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  • Surviving Communism: If America Goes Socialist, the World Is Finished | Panel

    Surviving Communism: If America Goes Socialist, the World Is Finished | Panel
    Oct 30 2026

    Surviving Communism, part five, the last of the panel conversations. Jenny Beth Martin asked six survivors of communism why they chose America, what it sounded like from inside their countries when President Reagan called their system illegitimate, what the world loses if America falls, and what they would tell a 22-year-old who likes what the democratic socialists are saying.

    Guests

    Sasha Gong is the former director of Voice of America's China service, a former political prisoner in China, and a Harvard PhD.

    Dr. Yuri Yarim-Agaev is a Soviet physicist and Moscow Helsinki Group dissident who was exiled in 1980 and was part of President Ronald Reagan's briefings before his Gorbachev summits.

    Agnes Gibboney is the founder of Angel Families of America. Her family fled Hungary after the Soviet invasion of 1956, and she arrived in the United States stateless.

    Ovidiu Frusina is a mechanical engineer who grew up in Nicolae Ceausescu's Romania.

    Manuela Callini grew up under Romanian communism and is now a grassroots activist in Arizona.

    Captain Onofre Gutierrez is a retired airline pilot who was born in Managua, Nicaragua, and lived through the Sandinista takeover.

    Key topics

    • A democratic socialist admits it on a New York Times podcast: anti-capitalist, a world beyond capitalism

    • Reagan at the Brandenburg Gate, heard from inside the countries he was talking about

    • Yarim-Agaev's four reasons Reagan won: he named totalitarianism the enemy, understood ideology, called the regime illegitimate, and backed the dissidents

    • What George H.W. Bush did not finish: no Nuremberg for communism, and a KGB officer as president of Russia

    • Lech Walesa's lunch with Bush, and the Chicken Kiev speech

    • Gong arrived from China in 1987; Reagan's speech was the first English speech she understood completely

    • Radio Free Europe and Voice of America in Ceausescu's Romania

    • Reagan's cheap-oil plan against a Soviet budget spending 20 to 25 percent on the military

    • Frusina to the democratic socialist: then why do it here?

    • Interrogated for listening to enemy radio; years later she ran Voice of America's China service

    • Yarim-Agaev: America must not abandon its leadership of the free world

    • Gibboney, stateless until 1983: if the United States becomes a socialist country, the world is finished

    • Frusina, Gutierrez, and Callini on why America is worth choosing

    • Six answers for a 22-year-old sold on socialism: think, learn what you would lose, show me where it worked, you will be equally poor, there is no such thing as free housing

    • The series continues: share your own story at Jenny.Beth@TeaPartyPatriots.org

    Timestamps

    00:00 — Cold open: six survivors who chose America after seeing the alternative

    00:31 — The last panel conversation, not the last of the Surviving Communism series

    02:43 — The six survivors, from China, the Soviet Union, Hungary, Romania, and Nicaragua

    03:18 — A democratic socialist on a New York Times podcast: anti-capitalist, a world beyond capitalism

    03:58 — Reagan at the Brandenburg Gate: tear down this wall

    05:15 — Yarim-Agaev was part of Reagan's briefings before Reykjavik and Moscow

    06:48 — Why Reagan won: he named the enemy, understood ideology, and backed the dissidents

    08:38 — What George H.W. Bush did not finish: no Nuremberg for communism, a KGB officer for president

    10:49 — Walesa's lunch with Bush, the Chicken Kiev speech, and Gong's first English speech

    13:08 — Inside Ceausescu's Romania: Radio Free Europe, Voice of America, and Reagan's oil plan

    16:54 — Frusina to the democratic socialist: then why do it here?

    17:21 — What happens to the rest of the world if America topples?

    18:18 — Gong: interrogated for listening to Voice of America; years later she ran its China service

    19:32 — Yarim-Agaev: America must not abandon its leadership of the free world

    22:28 — Gibboney: stateless until 1983; if the United States goes socialist, the world is finished

    23:58 — Frusina: born again at 23

    25:41 — Gutierrez: we lost everything in Nicaragua and started over; only in this country

    27:02 — Callini: the people make the government, not the government the people

    28:09 — The last question: what would you say to a 22-year-old sold on socialism?

    35:13 — Closing: the series continues; share your story; vote for liberty; iwillsaveamerica.com

    Links mentioned

    jennybethshow.com

    teapartypatriots.org

    iwillsaveamerica.com

    Jenny.Beth@TeaPartyPatriots.org
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    37 min
  • Surviving Communism: The Biggest Lie Is That You Will Own the Factories | Panel

    Surviving Communism: The Biggest Lie Is That You Will Own the Factories | Panel
    Oct 29 2026

    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 political prisoner in China, and a Harvard PhD.

    Dr. Yuri Yarim-Agaev is a Soviet physicist and Moscow Helsinki Group dissident who was exiled in 1980 and later briefed President Ronald Reagan.

    Agnes Gibboney is the founder of Angel Families of America. Her family fled Hungary after the Soviet invasion of 1956.

    Ovidiu Frusina is a mechanical engineer who grew up in Nicolae Ceausescu's Romania.

    Manuela Callini grew up under Romanian communism and is now a grassroots activist in Arizona.

    Captain Onofre Gutierrez was born in Managua, Nicaragua, and lived through the Sandinista takeover.

    Key topics

    • No debt and no mortgage, Romanian style: nothing to borrow, nothing to own, the state as landlord

    • Two hours of electricity a day and driving days assigned by license plate

    • Soviet communal apartments: one kitchen and one toilet shared by three families

    • Why semi-educated intellectuals believe a central plan can replace a market

    • Public ownership of the largest corporations: who gets taken first, and who runs it after

    • A Romanian family stripped of centuries of land overnight, and one pair of rubber boots for nine children

    • The COVID lockdowns as a preview of rule by experts

    • China's cashless state: a frozen bank account for reposting a dissident

    • The confiscated orchard, the confiscated steel plant, and the Swiss buying Romanian tractors for scrap

    • A new constitution: Stalin already wrote one

    • If the socialists win here, is America somehow different?

    • The biggest lie: you will own the factories

    • Nothing is free: a Hungarian refugee answers her grandson on Mamdani, and advice for parents

    Timestamps

    00:00 — Cold open: the Democratic Socialists of America program, in their own words

    00:38 — Jenny Beth Martin introduces the six survivors

    01:29 — No debt, no mortgage: seven people in 500 square feet in Ceausescu's Romania

    07:05 — Two hours of electricity a day and driving by license plate

    08:42 — Soviet communal apartments: three families, one kitchen

    09:52 — Why the semi-educated believe in a plan that cannot work

    15:17 — Public ownership of the largest corporations: who they come for first

    16:07 — Overnight they took everything: Callini's mother and the rubber boots

    18:25 — The COVID lockdowns were the preview

    20:21 — One pig for the party: Gibboney's family by Lake Balaton

    21:21 — China's cashless control: a bank account frozen for a repost

    23:26 — Life, liberty, and property, and rule by expertise

    26:22 — Who runs Amazon the day after? The orchard, the steel plant, and the Swiss tractors

    32:54 — A new constitution: Stalin already wrote one

    34:41 — If the socialists win, is America somehow different?

    38:52 — Nobody is lining up to move to Cuba

    42:50 — The biggest lie: you will own the factories

    47:20 — Her 14-year-old grandson said Mamdani has good ideas

    49:33 — Parents, log in to your kids' social media

    51:50 — Part five preview and close

    Links mentioned

    jennybethshow.com

    teapartypatriots.org

    iwillsaveamerica.com
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    54 min
  • Socialism: The Worst Combination of Smart People and Stupid People | Sasha Gong

    Socialism: The Worst Combination of Smart People and Stupid People | Sasha Gong
    Oct 28 2026

    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 sociology from Harvard. She taught at UCLA, worked for Radio Free Asia and the AFL-CIO, and directed the China branch of Voice of America. This is her second solo interview on The Jenny Beth Show; she also appeared on the Surviving Communism panels.

    Key topics

    • Growing up inside Mao's Cultural Revolution: labor camps, the Red Guard, and executions at the village market

    • How a dictatorship separates "true" from "truth," and why the left in America does the same

    • The banned Solzhenitsyn novel and the footnote that connected every misery to the system

    • Hand-copying Hayek's Road to Serfdom in 1975 and reading Marx to find the evidence against him

    • Eleven months in jail at 20, and the interrogators' first question: did you listen to Voice of America?

    • Xi Jinping's father, fresh from a communist jail himself, frees her group; she asks for college

    • First in her province, Peking University, Harvard, Tiananmen, and barred from China in 1991

    • Why she left UCLA in 1998: the most unfree environment she had ever seen

    • Socialism in America as the worst combination of smart people and stupid people

    • False hope is no hope; think with logic; what liberty actually means

    Timestamps

    00:18 — Welcome: a survivor of communism who prefers to think of herself as thriving

    01:04 — Born in 1956 Beijing, raised in Canton; railway-worker ancestors; a grandfather jailed 20 years as a "culture spy"

    06:27 — Sent to the countryside at nine; the Red Guard sign hung on her great-aunt; street fighting with weapons meant for Vietnam

    10:39 — Parents in a labor camp; the meat soup she carried to her father, and the slap

    13:07 — "Let kids be kids": why she will not call her childhood miserable

    18:02 — True versus truth: how a dictatorship separates the two

    19:22 — Memorizing every book she could get, because she would not have it later

    20:39 — One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich: the footnote that connected every misery to the system

    25:21 — Why no one criticized Stalin or Mao: the parades, the red cross through a name, the student with his tongue cut

    28:57 — "Capitalist" meant people with money; hand-copying Hayek's Road to Serfdom in 1975

    31:24 — The factory at 16, the wall poster on socialist democracy, and the youngest member of a dissident group

    35:17 — Reading Marx, Adam Smith, and Stalin's own textbook to find the evidence against it

    38:11 — "Before I get to Harvard, I have to get to jail first": eleven months, seven guards

    40:15 — The interrogators' first question: did you listen to enemy radio? Voice of America

    41:07 — What Voice of America was: 55 to 60 languages into countries with zero information

    44:30 — Jazz, Russian music, Shostakovich, and the Director of the China branch

    46:52 — A hunger strike for books; Marx and Engels's footnotes as a history course

    49:18 — 1977: tutoring a guard for the college exam; the head of her interrogation team jailed

    51:14 — Xi Jinping's father, fresh from 16 years in a communist jail, frees the group: "I want to go to college"

    54:31 — First in her province; Peking University; Harvard and a PhD in a field China had banned

    57:38 — Tiananmen protests from America; detained in Canton and barred from China in 1991

    01:00:33 — Leaving UCLA in 1998: "the most unfree environment I have ever seen"

    01:02:02 — The Gold Mountain: what her grandmother told her about America

    01:05:44 — Third day in America: a bicycle ride down a highway to Lexington

    01:07:27 — The rise of socialism in America: the worst combination of smart people and stupid people

    01:09:49 — "The problem is they're lazy": intellectual laziness and physical laziness

    01:11:19 — "False hope is no hope"; think with logic; schools that teach students not to think

    01:13:55 — Charlie Kirk, arguing with yourself, and a generation that does not appreciate freedom

    01:16:15 — Why she voted for the First Amendment

    01:17:24 — What liberty means: do what you want and take responsibility for it

    01:19:30 — Closing

    Links mentioned

    jennybethshow.com

    teapartypatriots.org
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    1 h et 20 min
  • 20,000 California Ballots & Comey Charged: Seven Days to Election Day | Jim Pfaff

    20,000 California Ballots & Comey Charged: Seven Days to Election Day | Jim Pfaff
    Oct 27 2026
    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 Engagement at Tea Party Patriots Action, hosts this episode in for Jenny Beth Martin. Key topics: • The Ninth Circuit rules two to one that California can keep counting about 20,000 mail ballots the federal government flagged as likely noncitizen votes; the case returns to the district court• Why the court never reached the merits, and Pfaff's case that California has selections, not elections• Is the failure in the courts, or in a Congress that never gave anyone an enforcement tool? The 1990s law that already lets the Justice Department request voter rolls• Article I: states run elections, Congress can regulate them, and has since the Civil Rights Act• Motor voter, automatic registration, and what the SAVE America Act would restore• Why the polls have undercounted Republicans since 2016, and the turnout model that wins a midterm• Pfaff: as few as a quarter of Americans who claim the Christian faith vote, and the left has worked for decades to keep it that way• What a grassroots activist worried about the voter rolls should do in the next seven days• James Comey faces two counts under the Espionage Act, filed ten years to the day after the alleged disclosure• A criminal information is not an indictment: why prosecutors filed without a grand jury and why the ten-year clock is the whole fight• Lady Justice is supposed to be blind: ten years of lawfare and who gets charged• The races to watch on election night: Texas, Michigan, New Hampshire, and Maine• Where The Conservative Caucus is putting its effort, and the redistricting states that decide the House• Pfaff's forecast: Republicans hold the Senate at 50 to 53 seats; the House leans Democrat but is not decided• Will the far left turn on Hakeem Jeffries if Democrats win a narrow majority?• President Trump offers $1 million for voter fraud reports that end in a conviction• The Department of Homeland Security says it found thousands of noncitizens on the voter rolls in California, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. Our request: publish the numbers• Justice Department election monitors headed to Philadelphia polling places on Election Day• 82.3 percent of voters say only citizens should vote; Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund's commitment to clean voter rolls and the SAVE America Act, whatever happens November 3• President Trump and Vice President Vance close the campaign: Georgia, Michigan, Mississippi, and Texas with Ken Paxton• Senator Mike Lee credits Homeland Security for ending a visa-free program that let more than 3,000 Chinese nationals a year into the Northern Mariana Islands, near Guam• Birth tourism, the Fourteenth Amendment, and Justice Kavanaugh's message to Congress• President Trump says the Senate is letting the daylight saving bill die; clocks fall back November 1• Speaker Mike Johnson marks three years with the gavel; House Republican leadership elections run November 10 through 12• Get out the vote: Tea Party Patriots Action and Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund on the ground in Georgia, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania• Constitution Minute: the Battle of Midway memorial at Chicago's Midway Airport, and what a few minutes of courage in June 1942 changed Timestamps: 00:00 — Cold open: seven days to Election Day00:55 — Robert McNeily in for Jenny Beth Martin: what we are watching02:10 — California: the Ninth Circuit lets 20,000 flagged ballots be counted02:34 — They did not judge on the merits04:18 — Failure of the courts, or of Congress?09:50 — Polling is a bad way to judge what is going on11:09 — The Christian vote: who claims the faith and does not vote11:50 — Shepherds for Sale14:54 — What a grassroots activist should do this week17:41 — Friends Help Friends Vote18:36 — Comey faces two counts under the Espionage Act18:47 — The timeline: ten years to the day19:05 — A criminal information, not an indictment19:38 — Setting the marker inside the statute of limitations24:09 — The races to watch on election night25:14 — Michigan: Rogers versus El-Sayed26:37 — New Hampshire and Maine27:21 — Where The Conservative Caucus is putting its effort28:28 — Republicans keep the Senate: 50 to 5329:15 — Will the far left turn on Hakeem Jeffries?30:33 — A $1 million bounty for voter fraud?32:27 — Trump's reward; DHS finds thousands of noncitizens on the rolls33:04 — Publish the numbers; election monitors to Philadelphia33:38 — 82.3 percent say only citizens should vote35:16 — Trump and Vance close the campaign38:22 — Senator Mike Lee and the Northern Mariana Islands ...
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    50 min
  • Angel Mom: The Man Who Took Her Son's Life Had Already Been Deported Once | Agnes Gibboney

    Angel Mom: The Man Who Took Her Son's Life Had Already Been Deported Once | Agnes Gibboney
    Oct 26 2026
    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 1970 after background checks in two countries. She was naturalized on June 30, 1983, the first country she had ever belonged to, because Hungary had taken her family's citizenship away. Twenty-four years ago her son Ronald, 29, a father of two, was shot and killed in a California driveway by a gang member who was in the country illegally and had been deported before. She has run support groups for the families of murder victims ever since, and she ran for Congress in 2020. Host: Jenny Beth Martin, co-founder of the Tea Party movement and Chairman of Tea Party Patriots Action. This is the second conversation with Agnes Gibboney in the Surviving Communism series; the first, on her family's escape from communist Hungary, aired September 29. Key topics:• Baptized in secret in communist Hungary; a refugee camp, thirteen years in Brazil, and legal immigration in 1970• Naturalized June 30, 1983, with a perfect score on the test: "for the first time, I belonged somewhere"• Ronald, 29, a father of two, standing in a driveway with a watermelon for his kids when a gang member fired• "Your son is behind the drapes": identifying him through a window, never allowed to hold his hand• The gunman had been deported, came back, was arrested for hurting his girlfriend, and was released on probation• A judge pleaded three times with the defendant to take a plea bargain, in front of the mother• She was never allowed a victim impact statement; a parole file claims she gave one, and the office hung up• Eight years after the shooting, a corrections clerk mentioned an ICE detainer and an alien number• The grief group that said "we don't use that word," and why Jenny Beth's father, a minister, says you must• Angel Families of America, the families she still answers calls from, and three life sentences undone by elderly parole• President Trump and February 22 as a National Day of Remembrance of Angel Families• "I love ice in my water, but I love ICE on the streets better": her answer to abolish ICE• No amnesty, in four languages: the Reagan amnesty changed nothing, and the work visa already exists• Why voting for candidates who will secure the border is "absolutely essential" Timestamps:00:00 — Born into communist Hungary in 1954: a secret baptism and a family that fled01:49 — A refugee camp, thirteen years in Brazil, and legal immigration in November 197003:51 — Naturalized on June 30, 1983: "for the first time, I belonged somewhere"06:09 — Ronald, 29, a father of two, in a driveway with a watermelon for his kids07:10 — The park ranger at the campsite, the drive home, and "Ronald didn't make it"11:31 — "Your son is behind the drapes": the window, the morgue, and the funeral16:05 — Deported once, came back, arrested for hurting his girlfriend, released on probation19:03 — How did he get back in? Deported at Otay Mesa, back through an open border20:27 — Laken Riley, Kate Steinle, and the lawlessness that breeds more lawlessness24:00 — A judge pleads three times with the defendant to take a plea bargain25:38 — No victim impact statement, and a parole file that says she gave one27:49 — She runs a support group for the families of murder victims28:38 — The grief group that said "we don't use that word"30:52 — Jenny Beth's father, a minister: you have to say the word33:18 — Eight years later, a corrections clerk mentions an ICE detainer36:03 — "We got him": the arrest, the sentence, and the pain that never goes away37:14 — Bonnie Drexel's daughter: three life sentences and California's elderly parole39:45 — Angel Families of America: she answers every call41:11 — President Trump and February 22, National Day of Remembrance of Angel Families43:28 — Why a secure border is essential: follow the law, and no public assistance46:04 — Abolish ICE? "I love ice in my water, but I love ICE on the streets better"48:32 — "They are not immigrants": undocumented, Dreamers, and the words that brainwash50:23 — Is voting for border security essential? "Absolutely"51:58 — The Kaiser emergency room: paying for insurance and waiting behind public assistance53:51 — Amnesty: no in Hungarian, Portuguese, Spanish, and English56:20 — Closing: share the series, vote for liberty, and get out the vote Links mentioned:jennybethshow.comteapartypatriots.orgiwillsaveamerica.com
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    59 min
  • Surviving Communism: A Day Without Capitalism Reads Like Mao in 1958 | Panel

    Surviving Communism: A Day Without Capitalism Reads Like Mao in 1958 | Panel
    Oct 23 2026
    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 Helsinki Group who was exiled from the Soviet Union in 1980. He arrived in the United States as Ronald Reagan was elected. Agnes Gibboney is the founder of Angel Families of America. Her family fled Hungary after the Soviet invasion of 1956, when she was two years old. Ovidiu Frusina is a mechanical engineer who spent 23 years in Nicolae Ceausescu's Romania, where the state assigned his job and the Communist Party approved his work. Manuela Callini grew up under Romanian communism, the daughter of a factory finance chief whose pickled goods were the family's trading currency. Captain Onofre Gutierrez was born in Managua, Nicaragua, and lived under the Sandinista regime. Janice Trey is chairman of the board of The Epoch Times. She was born in a forced labor camp during China's Cultural Revolution. Host: Jenny Beth Martin, co-founder of the Tea Party movement and Chairman of Tea Party Patriots Action. This is part three of the Surviving Communism panel; part four covers the rest of the same program. Key topics:• The Democratic Socialists of America's 2026 program and the page that asks you to imagine a day without capitalism• Janice Trey: ask who is behind the movement, what the end game is, and why the insiders of communist states send their children to capitalist ones• Ovidiu Frusina's week in Ceausescu's Romania: the 6:30 siren, no hot water, the bribe for the boss, the chessboard, the bread line, and the Party official who vetoed an engineer's work• No choice of job, no taxes, no banks, no credit: borrowing from the neighbor until payday• The Dacia: save for six years, wait four more, then take the car with the oil leak or go to the back of the line• What Janice Trey says to a 22-year-old who likes the socialist pitch: Taiwan versus the mainland, Hong Kong's broken promise, and the frog in the pot• Yuri Yarim-Agaev: communism, socialism, and why the word that matters is totalitarian• Lenin's Bolsheviks called themselves the Social Democratic Workers Party; Scoop Jackson and the AFL-CIO were the anti-communists• Does every socialism end in totalitarianism? The panel splits• The Shah's 1979 warning to the CIA about the red-black alliance of Islamists and communists• Agnes Gibboney's fabric store clerk who was paid whether she sold anything or not• Fascism, authoritarian, and totalitarian: the definitions• Sasha Gong's bicycle and the Sunday swap; "we pretend to work, they pretend to pay us"• Manuela Callini's family currency: pickled goods traded for toothpaste• The full passage read aloud: Yarim-Agaev's 100 percent tax and Sasha Gong's translation of Mao in 1958• The grain taken, then the seed grain, then the famine, and why American researchers in 1961 concluded China had none• Agnes Gibboney: in modern language, it is slavery• If there is no capital, there is no debt, no insurance, no house, and no retirement to fund• Next in the series: a new constitution, public ownership of the largest corporations, and abolishing the Senate, the Electoral College, the police, and prisons Timestamps:00:00 — A day without capitalism: the page Jenny Beth Martin read to seven survivors00:41 — Five countries, seven survivors: the panel01:34 — The Democratic Socialists of America are winning primaries, and their 2026 program02:35 — Janice Trey: who is behind this, what is the end game, and why the insiders leave05:51 — Taking a day off from what? There are no companies left to work for06:43 — Manuela Callini: a gray, hopeless day where everything is taken and safety is promised07:51 — Ovidiu Frusina's week in Ceausescu's Romania: the siren, no hot water, the bus, the bribe11:40 — Wednesday: a Party official on the third floor vetoes the engineer13:17 — No choice of job: the state sends you where it needs you15:43 — No taxes, no credit cards, no banks: borrowing 100 lei from the neighbor16:24 — The Dacia: save six years, wait four, take the car with the oil leak18:19 — What Janice Trey says to a 22-year-old who likes the socialist pitch20:44 — Hong Kong: one country, two systems, and the promise that was broken22:24 — The frog in the pot24:13 — Yuri Yarim-Agaev: communism, socialism, and the word that matters is totalitarian26:25 — Lenin's Bolsheviks called themselves Social Democrats too29:08 — Does every socialism end in totalitarianism? The panel splits32:30 — Reagan, Trump, and the swing back from socialism33:37 — The Shah's 1979 warning to the CIA about the red-black alliance34:11 — Agnes Gibboney's fabric store clerk who never left her stool35:34 — ...
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    51 min
  • Communist Hungary: You Had to Cheat, Lie, and Steal Just to Survive | Robert Ratonyi

    Communist Hungary: You Had to Cheat, Lie, and Steal Just to Survive | Robert Ratonyi
    Oct 21 2026
    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 for International Development sent to teach the newly freed country how to run its businesses. He is the author of From Darkness into Light: My Journey Through Nazism, Fascism, and Communism to Freedom, with all royalties going to charity, and a longtime speaker for the Georgia Commission on the Holocaust. He lives in Atlanta. Host: Jenny Beth Martin, co-founder of the Tea Party movement and Chairman of Tea Party Patriots Action. This is the second of two conversations with Robert Ratonyi; the first, on surviving the Holocaust as a child in Budapest, aired October 7. Key topics:• Yalta, January 1945: Stalin promised free elections and peace, and kept none of it• Salami tactics: how a party that lost Hungary's 1945 election held total power by 1948• Everything nationalized, every freedom gone, a picture of Stalin in every classroom• Five-year plans never met, total censorship, and Voice of America with the shades pulled• The class pyramid: party members and the secret police lived like kings• Any shoes you wanted, as long as they were black• Why you had to cheat, lie, and steal: the graduation suit and the stolen alcohol• Meat once a week, meal tickets without meat, and the norm that rose every time it was met• A bar mitzvah behind closed doors; spies on every streetcar• Six compulsory years of Russian and the neighbor's library of Western books• Bribing the doctors; the aunt imprisoned over a smuggler's phone number• October 23, 1956: the student march, the 16 points, and the radio station• The escape: a station master's train, a soldier's flashlight, and a child carried across the swamp• Ratonyi's answer to the Democratic Socialists of America's promise that everything will be free• Why America is exceptional because of its system, and why civics has to be taught again• The day Americans risk their lives to leave this country Timestamps:00:18 — Robert Ratonyi returns: from the Holocaust to life under communism01:50 — Yalta, January 1945: Stalin's three broken promises05:53 — Salami tactics: the communists lose the 1945 election and take full control by 194807:52 — Everything nationalized: no speech, no religion, no travel, Stalin in every classroom10:32 — The five-year plan, total censorship, and Voice of America with the shades pulled12:37 — The class pyramid: party members and the secret police on top14:08 — Teachers with doctorates: how the old educated class was punished17:15 — Any shoes you wanted, as long as they were black18:11 — Back to Hungary in 1993: what the corruption looked like from the inside22:11 — You had to cheat, lie, and steal22:41 — A graduation suit paid for with stolen alcohol24:50 — Rationing: meat once a week, eggs and butter a luxury25:49 — The norm: sealing vials, and the quota that rose every year27:33 — A bar mitzvah behind pulled shades30:16 — Spies everywhere: careful what you say on the streetcar31:03 — Holocaust survivors who became communists33:08 — Meal tickets with meat and without35:25 — Six compulsory years of Russian36:13 — Mrs. Klein's library: Huckleberry Finn and The Three Musketeers in Hungarian40:12 — Health care under communism: hundreds of dollars for the doctors42:29 — Numerus clausus: the 1920 law that kept his father-in-law out of college44:28 — The Stakhanovite system46:08 — The aunt imprisoned over a smuggler's phone number47:32 — The House of Terror: the same building the Nazis used48:15 — Why he wrote the book for his grandchildren48:48 — No freedom of movement: a friend assigned a job 120 miles from home51:19 — October 23, 1956: the march begins56:04 — The 16 points at Parliament58:19 — The radio station: the secret police open fire01:00:47 — The revolt put down in November; freedom lasted a few weeks01:02:42 — The armory opens: a gun, a signature, and his mother's reaction01:04:46 — Asking his mother's permission to leave01:06:52 — Bill says yes01:07:38 — The station master's train01:10:42 — Everybody out: a frozen field and a soldier with a flashlight01:13:02 — The peasants waiting in the dark01:15:06 — 200 forints, and Bill is lost01:16:34 — The deal: carry the six-year-old girl and you do not pay01:16:57 — The swamp, the mines, and the march to the border01:20:18 — Halt: Austria01:21:05 — Is there a Robert Reichmann here? Bill Fodor is looking for you01:22:39 — Imagine life without capitalism: the Democratic Socialists of America's promise01:26:09 — An exceptional country because of its system, not its people01:27:19 — The media as...
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  • Friends Help Friends Vote: The Playbook Democrats Used to Win Georgia | Jenny Beth Martin

    Friends Help Friends Vote: The Playbook Democrats Used to Win Georgia | Jenny Beth Martin
    Oct 20 2026

    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 California's voter rolls, ballots already mailed, and why the SAVE America Act would check citizenship at registration

    • Ballotpedia: 660 races since 2018 decided by 10 votes or fewer, 394 by 5 or fewer, 94 by a single vote

    • Social Security's largest records cleanup in its 91-year history

    • Senator Elissa Slotkin's "signature cases" and what the IRS did to Tea Party groups

    • France: 550,000 march and the worst rioting in years

    • The new Tea Party Patriots Action ad on socialism at teapartypatriots.org/socialism

    • Tool one: texting voters you do not know at TPP.me/text

    • Tool two: Friends Help Friends Vote, the relational organizing program of Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund, and the Georgia playbook behind it

    • Setting up the Numinar app, matching your contacts, and what to say to the people you know

    Timestamps:

    00:00 — Cold open: 28 green card holders charged in California

    01:00 — A solo show on purpose: the news, then two tools for your phone

    01:19 — California: 20,000 suspected noncitizens, ballots already mailed, and the SAVE America Act

    02:27 — 60 Minutes called it tiny. Ballotpedia: 660 races decided by 10 votes or fewer, 94 by one

    04:29 — Social Security's biggest records cleanup in 91 years

    06:09 — Senator Elissa Slotkin's "signature cases" and the IRS targeting of Tea Party groups

    08:05 — France: 550,000 march, the worst rioting in years

    09:53 — Where the election stands: a poll is a snapshot

    10:28 — The part you can still work on, and the new Tea Party Patriots Action ad on socialism

    14:51 — Tool one: how to text voters at TPP.me/text

    21:06 — Tool two: Friends Help Friends Vote and relational organizing

    23:23 — The Politico article: how Ossoff's campaign won Georgia with friends and family

    24:34 — The research: a concrete plan to vote lifts turnout about 4 points

    27:52 — The wet sponge: three squeezes of turnout

    31:20 — Setup: download Numinar and sign up

    32:08 — Step by step: confirm your email, join the Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund workspace

    37:25 — Contact permissions: are you keeping my contacts?

    45:52 — What to say: texting your dad, texting a college friend

    50:19 — When a friend is voting for the opponent: never burn a relationship over one ballot

    52:34 — The survey: tracking each plan to vote in the app

    55:21 — Troubleshooting: zero matches, wrong workspace, where to get help

    57:27 — Bring it home: two tools, fourteen days, ten minutes a day

    Links mentioned:

    friendshelpfriendsvote.com

    TPP.me/text

    teapartypatriots.org/socialism

    support@teapartypatriots.org

    teapartypatriots.org

    jennybethshow.com
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