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.

Key topics covered:

• Jenny Beth and Scott Pressler’s Alaska trip to confront Senator Lisa Murkowski’s office on the SAVE America Act
• President Trump’s 2026 National Counter-Terrorism Strategy elevating Mexican drug cartels above Al-Qaeda and ISIS
• Sebastian Gorka on cartel fentanyl deaths, three threat groups, and rooting politics out of counter-terrorism
• Virginia’s 10-to-1 gerrymander, the constitutional violations, and the Virginia Supreme Court fight
• Indiana’s primary night: six Republican incumbents defeated by Trump-backed challengers
• U.S. Supreme Court Voting Rights Act ruling and Tennessee’s Shelby County redistricting vote
• FBI raid on Virginia State Senator Louise Lucas
• Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s meeting with Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican
• Justice Clarence Thomas’s milestone as the second-longest-serving Supreme Court justice in American history
• Constitution Minute: originalism explained
• Tribute to Ted Turner

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

Links:

• passthesaveamericaact.com — take action on the SAVE America Act
• Capitol switchboard: 202-224-3121
• jennybethshow.com
• teapartypatriots.org

Mike Howell is president of the Oversight Project and a founding member of the Mass Deportation Coalition. He has spent years inside Washington's immigration policy fights, leading oversight investigations into the federal immigration system, and was a central architect of the new Mass Deportation Coalition Playbook released in April 2026.

Key topics covered:

• The formation of the Mass Deportation Coalition as a counterforce to the institutional Republican donor class
• All 21 recommendations from the new playbook in plain English
• The Eisenhower-era worksite enforcement model that removed a million illegal aliens in 1954
• Selective Service non-compliance as a federal criminal prosecution lever
• The 287G state partnership program and Florida's leadership
• State-by-state illegal alien population numbers and the hospital cost burden
• Why released deportation statistics need to be republished
• Mike Howell's verdict on the so-called Dignity Act and the 20 House Republican co-sponsors
• A Save America Act update from Jenny Beth's events in Alaska with Scott Pressler

00:17 — Welcome and Save America Act update from Alaska

01:16 — Topic shift to immigration and the Mass Deportation Coalition

04:13 — Mike Howell on the formation of the Mass Deportation Coalition

06:30 — Why deportation matters: rule of law and self-government

09:00 — Federal authority over immigration policy

10:53 — Walking through the 21 recommendations

12:00 — Recommendation 1: Worksite enforcement and the Eisenhower model

16:14 — Recommendation 2: Moving employment verification online

17:42 — Recommendation 3: Debanking illegal aliens

18:14 — Recommendation 4: Expanding immigration detention

20:56 — Recommendation 5: Selective Service and criminal prosecutions

23:23 — Recommendation 6: Denying visas to recalcitrant countries

24:07 — Recommendation 7: Substantially limiting asylum

24:52 — Recommendation 8: Civil fines for failure to depart

26:07 — Recommendation 9: Civil asset forfeiture

26:52 — Recommendation 10: Targeting visa overstays

27:58 — Recommendation 11: NCIC database integration

30:36 — Recommendation 12: Transferring no-match letters to the IRS

31:17 — Recommendation 13: Department of Labor authorities

33:05 — Recommendation 14: Special Assistant United States Attorneys

34:14 — Recommendation 15: Reassigning DHS officers

34:40 — Recommendation 16: Homeland Security Task Force

35:48 — Recommendation 17: Other procedures to deport criminal aliens

36:27 — Recommendation 18: Litigating challenges vigorously

38:26 — Recommendation 19: Leveraging states and the 287G program

43:00 — State-by-state illegal alien population numbers

46:13 — Recommendation 20: Tracking and publicizing benchmarks

48:24 — Recommendation 21: Keeping HSI tethered to immigration enforcement

52:41 — How to take action with the Mass Deportation Coalition

55:47 — Mike Howell on the so-called Dignity Act

57:17 — Lighthearted close: the Trump Air Force 47s

57:48 — Wrap and personal anniversary shoutout

Links mentioned:

• Mass Deportation Coalition Playbook: massdeportationcoalition.org/playbook
• Pass the Save America Act: passthesaveamericaact.com
• Capitol Switchboard: 202-224-3121
• The Jenny Beth Show: jennybethshow.com
• Tea Party Patriots Action: teapartypatriots.org

Guest: Scott Pressler — founder of Early Vote Action, grassroots conservative organizer, led the Pennsylvania ground operation that helped flip a U.S. Senate seat for Senator Dave McCormick in 2024.

Key Topics:

• How Scott Pressler is using the May 26th Texas Senate runoff to pressure the United States Senate on the SAVE America Act
• Why proof of citizenship and voter ID are not controversial — 87% / 73% voter support
• Arizona's bifurcated ballot and the 40,000+ voters who have not shown proof of citizenship
• The full legislative journey of the SAVE America Act from January 2024 to today
• Speaker Mike Johnson's House versus the broken United States Senate
• Why senators McConnell, Murkowski, Cassidy, and Cornyn are blocking voter ID
• Real-time response to news that shots were fired at the White House Correspondents' Dinner

Timestamped Topic Breakdown:

00:00 — Cold open and Jenny Beth Martin sets up the Arizona rally

00:55 — Scott Pressler opens: flipping the Great State 48 from blue to red

02:02 — Why Republicans must vote early: lessons from 2022

03:34 — Why Scott moved to Pennsylvania to build Early Vote Action

05:55 — How 560,000 early votes flipped a Senate seat for Dave McCormick

06:50 — Test of the Senate's priorities: Road to Housing, Brave Burma, Dignity Act, SAVE America Act

08:39 — Dark Scott emerges: 115 days of trying to be nice are over

09:40 — The ultimatum: pass the SAVE America Act or Cornyn loses Texas on May 26th

11:19 — Senator Cassidy, Indiana redistricting, Murkowski, and Alaska's ranked choice fight

14:25 — Justin Heap, Maricopa County, and the SAVE system

16:24 — Jenny Beth thanks Scott and reflects on his commitment

17:18 — Breaking news: shots fired at the White House and a moment of silence

19:50 — Why we cannot give up on this country

20:53 — How the SAVE America Act got started: Mike Lee, Cleta Mitchell, and Arizona's bifurcated ballot

24:10 — Speaker Johnson's leadership versus the broken Senate

26:37 — 80-plus issues, the talking filibuster, and the parliamentarian's ruling

28:32 — The four Senate Republicans who blocked voter ID

30:03 — If you need a photo ID at the doctor, you can have one for elections

30:54 — Call to action: keep calling, keep recruiting, keep pressuring

32:01 — Capitol Switchboard 202-224-3121 and passthesaveamericaact.com

33:19 — Jenny Beth's closing message to the grassroots

Links Mentioned:

Capitol Switchboard: 202-224-3121

passthesaveamericaact.com

jennybethshow.com

teapartypatriots.org

earlyvoteaction.com