Friends Help Friends Vote is the friends-and-family turnout playbook Jon Ossoff's campaign used to win the 2021 Georgia Senate runoffs, and in this solo training episode Jenny Beth Martin puts it in your phone two weeks before Election Day. The news comes first: the Justice Department charged 28 green card holders in California with federal election crimes after a citizenship check flagged about 20,000 suspected noncitizens on the state's voter rolls with ballots already mailed, and Ballotpedia counts 94 American elections since 2018 decided by a single vote. Then the hour becomes a working session. Jenny Beth walks through the TPP.me/text system for texting voters you do not know, explains the Politico account of how Ossoff hired about 2,800 Georgians to reach their own friends and family and lifted turnout nearly 4 points, and uses a wet sponge to show where the last votes in a close race come from. From there it is step by step: download the Numinar app, join the Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund workspace, allow contact matching, and have real conversations with the people you know, including what to text your dad and what to do when a friend is voting the other way. Can ten minutes a day on your phone decide a Senate seat? It already has once. Jenny Beth Martin is co-founder of the Tea Party movement and Chairman of Tea Party Patriots Action. No guests this episode. Everything you need is at friendshelpfriendsvote.com. Learn more at teapartypatriots.org and jennybethshow.com.
Host: Jenny Beth Martin, co-founder of the Tea Party movement and Chairman of Tea Party Patriots Action. A solo training episode with no guests, recorded live two weeks before Election Day.
Key topics:
• The Justice Department charges 28 green card holders in California with federal election crimes, arrests 11, and says at least 8 voted more than once
• About 20,000 suspected noncitizens on California's voter rolls, ballots already mailed, and why the SAVE America Act would check citizenship at registration
• Ballotpedia: 660 races since 2018 decided by 10 votes or fewer, 394 by 5 or fewer, 94 by a single vote
• Social Security's largest records cleanup in its 91-year history
• Senator Elissa Slotkin's "signature cases" and what the IRS did to Tea Party groups
• France: 550,000 march and the worst rioting in years
• The new Tea Party Patriots Action ad on socialism at teapartypatriots.org/socialism
• Tool one: texting voters you do not know at TPP.me/text
• Tool two: Friends Help Friends Vote, the relational organizing program of Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund, and the Georgia playbook behind it
• Setting up the Numinar app, matching your contacts, and what to say to the people you know
Timestamps:
00:00 — Cold open: 28 green card holders charged in California
01:00 — A solo show on purpose: the news, then two tools for your phone
01:19 — California: 20,000 suspected noncitizens, ballots already mailed, and the SAVE America Act
02:27 — 60 Minutes called it tiny. Ballotpedia: 660 races decided by 10 votes or fewer, 94 by one
04:29 — Social Security's biggest records cleanup in 91 years
06:09 — Senator Elissa Slotkin's "signature cases" and the IRS targeting of Tea Party groups
08:05 — France: 550,000 march, the worst rioting in years
09:53 — Where the election stands: a poll is a snapshot
10:28 — The part you can still work on, and the new Tea Party Patriots Action ad on socialism
14:51 — Tool one: how to text voters at TPP.me/text
21:06 — Tool two: Friends Help Friends Vote and relational organizing
23:23 — The Politico article: how Ossoff's campaign won Georgia with friends and family
24:34 — The research: a concrete plan to vote lifts turnout about 4 points
27:52 — The wet sponge: three squeezes of turnout
31:20 — Setup: download Numinar and sign up
32:08 — Step by step: confirm your email, join the Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund workspace
37:25 — Contact permissions: are you keeping my contacts?
45:52 — What to say: texting your dad, texting a college friend
50:19 — When a friend is voting for the opponent: never burn a relationship over one ballot
52:34 — The survey: tracking each plan to vote in the app
55:21 — Troubleshooting: zero matches, wrong workspace, where to get help
57:27 — Bring it home: two tools, fourteen days, ten minutes a day
Links mentioned:
friendshelpfriendsvote.com
TPP.me/text
teapartypatriots.org/socialism
support@teapartypatriots.org
teapartypatriots.org
jennybethshow.com