Janelle King serves on the Georgia State Election Board and has become one of the country's clearest voices for election transparency and voter confidence. She explains Georgia's new vote-tabulation transparency rule and why the board is fighting for observers in the state's centralized vote-reporting room.

Ned Jones studies the vulnerabilities of voting by mail for the Election Integrity Network. He walks through how election mail actually moves through the Postal Service, what the redefined postmark means for ballot deadlines, and what the Supreme Court's Watson decision got wrong.

Jon Kahn is a singer-songwriter, the writer of "Fighter" and "American Heart," and the COO and Minister of Culture at Breitbart News. He shares the America 250 American Soundtrack project, ten original songs from Nashville songwriters celebrating the country.

Jeanne Ives is a former Illinois state representative, a West Point graduate from a family of West Point graduates and active-duty service members, and the CEO of Breakthrough Ideas, where she writes a weekly newsletter on state and local policy. She hosts a daily radio hour on AM 560 from 11:00 AM to noon, Monday through Friday.

Robert McNeily is Director of Broadcasting and Grassroots Engagement at Tea Party Patriots Action. A former RSBN anchor, he spent the July 4 weekend on the ground at the America 250 kickoff in Washington, D.C., where he filmed the flyover footage featured at the close of this episode.

Key topics:

• What Democrats knew about Graham Platner before Maine's primary
• Breaking: an Illinois Democrat state representative indicted for federal fraud
• Florida vs. Illinois: DeSantis and Pritzker each signed eight budgets, with opposite results
• The Todd Blanche confirmation fight and the letter from 1,200 former Justice Department employees
• President Trump declares the ceasefire with Iran over
• The SAVE America Act: 50 senators on record and a Senate that went home
• Abdul El-Sayed's defund-the-police audio and the Planned Parenthood funding fight

Timestamped breakdown:

00:00 — Cold open: the party that chose ideology over character

00:57 — Welcome and today's headlines

04:18 — Take action: two calls to make today

05:21 — Guest introductions: Jeanne Ives and Robert McNeily

05:52 — Graham Platner and how Democrats vet their own

08:58 — Breaking: an Illinois Democrat state representative indicted for fraud

11:35 — Florida vs. Illinois: DeSantis and Pritzker by the numbers

17:47 — What the Left actually values

22:51 — Todd Blanche and the letter from 1,200 former employees

31:19 — Breaking: the Iran ceasefire is over

40:49 — The SAVE America Act: 50 senators on record

47:36 — Abdul El-Sayed's defund-the-police audio

49:58 — The Planned Parenthood funding fight

53:53 — Where to follow Jeanne Ives

55:03 — July 4 flyover footage and closing calls to action

Links mentioned:

passthesaveamericaact.com

tpp.me/ombcomment

whitehouse.gov/contact

breakthrough-ideas.com

teapartypatriots.org

jennybethshow.com

Capitol switchboard: 202-224-3121

Dr. John Eastman is one of the country's leading constitutional scholars. He clerked at the United States Supreme Court, has been involved in more than 200 cases before the Court, and founded a constitutional litigation center more than 25 years ago dedicated to restoring the principles of the American founding.

Host Jenny Beth Martin is co-founder of the Tea Party movement and Chairman of Tea Party Patriots Action.

Key topics:

• Why the 6-3 birthright citizenship headline is wrong and the real vote was 5-4
• What "subject to the jurisdiction thereof" meant to the men who wrote the Fourteenth Amendment
• The 1898 Wong Kim Ark decision and the history the majority ignored
• Justice Thomas's 91-page dissent and Justice Alito's warning
• Trump v. Slaughter, the end of Humphrey's Executor, and restored presidential power
• What Congress can do now, and the Dred Scott precedent for pushing back
• The Court's ruling protecting girls' sports

Timestamps:

00:00 — The SAVE America Act sits stalled in the Senate

01:49 — Maine's Senate race and the Susan Collins math

03:21 — Trump at the NATO summit; the Charlie Kirk hearing begins

04:51 — A landmark Supreme Court term

05:23 — Call to action: pass the SAVE America Act

06:37 — Dr. John Eastman joins; celebrating America's 250th

07:20 — Was this really a consequential term?

08:47 — Trump v. Slaughter and restored presidential power

16:31 — Birthright citizenship: why the number is wrong

21:01 — Wong Kim Ark and the history the Court ignored

25:42 — The dissents and what Congress can do

41:19 — Judicial supremacy, Lincoln, and Dred Scott

46:37 — Ten years from the escalator to the border

49:16 — The Court protects girls' sports

52:09 — Calls to action and a 250-year close

Links: teapartypatriots.org, jennybethshow.com, passthesaveamericaact.com. Call the Capitol switchboard at 202-224-3121.

Bill Norton is a constitutional scholar, civics curriculum author, and co-author of Speaking the Language of Liberty (with Mark Herr). He has spent thirty-five years studying the Founders and teaches the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence to grassroots activists, civic groups, and elected officials across the country. His forthcoming book, Behind the Declaration of Independence, is a companion volume to Behind the Bill of Rights, with Behind the Constitution releasing in September.

Host: Jenny Beth Martin, co-founder of the Tea Party movement and Chairman of Tea Party Patriots Action.

Key topics covered:

• Why the American colonists were never the rebels — and who actually broke the social contract
• The power of words and how the Declaration of Independence freed more people than any military conquest
• King George III's secret post-war essay conceding that American self-governance worked
• Who actually wrote the Declaration — and why Thomas Jefferson called it "an expression of the American mind"
• What "the laws of nature and of nature's God" really means for believers and for secular readers
• Cicero, John Locke, and the difference between primitive and sophisticated natural law
• The three kinds of self-governance: individual, relational, and societal
• Why "all men are created equal" was always about mankind, not just males — and the etymology behind it
• The John Adams principle: we are born to equal rights, not to equal talents, property, or outcomes
• Thomas Jefferson's final letter and "the dawn of day"
• Why education is the true corrective of constitutional abuses

Timestamped topic breakdown:

00:00 — Cold open and welcome to the Constitution training series
01:09 — Levi Preston: "Those redcoats never meant for us to govern ourselves"
03:30 — The power of words: Genesis, the Declaration, and the language of liberty
08:51 — King George III's secret post-war essay
12:57 — Why only three countries lack written constitutions — and one of them is England
14:46 — Were the colonists really rebels? John Locke on who broke the social contract
17:48 — Being smeared as "anti-government," from King George to Janet Napolitano's list
22:50 — Pro-Constitution, not anti-government: the line we hold
24:38 — Who actually wrote the Declaration: the committee of five, then three
27:01 — Jefferson on borrowing ideas: "An expression of the American mind"
33:13 — Brilliant and flawed: the Founders' contradictions and our duty to keep growing
35:51 — Jefferson's permission to amend: "Forty years of experience is worth a century of book reading"
40:08 — Pouring concrete and skipping fundamentals: why first principles matter
42:13 — "Laws of nature and of nature's God": room for the secular and the religious
44:43 — What natural law actually is: Cicero's universal, unchanging law
51:50 — "I can beat you up and take your stuff": primitive vs. sophisticated natural law
56:32 — "The powers of the earth": where governing power really originates
1:00:38 — Society serves the individual: Bastiat and the Judeo-Christian flip
1:04:17 — How this is NOT communism: voluntary contribution and three kinds of self-governance
1:06:25 — Government protects rights — until it builds a cage
1:10:14 — "We hold these truths to be self-evident": what self-evident really means
1:13:55 — "All men are created equal": the etymology of man, wifeman, and wereman
1:18:20 — Equal in rights, not in things: John Adams and the $20 / $15 / $0 example
1:26:25 — From John Adams to John Quincy Adams to Abraham Lincoln: the stepping stones of liberty
1:30:49 — Thomas Jefferson's final letter and "the dawn of day"
1:33:38 — Education as the corrective of constitutional abuses
1:36:24 — Why principles beat reactionary politics — and produce calmer activists
1:40:09 — Books, takeaways, and what's coming in Part 2
1:42:42 — Sign-off

Books referenced in this episode:

• Behind the Declaration of Independence by Bill Norton (forthcoming)
• Behind the Bill of Rights by Bill Norton
• Behind the Constitution by Bill Norton (September release)
• Speaking the Language of Liberty by Bill Norton and Mark Herr
• The Law by Frédéric Bastiat

Links:

• The Jenny Beth Show: jennybethshow.com
• Tea Party Patriots Action: teapartypatriots.org

The Jenny Beth Show is hosted by Jenny Beth Martin and is a production of Tea Party Patriots Action. This Constitution training series is produced in partnership with Tea Party Patriots Foundation.

Bill Norton is a constitutional scholar and author who has studied America's founders for more than thirty years, and co-author of "Speaking the Language of Liberty" and "Behind the Bill of Rights."

Jenny Beth Martin is co-founder of the Tea Party movement and Chairman of Tea Party Patriots Action, representing three million grassroots conservative activists.

Key topics covered:

• Why the colonists saw themselves as defenders of self-government, not rebels
• The forgotten testimony of Revolutionary War soldier Levi Preston
• How Cicero, John Locke, and Algernon Sidney shaped the founding
• The Declaration as "an expression of the American mind"
• Answering the "anti-government" smear with the founding itself
• What natural law is and why it cannot be repealed
• What the founders actually meant by "all men are created equal"

Timestamped topic breakdown:

00:01:01 — Levi Preston: why the colonists really fought

00:05:24 — Could the colonists vote? Self-government in the colonies

00:12:57 — The ideas that shaped both England and America

00:19:37 — Answering the "anti-government" smear

00:24:46 — Who wrote the Declaration: an expression of the American mind

00:31:10 — Cicero, Locke, and the great thinkers behind the founding

00:44:08 — What natural law actually is

00:48:51 — Why natural law cannot be repealed

01:04:43 — Equal, separate, and the individual in society

01:10:35 — Inside the Declaration's first paragraph

01:14:45 — What "created equal" really means

01:37:19 — Turning the principles into a way forward

Links: teapartypatriots.org, jennybethshow.com

David Barton is the founder of WallBuilders and one of the nation's foremost collectors of original founding-era documents. Through decades of research he has built one of the largest private collections of founding-era papers in America and become a trusted resource for lawmakers, educators, and citizens on America's founding principles.

His new book, "Lives, Fortunes, and Sacred Honor: The Signers of the Declaration," co-authored with his son Tim Barton, tells the remarkable stories of all 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence — their courage, their convictions, and the very real cost many of them paid.

Key topics:

• Why July 2, not July 4, is the real Independence Day
• What "lives, fortunes, and sacred honor" actually cost the 56 signers
• God-given rights versus government-granted rights
• Why British capture was deadlier than the battlefield
• How a divided Congress nearly failed to declare independence
• The founders' most-quoted source — and why it was the Bible
• Classical education, thinking versus memorizing, and the civics-test gap
• Barton's favorite story: Paul Revere's real mission and the Battle of Lexington

Timestamps:

00:00 — Welcome and why this July 4 special matters

01:43 — Why July 2 is the real Independence Day

02:58 — Why reaching 250 years is historically rare

06:36 — A rising patriotism, especially among Gen Z

07:54 — Can you name five signers? Why we forgot them

10:11 — Lives, Fortunes, and Sacred Honor: the six principles of the Declaration

12:28 — God-given rights versus government-granted rights

19:20 — Inside WallBuilders: documents from all 56 signers

21:09 — Restoring the monuments and the forgotten patriots

23:11 — The brutal cost: why capture was deadlier than combat

25:25 — By contrast: how America treated its British prisoners

28:45 — Debtors' prison and the founders who lost everything

29:48 — Independence was not inevitable: a divided Congress

31:47 — The 80-mile midnight ride that saved a vote

33:01 — From the founders' debate to today's Senate

34:45 — How 1920s schooling replaced thinking with memorizing

40:54 — Where the founders got their ideas: the Bible, Montesquieu, Blackstone, Locke

45:16 — What classical education really means

48:44 — Thinking in the age of AI

52:39 — 91% of immigrants pass the civics test; only 4% of students do

57:04 — What every American should do now

59:52 — Barton's favorite story: Paul Revere's real ride and the Battle of Lexington

01:02:50 — Closing and the Constitution training series

Learn more at teapartypatriots.org and jennybethshow.com.

Shari Rigby is an actress, director, and producer known for the faith films October Baby and Overcomer. She founded Beautifully Flawed Productions and the Women in My World ministry, and she is the creator of the immersive audio drama Defiant Ones, about the women of the American Revolution.

Jenny Beth Martin is co-founder of the Tea Party movement and Chairman of Tea Party Patriots Action.

Key topics:

• The forgotten women who helped found America: patriots, poets, prophets, and spies
• Defiant Ones, built on the Abigail and John Adams letters and "remember the ladies"
• Sybil Ludington, Agent 355, Penelope Barker, and Prudence Wright
• Immersive Dolby Atmos audio and getting kids off screens
• Faith, history, and celebrating America's 250th birthday

Timestamps:

00:00 — Welcome: meet filmmaker Shari Rigby and the Defiant Ones audio drama

01:18 — Shari's path: the Kendrick brothers, October Baby, and moving behind the camera

03:25 — A testimony: from teenage mom to faith-and-family filmmaker

08:19 — Women in My World: mentoring women in the industry

09:12 — How Defiant Ones came together and putting women to work

12:47 — Patriots, poets, prophets, and spies

13:09 — Remember the Ladies: the Abigail and John Adams letters

14:31 — Why teaching the founding matters, and Sybil Ludington's ride

17:03 — The women who surprised her most: Penelope Barker and Agent 355

21:19 — Immersive Dolby Atmos audio and getting kids off screens

25:00 — Studying the founding and walking Boston's Freedom Trail

29:58 — America's 250th and a call to families

32:19 — What's next, and where to find Defiant Ones

Defiant Ones launches July 2, streaming on the Washington Times (washingtontimes.com) and all podcast platforms, with companion novelettes on Amazon and family assets at beautifullyflawedproductions.com. Learn more at teapartypatriots.org and jennybethshow.com.

Cleta Mitchell is the founder of the Election Integrity Network and a senior legal fellow at the Conservative Partnership Institute. One of the nation's foremost election law attorneys, she has spent decades fighting for ballot integrity, honest elections, and the constitutional right of citizens to choose their representatives.

Robert McNeily is the Director of Broadcasting and Grassroots Engagement at Tea Party Patriots Action and a regular co-host of The Jenny Beth Show. He brings a grassroots perspective to the daily news cycle and a deep commitment to constitutional conservatism.

Key Topics:

• Watson v. Republican National Committee and why states can count mail-in ballots days after Election Day
• The SAVE America Act's fourth House vote, now bolted to the National Defense Authorization Act
• Why "it's already illegal" is not the same as enforceable — the NVRA enforcement gap
• Senate filibuster rules, 50 Republican votes, and the path to passage
• Senators to pressure: Tillis, Cassidy, Murkowski, Cornyn, Collins
• Today's SCOTUS rulings: no men in women's sports, birthright citizenship upheld, McCain-Feingold limits struck down
• Humphrey's Executor overturned: presidential authority to fire executive agency heads
• Trump: socialism is communism — the biggest threat since the founding
• Founding principles, consent of the governed, and America's 250th birthday
• Call to action: urge the president to veto the Waters-Warren housing bill without the SAVE America Act attached

Timestamped Breakdown:

00:00 — Supreme Court term finale: Watson v. RNC, women's sports ruling, birthright citizenship, McCain-Feingold

02:00 — Welcome and overview

07:21 — SAVE America Act: Senate path, filibuster rules, 50 votes explained (Cleta Mitchell)

17:30 — Problem senators: Murkowski, Tillis, Cassidy, Cornyn, Curtis — what to demand

22:55 — Watson v. RNC deep dive: mail ballots, EOCAVA, California primary results, the fix

32:00 — Today's three SCOTUS term-end rulings broken down

39:23 — Constitutional crisis: Alito dissent, birthright citizenship, the founders' intent

44:08 — Humphrey's Executor overturned: presidential authority over the FTC and Federal Reserve

50:20 — Socialism is communism: Trump's warning and McNeily's response

53:08 — Why founding principles matter at America's 250th: Cleta Mitchell

57:13 — Calls to action, Defiant Ones podcast promo, closing

Links:

• passthesaveamericaact.com
• whitehouse.gov/contact (urge a veto of the Waters-Warren housing bill without the SAVE America Act)
• Capitol switchboard: 202-224-3121
• teapartypatriots.org
• jennybethshow.com