The SAVE America Act (the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act) is stalled in the United States Senate, and in this bonus episode of The Jenny Beth Show, Jenny Beth Martin and election integrity attorney Cleta Mitchell map out a new plan to finally get it passed. The SAVE America Act would require photo voter ID and proof of citizenship to register and vote, and the House has already passed it three times, yet the Senate's 60-vote threshold has frozen it in place. Cleta Mitchell, founder of the Election Integrity Network and one of the country's leading election law attorneys, joins Jenny Beth to explain why the House of Representatives is now the only realistic path forward: break the bill into pieces and attach those provisions to legislation moving from the House to the Senate, again and again, until the Senate relents. They dig into the unelected Senate parliamentarian's outsized power, the Byrd Rule that blocked even Border Patrol and ICE funding through reconciliation, the coordinated effort aimed at Senator Mike Lee, and why Jenny Beth says the Senate is in a genuine constitutional crisis. This is the grassroots playbook for turning three million activists into pressure Washington cannot ignore, plus the exact phone number to make your voice count. If you care about ensuring only American citizens decide American elections, this conversation is your next step. Learn more and take action at teapartypatriots.org and jennybethshow.com.
Cleta Mitchell is the founder of the Election Integrity Network and one of the nation's most prominent election law attorneys. A former state legislator, she has helped lead the coalition behind the SAVE America Act and works to ensure that only eligible American citizens vote in American elections.
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Episode breakdown:
00:14 — Welcome to the Jenny Beth Show
00:40 — Why the SAVE America Act is stalled in the Senate
01:06 — “The Senate is like concrete”: the 60-vote problem
02:06 — The new plan: break the bill into pieces and attach it to House bills
03:01 — The President's pledge and why the House is the only hope
04:25 — The unelected parliamentarian with more power than anyone in Washington
04:46 — Reconciliation blocked: the parliamentarian objects to ICE and Border Patrol funding
05:49 — The Byrd Rule explained
08:42 — A “snowball chance” under the Byrd Rule, and attaching the bill to FISA or housing
10:33 — Combining photo voter ID and citizenship confirmation; Speaker Johnson is committed
13:13 — Call your congressman: 202-224-3121
14:14 — Credit to Speaker Johnson, Chip Roy, and Senator Mike Lee
15:20 — The paid influencer operation aimed at Senator Mike Lee
16:18 — Why you cannot remove the Senate Majority Leader right now
17:40 — Removing a Senate leader is not like removing a House Speaker
18:39 — Pressuring the senators who voted no: Murkowski and Collins
20:10 — “Legislating has become an atrophied muscle in the Senate”
21:29 — The filibuster question
22:39 — Why the talking filibuster no longer works
23:41 — A 1986 ruling and a constitutional crisis in the Senate
24:20 — Speaker Johnson's thin majority vs. the Senate's gridlock
26:21 — The call to action and where to take it
27:30 — How to follow Cleta Mitchell and the Election Integrity Network
28:22 — Closing thoughts
Links and resources:
teapartypatriots.org
jennybethshow.com
passthesaveamericaact.com
Capitol Switchboard: 202-224-3121
Election Integrity Network: electionintegritynetwork.org
SAVE America Act Coalition: saveamericaactcoalition.com