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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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S3 · E126
Thursday · 1 hr 5 min
Tiananmen Square 1989: The Communist Party Official's Son Who Stood Against the Party | Orren Wang
Surviving Communism continues on The Jenny Beth Show with Orren Wang, who grew up in a village in rural China under Mao's communism and marched against the regime during the nationwide 1989 democracy movement the world remembers as Tiananmen Square. His father never went to school, taught himself to read, and was recruited by the Communist Party as a township-level official. His mother never learned to read. Wang remembers sugar rationed to a pound or two per family each year, officials seizing
S3 · E125
Wednesday · 1 hr 11 min
Georgia Early Voting in 13 Days & Free Billboards Across America | Bergman, Zawistowski, Biegalski
Georgia early voting opens October 13, and Election Day is 34 days out. In this guest-hosted hour of The Jenny Beth Show, Robert McNeily, Director of Broadcasting and Grassroots Engagement at Tea Party Patriots Action, sits in for Jenny Beth Martin and puts the midterm math on the table: from 1902 to 2022 the president's party lost House seats in 28 of 31 midterm elections, yet in the five modern midterms that flipped the House, the Senate changed hands only twice. Three organizers explain what
S3 · E124
Tuesday · 55 min
Nothing Is Free: A Hungarian Refugee's Warning to Young Americans | Agnes Gibboney
Nothing is free. Agnes Gibboney learned that in communist Hungary, where the Communist Party moved a stranger into her parents' house and answered every objection with one question: do you want me to report you? On this Surviving Communism episode of The Jenny Beth Show, she tells Jenny Beth Martin what free housing, free food and free health care delivered to one family in Budapest, and why she is warning young Americans who hear the same promise from the Democratic Socialists of America today.
S3 · E123
Monday · 1 hr 4 min
Democratic Socialists of America: Reaction from a Survivor of Mao's China | Lily Tang Williams
The Democratic Socialists of America promise a future where everything is free. Lily Tang Williams grew up inside the version of that promise Mao Zedong built, and on this episode of The Jenny Beth Show she tells Jenny Beth Martin what it looked like from the bottom: eight families on one outdoor restroom and one faucet, a six-year-old in the ration line at 5 AM, and the month she lost the family's protein coupon. Williams was two when the Cultural Revolution began and twelve when Mao died. She
S3 · E122
September 25 · 45 min
Xi Jinping in America: Give Him Face, But Do Not Give Him an Inch | Sasha Gong
Xi Jinping in America is the story of the week, and Sasha Gong sees Xi Jinping in a way almost no American analyst can. Xi Jinping's own father ordered her release from a Chinese jail, where she spent a year as a young dissident. On this episode of The Jenny Beth Show, Gong tells Jenny Beth Martin what Xi wants from his visit with President Trump, what America should give him, and where the line is. Her rule is simple: give Xi face, do not give him an inch. A presidential greeting at the airpor
S3 · E121
September 24 · 22 min
Poll Workers Wanted: Most Who Show Up Have Never Done It Before | Jason Snead
Poll workers wanted. At every poll worker training the Honest Elections Project has run this year, Jason Snead asks the room who has served as a poll worker or poll watcher before, and not many hands go up. Snead, Executive Director of the Honest Elections Project, joins Jenny Beth Martin to explain what the job actually involves, why the training is built for people who have never done it, and why the coalition that includes Tea Party Patriots Action is taking it to Wisconsin on October 2 in Br
S3 · E120
September 23 · 1 hr 11 min
Taliban Hostage 835 Days: Left by Biden, Freed by Trump | George Glezmann & George Taylor
George Glezmann spent 835 days as a Taliban hostage, most of them in an underground cell in Kabul with the lights on around the clock. A Delta Air Lines aircraft mechanic with degrees in engineering and anthropology and 135 countries behind him, he walked into Afghanistan in December 2022 with a valid visa and a camera. By nightfall he was on a floor with a gun at his temple, accused of being CIA, listening to what his interrogator said was the sound of his own gallows being built. Jenny Beth M
S3 · E119
September 22 · 44 min
Lindsey Clancy Trial: When Justifying Abortion Becomes Justifying Her | Fr. Frank Pavone
The Lindsey Clancy trial has a lot of people asking why so many women are making excuses for a mother who took the lives of her three children. Father Frank Pavone, founder of Priests for Life and its election arm Pro-Life Vote, tells Jenny Beth Martin the answer has been building for fifty years: a country that keeps justifying the taking of life in the womb will find itself justifying it outside the womb too. He runs the largest post-abortion healing ministry in the world, and he says the psyc
S3 · E118
September 21 · 1 hr 11 min
16 Charged With Illegal Voting in 7 States & Ohio Told It Can't Check Citizenship | Jim Pfaff
Illegal voting charges against 16 people in seven states, eight of them noncitizens living in Texas, opened the week, and every one of those ballots was counted. Not one was caught on the day it was cast; prosecutors found most of them years later while looking at something else entirely. Guest host Robert McNeily, in for Jenny Beth Martin, spends the hour with Jim Pfaff, president of The Conservative Caucus and former chief of staff to two members of Congress, on the question the charges force:
S3 · E117
September 18 · 59 min
Inflation: Wet Streets Don't Cause Rain, and Prices Don't Cause Inflation | Lawrence Reed
Inflation is not rising prices. Rising prices are what inflation does. In this third lesson of a four part economics series, Lawrence W. Reed, president emeritus of the Foundation for Economic Education, walks Jenny Beth Martin through money and inflation from the first coins to the Federal Reserve, and makes one argument the whole way: when a government prints too much money, everything priced in that money goes up, and the grocer who changes the sticker is not the one who did it. Reed starts
S3 · E116
September 17 · 56 min
ActBlue: 10 Plead the Fifth on Foreign Money & the Fed's First Hike Since 2023 | Duensing, McNeily
Ten ActBlue employees, board members and lawyers sat down with House investigators this week, and all ten pled the Fifth. ActBlue, which has raised $19 billion for Democrats since 2004, is the subject of a third joint report from three House committees, and Jenny Beth Martin opens with what is in it: fraud analysts told to give donors the benefit of the doubt, a donor with foreign IP addresses graded a "great accept," a Hong Kong login that raised no eyebrows, and a passport check that only coun
S3 · E115
September 16 · 28 min
48 Days to Election Day: 10 Things You Can Do to Save America | Jenny Beth Martin
The Democratic Socialists of America published a national program this summer, and Jenny Beth Martin pulls it up and reads it out loud, line by line, in this episode. The Democratic Socialists of America ask you to imagine a future without capitalism: no debt, no bills, no health insurance, no mortgage, no landlord, publicly funded retirement, and food, education, energy, medicine and transportation converted from businesses into common goods and utilities. Jenny Beth stops on each promise and a
S3 · E114
September 15 · 1 hr 2 min
Supreme Court Blocks a Mail Ballot Change & $39 Billion Pandemic Fraud | Teller, Robbins, McNeily
The Supreme Court blocked a mail ballot change forty nine days before an election, so the rules for this election are now set. Justice Brett Kavanaugh, appointed by President Trump, wrote that the rule may well be lawful and that the county clerk still cannot put it in place by November 3. A court can be out of time. A law never is. That is the argument for the SAVE America Act, and Jenny Beth Martin tells the story of where the bill came from: a coalition conference call with Senator Mike Lee,
S3 · E113
September 14 · 1 hr 12 min
Trump's Top 25 Achievements: Most Republicans Cannot Name 3 of Them | Rod Martin
Trump's top 25 achievements are the whole hour, and Rod Martin's argument is that Republicans do not have a record problem, they have an information problem. Martin says an astonishing number of Republican voters cannot name three things President Trump has accomplished, so he wrote the list down and posted it. Jenny Beth Martin takes him through it line by line. The hour moves in five blocks. Border and public safety: illegal crossings down 99.9 percent by Martin's count, roughly three million
S3 · E112
September 11 · 1 hr 10 min
Capitalism vs. Socialism: Hong Kong Was a Rock With 750,000 People on It | Lawrence Reed
Capitalism vs. socialism is not a slogan fight in this episode. It is a record, and Lawrence W. Reed reads it out loud. This is the second of four conversations building economics from the ground up with Jenny Beth Martin, and it is the one about systems: what it actually means for an economy to be organized from the top down or left alone, and what happened every time a country tried each one. Reed starts with a definition he says people miss. Capitalism is what happens when you leave peaceful
S3 · E111
September 10 · 56 min
Republican Midterm Convention & Three Battleground States | McKoon, Simmons, Grogan
The Republican Party held a national convention in a midterm year for the first time in American history, and President Trump spoke on the second night. Jenny Beth Martin marks that week by going state by state with three Republican state party chairmen, recorded in the days before the delegates arrived in Dallas. Jason Simmons brought the number that should end the argument about whether ground work matters. When President Trump was first elected in 2016, Democrats held a 645,000-voter registra
S3 · E110
September 9 · 50 min
First Republican Midterm Convention: The Reset Button in Dallas | David Bossie
The first Republican midterm convention in American history opens in Dallas, and the man who helped plan it says it is a reset button. David Bossie joins Jenny Beth Martin for the full hour on what the next eight weeks actually decide. Bossie is president of Citizens United, the Republican National Committeeman for Maryland, and was deputy campaign manager for Donald Trump's 2016 campaign. He served as chief investigator for the House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight during the Clint
S3 · E109
September 8 · 45 min
ICE Out Protests: Public School Teachers Organized the Student Walkouts | Ashley Hayek
ICE Out protests have been sold as spontaneous student walkouts. Ashley Hayek's daughter came home from a private school with a flyer for one, her team scraped the graphic, and the people who built it turned out to be two Washington DC public school teachers. In Los Angeles, the protest outside White Memorial Hospital was led by a Los Angeles Unified School District teacher. In San Antonio, Dallas, Houston and Austin, the high school walkouts followed the same pattern. And the organizers were no
S3 · E108
September 4 · 1 hr 26 min
Economics 101: Your Dollar Is Worth Less Than a Nickel Was in 1913 | Lawrence Reed
Economics 101 starts here. This is the first of four episodes with economist Lawrence Reed that build the subject from the ground up, an economics course in four weeks, so that the argument about the national debt, inflation and affordability can be had by people who actually know how an economy works. Reed opens with a definition: economics is the study of human action in a world of limited resources and unlimited wants. From there he walks Adam Smith and The Wealth of Nations in 1776, and the
S3 · E107
September 3 · 1 hr
205 Democrats Keep Court Packing Alive & 192 Refuse to Condemn Socialism | Whiteford, Murray
Court packing is still on the table, and this week the House of Representatives put every member on the record about it. A one-sentence constitutional amendment from Congressman Andy Biggs of Arizona would have written into the Constitution what Americans assume is already there, that the Supreme Court has nine justices. It failed 212 to 206. Every Republican voted yes. 205 Democrats voted no, and so did the House's one independent. The Constitution never says nine. Congress set the number, Cong

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