Eagle Forum is proof that the grassroots can beat Washington, and in this episode Jenny Beth Martin sits down with its president, Kris Ullman, for the full story of how it happens. Ullman traces the organization from its founding by Phyllis Schlafly, the homemaker who organized women across the country, single-handedly defeated the Equal Rights Amendment, and earned the title of mother of the pro-family movement. She sold three million copies of her book A Choice, Not an Echo out of her garage and taught ordinary Americans how to become convention delegates and reshape the Republican Party from the precinct level up. That same playbook drives Eagle Forum's fights today. Ullman lays out the push for the SAVE America Act to require voter ID and proof of citizenship, the effort to ban stock trading by members of Congress, the pro-life battle over the abortion pill and the Chloe Cole Act, and a new campaign to protect children from today's high-potency marijuana. She also details how the Biden Justice Department subpoenaed Eagle Forum's Alabama chapter for lobbying its own lawmakers, and how the group fought back and won. Kris Ullman is president of Eagle Forum, a Catholic University-trained attorney, and a former executive director who returned to lead the organization in 2022. It is a masterclass in how citizens win. Learn more at teapartypatriots.org and jennybethshow.com.
Guest: Kris Ullman, President of Eagle Forum
Kris Ullman leads Eagle Forum, the pro-family organization founded by Phyllis Schlafly. A Catholic University-trained attorney, she first served as the group's executive director in the 1990s, later worked for Senator John Ashcroft, spent two decades raising her family, and returned to lead Eagle Forum as president in 2022.
Topics covered:
00:00 — Who is Kris Ullman and what Eagle Forum does
00:38 — The history of Eagle Forum and Phyllis Schlafly
03:09 — Why Schlafly fought the Equal Rights Amendment
05:34 — The draft, women, and what the ERA would have erased
06:57 — Eagle Forum's founding issues beyond the ERA
09:03 — Reshaping the GOP and A Choice, Not an Echo
11:44 — The Tea Party, St. Louis, and Schlafly's influence
15:37 — Kris Ullman's own path to Eagle Forum
18:20 — Eagle Forum's fights today: SAVE America Act and life
21:48 — Why Eagle Forum took on marijuana
23:25 — Medical versus recreational marijuana
25:56 — Protecting kids in states that legalized
27:25 — Alex Berenson and the science on psychosis
31:22 — Banning stock trading by members of Congress
33:52 — Extortion and the corruption in Congress
36:36 — The SAVE America Act and why change is slow
39:50 — Protecting children from gender ideology
42:32 — The Biden DOJ subpoena and the fight to defend it
43:20 — Eagle Council 54 comes to Nashville
48:55 — Never give up: carrying on Schlafly's legacy
Learn more at teapartypatriots.org and jennybethshow.com.