ICE Out Protests: Public School Teachers Organized the Student Walkouts | Ashley Hayek

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 themThe flyer Ashley Hayek's daughter brought home, and the two Washington DC public school teachers who built itLos Angeles, San Antonio, Dallas, Houston and Austin: the same organizers, the same patternChapter co chairs of the Democratic Socialists of America who also sit on the board of the American Federation of TeachersThe Sunrise Movement, the Party for Socialism and Liberation, and one shared ground gameWhy America First Works started knocking doors in March rather than June, and the target statesOnly four times in a hundred years has a president's party gained House seats in a midtermThe midterm dropoff: low propensity voters, voters of faith, and gun owners who stay homeWhat the Democratic Socialists of America says about its own size, and what it wants abolishedArtificial intelligence and data centers as a deliberate wedge issue, and the water claim the research disputesFarmland taken for wind and solar, and who has standing to talk about property rightsBrooke Rollins, Linda McMahon, and the America 250 Civics Task ForceThe tax cuts calculator that shows what the One Big Beautiful Bill Act saved in your congressional districtWhat happens to the agenda if Republicans lose a chamber, and why the states and the courts become the next lineThe specific ways to get involved before election dayTimestamps:00:00 — Cold open: who organized the ICE Out walkouts00:35 — Ashley Hayek joins, and what America First Works does01:55 — From California to the Trump campaign to the America First Policy Institute04:31 — Brooke Rollins and Linda McMahon07:01 — The America 250 Civics Task Force08:48 — The textbook chart that puts socialism next to our republic10:45 — Four times in a hundred years, and the House seats in play11:28 — Teams on the ground since March, and why the good news matters14:21 — Sit this one out and you canceled the vote you cast in 202414:53 — The extreme of the extreme, and who gets seated instead16:27 — Abolish the Senate, the Supreme Court, the police and the prisons18:08 — The midterm dropoff: low propensity voters, voters of faith, gun owners20:52 — What actually moves a voter at the door22:34 — The Message and Data Lab, and what the research covers23:58 — The tax cuts calculator for your congressional district24:35 — Artificial intelligence and data centers as the left's wedge issue25:58 — What it would mean if China wins the artificial intelligence race31:15 — Farmland taken for wind and solar, and who has standing31:59 — ICE Out: are these protests organic32:47 — The Sunrise Movement, and a recruitment effort33:47 — The flyer her daughter brought home34:03 — Two Washington DC public school teachers built it34:34 — San Antonio, Dallas, Houston, Austin: the same pattern36:03 — They do not wait until college37:01 — Antifa, and language that puts a target on people41:12 — What happens if we lose a chamber41:30 — Everything stops, and the states become the next line of defense43:27 — How to get involved before election day45:14 — ClosingLinks:jennybethshow.comteapartypatriots.org