The Charlie Kirk Show - February 04, 2026


Islamic Supremacy vs. Western Freedom


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Ridvan Idemir (AKA The Apostate Prophet) and Lt. Governor Dan Patrick (Ridwan) discuss the Islamification of the United States of America, and the threat to kill apostates who leave Islam.

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00:00:03.000 My name is Charlie Kirk.
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00:01:09.000 All right, welcome back.
00:01:10.000 Hour two of the Charlie Kirk Show is underway here.
00:01:13.000 We've got two great guests this hour.
00:01:16.000 We've got Ridvan Idemir, also known as the Apostate Prophet, and that's going to be up first. 0.97
00:01:21.000 Then we have Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick from the great state of Texas.
00:01:25.000 And I'm going to ask him about some of the Islamification of the state of Texas as well.
00:01:30.000 So it's kind of a theme this hour.
00:01:32.000 He's going to be in studio, which is going to be great.
00:01:35.000 But first up is Ridvon, and he's become a friend, a trusted voice on this topic specifically.
00:01:42.000 We had him at Student Action Summit at Charlie's request, and his content went viral all over the place.
00:01:48.000 And you're with us now.
00:01:49.000 Ridvan, welcome back to the show.
00:01:52.000 Thank you so much.
00:01:53.000 It's a great pleasure to be here again.
00:01:55.000 Yeah, thank you for coming.
00:01:56.000 I think this is the so we have to keep hitting this topic.
00:02:01.000 Yeah, we have to.
00:02:02.000 Islamification of America, of the West. 1.00
00:02:05.000 You are the apostate prophet. 0.97
00:02:08.000 I think you chose your name sort of prophetically here because you are like one calling out in the wilderness, warning people about a conquering ideology of Islam. 0.99
00:02:19.000 So start there, Ridvon.
00:02:21.000 I'm kind of thinking back to your remarks at the Student Action Summit.
00:02:24.000 Build the case from the ground up.
00:02:26.000 Explain.
00:02:27.000 Our audience knows this, but we have to keep repeating it.
00:02:30.000 Yeah, so the name is actually a very important thing.
00:02:32.000 So I chose apostate prophet very specifically because apostasy in Islam, so leaving Islam is something that is explicitly and clearly punishable by death. 0.61
00:02:44.000 It is punished by death according to traditional Islamic jurisprudence.
00:02:47.000 And the majority of Muslims around the world today support the idea actually that if you leave Islam and you publicly speak about it, you publicly express that you have left Islam, you ought to be somehow punished.
00:02:59.000 And traditionally, you are supposed to be put to death.
00:03:02.000 So this is not just a religion like any other religion where your faith is simply between you and God or you and the divine.
00:03:08.000 It is one that is a political system where leaving it is considered treason.
00:03:14.000 It is considered betrayal in a political and very serious sense, in a military sense.
00:03:18.000 And so such a religion naturally will not only be hostile against its own apostates, but also against those that do not align with its values, those who stand against it with systems that are incompatible with its own values.
00:03:36.000 And Charlie very often pointed out, and you can find this in many speeches and many tweets, that he made that Islam is incompatible with the West.
00:03:45.000 So he pointed this out very, very clearly.
00:03:47.000 He got a lot of backlash for it.
00:03:49.000 He repeated it again when he was on stage with me, which was wonderful.
00:03:55.000 He pointed out that people hate him for many reasons, and this is one of them.
00:03:59.000 But it is simply true.
00:04:02.000 It is a system that is incompatible with Western civilization.
00:04:04.000 It is one that is all about.
00:04:09.000 So I grew up as a Muslim.
00:04:10.000 What I learned and what, and it's not just what I learned, but I learned, for example, that when I was in Germany.
00:04:19.000 It was our duty to be part of the society in a sense, but to never really integrate into society.
00:04:26.000 Because the Quran says very explicitly and repeatedly, do not befriend the Jews and the Christians. 0.54
00:04:33.000 They are friends of one another, and whoever befriends them, he is one of them.
00:04:38.000 They are supposed to be enemies of Allah. 0.99
00:04:41.000 Muslims are, according to chapter 9, verse 29 and 30 of the Quran, subjugate and humiliate the Jews and the Christians and take protection money called jizya from them, like the mafia. 1.00
00:04:54.000 So that is the status that Muslims are supposed to have over them because they are supposed to be only slaves of and servants of Allah. 1.00
00:05:02.000 And all other religions are supposed to be made subject to Islam, if not when the time and opportunity arises, eradicated in favor of Islam. 1.00
00:05:14.000 Only Islam is supposed to prevail. 1.00
00:05:16.000 That is the ideology.
00:05:18.000 That is the core of how Islam views politics and interfaith interactions.
00:05:26.000 Yeah, Ridvan, I would talk to Charlie about this a lot, of course.
00:05:29.000 And I think that's a key point that's worth expanding on and emphasizing that Islam really does, much more than Christianity, for example, have a vision for itself as a totalized, it offers much more explicit guidance.
00:05:42.000 How do you set up society?
00:05:44.000 How do you set up a political organization that is dominated by Islam?
00:05:47.000 How do you live with other faiths specifically by dominating them? 1.00
00:05:52.000 And it's not, you know, as you say, jizya, there's a special tax you're supposed to pay if you're not a Muslim.
00:05:57.000 There's, I believe, in most, I'm not sure if this is in the hadiths or so on, but I know that in many Muslim countries, they would have rules.
00:06:06.000 You couldn't dress the same way.
00:06:07.000 You had to be separated by dress. 0.78
00:06:10.000 And even today, in countries that aren't even particularly extremist on Islam in other ways, they still, they make it, for example, very easy to convert to Islam, but impossible to convert out of Islam. 0.87
00:06:24.000 And that can be weaponized in a lot of ways.
00:06:25.000 I know there have been issues where, for example, Christian women have essentially been abducted and kind of forcibly converted, or they're told they can't unconvert once some sort of process has been gone through.
00:06:36.000 Elaborate on that a bit.
00:06:38.000 So the last thing that you brought up is a very tragic one.
00:06:42.000 There are lots of cases.
00:06:43.000 It is endless, especially in countries like Egypt.
00:06:46.000 Despite Egypt supposedly making steps toward modernizing and westernizing and collaborating more and all that, it is still a very everyday thing that the Coptic Christian community in Egypt is very much very much subjected to the violations by the Islamic communities. 0.98
00:07:06.000 And so, I mean, everyone, every Coptic Christian in Egypt knows of somebody or knows somebody who was at some point abducted by Muslims and made to forcibly convert or stopped in the process.
00:07:21.000 In Pakistan, it is very, very much known that the Christian community is very much silenced and they are in fear.
00:07:30.000 In Muslim countries in general, Christians are brutally mistreated and suppressed.
00:07:36.000 We have statistics on this that come out every single year by Open Doors, which is a Christian organization, which keeps a list of countries in the world where there is the highest level of suppression of Christians.
00:07:50.000 The top 50 of the top 50 countries where Christians are most suppressed in the world, the majority, probably 40 or more, are usually Muslim countries.
00:08:01.000 It is very much part of Islam to be dominant and to suppress the other. 1.00
00:08:07.000 And Christians are specifically considered a threat.
00:08:11.000 With other religions and with other groups, they can often do kind of whatever they want to them.
00:08:17.000 But with Christians, Christians are considered the strongest and largest religion.
00:08:22.000 And there is a historical aspect to it as well of the clash between Islam and Christianity.
00:08:26.000 So Christianity is considered an actually actual formidable enemy, an opponent.
00:08:31.000 So with Christians, the Muslim society is generally specifically careful to put them in their place and subjugate them as much as possible while keeping a public profile of, hey, we are just friends, you know, we are good with each other and all that. 0.99
00:08:44.000 So the tragic thing is that I spoke to a Coptic Christian organization once a while ago.
00:08:52.000 They specifically asked me, when I asked them if I could publicly do something for them, they asked me to please not publicly speak of them, of that organization in general, because if the public associates me with them, with my anti-Islamic stance and all that, they could be severely persecuted and the Islamic communities in Egypt could take revenge basically on them.
00:09:16.000 So they are in fear constantly for their lives.
00:09:19.000 And you have correctly pointed out that, so in the Hadith, Muhammad did very often say that he came to fight the people until everybody becomes a Muslim. 0.87
00:09:30.000 He did curse the Jews and the Christians, often mentioning the two of them together, and often pointed out that Muslims should not dress like them and that they should dominate the Jews and the Christians.
00:09:44.000 So it became Islamic law basically early on.
00:09:49.000 It's called the Dhimmi system, that when Muslims conquer neighboring countries, as they always should, and subjugate the Jews and the Christians and make them their subjects and take protection money, it is their duty to basically impose dress codes so that all Christians are supposed to dress a certain way. 1.00
00:10:09.000 All Jews are supposed to dress a certain way. 1.00
00:10:10.000 They are supposed to wear things on their necks, like a golden calf or a very heavy cross, but they're not supposed to worship in public.
00:10:18.000 They're supposed to be distinct.
00:10:19.000 And Muslims are supposed to be in every single visible and every single way that you can feel it, be made superior in society. 0.67
00:10:27.000 So this is very much Islam. 0.93
00:10:29.000 Ridvan, you know, it just strikes me that you've got, I mean, I remember that a few years back, there was all this news about the Coptic Christians.
00:10:37.000 You reminded me of it getting just massacred in Egypt, just killed, their churches getting bombed.
00:10:42.000 ISIS killed like, I think, two dozen of them or so fishermen during like Libya.
00:10:48.000 And you've got the whole Syrian situation where Christians are getting persecuted.
00:10:52.000 And you've got Lebanon that used to be majority Christian and now it's, you know, it's slowly becoming less and less and less Christian.
00:11:00.000 They've been targeted massively.
00:11:02.000 And then you've got what's happening in Africa.
00:11:06.000 You know, you've got those fights in Nigeria.
00:11:09.000 You've got the fights in Sudan.
00:11:11.000 I mean, it just seems like time and time again, Muslims have proven to be exactly what you are describing them to be, a conquering religion that believes it's a political ideology that wants to conquer Christians. 0.99
00:11:24.000 So if the West is losing its backbone, Muslims are not. 0.99
00:11:29.000 Islam supremacy is actually, you know, that is mainstream, right?
00:11:35.000 And meanwhile, the West is flirting with multiculturalism and thinks that it needs to be so inviting to outside cultures.
00:11:42.000 And I'm going to sort of preface this because everybody's heard of Epic City now.
00:11:48.000 I think we've done a good job of highlighting that.
00:11:48.000 Thankfully.
00:11:50.000 It's, I think, you know, somewhat getting shut down.
00:11:54.000 I'm hearing conflicting reports in Texas.
00:11:56.000 But there's another project that we were just alerted to in Phoenix or in the greater Phoenix area here in Arizona called Cutter City, Qatar City.
00:12:07.000 And it's a project proposal.
00:12:09.000 It doesn't look to be like it's moving forward.
00:12:12.000 You know, Abe Hamade has said that it's not moving forward.
00:12:16.000 Okay, good.
00:12:17.000 But throw this up.
00:12:17.000 Cutter City project proposal.
00:12:20.000 And, you know, why it struck me is because we see this image of Katie Hobbs, the governor of the state of Arizona, meeting with the general of the state of Qatar in Los Angeles, 369 there.
00:12:34.000 And I'm thinking, hmm, this is a 6,000-acre project that has at least been proposed.
00:12:42.000 I don't think it's moving forward, thankfully.
00:12:45.000 It's the agenda.
00:12:46.000 It's the fact that this exists in the first place, that this was somebody that put together a plan.
00:12:52.000 10 square miles, basically.
00:12:53.000 10 square miles to build something called Qatar City.
00:12:58.000 And I'm sure that the PR folks were going to change the name at some point because that was not a good starting point.
00:13:05.000 But this is like really disturbing that somebody put all this time and energy into building a proposal so that they could sort of impose some sort of Islamic neighborhood in Arizona.
00:13:17.000 What is their plan here?
00:13:18.000 Are they just going to slowly move in, build up these little outposts, outbreed us, and then take over mayor's races until they gain sort of a critical mass of power?
00:13:29.000 Is that their plan?
00:13:30.000 I mean, you could speculate about it all day long.
00:13:34.000 The thing is, there are certain people who have actually spoken about this, certain Muslim voices, such as one person to pay attention to very closely is Dr. Yasserqadi, who is a recognized Islamic scholar.
00:13:46.000 He is right here in America.
00:13:48.000 I think he is from Texas.
00:13:50.000 He has spoken about how this is a fantastic project, Epic City, for example, and more like this should come, according to him, to more and more strengthen the power and the presence of Islam in America and to slowly have more and more political influence in America, to have more political impact in America. 0.67
00:14:11.000 And the thing is, if this was just a regular community, if this was just a peaceful, nice religion that just wants to live its own way and had no trouble where it goes and had no ideas of imposing itself on the rest of the world and subjugating the rest of the world, all of this would not be a problem.
00:14:32.000 Maybe you could welcome a little society that just has kind of quirky beliefs and all that.
00:14:37.000 But Yasser Qadi, for example, who has been a spokesperson, a speaker for Epic City, and who kind of also ironically helped blow this up and caused a scandal through that.
00:14:53.000 He is somebody who clearly believes, for example, that free speech should be limited, that even in America, in Western countries or wherever Islam has more and more of a hold, people should vote for Muslims, no matter how devout, how traditional or how secular they are, so that we can increase the Islamic influence and we can start demanding or making demands that are in line with Islam, such as respecting Islam, 0.89
00:15:22.000 restricting apostasy laws and things like that.
00:15:24.000 So an increase in demographics and a concentrated community would lead naturally to a strengthened political presence in that region, which would lead to electing Muslims in that region.
00:15:40.000 And that is a starting point for them.
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00:16:43.000 Well, I mean, I have so many questions I want to get to.
00:16:46.000 This one popped in my head.
00:16:48.000 I'm just going to go with it.
00:16:50.000 You're describing a form of Islam I think that a lot of people think of as this jihadis and, you know, but it's, but then you have, you know, Mamdani.
00:17:00.000 If you were writing a New York Times editorial, you're just going to profile Mamdani.
00:17:05.000 Like, what makes him tick?
00:17:06.000 How Muslim is he?
00:17:07.000 Does he really believe the precepts of Islam?
00:17:10.000 Explain him to our audience.
00:17:13.000 So Zohran Mamdani is a very, very interesting case because if he was a politician in a Muslim country, he would be heavily disliked by the traditional Muslim voting bloc, by the traditional Islamic people, because he's very much a leftist.
00:17:32.000 But things change once you leave the Muslim countries and go into the West, for example, where you have to play things differently. 0.93
00:17:40.000 Let me give an example from the UK.
00:17:42.000 In the UK, the Islamist or Muslim and Islamist forces are very much present in two major parties, which are the socialist Labour Party and the very, very much far-leftist Green Party.
00:17:57.000 Such parties would be unacceptable among traditional Islamic groups in the Muslim world.
00:18:03.000 But in the West, they have to kind of go with these parties to push more inclusivist, subversive, and pro-Islamic politics and policies.
00:18:14.000 So Rhan Mamdani, therefore, when he is a progressive socialist leftist, is a perfect tool to do the exact same thing.
00:18:23.000 Now, I would not say that Zohran Mamdani himself is very much an Islamist, but he very much fits into this whole game that also, by the way, led to tragic consequences in Iran.
00:18:37.000 Iran, as we see today, is ruled by a tyrannical Islamic regime that 80% of the population or more absolutely hates.
00:18:45.000 And this tyrannic regime overthrew the monarchy and put itself at the top through the help of leftist, socialist, and communists.
00:18:57.000 When you have a society where conservative, non-Islamic traditions have a hold, the best way to subvert it is to use progressivist, leftist, socialist movements and through them, slowly infiltrate, overthrow the system, and then establish your Islamic values because it is the easiest way. 0.99
00:19:18.000 Well, and so, yeah, I mean, that makes a ton of sense.
00:19:21.000 Like, it's like water.
00:19:22.000 It will go through the path of least resistance to get inside the rock, freeze it, and shatter it, right?
00:19:28.000 So it makes sense that this is the route they would take in liberal Western democracies.
00:19:34.000 So I only got one minute left here, Ridvon, but, you know, Caroline Levitt's doing a press conference right now about, and she's talking about Iran.
00:19:44.000 Do we have any idea how many people have really been killed by the regime there?
00:19:48.000 And what do you think the next step should be?
00:19:50.000 One minute, real quick here, Ridvan.
00:19:52.000 So the estimates range, the estimates are very wide-ranging.
00:19:56.000 The Islamic regime itself says that thousands have been killed.
00:19:59.000 There are estimates going from 30,000 at the moment to much higher, 60,000.
00:20:05.000 I would say that the reasonable estimates are probably somewhere between 30,000 and 40,000.
00:20:10.000 So that many people have been massacred, brutally massacred by the Islamic regime.
00:20:15.000 No help has arrived.
00:20:18.000 They sense that this thing is getting very serious and they will lose grip over the government, over the Islamic regime. 0.98
00:20:24.000 And what the Islamic regime under Khamenei, the supreme leader, the Shia leader, thinks is no matter how many people die, no matter how many people are killed, the individuals are not more important than the Islamic regime, than our ideology.
00:20:40.000 So if we have to do it, we will massacre tens of thousands of people to uphold this.
00:20:44.000 That has to end.
00:20:45.000 Ridvan, thank you, my friend.
00:20:46.000 We'll have you on again soon.
00:20:48.000 Thank you.
00:20:50.000 Without further ado, I'm very honored to have our next guest on the show, and that is, of course, Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick from the great state of Texas.
00:20:59.000 And we have you here, sir, because, well, for a variety of reasons, but you have made a tremendous down payment.
00:21:07.000 I'm stealing your language. 1.00
00:21:08.000 Sure.
00:21:09.000 On Club Americas in the state of Texas.
00:21:12.000 And you came to our campus.
00:21:14.000 You signed a big million-dollar check that you donated from your personal campaign.
00:21:20.000 And first of all, thank you.
00:21:22.000 And second of all, please share with our audience what inspired you to do that.
00:21:26.000 Well, first of all, I want to challenge every elected official out there who has money in their campaign account that they'll never spend on a campaign.
00:21:34.000 They would probably give it to some other nonprofit to consider making, even if it's $25,000, whatever it is.
00:21:42.000 Campaigns are big in Texas, so we raise more money.
00:21:44.000 I understand not everyone has a million in their campaign account.
00:21:46.000 But this should be a challenge for every God-loving, God-fearing elected official out there to support a Club America campus on all of their high schools in their state.
00:21:58.000 And that's why we want to do it in Texas.
00:22:00.000 We want to have a chapter on every campus in Texas.
00:22:05.000 And I knew Charlie in the early days when he was first getting started.
00:22:10.000 He came to Texas a lot to raise money.
00:22:12.000 There's your picture.
00:22:13.000 There we go.
00:22:15.000 And that was from Lubbock.
00:22:17.000 Was that Lubbock?
00:22:18.000 Yeah, I was actually at that event.
00:22:21.000 Yeah, that was our last event we did together.
00:22:25.000 But in those early days, Texas has a lot of faithful people, a lot of conservatives, and a lot of money.
00:22:30.000 And so he would raise money there, and we got to know each other.
00:22:32.000 Long story short, at the inauguration in January of 17, I was going to the Trump Hotel, and Charlie happened to be walking in the door at the same time, held the door for me.
00:22:43.000 And he said, Dan, I've got something I want to share with you.
00:22:46.000 And it was chaotic in there.
00:22:48.000 You know, everyone was celebrating.
00:22:50.000 But Charlie, we sat down on the couch and he told me his vision, which was a mighty vision.
00:22:55.000 That we thought, can you really make this happen?
00:22:58.000 Which he did.
00:22:59.000 And so when I was on the phone with your team after that terrible day, talking about I want to get a chapter on every campus in Texas, it just came to me, Lord put it on my heart, pay it forward.
00:23:13.000 You know, he gave his life for what he believed.
00:23:15.000 So writing a check for a million dollars out of my campaign is the least I could do for that young man who sat on that couch and shared his dream and made it happen.
00:23:28.000 And I chair, the president appointed me to be chair of the Religious Liberty Commission, and we'll report to the president later this year on our recommendations to restore religious liberty because the last administration attacked people of faith, of all faiths.
00:23:43.000 And I just, you know, I think about where we are in this nation.
00:23:50.000 It's not a battle, guys, of Republicans and Democrats.
00:23:53.000 It's a battle of darkness and light.
00:23:55.000 And what we're seeing across our country is darkness.
00:23:59.000 And there's a movement in this country that wants to remove God from our country.
00:24:04.000 I don't mind saying it because it's true.
00:24:07.000 And those of us who are believers, again, in all denominations, all faiths, those of us who believe have to stand up and fight for that belief or we'll lose this country.
00:24:17.000 You cannot change a country unless you change the culture of that country. 0.72
00:24:21.000 And you can only change the culture by changing the character of the country.
00:24:24.000 And you can only change the character by changing the heart of individuals.
00:24:27.000 And you can only do that through faith.
00:24:29.000 For me, as a Christian, through Jesus.
00:24:31.000 And that's where we have to get to.
00:24:33.000 And when Charlie made that pivot from really politics to faith, that's when he changed the world.
00:24:38.000 And that's when he became a target.
00:24:41.000 Because the other side does not want that.
00:24:43.000 The totalitarian governments who want to take this country down, the first thing they have to do in any country is to destroy God, destroy civil law and order, to disrupt families by having boys play girls' sports and make us fight about it over and over and over.
00:24:56.000 This is a battle of darkness and light.
00:24:58.000 In the book of Jude, right before Revelations, two words in the Bible I really always remember that I love.
00:25:04.000 Jude said, we have to contend earnestly.
00:25:07.000 Today we'd say, fight for what you believe.
00:25:09.000 You have to contend earnestly.
00:25:11.000 And if we don't have combatants who contend earnestly and support what Charlie started, we will lose this nation.
00:25:19.000 I don't know if you have anything, but I have a lot of people.
00:25:21.000 It's such a testimony.
00:25:22.000 I love you saying Charlie sits you down and he explains his vision to you because I think so many people had that experience the first time you meet Charlie, and he just, he has that overflowing level of vision, of ambition, and you sit there thinking, is this guy for real?
00:25:42.000 I remember when I first started here and he would just say, yeah, Turning Point USA, the most important organization in America.
00:25:48.000 And I'm always my cynical self.
00:25:50.000 I'm like, really?
00:25:51.000 But then he went and he made that the reality, that level of self-belief.
00:25:56.000 And some people saw it right away.
00:25:58.000 Some people had to be won over to it.
00:26:00.000 And eventually he proved all of us wrong.
00:26:02.000 And that was the most stupendous thing.
00:26:05.000 If you think back to that moment, he had just been Don Jr.'s bagman on the campaign, got to experience this incredible whirlwind.
00:26:14.000 He's getting coaxed for Don Jr.
00:26:15.000 He's taking the bag.
00:26:16.000 He's doing social media posts.
00:26:18.000 Then they win.
00:26:19.000 Nobody thought they were going to win.
00:26:20.000 I don't, you know, it was a miracle, genuinely.
00:26:24.000 And then he's in D.C. for this inauguration.
00:26:27.000 Most people that are, what was he, 22 at that point, at that age, with all of that that had just happened, would have been probably party in a party.
00:26:36.000 And they would have been wasting the time.
00:26:38.000 What is Charlie doing?
00:26:39.000 He's opening the door for the lieutenant governor of Texas.
00:26:43.000 And then he sits down and says, I want to talk to you about Turning Point.
00:26:46.000 That is an amazing image.
00:26:49.000 I hadn't heard that story, but what an amazing image.
00:26:54.000 Candles were lit on Bondi Beach by families, by children, by people of faith to celebrate a festival of light, a festival from Bible times, one that Jesus himself celebrated.
00:27:05.000 People gathered with hope, seeking unity and comfort and tradition.
00:27:08.000 But instead of light, there was darkness, violence, fear, hatred showing itself at a time meant for prayer and rejoicing.
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00:28:04.000 To accomplish what he did in such a short time means that you're focused on what you want to accomplish 24-7.
00:28:12.000 You don't have time to party.
00:28:13.000 You don't have time to think about anything else.
00:28:16.000 And you put that first.
00:28:17.000 And we have a great commission on the Religious Liberty Commission, and Dr. Phil, Dr. Carson, Reverend Graham, Paula White, Timothy Dolan, Robert Barron, some of the great faith leaders and intellect in our country.
00:28:35.000 And so Cardinal Dolan, the Cardinal of New York, who's now retiring, he said to me, he called me, he said, Dan, I didn't know who Charlie Kirk was.
00:28:44.000 And I saw this memorial and I thought, who is this person?
00:28:47.000 And he said, I went back and watched his sermons, in essence, his speeches.
00:28:53.000 And he said, he's a modern-day Paul.
00:28:56.000 We have to realize that God's, if we don't think that God's hand is in what has happened, and not that he wanted to see the tragedy that happened to Charlie, you know, God is here to protect us and prosper us.
00:29:11.000 But it's an evil world out there.
00:29:12.000 And Charlie's life was taken because people feared what he was doing.
00:29:18.000 They feared that he was being a voice that they wanted to snuff out.
00:29:22.000 And you have to look at President Trump.
00:29:24.000 You know, this hatred towards President Trump, they feared him, and that's why they tried to assassinate him.
00:29:30.000 Is that you have to understand this leftist movement, this communist movement in this country has been going on for decades, and we've been asleep at the wheel.
00:29:38.000 And there's three things you have to take over in a totalitarian government to take over a country.
00:29:43.000 Number one is you have to take over the education system.
00:29:46.000 Does anyone want to argue that they haven't taken over the education system?
00:29:49.000 They saw the walkouts this past few years.
00:29:51.000 They saw the walkouts.
00:29:52.000 Number two, you have to take over the media.
00:29:55.000 You have to have the propaganda machine.
00:29:57.000 Did you see the Grammys?
00:29:58.000 Yeah.
00:29:58.000 It's everywhere.
00:30:00.000 And then number three, you have to have the Supreme Court. 0.93
00:30:03.000 And the reason they hate Donald Trump is they can't believe that guy that came down the escalator that day beat Hillary Clinton, who they thought was a shoe-in.
00:30:11.000 And the reason they don't like her either is because she lost to him.
00:30:14.000 Because he stopped that.
00:30:15.000 He stopped that from happening.
00:30:16.000 Do you realize what the court would be today if Hillary Clinton had won?
00:30:19.000 It would be a 6-3, 7-2, 8-to-1 liberal court.
00:30:22.000 And it wouldn't make any difference how conservative Texas is and how many conservative laws we passed.
00:30:27.000 Everyone would be overturned.
00:30:29.000 So that's why they hate Donald Trump.
00:30:31.000 He stopped them on their 40-year mission.
00:30:34.000 And so now what do they do?
00:30:36.000 You can't have a civil society if you don't have law and order.
00:30:40.000 These aren't peaceful protests.
00:30:41.000 These are not guaranteeing the Constitution.
00:30:44.000 They're committing felonies every day when they're attacking our police.
00:30:47.000 And again, I go back to the transgender issue.
00:30:49.000 We love all people.
00:30:50.000 God loves all people.
00:30:51.000 And pray for these people to get through whatever issues they're having.
00:30:53.000 I'm sorry.
00:30:54.000 A man does not belong in a lady's room. 1.00
00:30:56.000 And a young man should not take away the trophy or the chance to be on an Olympic team from a young girl, nor should a man take away a small business loan from a woman who would qualify for it.
00:31:06.000 You know, what's going to happen next?
00:31:08.000 Is someone who's 40 years old going to say, I'm a trans senior?
00:31:11.000 You know, I really believe I'm a senior.
00:31:13.000 I want my Social Security benefits now.
00:31:14.000 I mean, that's who I believe I am.
00:31:16.000 I believe I'm 65.
00:31:17.000 I'm not 45.
00:31:17.000 I mean, this is craziness.
00:31:19.000 And it's so crazy that we have to pass laws as we have in Texas to stop it.
00:31:25.000 But that's what the left wants to do, create chaos, chaos, chaos.
00:31:29.000 And this whole plan about illegal immigrants who came mostly across our border in Texas, because we have 1,250 miles of border with Mexico, to put that in comparison, that's Atlanta to Maine, is how big our border was, you know, zigzag, but that many miles.
00:31:41.000 The plan was this.
00:31:42.000 Bring millions in, bring millions in, and then when the next president, whoever it is, tries to run them out, we'll just go in the streets and we'll stop it.
00:31:52.000 And so this is all a clear plan.
00:31:56.000 And so I come back around to it's not Republicans and Democrats.
00:32:00.000 Look, there are a lot of good Democrats who are believers who vote.
00:32:03.000 They just don't know that the party's been hijacked.
00:32:06.000 They just don't know it.
00:32:07.000 And they need to wake up to it.
00:32:09.000 Well, that's a generous take.
00:32:10.000 Yeah, it's a generous take.
00:32:11.000 Because at this point, it was more defensible 20 years ago, I think.
00:32:14.000 It was more defensible.
00:32:15.000 But I know that there are Democrats out there who I know, who are strong in their faith, go to Mass every week or go to church every week, and they just don't see it for what it is.
00:32:27.000 But they're waking up.
00:32:28.000 Or they have bad theology, and they think that they take the verses of the Bible about the sojourner in your land and all this stuff, and they skip the verses that says God lays out the boundaries and the borders of your country.
00:32:41.000 So, I mean, Charlie really believed in educating the church to make sure they had good theology so that they didn't fall into an open borders trap, right?
00:32:49.000 So boundaries are where, especially with countries, are where good ideas begin and bad ideas end, or vice versa.
00:32:57.000 And they're really, really critical, especially if you look at a place like Texas, which is thriving, which is law and order, which has such an amazing population with amazing character and history.
00:33:09.000 You got to preserve that.
00:33:10.000 You can't allow the erasure of your culture and your people.
00:33:14.000 And we're seeing that in Europe and so many other places.
00:33:16.000 I will say last time I was in Texas, I don't want to be the bearer of bad news.
00:33:20.000 And I actually, we can talk about that special election if you want.
00:33:25.000 I don't think that's indicative of where the state's at by any means.
00:33:28.000 You can talk real quick the reason we lost that Senate seat, 74, we think the official number is 74,000.
00:33:34.000 74,000 Republicans who were one, two, three, or four hours who normally vote, didn't vote.
00:33:39.000 Yeah, it doesn't surprise me.
00:33:40.000 It's a one-off special election.
00:33:42.000 Candidates.
00:33:42.000 We'll take the seat back in November.
00:33:44.000 I feel terrible for not knowing about it, but I didn't hear about it.
00:33:47.000 Normally we like to highlight these things until people get out and vote.
00:33:50.000 We didn't even hear about it.
00:33:51.000 So it was just something was off.
00:33:54.000 And I will say, I think the amount of damage this particular Democrat can do is fairly limited in the time they have, and we'll take the seat back.
00:34:00.000 Okay.
00:34:01.000 But when I was there, I was talking about.
00:34:02.000 Well, we're not in session, so he can't do anything.
00:34:04.000 That's what I'm saying.
00:34:05.000 So young people in Texas, I fear there is a, you talk about complacent voters, but there is a complacency maybe amongst young people in Texas that maybe think that your generation is a little backwards and they want to be more progressive or something.
00:34:20.000 That was the vibe I was getting when I was on the ground.
00:34:24.000 So this is why I think what you guys are doing and partnering with Club America at the high school level, Blake mentioned all these walkouts that we saw across the country, anti-ICE walkouts.
00:34:34.000 I think it's so critically important that we save Texas.
00:34:37.000 Everything depends on saving Texas from a national level.
00:34:41.000 I was just in Texas visiting a friend and we were meeting another friend of his and he was telling me he's in tech in Austin and the number of people fleeing California, the Bay Area, because of how bad that's gotten.
00:34:53.000 And he was telling me there's really only a handful of places in the entire world that are really truly innovative where they're doing the cutting edge on technology, business and all of that.
00:35:03.000 And one of them was Silicon Valley and they're ruining it.
00:35:06.000 And he said, Blake, I think it is existentially important for all of Western civilization that Texas remain Republican.
00:35:14.000 Yes.
00:35:14.000 Well, first of all, you could never win the White House, ever again, the electoral votes of New York, California, and Texas.
00:35:20.000 So you have a one-party government forever.
00:35:23.000 Secondly, we're not going to let them win Texas.
00:35:25.000 But this was, in many ways, this was a good wake-up call because what happened in Taring County, one of the reddest counties in the country, they just couldn't imagine even in a special election a Democrat could win.
00:35:39.000 And so now for the next eight months as we're campaigning, we'll be reminding people, your vote really matters, and you have to get out and vote.
00:35:46.000 And that's all across the country.
00:35:49.000 You know, I go back to this darkness and light.
00:35:52.000 I think we have to approach people on where they are in their faith walk.
00:35:58.000 You know, someone interviewed me, as you know, we were coming in, and they asked the question about, well, is America really still a faith-based country?
00:36:08.000 And the answer, yes, I know, because every time there's a crisis, where do people go?
00:36:12.000 They go to their knees and pray, whether it's a national event or whether it's a personal crisis, where do they go?
00:36:18.000 And we have just walked away.
00:36:23.000 Those of us who are believers and not wearing it on our sleeves.
00:36:26.000 I'm not trying to proselytize and convert anyone, although it is my great commission as a Christian, I am.
00:36:31.000 I'm cool with it.
00:36:32.000 Yeah, I mean, that's what I do.
00:36:33.000 Come on, come on. 0.99
00:36:34.000 Yeah, in my politics, you know what I'm saying.
00:36:37.000 I'm not going out there and saying, you know, before you leave, take a yard sign, and I want your commitment.
00:36:42.000 But if we are examples to people through how we behave and how we act, and if we can, through Club America, teach that to the next generation, then that generation will be the generation to inherit America, not the generation that we see in the streets.
00:37:02.000 Well, and I believe what Charlie believed, that Gen Z is not the problem. 0.99
00:37:06.000 They're the opportunity and the solution.
00:37:08.000 Absolutely.
00:37:08.000 And that's why, you know, we think that they've lost the plot of America.
00:37:14.000 But Charlie proved that they had to be reasoned with, that we had to respect their pushback, that we had to respect their questions enough to answer them.
00:37:24.000 And once they hear the answer, you can win a lot of them over, and they can be convinced.
00:37:28.000 It's not set.
00:37:29.000 This is wet cement, though.
00:37:30.000 So we've got to keep winning them, right?
00:37:32.000 It's not set in America's this unbroken chain of one generation passing on the values and the promise of America to the next, but that link is fragile right now.
00:37:43.000 So we have to pass it on.
00:37:44.000 But I think there is so much opportunity in Gen Z, and they are actually really radicalized about a lot of things previous generations got wrong, and they're ready to move on them.
00:37:54.000 If we had the money, so another call for all elected officials out there with your campaign funds that you're sitting on that you're never going to spend, send a check, and maybe you can't send a million dollars from your campaign because we have more in Texas and smaller states, but send something because we need to have Club of America on every campus.
00:38:13.000 Our young people are dying for it.
00:38:15.000 Look, this is a whole different generation.
00:38:16.000 They're drinking less.
00:38:18.000 They're abstaining from sex.
00:38:23.000 They want that family. 0.90
00:38:25.000 They're hungry for it.
00:38:26.000 They're hungry for it, and we have to feed that hunger.
00:38:29.000 And look, there's no one else on planet Earth except Turning Point that's willing to feed and has the ability to feed.
00:38:39.000 We just need the funding to continue to do that because it's expensive to hire people and be on every campus.
00:38:44.000 The growth was explosive after Charlie.
00:38:47.000 And I mean, we're talking hundreds of thousands of applications to start new chapters.
00:38:51.000 We're still starting.
00:38:53.000 I check with our field team.
00:38:54.000 We're still starting 50 new chapters a day.
00:38:56.000 Do you have any, and that's registered student organizations approved on campus?
00:39:00.000 I don't even know how you do it.
00:39:01.000 We've gone from about 300 before September to 1,000 now in Texas.
00:39:06.000 And of course, we have 1,200 school districts, so we have a ways to go, but we're going to get it done.
00:39:11.000 But I go back to we cannot keep America the country that we used to have.
00:39:20.000 I like to say the reason people are coming to Texas is Texas is the America that all America used to be.
00:39:25.000 And we do uphold the law.
00:39:28.000 We are a conservative government.
00:39:31.000 We protect the Second Amendment.
00:39:33.000 We protect religious liberty.
00:39:34.000 This session, I passed Senate Bill 10 to put the Ten Commandments in every classroom.
00:39:38.000 Senate Bill 11 to put prayer back private time in every school.
00:39:42.000 You know, as a lieutenant governor, I put in God We Trust in the Senate for the first time ever in history and under God in our pledge.
00:39:48.000 And so I just think that you can't expect to turn around the culture of this country if you don't talk about these real issues from the Bible.
00:39:59.000 You just can't do it.
00:40:00.000 I totally agree.
00:40:01.000 And you mentioned, though, the character of the people.
00:40:03.000 You have to keep that intact.
00:40:05.000 We've only got a minute left here, but you talk here about Epic City.
00:40:08.000 You hear about all the mosques that are popping up in Texas.
00:40:12.000 What do we have to say about that?
00:40:14.000 Well, we're actually having a hearing on it in the next couple of weeks in Texas, and our attorney general is dealing with that.
00:40:21.000 And that's not going to happen.
00:40:23.000 We're not going to allow Sharia law in Texas.
00:40:25.000 We're going to go by the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of Texas, and we're not going to put up with that.
00:40:31.000 You know, we just need politicians not to be afraid to step up.
00:40:36.000 There are a lot of people, again, look, one of the things that just aggravates me about the Democrat Party is they're all cowards right now.
00:40:44.000 They cower to the radical left.
00:40:46.000 No one in that party will stand up and say what's right.
00:40:50.000 And so that has to be a breakthrough.
00:40:52.000 Somebody over there has to stand up.
00:40:54.000 So wait a minute.
00:40:54.000 We're going down.
00:40:55.000 I mean, I can't believe they're still running on men and ladies' rooms. 0.99
00:40:58.000 So that has to stop.
00:40:59.000 But we, we as, again, it's not a political thing, but we as Republicans, we've got to take this mantle and move forward.
00:41:07.000 I always say at the end of the day, I'd rather be kicked out of office than kicked out of heaven.
00:41:11.000 So it's real simple.
00:41:13.000 When you come down to tough decisions, follow Jesus or follow your faith and don't follow the world.
00:41:19.000 Well, God bless you, sir.
00:41:20.000 Thank you.
00:41:21.000 Thanks for having me.
00:41:22.000 Keep fighting for Texas.
00:41:23.000 We need to keep Texas red.
00:41:24.000 And thank you for your incredibly generous donation to Club America in Texas.
00:41:29.000 My pleasure.
00:41:29.000 Thank you, guys.
00:41:30.000 Thank you so much.