The Jenny Beth Show

Surviving Communism, part four. Jenny Beth Martin reads the Democratic Socialists of America's plan for public ownership of the largest corporations, publicly owned housing, and a new constitution to six survivors of communism, and they describe what it took to deliver those promises where they grew up.   Guests   Sasha Gong is the former China director at Voice of America, a former poli...

Guest   Sasha Gong was born in Beijing in 1956 and raised in Canton, the daughter of two college professors. She was sent to the countryside at nine, to a candy factory at 16, and to a communist jail at 20 for her part in an underground dissident group. Released in 1978, she placed first in her province on the college entrance exam, studied history at Peking University, and earned a PhD in so...

Guest: Jim Pfaff is president of The Conservative Caucus, the grassroots organization that has worked to protect American sovereignty and constitutional liberty since 1974. He ran congressional offices on Capitol Hill, has worked on and run campaigns for more than thirty years, and is a regular guest on The Jenny Beth Show.   Guest host: Robert McNeily, Director of Broadcasting and Grassroots...

Guest: Agnes Gibboney is the founder of Angel Families of America and a Hungarian-born legal immigrant. Born in Budapest in 1954, less than a decade after the communists took Hungary, she was baptized in secret, carried out of the country after the 1956 revolution, raised in a refugee camp and then in Brazil for thirteen years, and admitted to the United States as a permanent resident in November...

Guests:   Sasha Gong is a former China director at Voice of America, a former political prisoner in China, and a Harvard PhD. She was a factory worker in Mao's China with three years of schooling before she reached university, and she was a small child during the famine that followed the 1958 collectivization.   Dr. Yuri Yarim-Agaev is a Soviet physicist and a member of the Moscow Helsin...

Guest: Robert Ratonyi is a Holocaust survivor, born in Budapest in January 1938, who lived under Hungarian communism from the Soviet liberation until his escape to Austria in December 1956 at age 18. He went on to Canada and the United States, became an engineer and an investment banker, and returned to Hungary in 1993 and 1994 as one of seven American investment bankers the United States Agency f...

Host: Jenny Beth Martin, co-founder of the Tea Party movement and Chairman of Tea Party Patriots Action. A solo training episode with no guests, recorded live two weeks before Election Day.   Key topics: • The Justice Department charges 28 green card holders in California with federal election crimes, arrests 11, and says at least 8 voted more than once • About 20,000 suspected noncitizens on...

Guest:   Manuela Callini was born in communist Romania in 1986 and was almost four when the Ceausescu regime fell in December 1989. Her mother came from a landowning family whose estate was collectivized; her father studied economics in Bucharest and was assigned his job and his apartment by the state. Callini studied international relations, worked with the Leadership Institute in Romania an...

Guests:   Sasha Gong is the former China director at Voice of America, a former political prisoner in China, and a Harvard PhD. She came to the United States in the late 1980s, cannot return to China, and has filmed the history of communism across Eastern Europe. On this panel she explains the Budapest photograph, describes informers inside the family, and reports on Chinese influence operati...

Guest:   Dr. Yuri Yarim-Agaev is a physicist and Soviet dissident who joined the Moscow Helsinki Group, the main human rights organization inside the Soviet Union, and expected arrest every day. After Natan Sharansky and Yuri Orlov were arrested and Andrei Sakharov was exiled, American and Western European scientists organized a boycott of scientific cooperation, and the Soviets, far behind i...

Guest:   Dr. Yuri Yarim-Agaev was born in the Soviet Union in 1949, the third generation of his family to live under communism, in a family of scientists who did not accept the system but were not dissidents. He graduated from the country's best university, became a physicist, and worked at the Academy of Sciences, then became a dissident and human rights activist and a member of the Moscow H...

Rosemary Jenks is the co-founder and policy director of the Immigration Accountability Project. In September 2026 she testified before the House Judiciary Committee on what Congress has done and what it can still do to make President Trump's border policies permanent. She helped found the mass deportation coalition, whose playbook calls for at least one million removals in 2026, and she has worked...

Guest:   Ovidiu Frusina was born in Bucharest, Romania, in 1967 and grew up under the dictatorship of Nicolae Ceausescu, in what was by the 1980s the hardest-line communist country in the Warsaw Pact. At 21 he was taken from work by the police and beaten for keeping in touch with a girlfriend who had defected to the United States; his university branded him a traitor in front of his classmate...

Guests:   Sasha Gong is a former China director at Voice of America, a Harvard PhD and a writer for American Greatness. Sent to the countryside at nine when her family was declared counter-revolutionary, she worked in a factory at 16, joined an underground group at 17 and spent her 20th birthday in a Chinese jail; she was released after Mao's death and went on to university.   Dr. Yuri Y...

Guest: Merissa Caldwell is the founder and chairwoman of EZAZ, the Arizona grassroots organization that trains and mobilizes volunteers for voter registration, get-out-the-vote and election integrity work. EZAZ runs a weekly Boss Your Government call, a monthly Pie Club with elected officials and candidates, the AZ Wallet Watch legislative scorecard, the Match Your Values quiz and the azvote.org p...

Guest: Robert Ratonyi is a Holocaust survivor, born in Budapest in January 1938. His father was conscripted into a Hungarian labor battalion in 1942 and never returned; his mother was taken in October 1944 and survived a labor camp in Austria. He lived through the Budapest ghetto and the Swedish protected houses as a six-year-old, escaped Hungary after the 1956 uprising, reached the Massachusetts...

Guest: Cleta Mitchell is founder and chairman of the Election Integrity Network, which trains citizen volunteers in states across the country, runs the state election integrity coalitions, and publishes the Model Election Laws Handbook that legislators use to write election law. A longtime election lawyer, she worked on the Only Citizens Vote Coalition with Jenny Beth Martin in 2024 and will be at...

Guest: Janice Trey is chairman of the board of The Epoch Times and NTD and the newspaper's immediate past CEO, a role she held until she found her successor. She was born in a forced labor camp during China's Cultural Revolution, where the Chinese Communist Party had sent her parents, both engineers, because they were educated. She came to the United States to study after the Tiananmen Square Mass...

Guest: Orren Wang was born in rural China in the early 1960s, just after the famine of 1959 to 1962, to parents who never spent a day in school. His father taught himself to read and was recruited by the Chinese Communist Party as a township-level official; his mother was illiterate all her life and sent her children to a school carved out of the village ancestral hall. Wang taught himself English...

Guest host: Robert McNeily is Director of Broadcasting and Grassroots Engagement at Tea Party Patriots Action and a former newscaster. He hosts this hour in for Jenny Beth Martin.   Guest: Carmen Bergman is Senior Advisor to Greater Georgia, the voter registration, education and mobilization organization former United States Senator Kelly Loeffler founded in 2021. Greater Georgia launched Kno...

Guest: Agnes Gibboney was born in Budapest, Hungary, about ten years after the communist regime took power, and was two years old when her parents fled with one suitcase in January 1957. Her family spent ten months in a refugee camp in Yugoslavia and thirteen years in Brazil before immigrating legally to the United States. Hungary stripped the family of its citizenship, and she was told at the imm...

Guest: Lily Tang Williams is the Republican nominee for Congress in New Hampshire's Second District, running in a November rematch against Congresswoman Maggie Goodlander after winning the 2026 primary with 65 percent of the vote. Born in Sichuan province, she was two years old when Mao's Cultural Revolution began and grew up in workers' housing on government food rationing. She studied law at Fud...

Guest: Sasha Gong is a former China director at Voice of America and a former China expert at the AFL-CIO. Born in China, she was sent to the countryside at nine, had three years of schooling before college, and spent a year in a Chinese jail as a young dissident before Xi Jinping's father ordered her group released. She went on to earn a PhD from Harvard, writes for American Greatness, and is now...

Guest: Jason Snead is Executive Director of the Honest Elections Project, which develops model election legislation, works it through state capitols and defends the resulting laws in court. He is a returning guest on The Jenny Beth Show. By his count this is the third election cycle in which the coalition he works with, including Tea Party Patriots Action, Heritage Action and Turning Point Action,...

Guest: George Glezmann is an aircraft mechanic with Delta Air Lines who has worked in aviation for more than forty years and holds degrees in engineering and anthropology. A photographer and solo traveler who has visited about 135 countries, he entered Afghanistan on a valid visa in December 2022 and was seized by the Taliban on his first afternoon in Kabul. He was held for 835 days, most of it in...