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 counted the digits. Then the Federal Reserve raised interest rates for the first time since July 2023 on a unanimous 12-0 vote, under the chairman President Trump appointed, Kevin Warsh, who says inflation has been too high for too long. Jenny Beth is joined by Skylar Duensing, founder and president of The United States Patriots Society, which teaches the founding principles to young Americans, and Robert McNeily, Director of Broadcasting and Grassroots Engagement at Tea Party Patriots Action. They cover Small Business Administrator Kelly Loeffler's announcement of $49 billion in pandemic loan fraud across all 50 states, the 562,000 fraudulent loans nobody ever sent to Treasury, what a quarter point costs a family with a car loan, Thomas Massie's push to impeach Pete Hegseth, and the three primaries Democrats lost to the Democratic Socialists of America. The episode closes on Constitution Day with ten things you can do in the 47 days before Election Day. More at teapartypatriots.org and jennybethshow.com.
Skylar Duensing is the founder and president of The United States Patriots Society, an organization that teaches the founding principles to young Americans and organizes local chapters as a citizen lobby, writing and endorsing legislation in their own communities. Its flagship chapter in Kendall County, Illinois, recently passed a township resolution declaring that our rights come from God and backed an oath-of-office bill in the Illinois legislature that drew Democratic cosponsors. Website: tusps.org.
Robert McNeily is Director of Broadcasting and Grassroots Engagement at Tea Party Patriots Action and Jenny Beth Martin's regular co-host.
Key topics:
Ten ActBlue employees, board members and attorneys plead the Fifth before House investigators
The joint House report: ActBlue loosened its fraud rules twice in 2024 after its own reviews warned it would let more fraud through
A passport check that verified the number of characters, not the passport
The Federal Reserve's unanimous 12-0 vote to raise rates for the first time since July 2023
Kelly Loeffler's $49 billion pandemic fraud announcement and the 562,000 loans never sent to Treasury
The Census Bureau's record-low poverty rate and record median household income
Thomas Massie's impeachment push against Pete Hegseth, and a House that went home early
Primary season closes with three Democratic losses to the Democratic Socialists of America
Constitution Day, 239 years after Philadelphia, and ten things you can do before Election Day
Timestamped breakdown:
00:00 — Ten ActBlue employees plead the Fifth
01:41 — ActBlue loosened its fraud rules twice in 2024
02:18 — Jim Jordan asks how much fraud is too much fraud
03:19 — The Federal Reserve's first rate hike since July 2023
03:55 — Skylar Duensing and Robert McNeily join the show
04:22 — What ten Fifth Amendment pleas tell you about ActBlue
05:58 — A passport check that only counted the characters
07:14 — Benefit of the doubt, and how the IRS targeted Tea Party Patriots
08:43 — Twenty-two fraud campaigns and $19 billion
11:38 — Article I, Section 4: what Congress should do about foreign money
13:24 — ActBlue says it is being silenced
16:25 — The administration's warning to anyone thinking about fraud
16:54 — DOGE and the fraud crackdown
19:06 — Kelly Loeffler: 870,000 borrowers suspended, $49 billion in fraud
20:09 — Lying, stealing and cheating: 562,000 loans never sent to Treasury
22:04 — $300 a household is a week or two of groceries
24:08 — Kevin Warsh: inflation is too high and has been for too long
24:42 — What a unanimous 12-0 vote tells you
26:36 — Trump picked Warsh, and Warsh went the other way
28:04 — Core inflation 2.4 percent, gasoline up 3.9 percent in August
28:31 — An energy story, a spending story, or both
30:57 — What a quarter point costs a family with a car loan
32:58 — Washington spent it and printed it, and the cure costs you more
34:22 — The gold standard and a fiat country
35:31 — Poverty rate falls to a record low 10.2 percent
37:11 — Child poverty at a record low
39:54 — Call to action: iwillsaveamerica.com
41:39 — Thomas Massie's impeachment push against Pete Hegseth
43:49 — The House record and 60-plus retirements
45:19 — Primary season closes: three losses to the Democratic Socialists of America
47:09 — The United States Patriots Society
48:48 — Modern-day minutemen: what the local chapters do
50:45 — Ten things you can do in 47 days
52:21 — Constitution Day: 239 years since Philadelphia
54:35 — A republic, if you can keep it
Links mentioned: iwillsaveamerica.com, tusps.org, teapartypatriots.org, jennybethshow.com