Communist Hungary made an honest life impossible, and Holocaust survivor Robert Ratonyi explains why you had to cheat, lie, and steal just to survive it. In his second conversation with Jenny Beth Martin, he picks up where the first left off: Stalin's three broken promises at Yalta, the salami tactics that turned a lost 1945 election into total communist control by 1948, five-year plans that were never met, meal tickets without meat, a graduation suit his mother paid for with alcohol stolen from the factory, and a bar mitzvah held behind pulled shades so the neighbors would not hear. He describes the secret police on every streetcar, six compulsory years of Russian, Voice of America with the volume down, and an aunt imprisoned for years over a smuggler's phone number. Then comes October 23, 1956, when he was an 18-year-old freshman in the student march that gave Hungary a few weeks of freedom, and the December night he crossed a frozen field and a swamp into Austria with 200 forints in his pocket, carrying a stranger's six-year-old daughter on his back to pay his way. Jenny Beth reads him the Democratic Socialists of America's promise of a life without capitalism, and he answers it. Robert Ratonyi is an engineer, a former investment banker, the author of From Darkness into Light: My Journey Through Nazism, Fascism, and Communism to Freedom, and a longtime speaker for the Georgia Commission on the Holocaust. Learn more at teapartypatriots.org and jennybethshow.com.

Friends Help Friends Vote is the friends-and-family turnout playbook Jon Ossoff's campaign used to win the 2021 Georgia Senate runoffs, and in this solo training episode Jenny Beth Martin puts it in your phone two weeks before Election Day. The news comes first: the Justice Department charged 28 green card holders in California with federal election crimes after a citizenship check flagged about 20,000 suspected noncitizens on the state's voter rolls with ballots already mailed, and Ballotpedia counts 94 American elections since 2018 decided by a single vote. Then the hour becomes a working session. Jenny Beth walks through the TPP.me/text system for texting voters you do not know, explains the Politico account of how Ossoff hired about 2,800 Georgians to reach their own friends and family and lifted turnout nearly 4 points, and uses a wet sponge to show where the last votes in a close race come from. From there it is step by step: download the Numinar app, join the Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund workspace, allow contact matching, and have real conversations with the people you know, including what to text your dad and what to do when a friend is voting the other way. Can ten minutes a day on your phone decide a Senate seat? It already has once. Jenny Beth Martin is co-founder of the Tea Party movement and Chairman of Tea Party Patriots Action. No guests this episode. Everything you need is at friendshelpfriendsvote.com. Learn more at teapartypatriots.org and jennybethshow.com.

Flock cameras, sold as a way to catch criminals, look to Manuela Callini like something she has seen before. She was born in communist Romania in 1986 and was not quite four when Nicolae Ceausescu fell, old enough to remember standing in line before dawn with her father for one kind of milk, and being sent home when the shop ran out. The youngest voice in the Surviving Communism series tells Jenny Beth Martin what the regime did to her family: the collectivization that took her mother's family land, livestock, equipment, and even clothes, leaving nine children one pair of rubber boots to share for the walk to school; the state that chose her father's job, his city, and his apartment; hands inspected on white handkerchiefs at daycare; and a Christmas Day trial of under an hour that ended the dictator himself. Then the conversation turns to America, where Callini has lived since 2013 and now works in grassroots activism in Arizona. Flock and Axon cameras sold as safety, free things that make you the property of the state, a younger generation that never shows up to a legislative district meeting: she says it is the pattern she grew up in, and it always arrives dressed as safety, fairness, equality, and compassion. Where to look first: law enforcement and the courts. Guest: Manuela Callini, born in communist Romania, in the United States since 2013, now in grassroots activism with EZAZ in Arizona. Learn more at teapartypatriots.org and jennybethshow.com.

Surviving Communism, part two: the Soviet Union told its people they paid 13 percent in taxes. Dr. Yuri Yarim-Agaev, a physicist the KGB expelled, built an economic model of that system before his exile and put the real rate at 92 percent, hidden inside wages set by the state, the only employer in the country. A job worth 1,000 rubles paid 100 or 120. That is the number Jenny Beth Martin says to take from this episode. She puts the famous photographs of communism on the screen, Tank Man at Tiananmen Square, the Stalin statue coming down in Budapest, the Romanian flag with the emblem cut out, an exiled Catholic bishop from Nicaragua, a Soviet food line, and the Berlin Wall going up, and asks the people who lived under those regimes what we are looking at. Then the panel turns to the present: the Chinese Communist Party's reach into American newspapers, courtrooms, universities, and social media, and a Bundestag witness's account of how Beijing pays influencers. Guests: Sasha Gong, former China director at Voice of America and former political prisoner; Dr. Yuri Yarim-Agaev, Soviet physicist and Moscow Helsinki Group dissident; Agnes Gibboney, whose family fled Hungary after 1956; Ovidiu Frusina and Manuela Colini, who grew up under Ceausescu's Romania; Captain Onofre Gutierrez, born in Managua, Nicaragua; Janice Trey, chairman of the board of The Epoch Times; and Torsten Trey, who grew up in West Germany. Learn more at teapartypatriots.org and jennybethshow.com.

Mamdani's housing plan rests on the oldest Soviet question, says a physicist the KGB expelled: who decides who gets what. Dr. Yuri Yarim-Agaev modeled the Soviet economy from inside and found a hidden tax above 90 percent, the rest handed back by party loyalty. Zohran Mamdani's plan for New York, he says, works the same way: take as much as possible and redistribute it by their rules, decided not democratically, not by merit, and not by means, but by a small clique. The middle class, the nucleus of any city, is pushed out first. In the second half of a two-part conversation in the Surviving Communism series, he tells Jenny Beth Martin what it was like to be in the room when Ronald Reagan asked whether the Soviet Union was a sick bear or a wounded bear, why Reagan was the only president who understood that ideology is the heart of a totalitarian system, what finishing the job in Iran means, why Vladimir Putin's conservatism is Stalin's and not Reagan's, and why the danger from the left is always greater than the danger from the right. Guest: Dr. Yuri Yarim-Agaev, physicist, Soviet dissident and member of the Moscow Helsinki Group, expelled from the Soviet Union in 1980, founder of the Center for Democracy in the USSR, who briefed President Ronald Reagan before Reykjavik and before his trip to Moscow and worked as a scientist at MIT and Stanford. Learn more at teapartypatriots.org and jennybethshow.com.

Affordability is the word everyone in Washington uses now, including President Trump, and a Soviet dissident says it is the communist motto in disguise. Dr. Yuri Yarim-Agaev was born into the Soviet Union in 1949, the third generation of his family to live under communism, and he spent his life fighting it from the inside: a physicist at the Academy of Sciences who joined the Moscow Helsinki Group, expected prison, and was exiled instead. He says the word came from the left on purpose. Spell it out and it means to each according to his needs. Capitalism says to each according to his means. Pick up the other side's language and you are already on defense in a fight with no defensive strategy. In the first half of a two-part conversation in the Surviving Communism series, he describes mature communism, the stage after the terror when the KGB no longer needs to watch because people watch themselves; why a privileged young scientist chose to risk everything; how a handful of dissidents broke the pact of fear and the state's monopoly on information; how the left took the words human rights and conservatives gave them up; and why he believes the Democratic Socialists of America grew on President Trump's watch, because executive orders cannot change the minds of millions of young people. Guest: Dr. Yuri Yarim-Agaev, physicist, Soviet dissident, member of the Moscow Helsinki Group, and founder of the Center for Democracy in the USSR. Learn more at teapartypatriots.org and jennybethshow.com.

Border security is the subject for the full hour, and two numbers frame it: in August 2024, under President Biden, the Border Patrol released 10,186 illegal aliens into the country in a single month. In August 2026 it released zero, the sixteenth straight month at zero. Jenny Beth Martin spends the hour with Rosemary Jenks, co-founder and policy director of the Immigration Accountability Project, who testified before the House Judiciary Committee in September on making the Trump border policies permanent. Jenks walks through what changed: 10,000 to 12,000 crossings a day under Biden against about 250 a day now, catch and release ended, asylum grants down from more than half of cases to about 7 percent, and all of it done under laws already on the books. That is the warning: what existing law did, the next administration can undo, and a Congress run by the left could defund ICE and the Border Patrol. Michigan's Democratic Senate nominee posted "Abolish ICE" the day before the show, and Jenks says a discharge petition on a Democrat amnesty bill is one signature away from forcing a House vote in the lame duck. Also in the hour: New York's 16,070 refused ICE detainers, the Permanent Trump Secure Border Act, the Labor Department suspending Microsoft, Adobe, and the H-1B body shops from the green card program, Optional Practical Training, the J-1 investigation at nine universities, and how denaturalization law works. Election Day is 21 days away. Learn more at teapartypatriots.org and jennybethshow.com.

Mamdani's grocery stores get an answer from a man who stood in communist Romania's bread lines. New York's Mayor Mamdani has promised city-run grocery stores, and Ovidiu Frusina, born in Bucharest in 1967 under Nicolae Ceausescu, tells Jenny Beth Martin what state-run food actually looked like from the inside: four hours in line for a loaf, retirees up at 2 AM in a line of 500 for two pounds of meat, ration tickets for oil and sugar, and shelves that were full in 1965 and empty by 1985. He lived the free health care: no toilet paper in the hospital, no pain medicine unless the family paid the nurses, and a free appendix surgery that cost a month's pay. He lived the free education: the state decided how many doctors it wanted each year, and the boys who lost went to the army. At 21 the police pulled him out of work and beat him. His crime was writing to his high school sweetheart after she defected to America. His university stood him up in front of 120 classmates and called him a traitor, and a math teacher failed him so he would never become an engineer. He reached America in 1990 and built a life in Houston. The girl he wrote to is his wife and plays violin with the Houston Symphony. Guest: Ovidiu Frusina, born in Bucharest, Romania; computer science graduate, former consulting business owner and father of four, Houston, Texas. Learn more at teapartypatriots.org and jennybethshow.com.

Surviving Communism: seven people who lived under it sat down with Jenny Beth Martin in Atlanta, from China, the Soviet Union, Hungary, Romania and Nicaragua. Between them, more than a hundred years of life under communist rule, and two come from countries where communism is still in power today. In this first part of the panel, each survivor starts with the childhood moment they realized their parents were not in charge of their own home: a nine-year-old sent to pick peppers because her family was declared counter-revolutionary, a child laborer who learned that cars existed from leaflets dropped by Taiwanese balloons. Then daily life: a Chinese ration card of 25 pounds of rice, 0.6 pounds of meat and four pieces of tofu per adult per month; a Romanian grocery run that started before dawn and ended with empty shelves; free socialized medicine that meant bribing the doctor, the secretary and the nurse, and bringing your own soap. A Soviet dissident explains why mature communism no longer needs daily terror, and why equity means redistribution. A Romanian survivor closes with the classroom experiment that shows what happens when every student gets the class average. Guests: Sasha Gong, former China director at Voice of America; Dr. Yuri Yarim-Agaev, Soviet physicist exiled in 1980; Agnes Gibboney, whose parents fled Hungary in 1956; Oviedo Frasina and Manuela Colini, from Romania; Captain Onofre Gutierrez, from Nicaragua; and Janice Trey, chairman of the board of The Epoch Times. Learn more at teapartypatriots.org and jennybethshow.com.

The midterm elections are 26 days away, and Arizona grassroots leader Merissa Caldwell has a plan to get out the vote. With Robert McNeily in for Jenny Beth Martin, the founder and chairwoman of EZAZ explains what is wrong with Arizona's federal-only ballot: because of a 2013 Supreme Court ruling, a voter who never proved citizenship still votes for President, Senate and Congress. A federal judge has now said only the states can decide who votes, the left says the National Voter Registration Act stops them from checking, and the Supreme Court takes up the Arizona case on December 8, after the midterms. Caldwell was on the January 2024 coalition call with Senator Mike Lee that led to the SAVE America Act, and she texted hundreds of Democrat voters to ask what they thought of proof of citizenship. Only one disagreed. Then the ground game: why loyal conservative voters skipped Arizona's primary, the 94-year-old whose early ballot had been switched off, the couple with a 76-year voting streak, how EZAZ fills poll worker and poll watcher roles from both parties, the Netflix voters the consultants ignore, and Reagan's eleventh commandment with 26 days to go. Merissa Caldwell is the founder and chairwoman of EZAZ, the Arizona grassroots organization that trains volunteers for voter registration, get-out-the-vote and election integrity work. The hour opens with President Trump's San Antonio rally for Ken Paxton and closes three years after October 7. Learn more at teapartypatriots.org and jennybethshow.com.