Ashley Hayek is the president of America First Works, the political arm of the America First Policy Institute. She began in political nonprofit work in California, joined the Trump campaign in 2019 as executive director of Women for Trump, and became national coalitions director across more than 45 coalitions. She was a day one team member of the America First Policy Institute and founded America First Works with Brooke Rollins in late 2021. She is a mother of five.
Jenny Beth Martin is the co-founder of the Tea Party movement and Chairman of Tea Party Patriots Action.
Key topics:
The research behind the ICE Out and No Kings protests, and who is actually organizing them
The flyer Ashley Hayek's daughter brought home, and the two Washington DC public school teachers who built it
Los Angeles, San Antonio, Dallas, Houston and Austin: the same organizers, the same pattern
Chapter co chairs of the Democratic Socialists of America who also sit on the board of the American Federation of Teachers
The Sunrise Movement, the Party for Socialism and Liberation, and one shared ground game
Why America First Works started knocking doors in March rather than June, and the target states
Only four times in a hundred years has a president's party gained House seats in a midterm
The midterm dropoff: low propensity voters, voters of faith, and gun owners who stay home
What the Democratic Socialists of America says about its own size, and what it wants abolished
Artificial intelligence and data centers as a deliberate wedge issue, and the water claim the research disputes
Farmland taken for wind and solar, and who has standing to talk about property rights
Brooke Rollins, Linda McMahon, and the America 250 Civics Task Force
The tax cuts calculator that shows what the One Big Beautiful Bill Act saved in your congressional district
What happens to the agenda if Republicans lose a chamber, and why the states and the courts become the next line
The specific ways to get involved before election day
Timestamps:
00:00 — Cold open: who organized the ICE Out walkouts
00:35 — Ashley Hayek joins, and what America First Works does
01:55 — From California to the Trump campaign to the America First Policy Institute
04:31 — Brooke Rollins and Linda McMahon
07:01 — The America 250 Civics Task Force
08:48 — The textbook chart that puts socialism next to our republic
10:45 — Four times in a hundred years, and the House seats in play
11:28 — Teams on the ground since March, and why the good news matters
14:21 — Sit this one out and you canceled the vote you cast in 2024
14:53 — The extreme of the extreme, and who gets seated instead
16:27 — Abolish the Senate, the Supreme Court, the police and the prisons
18:08 — The midterm dropoff: low propensity voters, voters of faith, gun owners
20:52 — What actually moves a voter at the door
22:34 — The Message and Data Lab, and what the research covers
23:58 — The tax cuts calculator for your congressional district
24:35 — Artificial intelligence and data centers as the left's wedge issue
25:58 — What it would mean if China wins the artificial intelligence race
31:15 — Farmland taken for wind and solar, and who has standing
31:59 — ICE Out: are these protests organic
32:47 — The Sunrise Movement, and a recruitment effort
33:47 — The flyer her daughter brought home
34:03 — Two Washington DC public school teachers built it
34:34 — San Antonio, Dallas, Houston, Austin: the same pattern
36:03 — They do not wait until college
37:01 — Antifa, and language that puts a target on people
41:12 — What happens if we lose a chamber
41:30 — Everything stops, and the states become the next line of defense
43:27 — How to get involved before election day
45:14 — Closing
Links:
jennybethshow.com
teapartypatriots.org