The SAVE America Act sits stalled in the U.S. Senate while four Republican holdouts and a recess block the most consequential election integrity legislation in our generation — and Jenny Beth Martin just flew to Alaska to make sure Senator Lisa Murkowski’s constituents know it. On this episode of The Jenny Beth Show, Jenny Beth recaps her on-the-ground organizing trip with Scott Pressler before turning to two heavy-hitters with a packed news agenda. Ken Cuccinelli — former Attorney General of Virginia, former Acting Deputy Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, and chairman of the Election Transparency Initiative — breaks down President Trump’s just-signed 2026 National Counter-Terrorism Strategy that elevates Mexican drug cartels above Al-Qaeda and ISIS for the first time in U.S. history, and walks through every constitutional violation Virginia Democrats committed to push their 10-to-1 congressional gerrymander to the Virginia Supreme Court. Rod Martin — political commentator and founder and chief executive of Martin Capital — analyzes Indiana’s Tuesday-night earthquake where six Republican incumbents were defeated by Trump-backed challengers in a single primary night, the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent Voting Rights Act ruling, the Tennessee Shelby County redistricting vote, and the FBI raid on Virginia State Senator Louise Lucas. Plus: Secretary of State Marco Rubio meets Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican, the historic milestone marking Justice Clarence Thomas as the second-longest-serving Supreme Court justice in American history, a Constitution Minute on originalism, and a tribute to media icon Ted Turner. Call your senators at 202-224-3121 and tell them to pass the SAVE America Act. More at jennybethshow.com and teapartypatriots.org.
Today on The Jenny Beth Show: SAVE America Act, Trump’s 2026 Counter-Terrorism Strategy, the Virginia 10-to-1 gerrymander fight, Indiana’s primary-night purge, the Voting Rights Act ruling, the Louise Lucas FBI raid, Marco Rubio’s meeting with Pope Leo XIV, and Justice Clarence Thomas’s historic milestone. Hosted by Jenny Beth Martin, co-founder of the Tea Party movement and Chairman of Tea Party Patriots Action.
Guests:
Ken Cuccinelli is the chairman of the Election Transparency Initiative, the former Attorney General of Virginia, and the former Acting Deputy Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security.
Rod Martin is a political commentator and the founder and chief executive of Martin Capital.
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Timestamps:
00:14 — Welcome to The Jenny Beth Show
00:28 — Speaker Mike Johnson on the National Day of Prayer
01:45 — Jenny Beth Martin on Alaska, Lisa Murkowski, and the SAVE America Act
04:57 — Trump signs the 2026 National Counter-Terrorism Strategy
05:52 — Rod Martin: Cartel cash already corrupts America
07:50 — Ken Cuccinelli: First-term dreams come true
10:21 — Mexico’s history of cartel control
11:57 — Jenny Beth’s border reporting from 2013
13:03 — Cuccinelli: A secure border is the only humane path
16:32 — Sebastian Gorka clip: Returning to common-sense counter-terrorism
18:51 — Rod Martin: The deep state is not gone
21:15 — YouGov stat on political violence among liberal men
22:16 — Brooks Brothers Revolt and Florida 2000
26:33 — Welcome back: Virginia’s 10-1 gerrymander
28:05 — Cuccinelli on the Virginia Constitution and the intervening election
35:09 — Early voting and the ‘vote at your own risk’ argument
38:30 — Indiana’s primary night: six Republican incumbents defeated
42:28 — Cuccinelli on the Republican bench versus the Democrat bench
43:37 — The LA mayoral debate and Pratt’s 88% win
48:21 — The Indiana lesson: Voters want fighters
49:18 — Voting Rights Act ruling and racial discrimination in redistricting
51:57 — Tennessee redistricting and the Shelby County map
55:35 — FBI raids Virginia State Senator Louise Lucas
58:14 — Marco Rubio meets Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican
1:01:06 — Justice Clarence Thomas: 34 years on the Supreme Court
1:07:03 — Justice Thomas on his grandfather and Catholic schools
1:08:36 — Lessons for parents and grandparents
1:13:18 — Constitution Minute: Originalism explained
1:15:26 — Tribute to Ted Turner and final call to action
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