The Jenny Beth Show

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.

  1. 1d ago

    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.

  2. 2d ago

    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

  3. 3d ago

    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

  4. 4d ago

    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

  5. 5d ago

    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

  6. Aug 21

    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

  7. Aug 20

    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

  8. Aug 19

    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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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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