John Adams to John Quincy Adams to Abraham Lincoln: the stepping stones of liberty 1:30:49 — Thomas Jefferson's final letter and "the dawn of day" 1:33:38 — Education as the corrective of constitutional abuses 1:36:24 — Why principles beat reactionary politics — and produce calmer activists 1:40:09 — Books, takeaways, and what's coming in Part 2 1:42:42 — Sign-off Books referenced in this episode: Behind the Declaration of Independence by Bill Norton (forthcoming) Behind the Bill of Rights by Bill Norton Behind the Constitution by Bill Norton (September release) Speaking the Language of Liberty by Bill Norton and Mark Herr The Law by Frédéric Bastiat Links: The Jenny Beth Show: jennybethshow.com Tea Party Patriots Action: teapartypatriots.org The Jenny Beth Show is hosted by Jenny Beth Martin and is a production of Tea Party Patriots Action. This Constitution training series is produced in partnership with Tea Party Patriots Foundation.
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Declaration of Independence: Why We Were Never the Rebels │ Bill Norton
Bill Norton is a constitutional scholar and author who has studied America's founders for more than thirty years, and co-author of "Speaking the Language of Liberty" and "Behind the Bill of Rights." Jenny Beth Martin is co-founder of the Tea Party movement and Chairman of Tea Party Patriots Action, representing three million grassroots conservative activists. Key topics covered: Why the colonists saw themselves as defenders of self-government, not rebels The forgotten testimony of Revolutionary War soldier Levi Preston How Cicero, John Locke, and Algernon Sidney shaped the founding The Declaration as "an expression of the American mind" Answering the "anti-government" smear with the founding itself What natural law is and why it cannot be repealed What the founders actually meant by "all men are created equal" Timestamped topic breakdown: 00:01:01 — Levi Preston: why the colonists really fought 00:05:24 — Could the colonists vote? Self-government in the colonies 00:12:57 — The ideas that shaped both England and America 00:19:37 — Answering the "anti-government" smear 00:24:46 — Who wrote the Declaration: an expression of the American mind 00:31:10 — Cicero, Locke, and the great thinkers behind the founding 00:44:08 — What natural law actually is 00:48:51 — Why natural law cannot be repealed 01:04:43 — Equal, separate, and the individual in society 01:10:35 — Inside the Declaration's first paragraph 01:14:45 — What "created equal" really means 01:37:19 — Turning the principles into a way forward Links: teapartypatriots.org, jennybethshow.com
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Lives, Fortunes, and Sacred Honor: What the 56 Signers Really Paid | David Barton
David Barton is the founder of WallBuilders and one of the nation's foremost collectors of original founding-era documents. Through decades of research he has built one of the largest private collections of founding-era papers in America and become a trusted resource for lawmakers, educators, and citizens on America's founding principles. His new book, "Lives, Fortunes, and Sacred Honor: The Signers of the Declaration," co-authored with his son Tim Barton, tells the remarkable stories of all 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence — their courage, their convictions, and the very real cost many of them paid. Key topics: Why July 2, not July 4, is the real Independence Day What "lives, fortunes, and sacred honor" actually cost the 56 signers God-given rights versus government-granted rights Why British capture was deadlier than the battlefield How a divided Congress nearly failed to declare independence The founders' most-quoted source — and why it was the Bible Classical education, thinking versus memorizing, and the civics-test gap Barton's favorite story: Paul Revere's real mission and the Battle of Lexington Timestamps: 00:00 — Welcome and why this July 4 special matters 01:43 — Why July 2 is the real Independence Day 02:58 — Why reaching 250 years is historically rare 06:36 — A rising patriotism, especially among Gen Z 07:54 — Can you name five signers? Why we forgot them 10:11 — Lives, Fortunes, and Sacred Honor: the six principles of the Declaration 12:28 — God-given rights versus government-granted rights 19:20 — Inside WallBuilders: documents from all 56 signers 21:09 — Restoring the monuments and the forgotten patriots 23:11 — The brutal cost: why capture was deadlier than combat 25:25 — By contrast: how America treated its British prisoners 28:45 — Debtors' prison and the founders who lost everything 29:48 — Independence was not inevitable: a divided Congress 31:47 — The 80-mile midnight ride that saved a vote 33:01 — From the founders' debate to today's Senate 34:45 — How 1920s schooling replaced thinking with memorizing 40:54 — Where the founders got their ideas: the Bible, Montesquieu, Blackstone, Locke 45:16 — What classical education really means 48:44 — Thinking in the age of AI 52:39 — 91% of immigrants pass the civics test; only 4% of students do 57:04 — What every American should do now 59:52 — Barton's favorite story: Paul Revere's real ride and the Battle of Lexington 01:02:50 — Closing and the Constitution training series Learn more at teapartypatriots.org and jennybethshow.com.
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America's Founding Mothers: The Patriots, Poets, and Spies History Forgot | Shari Rigby
Shari Rigby is an actress, director, and producer known for the faith films October Baby and Overcomer. She founded Beautifully Flawed Productions and the Women in My World ministry, and she is the creator of the immersive audio drama Defiant Ones, about the women of the American Revolution. Jenny Beth Martin is co-founder of the Tea Party movement and Chairman of Tea Party Patriots Action. Key topics: The forgotten women who helped found America: patriots, poets, prophets, and spies Defiant Ones, built on the Abigail and John Adams letters and "remember the ladies" Sybil Ludington, Agent 355, Penelope Barker, and Prudence Wright Immersive Dolby Atmos audio and getting kids off screens Faith, history, and celebrating America's 250th birthday Timestamps: 00:00 — Welcome: meet filmmaker Shari Rigby and the Defiant Ones audio drama 01:18 — Shari's path: the Kendrick brothers, October Baby, and moving behind the camera 03:25 — A testimony: from teenage mom to faith-and-family filmmaker 08:19 — Women in My World: mentoring women in the industry 09:12 — How Defiant Ones came together and putting women to work 12:47 — Patriots, poets, prophets, and spies 13:09 — Remember the Ladies: the Abigail and John Adams letters 14:31 — Why teaching the founding matters, and Sybil Ludington's ride 17:03 — The women who surprised her most: Penelope Barker and Agent 355 21:19 — Immersive Dolby Atmos audio and getting kids off screens 25:00 — Studying the founding and walking Boston's Freedom Trail 29:58 — America's 250th and a call to families 32:19 — What's next, and where to find Defiant Ones Defiant Ones launches July 2, streaming on the Washington Times (washingtontimes.com) and all podcast platforms, with companion novelettes on Amazon and family assets at beautifullyflawedproductions.com. Learn more at teapartypatriots.org and jennybethshow.com.
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SAVE America Act Bolted to the Defense Bill to Force the Senate's Hand | Mitchell, McNeily
Cleta Mitchell is the founder of the Election Integrity Network and a senior legal fellow at the Conservative Partnership Institute. One of the nation's foremost election law attorneys, she has spent decades fighting for ballot integrity, honest elections, and the constitutional right of citizens to choose their representatives. Robert McNeily is the Director of Broadcasting and Grassroots Engagement at Tea Party Patriots Action and a regular co-host of The Jenny Beth Show. He brings a grassroots perspective to the daily news cycle and a deep commitment to constitutional conservatism. Key Topics: Watson v. Republican National Committee and why states can count mail-in ballots days after Election Day The SAVE America Act's fourth House vote, now bolted to the National Defense Authorization Act Why "it's already illegal" is not the same as enforceable — the NVRA enforcement gap Senate filibuster rules, 50 Republican votes, and the path to passage Senators to pressure: Tillis, Cassidy, Murkowski, Cornyn, Collins Today's SCOTUS rulings: no men in women's sports, birthright citizenship upheld, McCain-Feingold limits struck down Humphrey's Executor overturned: presidential authority to fire executive agency heads Trump: socialism is communism — the biggest threat since the founding Founding principles, consent of the governed, and America's 250th birthday Call to action: urge the president to veto the Waters-Warren housing bill without the SAVE America Act attached Timestamped Breakdown: 00:00 — Supreme Court term finale: Watson v. RNC, women's sports ruling, birthright citizenship, McCain-Feingold 02:00 — Welcome and overview 07:21 — SAVE America Act: Senate path, filibuster rules, 50 votes explained (Cleta Mitchell) 17:30 — Problem senators: Murkowski, Tillis, Cassidy, Cornyn, Curtis — what to demand 22:55 — Watson v. RNC deep dive: mail ballots, EOCAVA, California primary results, the fix 32:00 — Today's three SCOTUS term-end rulings broken down 39:23 — Constitutional crisis: Alito dissent, birthright citizenship, the founders' intent 44:08 — Humphrey's Executor overturned: presidential authority over the FTC and Federal Reserve 50:20 — Socialism is communism: Trump's warning and McNeily's response 53:08 — Why founding principles matter at America's 250th: Cleta Mitchell 57:13 — Calls to action, Defiant Ones podcast promo, closing Links: passthesaveamericaact.com whitehouse.gov/contact (urge a veto of the Waters-Warren housing bill without the SAVE America Act) Capitol switchboard: 202-224-3121 teapartypatriots.org jennybethshow.com
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SAVE America Act Heads for 4th House Vote & 1M on Obamacare w/o SSN | McNeily, Ross, Macchio
Robert McNeily — Director of Broadcasting and Grassroots Engagement for Tea Party Patriots Action. Guest host of The Jenny Beth Show. Dr. Jared Ross — Board-certified emergency physician and President of EMSEC LLC. A 25-year veteran as a paramedic, firefighter, SWAT team member, and ER doctor. Published an op-ed in the Washington Examiner on healthcare fraud in Minnesota. Christopher Macchio — The presidential tenor. Sang Hallelujah and other selections with the Marine Corps Band and the Singing Sergeants at the Great American State Fair, and will perform again at the July 4 National Mall celebration before the president's speech and the largest fireworks display in U.S. history. Key topics: • The SAVE America Act heads to a 4th House vote — Senate needs 10 more votes to break the 60-vote cloture threshold • Tea Party Patriots Action is pressing President Trump to veto the pending housing bill until the Senate delivers a written plan to pass the SAVE America Act • Over 1 million Obamacare enrollees have no Social Security number on file — and the fraud runs far deeper than one number • 455 people charged, $6.5 billion in healthcare fraud schemes exposed in a single DOJ action (Acting AG Todd Blanche) • Iran tested the June 17 ceasefire on June 27; U.S. forces struck Iranian targets; both sides stood down by Sunday; Doha talks scheduled • Three back-to-back 6-3 Supreme Court immigration wins for the administration, including the end of Temporary Protected Status for Haitians and Syrians • Democratic Socialist of America-backed candidates swept New York Democratic congressional primaries, threatening to oust House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries • John Bolton pleaded guilty June 26 to willful retention of national defense information; sentencing October 28 • Christopher Macchio: music as a God-given obligation, the B-2 flyover choreography, and advice for aspiring performers Timestamped breakdown: 00:00 — Cold open: five days to America's 250th, the case for the SAVE America Act 01:06 — Show intro; Trump "America Is Back" clip from the Great American State Fair 03:18 — Today's agenda: SAVE America Act, Iran ceasefire, Supreme Court, Obamacare fraud 05:56 — SAVE America Act: 4th House vote, 60-vote Senate fight, McLaughlin polling, call to action 12:43 — Healthcare fraud: Dr. Jared Ross on 1 million Obamacare ghost enrollees 23:20 — Iran ceasefire tested; Strait of Hormuz breakdown; gas prices heading into July 4 26:00 — Supreme Court's 6-3 immigration sweep; DSA sweeps NYC primaries; Bolton guilty plea 32:30 — America 250 heroes tribute: Captain Amy Sabota; Snyder Fire firefighters 39:56 — Christopher Macchio: performing Hallelujah at the National Mall, friendship with President Trump, advice for performers Links: teapartypatriots.org | jennybethshow.com | passthesaveamericaact.com Contact the White House: whitehouse.gov/contact | White House switchboard: 202-456-1111 Capitol switchboard: 202-224-3121
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SAVE America Act: Trump's Veto Leverage & Supreme Court 6-3 Wins | McNeily, Pfaff
Jim Pfaff is President of The Conservative Caucus, one of the longest-running grassroots conservative organizations in the country. He spent roughly eight years on Capitol Hill working for members of Congress and has spent decades in the conservative movement advancing constitutional government and election integrity. Robert McNeily, guest host, is Director of Broadcasting and Grassroots Engagement for Tea Party Patriots Action. Key topics: The SAVE America Act stalls in the Senate despite 50 votes on record President Trump's housing-bill leverage to force a floor vote Filibuster, cloture, the Byrd rule, and why reconciliation falls short Scott Presler turned away from the South Dakota Republican dinner The Supreme Court's 6-3 immigration rulings and Temporary Protected Status Hawaii's carry-default law overturned: a Second Amendment win Faith, the founding, and America's 250th birthday Timestamps: 00:00 — Washington is frozen: the SAVE America Act and Trump's housing-bill leverage 01:45 — Two-step action plan: the White House, Truth Social, and the Capitol switchboard 05:22 — Scott Presler turned away in South Dakota and the grassroots-leadership divide 10:32 — The Great American State Fair and America's 250th birthday 14:42 — Guest host Robert McNeily welcomes Jim Pfaff: what happened in the Senate 18:07 — Filibuster, cloture, and the Byrd rule explained 22:48 — Why Trump's veto leverage on the housing bill matters 25:29 — Grassroots versus the establishment 29:24 — The message GOP leadership should hear; why reconciliation won't do it 33:41 — The Supreme Court's 6-3 immigration ruling on Temporary Protected Status 40:54 — Hawaii's carry law overturned: the Second Amendment 44:52 — Pastor Jentezen Franklin's State Fair prayer 47:09 — Faith, the founding, and the fight ahead 52:05 — Closing call to action 54:24 — World Cup goodwill and the Oliver clip Learn more at teapartypatriots.org and jennybethshow.com. To act on the SAVE America Act, contact the White House at whitehouse.gov/contact, post on Truth Social tagging the President, or call the Capitol switchboard at 202-224-3121.
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Pro-Life Movement: Why the Future Is the Church, Not Just the Law | Amy Ford
Jenny Beth Martin is the host of The Jenny Beth Show, co-founder of the Tea Party movement, and Chairman of Tea Party Patriots Action, representing three million grassroots conservative activists. Amy Ford is the founder and president of Embrace Grace, a nonprofit that equips churches to walk alongside women facing unexpected pregnancies. What began as one small group in her Texas church has grown into a movement in more than 1,200 churches across all 50 states. Amy is the author of Help Her Be Brave: Discover Your Place in the Pro-Life Movement and A Bump in Life. Key topics covered: Amy's own unplanned pregnancy at 19 and the day she nearly had an abortion Why the abortion rate inside the church is the same as outside it The shift from "pro-life" to "pro-love" — making abortion unthinkable, not just illegal The mail-order abortion pill and the hidden trauma facing young women How pregnancy resource centers work and why so few women know they exist Embrace Grace, Embrace Legacy (for fathers), Embrace Life, church buddies, and mentorships How to start a group in your own local church Timestamps: 00:00 — Welcome and why pro-life is more than policy 01:23 — Amy's unplanned pregnancy at 19 02:17 — Passing out in the abortion room 02:53 — A pastor refuses to bless the marriage 04:06 — The pastor's public apology, years later 08:13 — The vision that started Embrace Grace 11:23 — Three moms and the first twelve-week group 12:50 — Why women in the church stay silent 20:03 — From "pro-life" to "pro-love" 20:57 — The abortion pill and its hidden trauma 24:36 — 1,200 churches now, 23,400 is the goal 28:23 — How to start a group in your church 38:35 — Embrace Legacy: ministering to fathers 40:27 — Amy's books: Help Her Be Brave and A Bump in Life 41:30 — The future of the pro-life movement 45:06 — Where to get involved Links: embracegrace.com | jennybethshow.com | teapartypatriots.org
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The U.S. Constitution: How the Founders Actually Built It | Bill Norton
Guest: Bill Norton is a constitutional scholar, author, and educator with more than three decades studying the American Founders. He is a co-author of "Behind the Bill of Rights" (with Jeremy Nelson of the National Center for Constitutional Studies) and of "Speaking the Language of Liberty" (with Mark Herr of the Center for Self Governance), with "Behind the Declaration of Independence" and "Behind the Constitution of the United States" forthcoming. He owns a construction company, is a lifelong artist and curriculum designer, and serves as the education director of Liberty Village in Hurricane, Utah. This episode is a preview of the show's upcoming founding-principles training series — four lessons across eight episodes on the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights — which begins airing Monday, July 6. Key topics: How the Founders actually built the Constitution as a "mixed form of government" Using founding principles as a lens on today's fights — the SAVE America Act, the border, and more Fixing what's broken, facing what's new, and not becoming what we hate "Speaking the Language of Liberty" and the patriot who called herself a tyrant Frédéric Bastiat's "The Law" as a starting point Liberty Village: a 30-acre founding-era America in the Utah desert How Jenny Beth and Bill Norton first met, and the night that turned protest into strategy Timestamps: 00:00 — Welcome, and why the daily show paused for constitution training 01:03 — Meet Bill Norton: four lessons, eight episodes 02:45 — Applying founding principles to today's biggest fights 04:13 — Beyond Band-Aids: fix what's broken, face what's new, don't become what we hate 05:50 — Jenny Beth's "equal and opposite reaction" test 06:54 — The Declaration, the Constitution, and how it was actually built 08:46 — The Bill of Rights and "Behind the Bill of Rights" 09:58 — "Speaking the Language of Liberty" and the patriot who called herself a tyrant 12:25 — Why Bastiat's "The Law" is the place to start 12:59 — When the training airs, America's 250th, and the July 4 plan 13:58 — Liberty Village: a 30-acre founding-era village in Utah 19:15 — Benjamin Franklin's home as a kids' discovery center 20:37 — How Jenny Beth and Bill Norton first met in 2011 22:44 — Sleeping in a car to stop Obamacare 24:46 — From anger to productive action 26:48 — Rallies are the first step, not the last 27:55 — Founding-level Americans are still here Links: jennybethshow.com · teapartypatriots.org
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The Census Lie: How Washington Distorts Your Representation │ Wade Miller
Guest Wade Miller is the executive director of the Center for Renewing America. A combat veteran and U.S. Marine Corps infantryman who deployed three times to Iraq and the Horn of Africa, he is a longtime adviser to OMB Director Russ Vought and brings over fifteen years of conservative political experience, including serving as political director for Senator Ted Cruz's 2018 campaign and chief of staff for Congressman Chip Roy. Key Topics Covered What “enumeration” actually means and why an accurate count is the constitutional purpose of the census How the differential privacy algorithm scrambled 2020 population data between rural and urban areas Why including non-citizens in redistricting maps tilts power toward blue states The six congressional seats the Biden administration admitted were misallocated How corrupted counts misdirect hundreds of billions in federal tax dollars Republishing the 2020 census and what it could mean for the 2028 cycle “America First, Not Senate First” — four fixes for the Senate and the SAVE America Act vote count Timestamps 00:18 — Welcome and why the census could reshape political power 01:03 — Meet Wade Miller, Center for Renewing America 01:53 — What does enumeration actually mean? 03:36 — The new 2020 process and the citizenship-question end run 04:29 — How a census is supposed to work vs. what happened 05:46 — Differential privacy explained: scrambling the data 08:12 — Counting non-citizens and why it favors blue states 10:33 — Stephen Miller's 40-seat swing and the published Biden census 12:30 — The constitutional problem with unequal districts 16:31 — The other counting failures: overcounts and undercounts 18:12 — Imputation and manipulated characteristic data 21:35 — How privacy was protected before differential privacy 22:55 — Rural tax dollars siphoned to the cities 26:27 — What can be done: a real census director 29:29 — Republishing the census to arm the states 31:48 — Could harmed states sue? The standing problem 34:35 — Title 13, security clearance, and locked-down data 39:23 — An elegant fix: just count where people live 44:22 — What an activist can do right now 45:56 — Citizen-only data vs. federal funding formulas 47:58 — Why the census fight matters in 2026 51:43 — America First, Not Senate First: four Senate fixes 54:50 — The SAVE America Act has the votes 59:20 — Closing: liberty doesn't preserve itself Links americarenewing.com teapartypatriots.org jennybethshow.com
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The Counter Deep State: How an Outsider Helped Trump Deregulate │ Steve Friess
Steve Friess is a businessman, conservative activist, education reform advocate, and candidate for Wyoming’s single seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. The son of the late conservative philanthropist Foster Friess, he has worked for years to build the conservative movement through business, philanthropy, education, and grassroots activism, and co-founded the Jackson Hole Classical Academy. Key topics covered: Why a self-described political outsider decided to run for Congress The volunteer attorney project that drafted executive orders before Trump took office The regulatory budget concept and how deregulation freed the economy Wyoming energy: coal, oil, gas, and rare earth minerals as a national security issue School choice, classical education, and teaching kids how to think The dignity of work, trade schools, and earned success Federal spending, the national debt, and cutting waste Timestamps: 00:18 — Introducing Steve Friess 01:01 — Why he decided to run for Congress 02:38 — What “political outsider” really means 03:29 — Why today’s Democrats aren’t Bill Clinton Democrats 06:22 — The SAVE America Act and grassroots leadership 09:33 — The policy that motivates him most 10:25 — Extractive industries and regulatory roadblocks 11:18 — Rare earth minerals and national security 12:27 — Don’t forget coal: clean coal and export 13:21 — Carbon dioxide as “plant food” 14:45 — Education, federalism, and a Trump executive order 15:26 — Building the “counter deep state” attorney project 17:17 — Why the left is relentless: the spiritual dimension 19:51 — Inside the executive order project 20:50 — The regulatory budget and “two for one” 23:58 — Trump’s cabinet and the acronym lesson 25:42 — OIRA and the “sound science” memo 27:50 — “Guidance guidance” and reining in agencies 29:15 — His mission for Wyoming and lower-cost energy 32:01 — School choice and the family investment business 34:21 — The Teton County zoning fight and his first law 39:34 — Learning how to think, not what to think 43:27 — Covenantal vs. missional religious schools 47:50 — The Humanitas Institute and classical education 48:47 — How public schools narrowed the box 50:28 — Trade schools, Mike Rowe, and the dignity of work 55:08 — Bankruptcy, housekeeping, and earned dignity 57:57 — Arthur Brooks and “earned success” 1:00:08 — His scorecard: high-paying Wyoming jobs 1:01:02 — Cutting taxes vs. cutting spending 1:03:36 — The $39 trillion debt and the Tea Party’s origin 1:04:22 — Applauding the shutdown of USAID 1:05:18 — Closing: why people should vote for him Links: teapartypatriots.org, jennybethshow.com, friessforwy.com
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Deep State vs. Trump: The EPA Climate Fight Headed to the Supreme Court │ Steve Milloy
Steve Milloy is an attorney and senior fellow at the Energy and Environmental Legal Institute. A veteran of more than three decades of environmental and energy policy work, including time in the coal industry, he writes widely on climate regulation, the EPA, and the administrative state. Key topics covered: The EPA endangerment finding rollback and what it means for energy policy West Virginia v. EPA and why the agency lacked authority to regulate greenhouse gases The Department of Justice’s contradictory Suncor Trust v. Boulder County brief Data centers, energy demand, foreign money, and eminent domain The collapse of coal and rising electricity prices Wind, solar, and the real costs of the green agenda Refrigerant rules, the American Innovation and Manufacturing Act of 2020, and the Kigali Amendment What an incoming El Niño actually means Timestamps: 00:18 — Welcome and the episode’s focus on energy and the administrative state 00:46 — How the deep state is undermining the EPA at the Justice Department 01:12 — The endangerment finding rescinded in February 01:54 — The Supreme Court line: Massachusetts v. EPA to West Virginia v. EPA 03:48 — Suncor Trust v. Boulder County and federal preemption 05:57 — The contradictory DOJ brief that could backfire 09:45 — Should the brief be pulled, and should the attorneys be held accountable 11:38 — Why no one is overseeing the deep state lawyers 13:00 — The endangerment finding as the centerpiece of Trump’s energy agenda 15:38 — Data centers, Elon Musk, and the energy crunch 20:50 — Foreign money funding green activist groups 22:31 — Eminent domain and a Georgia family’s property fight 25:47 — The water fight over data centers 29:39 — States moving to ban data centers 36:09 — Reviving coal and what killed it 39:23 — Burning coal, exporting gas, and LNG terminals 40:46 — Wind, solar, and where NIMBY actually makes sense 43:10 — How conservatives ceded the environmental issue 46:09 — Clean air, clean water, and China’s record 49:01 — National parks, Agenda 21, and Alaska 52:55 — Refrigerant rules and why your soda is warm 55:48 — The AIM Act, the Kigali Amendment, and the ozone debate 1:00:16 — El Niño and what to actually worry about Links: teapartypatriots.org │ jennybethshow.com
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Jenny Beth Martin is an original organizer of the Tea Party movement and the co-founder of Tea Party Patriots. She is an author, a filmmaker, and one of TIME Magazine's 100 most influential people in the world. The title she is most proud of is "Mom" to her boy/girl twins. She has been at the forefront, fighting for America's core principles for more than a decade.
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