Dwayne Moore is a New York county committee member who graduated from Stony Brook, taught sixth grade and ninth grade English, worked as a college counselor, and spent years as a professional model and actor in New York and Los Angeles before running as a Republican for the New York State Assembly in Queens in 2024. He took 15 percent of the vote in a district that is 4 percent registered Republican, and he is now a regular political commentator on Newsmax. He can be found on Instagram at America Deserves More.
Robert McNeily is Director of Broadcasting and Grassroots Engagement at Tea Party Patriots Action. He ran for the Georgia House in 2024 across Fulton and DeKalb Counties, two of the largest and most Democratic counties in the state, and he grew up in Chicago.
Jenny Beth Martin is the host of The Jenny Beth Show, co-founder of the Tea Party movement, and Chairman of Tea Party Patriots Action.
Key topics:
· Ten billion dollars to administer the SAVE America Act, the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, inside the reconciliation blueprint the House passed in July
· Where the SAVE America Act came from: a coalition conference call with Senator Mike Lee, Cleta Mitchell describing Arizona, and the two-ballot workaround Arizona still runs today
· Why Majority Leader John Thune is holding reconciliation until government funding is settled, and why the Senate does not return until September 14
· The stopgap spending bill the House takes up this week, funding the government to December 11 under suspension of the rules
· Secretary Duffy announcing 160 more truck driving schools shut down, and the license-for-bribes scandal that put a former Illinois governor in prison
· What a poll worker does that a poll watcher does not, and why Fulton County alone needs 300 to 400 of them
· Two self-described socialists are now major-party nominees for the United States Senate: Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan and N'Kiyla Jasmine Thomas in Oklahoma, who won the August 25 Democratic runoff with 58 percent and now faces Congressman Kevin Hern
· Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez re-ups her Democratic Socialists of America dues, and the organization calls her a member in good standing
· What that platform actually says: abolish the Senate, abolish the police, abolish the prison system, abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement
· Why Dwayne Moore says the answer is an empathy argument Republicans are not currently making
· Rahm Emanuel telling Democrats on Fox News to go start their own party
· Abdul El-Sayed's apology to the Michigan Democratic Jewish Caucus in Lansing
· Congresswoman Debbie Dingell saying she is done answering questions about the streamer Hasan Piker
· The socialist conference opening in Chicago on Friday, with Hasan Piker headlining two panels
· A national co-chair of the Democratic Socialists of America defending the organization's praise of Fidel Castro on CNN, to an anchor whose grandfather was sentenced to twenty years in prison by Castro
· Where to go to learn the history the schools stopped teaching
Timestamps:
00:00 — Cold open: the House is back, and the socialists are on the rise
01:27 — Meet the panel: Dwayne Moore and Robert McNeily
02:19 — Breaking news: Secretary Duffy shuts down 160 more truck driving schools
05:40 — From ninth grade English teacher to candidate in Queens
09:33 — Where the SAVE America Act came from: Arizona and the two-ballot system
11:48 — The blueprint the House passed, and the ten billion dollars inside it
15:14 — Dwayne Moore on the Senate's delay
18:10 — Why poll watchers and poll workers decide elections
20:07 — This week's assignment: sign up to work the polls
23:18 — Two self-described socialists win Senate nominations
25:23 — The messaging gap Republicans have to close
29:14 — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez re-ups her Democratic Socialists of America dues
32:45 — What the platform actually says: abolish the Senate, the police, the prisons
36:28 — Affordability, inflation, and the argument nobody is making
45:35 — Michigan: Abdul El-Sayed apologizes in Lansing
48:27 — Congresswoman Debbie Dingell is done answering about Hasan Piker
50:25 — Modern colonization and the language of the left
53:16 — The socialist conference opening in Chicago
56:31 — A national co-chair defends Fidel Castro on CNN
58:58 — Where Dwayne Moore says to go for real history
Links mentioned: jennybethshow.com, teapartypatriots.org, HelpAtThePolls.com, the Capitol switchboard at 202-224-3121, Dwayne Moore on Instagram at America Deserves More.