00:00:55.000His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:01:04.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:15.000Hey, everybody, we got a treat for you.
00:01:17.000Four amazing college campus conservatives fighting the good fight on the front lines for liberty and freedom, the Constitution, and the American Dream, all involved at Turning Point USA.
00:01:27.000So honored to have all of you guys with us.
00:01:29.000Let's go around the horn and you introduce yourselves, kind of where you're from, where you go to college.
00:02:58.000If we acted the way they did with the insults and calls for violence, we would be punished at the highest standards, which it should be that way.
00:03:06.000But we don't act that way because we're conservatives and because we are Christians.
00:03:09.000Well, that's the most important thing.
00:03:11.000So Gabby, so you're involved on the front lines, and you've probably been a recipient of a lot of different attacks.
00:04:01.000I was involved with the whole Progressive Club debacle and how they attacked our chapter.
00:04:08.000We have so many screenshots and it's been very interesting, but again, I've been through this since high school, so it's not my first time around this rodeo.
00:06:59.000So, Kira, tell us about your experience on campus.
00:07:02.000Yeah, so I am a communications major, and with that comes a lot of leftist professors.
00:07:10.000So I get taught CRT, gender theory, queer theory.
00:07:17.000I was looking through one of my classes this semester at the curriculum and it's like all this crazy stuff and I have to pretend to be a leftist to pass some of my classes when I'm in the middle of the passing grade.
00:07:33.000So and I don't fault you for that by the way.
00:07:35.000I'm sure you've heard some of my speeches where I say make your decision as you see fit, but parents need to know when you send a child to college, you're gonna have to lie to get a good grade, is that correct?
00:07:46.000Yeah, a lot of professors are very adamant in their beliefs, which, you know, it's fine.
00:07:54.000But they are not open to hearing other people's viewpoints.
00:07:59.000So they'll mark you down if you're not following the prompt or whatever.
00:10:02.000When people say that there is a white privilege and that somehow I am hindered by the color of my skin, I consider that person racist because that's the actual racism.
00:12:49.000There's a lot of other things that go into play when you're talking about diversity, but that wasn't reciprocated or accepted too well at my school.
00:12:57.000Well, yeah, diversity of skin color means absolutely nothing, especially we as Christians believe that.
00:13:01.000We think diversity of thought, most importantly, unity in Christ is what really matters.
00:13:05.000And so Kira, talk a little bit about, you said you're being taught CRT.
00:13:09.000Do you, and this is, I'm not trying to lead the questioner, so you could feel free to say no.
00:13:13.000Do you think it's creating more racial thoughts, tension, or just racism?
00:14:29.000How are you going to tell that story 10 years from?
00:14:31.000Like, yeah, I grew up in America that believed in the dream Martin Luther King, and then I went to college that believed in the dream of the KKK.
00:15:04.000I did grow up in a very conservative household and my parents and I talk politics all the time and I'm very open with them and what happens on my campus, even going back to elementary school, junior high, and high school.
00:15:16.000And it really does like blow my mom's mind because I guess common sense just isn't so common.
00:15:21.000And you're paying for the not common sense too as well.
00:15:48.000High school yeah, and when I was first starting college, I started to be more open to conservative ideas.
00:15:56.000In 2020, my boyfriend is conservative and I am so grateful that he wanted to date me.
00:16:04.000He opened me up to a bunch of new ideas and I did research on my own.
00:16:08.000You know, I was kind of blindly supporting people on the left because I thought that that was the good side, so I'm really glad that I'm in the place that I am now with my beliefs.
00:16:23.000I truly believe these things and I have like facts to back it up and not just feelings.
00:16:31.000So the more you learned, the more confidence you got.
00:16:34.000And was it a thing where you said, I never heard that before and I never heard that before?
00:16:58.000And so I would listen to Rush growing up.
00:17:00.000And then coming to college, I was kind of, I was conservative.
00:17:03.000I was a debater in high school, so I was able to think logically and critically and saw that conservative values worked the best, was the most practical in the real world, but also it aligned most to my Christianity, my faith.
00:17:15.000And then in college, it was kind of on the back burner.
00:17:17.000Conservative thought wasn't really a huge issue until 2020 when COVID came.
00:17:21.000I was actually living in Paris at that time, and I had to come home.
00:17:36.000And that's when I got more like involved in conservative values.
00:17:38.000And then going back to campus with campus being completely locked down, it really like made me want to fight for my values and fight for the beliefs that I hold dear because that's the only way I knew I was going to make a change.
00:19:54.000I think overall, I think I would be optimistic because the people who will become the leaders of the world, this next generation, is people like us, the ones that are ones that are here, actually out there fighting the good fight.
00:20:06.000And those people are going to be the ones that are leading our country in the future, while the people who are complaining are going to be the ones on the sidelines.
00:20:12.000And so I'm optimistic because we'll be in charge and we'll be the leaders.
00:20:15.000Marcos, you've lived the American dream.
00:20:18.000I am, but I understand there's a lot of danger ahead if we don't work hard.
00:20:22.000There's so many conservative students who are too afraid to stand up.
00:20:25.000There's too many parents who don't support their kids in standing up.
00:20:28.000There's institutions and leaders in those institutions who are too afraid to stand up, like our professors who are conservatives and will tell us behind closed doors, but won't openly say, I'll support Turning Point, and we won't allow this at our campus.
00:20:40.000But I understand and I see that God is moving in certain ways.
00:20:44.000When it gets worse, that's when he comes in and does the most good.
00:21:39.000Hey, everybody, today on the Charlie Kirk Show.
00:21:41.000Very good friend of mine, someone who is like the original grassroots coordinator outside of the Republican Party, who really helped start the Tea Party move, not started it herself.
00:21:50.000Jenny Beth Martin from Tea Party Patriots.
00:21:54.000The work you do for our country is so important, and we've known each other for a while, and you're always on the front lines, whether it be election integrity, vaccine mandates, all of it.
00:22:02.000So I just want to thank you for all that you've done.
00:22:16.000So tell us what you're working on at Tea Party Patriots.
00:22:18.000So we're working on a couple of things.
00:22:20.000A big thing we're working on right now is building permanent election integrity infrastructures in key states around the country.
00:22:27.000So right now, this week, I have been traveling and doing a tour in Arizona where we're training people on how to build these local election integrity task forces.
00:22:38.000And then I've already done the same kind of tour in Georgia.
00:22:41.000We have a summit coming up in Georgia that Cleta Mitchell and Conservative Partnership Institute are hosting.
00:22:47.000And then we're going on from here to Nevada.
00:22:49.000And then we'll have Pennsylvania and North Carolina, Wisconsin, and Michigan where we're doing the same thing over the next two and a half months.
00:23:10.000And we need people to be poll watchers and especially people who are willing to work the polls, either as an election official, election judge, or just a poll worker, whatever they're called in their state.
00:23:21.000But there are several more steps beyond that, including building a working group who will be present at your local election board meetings, committee meetings, subcommittee meetings, really understanding what's going on in those offices, researching what kind of contracts they have, temporary staffing.
00:23:39.000In Fulton County, Georgia, they used a company called Happy Faces.
00:23:43.000They've been trying to get rid of that.
00:23:44.000So trying to understand just how these work and then cleaning the voter rolls, chasing and curing ballots.
00:23:53.000And there's an entire plan for it that honestly, Cleta Mitchell put the plan together and we're going and training people and helping them learn how to build out the full infrastructure and then how to build out the working groups so they can really get the items done that she's put together.
00:24:12.000And how to push through potential points of opposition, right?
00:24:15.000In fact, one of the suggestions that we had this morning or yesterday was someone saying, you know, when you do poll worker training, it would be really good if you had some people who are acting out the kind of problems.
00:24:26.000Like, what if you're watching a ballot drop box and someone's coming up with eight ballots and turning them in?
00:24:54.000And so we want to make sure that we're training people.
00:24:58.000We're not attorneys or prosecutors or sheriffs.
00:25:01.000So there are things that we can't, that are beyond our control.
00:25:05.000And we're trying to say, okay, we know you're angry.
00:25:07.000We got to take all that passion and turn it into action to prevent people from ever doing these kind of things again as an individual citizen exercising our rights under the law in each of our states.
00:25:20.000And are you seeing a good response from people on that?
00:25:23.000Yeah, we really are seeing a good response.
00:25:25.000And sometimes people come up to me afterwards and they're like, wow, I wasn't expecting this.
00:25:33.000And I do go through everything that I not everything, but I go through an overview of things that went wrong, especially in Georgia, because it was on, I served on President Trump's legal team in Georgia.
00:26:18.000We have the situation where the state farm arena, the poll watchers and workers, the poll watchers in public and the media were kicked out.
00:26:28.000Ballots continued being counting against state law because there was no public observation.
00:26:33.000And then we know that batches of ballots were going through the scanner more than one time.
00:26:38.000And there's been an open records request that shows that the scanned images show ballots were counted more than one time.
00:26:58.000Well, so then we have to make sure that we equip people and they know the law, that there are attorneys in place to help if they're trying to kick them out.
00:27:07.000And that when that is beginning to happen, they stop it.
00:27:11.000Whether they're having to call the local police or sheriff and say, look, you've got to, we have a right to be here.
00:27:16.000As long as they're counting and tabulating votes, they cannot kick us out.
00:27:23.000And part of the thing that happened in 2020 is that the poll watchers, they didn't even know what law to cite to say, you can't kick us out because of this law.
00:27:32.000When they said, okay, you have to leave.
00:27:54.000And, you know, that would be a whole other, whole other discussion.
00:27:58.000But we're sitting there working to pull these together in the key states and do everything we can to equip and inform and educate the citizen activists so that they can prevent as much as possible from going wrong before votes are even cast and certainly before they're tabulated.
00:28:20.000So, what are some of the other issues you're working on at Tea Party Patriots?
00:28:22.000One of the big issues we've been working on, and you know this because we met up in July of 2020.
00:28:27.000We both were working on this, ending the mandates.
00:28:30.000You know, Charlie, it is time to every single state government, local government, and President Biden himself, they all need to stop the emergency, the emergency state.
00:28:42.000And all of these mandates that happen under the emergencies, it's time to end.
00:28:47.000We are not where we were two years ago when COVID was first breaking out in the world.
00:28:51.000And the country is just broken, and it's going to continue to be broken until we are able to operate as we are supposed to be able to do as free citizens in this country.
00:29:02.000They still have masks on kids in Georgia.
00:29:04.000They have masks on kids in Georgia, but not on Cece Abrams.
00:29:07.000Not on the school board members in Gwinnett County, but on the kids themselves.
00:29:12.000But why aren't parents rising up more against this?
00:29:41.000And that's why the trucker convoy that is going to happen here in America is so important.
00:29:48.000So the truckers are going to be going to Coachella, where there's another defeat the mandates rally and event that's going to be happening on March 4th and 5th.
00:29:59.000And they're going to be meeting in Coachella.
00:30:01.000And then it's my understanding they're going to be leaving there to begin the convoy.
00:30:06.000I've been in touch with Brian Brossi, who's one of the lead trucker organizers.
00:30:12.000And they want it to be truckers, but they want every American to join in.
00:30:18.000The truckers in Canada are saying, end the mandates, all of them.
00:30:22.000They want all of the mandates ended, whether it is a vaccine mandate or a mask mandate or healthy quarantine or needless testing when you aren't even showing symptoms, all of it to end.
00:30:33.000Yeah, I mean, a trucker convoy across America would be extraordinary.
00:31:04.000Well, first I find out if they're angry about the way things are going or not.
00:31:07.000You know, if they like the way America is, then okay, maybe you shouldn't get involved because we really don't want you to advocate for the mandates and other things going on.
00:31:17.000I mean, you have a right to, but I want those gone.
00:31:20.000But if they really care about what we care about and they're saying, well, I don't have time to get involved.
00:31:25.000One of the things that we've done with Tea Party Patriots, we have a simple action item every single week.
00:31:30.000If all you can do is get online and post something on social media and tag your elected member of Congress, then go do that.
00:31:36.000It doesn't take very long or pick up the phone and make a phone call to your congressman, your senator, your state rep, and let them know how you feel about a particular issue.
00:32:32.000But we're working to make sure that people have train people on what to do to go to their school board meetings and how to be engaged and how to be active.
00:32:46.000It takes time, especially if you're a busy parent working and having and you have children.
00:32:51.000But if you care about your children's future and you want to make sure that the values that you are teaching your kids are not being undermined by the people they're around all day at school, you owe it to yourself to be involved.
00:33:04.000Yeah, I mean, a lot of parents also just feel skittish, you know, so there, but there's more than one way to get involved.
00:33:10.000Are you seeing a resurgence in more people that are just coming off the sidelines?
00:33:16.000In my county, I've been to quite a few, I've been to several of the school board meetings, and then I help the parents who and assist however they need help on the parents who are organizing there.
00:33:27.000And they will have a couple hundred people, sometimes even up to a thousand people show up in a school board meeting.
00:33:33.000That was unheard of two and a half years ago.
00:33:37.000And in Georgia in particular, it's kind of become this battleground for all things, right?
00:34:13.000And whoever becomes the nominee from that, they're focused on making sure that Stacey Abrams doesn't become governor because we don't want a socialist as a governor in Georgia.
00:34:23.000A lot of people have realized that Stacey Abrams knows how to activate people and to organize.
00:34:33.000And she knows how to, man, the left, they ran circles around the right when it came to chasing ballots, curing ballots, just being so engaged.
00:34:44.000Yeah, but like, I mean, I get kind of cynical, Jenny Beth.
00:34:46.000There was tons of money raised, but it was supposed to be handled.
00:35:08.000Well, and then my donors, so many of my donors are these small dollar donors who are giving $50 donations and they want that money used wisely.
00:35:18.000And it's wrong to raise money from them without realizing the sacrifice some of them are making to try to help the cause.
00:35:34.000Things are, it's not an easy, it's not an easy time at all, but I'm optimistic because so many people are taking action and they know they're angry, they're outraged at what happened in 2020, but they're not letting that outrage prevent them from being engaged.
00:35:49.000And we're going to stop what happened in 2020 from happening again this next election cycle.