Frontline Special—4 TPUSA Students Tell Their Story + Jenny Beth Martin from Tea Party Patriots
Charlie brings a frontline report from 5 people who are deeply involved on what's really really happening on the ground. First up, Charlie sits down with 4 TPUSA student leaders from Southern California. These four brave young people tell their story about what life is really like on college campuses like standing strong in the face of CRT, gender theory, and personal slanders by peers, faculty, and administrators. Next, Charlie is joined by Jenny Beth Martin, founder of the Tea Party Patriots to talk about what she sees as the most important fights at the grassroots level: election integrity + ending emergency authorization mandates and other anti-civil liberty edicts. Jenny Beth gives updates from key swing states like Georgia and Nevada, and efforts to right the election integrity ship heading into 2022 and 2024. She also gives an update on the American Trucker Convoy gathering in California and headed to Washington. One of the original grassroots leaders of the modern political moment, Jenny Beth Martin explains how to get off the sidelines and onto the frontlines. Support the show: http://www.charliekirk.com/supportSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Fighting for Conservative Values00:06:27
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Here we go.
Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.
Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campuses.
I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.
Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks.
I want to thank Charlie.
He's an incredible guy.
His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
That's why we are here.
Hey, everybody, we got a treat for you.
Four amazing college campus conservatives fighting the good fight on the front lines for liberty and freedom, the Constitution, and the American Dream, all involved at Turning Point USA.
So honored to have all of you guys with us.
Let's go around the horn and you introduce yourselves, kind of where you're from, where you go to college.
Marcos, let's start with you.
Sure.
Well, thanks for having us, Charlie.
My name is Marco Zalata.
I'm a United States Army veteran.
I go to Cal State Fullerton and I'm from Upland, California.
Great.
Cool.
I'm Logan Colsack.
I'm actually from Chicago, from the Wheeling area.
Really?
I am.
Where'd you go to high school?
I was actually homeschooled.
Well, that's why you're so smart.
I know.
Thank you.
I appreciate that.
So, yeah, and I go to Point Loma Nazarene University in San Diego, California.
Awesome.
Hi, I'm Kira.
I go to Cal State San Marcos, and I'm from Carlsbad, California.
My name is Gabby.
I'm from Fullerton, California, and I go to Cal State Fullerton.
So, well, kind of anyone can answer this.
Talk about what it's like being an open conservative on a college campus.
And do any of you feel as if you've been graded differently or outwardly discriminated against?
I'm going to use that word because of your conservative beliefs.
Oh, yeah, absolutely, Charlie.
So just recently, the Daily Caller wrote about the situation at Cal State Fullerton.
They've openly attacked me for being a Christian, for being a veteran, a Latino conservative.
They've tried to silence me and assault me on campus.
But I come from a background of a warrior mentality.
So to me, I think it's fun.
I think it's worth the fight, and I think it's important that someone does it without fear.
So by they, you mean the administration?
I mean the Progressives Club and just anyone who would identify as a leftist on our campus.
Now, if you were to, let's just say, dish out what they put towards you, you would probably be investigated by...
Yeah, I've said it before.
If we acted the way they did with the insults and calls for violence, we would be punished at the highest standards, which it should be that way.
But we don't act that way because we're conservatives and because we are Christians.
Well, that's the most important thing.
So Gabby, so you're involved on the front lines, and you've probably been a recipient of a lot of different attacks.
Talk a little bit about that.
So growing up, I've always been an outspoken conservative.
I've never known the difference.
I didn't know it was taboo to be a conservative.
Freshman year and sophomore year of high school, I was called racist.
I was talked about on Twitter.
So going into college, I was already prepared.
I wasn't going to stray away.
I wasn't going to back down.
But luckily, I'm a business major.
So a majority of my professors are pretty based, not biased.
Even my most leftist professors were not biased, even when I disagreed with their ideology and beliefs.
But do you think from the students, do you think there's intolerance that brews from there?
Oh, 100%.
I was involved with the whole Progressive Club debacle and how they attacked our chapter.
We have so many screenshots and it's been very interesting, but again, I've been through this since high school, so it's not my first time around this rodeo.
And it makes you tougher.
Oh, 100%.
So Logan, you were on the front lines of a controversy that I was very well aware of.
Yeah.
So you go to Point Loma.
Correct.
So that is a Christian school.
Supposedly.
You know, Christian school by name, but.
You said it.
I heard it.
Yeah.
So you go to this school and you tried to start a Turning Point USA chapter.
I did.
And Turning Point USA, we stand for the Constitution, for freedom of speech, for American exceptionalism.
What happened next?
So we tried to start it 2020.
So the first time, got denied.
They said we were too out there, too radical.
I tried again this year, and again, the same thing is we had hateful rhetoric, that we wanted to create violence in their system.
It's just crazy.
And so I tried to start that, and it got totally pushed back by the administration, by our student government.
It was actually only four people who voted on it, or five people who voted and said, we don't want it at our club.
And those were students, and they completely blocked it from entering our campus.
And the response from the students was crazy.
I got so many messages on Instagram, text messages of people just calling me out.
I had so many people posting me personally on their story saying, how can you stand for this?
You're just a white conservative male who is complaining.
There's so many bigger issues out there and yet you complain because you're so privileged.
And that was the response from a lot of the student population because apparently my beliefs are unacceptable at our school.
So you're a Christian?
I am, yes.
And you go to an allegedly Christian school?
Allegedly.
And we have a lot of friends that have been through your institution, have been through Point Loma.
Now the administration had an opportunity to maybe right this wrong and they decided not to.
Is that correct?
Correct.
I had meetings with a lot of the administration and they basically said it's out of our hands.
It was the student government who decided and there's nothing we can do about it.
And this is a procedural excuse, right?
Correct.
Because talk about some of the other groups that are actually on campus at Point Loma.
Yeah, we have a Democrat club, a College of Democrats that's allowed to exist.
And we also have a Voices of Love Club.
What is that?
It's an LGBTQ plus friendly club that is on campus.
At a Christian school.
At a Christian school.
And so, but they would say, oh, that's the students that want that.
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We're not going to take a stance on it.
Right, right.
They say the students want it.
They say it's not technically part of the university so they can bypass our Nazarene and Wesleyan traditions.
But then last year they actually won the Diversity of the Year award from the school.
So the school not only endorses it, they actually...
So at Point Loma, a school that calls themselves Christian, they are giving awards to transgender groups.
Yeah, an LGBTQ group on the group.
The whole group.
Voices of Love.
The whole alphabet, whatever.
The whole shebang.
Yeah, sure.
I get confused with that too.
So we'll be back to that.
So, Kira, tell us about your experience on campus.
Yeah, so I am a communications major, and with that comes a lot of leftist professors.
So I get taught CRT, gender theory, queer theory.
I was looking through one of my classes this semester at the curriculum and it's like all this crazy stuff and I have to pretend to be a leftist to pass some of my classes when I'm in the middle of the passing grade.
Yeah.
So and I don't fault you for that by the way.
I'm sure you've heard some of my speeches where I say make your decision as you see fit, but parents need to know when you send a child to college, you're gonna have to lie to get a good grade, is that correct?
Yeah, a lot of professors are very adamant in their beliefs, which, you know, it's fine.
But they are not open to hearing other people's viewpoints.
So they'll mark you down if you're not following the prompt or whatever.
It's really frustrating.
So you mentioned something that I'm a little curious about.
I'm not saying this sarcastically at all.
What is queer theory?
I have no clue.
Okay.
Yeah, I haven't read any of the materials yet.
That's why you're wise.
So I mean this in a non, you know, I'm not trying to insult.
When I grew up, that term used to be a term of slander.
Like I would get in trouble for using that term.
Exactly.
And now, am I recollecting that?
Same for my, I guess, my generation.
You wouldn't call someone that.
That was seen as a bad thing.
Now they slap it under logos and their buildings and they make theories out of it.
And is it, what exactly is the curriculum of this?
You wouldn't, just kind of just general.
I think they could teach it to me and I still wouldn't understand it, honestly.
Yeah, so I'm just curious about that.
So you have to make a decision then consciously, grade or what I believe.
How do you sort through that?
You know, it's tough.
I really, when I'm reading the materials, I kind of put myself into like the place of that writer where they might be.
And it's tough.
I have to kind of like spew out this nonsense.
And I really, I don't get to say how I truly believe.
I feel like it hinders my writing, to be honest.
So yeah, that's an interesting point, right?
So it actually makes you less creative.
It makes you less likely to perform at your highest ability because you just have to conform to whatever the problem is.
So let's talk about one of the things you talked about, CRT, critical race theory.
It comes in many different variations.
Have you guys heard the phrase white silence as violence or white privilege and all that?
So Marcus, we'll go around the horn again.
Have you been told that you have white privilege?
You know what?
I have not, but I will say this when people...
Of course, right.
I wouldn't be surprised if I got told that at this point.
I will openly say this.
When people say that there is a white privilege and that somehow I am hindered by the color of my skin, I consider that person racist because that's the actual racism.
I am blessed to be in this country.
I was brought up that way.
My parents made sacrifices to make sure they could come to this country legally and I could benefit from the fruit of this country.
I am not underprivileged.
I am just capable of anything regardless of my skin color.
So shame on them.
CRT is racist and I'm waiting for the day to say I'm not Latina anymore just because I'm conservative.
Well, you're American.
That's what's important.
It really is.
And so Gabby, talk about how everything is hyper-racialized, you know, from your campus.
Would you say your experience is that first and foremost, they're training students to look at things through a racial lens?
Oh, 100%.
I mean, I can look at myself.
I'm half white and half Korean, but I see myself as an American.
And people always put me in a box saying like, oh, my friends do this too, old friends of mine, not my friends now.
They'll be like, oh, Gabby's the Asian friend.
Or, look at Gabby, she's Asian.
But then when I'm a conservative, I'm a white supremac.
I remember I was called a white privileged cracker.
And so your identity immediately changes based on your beliefs.
Yes.
Is that right?
So you somehow like lose your minority card or whatever if you don't agree with the status quo.
So Logan, you got some serious problems.
We both do.
We're white, cisgendered, we're in violation of all of it, right?
So how do you make sense of that on your campus?
Yeah, no, it's crazy.
So a couple instances, I was on the debate team, and the debate team in college debate is just a breeding ground for liberal ideology.
And if you're a straight white Christian conservative male, I've lost grounds.
People have...
Can I ask you something?
I would think it would be the opposite.
Like debate would try to be fostering other opinions.
So explain that to me.
You would think.
I'm not really sure why it happens, but in the college debate sphere, people are just attracted to all these different things.
In a debate round, I've had people come up and say, Logan is privileged.
We shouldn't listen to what he's saying because he's white.
He doesn't experience diversity.
He doesn't experience these hardships that we have to experience.
And that's crazy.
Another example, I was an RA, so a resident assistant last year.
So over the election, over 2020 with all that COVID stuff going on.
And that was crazy.
One of the things that they made us do was diversity training.
So they got us all the RAs in a room and they had, they went over diversity.
And a woman went on the stage, a white woman, and she said, I want to apologize for being white.
And so in front of all the students, he's like, if you're white, you should probably apologize because you have privilege in society.
And I talked back to administration, and I got in trouble, obviously.
I was just like, diversity of thought is included in diversity.
It's not just the colors.
Yes.
There's a lot of other things that go into play when you're talking about diversity, but that wasn't reciprocated or accepted too well at my school.
Well, yeah, diversity of skin color means absolutely nothing, especially we as Christians believe that.
We think diversity of thought, most importantly, unity in Christ is what really matters.
And so Kira, talk a little bit about, you said you're being taught CRT.
Do you, and this is, I'm not trying to lead the questioner, so you could feel free to say no.
Do you think it's creating more racial thoughts, tension, or just racism?
I think it creates racism.
I mean, it's like we, in elementary school, we were taught, you know, to be colorblind.
And that's how I grew up.
You know, I don't see people by the color of their skin.
And that's, you know, how it's supposed to be.
You judge someone by their character.
And CRT teaches the exact opposite, that you should look at people by the color of their skin.
And I think that's so racist.
I totally agree.
So let's kind of focus on that for a second.
I have a similar experience.
I grew up in a country where we used to believe a certain thing.
And so now, but you're in college now, looking back to what you're taught in elementary school, and you're like, what changed?
Right?
I mean, for me, it was elementary school, middle school, and high school.
It was all kind of the same thing.
We want to be colorblind, don't care about people's skin color.
And I went to a high school that was 53% Hispanic.
I was a minority as a white male in it, and no one cared about skin color.
I mean this.
It was a wonderful thing where people cared about your content, your character, and your ideas and your aspirations.
And it was a really interesting thing and really fun.
And honestly, the way America should be, and now it's been totally destroyed.
But how do you make sense of that?
How are you going to tell that story 10 years from?
Like, yeah, I grew up in America that believed in the dream Martin Luther King, and then I went to college that believed in the dream of the KKK.
Like, I don't quite understand that.
Optimism for the Next Generation00:07:01
I have no clue.
It's like so backwards.
Like, I have no idea how they're teaching this stuff and how people truly believe it.
So let me ask you guys a couple more questions around the horn.
So Kabbi, I'll start with you.
When you tell your parents these things, do you have conservative parents sending wife?
You do.
Okay.
What's their reaction when you tell them this sort of stuff?
They're not really surprised.
I did grow up in a very conservative household and my parents and I talk politics all the time and I'm very open with them and what happens on my campus, even going back to elementary school, junior high, and high school.
And it really does like blow my mom's mind because I guess common sense just isn't so common.
And you're paying for the not common sense too as well.
Oh gosh, especially being online too.
Yeah.
Well that's it.
So you had to be online for most of these classes.
And we're online right now.
This is our last week, supposedly.
Yeah, okay.
So let's just ask a basic question.
Why are you guys conservative and how did you become a conservative?
Kira, and then we'll go all the way around.
Yeah, so I used to be a big Bernie supporter, to be honest.
In high school?
High school yeah, and when I was first starting college, I started to be more open to conservative ideas.
In 2020, my boyfriend is conservative and I am so grateful that he wanted to date me.
He opened me up to a bunch of new ideas and I did research on my own.
You know, I was kind of blindly supporting people on the left because I thought that that was the good side, so I'm really glad that I'm in the place that I am now with my beliefs.
I truly believe these things and I have like facts to back it up and not just feelings.
So the more you learned, the more confidence you got.
And was it a thing where you said, I never heard that before and I never heard that before?
Kind of, yeah.
Yeah.
And so the more you dove, the stronger your belief became.
So Logan, why are you a conservative?
I'm a Rush baby.
Okay, so my parents in the car, all of our car drives listen to Rush.
Yeah, AM 890 then from Chicago.
890.
WLS.
W-L-S-W-I-N-D.
Love them.
And so I would listen to Rush growing up.
And then coming to college, I was kind of, I was conservative.
I was a debater in high school, so I was able to think logically and critically and saw that conservative values worked the best, was the most practical in the real world, but also it aligned most to my Christianity, my faith.
And then in college, it was kind of on the back burner.
Conservative thought wasn't really a huge issue until 2020 when COVID came.
I was actually living in Paris at that time, and I had to come home.
Study abroad.
Study abroad.
I was studying abroad, came home to Chicago, completely locked down for like two, three months.
And that's when I was just ticked off.
I was like, this is crazy.
Like, we need to open up.
And that's when I got more like involved in conservative values.
And then going back to campus with campus being completely locked down, it really like made me want to fight for my values and fight for the beliefs that I hold dear because that's the only way I knew I was going to make a change.
And so that's kind of my journey.
Marcos, have you always been conservative?
You know what?
I didn't understand that I was conservative growing up.
I mean, my mom came from Guatemala.
She just taught me Christianity, put God in everything you do, what's right and what's wrong, fight for prosperity.
And then as I got older, I remember I was in high school and I started like, hey, mom, are you going to vote for Obama?
And her barely knowing your politics, she knew enough to be, no, absolutely not.
And after that, I started realizing, okay, so you don't agree with that side.
And started learning more and more, went into the Army, started reading more and more on my own as I served my country.
And then I came back and I instantly realized what is happening here.
This is nothing like it was when I left.
Found a Turning Point table, signed up, got more involved.
I was at the time I was attempting to go around and debating every single leftist table I could find.
And then I came across Turning Point.
I'm like, hey, for one, I agree with you guys finally.
And then you got involved.
And then I got involved in it.
I haven't gone back since.
I love being able to be outspoken and fight the good fight.
So we recruited you just right from a table.
Yes, I joined Turning Point two weeks after being discharged from the military.
That is cool.
So just really quickly, let's go around the horn.
Are you optimistic about the future of the country?
You're living and growing up around the future leaders, right?
So you're seeing the future CEOs, Supreme Court justices, cops, you know, all of it.
Gabby, you first.
Yes, I'm very optimistic.
I will never give up on this country.
I mean, I haven't even given up on the state when a lot of people have.
And it really stems from my faith in God because God can do anything.
He can make change.
He can make change in California.
If he can do that, he can make amazing changes throughout the country.
So I'm very optimistic.
Thank you.
Yeah, I'm optimistic as well.
I try to look on the bright side.
I think a lot of people are waking up and it's really good to see.
And same thing, God can do the impossible.
And yeah.
Logan, I saw a little bit of a face.
You're like, I don't know with my classmates at Point Loma.
Optimistic if they get power, is the country in a good place?
I don't know.
I think overall, I think I would be optimistic because the people who will become the leaders of the world, this next generation, is people like us, the ones that are ones that are here, actually out there fighting the good fight.
And those people are going to be the ones that are leading our country in the future, while the people who are complaining are going to be the ones on the sidelines.
And so I'm optimistic because we'll be in charge and we'll be the leaders.
Marcos, you've lived the American dream.
Are you optimistic?
You know what?
I am, but I understand there's a lot of danger ahead if we don't work hard.
There's so many conservative students who are too afraid to stand up.
There's too many parents who don't support their kids in standing up.
There's institutions and leaders in those institutions who are too afraid to stand up, like our professors who are conservatives and will tell us behind closed doors, but won't openly say, I'll support Turning Point, and we won't allow this at our campus.
But I understand and I see that God is moving in certain ways.
When it gets worse, that's when he comes in and does the most good.
So we will fix it.
Like Gabby said, I haven't given up on California.
I just, I don't believe in quitting.
It's not who I am.
It's not the word mentality I was given by God and by my experiences.
So we will fix it, but it's a wrong road ahead and we have to be prepared for it.
Well, I'm optimistic because of you four and the thousands and thousands of leaders that we have in Turning Point USA, just like you.
So if you were moved by any of these students, you guys can support them by going to tpusa.com.
You can check out their chapter information or get your kids and grandkids involved with Turning Point USA.
It's tpusa.com.
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Very good friend of mine, someone who is like the original grassroots coordinator outside of the Republican Party, who really helped start the Tea Party move, not started it herself.
Jenny Beth Martin from Tea Party Patriots.
How are you doing?
I'm great.
It's so good to be with you, Charlie.
The work you do for our country is so important, and we've known each other for a while, and you're always on the front lines, whether it be election integrity, vaccine mandates, all of it.
So I just want to thank you for all that you've done.
Oh, thank you.
And you're doing so much too.
It's just great to see how much energy you get with the younger generation and the grassroots involvement that they are engaged in.
It's synergy.
So tell us what you're working on at Tea Party Patriots.
So we're working on a couple of things.
A big thing we're working on right now is building permanent election integrity infrastructures in key states around the country.
So right now, this week, I have been traveling and doing a tour in Arizona where we're training people on how to build these local election integrity task forces.
And then I've already done the same kind of tour in Georgia.
We have a summit coming up in Georgia that Cleta Mitchell and Conservative Partnership Institute are hosting.
And then we're going on from here to Nevada.
And then we'll have Pennsylvania and North Carolina, Wisconsin, and Michigan where we're doing the same thing over the next two and a half months.
Well, that's terrific.
So tell us about what you're training these people to do.
Poll watchers, like just walk us through that.
So poll watchers and poll workers, that's usually what traditionally Republicans think of when we think of election integrity.
And certainly that's important.
And we need people to be poll watchers and especially people who are willing to work the polls, either as an election official, election judge, or just a poll worker, whatever they're called in their state.
But there are several more steps beyond that, including building a working group who will be present at your local election board meetings, committee meetings, subcommittee meetings, really understanding what's going on in those offices, researching what kind of contracts they have, temporary staffing.
In Fulton County, Georgia, they used a company called Happy Faces.
They've been trying to get rid of that.
So trying to understand just how these work and then cleaning the voter rolls, chasing and curing ballots.
And there's an entire plan for it that honestly, Cleta Mitchell put the plan together and we're going and training people and helping them learn how to build out the full infrastructure and then how to build out the working groups so they can really get the items done that she's put together.
And how to push through potential points of opposition, right?
That's exactly right.
In fact, one of the suggestions that we had this morning or yesterday was someone saying, you know, when you do poll worker training, it would be really good if you had some people who are acting out the kind of problems.
Like, what if you're watching a ballot drop box and someone's coming up with eight ballots and turning them in?
What do you do?
How can you stop that?
Because once they're in that box, it's all over.
It's hard to see.
The ballots are laundered.
Yeah, I mean, and you look at Dinesh D'Souza's new evidence, which I know you've been briefed on.
It's extraordinary.
And you look at Georgia, over 200 people, at least 200 to 300 people that visited over 25 ballot boxes in the middle of the night.
Right.
And so we want to make sure that we're training people.
We're not attorneys or prosecutors or sheriffs.
So there are things that we can't, that are beyond our control.
And we're trying to say, okay, we know you're angry.
We got to take all that passion and turn it into action to prevent people from ever doing these kind of things again as an individual citizen exercising our rights under the law in each of our states.
And are you seeing a good response from people on that?
Yeah, we really are seeing a good response.
And sometimes people come up to me afterwards and they're like, wow, I wasn't expecting this.
They're expecting like a speech.
And I do go through everything that I not everything, but I go through an overview of things that went wrong, especially in Georgia, because it was on, I served on President Trump's legal team in Georgia.
So I understand what went on.
And his team in Georgia focused on violations of our state law.
And so we see a trend around the entire country.
There were dozens of laws broken or violated in Georgia.
The same thing is going on in Arizona and Nevada and Wisconsin and Michigan.
And we're trying to help people understand how to prevent those from being broken in the first place.
Yeah, I mean, in Georgia, it was a criminal network that was harvesting ballots.
So yes, we have that.
Absolutely.
We've got those items going on.
We have the situation where the state farm arena, the poll watchers and workers, the poll watchers in public and the media were kicked out.
Ballots continued being counting against state law because there was no public observation.
And then we know that batches of ballots were going through the scanner more than one time.
And there's been an open records request that shows that the scanned images show ballots were counted more than one time.
There were a lot of problems.
The network is one of them.
Scanning a ballot more than one time and counting it and the results more than once is a huge problem as well.
Yeah.
So how do we prevent that from happening though?
Because they'll just kick you out.
Well, so then we have to make sure that we equip people and they know the law, that there are attorneys in place to help if they're trying to kick them out.
And that when that is beginning to happen, they stop it.
Whether they're having to call the local police or sheriff and say, look, you've got to, we have a right to be here.
As long as they're counting and tabulating votes, they cannot kick us out.
But they did, though, right?
They did.
And part of the thing that happened in 2020 is that the poll watchers, they didn't even know what law to cite to say, you can't kick us out because of this law.
When they said, okay, you have to leave.
Everyone has to leave.
They all left because they didn't.
I don't think anyone thought, well, they're going to just keep doing this all night.
This is so frustrating.
There's hundreds of millions of dollars that were supposed to be spent on this.
I know it is, it is crazy.
And there's still a lot of money being raised for this topic, right?
For this topic.
Yeah.
And, you know, that would be a whole other, whole other discussion.
But we're sitting there working to pull these together in the key states and do everything we can to equip and inform and educate the citizen activists so that they can prevent as much as possible from going wrong before votes are even cast and certainly before they're tabulated.
And find irregularities.
Right.
Right.
So, what are some of the other issues you're working on at Tea Party Patriots?
One of the big issues we've been working on, and you know this because we met up in July of 2020.
We both were working on this, ending the mandates.
You know, Charlie, it is time to every single state government, local government, and President Biden himself, they all need to stop the emergency, the emergency state.
It needs to be lifted.
And all of these mandates that happen under the emergencies, it's time to end.
We are not where we were two years ago when COVID was first breaking out in the world.
And the country is just broken, and it's going to continue to be broken until we are able to operate as we are supposed to be able to do as free citizens in this country.
They still have masks on kids in Georgia.
They have masks on kids in Georgia, but not on Cece Abrams.
Not on the school board members in Gwinnett County, but on the kids themselves.
But why aren't parents rising up more against this?
I don't understand.
There have been parents who've risen up.
And I think one thing that's really interesting, a lot of parents have just said, well, we're moving.
So in my county where I live, school opened back in August of 2020, like August 3rd, mask optional face-to-face learning.
And we've had a lot of people who move to our county who are like, we're just not doing this to our kids.
We're moving our kids altogether.
But parents need to rise up.
It is time to end this.
And that's why the trucker convoy that is going to happen here in America is so important.
So the truckers are going to be going to Coachella, where there's another defeat the mandates rally and event that's going to be happening on March 4th and 5th.
And they're going to be meeting in Coachella.
And then it's my understanding they're going to be leaving there to begin the convoy.
I've been in touch with Brian Brossi, who's one of the lead trucker organizers.
And they want it to be truckers, but they want every American to join in.
And they want the exact same thing.
The truckers in Canada are saying, end the mandates, all of them.
They want all of the mandates ended, whether it is a vaccine mandate or a mask mandate or healthy quarantine or needless testing when you aren't even showing symptoms, all of it to end.
Yeah, I mean, a trucker convoy across America would be extraordinary.
It would be extraordinary.
We'll have to join in for a while, won't we?
Going to Coachella.
And what's the website for Tea Party Patriots?
TeapartyPatriots.org, TeapartyPatriots.org.
TeapartyPatriots.org.
Everyone, check it out.
It's a great way to get engaged and get involved.
So what do you say to just an average citizen?
You've been doing this for a while.
You've been in kind of the citizen world for about 10 years that just say, I can't get involved.
I don't have time.
You know, what do you say?
Well, first I find out if they're angry about the way things are going or not.
You know, if they like the way America is, then okay, maybe you shouldn't get involved because we really don't want you to advocate for the mandates and other things going on.
I mean, you have a right to, but I want those gone.
But if they really care about what we care about and they're saying, well, I don't have time to get involved.
One of the things that we've done with Tea Party Patriots, we have a simple action item every single week.
If all you can do is get online and post something on social media and tag your elected member of Congress, then go do that.
It doesn't take very long or pick up the phone and make a phone call to your congressman, your senator, your state rep, and let them know how you feel about a particular issue.
That does not take very much time.
And if they really care, I say, well, if you want to save the Republic, it takes eternal vigilance.
It isn't something that we have with no citizen, no duties as a citizen.
And a lot of the school board movement you're seeing, does it remind you of the Tea Party movement back in 10 and 11?
It does.
It reminds me a lot of the Tea Party movement.
Their parents were very angry.
They're learning about the entire government process.
They haven't been engaged, especially at a local level before.
And even when they have been engaged with congressional issues, the local government functions much differently.
Like standing up in a school board meeting, it's not the same as a town hall meeting where you're congressman.
It's actually a government meeting.
But we're working to make sure that people have train people on what to do to go to their school board meetings and how to be engaged and how to be active.
And some of it, it's hard to do.
It takes time, especially if you're a busy parent working and having and you have children.
But if you care about your children's future and you want to make sure that the values that you are teaching your kids are not being undermined by the people they're around all day at school, you owe it to yourself to be involved.
Yeah, I mean, a lot of parents also just feel skittish, you know, so there, but there's more than one way to get involved.
Are you seeing a resurgence in more people that are just coming off the sidelines?
Absolutely.
We have seen such a resurgence.
In my county, I've been to quite a few, I've been to several of the school board meetings, and then I help the parents who and assist however they need help on the parents who are organizing there.
And they will have a couple hundred people, sometimes even up to a thousand people show up in a school board meeting.
That was unheard of two and a half years ago.
And in Georgia in particular, it's kind of become this battleground for all things, right?
It really has.
And Buckhead is thinking of trying to divest to its own city, and crime is up.
You know, where do you think Georgia's going heading into the midterms politically?
Well, I think that first we're going to have a really bloody bloody primary on our hands.
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The governor's side.
The governor's side of the state.
The Senate looks like it's over.
I mean, yeah, I don't think that there will be much on the Senate.
And Vernon Jones just stepped away from the governor's race to run for Congress, but that kind of frees it up for a two-person primary.
Purdue versus Kemp, yeah.
Yeah.
And whoever becomes the nominee from that, they're focused on making sure that Stacey Abrams doesn't become governor because we don't want a socialist as a governor in Georgia.
A lot of people have realized that Stacey Abrams knows how to activate people and to organize.
She knows how to cheat.
And she, yeah, she knows how to cheat.
She knows how to cheat.
Yeah, she knows how to cheat.
And she knows how to, man, the left, they ran circles around the right when it came to chasing ballots, curing ballots, just being so engaged.
Yeah, but like, I mean, I get kind of cynical, Jenny Beth.
There was tons of money raised, but it was supposed to be handled.
You're right.
You're right.
What's going to change?
Well, all that I can say is what I know what we're going on.
I know.
That's the right answer.
You're right.
I know so many donors that went into their savings.
It's frustrating.
They gave money they didn't have to not have any sort of operation.
Right.
Well, and then my donors, so many of my donors are these small dollar donors who are giving $50 donations and they want that money used wisely.
And it's wrong to raise money from them without realizing the sacrifice some of them are making to try to help the cause.
That's exactly right.
So one minute remaining.
Georgia's on the line.
The country's on the line.
Are you optimistic?
I am optimistic.
Things are, it's not an easy, it's not an easy time at all, but I'm optimistic because so many people are taking action and they know they're angry, they're outraged at what happened in 2020, but they're not letting that outrage prevent them from being engaged.
And we're going to stop what happened in 2020 from happening again this next election cycle.
I love it.
Teapartypatriots.org.
That's right.
I love it.
Jenny Beth, you're a great patriot.
You're activating people all across the country in the grassroots.
It's so important.
And if you're hearing this, everybody, you have to get involved.
You have to get involved at some level, state, local, federal.
It really has to be a citizen-led movement.
And Jenny Beth, you're doing a great, great job making that happen.
Thank you.
Thank you so much.
Thanks.
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