The rallies against Immigration and Customs Enforcement have been presented as spontaneous student activism. Ashley Hayek's team traced the organizers, and what they found was Democratic Socialists of America chapter co chairs who also sit on the board of the American Federation of Teachers. This hour is about the machine on the other side of the 2026 midterm elections, the turnout math that decides whether the House and Senate hold, and what an ordinary citizen can still do about both before election day.
Ashley Hayek, president of America First Works, joins Jenny Beth Martin. America First Works is the political arm of the America First Policy Institute. Hayek was executive director of Women for Trump and later national coalitions director on the 2020 campaign, 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.
Today's topics:
Why America First Works started knocking doors in March rather than June, and the target states: Arizona, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and South Texas
Only four times in the last hundred years has a president's party gained seats in the House, and the case that 2026 can be the fifth
The midterm dropoff that decides the majority: low propensity voters, voters of faith, and gun owners who stay home
What Ashley Hayek's team found when they traced the ICE Out student walkouts back to the people who organized them
The Sunrise Movement, the Democratic Socialists of America, and the Party for Socialism and Liberation running one shared ground game
120,000 dues paying members and more than 250 officials elected in 2025: the Democratic Socialists of America by its own numbers
The abolition agenda, from the Senate and the Supreme Court to the police and immigration enforcement, and why Jenny Beth Martin calls it replacing the government rather than reforming it
Why the left chose artificial intelligence and data centers as its wedge issue, and the water claim America First Policy Institute research says is false
Farmland taken for wind and solar, and why Hayek says the left has no standing to lecture anyone on property rights
Brooke Rollins, Linda McMahon, and the America 250 Civics Task Force teaching American history straight
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 the House or the Senate, and why the states and the courts become the next line of defense
The specific ways to get involved before election day: doors, postcards, text messages, poll working and poll watching
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