Aug 19, 2026

Cuban refugees twice over. Driena Sixto's grandparents left Franco's Spain for Cuba, built businesses and bought property there, and lost all of it when Fidel Castro took power. Her father was arrested on the island as a political dissident. Her parents married in Cuba and stayed married ten years without having a child, because they refused to raise one under the dictatorship. When her father got out of prison he walked into the United States embassy, told them he was an actual political refugee, obtained a visa, came here legally, and never went back. Driena Sixto and her sister were born Americans because of that decision. She grew up in Hialeah, the city with the largest Cuban population of any city outside Cuba, going to remembrance events where children learned about boats full of women and children shot down by the Castro dictatorship. Jenny Beth Martin sits down with her for the whole story, and for what she has built with it. Sixto is Spanish Media Director at the Lincoln Media Foundation and hosts a weekly Spanish-language news program on Claro y Directo América. She spent six years at Turning Point USA starting in 2016, then helped build the ballot chasing operation at Turning Point Action. Also here: why she says our side handed Spanish-language media to Univision and Telemundo, her case for abolishing the Department of Education, and the line she keeps returning to, that freedom can be lost in a single generation. More at jennybethshow.com and teapartypatriots.org.

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