In this episode of the Charlie Kirk Show, we talk about the importance of being involved in your community and how you can take your faith into action in order to make a difference in the world. We also talk about what it means to be a Christian activist and how to get involved with your community.
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00:01:56.000Um I just started a turning point USA chapter at my uh high school.
00:02:01.000And I was wondering, uh, yeah, I like the meetings and all the speeches and talks we have, but I was wondering how we could get more involved with like our community.
00:02:10.000Uh like actually take action instead of just uh talking.
00:02:15.000I would say the first thing that comes to mind for me is um if the people in your if in your chapter are are Christian or if they're believers, maybe not all of them are, but the ones who are, make sure are they actually going to services on Sunday?
00:02:29.000Are they getting involved with things?
00:02:30.000Are they taking their stated belief, which is pretty common, especially with younger people.
00:02:34.000They'll say, Yeah, I'm a Christian, maybe whatever.
00:02:38.000But Charlie was all about taking the stated belief and making it concrete.
00:02:42.000Are you putting your stated beliefs into action?
00:02:44.000Read the Bible, going to Bible studies, going to church.
00:02:48.000That's one specific faith-related example, but maybe you guys have examples beyond that.
00:02:52.000Nick, if I'm putting myself in your shoes, Blake had a great idea.
00:02:55.000Actually, I think it was Dino who we just had on in the last segment.
00:02:59.000He said that they also started a Bible study in their chapter.
00:03:03.000So they'll do uh chapter meeting and then a Bible study afterwards.
00:03:05.000But to get more involved, uh we have our school board watch list program.
00:03:09.000You could go to the school board meetings and and start firing up yourself for your community and getting involved in local politics and so many eyebrows if they had actual like students.
00:03:22.000Yeah, well, let's keep them running, Nick.
00:03:23.000I'm gonna hook you up with some ideas here.
00:03:25.000And then another one too is um running for student body government.
00:03:29.000That's a big thing that we have at Turning Point USA is we equip leaders to run for student body government.
00:03:35.000So if that's something you're interested in, um contact us, or you could email me if you want to.
00:03:40.000Um another idea is every election season, turning point action, gets involved in in swing states.
00:03:46.000I'm not sure what state you're in, Nick, but even if you are not in a swing state, you can call, jump on the phone, text people, uh and you're calling voters in Arizona, in North Carolina, in Ohio, whatever whatever states we're involved in.
00:04:23.000I'm gonna see if I can save up to buy a ticket.
00:04:25.000If not, maybe my mom will buy it for me.
00:04:28.000All right, well, we'll we're gonna we're gonna Try to help you get there, so we'll connect with you.
00:04:32.000But I think that's a good starter for you to just start by coming to Amfest, and there's a lot of ways to get involved there.
00:04:40.000I mean, when you're walking the exhibitor hall, you're seeing TP Academy, and you're seeing our our faith program and our church program and turning point action and our everything.
00:04:50.000So it there's a lot of ways to get involved.
00:04:52.000So I want you to start by coming to Amfest, and we'll help get you there if you just connect with our team and touch grass in your community as as as Gen Z would say.
00:05:01.000The world is so full of people who are cloistered inside.
00:05:04.000It is a super weapon if you can do what Charlie did and just go out there and engage with the real world over and over and over again.
00:05:11.000But thank you very much for that, Nick.
00:05:13.000And uh best of luck with your uh new chapter, and we're very excited to hear about that.
00:05:17.000Uh our next caller is going to be Christine.
00:06:08.000So the only way it's separate is if it's turning point USA is the umbrella for all of those things.
00:06:14.000So Blexit and Turning Point Academy and TP USA Faith and our high school program, our college program, our productions program, all of that falls under that umbrella of our 51c3.
00:06:26.000The only thing that's different is our 501c4 or our pack, which is the political arm, and that's turning point action.
00:06:31.000So if you for example, if you're to make a donation to turning point USA, you're supporting the mission of all of those things that you just mentioned.
00:06:40.000And so those are all connected under the umbrella of Turning Point USA.
00:06:43.000If that I think that answers your question.
00:06:46.000Um, but how you can get better involved, I just told Nick I I I just keep telling people come to Amfest.
00:06:52.000That's the best first way to get involved.
00:06:54.000But if you want to get involved in politics, the best way is turning point action.
00:06:57.000We have midterms coming up soon, and there's gonna be a lot to do, even if you are not in the state that we are actively uh, you know, doing door knocking in low propensity reach in you can still make phone calls wherever you're from.
00:07:12.000Um and so for TP USA, there's a ton of different ways to get involved.
00:07:16.000We have thousands of church affiliates.
00:07:18.000There's there's most likely a chapter in your community, a high school or college chapter in your community, you can get involved in support.
00:07:26.000You can actually support individual smaller chapters at Turning Point USA.
00:07:49.000Um, I guess I was looking for with that, as we give money, if we need to like separate that out so we make sure everybody gets a little bit of awe, or if one of your groups wasn't getting as much attention, right?
00:08:03.000Will you um as a top tier spread it around?
00:08:07.000Yeah, it's always spread it's spread around when you make a donation to turning point USA.
00:08:11.000But if you're a donor and you make uh donation, you can actually add where you want it to go to specifically.
00:08:16.000So we have donors that are saying, you know, I only want to support TP USA faith with this donation.
00:08:22.000And so that actually just goes to furthering the mission or the cause of that specific department under the Turning Point USA umbrella.
00:08:29.000So and if I may one more quick question, Mikey.
00:08:54.000Um, so I was hoping there will be some kind of directory so we can know in our smaller towns, um who is involved, so we can reach out to people who are involved around us.
00:09:06.000I know we just updated our website at Turning Point USA, and I think that there's a map that we just added.
00:09:11.000And so you can zoom into your region, and then we're we're working on adding so our field rep who is staff that we have hired for every certain region, then we have general managers, regional directors, and so you can reach out to the field representatives, and that's probably the best way of communication.
00:09:26.000So we can help get you connected, Christine, um, and we'll make that happen.
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00:11:02.000Um so that whole thing um shook me up.
00:11:08.000Um and it had me asking a lot of questions, and one of these questions um that I'm having to ask myself is uh if Israel is such a good ally to the United States, why do our politicians need to take money in order to support that relationship?
00:11:32.000Well, I don't I don't think a lot of them do need to take a lot of money from them, but you know, so there is a certainly it has been brought up.
00:11:40.000There's like a lot of back and forth there, and some people have raised their eyebrows.
00:11:43.000I remember when we had the uh the recess in um in August, and like a very large number of Republicans flew directly to like Israel as the recess was happening, and so it wasn't like, oh, they needed to immediately go and meet all of their constituents in their home states, they were instead in another country.
00:12:01.000And uh I know I talked to Charlie about all of this, and he was at least very aware that was not a good PR look, and it might have been a better one in the past, but it it's not.
00:12:13.000You have to signal that America comes first.
00:12:15.000Now, there are reasons that we have this alliance that it has existed, that we've had uh alignment against radical Islam, and also just a lot of Americans genuinely care about that.
00:12:25.000Not just Jewish Americans, but Christian Americans and Americans who just care about opposing Islamic militancy, 9-11 and all of that.
00:12:34.000Um I I mean, for me, uh just speaking on my own beliefs, I'm I'm Gen Z. I've seen war my entire life.
00:12:41.000I a lot of countries lobby here, and I honestly I want to stop them all.
00:12:47.000Like I don't want any countries lobby in this country anymore.
00:12:57.000You know, you have people who register under Farah, you have people who should register under Farah but don't.
00:13:01.000I think what Charlie would agree, and we agree, is we do want way less influence and money from foreign countries in our government.
00:13:11.000And it's easy, it's very common for people to fixate on Israel specifically, but like Mexico was totally interfering in all of the Trump's elections.
00:13:20.000They were publishing guides on how Mexican Americans could vote.
00:13:23.000They were barely, you know, quite unsubtly suggesting, you know, maybe illegal immigrants, you could figure out how to vote too.
00:13:32.000European leaders were always weighing in on these things.
00:13:34.000Tons of other foreign NGOs meddle themselves in our politics.
00:13:38.000So it is far bigger than just one country in that regard.
00:13:43.000Well, and according to open source, um, Israel wasn't even in the top ten last year in foreign nations funding in American politics, which shows that I mean all these other countries are doing it too, which is also a problem.
00:14:56.000Um my question for you is that I recently moved to Virginia, and I'm wondering if there is any kind of a ground game.
00:15:04.000I haven't really heard anything about it.
00:15:06.000And um, similar to your previous um caller, was just wondering how I might be able to get involved with the TT action out here in Virginia.
00:15:16.000Man, we w we were going to have Tyler Boyer on this hour originally.
00:15:21.000And it would have really helped because Tyler Tyler runs turning point action.
00:15:25.000You would have the point by point detail on all of that.
00:15:28.000Everything that my understanding is uh originally we were not super heavily involved because we you know we shepherd our resources for what's most winnable, but now Virginia has in the last couple weeks gotten much more winnable, especially in that AG race.
00:15:43.000So I unfortunately do not know that off the top of my head.
00:15:46.000I have actually messaged Tyler at this moment to please send me any details, and if we can get more of them even later in this hour, I'll be sure to read them out.
00:15:54.000Do you know anything about that, Mikey?
00:15:55.000I know the mobile app, turn TP Action has a mobile app, which is very helpful.
00:15:59.000I know we all used it on the ground game during last year's election.
00:16:02.000Um you can start there and you can literally text and call um people in your area to help get out the vote.
00:16:10.000Um I know that Blake said it, the AG race in in specific, specifically has become a big, possibly winnable race in Virginia.
00:16:19.000And so um I'm not entirely sure the specifics that Tyler might have um in terms of what we may be doing on the ground game.
00:16:27.000I know that there is a ground game there.
00:16:29.000Um and so how to get plugged into that, I I think it's best turning point action makes uh a statement kind of saying how you can get involved, how you can help there.
00:16:36.000So um that's probably the best next step.
00:16:39.000I know that we're probably gonna be putting something together to text and call voters.
00:16:43.000We typically do that always um with states where you can call voters to get out the vote and get involved.
00:16:49.000Um and so that's that's basically what we have right now for Virginia.
00:16:53.000Yeah, and how are you feeling about the governor's race?
00:16:56.000Um it would just be such a huge shame if we lost out on that.
00:17:57.000I've gotten text from people in the DC area about this, where you know the the prices of all of these service uh services you can buy has gone way up because a lot of them are are clearing out.
00:18:08.000And so all of that is going to have a political impact.
00:18:37.000They're not watching the news, they're not watching this show, they're not hearing about it.
00:18:41.000And a lot of people want to make sure they don't hear about it.
00:18:43.000You can change that and make sure that they vote.
00:18:46.000You don't need an app to do make sure that that happens.
00:18:50.000You don't need an app to make sure your friends and family and parishioners and your, you know, the the parents of your kids' friends and all of that.
00:18:57.000You don't need all of those things to be able to talk to those people.
00:19:00.000Um, but we'll definitely have Tyler on ASAP to give more information on uh what our plans are in that race, and we've got a month to sprint to the finish here.
00:20:28.000Well, um, you know, I've noticed that many believers in my church now agree that the church, the big church, has become too comfortable and risk averse.
00:20:39.000Um, but a lot of us are really unsure on like the first practical steps that pastors or lay people can take to move on from this passive faith to like active conviction in their communities.
00:21:04.000So my dad, he was a pastor in California.
00:21:06.000Um, during the COVID lockdowns, he kept his church open.
00:21:10.000Um, despite he was the mayor of the city at the time, and despite facing jail time and penalties and congregants getting fined and them getting cited.
00:21:23.000Um he kept his church open, and it was one of the biggest stories at the time.
00:21:27.000Because in California, you could have strip clubs open and marijuana dispensaries, but churches couldn't worship.
00:21:32.000And so that is kind of the moving point for my dad and TPOSA Faith and a lot of pastors who saw that and said, something doesn't feel right here.
00:21:43.000And so James 122 is be doers of the word, not just hearers.
00:21:48.000And so for a lot of pastors, um, I would just encourage them to, if it feels wrong, dig into it a little bit.
00:21:56.000You have a choice to make, not just for yourself, for your congregation and those that you are shepherding as a flock in a community.
00:22:04.000And every choice that you make makes an imp imprint on your character and character comes from the Greek word, which means to etch deeply on on onto something, or to tattoo.
00:22:14.000And so every choice that you make uh makes a mark on your character.
00:22:19.000And so a lot of people will say, you know, they'll cite Romans 13, which is you know, honor those in authority or elected officials.
00:22:27.000So they said the elected officials told me to shut down my church during COVID, or the elected officials told me that there's separation of church and state.
00:22:34.000I shouldn't have to talk about this from the pulpit.
00:22:36.000Well, one of the most important things you have to think about is who are those in authority in this country.
00:22:42.000And and that was written with kings in authority and monarchs in authority, and today those in authority in our country are the people.
00:22:50.000And so we have a responsibility to our nation and to our God to uphold liberty, which is a value of Christianity and God.
00:23:42.000Our next question we have Isabel uh Isabel wrote us, what do you suggest for someone wanting to get involved with TP USA who does not have a degree, is not in college, but it's still about collegiate age and wanting to maybe work there or just be part of the movement.
00:23:57.000Is there a space for young adults not in college?
00:23:59.000Now, one, I think I may have gotten seen an email from Isabel.
00:24:03.000So uh thank you again for reaching out.
00:24:06.000Um I think it would be very shameful if we did not have a way for people who did not go to college to get involved given what Charlie repeatedly said about college.
00:24:16.000Um first of all, I don't in most cases if there's a chapter in your area.
00:24:23.000Yeah, we had people all the time that were college aged that didn't um go to the university but still came to events, meetings, all that stuff.
00:24:32.000Yeah, it's possible your school might have some rules around that, but they're probably not gonna be super strict about it.
00:24:37.000I don't think they'll be strict at all.
00:25:35.000Um I I think I'll take the one that's probably more uh well, both are relevant, but so Charlie's approach.
00:25:42.000What was what is Charlie's approach and your team's approach to what I see as um a growing um kind of a uh resistance or a growing opposition to the people of Israel or the nation of Israel, and which I yeah, I think of it as a spiritual issue that will that's growing.
00:26:09.000I see it in the conservative movement, and I I think people in the church who um are you know part of the church in different faith are gonna need good voices, strong voices to help people understand what to think about this because you know Israel has you know if you look at the Bible, Israel has an important position with God and in history, both past and in future.
00:26:32.000So I I understand the need to reform, like you were talking about earlier, not to have money coming into our government.
00:26:39.000I understand the need to reform our you know, our the the thing, you know, countries can reform, but this goes a little bit deeper where it's like this this kind of rejection to Israel as the people of God.
00:26:51.000So I want to know how you guys approach that and help us to you know how to think about it.
00:27:01.000And I can say I spoke with Charlie a lot about this issue.
00:27:05.000He had me do a lot of research about this issue.
00:27:07.000He cared a lot about it, and he saw it was really something that had been bubbling up a lot over these past few years.
00:27:13.000And it is it is something that is in a lot of ways out of proportion to what you'd normally expect a foreign policy thing to be.
00:27:21.000And it's done that for a variety of reasons.
00:27:23.000It of course has happened for religious reasons.
00:27:26.000Uh obviously, there are Jewish Americans who care a lot.
00:27:28.000There are Christian Americans who believe there is you know a biblical commitment to present-day Israel.
00:27:34.000But it's also even even the left cares more about it.
00:27:36.000It's sort of the issue has become a symbolic one where how you feel about it is it's sort of representative of how you feel about a lot of different issues.
00:27:46.000And that's I think why Charlie, he noticed there was this bubbling up of anti-Israel and often anti-Semitic sentiment among young people on the left and on the right.
00:27:57.000And I think he thought about it a lot because he could see this would sometimes be related to this sort of like generalized third world mindset spreading in America that if like they can convince you that oh like Israel shouldn't exist for because they're a colonizer country or something.
00:28:15.000That if they can convince you of that, they can kind of convince you that America shouldn't exist.
00:28:18.000Because America also began as you know, people settling a land they were not from.
00:28:24.000Um Charlie had complicated thought uh thoughts on it.
00:28:27.000We've seen it with uh letters and so forth.
00:28:30.000Uh, you know, he wrote that letter to Netanyahu.
00:28:33.000He saw that there was a lot of sentiment on this.
00:28:36.000He wanted to move towards a productive relationship between our two countries.
00:28:41.000Uh and he wanted the holy he cared about the holy land remaining a safe place for Christians.
00:28:48.000I think that was his biggest guiding star that he went to Israel once.
00:28:51.000He went to the lands that Jesus preached in and lived in, and it was deeply moving for him.
00:28:56.000And he thought it would be terrible if that ended up being a place ruled by ISIS or radical Islamists who might, you know, blow up Christ's tomb, blow up, you know, bulldoze all the places that Christ ministered to, make it so Christians could not go there, and he cared a lot about keeping that from happening.
00:29:12.000And he cared a lot about just not having us.
00:29:16.000He also just didn't want us to align with radical Islamism.
00:29:19.000And those were kind of Charlie's guiding posts on that issue, I believe.
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00:31:36.000Love you guys praying continually every day for all of you and and of course all of the Kirk family.
00:31:42.000And I know we'll be in a lot of sorrow for a long time, but I just am grateful you guys are lifting up Charlie's voice, his name, his legacy every single day.
00:31:53.000But my question to you guys has a little bit to do with the American halftime show that that idea that you guys are coming up with, I think isn't a wonderful idea.
00:32:03.000I don't know if it'll come to fruition.
00:32:06.000But you guys had put out a feeler for suggestions, like what would you like to see in your survey, whether it be worship music, rock and roll, jazz, whatever.
00:32:16.000And I did take that survey and I did select worship.
00:32:21.000And there's a wonderful Christian artist by the name of Kim Walker Smith.
00:34:30.000I mean, it's just we were heartbroken, um, you know, that day, but um as still, but one of my questions, and I actually have been trying to join for like the last month, and so I'm so bummed that you know, but I'm here now, and uh I wanted to ask,
00:34:46.000you know, turning point's thoughts about count calling out more of the economic power of conservatives and Christians along the lines of like partnering with you know Robbie Starbuck or the Public Square company, which is that of West Palm here in Florida, and you know, really praying to see more conservatives and importantly Christians that you know will steward their financial blessings more according to God's will and for his glory.
00:35:10.000Um, you know, really funding is really kind of fuels one or the other.
00:35:16.000And I was just curious as like turning point's take on sort of championing that message.
00:35:55.000I've been through a lot of attempted boycotts, and you know, some of them it really seems like they should have Been you know very straightforward, vaporize them.
00:36:02.000But the one that worked, for example, was Bud Light, and it was almost like it was like all the stars aligned perfectly because it was a product that was very ubiquitous, and it was something you consumed publicly, so it was easy to socially like bully people into doing it.
00:36:17.000Whereas a lot of products you just own personally and it's more on you.
00:36:20.000Yeah, and so it's not always easy to tell what will take off and what won't.
00:36:26.000So what I would always say is if we can do it, I'm very much in favor of it.
00:36:30.000And we've totally we've you know, we've had on the public square guys before on the show.
00:36:42.000Also, if you're going to boycott someone, it it can't hurt to if you're gonna do it, make sure you also send them an email, send them a message, send them a tweet.
00:36:50.000Exactly, post on their Instagram or something.
00:36:52.000Do something to make it clear why you are doing something that you are motivated by something because companies have a lot of sort of neurotic people who run their marketing departments, and if they see a few angry emails, they can freak out.
00:37:05.000And that can grip you know, have more power than just using your pocketbook.
00:37:31.000Um, are you guys gonna come to Maine to do any event in the near future, or is everything gonna be stay out left?
00:37:41.000Well, I I know that Charlie's whole thing is he didn't want mission creep.
00:37:45.000So he wanted to focus on what worked, and then he would just focus his energy on turning his one of his passions was to turn Arizona into the Florida of the West.
00:37:56.000So he would always have people asking him, Charlie, can you come to California?
00:37:59.000You know, can turning point action do to California what they did in Arizona or Maine.
00:38:04.000And so Charlie and I were literally in Maine for a whole month and a week together, and we traveled the whole state.
00:38:12.000We got to know thousands of different people, and there's a great group called Maine Civic Action.
00:38:17.000Um, and I know that they're doing a lot of work, it's backed by a very big donor.
00:38:22.000Um, and they're planning to do some very, very big and important work in the coming year, year and a half here.
00:38:30.000So I although we do not have a big presence in Maine, I know that there is groups that do have a big presence in Maine.
00:38:38.000Charlie spoke at their event, Maine Civic Action, and they I'll tell you this.
00:38:48.000Yeah, Donna, you you you guys are fired up, and you're talking to the lobster men and the uh the these are hard working class voters, and I think there's a bigger silent majority, but Maine needs to watch out for these third worlds coming in.
00:39:05.000Haiti, Haiti, it's really sinister what they do.
00:39:09.000They do deliberately settle a lot of like you know, some of the most challenging to integrate migrants in you know random heartland parts of the United States.
00:39:20.000Yeah, we were talking to some police there in uh Portland, Maine.
00:39:24.000And they were just telling us these crazy stories about how they're being overrun.
00:39:27.000You got hotels with 20 illegals all in one hotel room.
00:39:32.000This police officer told us a story about how in Portland he gets a domestic violence call.
00:39:39.000And when he shows up to the house, he comes in, and it's 32 Somalian men just beating up a woman, and he had to get in there, and it's just he's like, I can't, I don't even did he apologize because he was intruding on their culture.
00:39:52.000Yeah, oh it's it's Portland is really going downhill.
00:40:01.000And the mayor of South Portland was no bueno.
00:40:05.000Oh wow, yeah, and yeah, it's it's getting bad.
00:40:10.000It's I mean, a lot of people think Maine is the quiet state tucked into the Northeast, but it's like there's not much scene in Bangor, but It's like you guys would be surprised what's going on right under your nose.