Season 3

Surviving Communism continues on The Jenny Beth Show with Orren Wang, who grew up in a village in rural China under Mao's communism and marched against the regime during the nationwide 1989 democracy movement the world remembers as Tiananmen Square. His father never went to school, taught himself to...

Georgia early voting opens October 13, and Election Day is 34 days out. In this guest-hosted hour of The Jenny Beth Show, Robert McNeily, Director of Broadcasting and Grassroots Engagement at Tea Party Patriots Action, sits in for Jenny Beth Martin and puts the midterm math on the table: from 1902 t...

Nothing is free. Agnes Gibboney learned that in communist Hungary, where the Communist Party moved a stranger into her parents' house and answered every objection with one question: do you want me to report you? On this Surviving Communism episode of The Jenny Beth Show, she tells Jenny Beth Martin ...

The Democratic Socialists of America promise a future where everything is free. Lily Tang Williams grew up inside the version of that promise Mao Zedong built, and on this episode of The Jenny Beth Show she tells Jenny Beth Martin what it looked like from the bottom: eight families on one outdoor re...

Xi Jinping in America is the story of the week, and Sasha Gong sees Xi Jinping in a way almost no American analyst can. Xi Jinping's own father ordered her release from a Chinese jail, where she spent a year as a young dissident. On this episode of The Jenny Beth Show, Gong tells Jenny Beth Martin w...

Poll workers wanted. At every poll worker training the Honest Elections Project has run this year, Jason Snead asks the room who has served as a poll worker or poll watcher before, and not many hands go up. Snead, Executive Director of the Honest Elections Project, joins Jenny Beth Martin to explain...

George Glezmann spent 835 days as a Taliban hostage, most of them in an underground cell in Kabul with the lights on around the clock. A Delta Air Lines aircraft mechanic with degrees in engineering and anthropology and 135 countries behind him, he walked into Afghanistan in December 2022 with a val...

The Lindsey Clancy trial has a lot of people asking why so many women are making excuses for a mother who took the lives of her three children. Father Frank Pavone, founder of Priests for Life and its election arm Pro-Life Vote, tells Jenny Beth Martin the answer has been building for fifty years: a...

Illegal voting charges against 16 people in seven states, eight of them noncitizens living in Texas, opened the week, and every one of those ballots was counted. Not one was caught on the day it was cast; prosecutors found most of them years later while looking at something else entirely. Guest host...

Inflation is not rising prices. Rising prices are what inflation does. In this third lesson of a four part economics series, Lawrence W. Reed, president emeritus of the Foundation for Economic Education, walks Jenny Beth Martin through money and inflation from the first coins to the Federal Reserve,...