In this episode, Jenny Beth sits down with Gregory Brittain, Cabinet Member of the Redlands Tea Party Patriots, to discuss why the fight to save America starts with ordinary citizens taking action. From school board battles and exposing radical legislation in California to the national push for Only Citizens Voting, Gregory shares how grassroots patriots can make a real difference. Discover the power of local activism, the dangers of the Left’s agenda, and why defending freedom requires every citizen to step up.
In this episode, Jenny Beth sits down with Gregory Brittain, Cabinet Member of the Redlands Tea Party Patriots, to discuss why the fight to save America starts with ordinary citizens taking action. From school board battles and exposing radical legislation in California to the national push for Only Citizens Voting, Gregory shares how grassroots patriots can make a real difference. Discover the power of local activism, the dangers of the Left’s agenda, and why defending freedom requires every citizen to step up.
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Gregory Brittain (00:00):
Donald Trump's secret power is the ability to make the Democrats take the 20% side of 80 20 issues. The streets of DC are unsafe to walk on. The Democrats take the side of the criminals. Donald Trump was on the side of the law abiding citizens,
Jenny Beth Martin (00:15):
Only Americans voting in American elections.
Gregory Brittain (00:18):
Another
Jenny Beth Martin (00:18):
Example, only citizens votings. And they're taking the opposite side of that,
Narrator (00:23):
Keeping Our republic is on the line and it requires Patriots with great passion, dedication, and eternal vigilance to preserve our freedoms. Jenny Beth Martin is the co-founder of Tea Party Patriots. She's an author of filmmaker and one of time magazine's most influential people in the world. But the title she is most proud of is Mom To Her Boy, girl Twins. She has been at the forefront fighting to protect America's core principles for more than a decade. Welcome to the Jenny Beth Show.
Jenny Beth Martin (00:55):
Today we are in Redlands, California on the first day of our only Citizens Vote bus tour, and we are joined by Gregory Brit, who is one of the founding members of the Redlands Tea Party Patriots Group. And he's on the cabinet and has been working with Redlands Tea Party Patriots Group since 2009. Gregory, thanks so much for joining me today.
Gregory Brittain (01:16):
Oh, please do. I can't quite claim 2009. I was not a founder and the founder stepped away after 12 and new leadership stepped in 13 and thus far we have not crashed and burned the tea party.
Jenny Beth Martin (01:28):
That's great. That's very good. So what made you decide to step up and be active?
Gregory Brittain (01:35):
I really got involved, it was 2011. The Republicans had won this great, they've gotten 65 seats or so in the house. Representatives took the majority, didn't get the majority of the Senate, but they had promised that we're going to cut a hundred billion dollars out of Obama's vastly wasteful spending increase. And after tough negotiations they got a hundred million. And I think, okay, these Republicans are not up to the task at hand. And I started coming to the Tea Party meetings, which I thought first thing, these tea party guys, they're a bunch of crazies, not like our serious Republicans. But I quickly saw that that was not the case and that people really trying to do something and being effective were the Tea Party and outside groups and not the Republican party, especially here in California.
Jenny Beth Martin (02:25):
Well, I think oftentimes the Republican Party, their focus is on electing Republicans and that's the mission of the Republican Party. Then it's groups like Tea Party, Patriots, tea Party, Patriots action, other groups that heritage, that focus on issues and policy. And what probably drew you more to being involved in the Republican party is the same kind of thing that drew me. I didn't just want to vote for people, I wanted to make a difference, and the party just isn't equipped for that kind of policy change. So you have to wind up getting involved with different groups.
Gregory Brittain (03:02):
And sometimes, at least too in California, the Republican party is not even all that interested in ING Republicans. It's kind of a status quo, the controlled opposition, they're happy to draw their salaries and consultants fees and so on without really being serious about winning. And it's unfortunate because this year I think, or next year or the 26th election, there'd be a real chance to make some progress in California if the party was serious about winning. And I don't think that they are.
Jenny Beth Martin (03:32):
Well, time will tell whether they are or not. They certainly have President Trump working
Gregory Brittain (03:37):
President
Jenny Beth Martin (03:38):
Trump in their favor right now. So I mean, I understand we're in California, people don't like President Trump in California, but what I mean is they have him putting some wind in their sails if they want to really try to make a difference. Now, you oftentimes have not the cheeriest personality or perspective, not personality because you have a great personality, but perspective about what's going to happen. And it might be pessimistic, but I think sometimes it's sort of more realistic. How did you come to have this kind of personality?
Gregory Brittain (04:13):
Well, maybe as part what I do for a living as a lawyer is I have to as accurately as possible assess the case, my client's case, our evidence, have a law and the opponent's side, and try to get as accurate a view of the case as I can to advise my client, you have a strong case, you have a weak case. Here's our strong points, here are their strong points. So that's kind of the nature of my disposition of what I do for a living. And then I apply that here in politics because it is an extremely serious enterprise, much more so now than 20 or 30, 40 years ago, the country's on the line. And 40 years ago, if a Democrats got elected, they weren't going to destroy the country going to be bad policies. They weren't going to destroy the country today. If they had the opportunity, they'll destroy the country.
Jenny Beth Martin (05:03):
Well, and I mean there was a recent New York Times, I believe, where they basically said they want to get rid of the Constitution and replace it. The disguises are off, the masks are off, and they're showing their true colors when they say that. But that is not actually looking out for the best thing for the country. It is trying to destroy the country.
Gregory Brittain (05:23):
It is. With that, since I stumbled upon the quote, I've used it repeatedly in my radio show and the tea party is the most important political office is that of the private citizen, justice Lewis Brandeis. And ultimately, and I was just at a conference in Las Vegas, put on my gateway pundit. General Flynn was really the only person to really echo that. He says, the reason why we're here in this situation we're at the precipice is because the private citizens have not taken their responsibility sufficiently seriously. Well, it's like what's on TV tonight? How about them Dodgers or whatever team you're for? But no, I encourage whatever possible is that it's we, the private citizens are ultimately responsible. Donald Trump is not going to save the country. She's doing a great job as president, more than a great job as president. But Donald Trump alone is not going to save the country. Only we will.
Jenny Beth Martin (06:21):
That's right. That's right. I mean, we would be in very horrible shape if he were not president and he's doing amazing work. But his term will end and we have to continue what he is working on and to help get the things that he's working on, especially a lot of the executive orders that he's issued. If a Democrat is elected president, even if it's a Republican, depending on who the next president is, all of it could be undone with the stroke of a pen. So we have to work to get it codified to explain to our fellow Americans why that's important.
Gregory Brittain (06:56):
It's also local. So Donald Trump can't go to every school board meeting.
Jenny Beth Martin (07:00):
No,
Gregory Brittain (07:01):
Every city council meeting, every state legislative session. And again, that falls back on the private citizens. We are talking at lunch with our local patriots here that we've had these school board meetings. They're going until midnight. Midnight. But we've actually made some progress over very determined, almost fanatical opposition of well organized, probably well financed leftists that turn out in every meeting. But we're making progress there. And those are the things that Donald Trump can't be there for. We can be there at the school board meeting,
Jenny Beth Martin (07:34):
Right? That is exactly right. So you help educate people about getting involved, whether they're running for office or showing up at school board meetings, making calls to Congress, your group, the Redlands Tea Protein Treats Group helped our super PAC Tea Proteins citizens fund with the postcard project we had last year. And you guys hand address 12,000 postcards and made sure that those postcards had stamps on them and got out to voters in Georgia. It was amazing work that you did.
Gregory Brittain (08:08):
We
Jenny Beth Martin (08:09):
Just kept shipping boxes to you.
Gregory Brittain (08:11):
One of our other principles is activism is from Teddy Roosevelt, do what you can with what you got where you are. So we cannot influence California's presidential election. That was a foregone conclusion, but we couldn't influence into other states. And this was something that our people, they may not want to knock on doors they may not want to make. I should call somebody,
Jenny Beth Martin (08:30):
But
Gregory Brittain (08:31):
They were very comfortable with handwriting postcards and sending them to low propensity Republican voters in the key states. And of course, the pizza and ice cream we provided wasn't additional
Jenny Beth Martin (08:44):
Incentive. Well, that was great. And that is the kind of work that is just so important. When we were planning the tour on Thursday, I was looking through the map and I was like, wait, what about Redlands? We've got to swing by Redlands. They did so much. But you are, it's easy to become so pessimistic and just wash your hands and go, I'm done, I'm done. But instead, you're looking at things realistically and finding ways to be active to move the needle in the way that you as an individual and your group as a group of individuals can.
Gregory Brittain (09:15):
The enemy, America's enemy is foreign and domestic. They're well organized and determined, ruthless, devoid, illegal and moral scruples. Absolutely. But we have many things on our side. One is there's a deep reservoir of patriotism still in the country. Two, we have the better ideas about how to organize and govern society. And another reason is we only have to tell the truth. They have to lie. So there's plenty of reasons. Donald Trump won the under 30 mail vote in the last election and didn't do badly with the under 30 female vote. 40%, 30% of young black males voted for. So there are reasons for optimism. You look at what happened on the transgender stuff. This is in our favor that they went too far. They pushed too far, and they're suffering politically because of it. And they should for those kinds of policies.
Jenny Beth Martin (10:14):
Well, you're exactly right and we have to tell the truth. The other side is just they're lying. They're telling people don't believe what you're lying eyes are seeing. We see things for ourselves. We know a man is a man, a woman is a woman. We know that. We could tell there was an attempt on President Trump's life. And even some of the media initially was saying that that didn't happen. They lie. They lie. They lie. They lie. And when you're telling the truth and people know that what they're looking at actually happened, we do have that going on our side.
Gregory Brittain (10:48):
Who was it that said this? I don't remember who it said it is. Donald Trump's secret power is the ability to make the Democrats take the 20% side of 80 20 issues.
Jenny Beth Martin (10:57):
Yes. Yes.
Gregory Brittain (10:59):
So he's for deporting MF 13 gang members. And what do they do? One of their senators goes down and has margaritas with him in El Salvador. The streets of DC are unsafe to walk on. The Democrats take the side of the criminals. Donald Trump was on the side of the law abiding citizens and so on. The transgender issue, transgender transgender children 80 20 issue in our favor, women's protecting women's sports, the 80 20 issue in our favor. And he makes them take the 20% issue,
Jenny Beth Martin (11:31):
20%
Gregory Brittain (11:31):
Side of it
Jenny Beth Martin (11:32):
Only Americans voting in American elections.
Gregory Brittain (11:34):
Another good
Jenny Beth Martin (11:35):
Example, only citizens votings. And they're taking the opposite side of that. And we're doing this and working on the bill, but he helped to introduce the bill with Speaker Johnson last year down in Mar-a-Lago. But they're taking the wrong side even on this over and over and over. They do that. You're right.
Gregory Brittain (11:54):
So there's reason for optimism, but in any war, any sporting game, if it is the third quarter of a football game and it's 24 21 or 21, 21, you don't know the outcome there. There's not a reason to give up. It's a reason to try harder.
Jenny Beth Martin (12:11):
Right. That's exactly right. So what are the things that you are encouraging your activists to do and the network of activists that you're with
Gregory Brittain (12:20):
Right now? We got some really bad bills that are in the state legislature. One of them, AB 4 95, I mean almost was almost Babylon b parody. But a person who is unrelated to the child can fill out a piece of paper and take legal control of the child without parental knowledge, consent, going to court and vetting of who this person is and is being pushed through the legislature. And so we're encouraging people to contact and they can go to real impact us. Great website. And you can put in your address and you can connect yourself to your state legislators. Our school board we talked about at lunchtime is where they're getting rid of the horribly sexually explicit books that's on the agenda for Washington tomorrow night. Again, only California and American flags at the schools a resolution in favor of protecting girls' sports. So we're trying to do all these things here locally, what we can do with what we got, where we are
Jenny Beth Martin (13:25):
The law where someone can just take legal guardianship of another child without going through court. That's how kidnappings can happen. I mean, there's so many bad things that can happen with that. Kids could be sexually exploited because of that. It just, wow. I feel worried about the parents and the children who are in the state.
Gregory Brittain (13:52):
If I had children now, there's no way you just could not responsibly loving your children living in California.
Jenny Beth Martin (14:00):
No, it's too risky. It's just too risky. Especially if you want to make sure that you're protecting your children. The books in schools, we probably can't even talk about that. What's inside the books on this podcast and keep it rated
Gregory Brittain (14:17):
GI have a radio show and I could not read this stuff over the air on my radio show.
Jenny Beth Martin (14:25):
Yeah, I've seen some of the books. I haven't seen what California is doing, but I've seen some books around the country and I'm just blown away. I don't understand it. Just people who don't have kids in school and are not tracking this would be shocked. They're not paying attention to it and they would be shocked. But this is another example of how Democrats are on the wrong side of the issue because most people don't think should be exposed to sexually explicit material, especially at a very young age.
Gregory Brittain (14:56):
Absolutely. I was Connecticut Republican member starts reading for one of these books and the speaker stops her and says, there may be children listening to this. She says, this is in the school library.
Jenny Beth Martin (15:06):
Right, right. This is exactly why it's a problem. Right. And then what was the third example that you just gave?
Gregory Brittain (15:15):
The bill? The school board. And we're trying to help in a special election for the state legislature. Bill of SLE who was in the legislature got appointed as the US attorney for the Center District of California. So there's a special election and went to runoff because not enough Republicans turned out in June
Jenny Beth Martin (15:33):
And
Gregory Brittain (15:33):
Another Republican ran diverted enough of the vote. So we're in a runoff election in August, so we don't want to lose that one. So we're encouraging if you're in that district vote, send back your ballot. And if you're not in that district, here's a list of 10 Republicans in this district. Call 'em or text them.
Jenny Beth Martin (15:50):
Right. That's not very difficult to do. No. Pretty simple. So you really like to take big action items and goals and break it down into bite-sized pieces for your activists?
Gregory Brittain (16:02):
We do. I mean, most of the people are not going to be as active as you and I or Doug and Jan Hauser or John Barry or others. So we give 'em what they can is if you're willing to take 10, great. We take 20, take 20 even better. 30 is even better than that. You write 10 postcards, great, you write 20 and so on.
Jenny Beth Martin (16:23):
It makes a huge difference. So if people are listening and they haven't been active, they've just been paying attention to the issues, what would you recommend that they do and how do you think they should get involved?
Gregory Brittain (16:32):
Well, it is best to get involved by joining up to a group is you're more effective working alongside your fellow patriots and you have more fun along the way. You meet really good people involved in this. So I would look around in your area to find groups that maybe the Republican party in your area is effective. It's not around here. Or find a tea party group or a turning point or somebody is doing things. And like I said before, you do what you can with what you got where you are. School board, city council, generally, if you work at it, you can get to know your state, your state legislators, even your congressman. I've got mine on, I have his cell phone on my cell phone and over note. Don't always agree with him. But he's good about listening to people and he's generous about giving out his contact
Jenny Beth Martin (17:27):
Information
Gregory Brittain (17:28):
So you can develop a relationship with your elected officials.
Jenny Beth Martin (17:33):
And that I think is one of the most important things, is an individual citizen. When you have that direct relationship, it makes a huge difference in getting the member or the elected member to do what needs to be done
Gregory Brittain (17:44):
And run for office if you have that calling, if you the ability to do it. So here in California, there'll be elections in 26, and now it'll be city council again and school board as well as the state offices as well as Congress. So think about that. We had two people we backed, were elected here in Redlands in the last election. And with an incumbent, we have a working majority. And Dale Bruin, you meant he's going to do the same thing. Our people, they canvas their districts every day from November of 23 all the way up until the election.
Jenny Beth Martin (18:23):
Wow.
Gregory Brittain (18:24):
But the advantage of it is you don't necessarily need as much money as the teacher union backed candidate because you have the ability in the district to go down and get around to all the doors in your district.
Jenny Beth Martin (18:38):
And that makes a huge difference. And you're building those personal relationships and the trust that goes with it.
Gregory Brittain (18:43):
There's no better way to earn a vote than the candidate at the voter's door.
Jenny Beth Martin (18:48):
That's right. But I think that's exactly right. Well, Gregory, I really appreciate you being with me today. Joining us on our bus.
Gregory Brittain (18:55):
Oh, please do.
Jenny Beth Martin (18:56):
Greeting the bus and letting us come into your area. Really appreciate it. And thank you for all you do for your local community in Redlands, for the state of California and for America and for Tea Party Patriots. Action. Thank you.
Gregory Brittain (19:08):
Thank you. Always a pleasure.
Narrator (19:10):
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