Rod Martin is the founder and chief executive of Martin Capital and the author of The Rod Martin Report. He was on the startup team at PayPal, he lives in Florida, and he spends most of this hour connecting energy, shipbuilding, and drones into a single geopolitical argument.
Conn Carroll is the commentary editor at the Washington Examiner and the author of Sex and the Citizen. He brings two pieces to the table this hour: one on the split between autonomy conservatives and common good conservatives, and one on what the New York Times wrote about the end of the Boy Scouts of America.
Robert McNeily, Director of Broadcasting and Grassroots Engagement at Tea Party Patriots Action, co-hosts. Jenny Beth Martin hosts.
Key topics:
- The platform the Democratic Socialists of America published on July 14, which calls for abolishing the United States Senate and replacing the president and the Supreme Court with an executive and a judiciary chosen by Congress
- What House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries actually said on Sunday, in his own words, and what a broad caucus means for that agenda
- Jenny Beth Martin walking the platform against the Constitution article by article, including proportional representation, ranked choice voting, a thirty-two-hour work week at full pay, and amnesty regardless of status
- Florida votes, with an open governor's race, the special election for the Senate seat Marco Rubio left, and more than 1,200 offices down the ballot
- Why an election is decided by the people who physically show up to work the polls, and the 35,000 poll watchers and poll workers Tea Party Patriots Action has recruited and trained over the last two election cycles
- Robert McNeily on what the last hours of a primary feel like from inside a campaign
- Rod Martin on Byron Donalds, Florida's first Republican voter registration majority in state history, and why South Florida moved
- Conn Carroll on South Carolina going first, and the three lanes forming in the 2028 Democratic presidential primary
- Rod Martin on what the party did to Bernie Sanders in 2016, and why a primary vote is not the same as a nomination
- Conn Carroll on the Texas convention vote to abolish rather than reform Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and what it says about the establishment
- Rod Martin on Charlie Cook's latest numbers and the two thirds of competitive House races the Democrats would need
- Four Democratic Senate nominees who have refused to back Chuck Schumer as leader, and who is actually leading that party
- Georgia gets loud: the president in Marietta on Senator Jon Ossoff, and Ossoff answering back in Atlanta
- The Atlanta Jewish Times publisher's open letter accusing Ossoff of voting one way when it is free and another way when it counts
- Conn Carroll on autonomy conservatives versus common good conservatives, Milton Friedman, John Stuart Mill, and what James Madison and John Adams actually wrote
- Rod Martin on closing the undersea gap: one shipyard that can build a nuclear surface combatant, two that can build a submarine, and four guided missile boats retiring by 2029
- The fifth public shipyard, fourteen Virginia class attack submarines, five Columbia class boats, and why a long contract brings the cost down
- Conn Carroll on the New York Times piece celebrating the end of the Boy Scouts of America, and what it never said about boys
- Why gender-specific spaces matter, and what Conn Carroll watched at scout camp after his own father died young
- Rod Martin on energy: coal, eight billion people fed on a third of the farmland, and moving the center of gravity from the Persian Gulf to the Gulf of America
- Rapid fire: the president's Truth Social post on the Strait of Hormuz, and three very different readings of it
- The pipelines already under contract that route around the strait, and what that does to Iran's leverage
- Roughly six hundred drones over Moscow, and why Jenny Beth Martin says drone warfare is sliding under the radar
- Why you cannot shoot down a thirty-five-thousand-dollar drone with a million-dollar missile, and what a directed energy weapon costs per shot
- Golden Dome, Israel's Iron Beam, microwave systems, and small modular reactors near the front
- Ukraine taking more than half of Russia's oil refining and transport capacity offline, and the Reagan and King Fahd precedent
- Conn Carroll on Chinese components in phones, laptops, and military equipment
- Your job for today, with seventy-seven days until the election
Timestamped breakdown:
00:00 — Cold open: they wrote it down
00:55 — Which is it, support the agenda or not
01:42 — Florida votes: more than 1,200 offices on the ballot
02:59 — Why 35,000 poll watchers and poll workers matter
03:43 — Iran's negotiating window closes with no announced path
04:25 — Four Democratic Senate nominees refuse Chuck Schumer
04:40 — Meet the panel
05:35 — Robert McNeily on the last hours of a primary
07:16 — Rod Martin on Florida and Byron Donalds
10:29 — South Carolina, and the lanes in the 2028 Democratic primary
13:37 — Ask Francesca Hong: what they did to Bernie Sanders
14:57 — The platform next to the Constitution
17:20 — What Hakeem Jeffries actually said
18:01 — A management problem he cannot solve
21:19 — Who is really leading the Democratic Party
22:49 — Georgia gets loud: Trump and Jon Ossoff
26:19 — The Atlanta Jewish Times open letter
29:17 — Autonomy conservatives and common good conservatives
33:15 — Closing the undersea gap
38:25 — The New York Times and the end of the Boy Scouts
44:08 — Everything runs on energy
49:03 — Rapid fire: the Strait of Hormuz
52:31 — The pipelines that bypass the strait
55:53 — Six hundred drones over Moscow
57:51 — Directed energy and the cost of shooting down a drone
1:01:07 — Chinese components, and learning from Ukraine
1:04:33 — Your job for today: volunteer
1:05:38 — Closing
Links: jennybethshow.com | teapartypatriots.org