David Barton is the founder of WallBuilders and one of the nation's foremost collectors of original founding-era documents. Through decades of research he has built one of the largest private collections of founding-era papers in America and become a trusted resource for lawmakers, educators, and citizens on America's founding principles.

His new book, "Lives, Fortunes, and Sacred Honor: The Signers of the Declaration," co-authored with his son Tim Barton, tells the remarkable stories of all 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence — their courage, their convictions, and the very real cost many of them paid.

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Timestamps:

00:00 — Welcome and why this July 4 special matters

01:43 — Why July 2 is the real Independence Day

02:58 — Why reaching 250 years is historically rare

06:36 — A rising patriotism, especially among Gen Z

07:54 — Can you name five signers? Why we forgot them

10:11 — Lives, Fortunes, and Sacred Honor: the six principles of the Declaration

12:28 — God-given rights versus government-granted rights

19:20 — Inside WallBuilders: documents from all 56 signers

21:09 — Restoring the monuments and the forgotten patriots

23:11 — The brutal cost: why capture was deadlier than combat

25:25 — By contrast: how America treated its British prisoners

28:45 — Debtors' prison and the founders who lost everything

29:48 — Independence was not inevitable: a divided Congress

31:47 — The 80-mile midnight ride that saved a vote

33:01 — From the founders' debate to today's Senate

34:45 — How 1920s schooling replaced thinking with memorizing

40:54 — Where the founders got their ideas: the Bible, Montesquieu, Blackstone, Locke

45:16 — What classical education really means

48:44 — Thinking in the age of AI

52:39 — 91% of immigrants pass the civics test; only 4% of students do

57:04 — What every American should do now

59:52 — Barton's favorite story: Paul Revere's real ride and the Battle of Lexington

01:02:50 — Closing and the Constitution training series

Learn more at teapartypatriots.org and jennybethshow.com.

Shari Rigby is an actress, director, and producer known for the faith films October Baby and Overcomer. She founded Beautifully Flawed Productions and the Women in My World ministry, and she is the creator of the immersive audio drama Defiant Ones, about the women of the American Revolution.

Jenny Beth Martin is co-founder of the Tea Party movement and Chairman of Tea Party Patriots Action.

Key topics:

Timestamps:

00:00 — Welcome: meet filmmaker Shari Rigby and the Defiant Ones audio drama

01:18 — Shari's path: the Kendrick brothers, October Baby, and moving behind the camera

03:25 — A testimony: from teenage mom to faith-and-family filmmaker

08:19 — Women in My World: mentoring women in the industry

09:12 — How Defiant Ones came together and putting women to work

12:47 — Patriots, poets, prophets, and spies

13:09 — Remember the Ladies: the Abigail and John Adams letters

14:31 — Why teaching the founding matters, and Sybil Ludington's ride

17:03 — The women who surprised her most: Penelope Barker and Agent 355

21:19 — Immersive Dolby Atmos audio and getting kids off screens

25:00 — Studying the founding and walking Boston's Freedom Trail

29:58 — America's 250th and a call to families

32:19 — What's next, and where to find Defiant Ones

Defiant Ones launches July 2, streaming on the Washington Times (washingtontimes.com) and all podcast platforms, with companion novelettes on Amazon and family assets at beautifullyflawedproductions.com. Learn more at teapartypatriots.org and jennybethshow.com.

Cleta Mitchell is the founder of the Election Integrity Network and a senior legal fellow at the Conservative Partnership Institute. One of the nation's foremost election law attorneys, she has spent decades fighting for ballot integrity, honest elections, and the constitutional right of citizens to choose their representatives.

Robert McNeily is the Director of Broadcasting and Grassroots Engagement at Tea Party Patriots Action and a regular co-host of The Jenny Beth Show. He brings a grassroots perspective to the daily news cycle and a deep commitment to constitutional conservatism.

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Timestamped Breakdown:

00:00 — Supreme Court term finale: Watson v. RNC, women's sports ruling, birthright citizenship, McCain-Feingold

02:00 — Welcome and overview

07:21 — SAVE America Act: Senate path, filibuster rules, 50 votes explained (Cleta Mitchell)

17:30 — Problem senators: Murkowski, Tillis, Cassidy, Cornyn, Curtis — what to demand

22:55 — Watson v. RNC deep dive: mail ballots, EOCAVA, California primary results, the fix

32:00 — Today's three SCOTUS term-end rulings broken down

39:23 — Constitutional crisis: Alito dissent, birthright citizenship, the founders' intent

44:08 — Humphrey's Executor overturned: presidential authority over the FTC and Federal Reserve

50:20 — Socialism is communism: Trump's warning and McNeily's response

53:08 — Why founding principles matter at America's 250th: Cleta Mitchell

57:13 — Calls to action, Defiant Ones podcast promo, closing

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Robert McNeily — Director of Broadcasting and Grassroots Engagement for Tea Party Patriots Action. Guest host of The Jenny Beth Show.

Dr. Jared Ross — Board-certified emergency physician and President of EMSEC LLC. A 25-year veteran as a paramedic, firefighter, SWAT team member, and ER doctor. Published an op-ed in the Washington Examiner on healthcare fraud in Minnesota.

Christopher Macchio — The presidential tenor. Sang Hallelujah and other selections with the Marine Corps Band and the Singing Sergeants at the Great American State Fair, and will perform again at the July 4 National Mall celebration before the president's speech and the largest fireworks display in U.S. history.

Key topics:

• The SAVE America Act heads to a 4th House vote — Senate needs 10 more votes to break the 60-vote cloture threshold

• Tea Party Patriots Action is pressing President Trump to veto the pending housing bill until the Senate delivers a written plan to pass the SAVE America Act

• Over 1 million Obamacare enrollees have no Social Security number on file — and the fraud runs far deeper than one number

• 455 people charged, $6.5 billion in healthcare fraud schemes exposed in a single DOJ action (Acting AG Todd Blanche)

• Iran tested the June 17 ceasefire on June 27; U.S. forces struck Iranian targets; both sides stood down by Sunday; Doha talks scheduled

• Three back-to-back 6-3 Supreme Court immigration wins for the administration, including the end of Temporary Protected Status for Haitians and Syrians

• Democratic Socialist of America-backed candidates swept New York Democratic congressional primaries, threatening to oust House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries

• John Bolton pleaded guilty June 26 to willful retention of national defense information; sentencing October 28

• Christopher Macchio: music as a God-given obligation, the B-2 flyover choreography, and advice for aspiring performers

Timestamped breakdown:

00:00 — Cold open: five days to America's 250th, the case for the SAVE America Act

01:06 — Show intro; Trump "America Is Back" clip from the Great American State Fair

03:18 — Today's agenda: SAVE America Act, Iran ceasefire, Supreme Court, Obamacare fraud

05:56 — SAVE America Act: 4th House vote, 60-vote Senate fight, McLaughlin polling, call to action

12:43 — Healthcare fraud: Dr. Jared Ross on 1 million Obamacare ghost enrollees

23:20 — Iran ceasefire tested; Strait of Hormuz breakdown; gas prices heading into July 4 

26:00 — Supreme Court's 6-3 immigration sweep; DSA sweeps NYC primaries; Bolton guilty plea 

32:30 — America 250 heroes tribute: Captain Amy Sabota; Snyder Fire firefighters 

39:56 — Christopher Macchio: performing Hallelujah at the National Mall, friendship with President Trump, advice for performers

Links:

teapartypatriots.org | jennybethshow.com | passthesaveamericaact.com

Contact the White House: whitehouse.gov/contact | White House switchboard: 202-456-1111

Capitol switchboard: 202-224-3121

Jim Pfaff is President of The Conservative Caucus, one of the longest-running grassroots conservative organizations in the country. He spent roughly eight years on Capitol Hill working for members of Congress and has spent decades in the conservative movement advancing constitutional government and election integrity.

Robert McNeily, guest host, is Director of Broadcasting and Grassroots Engagement for Tea Party Patriots Action.

Key topics:

Timestamps:

00:00 — Washington is frozen: the SAVE America Act and Trump's housing-bill leverage

01:45 — Two-step action plan: the White House, Truth Social, and the Capitol switchboard

05:22 — Scott Presler turned away in South Dakota and the grassroots-leadership divide

10:32 — The Great American State Fair and America's 250th birthday

14:42 — Guest host Robert McNeily welcomes Jim Pfaff: what happened in the Senate

18:07 — Filibuster, cloture, and the Byrd rule explained

22:48 — Why Trump's veto leverage on the housing bill matters

25:29 — Grassroots versus the establishment

29:24 — The message GOP leadership should hear; why reconciliation won't do it

33:41 — The Supreme Court's 6-3 immigration ruling on Temporary Protected Status

40:54 — Hawaii's carry law overturned: the Second Amendment

44:52 — Pastor Jentezen Franklin's State Fair prayer

47:09 — Faith, the founding, and the fight ahead

52:05 — Closing call to action

54:24 — World Cup goodwill and the Oliver clip

Learn more at teapartypatriots.org and jennybethshow.com. To act on the SAVE America Act, contact the White House at whitehouse.gov/contact, post on Truth Social tagging the President, or call the Capitol switchboard at 202-224-3121.

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, representing three million grassroots conservative activists.

Amy Ford is the founder and president of Embrace Grace, a nonprofit that equips churches to walk alongside women facing unexpected pregnancies. What began as one small group in her Texas church has grown into a movement in more than 1,200 churches across all 50 states. Amy is the author of Help Her Be Brave: Discover Your Place in the Pro-Life Movement and A Bump in Life.

Key topics covered:

Timestamps:

00:00 — Welcome and why pro-life is more than policy

01:23 — Amy's unplanned pregnancy at 19

02:17 — Passing out in the abortion room

02:53 — A pastor refuses to bless the marriage

04:06 — The pastor's public apology, years later

08:13 — The vision that started Embrace Grace

11:23 — Three moms and the first twelve-week group

12:50 — Why women in the church stay silent

20:03 — From "pro-life" to "pro-love"

20:57 — The abortion pill and its hidden trauma

24:36 — 1,200 churches now, 23,400 is the goal

28:23 — How to start a group in your church

38:35 — Embrace Legacy: ministering to fathers

40:27 — Amy's books: Help Her Be Brave and A Bump in Life

41:30 — The future of the pro-life movement

45:06 — Where to get involved

Links: embracegrace.com | jennybethshow.com | teapartypatriots.org

Guest: Bill Norton is a constitutional scholar, author, and educator with more than three decades studying the American Founders. He is a co-author of "Behind the Bill of Rights" (with Jeremy Nelson of the National Center for Constitutional Studies) and of "Speaking the Language of Liberty" (with Mark Herr of the Center for Self Governance), with "Behind the Declaration of Independence" and "Behind the Constitution of the United States" forthcoming. He owns a construction company, is a lifelong artist and curriculum designer, and serves as the education director of Liberty Village in Hurricane, Utah.

This episode is a preview of the show's upcoming founding-principles training series — four lessons across eight episodes on the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights — which begins airing Monday, July 6.

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Timestamps:

00:00 — Welcome, and why the daily show paused for constitution training

01:03 — Meet Bill Norton: four lessons, eight episodes

02:45 — Applying founding principles to today's biggest fights

04:13 — Beyond Band-Aids: fix what's broken, face what's new, don't become what we hate

05:50 — Jenny Beth's "equal and opposite reaction" test

06:54 — The Declaration, the Constitution, and how it was actually built

08:46 — The Bill of Rights and "Behind the Bill of Rights"

09:58 — "Speaking the Language of Liberty" and the patriot who called herself a tyrant

12:25 — Why Bastiat's "The Law" is the place to start

12:59 — When the training airs, America's 250th, and the July 4 plan

13:58 — Liberty Village: a 30-acre founding-era village in Utah

19:15 — Benjamin Franklin's home as a kids' discovery center

20:37 — How Jenny Beth and Bill Norton first met in 2011

22:44 — Sleeping in a car to stop Obamacare

24:46 — From anger to productive action

26:48 — Rallies are the first step, not the last

27:55 — Founding-level Americans are still here

Links: jennybethshow.com · teapartypatriots.org

Bill Norton is a constitutional scholar and author who has studied America's founders for more than thirty years, and co-author of "Speaking the Language of Liberty" and "Behind the Bill of Rights."

Jenny Beth Martin is co-founder of the Tea Party movement and Chairman of Tea Party Patriots Action, representing three million grassroots conservative activists.

Key topics covered:

Timestamped topic breakdown:

00:01:01 — Levi Preston: why the colonists really fought

00:05:24 — Could the colonists vote? Self-government in the colonies

00:12:57 — The ideas that shaped both England and America

00:19:37 — Answering the "anti-government" smear

00:24:46 — Who wrote the Declaration: an expression of the American mind

00:31:10 — Cicero, Locke, and the great thinkers behind the founding

00:44:08 — What natural law actually is

00:48:51 — Why natural law cannot be repealed

01:04:43 — Equal, separate, and the individual in society

01:10:35 — Inside the Declaration's first paragraph

01:14:45 — What "created equal" really means

01:37:19 — Turning the principles into a way forward

Links: teapartypatriots.org, jennybethshow.com

Guest

Wade Miller is the executive director of the Center for Renewing America. A combat veteran and U.S. Marine Corps infantryman who deployed three times to Iraq and the Horn of Africa, he is a longtime adviser to OMB Director Russ Vought and brings over fifteen years of conservative political experience, including serving as political director for Senator Ted Cruz's 2018 campaign and chief of staff for Congressman Chip Roy.

Key Topics Covered

Timestamps

00:18 — Welcome and why the census could reshape political power

01:03 — Meet Wade Miller, Center for Renewing America

01:53 — What does enumeration actually mean?

03:36 — The new 2020 process and the citizenship-question end run

04:29 — How a census is supposed to work vs. what happened

05:46 — Differential privacy explained: scrambling the data

08:12 — Counting non-citizens and why it favors blue states

10:33 — Stephen Miller's 40-seat swing and the published Biden census

12:30 — The constitutional problem with unequal districts

16:31 — The other counting failures: overcounts and undercounts

18:12 — Imputation and manipulated characteristic data

21:35 — How privacy was protected before differential privacy

22:55 — Rural tax dollars siphoned to the cities

26:27 — What can be done: a real census director

29:29 — Republishing the census to arm the states

31:48 — Could harmed states sue? The standing problem

34:35 — Title 13, security clearance, and locked-down data

39:23 — An elegant fix: just count where people live

44:22 — What an activist can do right now

45:56 — Citizen-only data vs. federal funding formulas

47:58 — Why the census fight matters in 2026

51:43 — America First, Not Senate First: four Senate fixes

54:50 — The SAVE America Act has the votes

59:20 — Closing: liberty doesn't preserve itself

Links

Steve Friess is a businessman, conservative activist, education reform advocate, and candidate for Wyoming’s single seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. The son of the late conservative philanthropist Foster Friess, he has worked for years to build the conservative movement through business, philanthropy, education, and grassroots activism, and co-founded the Jackson Hole Classical Academy.

Key topics covered:

Why a self-described political outsider decided to run for Congress

The volunteer attorney project that drafted executive orders before Trump took office

The regulatory budget concept and how deregulation freed the economy

Wyoming energy: coal, oil, gas, and rare earth minerals as a national security issue

School choice, classical education, and teaching kids how to think

The dignity of work, trade schools, and earned success

Federal spending, the national debt, and cutting waste

Timestamps:

00:18 — Introducing Steve Friess

01:01 — Why he decided to run for Congress

02:38 — What “political outsider” really means

03:29 — Why today’s Democrats aren’t Bill Clinton Democrats

06:22 — The SAVE America Act and grassroots leadership

09:33 — The policy that motivates him most

10:25 — Extractive industries and regulatory roadblocks

11:18 — Rare earth minerals and national security

12:27 — Don’t forget coal: clean coal and export

13:21 — Carbon dioxide as “plant food”

14:45 — Education, federalism, and a Trump executive order

15:26 — Building the “counter deep state” attorney project

17:17 — Why the left is relentless: the spiritual dimension

19:51 — Inside the executive order project

20:50 — The regulatory budget and “two for one”

23:58 — Trump’s cabinet and the acronym lesson

25:42 — OIRA and the “sound science” memo

27:50 — “Guidance guidance” and reining in agencies

29:15 — His mission for Wyoming and lower-cost energy

32:01 — School choice and the family investment business

34:21 — The Teton County zoning fight and his first law

39:34 — Learning how to think, not what to think

43:27 — Covenantal vs. missional religious schools

47:50 — The Humanitas Institute and classical education

48:47 — How public schools narrowed the box

50:28 — Trade schools, Mike Rowe, and the dignity of work

55:08 — Bankruptcy, housekeeping, and earned dignity

57:57 — Arthur Brooks and “earned success”

1:00:08 — His scorecard: high-paying Wyoming jobs

1:01:02 — Cutting taxes vs. cutting spending

1:03:36 — The $39 trillion debt and the Tea Party’s origin

1:04:22 — Applauding the shutdown of USAID

1:05:18 — Closing: why people should vote for him

Links: teapartypatriots.org, jennybethshow.com, friessforwy.com