
Episode #125
Georgia Early Voting in 13 Days & Free Billboards Across America | Bergman, Zawistowski, Biegalski
Guest host: Robert McNeily is Director of Broadcasting and Grassroots Engagement at Tea Party Patriots Action and a former newscaster. He hosts this hour in for Jenny Beth Martin. Guest: Carmen Bergman is Senior Advisor to Greater Georgia, the voter registration, education and mobilization organization former United States Senator Kelly Loeffler founded in 2021. Greater Georgia launched KnowYourBallotGA.com in September 2026 as a voter guide covering every race and constitutional amendment on Georgia's ballot. Guest: Tom Zawistowski leads Freedom for All PAC, a federal political action committee, and the We the People Convention, the Ohio organization that grew out of the Portage County Tea Party. Since 2020 his group has produced free billboards for farmers and building owners along high-traffic roads, 103 of them in Ohio in 2024, and it is now offering them nationwide at freedomforallpac.org. He has worked alongside Jenny Beth Martin and Tea Party Patriots since the movement's first bus tour. Guest: Dr. Kendra Biegalski is Chair of the DeKalb County Republican Party in Georgia. She is a nuclear engineer, a former homeschool mother, and has taught college classes at the undergraduate and graduate level and children with neurodevelopmental disorders. Key topics: β’ 34 days to Election Day: why the host says so goes Georgia, so goes the nation, in a midterm year too β’ The midterm record: the president's party lost House seats in 28 of 31 midterms from 1902 to 2022, but the Senate flipped in only two of the five modern midterms that flipped the House β’ 1994 and the Contract with America, 2006, 2010 and the birth of the Tea Party movement, 2018 and 2022 β’ Does the top of the ticket carry the down-ballot races in Georgia, or the other way around? β’ About 50,000 Georgia voters stop at the top of the ballot, and what KnowYourBallotGA.com does about it β’ Early voting opens in Georgia on October 13; Illinois and Virginia are already voting β’ Greater Georgia's three jobs: registration, education and mobilization β’ The SAVE America Act, and Georgia's approach to election integrity as never one and done β’ Reports that Georgia ballots could be matched to the voters who cast them, and the response from the Secretary of State, the Georgia Republican Party and the Republican National Committee β’ Poll watchers and poll workers from both parties, and the difference between the two β’ Party voters, single-issue voters, high-information voters and Georgia's split-ticket voters β’ Persuasion and turnout: you cannot win Georgia without both β’ Tom Zawistowski's free barn billboard program: why the billboard companies would not sell in 2020, and why 103 billboards survived 2024 β’ Ohio's Senate race: Sherrod Brown against Jon Husted, and President Trump's Dayton visit for Husted and Vivek Ramaswamy β’ Why the billboard does not say vote for Republicans, and holding Republicans to the SAVE America Act β’ Apathy as the biggest political challenge, and defining communism in eight words: Free for them, taken from you β’ 60 cents per thousand impressions against 65 dollars for television; three million exposures a day in Ohio β’ Censorship by text carrier, local news nobody trusts, and silos within silos β’ Reagan's Eleventh Commandment, data centers, fracking, and the grizzly bear and the tiger β’ A narrow House majority, redistricting, Ohio's Ninth District and the 2030 census β’ Ohio 2016: 30,000 volunteers, a poll that said Trump by 8, and a win by 8.2 β’ Running the Republican Party in deep blue DeKalb County: affordability, property taxes up almost 50 percent, schools, public safety β’ Data centers as a national security issue, from a nuclear engineer who wants communities heard β’ DeKalb's election board votes 3 to 2 against cleaning the voter rolls; Marc Elias and Democracy Docket β’ A county 200 police officers short, potholes, and a string of school superintendents β’ Working with Democrats on nonpartisan issues: education, two school board candidates, poll watchers β’ The DeKalb candidate slate, meet-and-greets, and a voter registration event at Disability Link β’ Phone banks, a pizza and postcard party with Tea Party Patriots, and 60,000 Republican votes in DeKalb β’ This day in American history: the Continental Congress moves to York, the first hydroelectric central station, Wyoming's suffrage constitution, the Hoover Dam, and the first televised World Series β’ The call to action: IWillSaveAmerica.com, ten things you can do in five minutes, and Georgia's October 5 voter registration deadline at mvp.sos.ga.gov Timestamps: 00:00 β Cold open: 34 days to the midterms, common sense versus crazy 01:39 β So goes Georgia, so goes the nation: 28 of 31 midterms cost the president's party House seats 03:27 β 1994, 2006, 2010, 2018, 2022: the Senate changed hands only twice 05:17 β Carmen Bergman joins: the top of the ticket and the down-ballot races 06:18 β KnowYourBallotGA.com and the 50,000 voters who stop at the top 06:56 β Early voting opens October 13; Greater Georgia's three goals 08:17 β The SAVE America Act and election integrity in Georgia 09:20 β Reports that ballots could be matched to voters 10:20 β Poll watchers and poll workers; a statewide field organization 11:28 β KnowYourBallotGA.com launch; every constitutional office open 13:28 β Party voters, single-issue voters, split tickets 15:16 β Persuasion and turnout: both sides of the equation 16:11 β IWillSaveAmerica.com: ten things in five minutes 17:02 β Poll worker or poll watcher: the difference 18:27 β Tom Zawistowski joins: freedomforallpac.org 19:54 β 2020: the billboard companies would not sell; barns along the interstates 20:36 β 103 billboards in 2024: Free for them, taken from you 21:50 β Ohio Senate: Sherrod Brown against Jon Husted; President Trump to Dayton 23:16 β Why the billboard does not say vote for Republicans; the SAVE America Act; codifying executive orders 24:56 β The biggest political challenge: apathy 26:10 β No one under 60 knows what a communist is: eight words or less 27:14 β 60 cents per thousand impressions against 65 dollars for TV; 3 million exposures a day 28:35 β Our voice has been muted; billboards in Alaska 29:55 β Local news nobody trusts: 61 million visits down to 41 million; silos within silos 32:36 β Reagan's Eleventh Commandment, data centers and fracking 34:04 β Property taxes, the SAVE America Act and voters saying I am not going to vote 34:28 β The grizzly bear and the tiger 37:04 β Codifying with a narrow majority; Ohio's Ninth District; the 2030 census 38:26 β Josh McKoon on early in-person voting 39:34 β What inspires Tom: Ohio 2016, the NRA, 30,000 volunteers 42:32 β Farewell to Tom; IWillSaveAmerica.com 44:24 β Kendra Biegalski joins: DeKalb County Republicans, small but active 45:31 β Affordability, the gas tax, property taxes up almost 50 percent 46:57 β Data centers as national security, from a nuclear engineer 48:16 β Clean voter rolls voted down 3 to 2; Marc Elias 49:38 β How the county party sets priorities 50:48 β The budget: schools, superintendents, potholes, 200 officers short 52:46 β Growth, data centers and town halls 55:53 β Democrats at the breakfast: education, school board, poll watchers 58:51 β The DeKalb candidate slate 59:57 β Meet-and-greets and Disability Link 01:01:23 β Low-propensity voters: phone bank, pizza and postcards, 60,000 votes 01:03:35 β This day in history: York, Vulcan Street, Wyoming, the Hoover Dam, the first televised World Series 01:06:46 β Braves batting practice, Eddie Perez and Eugenio Suarez 01:08:06 β The call to action: IWillSaveAmerica.com; Georgia registration closes October 5 01:09:49 β Last Tuesday's episode, the communism series, and only American citizens should decide American elections Links mentioned: jennybethshow.com teapartypatriots.org iwillsaveamerica.com knowyourballotga.com freedomforallpac.org mvp.sos.ga.gov

