The Jenny Beth Show

Guest: Rod Martin, author of The Rod Martin Report and of the new book Trump's New World Reorder, released the week before this conversation and available in hardback, on Kindle, and on Audible. He joins from the Gulf Coast of Florida. Guest: Stacy Washington, host of Stacy on the Right and an Air Force veteran who served on active duty in Saudi Arabia. She broadcasts from St. Louis. Host: Jenny Beth Martin, co-founder of the Tea Party movement and chairman of Tea Party Patriots Action. Key topics:• Voter ID won all six states where it shared a ballot with a statewide race, and Democrats won all six races• Why Republicans lost: a Congress that did not codify the president's agenda, not affordability• Mad at Republicans, not Republican policy: California's wealth-tax ban and Florida's clean sweep• Was it Iran or the economy? Khobar Towers, the oil balance of power, and the longer game• The October jobs report, GDP, inflation, and the prices Stacy Washington actually tracks• Refineries closed during the conflict, and the right's biggest influencers• Jenny Beth Martin on why anger and fear sell clicks, and guarding your heart and mind• Stephen Miller as White House chief of staff: the opposite of what George Bush did after 2006• The 55-day list: the National Defense Authorization Act, reconciliation, Golden Dome, nominees, and judges• A dog parade in the Senate and the SAVE America Act that never got a vote• Why they want Pete Hegseth gone: 68 Tomahawks a year to 1,000, and the cost-plus contracts he ended• Hakeem Jeffries' hard yes, Thomas Massie's resolution, and drone warfare• Golden Dome, China's growing arsenal, a 287-ship Navy, and 15 Trump-class battleships• Peace through strength: answering the neocon charge• Calls to action: no to impeaching Hegseth, bring Delilah's Law to a vote, and the post-election survey Timestamps:00:00 — Cold open: Democrats ran on affordability, now it is impeachment; voter ID won all six states02:57 — Why Republicans lost: Stacy Washington on a Congress that did nothing with its majority05:52 — Rod Martin: voters were mad at Republicans, not Republican policy; Florida lost nothing09:53 — Was it Iran or the economy? Khobar Towers and the oil balance of power12:25 — Every president loses the midterms; the gathering boom from tariffs and investment15:51 — The October jobs report, GDP, inflation, and the prices Stacy Washington tracks19:45 — Refineries shut down during the conflict, and the right's biggest influencers22:10 — Jenny Beth Martin: anger and fear sell clicks; guard your heart and your mind25:20 — Stephen Miller as chief of staff: the opposite of Bush after 200630:54 — The 55-day list: NDAA, reconciliation, Golden Dome, nominees, and judges34:03 — A dog parade in the Senate and the SAVE America Act that never got a vote36:22 — Why they want Pete Hegseth gone: 68 Tomahawks to 1,00040:35 — Hakeem Jeffries: "I'm a hard yes"; Massie's resolution and drone warfare46:56 — Golden Dome, China's arsenal, and a 287-ship Navy in a world that needs 45050:45 — Peace through strength: the neocon charge, and Art Laffer on hope56:29 — Thanks, Veterans Day, and the calls to action Links mentioned:jennybethshow.comteapartypatriots.orgTrump's New World Reorder by Rod Martin, on AmazonThe post-election survey and the Delilah's Law petition at teapartypatriots.org

Guest: Dr. Torsten Trey, founder of Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting. An internist trained in Germany who relicensed in the United States, he founded the organization in the summer of 2006 after Chinese transplant doctors at a Boston congress told him their organs came from Falun Gong practitioners. He has run it pro bono for twenty years, taken the issue to Congress, and watched a bill against forced organ harvesting become bipartisan in both chambers. He grew up in West Germany and remembers the Wall coming down; his wife, Janice Trey, survived China's Cultural Revolution and appeared earlier in this series. Key topics:• West Germany and the Wall: automatic guns, children spying on parents, an East twenty years behind• The 2006 newspaper story: a surgeon's wife and 2,000 corneas• Who the Falun Gong are, and why 100 million practitioners frightened the Party• Blood typing in detention: a donor match in ten minutes• Uyghurs, halal organs, and 50 million Christians• A fake donor registry that grew by 25,000 overnight• The Boston professor who told doctors to skip the forum• Hainan Island: no visa, ten hospitals, no discharge letter• Fentanyl, Confucius clubs, COVID, and unrestricted warfare• Control as communism's common denominator; Stockholm syndrome• House Resolution 343 and a bipartisan, bicameral bill Timestamps:00:00 — Cold open: the Surviving Communism series00:33 — Growing up in West Germany with the Wall in view02:41 — East Germany's secret police asked children to spy on their parents05:03 — Reunification: an East twenty years behind09:23 — Medical school with no upper limit versus the one-book system12:18 — Becoming an internist and moving to America13:50 — 2006: a surgeon's wife confesses 2,000 corneas16:14 — The World Transplant Congress in Boston; founding Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting18:14 — Who the Falun Gong are: 100 million practitioners by 199921:00 — Jiang Zemin's jealousy; the practice outlawed in July 199922:24 — Truthfulness, compassion, forbearance: a mirror the Party could not tolerate25:57 — Healthy bodies and blood typing: a donor match in ten minutes28:08 — The real incentive: eliminating dissidents without suspicion29:00 — Uyghurs, halal organs, and patients from the Middle East30:04 — Fifty million Christians in China31:36 — Tiananmen's lesson: execution moved into the hospitals33:14 — Twenty years of obstacles: what evidence would you accept?35:13 — The fake donor registry: 25,000 overnight37:09 — Three million signatures to the United Nations37:42 — The Boston transplant professor's email39:13 — Rejected by the American Transplant Congress40:24 — Where the organs go: a kidney in three days41:09 — Hainan Island: no visa, ten hospitals, no discharge letter42:34 — China hides its hand: Ukraine, Hamas, Iran, and fentanyl44:48 — Death by a thousand cuts: pressure on America's transplant system45:35 — Confucius Institutes and high school Confucius clubs47:30 — Sun Tzu and unrestricted warfare48:36 — COVID: Wuhan quarantined while Beijing told Italy it was not contagious49:29 — The face-mask monopoly that split Europe50:48 — A socialist party in America as a wedge51:55 — Jenny Beth's 2014 border documentary and what Americans will not believe53:36 — Communism as breeding ground; the Taiwan post; the one-child policy56:21 — The Robin Hood mentality57:42 — Control is communism's common denominator58:24 — The one-child policy and the family bond01:01:57 — Stockholm syndrome: the Party holds China hostage01:04:22 — North Korea, and why it cannot creep in here01:07:41 — Bernie Sanders' Soviet honeymoon and the sawed branch01:10:18 — Twenty years pro bono: was it worth it?01:14:26 — House Resolution 343 and a bipartisan, bicameral bill01:18:04 — A lame-duck chance, and the close Links mentioned:jennybethshow.comteapartypatriots.orgDoctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting (the guest asks physicians to look up the organization's published data)

Guest: Shannon Everett of American Truckers United, which advocates for generational, family-owned American trucking companies and for the families of people hurt in truck crashes. The organization filed the amicus brief the Supreme Court agreed with in May when it unanimously held that freight brokers can be liable for negligently selecting a carrier, and Everett works directly with crash victims' families, including Deanne Miller of Colorado. Guest host: Robert McNeily, in for Jenny Beth Martin. Key topics:• What Delilah's Law (H.R. 5688) would do, and why it is stalled after clearing committee in March• The 2019 guidance change that let work-permit holders apply for a CDL, and the explosion after 2021• Secretary Sean Duffy's non-domiciled CDL rule: new licenses stopped, old ones never revoked• Self-certified CDL schools and self-certified electronic logs from Serbia, India, and China• Drivers working 20-hour days, falling asleep in 80,000-pound trucks• Freight brokers, the immunity claim, and the Supreme Court's unanimous ruling• No criminal statute for an illegal alien trucker who causes a fatal crash• Reciprocity: why states should stop honoring CDLs from California and New York• No federal trucking police: enforcement belongs to the states• The Texas loophole: Mexican CDLs on visitor visas driving to Michigan• The math: transportation is 2 to 3 percent of a load, and the labor savings are half of one percent• The appeals court ruling on Duffy's rule that could drop any day• The driver shortage myth and hours-of-service abuse Timestamps:00:00 — Cold open: what Delilah's Law (H.R. 5688) would do, and why it is stalled03:19 — Shannon Everett joins: the loophole opened in 201905:36 — Secretary Duffy's rule closed the door but revoked no licenses08:28 — Licenses for bribes, English proficiency, and self-certified CDL schools11:37 — Freight brokers and the unanimous Supreme Court ruling13:40 — A war inside trucking: cheap labor that costs lives15:52 — Trump's executive order, Duffy's investigation, and the freight recession18:55 — No criminal statute: Deanne Miller and the driver deported a 17th time20:40 — Reciprocity: California and New York broke the trust22:54 — No federal trucking police; Mexico CDLs and the Texas loophole26:37 — Worst offenders, and the half-of-one-percent math29:42 — What to watch: an appeals court ruling that could drop any day31:44 — Discrimination? The driver shortage myth and hours of service35:18 — What families should expect if Delilah's Law passes Links mentioned:jennybethshow.comteapartypatriots.orgH.R. 5688, Delilah's Law (the guest host asks viewers to read the bill and follow its progress)

Host: Jenny Beth Martin, co-founder of the Tea Party movement and Chairman of Tea Party Patriots Action. A solo recap recorded the morning after the 2026 midterm elections. No guests. Key topics:• The results as Jenny Beth Martin reads them: Senate seats lost in Texas, Kansas, Iowa, and South Carolina, Maine and North Carolina flipped, Mississippi and Alaska in question• The House is lost; Speaker Mike Johnson will not run for minority leader, Jim Jordan is running, and Steve Scalise is expected to• Governors: Georgia, Texas, Ohio, and Iowa lost, Kansas still being counted, and more Democrat governors than Republican for the first time since 2010• State legislative chambers flipped in Arizona, Michigan, Minnesota, Texas, and Georgia• It was a midterm, and midterms are almost always hard on the president's party: step back and look for the lessons• First recommendation: take a deep breath and turn off social media and the news for a day or two• What is coming in Washington: leadership fights, a government funding deadline, investigations and possibly impeachment hearings in January, and the 2028 presidential race• Nearly 500,000 local elected seats in America, and the Leadership Institute's online training for candidates and campaign managers• Tea Party Patriots Action and Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund want to know which tools helped you this cycle and what else would have• Back to the founding principles: the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, and the Bill of Rights, plus the constitution training and the founding principles series with Bill Norton• How the Tea Party movement began after the 2008 loss: Top Conservatives on Twitter, Smart Girl Politics, the DontGo movement, Rick Santelli's rant, 48 tea parties with 35,000 people, and more than 850 six weeks later• Don't give up. Don't lose hope. America is bigger than any single election Timestamps:00:00 — Cold open: a tough, tough night. Do we even have a country left?00:32 — The Senate: Texas, Kansas, Iowa, South Carolina, Maine, and North Carolina, with Mississippi and Alaska in question01:12 — The House is lost; Speaker Mike Johnson out of the leadership race, Jim Jordan in, Steve Scalise expected01:33 — Governors and state legislative chambers: more Democrat governors than Republican for the first time since 201002:38 — "What are we going to do next?" It was a midterm; step back and look for the lessons03:27 — First recommendation: take a deep breath and turn off the news for a day or two04:09 — What is coming in Washington: leadership fights, a funding deadline, investigations in January, and 202805:40 — Nearly 500,000 local elected seats, and the Leadership Institute's candidate training06:58 — Which tools helped you this cycle? Tea Party Patriots Action refines its training for 2027 and 202808:09 — Back to the founding principles: the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights09:48 — How the Tea Party movement began after the 2008 loss: one conference call, 48 rallies, then 85012:14 — "We didn't stop": take a breather, learn the lessons, and be ready when the time comes13:15 — Don't give up. Don't lose hope. America is bigger than any single election14:21 — Join Tea Party Patriots Action at teapartypatriots.org Links mentioned:teapartypatriots.orgjennybethshow.com

Host: Jenny Beth Martin, co-founder of the Tea Party movement and Chairman of Tea Party Patriots Action. A short solo Election Day message. No guests. Key topics:• Polls close tonight: if you have not voted, go vote, and vote for common sense conservatives• Already voted? Call your friends and family, in your state or another, and offer a ride to the polls• Friendshelpfriendsvote.com: match your contacts against the people who had not voted as of this morning• The lesson of this cycle: democratic socialism is Marxism, and it fails everywhere it has been tried• What the Democratic Socialists of America want: abolish the Senate, one chamber picks the president, pack the Supreme Court• No ICE, no secure border, amnesty and citizenship for people who entered the country illegally• Abolish police and prisons while violent crime is at its lowest since 1900• The One Big Beautiful Bill locked in the Trump tax cuts: the average taxpayer keeps $1,700 more• Median income is the highest ever recorded, and wages still have to catch up to prices• Why every gain is reversed if common sense conservatives lose tonight Timestamps:00:00 — The direction of the country comes down to today's elections. Have you voted?00:29 — If you have not voted, go vote, and vote Republican up and down the ticket01:06 — Already voted? Call your friends and family and offer a ride to the polls01:41 — Friendshelpfriendsvote.com: see which of your contacts have not voted02:00 — The lesson of this cycle: democratic socialism is Marxism, and it fails everywhere02:46 — What the Democratic Socialists of America want: abolish the Senate, one chamber picks the president03:25 — Expand and pack the Supreme Court: the end of three branches that check each other03:39 — No ICE, no secure border, amnesty and citizenship for illegal entry03:57 — Abolish police and prisons while violent crime is at its lowest since 190004:36 — They opposed the One Big Beautiful Bill: the Trump tax cuts and $1,700 per taxpayer05:09 — The economy is improving: record median income, and wages still catching up to prices06:23 — If common sense conservatives lose, every gain is reversed06:45 — Go vote, then make sure your friends and family vote. The future is decided tonight Links mentioned:friendshelpfriendsvote.comjennybethshow.comteapartypatriots.org

Guest: Scott Presler is the founder of Early Vote Action, the voter registration and turnout organization whose team registered more than 50,000 new voters in Pennsylvania during the 2024 cycle. He has spent this cycle working alongside Tea Party Patriots Action on election integrity from Maine to Arizona to Alaska, and joins from Congressman Scott Perry's district outside Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, where Early Vote Action has twelve full-time staff knocking doors. Guest host: Robert McNeily, Director of Broadcasting and Grassroots Engagement at Tea Party Patriots Action, hosts in for Jenny Beth Martin, who joins at the close from Pennsylvania's Tenth District. Key topics: • Less than twenty-four hours until the polls open: the Republican who has not voted yet is your job today• More than 54 million Americans have already voted, a midterm record, which means the election is decided by the people who have not• Congresswoman Haley Stevens endorsed Republican Mike Rogers for Senate; her chief of staff quit and the Michigan Democratic Party cut off her voter-file access• The final New York Times and Siena College polls: Democrats ahead in all seven deciding Senate races, and voters who decided in the last month favoring Republicans by nine• Two Dan Sullivans on Alaska's Senate ballot, and the Minnesota election official who explained how to vote without saying the word citizen• No phone number to call this week: the House and Senate are home until November 9, so the action is on your doorstep• Pennsylvania's Tenth District: Dauphin, York, and Cumberland counties, twelve full-time staff, and a map drawn to beat Scott Perry• Election integrity on tomorrow's ballot in Alaska, California, Nevada, and Arizona, and why Presler calls them the SAVE America Act at the state level• Did Republicans finally embrace early voting? Presler on who the 54 million are• Power outages close two polling places in Republican areas of Maricopa County, and the long lines of 2022• protectthevote.com: click Fraud, and the report goes straight to the Republican National Committee• Rural Texas counties could run out of paper ballots; what a voter should do if the precinct runs out• Presler's Pennsylvania slate, and the four Republican House seats to protect• More Pennsylvania Republicans have voted by mail this year than in the entire 2022 general election; 59,000 ballots are still out• Do not mail it now: a Pennsylvania ballot must reach the county elections office by 8 PM on Election Day• The one-hour ask: go through your phone and call or text everyone you know who voted Republican in 2024• Will Pennsylvania be called on election night? Presler says probably before midnight• Truckers, moms of seven, pilots, and the Poconos commute: why vote early next time• Every vote counts: John Duarte lost by 187, Michelle Steel by 653, Mariannette Miller-Meeks won by 6, Al Franken by 312, Florida in 2000 by 537• Why Trump's base is more loyal to him than to the party, and why Presler says run toward his agenda• Speaker Johnson and Mark Levin say ignore the polls; Presler's affordability message instead• Robert McNeily on two weeks of civil unrest abroad, from France and Poland to Brazil, as America votes• Jenny Beth Martin joins from Scott Perry's district, back out to knock doors with Presler after the show• Breaking at the close: the two Maricopa polling places are back up and running• If you see a problem at the polls, report it at protectthevote.com, where attorneys are standing by Timestamps: 00:00 — Cold open: less than twenty-four hours until the polls open00:43 — Robert McNeily in for Jenny Beth Martin: one third of the Senate and every House seat01:07 — 54 million already voted, a midterm record01:24 — Haley Stevens endorses Mike Rogers, and her party throws her out02:15 — The final Times and Siena polls, and the number that did not make the headline02:34 — Two Dan Sullivans in Alaska; the Minnesota official who never said citizen03:02 — No phone number this week: the action is on your doorstep03:16 — Scott Presler, founder of Early Vote Action04:24 — Pennsylvania's Tenth: Dauphin, York, and Cumberland, and a map drawn to beat Scott Perry05:34 — What Michigan teaches: the Democrats push people out06:46 — Early Vote Action and Tea Party Patriots Action: election integrity from Maine to Alaska07:31 — Alaska: end ranked choice voting07:58 — California: proof of citizenship and photo ID08:17 — Nevada: photo ID08:35 — Arizona: the SAVE America Act at the state level09:23 — 54 million early votes: did Republicans listen?09:49 — Both sides are turning out; the Republican numbers are new10:32 — Maricopa County: power outages close polling places in Republican areas11:11 — Longer lines, and what happened in 202211:47 — protectthevote.com: click Fraud, and the report goes to the Republican National Committee12:32 — In line at 6:55? You can still vote13:32 — Jenny Beth Martin is en route to Scott Perry's district13:52 — Rural Texas could run out of paper ballots14:09 — Immediately go to protectthevote.com, film it, take pictures15:08 — Presler's Pennsylvania slate15:39 — Trump's 30 rallies, and the Republicans who still have not voted16:25 — More Pennsylvania Republicans voted by mail than in all of 202216:40 — 59,000 ballots still unreturned17:45 — Do not mail it: deliver it to the county elections office by 8 PM18:00 — One free hour: what is the most useful thing you can do?18:47 — Go through your phone book19:38 — Will Pennsylvania be called on election night?20:23 — Republicans who only vote on Election Day are...20:49 — Truckers, moms of seven, pilots: why vote early22:02 — Any problem tomorrow: protectthevote.com22:13 — The guy who says his vote does not matter22:40 — John Duarte lost by 187 votes22:55 — Michelle Steel lost by 65323:11 — Mariannette Miller-Meeks won by 623:22 — Al Franken won by 31223:49 — Florida 2000: 53724:16 — The polls say one thing; the late deciders say another24:54 — Democrats ahead in all seven Senate races25:21 — Late deciders favor Republicans by nine points26:03 — Trump's base is more loyal to Trump than to the party26:52 — Put my agenda on the ballot: run toward Trump27:10 — Speaker Johnson and Mark Levin say ignore the polls. Is that the right message?27:42 — Look the voter in the eye: life is hard right now28:23 — Gas, oil, and electricity28:51 — Housing, health care, and overcrowded schools30:07 — California gas prices before the Iranian conflict30:47 — Civil unrest abroad as America votes33:11 — Jenny Beth Martin joins from Scott Perry's district33:45 — Back out door to door with Scott34:22 — Why there is nobody like Scott Presler35:25 — Early Vote Action and Tea Party Patriots Action: the partnership continues35:42 — Breaking: the Maricopa polling places are back up36:09 — Ending on protectthevote.com36:24 — There are attorneys staffing that36:52 — Make sure you vote, and get your friends and family to vote37:03 — Like and subscribe Links mentioned: protectthevote.comjennybethshow.comteapartypatriots.org

Surviving Communism, part five, the last of the panel conversations. Jenny Beth Martin asked six survivors of communism why they chose America, what it sounded like from inside their countries when President Reagan called their system illegitimate, what the world loses if America falls, and what they would tell a 22-year-old who likes what the democratic socialists are saying. Guests Sasha Gong is the former director of Voice of America's China service, a former political prisoner in China, and a Harvard PhD. Dr. Yuri Yarim-Agaev is a Soviet physicist and Moscow Helsinki Group dissident who was exiled in 1980 and was part of President Ronald Reagan's briefings before his Gorbachev summits. Agnes Gibboney is the founder of Angel Families of America. Her family fled Hungary after the Soviet invasion of 1956, and she arrived in the United States stateless. Ovidiu Frusina is a mechanical engineer who grew up in Nicolae Ceausescu's Romania. Manuela Callini grew up under Romanian communism and is now a grassroots activist in Arizona. Captain Onofre Gutierrez is a retired airline pilot who was born in Managua, Nicaragua, and lived through the Sandinista takeover. Key topics • A democratic socialist admits it on a New York Times podcast: anti-capitalist, a world beyond capitalism• Reagan at the Brandenburg Gate, heard from inside the countries he was talking about• Yarim-Agaev's four reasons Reagan won: he named totalitarianism the enemy, understood ideology, called the regime illegitimate, and backed the dissidents• What George H.W. Bush did not finish: no Nuremberg for communism, and a KGB officer as president of Russia• Lech Walesa's lunch with Bush, and the Chicken Kiev speech• Gong arrived from China in 1987; Reagan's speech was the first English speech she understood completely• Radio Free Europe and Voice of America in Ceausescu's Romania• Reagan's cheap-oil plan against a Soviet budget spending 20 to 25 percent on the military• Frusina to the democratic socialist: then why do it here?• Interrogated for listening to enemy radio; years later she ran Voice of America's China service• Yarim-Agaev: America must not abandon its leadership of the free world• Gibboney, stateless until 1983: if the United States becomes a socialist country, the world is finished• Frusina, Gutierrez, and Callini on why America is worth choosing• Six answers for a 22-year-old sold on socialism: think, learn what you would lose, show me where it worked, you will be equally poor, there is no such thing as free housing• The series continues: share your own story at [email protected] Timestamps 00:00 — Cold open: six survivors who chose America after seeing the alternative00:31 — The last panel conversation, not the last of the Surviving Communism series02:43 — The six survivors, from China, the Soviet Union, Hungary, Romania, and Nicaragua03:18 — A democratic socialist on a New York Times podcast: anti-capitalist, a world beyond capitalism03:58 — Reagan at the Brandenburg Gate: tear down this wall05:15 — Yarim-Agaev was part of Reagan's briefings before Reykjavik and Moscow06:48 — Why Reagan won: he named the enemy, understood ideology, and backed the dissidents08:38 — What George H.W. Bush did not finish: no Nuremberg for communism, a KGB officer for president10:49 — Walesa's lunch with Bush, the Chicken Kiev speech, and Gong's first English speech13:08 — Inside Ceausescu's Romania: Radio Free Europe, Voice of America, and Reagan's oil plan16:54 — Frusina to the democratic socialist: then why do it here?17:21 — What happens to the rest of the world if America topples?18:18 — Gong: interrogated for listening to Voice of America; years later she ran its China service19:32 — Yarim-Agaev: America must not abandon its leadership of the free world22:28 — Gibboney: stateless until 1983; if the United States goes socialist, the world is finished23:58 — Frusina: born again at 2325:41 — Gutierrez: we lost everything in Nicaragua and started over; only in this country27:02 — Callini: the people make the government, not the government the people28:09 — The last question: what would you say to a 22-year-old sold on socialism?35:13 — Closing: the series continues; share your story; vote for liberty; iwillsaveamerica.com Links mentioned jennybethshow.comteapartypatriots.orgiwillsaveamerica.comJenny.Beth@TeaPartyPatriots.org

Surviving Communism, part four. Jenny Beth Martin reads the Democratic Socialists of America's plan for public ownership of the largest corporations, publicly owned housing, and a new constitution to six survivors of communism, and they describe what it took to deliver those promises where they grew up. Guests Sasha Gong is the former China director at Voice of America, a former political prisoner in China, and a Harvard PhD. Dr. Yuri Yarim-Agaev is a Soviet physicist and Moscow Helsinki Group dissident who was exiled in 1980 and later briefed President Ronald Reagan. Agnes Gibboney is the founder of Angel Families of America. Her family fled Hungary after the Soviet invasion of 1956. Ovidiu Frusina is a mechanical engineer who grew up in Nicolae Ceausescu's Romania. Manuela Callini grew up under Romanian communism and is now a grassroots activist in Arizona. Captain Onofre Gutierrez was born in Managua, Nicaragua, and lived through the Sandinista takeover. Key topics • No debt and no mortgage, Romanian style: nothing to borrow, nothing to own, the state as landlord• Two hours of electricity a day and driving days assigned by license plate• Soviet communal apartments: one kitchen and one toilet shared by three families• Why semi-educated intellectuals believe a central plan can replace a market• Public ownership of the largest corporations: who gets taken first, and who runs it after• A Romanian family stripped of centuries of land overnight, and one pair of rubber boots for nine children• The COVID lockdowns as a preview of rule by experts• China's cashless state: a frozen bank account for reposting a dissident• The confiscated orchard, the confiscated steel plant, and the Swiss buying Romanian tractors for scrap• A new constitution: Stalin already wrote one• If the socialists win here, is America somehow different?• The biggest lie: you will own the factories• Nothing is free: a Hungarian refugee answers her grandson on Mamdani, and advice for parents Timestamps 00:00 — Cold open: the Democratic Socialists of America program, in their own words00:38 — Jenny Beth Martin introduces the six survivors01:29 — No debt, no mortgage: seven people in 500 square feet in Ceausescu's Romania07:05 — Two hours of electricity a day and driving by license plate08:42 — Soviet communal apartments: three families, one kitchen09:52 — Why the semi-educated believe in a plan that cannot work15:17 — Public ownership of the largest corporations: who they come for first16:07 — Overnight they took everything: Callini's mother and the rubber boots18:25 — The COVID lockdowns were the preview20:21 — One pig for the party: Gibboney's family by Lake Balaton21:21 — China's cashless control: a bank account frozen for a repost23:26 — Life, liberty, and property, and rule by expertise26:22 — Who runs Amazon the day after? The orchard, the steel plant, and the Swiss tractors32:54 — A new constitution: Stalin already wrote one34:41 — If the socialists win, is America somehow different?38:52 — Nobody is lining up to move to Cuba42:50 — The biggest lie: you will own the factories47:20 — Her 14-year-old grandson said Mamdani has good ideas49:33 — Parents, log in to your kids' social media51:50 — Part five preview and close Links mentioned jennybethshow.comteapartypatriots.orgiwillsaveamerica.com

Guest Sasha Gong was born in Beijing in 1956 and raised in Canton, the daughter of two college professors. She was sent to the countryside at nine, to a candy factory at 16, and to a communist jail at 20 for her part in an underground dissident group. Released in 1978, she placed first in her province on the college entrance exam, studied history at Peking University, and earned a PhD in sociology from Harvard. She taught at UCLA, worked for Radio Free Asia and the AFL-CIO, and directed the China branch of Voice of America. This is her second solo interview on The Jenny Beth Show; she also appeared on the Surviving Communism panels. Key topics • Growing up inside Mao's Cultural Revolution: labor camps, the Red Guard, and executions at the village market• How a dictatorship separates "true" from "truth," and why the left in America does the same• The banned Solzhenitsyn novel and the footnote that connected every misery to the system• Hand-copying Hayek's Road to Serfdom in 1975 and reading Marx to find the evidence against him• Eleven months in jail at 20, and the interrogators' first question: did you listen to Voice of America?• Xi Jinping's father, fresh from a communist jail himself, frees her group; she asks for college• First in her province, Peking University, Harvard, Tiananmen, and barred from China in 1991• Why she left UCLA in 1998: the most unfree environment she had ever seen• Socialism in America as the worst combination of smart people and stupid people• False hope is no hope; think with logic; what liberty actually means Timestamps 00:18 — Welcome: a survivor of communism who prefers to think of herself as thriving01:04 — Born in 1956 Beijing, raised in Canton; railway-worker ancestors; a grandfather jailed 20 years as a "culture spy"06:27 — Sent to the countryside at nine; the Red Guard sign hung on her great-aunt; street fighting with weapons meant for Vietnam10:39 — Parents in a labor camp; the meat soup she carried to her father, and the slap13:07 — "Let kids be kids": why she will not call her childhood miserable18:02 — True versus truth: how a dictatorship separates the two19:22 — Memorizing every book she could get, because she would not have it later20:39 — One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich: the footnote that connected every misery to the system25:21 — Why no one criticized Stalin or Mao: the parades, the red cross through a name, the student with his tongue cut28:57 — "Capitalist" meant people with money; hand-copying Hayek's Road to Serfdom in 197531:24 — The factory at 16, the wall poster on socialist democracy, and the youngest member of a dissident group35:17 — Reading Marx, Adam Smith, and Stalin's own textbook to find the evidence against it38:11 — "Before I get to Harvard, I have to get to jail first": eleven months, seven guards40:15 — The interrogators' first question: did you listen to enemy radio? Voice of America41:07 — What Voice of America was: 55 to 60 languages into countries with zero information44:30 — Jazz, Russian music, Shostakovich, and the Director of the China branch46:52 — A hunger strike for books; Marx and Engels's footnotes as a history course49:18 — 1977: tutoring a guard for the college exam; the head of her interrogation team jailed51:14 — Xi Jinping's father, fresh from 16 years in a communist jail, frees the group: "I want to go to college"54:31 — First in her province; Peking University; Harvard and a PhD in a field China had banned57:38 — Tiananmen protests from America; detained in Canton and barred from China in 199101:00:33 — Leaving UCLA in 1998: "the most unfree environment I have ever seen"01:02:02 — The Gold Mountain: what her grandmother told her about America01:05:44 — Third day in America: a bicycle ride down a highway to Lexington01:07:27 — The rise of socialism in America: the worst combination of smart people and stupid people01:09:49 — "The problem is they're lazy": intellectual laziness and physical laziness01:11:19 — "False hope is no hope"; think with logic; schools that teach students not to think01:13:55 — Charlie Kirk, arguing with yourself, and a generation that does not appreciate freedom01:16:15 — Why she voted for the First Amendment01:17:24 — What liberty means: do what you want and take responsibility for it01:19:30 — Closing Links mentioned jennybethshow.comteapartypatriots.org

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 Day00:55 — Robert McNeily in for Jenny Beth Martin: what we are watching02:10 — California: the Ninth Circuit lets 20,000 flagged ballots be counted02:34 — They did not judge on the merits04:18 — Failure of the courts, or of Congress?09:50 — Polling is a bad way to judge what is going on11:09 — The Christian vote: who claims the faith and does not vote11:50 — Shepherds for Sale14:54 — What a grassroots activist should do this week17:41 — Friends Help Friends Vote18:36 — Comey faces two counts under the Espionage Act18:47 — The timeline: ten years to the day19:05 — A criminal information, not an indictment19:38 — Setting the marker inside the statute of limitations24:09 — The races to watch on election night25:14 — Michigan: Rogers versus El-Sayed26:37 — New Hampshire and Maine27:21 — Where The Conservative Caucus is putting its effort28:28 — Republicans keep the Senate: 50 to 5329:15 — 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 rolls33:04 — Publish the numbers; election monitors to Philadelphia33:38 — 82.3 percent say only citizens should vote35:16 — Trump and Vance close the campaign38:22 — Senator Mike Lee and the Northern Mariana Islands program39:51 — Birth tourism and the Fourteenth Amendment41:12 — Daylight saving time42:29 — Speaker Johnson: three years with the gavel44:18 — Get out the vote: Georgia, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania46:06 — Constitution Minute: the Battle of Midway memorial48:34 — A few minutes of courage, and seven days to vote49:48 — Sign-off Links mentioned: friendshelpfriendsvote.comjennybethshow.comteapartypatriots.org