00:00:40.000His 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.
00:00:48.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:03:08.000We finished our campus tour, and we do so much at Turning Point USA, and it's a movement bigger than anything I could have ever imagined.
00:03:15.000The biggest problem that we had this last semester, whether it be bringing Riley Gaines, who's amazing on campus, or Candace Owens, who works with us at Turning Point USA.
00:03:26.000You know what the biggest problem we had is we could not find rooms big enough to fit all the students that wanted to attend our events.
00:03:35.000And look, we're not always a majority on these campuses, but there's a lot more conservative, patriotic young people out there than the media would ever lead you to believe.
00:03:46.000And they're not, and you know, it's amazing.
00:03:48.000Sometimes, like, for example, I spoke at UC Davis, and this happens every so often.
00:03:52.000You know, Antifa comes with their weapons, and they come with their mostly peaceful approaches of bashing windows and all that nonsense.
00:04:15.000Here's an optional voluntary event for 90 minutes where I allow anybody that disagrees to go to the front of the line and have a microphone uninterrupted and say whatever they want to me.
00:04:27.000And you got to wonder, okay, you have four years with these kids.
00:04:32.000I get 90 minutes and you guys lose your mind.
00:04:36.000Maybe it's because you're afraid that I got something to say to these kids and you might lose your ideological monopoly on me.
00:04:44.000Give me 90 minutes with a student and I'll at least get them to think differently.
00:04:49.000And again, you know, we say to anyone that disagrees on these campus events, and again, if there's someone that disagrees tonight, you're welcome to ask a question.
00:04:56.000You know, the rule applies everywhere, but I think in this beautiful part of Arizona, it's mostly warm and welcoming, but we'll see.
00:05:04.000Again, whatever, it's an open invitation.
00:05:08.000And it really all of a sudden puts them on defense.
00:05:11.000They say, you know, we're not used to having somebody have to challenge our beliefs and our values.
00:05:16.000And again, we go into these hostile environments.
00:05:18.000And there's a couple things I want to mention tonight.
00:05:20.000Look, this beautiful part of Arizona, Yattapai County, is under attack from the left.
00:07:33.000It's fine, but if they built the wall at Pima County, I don't think anybody would be the same.
00:07:45.000I'm going to be honest, when the voting results came in, I think that if you were going to audit one place in Arizona, you got to audit Pima County.
00:08:55.000I just have to little things to remind you.
00:08:58.000But what frustrates me the most, and I think what animates you and why you're here tonight, is that I still think we're the majority of this state.
00:09:07.000I think decent people still outnumber the indecent.
00:09:21.000Now, you might say, well, Charlie, you know, what about, of course, they're better than Democrats, but I'm sick of the Mitt Romneys, right?
00:09:33.000I want people that are actually going to listen to their voters and stop protecting the uniparty consensus and acting like everything is great.
00:09:44.000One of my favorite speeches, one of my favorite books ever written, and a speech given by Victor Frankl, who wrote Man's Search for Meaning and Yes to Life.
00:12:29.000I'm also a very positive person, right?
00:12:31.000So it's very difficult to be both at times, especially when your country is under enemy occupation of an illegitimate president and illegitimate governor.
00:14:40.000It's about the multi-billion dollar machine they come in to harvest ballots and chase ballots and register voters and relax signature verification requirements.
00:14:49.000So what I'm trying to get at in the philosophy, if I can communicate, if you're like, boy, we got to win back the White House, I agree, right?
00:14:55.000And so I think Trump's going to be the nominee either the hard way or the easy way.
00:15:09.000A lot of people are going to get rich and there'll be a lot of entertaining television and Trump's going to have to do the Trump thing where he decides to destroy one political career in slow motion on TV after another.
00:17:13.000So I've called for an end to the primary, not just because I'm loyal to Trump, because he's a friend of mine, but because I believe that if we do not win the White House in 2024, boy, I hesitate to say what many of you are thinking.
00:17:26.000We're going to be in really rough shape.
00:17:28.000Okay, because I know some of you are probably saying the country's over.
00:17:30.000I'm not going to say that, but we'll be closer to that precipice than ever.
00:17:35.000With Title 42 being invaded 5,000 people a day, there's only so much we could take.
00:20:09.000I will encourage someone because I get these emails from people.
00:20:13.000Charlie, I couldn't vote because I'm disabled and I had to wait two hours in the sun and I wasn't able to cast my vote.
00:20:20.000And I say to myself, it would have been better for that person to have been able to vote early the Saturday before the election than have to deal with that circus that the Maricopa County of cartel criminals put on election day, right?
00:21:51.000And I'm still learning this: Navajo Nations in Apache County.
00:21:54.000The whole thing is very confusing, not in Navajo County.
00:21:57.000Anyway, but did you notice Abe Hamaday and Chris Mays are right there, neck and neck, and the projection show Abe Hamaday should have gone up by 100 votes.
00:22:04.000And they just discover a bunch of votes in Apache County.
00:22:54.000You're never going to have 100% turnout, right?
00:22:59.000But there is a trend that is manifesting of how much we have talked about the illegitimate election is people saying, well, then what's the point?
00:23:15.000And anybody that says that, you need to say that is wrong.
00:23:18.000That is giving the enemy what they want.
00:23:21.000You have a duty and an obligation to continue to vote and to make voting more secure.
00:23:27.000Because what the numbers are showing us is that there's a tapering effect of people say, well, you keep on talking about a stolen election.
00:23:41.000That is a Democrat dream to have our best voters say.
00:23:46.000And I'll tell you right now, the exact numbers, you know, in Yavapai, there were at least tens of thousands of voters that came out for Trump in 2020 that did not come out for Kerry Lake.
00:24:00.000In Maricopa, it was, I think, well over 180,000 to 200,000.
00:24:04.000Kerry Lake, I refuse to say the word lost.
00:24:07.000Kerry Lake fell short of 17,000, 18,000 votes.
00:25:02.000We got to make sure we fix that in whatever way possible because the dream of the Democrats would be to have the Patriots stay home so that the bad guys can just waltz to victory.
00:25:16.000We got to be vigilant about that all times.
00:25:18.000Let me close with this and then we'll do some questions, which is Arizona can go one of two ways.
00:25:23.000I'm committing my life and my career in the immediate to turn this state in an unexpected direction, to make it look much more like Florida and less like Colorado.
00:26:05.000They win, though, when we surrender and we give up.
00:26:08.000Their recipe, their equation, their formula is us saying, what is the point?
00:26:15.000Yuri Besminov, who I encourage you all to become familiar with, was a Soviet KGB spy who then became a whistleblower and told us what the KGB playbook was.
00:26:27.000He said, the most critical thing to turn a free country into a Marxist country is demoralization.
00:26:37.000You are living through a deliberate, planned, concocted, and intentional demoralization and propaganda campaign.
00:27:50.000It's exciting because I get to be in a live at a time where every word I speak and every speech I give and everything I do makes a monumental generational difference.
00:28:02.000And I hope all of you join me in that fight.
00:29:18.000And all problems in the physical are spiritual that manifest.
00:29:25.000But when we, for example, contest at our local school board to try to protect an 11-year-old from being taught trans ideology, that's spiritually good for society and necessary.
00:29:39.000Now, does that solve the spiritual rot?
00:30:05.000If that was the case, why does it say in Jeremiah 29, 7, demand the welfare of the nation that you are in, because your welfare is tied to your nation's welfare?
00:30:13.000If that's the case, what are we supposed to make of Daniel or Esther or Mordecai, Nehemiah, Jeremiah, Joseph, who were counselors to the king trying to fight for goodness?
00:30:23.000So we should make, we'd be very clear, politics will not lead to any sort of salvation.
00:30:28.000It will not lead towards any sort of ultimate redemption.
00:32:14.000First, you have to believe that every decision you make matters.
00:32:18.000The enemy and the opposition will try to disempower your micro decisions towards the macro.
00:32:25.000First of all, I'm a big believer in duty and obedience to doing what is right regardless of how you think things will turn out.
00:32:32.000I believe it morally and I believe it spiritually.
00:32:35.000I think far too often Christians and conservatives wager their activism based on whether or not they think things are going to go their way.
00:32:44.000That goes against the core tenet of duty, which is I'm going to do what is right always, routinely, regardless of the kind of wagering odds.
00:32:55.000And then I'll just remind you from a very concrete example.
00:32:58.000If we would have been able to get 300, let's just say 500 other people statewide, we might have a Republican attorney general that could be actively suing this Democrat governor.
00:33:10.000And so I know people that emailed me, my vote does not matter.
00:33:51.000It's the backbone of the Republican Party here.
00:33:54.000Get involved in the Republican Party, which again, it might appear that I'm contradicting myself because I'm like the number one critic against the Republican Party.
00:34:18.000So let's make the Republican Party people-centered, grassroots-centered, become a precinct committee person.
00:34:24.000It matters more than you could ever imagine.
00:34:26.000And then finally, you know, when it becomes time for when ballots go out, you know, volunteer as a ballot chaser and try to get low-propensity voters that have a likelihood of being disenfranchised on election day, and particularly people that can't stand in line for two hours for two reasons.
00:34:45.000Time because they have a lot of kids or because of physical issues to try to vote the most secure way possible so we do not have a redux of the 2022 midterm election.
00:34:56.000My hope is that we have a system, we're trying to develop it at turning point action, but if somebody else wants to do it, if the AZGOP will do it, praise God, I'll happily step aside, where millions of average Joes, don't like the term, but that's your term, right?
00:35:12.000Ordinary people can feel empowered to do 30 minutes of activism a day to try to win back Arizona, right?
00:35:20.000And I know that so many of you are going to say, Charlie, put me to work, but we need to find a way to put all of your energy to work in the best possible way.
00:35:28.000And I think that way, quite honestly, is learning the lesson from the mess of the midterms of 2022 and not allowing the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors to try.
00:35:40.000You think I'm mad because they disenfranchised Carrie Lake?
00:35:43.000Imagine if the whole country comes down to Arizona and we fall 800 votes short.
00:35:58.000The next question is from Linda Gray, former senator of Arizona.
00:36:03.000Eric McTaska, in his book, Letter to the American Church.
00:36:09.000I would like your analogy of his book and pastors who are afraid to preach God's word, the penalties, and yet the love for people who ask for forgiveness.
00:36:23.000How do we get pastors to get involved, speak the truth, and get away from separation of church and state and allowing pastors to go ahead and speak about different candidates and policies?
00:36:38.000Yeah, first, I just had Eric on the show.
00:41:10.000You have no place preaching the word of God if you do not understand what the laws of Moses have to say and why Jesus was taught not just as in the Torah, but referenced it as a way towards our ultimate salvation.
00:41:22.000It has a lot to say about civil government.
00:41:23.000And then finally, the other things they say is, well, we don't do division around here.
00:41:27.000And this is the one that just drives me the most nuts.
00:41:30.000Look, if you got into the ministry to unite people, you got into the wrong line of business.
00:42:12.000What you call divisive, I call liberating, because I can see distinctions between good and evil, the holy and the profane, between man and woman, between man and nature, between man and God.
00:42:24.000What you call dividing, I call distinctions, which is what keeps us from the chaos of the loss that Satan wishes for us.
00:42:30.000If your pastor is repeating that jargon, should lovingly go find something else for that person.
00:42:36.000There's a lot of things they could be called into.
00:43:42.000I just moved to Prescott, Arizona, 10 months ago from Las Vegas, Nevada.
00:43:46.000My question to you is: how do we keep Marxism out of our churches and out of our Christian schools?
00:43:54.000The left has gone after accreditation organizations to get to our Christian schools because they would never be able to do it one at a time.
00:44:02.000And I had to leave a church of 5,000 in 2020 because they were teaching my children white privilege, white passing, things like this on a youth group.
00:44:12.000It was a seven-week YouTube series, and I was devastated by this as a Christian woman who loves Jesus.
00:45:11.000You see, we conflate love with acceptance of bad worldviews, unbiblical beliefs, and the two totally different things.
00:45:21.000And I'll prove to you the best example of this, okay?
00:45:24.000Because you might say, well, Charlie, how does this manifest?
00:45:27.000The woke pastor, like Andy Stanley, for example, who's a disaster, right, from Georgia, very popular, he brings up a trans person on stage, and he says, this person is the bravest person I know and is wonderful.
00:45:42.000And we need to affirm this person and affirm how they see themselves.
00:45:49.000Because he says we have to be tolerant.
00:45:51.000Now, not doing this on stage, the proper way to handle it would be a pastor saying, I love you so much, I'm not going to allow you to think you're something that you're not.
00:46:02.000I'm not going to affirm this seed of darkness that is manifested in your soul.
00:46:09.000I love you so much, I'm going to tell you that what you're doing, you're on a path for self-destruction, of annihilation, of self-hatred, and possibly even suicide.
00:46:17.000I love you so much that I know that God's plan for you is greater than the torment that you feel.
00:46:22.000And let's try to get to the root cause of that and liberate you, which only Christ can do.
00:47:35.000And by the way, most pastors don't know the Bible very well.
00:47:38.000One of the biggest things I ever learned is amazing.
00:47:40.000And he said, well, Charlie, my attendance might go down.
00:47:45.000I said, there's nothing wrong with trimming your congregation down to a manageable size in the pursuit of truth.
00:47:58.000If your church is a TED Talk with an ask for money, with a rock concert wearing skinny jeans, you, my friend, are in the wrong line of business.
00:48:12.000You are in the truth-telling business.
00:48:14.000And if you don't like the truth-telling business, go find something else because we need warriors, we need a Bonhoeffer brigade, not the Vichy French.
00:48:35.000What, in your work with the younger demographic, what percentage of that demographic would you say have come to believe their rights come more from government and less from God?
00:48:46.000And do you see a market change going forward as a result of your interaction with them that they may come to believe their rights come more from God and less from government?
00:48:56.000You know, the majority of young people definitely, you know, this is, I actually don't think the emphasis on rights is helpful.
00:49:07.000Yes, we, and I, this is a much longer speech.
00:49:10.000I think it's a little bit of a vocabulary hijacking that's happened in modernity.
00:49:16.000I actually think obligations matter a lot more than rights.
00:49:21.000And so, for example, people say, I have a right to this, I have a right to that, I have a right to that.
00:49:25.000Now, in the natural rights theory of government, it is true that you have a right to speech, right to assembly.
00:49:31.000However, I would rather emphasize what a human being ought to do than what a human being can do.
00:49:38.000I actually think that's a much better way to communicate to a young person because if you emphasize the idea, and they emphasize it incorrectly, right?
00:49:47.000Where they say, well, you have a right to this, you have a right to that, you have a right to this.
00:49:51.000And in reality, it ends up becoming a hyper-narcissistic way of viewing your own existence.
00:50:01.000And again, this is not an easy fix, right?
00:50:04.000But forget who they think the rights come from.
00:50:07.000They look at themselves as the centerpiece of all decision-making.
00:50:13.000And this is one of the reasons why we're seeing birth rates plummet, why suicide is increasing, depression has increased, alcoholism increased, drug usage, pornography rates.
00:50:23.000If you think you are the only and most important thing ever to exist, it creates manic and miserable people.
00:50:32.000We know the happiest people, the most fulfilled people, are ones with purpose that have a tie to an obligation that is larger to themselves.
00:50:41.000A duty-based society is actually more desirable than, quote-unquote, a self-rights-based society.
00:50:50.000But with that being said, where do they think rights come from?
00:51:08.000And that hierarchy to our existence, and I say this and it drives the Marxist absolutely nuts, which is the Marxism is a war on religion, whoever asked the question earlier.
00:51:19.000It's an unrepentant crusade against religion.
00:51:22.000You might be here tonight and you might not like all the religion talk.
00:51:34.000And you must acknowledge this, that if you have a society that no longer believes in God, then you cannot have an absolute good or absolute truth.
00:51:46.000My only ask of you, for those of you here tonight, you say, Charlie, I'm not a Christian.
00:53:01.000My favorite amendment is the Second Amendment.
00:53:03.000And I'm just going to ask you, first, I think you should know that Yavapai County was the first county to claim to be a Second Amendment sanctuary.
00:53:16.000So what I'd like to ask you to do through TP USA is if you can maybe form a young person's youth organization for shooting, trap shooting, skeet shooting, pistol shooting, and engage the NRA and all the gun industry to help you.
00:53:41.000And I get so much trouble when I say this, but you guys are going to love it.
00:53:45.000So I said this, and boy, the internet blew up, and I stand by every word.
00:53:50.000So one of the reasons why our Second Amendment is under attack is because weak Republicans are afraid to go on TV and go in front of people and say why we have a Second Amendment.
00:54:00.000And so let's just remind ourselves, it's not for hunting.
00:54:12.000It's for a free people to be able, to hopefully it never happens in our lifetime to be able to defend themselves against a tyrannical government.
00:54:35.000And if you do not make that argument, then you concede, well, then why don't you just have a shotgun if it's just for self-defense?
00:54:42.000If it's just for target shooting, why don't you just have a single bolt action rifle?
00:54:47.000No, It's about the protection of liberty.
00:54:52.000And we must also simultaneously acknowledge that anytime you have liberty, whether it be driving, going out to restaurants, you're going to have externalities and costs that are not ideal.
00:55:48.000And it starts with a little trimming on the edges.
00:55:52.000Do you think for a second that the CCP, the Chinese Communist Party, would have annexed Hong Kong if every single one of those freedom protesters had an AR-15 around their back?