The Jenny Beth Show

Jenny Beth Martin
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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.

  1. 5h ago

    20,000 California Ballots & Comey Charged: Seven Days to Election Day | Jim Pfaff

    Guest: Jim Pfaff is president of The Conservative Caucus, the grassroots organization that has worked to protect American sovereignty and constitutional liberty since 1974. He ran congressional offices on Capitol Hill, has worked on and run campaigns for more than thirty years, and is a regular guest on The Jenny Beth Show.   Guest host: Robert McNeily, Director of Broadcasting and Grassroots Engagement at Tea Party Patriots Action, hosts this episode in for Jenny Beth Martin.   Key topics:   • The Ninth Circuit rules two to one that California can keep counting about 20,000 mail ballots the federal government flagged as likely noncitizen votes; the case returns to the district court • Why the court never reached the merits, and Pfaff's case that California has selections, not elections • Is the failure in the courts, or in a Congress that never gave anyone an enforcement tool? The 1990s law that already lets the Justice Department request voter rolls • Article I: states run elections, Congress can regulate them, and has since the Civil Rights Act • Motor voter, automatic registration, and what the SAVE America Act would restore • Why the polls have undercounted Republicans since 2016, and the turnout model that wins a midterm • Pfaff: as few as a quarter of Americans who claim the Christian faith vote, and the left has worked for decades to keep it that way • What a grassroots activist worried about the voter rolls should do in the next seven days • James Comey faces two counts under the Espionage Act, filed ten years to the day after the alleged disclosure • A criminal information is not an indictment: why prosecutors filed without a grand jury and why the ten-year clock is the whole fight • Lady Justice is supposed to be blind: ten years of lawfare and who gets charged • The races to watch on election night: Texas, Michigan, New Hampshire, and Maine • Where The Conservative Caucus is putting its effort, and the redistricting states that decide the House • Pfaff's forecast: Republicans hold the Senate at 50 to 53 seats; the House leans Democrat but is not decided • Will the far left turn on Hakeem Jeffries if Democrats win a narrow majority? • President Trump offers $1 million for voter fraud reports that end in a conviction • The Department of Homeland Security says it found thousands of noncitizens on the voter rolls in California, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. Our request: publish the numbers • Justice Department election monitors headed to Philadelphia polling places on Election Day • 82.3 percent of voters say only citizens should vote; Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund's commitment to clean voter rolls and the SAVE America Act, whatever happens November 3 • President Trump and Vice President Vance close the campaign: Georgia, Michigan, Mississippi, and Texas with Ken Paxton • Senator Mike Lee credits Homeland Security for ending a visa-free program that let more than 3,000 Chinese nationals a year into the Northern Mariana Islands, near Guam • Birth tourism, the Fourteenth Amendment, and Justice Kavanaugh's message to Congress • President Trump says the Senate is letting the daylight saving bill die; clocks fall back November 1 • Speaker Mike Johnson marks three years with the gavel; House Republican leadership elections run November 10 through 12 • Get out the vote: Tea Party Patriots Action and Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund on the ground in Georgia, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania • Constitution Minute: the Battle of Midway memorial at Chicago's Midway Airport, and what a few minutes of courage in June 1942 changed   Timestamps:   00:00 — Cold open: seven days to Election Day 00:55 — Robert McNeily in for Jenny Beth Martin: what we are watching 02:10 — California: the Ninth Circuit lets 20,000 flagged ballots be counted 02:34 — They did not judge on the merits 04:18 — Failure of the courts, or of Congress? 09:50 — Polling is a bad way to judge what is going on 11:09 — The Christian vote: who claims the faith and does not vote 11:50 — Shepherds for Sale 14:54 — What a grassroots activist should do this week 17:41 — Friends Help Friends Vote 18:36 — Comey faces two counts under the Espionage Act 18:47 — The timeline: ten years to the day 19:05 — A criminal information, not an indictment 19:38 — Setting the marker inside the statute of limitations 24:09 — The races to watch on election night 25:14 — Michigan: Rogers versus El-Sayed 26:37 — New Hampshire and Maine 27:21 — Where The Conservative Caucus is putting its effort 28:28 — Republicans keep the Senate: 50 to 53 29:15 — Will the far left turn on Hakeem Jeffries? 30:33 — A $1 million bounty for voter fraud? 32:27 — Trump's reward; DHS finds thousands of noncitizens on the rolls 33:04 — Publish the numbers; election monitors to Philadelphia 33:38 — 82.3 percent say only citizens should vote 35:16 — Trump and Vance close the campaign 38:22 — Senator Mike Lee and the Northern Mariana Islands program 39:51 — Birth tourism and the Fourteenth Amendment 41:12 — Daylight saving time 42:29 — Speaker Johnson: three years with the gavel 44:18 — Get out the vote: Georgia, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania 46:06 — Constitution Minute: the Battle of Midway memorial 48:34 — A few minutes of courage, and seven days to vote 49:48 — Sign-off   Links mentioned:   friendshelpfriendsvote.com jennybethshow.com teapartypatriots.org

  2. 1d ago

    Angel Mom: The Man Who Took Her Son's Life Had Already Been Deported Once | Agnes Gibboney

    Guest: Agnes Gibboney is the founder of Angel Families of America and a Hungarian-born legal immigrant. Born in Budapest in 1954, less than a decade after the communists took Hungary, she was baptized in secret, carried out of the country after the 1956 revolution, raised in a refugee camp and then in Brazil for thirteen years, and admitted to the United States as a permanent resident in November 1970 after background checks in two countries. She was naturalized on June 30, 1983, the first country she had ever belonged to, because Hungary had taken her family's citizenship away. Twenty-four years ago her son Ronald, 29, a father of two, was shot and killed in a California driveway by a gang member who was in the country illegally and had been deported before. She has run support groups for the families of murder victims ever since, and she ran for Congress in 2020.   Host: Jenny Beth Martin, co-founder of the Tea Party movement and Chairman of Tea Party Patriots Action. This is the second conversation with Agnes Gibboney in the Surviving Communism series; the first, on her family's escape from communist Hungary, aired September 29.   Key topics: • Baptized in secret in communist Hungary; a refugee camp, thirteen years in Brazil, and legal immigration in 1970 • Naturalized June 30, 1983, with a perfect score on the test: "for the first time, I belonged somewhere" • Ronald, 29, a father of two, standing in a driveway with a watermelon for his kids when a gang member fired • "Your son is behind the drapes": identifying him through a window, never allowed to hold his hand • The gunman had been deported, came back, was arrested for hurting his girlfriend, and was released on probation • A judge pleaded three times with the defendant to take a plea bargain, in front of the mother • She was never allowed a victim impact statement; a parole file claims she gave one, and the office hung up • Eight years after the shooting, a corrections clerk mentioned an ICE detainer and an alien number • The grief group that said "we don't use that word," and why Jenny Beth's father, a minister, says you must • Angel Families of America, the families she still answers calls from, and three life sentences undone by elderly parole • President Trump and February 22 as a National Day of Remembrance of Angel Families • "I love ice in my water, but I love ICE on the streets better": her answer to abolish ICE • No amnesty, in four languages: the Reagan amnesty changed nothing, and the work visa already exists • Why voting for candidates who will secure the border is "absolutely essential"   Timestamps: 00:00 — Born into communist Hungary in 1954: a secret baptism and a family that fled 01:49 — A refugee camp, thirteen years in Brazil, and legal immigration in November 1970 03:51 — Naturalized on June 30, 1983: "for the first time, I belonged somewhere" 06:09 — Ronald, 29, a father of two, in a driveway with a watermelon for his kids 07:10 — The park ranger at the campsite, the drive home, and "Ronald didn't make it" 11:31 — "Your son is behind the drapes": the window, the morgue, and the funeral 16:05 — Deported once, came back, arrested for hurting his girlfriend, released on probation 19:03 — How did he get back in? Deported at Otay Mesa, back through an open border 20:27 — Laken Riley, Kate Steinle, and the lawlessness that breeds more lawlessness 24:00 — A judge pleads three times with the defendant to take a plea bargain 25:38 — No victim impact statement, and a parole file that says she gave one 27:49 — She runs a support group for the families of murder victims 28:38 — The grief group that said "we don't use that word" 30:52 — Jenny Beth's father, a minister: you have to say the word 33:18 — Eight years later, a corrections clerk mentions an ICE detainer 36:03 — "We got him": the arrest, the sentence, and the pain that never goes away 37:14 — Bonnie Drexel's daughter: three life sentences and California's elderly parole 39:45 — Angel Families of America: she answers every call 41:11 — President Trump and February 22, National Day of Remembrance of Angel Families 43:28 — Why a secure border is essential: follow the law, and no public assistance 46:04 — Abolish ICE? "I love ice in my water, but I love ICE on the streets better" 48:32 — "They are not immigrants": undocumented, Dreamers, and the words that brainwash 50:23 — Is voting for border security essential? "Absolutely" 51:58 — The Kaiser emergency room: paying for insurance and waiting behind public assistance 53:51 — Amnesty: no in Hungarian, Portuguese, Spanish, and English 56:20 — Closing: share the series, vote for liberty, and get out the vote   Links mentioned: jennybethshow.com teapartypatriots.org iwillsaveamerica.com

  3. 4d ago

    Surviving Communism: A Day Without Capitalism Reads Like Mao in 1958 | Panel

    Guests:   Sasha Gong is a former China director at Voice of America, a former political prisoner in China, and a Harvard PhD. She was a factory worker in Mao's China with three years of schooling before she reached university, and she was a small child during the famine that followed the 1958 collectivization.   Dr. Yuri Yarim-Agaev is a Soviet physicist and a member of the Moscow Helsinki Group who was exiled from the Soviet Union in 1980. He arrived in the United States as Ronald Reagan was elected.   Agnes Gibboney is the founder of Angel Families of America. Her family fled Hungary after the Soviet invasion of 1956, when she was two years old.   Ovidiu Frusina is a mechanical engineer who spent 23 years in Nicolae Ceausescu's Romania, where the state assigned his job and the Communist Party approved his work.   Manuela Callini grew up under Romanian communism, the daughter of a factory finance chief whose pickled goods were the family's trading currency.   Captain Onofre Gutierrez was born in Managua, Nicaragua, and lived under the Sandinista regime.   Janice Trey is chairman of the board of The Epoch Times. She was born in a forced labor camp during China's Cultural Revolution.   Host: Jenny Beth Martin, co-founder of the Tea Party movement and Chairman of Tea Party Patriots Action. This is part three of the Surviving Communism panel; part four covers the rest of the same program.   Key topics: • The Democratic Socialists of America's 2026 program and the page that asks you to imagine a day without capitalism • Janice Trey: ask who is behind the movement, what the end game is, and why the insiders of communist states send their children to capitalist ones • Ovidiu Frusina's week in Ceausescu's Romania: the 6:30 siren, no hot water, the bribe for the boss, the chessboard, the bread line, and the Party official who vetoed an engineer's work • No choice of job, no taxes, no banks, no credit: borrowing from the neighbor until payday • The Dacia: save for six years, wait four more, then take the car with the oil leak or go to the back of the line • What Janice Trey says to a 22-year-old who likes the socialist pitch: Taiwan versus the mainland, Hong Kong's broken promise, and the frog in the pot • Yuri Yarim-Agaev: communism, socialism, and why the word that matters is totalitarian • Lenin's Bolsheviks called themselves the Social Democratic Workers Party; Scoop Jackson and the AFL-CIO were the anti-communists • Does every socialism end in totalitarianism? The panel splits • The Shah's 1979 warning to the CIA about the red-black alliance of Islamists and communists • Agnes Gibboney's fabric store clerk who was paid whether she sold anything or not • Fascism, authoritarian, and totalitarian: the definitions • Sasha Gong's bicycle and the Sunday swap; "we pretend to work, they pretend to pay us" • Manuela Callini's family currency: pickled goods traded for toothpaste • The full passage read aloud: Yarim-Agaev's 100 percent tax and Sasha Gong's translation of Mao in 1958 • The grain taken, then the seed grain, then the famine, and why American researchers in 1961 concluded China had none • Agnes Gibboney: in modern language, it is slavery • If there is no capital, there is no debt, no insurance, no house, and no retirement to fund • Next in the series: a new constitution, public ownership of the largest corporations, and abolishing the Senate, the Electoral College, the police, and prisons   Timestamps: 00:00 — A day without capitalism: the page Jenny Beth Martin read to seven survivors 00:41 — Five countries, seven survivors: the panel 01:34 — The Democratic Socialists of America are winning primaries, and their 2026 program 02:35 — Janice Trey: who is behind this, what is the end game, and why the insiders leave 05:51 — Taking a day off from what? There are no companies left to work for 06:43 — Manuela Callini: a gray, hopeless day where everything is taken and safety is promised 07:51 — Ovidiu Frusina's week in Ceausescu's Romania: the siren, no hot water, the bus, the bribe 11:40 — Wednesday: a Party official on the third floor vetoes the engineer 13:17 — No choice of job: the state sends you where it needs you 15:43 — No taxes, no credit cards, no banks: borrowing 100 lei from the neighbor 16:24 — The Dacia: save six years, wait four, take the car with the oil leak 18:19 — What Janice Trey says to a 22-year-old who likes the socialist pitch 20:44 — Hong Kong: one country, two systems, and the promise that was broken 22:24 — The frog in the pot 24:13 — Yuri Yarim-Agaev: communism, socialism, and the word that matters is totalitarian 26:25 — Lenin's Bolsheviks called themselves Social Democrats too 29:08 — Does every socialism end in totalitarianism? The panel splits 32:30 — Reagan, Trump, and the swing back from socialism 33:37 — The Shah's 1979 warning to the CIA about the red-black alliance 34:11 — Agnes Gibboney's fabric store clerk who never left her stool 35:34 — Yuri Yarim-Agaev defines fascism, authoritarian, and totalitarian 39:52 — War communism: within months everything collapsed and the famine began 40:34 — Ethiopia and China: famine follows the communist economy, not the drought 41:14 — Manuela Callini: pickled goods as the family currency 42:19 — Jenny Beth Martin reads the full passage: no bills, no debt, no landlord 43:33 — Yarim-Agaev: in simple words, it means 100 percent taxation 45:02 — Sasha Gong: a translation of Mao in 1958 45:48 — One year later, starvation; what the leaders did not know 47:20 — Two months of cabbage; Stalin did the same thing twenty years earlier 47:47 — Agnes Gibboney: in modern language, it is slavery 48:28 — If there is no capital: no debt, no insurance, no house, no retirement 49:33 — Part three closes: how quickly they move from the promises to who decides 50:05 — Share these episodes, vote, and help get out the vote at iwillsaveamerica.com   Links: teapartypatriots.org, jennybethshow.com, and iwillsaveamerica.com.

  4. 6d ago

    Communist Hungary: You Had to Cheat, Lie, and Steal Just to Survive | Robert Ratonyi

    Guest: Robert Ratonyi is a Holocaust survivor, born in Budapest in January 1938, who lived under Hungarian communism from the Soviet liberation until his escape to Austria in December 1956 at age 18. He went on to Canada and the United States, became an engineer and an investment banker, and returned to Hungary in 1993 and 1994 as one of seven American investment bankers the United States Agency for International Development sent to teach the newly freed country how to run its businesses. He is the author of From Darkness into Light: My Journey Through Nazism, Fascism, and Communism to Freedom, with all royalties going to charity, and a longtime speaker for the Georgia Commission on the Holocaust. He lives in Atlanta.   Host: Jenny Beth Martin, co-founder of the Tea Party movement and Chairman of Tea Party Patriots Action. This is the second of two conversations with Robert Ratonyi; the first, on surviving the Holocaust as a child in Budapest, aired October 7.   Key topics: • Yalta, January 1945: Stalin promised free elections and peace, and kept none of it • Salami tactics: how a party that lost Hungary's 1945 election held total power by 1948 • Everything nationalized, every freedom gone, a picture of Stalin in every classroom • Five-year plans never met, total censorship, and Voice of America with the shades pulled • The class pyramid: party members and the secret police lived like kings • Any shoes you wanted, as long as they were black • Why you had to cheat, lie, and steal: the graduation suit and the stolen alcohol • Meat once a week, meal tickets without meat, and the norm that rose every time it was met • A bar mitzvah behind closed doors; spies on every streetcar • Six compulsory years of Russian and the neighbor's library of Western books • Bribing the doctors; the aunt imprisoned over a smuggler's phone number • October 23, 1956: the student march, the 16 points, and the radio station • The escape: a station master's train, a soldier's flashlight, and a child carried across the swamp • Ratonyi's answer to the Democratic Socialists of America's promise that everything will be free • Why America is exceptional because of its system, and why civics has to be taught again • The day Americans risk their lives to leave this country   Timestamps: 00:18 — Robert Ratonyi returns: from the Holocaust to life under communism 01:50 — Yalta, January 1945: Stalin's three broken promises 05:53 — Salami tactics: the communists lose the 1945 election and take full control by 1948 07:52 — Everything nationalized: no speech, no religion, no travel, Stalin in every classroom 10:32 — The five-year plan, total censorship, and Voice of America with the shades pulled 12:37 — The class pyramid: party members and the secret police on top 14:08 — Teachers with doctorates: how the old educated class was punished 17:15 — Any shoes you wanted, as long as they were black 18:11 — Back to Hungary in 1993: what the corruption looked like from the inside 22:11 — You had to cheat, lie, and steal 22:41 — A graduation suit paid for with stolen alcohol 24:50 — Rationing: meat once a week, eggs and butter a luxury 25:49 — The norm: sealing vials, and the quota that rose every year 27:33 — A bar mitzvah behind pulled shades 30:16 — Spies everywhere: careful what you say on the streetcar 31:03 — Holocaust survivors who became communists 33:08 — Meal tickets with meat and without 35:25 — Six compulsory years of Russian 36:13 — Mrs. Klein's library: Huckleberry Finn and The Three Musketeers in Hungarian 40:12 — Health care under communism: hundreds of dollars for the doctors 42:29 — Numerus clausus: the 1920 law that kept his father-in-law out of college 44:28 — The Stakhanovite system 46:08 — The aunt imprisoned over a smuggler's phone number 47:32 — The House of Terror: the same building the Nazis used 48:15 — Why he wrote the book for his grandchildren 48:48 — No freedom of movement: a friend assigned a job 120 miles from home 51:19 — October 23, 1956: the march begins 56:04 — The 16 points at Parliament 58:19 — The radio station: the secret police open fire 01:00:47 — The revolt put down in November; freedom lasted a few weeks 01:02:42 — The armory opens: a gun, a signature, and his mother's reaction 01:04:46 — Asking his mother's permission to leave 01:06:52 — Bill says yes 01:07:38 — The station master's train 01:10:42 — Everybody out: a frozen field and a soldier with a flashlight 01:13:02 — The peasants waiting in the dark 01:15:06 — 200 forints, and Bill is lost 01:16:34 — The deal: carry the six-year-old girl and you do not pay 01:16:57 — The swamp, the mines, and the march to the border 01:20:18 — Halt: Austria 01:21:05 — Is there a Robert Reichmann here? Bill Fodor is looking for you 01:22:39 — Imagine life without capitalism: the Democratic Socialists of America's promise 01:26:09 — An exceptional country because of its system, not its people 01:27:19 — The media as the fourth leg 01:28:30 — What happens to the rest of the world when America no longer has liberty? 01:29:47 — Charlie Kirk and Turning Point USA 01:32:55 — Iran, the Abraham Accords, and the Strait of Hormuz 01:38:01 — We have already had to fight this once in our lives 01:41:07 — There is nowhere left to escape to 01:41:36 — The day Americans risk their lives to leave 01:44:40 — Closing   Links: teapartypatriots.org and jennybethshow.com.

  5. Oct 20

    Friends Help Friends Vote: The Playbook Democrats Used to Win Georgia | Jenny Beth Martin

    Host: Jenny Beth Martin, co-founder of the Tea Party movement and Chairman of Tea Party Patriots Action. A solo training episode with no guests, recorded live two weeks before Election Day.   Key topics: • The Justice Department charges 28 green card holders in California with federal election crimes, arrests 11, and says at least 8 voted more than once • About 20,000 suspected noncitizens on California's voter rolls, ballots already mailed, and why the SAVE America Act would check citizenship at registration • Ballotpedia: 660 races since 2018 decided by 10 votes or fewer, 394 by 5 or fewer, 94 by a single vote • Social Security's largest records cleanup in its 91-year history • Senator Elissa Slotkin's "signature cases" and what the IRS did to Tea Party groups • France: 550,000 march and the worst rioting in years • The new Tea Party Patriots Action ad on socialism at teapartypatriots.org/socialism • Tool one: texting voters you do not know at TPP.me/text • Tool two: Friends Help Friends Vote, the relational organizing program of Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund, and the Georgia playbook behind it • Setting up the Numinar app, matching your contacts, and what to say to the people you know   Timestamps: 00:00 — Cold open: 28 green card holders charged in California 01:00 — A solo show on purpose: the news, then two tools for your phone 01:19 — California: 20,000 suspected noncitizens, ballots already mailed, and the SAVE America Act 02:27 — 60 Minutes called it tiny. Ballotpedia: 660 races decided by 10 votes or fewer, 94 by one 04:29 — Social Security's biggest records cleanup in 91 years 06:09 — Senator Elissa Slotkin's "signature cases" and the IRS targeting of Tea Party groups 08:05 — France: 550,000 march, the worst rioting in years 09:53 — Where the election stands: a poll is a snapshot 10:28 — The part you can still work on, and the new Tea Party Patriots Action ad on socialism 14:51 — Tool one: how to text voters at TPP.me/text 21:06 — Tool two: Friends Help Friends Vote and relational organizing 23:23 — The Politico article: how Ossoff's campaign won Georgia with friends and family 24:34 — The research: a concrete plan to vote lifts turnout about 4 points 27:52 — The wet sponge: three squeezes of turnout 31:20 — Setup: download Numinar and sign up 32:08 — Step by step: confirm your email, join the Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund workspace 37:25 — Contact permissions: are you keeping my contacts? 45:52 — What to say: texting your dad, texting a college friend 50:19 — When a friend is voting for the opponent: never burn a relationship over one ballot 52:34 — The survey: tracking each plan to vote in the app 55:21 — Troubleshooting: zero matches, wrong workspace, where to get help 57:27 — Bring it home: two tools, fourteen days, ten minutes a day   Links mentioned: friendshelpfriendsvote.com TPP.me/text teapartypatriots.org/socialism support@teapartypatriots.org teapartypatriots.org jennybethshow.com

  6. Oct 19

    Flock Cameras: A Child of Communist Romania Sees the Pattern Coming Back | Manuela Callini

    Guest:   Manuela Callini was born in communist Romania in 1986 and was almost four when the Ceausescu regime fell in December 1989. Her mother came from a landowning family whose estate was collectivized; her father studied economics in Bucharest and was assigned his job and his apartment by the state. Callini studied international relations, worked with the Leadership Institute in Romania and Europe, and came to the United States in 2013 to work for the Institute in Washington, D.C. She became a citizen the legal way, lives in Arizona, and is involved in grassroots activism with EZAZ, where she learned the state's Request to Speak system and how bills are written.   Key topics:   • Ration cards, lines before dawn, and a shop that closes when you reach the front • Collectivization: her mother's family lost its land, livestock, equipment, and clothes; nine children shared one pair of rubber boots • The state chose her father's job, his city, and his home; businesses were nationalized overnight with no compensation • Children under the personality cult: identical uniforms, inspected hands, Ceausescu's portrait in every classroom • Ceausescu's end: fruit tied to trees for his visits, a Christmas Day trial of under an hour, and the lesson that nobody is safe under communism • Informers, a summer sweater, and a family that could trust no one • Flock and Axon cameras: mass surveillance sold as safety, and why no technology should require trusting the officer who holds it • The "new man," faith as a crime, and Pastor Richard Wurmbrand • The 250-year-old house the state handed her family, and the owners who came back after 1989 • Illegal immigration, free health care, and the patterns she sees in America • Why there are no young people at legislative district meetings, and what changed her mind in one day at EZAZ • The one thing to guard first: law enforcement and the courts • Her message: do not be deceived, start asking questions, show up   Timestamps:   00:00 — Cold open: her mother was one of nine children who shared a single pair of rubber boots 00:42 — Who Manuela Callini is: born in communist Romania, not quite four when the regime fell 01:43 — The interview begins: what growing up was like 01:59 — Born in 1986: ration cards, lines before dawn, and a shop that closes when you reach the front 03:45 — School under the personality cult: identical uniforms and state-given names 04:29 — Hands inspected on white handkerchiefs, like merchandise 05:23 — Ceausescu's portrait in every daycare; her wish for America 05:56 — Almost four when it ended: a dictator surrounded by his own relatives 06:55 — Streets painted overnight and fruit tied to the trees for his visits 07:36 — Christmas Day 1989: captured, tried in under an hour 08:48 — Nobody is safe under communism, not even the man at the top 09:15 — What her parents lived through: a mother from a family documented to the 1200s 10:03 — Collectivization: the state took the livestock, the equipment, even the clothes 11:27 — Nine children, one pair of rubber boots, three miles to school in the snow 12:57 — Her father: economics in Bucharest, then the job and the apartment the state chose 14:09 — The government controls your education, your job, and where and with whom you live 14:49 — Businesses, real estate, even children: everything belongs to the state 16:11 — Romania was not the Soviet Union; as Moscow loosened, Bucharest tightened 17:17 — A summer sweater, and why her mother said no 17:45 — Cold, electricity a few hours a day, two hours of television 18:20 — Oranges were a luxury 18:46 — December 1989 on a black-and-white TV: the euphoria on her parents' faces 19:55 — Communism left a mark: taught not to have a voice 20:25 — Informers, rewarded by the regime 21:08 — When no one can be trusted; the standard-issue haircuts 22:05 — Did you ever go hungry? 22:36 — Children going to bed hungry; broken shoes in first grade 23:17 — Ceausescu bragged about saving the economy 23:48 — A palace in Bucharest while the people had no heat 24:49 — The system eats its own; the Soviet bloc comes down; Tiananmen Square 25:52 — It always comes dressed up as good intentions: Flock and Axon cameras 26:36 — What the secret police would have done with this technology 27:27 — No technology should require trusting the officer who holds it 27:49 — Trafficking has not changed; data centers 28:34 — To America in 2013 through the Leadership Institute 29:32 — Margaret Thatcher's first impression of America 31:35 — Her father's visits: clean streets, and why nobody walks 32:33 — Private property is the first thing they take; land as sacred 34:33 — Her grandparents saw it happen; a grandfather who became a pastor 36:21 — The "new man": stripping people of their identity 38:21 — Pastor Richard Wurmbrand, and the lie told to his wife 39:18 — Abortion banned, contraception unavailable, foster homes full 40:53 — Why: external debt and a bigger workforce 42:15 — The socialist pitch sounds wonderful: free housing, free health care 42:56 — You don't own anything, but you are owned by the state 43:47 — The 250-year-old house taken from its owners 44:57 — After 1989: the rightful owners come back 45:35 — Big government arrives gradually, dressed up as your own good 46:01 — Patterns in America: free things that are not free 46:16 — Illegal immigration: she came the legal way 47:51 — Europe's immigration lesson 49:35 — EBT cards, free health care, and what it does to the people who pay 50:30 — The patterns are alarming; the younger generation was never taught 51:15 — Twenties and thirties, oblivious to the socialist agenda 51:44 — No young people at legislative district meetings or Request to Speak 52:38 — Distraction as strategy; walking into the EZAZ office in March 54:10 — The country thrives only if citizens get involved 55:18 — The one thing to guard: how communism entered Romania in 1945 55:58 — Watch law enforcement and the courts first 56:28 — Cameras, gender ideology, and an eroded identity 57:35 — Her message: do not be deceived 58:49 — Wake up: nobody dreams the North Korean dream 59:36 — The close: share the series, vote for liberty, iwillsaveamerica.com   Links mentioned:   iwillsaveamerica.com jennybethshow.com teapartypatriots.org

  7. Oct 16

    Surviving Communism: The 92% Tax Rate Sold to the People as 13% | Panel

    Guests:   Sasha Gong is the former China director at Voice of America, a former political prisoner in China, and a Harvard PhD. She came to the United States in the late 1980s, cannot return to China, and has filmed the history of communism across Eastern Europe. On this panel she explains the Budapest photograph, describes informers inside the family, and reports on Chinese influence operations on American social media.   Dr. Yuri Yarim-Agaev is a Soviet physicist and member of the Moscow Helsinki Group, exiled from the Soviet Union in 1980. Before his exile he developed an economic model of the Soviet system and concluded that the real tax rate was over 92 percent, hidden in state-set wages, against a nominal rate of 13 percent. He explains why the system could not match Ronald Reagan's military buildup and why Gorbachev was chosen to save communism, not end it.   Agnes Gibboney was two years old when her family escaped Hungary after the Soviet invasion of October 1956, one of roughly 200,000 Hungarians who left. She visited the statue cemetery in Budapest last year.   Ovidiu Frusina was born in Bucharest under Nicolae Ceausescu and was a university student during the December 1989 revolution. He describes the uprising in Timisoara, the rally that turned to booing, Ceausescu's helicopter, and a Securitate that could monitor 80 percent of the population.   Manuela Colini grew up under Romanian communism. She explains the photograph of the Romanian flag with the communist emblem cut out, Ceausescu's trial, and his execution on Christmas Day 1989.   Captain Onofre Gutierrez was born in Managua, Nicaragua. He explains the exiled Catholic bishop in the photograph and how the Sandinista regime has become the Ortega family regime.   Janice Trey is chairman of the board of The Epoch Times, born in a forced labor camp during China's Cultural Revolution. She explains the Tank Man photograph, the cousins in China who still do not know what happened, and the Chinese Communist Party's reach into American media, courts, and schools.   Torsten Trey grew up in West Germany and joins the panel for the Berlin Wall: Conrad Schumann's leap over the barbed wire in August 1961, the 30-year experiment that left East Germany decades behind, and a Bundestag witness's account of how Beijing pays influencers.   Key topics:   • Tank Man, June 4, 1989: a friend on an ambulance crew that night, and cousins in China who still do not know it happened • Read the People's Daily in reverse: the Party said unarmed students attacked the military • Budapest 1956: the Stalin statue comes down, the statue cemetery, and the 200,000 who left Hungary • Romania 1989: the flag with the emblem cut out, the rally that turned to booing, Ceausescu's helicopter, a trial of under an hour, and an execution on Christmas Day • Communism is cognitive dissonance: it promises abundance and safety, and not even the man at the top was safe • The Securitate could monitor 80 percent of the population, with informers in workplaces, schools, and families; Sasha Gong: my mother informed on me • Pacepa took orders from Andropov: Moscow wanted a change of guards in Romania, not an end to communism • Nicaragua now: an exiled Catholic bishop, and a Sandinista regime that has become the Ortega family regime • The Soviet food line and the number: a nominal tax of 13 percent, a real rate of 92 percent hidden in wages set by the only employer • A 1,000-ruble job paid 100 or 120; the trick was control over who gets the apartment, the food, and the doctor • Why it fell: with 92 percent already taken, there was nothing left to match Reagan's buildup; communism carries its own time bomb; Gorbachev was chosen to save the system • China today: Brezhnev-style stagnation under Xi Jinping; a Reagan-style peaceful offensive; Janice Trey says 466 million have withdrawn from the Party and its youth organizations • Infiltration: America Against America, paid inserts in American newspapers, lawsuits funded by the Chinese Communist Party, and Confucius Institutes that teach songs praising communism • Agents of influence now operate openly: the bank interview with a Party supervisor who said nothing happened at Tiananmen Square • Sasha Gong: fake accounts, and subscriptions used as payment to influencers • Jenny Beth Martin's rule for any anonymous account: who is behind it, where are its followers from, and who benefits outside America • The Berlin Wall, August 1961: built to keep East Germans in; Conrad Schumann's leap; one leveled country, two systems, and nobody ran east • The Bundestag testimony: $2,000 a month for a year to criticize China, then slowly change the narrative • Fifty years of one party with no criticism becomes extreme; the free world's balance is the check • Next in the series: the panel reads the Democratic Socialists of America program   Timestamps:   00:00 — Cold open: the famous photographs of communism, explained by the people who lived them 00:42 — The panel: survivors from China, the Soviet Union, Hungary, Romania, and Nicaragua 01:13 — The first photo: Tank Man, Tiananmen Square, June 4, 1989 01:22 — Janice Trey: the students wanted democracy; 1989 was the year the wall fell 02:28 — Two friends: an ambulance crew that night, and a nap that saved a life 03:36 — Her cousins in China have no idea; the People's Daily said the students attacked 04:11 — Sasha Gong: there is no number; massive arrests; a fifteen-year sentence 05:20 — The Beijing playbook offered to East Berlin: you have to crush those people 06:04 — Yuri Yarim-Agaev: Estonia, Budapest 1956, Andropov, and Putin's portrait 07:43 — Onofre Gutierrez watched from America; the host on Iran 08:30 — The next photo: the Stalin statue comes down in Budapest 08:39 — Sasha Gong: the hatred in their eyes; Stalin Alley became Karl Marx Avenue 10:16 — Agnes Gibboney: the statue cemetery, 1956, and the 200,000 who left Hungary 11:20 — The next photo: Romania, the flag with a hole in it 11:29 — Manuela Colini: December 1989, a trial of under an hour, Christmas Day 13:57 — Ovidiu Frusina: the missing emblem, Timisoara, and the rally that turned to booing 15:53 — Ceausescu's helicopter, a forced landing, and the arrest 18:23 — Pacepa's defection, and why Moscow was ready to assist 20:22 — The Securitate could monitor 80 percent of the population 21:03 — Sasha Gong: my mother informed on me; the flag with the symbol cut out 22:08 — Yarim-Agaev: Pacepa took orders from Andropov; a change of guards, not an end to communism 23:54 — Nicaragua now: an exiled Catholic bishop 24:44 — The Sandinista regime has become the Ortega family regime 25:55 — The Soviet food line: how did it end? 26:46 — Hidden taxation: the nominal rate was 13 percent 27:17 — A 1,000-ruble job paid 100 or 120 rubles; the conclusion is 92 percent 28:16 — The trick was control: who gets the apartment, the food, the doctor 29:46 — When Reagan came to power: no room left to take more 31:28 — Communism's time bomb 31:48 — Gorbachev tried to save communism 32:28 — China approaches the same stage: Brezhnev-style stagnation 33:17 — A peaceful offensive against Chinese communism 33:40 — Janice Trey: 466 million have withdrawn from the Party and its youth organizations 35:16 — A wolf in sheep's clothing: infiltration into the Western world 36:12 — America Against America: a 37-year playbook 36:46 — Paid inserts in American newspapers 37:16 — Lawfare: the Chinese Communist Party behind the lawsuits 38:02 — Confucius Institutes: songs praising communism, and the money to American institutions 39:58 — Yarim-Agaev: a global ideological war since 1917; the headquarters moved to Beijing 41:48 — The bank interview: nothing happened at Tiananmen Square 43:34 — Sasha Gong: I blame Americans more; Harvard, then Berkeley 44:44 — Fake accounts, and subscriptions as payment 46:19 — The host's rule for any anonymous account 48:19 — One more guest: Torsten Trey, who grew up in West Germany 48:57 — The Berlin Wall being built; why East Germany needed a wall 50:13 — August 1961: barbed wire overnight, and Conrad Schumann's leap 51:36 — A historic experiment: free market West, communist East 52:13 — Twenty or thirty years behind, because there was no incentive 53:09 — 1989: the experiment ended, and nobody ran east 54:40 — The propaganda ministry, and listening secretly to West German radio 55:16 — The Bundestag hearing: $2,000 a month to criticize China, then change the narrative 56:35 — The long game; fifty years of one party becomes extreme 58:15 — The close: take Yuri's number; next, the Democratic Socialists of America program 58:50 — Vote for liberty; iwillsaveamerica.com; share the series 59:00 — Outro   Links mentioned:   iwillsaveamerica.com jennybethshow.com teapartypatriots.org

  8. Oct 15

    Mamdani's Housing: The Soviet Question Is Who Decides Who Gets What | Dr. Yuri Yarim-Agaev

    Guest:   Dr. Yuri Yarim-Agaev is a physicist and Soviet dissident who joined the Moscow Helsinki Group, the main human rights organization inside the Soviet Union, and expected arrest every day. After Natan Sharansky and Yuri Orlov were arrested and Andrei Sakharov was exiled, American and Western European scientists organized a boycott of scientific cooperation, and the Soviets, far behind in computers and electronics, chose to force him out in 1980 rather than send him to a labor camp. In America he worked as a scientist at MIT and then Stanford, founded the Center for Democracy in the USSR to support dissidents still inside, testified before Congress, briefed President Ronald Reagan one day before Reykjavik and one day before Reagan's trip to Moscow, and was one of three men who briefed him on the weakness of the Soviet economy. He never worked in government. He describes himself as two things for life: a scientist and a human rights defender.   Key topics:   • Mamdani's housing plan: the Soviet question is who decides who gets what, and it is never decided democratically, by merit, or by means • The Soviet economy in one number: a hidden tax above 90 percent, with the rest handed back by loyalty to the party • The middle class is the nucleus of the city, and it is the first to be pushed out • COVID and rule by expertise: one truth, one set of experts, the dissenting scientists silenced; Gavin Newsom's restaurant party • Political opponent versus national enemy: do not call the whole Democratic Party communist; communists are enemies of the country • Scoop Jackson, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, and the AFL-CIO: when Democrats were the anticommunists • Schumer and Jeffries are not communists, both agree; they are afraid • Exiled by the KGB in 1980 after Western scientists boycotted Soviet science • Meeting Reagan: sick bear or wounded bear? The answer was sick • The only president who understood ideology; regime change as a deliberate strategy • Iran: stop in the middle and you do not win, you lose; the regime has consolidated • One bloc: Russia, China, and Iran; the weakest link is Russia and the road to Tehran runs through Kyiv • Russia today: the same KGB, still sponsoring terrorism, still working to discredit American elections • Putin's conservatism is Stalin's and Brezhnev's, not Reagan's and Truman's; family values do not separate free countries from totalitarian ones • The danger from the left is always greater than the danger from the right, and liberals who will not fight the radical left summon the authoritarian right • Human rights: the best thing humankind invented, 250 years after the Declaration and 50 years after the Moscow Helsinki Group   Timestamps:   00:00 — Cold open: the physicist who put the real Soviet tax rate above 90 percent 00:43 — Part two of two: expelled in 1980, briefed Reagan before Reykjavik and Moscow 01:25 — Mamdani's housing: an affordability crisis, or a seizure of private property? 02:44 — The key question in his whole program: who will control it 03:24 — The Soviet economy in one number: more than 90 percent hidden taxation 04:03 — Mamdani's plan: take as much as possible, redistribute by their rules; the middle class is out 05:41 — Jenny Beth Martin: young people understood government control during COVID; Gavin Newsom's restaurant 07:25 — Rule by expertise: one truth, one theory, one party 08:28 — The pandemic experts, and the specialists who were silenced 10:29 — Why pointing at Mao does not impress young Americans: get to the appeal 11:41 — An internal ideological war that needs resources, not a shoestring 11:52 — Political opponent versus national enemy: do not equate the Democratic Party with communism 13:10 — Scoop Jackson, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, and the AFL-CIO: when Democrats were the anticommunists 14:42 — Jenny Beth Martin: Fetterman and Carville have said no; Schumer and Jeffries are afraid 15:49 — A gesture by Republicans: unite on this one issue 16:49 — How he left: the Reagan briefings, George Shultz, and the young men of Reagan's Soviet policy 18:23 — Exiled by the KGB: Sharansky, Orlov, Sakharov, and the scientists' boycott 19:59 — Forced out instead of imprisoned; MIT, then Stanford 20:51 — What was it like meeting Reagan? He listened and asked very good questions 21:21 — His model of the Soviet economy: the Soviets could not afford another arms race 22:20 — Sick bear or wounded bear? 22:54 — The only president who understood the importance of ideology 23:46 — Regime change was Reagan's deliberate strategy: evil empire, ash heap of history 25:07 — Jenny Beth Martin: we have to finish the job we started in Iran 25:47 — What finishing means: the Marshall-MacArthur model of Germany and Japan 26:10 — Stop in the middle and you do not win, you lose 26:27 — The regime and the country: the Soviet Union in 1945 27:24 — Iran today: the country damaged, the regime consolidated 28:53 — Jenny Beth Martin: Americans do not want war, and do not remember the hostages 30:18 — One united bloc: Russia, China, and Iran 31:47 — The weakest link is Russia: the road to victory in Iran goes through Kyiv 33:20 — Why Russia is still a problem: an attack on the democratic world 35:21 — The same KGB: terrorism, election interference, agents of influence 38:04 — Jenny Beth Martin: September 11, the war on terror, and President Trump responding in Iran 39:00 — What Putin does inside Russia; the unwritten rule he broke 41:09 — Jenny Beth Martin: Americans are being fed Russian propaganda on social media 41:37 — Conservatism is relative: Reagan and Truman, Stalin and Brezhnev 43:02 — Family values do not distinguish free countries from totalitarian ones 43:56 — What Americans should be on guard about: totalitarianism outside and inside 44:38 — The danger from the left is always greater than the danger from the right 46:40 — The authoritarian right is called to arms by the authoritarian left 48:32 — The last question: the biggest lesson of a life spent fighting for human rights 48:54 — Human rights: the best thing humankind invented 49:41 — Two anniversaries: 250 years of the Declaration, 50 years of the Moscow Helsinki Group 51:58 — Thank you for not walking away 52:32 — The close: the panel episode, 92 percent against 13; vote for liberty; share the series 53:53 — Outro   Links mentioned:   jennybethshow.com teapartypatriots.org

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