00:00:12.000His 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.
00:00:21.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:03:02.000We're living through a top-down revolution, everybody.
00:03:05.000We're living through a revolution that's different than most others.
00:03:08.000It is a cultural revolution, similar to Mao's China.
00:03:13.000But this revolution is when the powerful, the rich, the wealthy decide to use their power and their wealth to go after you.
00:03:24.000Instead of building hospitals and improving our country, they are spending their money to destroy the greatest country ever to exist in the history of the world.
00:05:17.000It's the powerful and the well-connected versus the middle class versus the everyday warrior.
00:05:24.000The division in this country is versus the decent and the indecent, as Victor Frankl said in Man's Search for Meaning.
00:05:31.000And we are living through this time where the question is still an open question.
00:05:35.000Will the people who are the sovereign in this country do everything they possibly can with this incredible blessing given to us by God to fight back and win against the elites that want to ruin it?
00:05:51.000Now, some people say, oh, you know, these elites mean very well.
00:05:54.000I think this is an important thing to talk about.
00:06:25.000And what you represent, your presence here, the largest multi-day event in conservative grassroots history, is a message that will be heard by these people.
00:06:36.000Because what they have been, the reason they've been able to do what they have done is that we have allowed them to do this.
00:06:45.000We've allowed them, and we were too busy doing things that were very important, running our churches, running our business, growing our families.
00:06:51.000And 11 years ago, when Turning Point USA was started, I could not have imagined what God had in store for this organization.
00:07:01.000And I want to take a second here because, you know, every so often there's some, you know, person from Media Matters that writes some organization, you know, some article about Media Matters.
00:07:22.000Where they attack Turning Point and they say, oh, you know, Turning Point just does events and all this.
00:07:28.000By the way, if all Turning Point USA did was this event, that's a pretty amazing thing.
00:07:33.000Just pulling off this event is no small accomplishment.
00:07:37.000And by the way, while I'm thinking about it, Elon Musk liberating Twitter will go down as one of the greatest free speech victories in the history of Western civilization.
00:07:50.000Where we can log onto Twitter and we could say, yeah, you know, Dylan Mulvaney, he's a man.
00:07:57.000Rachel Levine is a man and kind of like a creepy pervert, honestly.
00:08:02.000That January 6th is probably an inside job.
00:08:04.000It's more of a Fed surrection than anything else.
00:08:06.000And that 99% of people on January 6th did nothing wrong.
00:08:10.000That we can go on Twitter and say that, you know, George Floyd wasn't a hero and Derek Chauvin was targeted in a Soviet-style trial that was anti-American and un-American.
00:08:23.000One of the reasons why the powerful are getting nervous is because we can finally speak again online.
00:08:30.000One of the main victories of 2023 is that we could say, that's BS.
00:08:35.000No, you're not going to trans our kids.
00:08:37.000You're not going to groom our children.
00:08:40.000You're not going to then call us these terrible, awful names when in reality, you're actually the things that you're calling us.
00:08:47.000You see, as our ability to speak and challenge authority and challenge power grows, the likelihood of our victory increases.
00:08:58.000You see, 11 years ago, when we started Turning Point USA, we started in a very, very humble way.
00:09:04.000And I want to take a step back because I want all of you to know the incredible journey that we have been on at Turning Point USA.
00:09:11.000And I want to tell you the Turning Point story.
00:09:13.000That's one of the first pictures there.
00:09:15.000Bill Montgomery, may he rest in peace.
00:09:17.000That was at the Republican National Convention in 2012.
00:09:20.000Little did I know that God had in store that we were going to have an event nearly as big as the RNC 11 years later.
00:09:31.000It all started in this office in Lamont, Illinois.
00:10:06.000If I was streaming on YouTube right now, I'd be completely gone.
00:10:09.000It all started in this office, and I love it.
00:10:12.000Apple, HP, Microsoft, and Turning Point USA all started in a garage.
00:10:18.000And so that garage right there in Lamont, Illinois, was where this started.
00:10:23.000What started as an idea, what started as a movement of one of two with no money, no connections, and no idea what I was doing, is now a movement on 1,800 high school and college chapters across the country with 600,000 student activists, 300,000 grassroots donors.
00:10:49.000Only in America is a story like Turning Point USA possible.
00:10:54.000Only in America is it possible to say, you know what, I don't like the way the country is going and to do something about it.
00:11:01.000And throughout the years, you know, people have said, oh, you know, Turning Point, you guys, you're too loud.
00:11:10.000I don't know about you, but I think the people that have been running the conservative movement the last couple decades to just go be liberals because that's what they actually are and leave the conservative movement and allow us real conservatives to be in charge.
00:11:40.000Now, I want to show you because to kind of give you an idea and a picture of what we're up against, I go to these college campuses and I just, you know, I set up a table and I talk to these kids and I listen and some of them are pretty fired up.
00:11:56.000And I think this picture is a perfect picture of a left-wing male.
00:12:00.000You know, they want a guy with a lisp zipping around on a lime scooter with a fanny pack, carrying his birth control, supporting his wife's career while he works as a supportive stay-at-home house husband.
00:12:12.000He has a playlist that is exclusively Taylor Swift.
00:12:18.000And their idea of strength is this beta male's girlfriend opening a pickle jar just for him.
00:12:24.000At Turning Point USA, we resoundingly reject this.
00:12:29.000We believe in strong, alpha, godly, high-T, high-achieving, confident, well-armed, and disruptive men are the hope, not the problem, in America.
00:14:19.000No country was ever saved by a male feminist.
00:14:26.000Countless countries, though, were lost by weak beta males.
00:14:32.000And at Turning Point USA, not only do we celebrate masculinity, we believe that masculinity is the answer to so many of our problems in this country.
00:14:46.000The most conservative that young boys have been in 50 years.
00:14:50.000There's a lot of negative news out there, everybody.
00:14:52.000But young boys and young men are looking for something to connect to that gives them purpose, that says it's okay to be a man, that says there's not unlimited genders.
00:15:02.000And by the way, just so we're clear, I got this from Billboard Chris.
00:15:05.000There are no genders, two sexes, and unlimited personalities.
00:15:10.000That's the way that we should all answer it.
00:16:47.000What does the New York Times say writing in third person?
00:16:49.000Mr. Kirk's social media posts garnered far more engagements, a combination of likes, retweets, comments, and other interactions than those of mainstream news organizations like the New York Times and CNN.
00:16:59.000Thank you, New York Times, for telling the world that we're bigger than the New York Times.
00:17:05.000Now you might say, but Charlie, what exactly is going viral?
00:17:10.000What is the content that is being seen?
00:17:14.000So in another episode of Charlie Goes to an Arizona taxpayer fund campus, I go to Northern Arizona University, and some lunatic.
00:17:24.000Charlie, you're scripting these things.
00:17:26.000Trust me, I don't script any of this stuff.
00:18:26.000You can't answer the question with the media.
00:18:29.000The college kids of America going hundreds of thousands of dollars into debt who think it's a trick question when you ask them what a woman is.
00:18:50.000You guys should go by the booth and say hello.
00:18:53.000Leading an education revolution for homeschool moms and parents all across the country.
00:18:59.000Turning Point Academy is leading the charge in curriculum development and teaching the teachers.
00:19:04.000In addition, at Turning Point USA, in addition to our high school program and our college program and student body presidents and our massive events, we recently launched something very near and dear to my heart.
00:19:17.000We are in a spiritual war, everybody, that is beyond just the material that we are seeing.
00:19:24.000I gave my life to the Lord in fifth grade in the suburbs of Chicago at Christian Heritage Academy.
00:19:28.000Most important decision I ever made in my life.
00:19:31.000And I encourage you to do the same, making Jesus Christ the chairman of the board of your life.
00:19:41.000I started growing Turning Point USA and the Lord kept on blessing Turning Point.
00:19:45.000And I just, you know, would speak at a group here or there and people say, oh, you ever spoke at a church?
00:19:52.000And I made, without a doubt, the worst prediction in the history of American podcasting.
00:19:59.000I look right in the camera on the Charlie Kirk show and I say, you know, all these lockdowns and all these orders to tell people to stay at home, they're not going to last.
00:20:09.000The American church is going to lead the resistance, is going to fight back against these lockdowns because the church loves liberty.
00:20:19.000And that was one of the dumbest things I have ever said on the Charlie Kirk show.
00:20:23.000I was shocked when the bride of Christ, the church, shuddered in fear when they took Easter and Pentecost from us.
00:20:32.000When we saw the faithful stay at home, when we needed a revival more than ever, when suicides were going up, when alcoholism was going up, when drug addiction was going up, the church stayed in coward and fear.
00:20:45.000And I looked around and I said, this is a time when the church should be defying these tyrants and these government leaders.
00:20:51.000They called strip clubs essential and they called marijuana dispensaries essential and they called convenience stores essential.
00:20:58.000And yet they said the church was non-essential and so many pastors took it.
00:21:04.000And then in the summer of 2020 during Floyd Apalooza, we saw churches parroting a lie from the pit of hell when they said that America was systemically racist and that you are a racist person because of the color of your skin.
00:21:19.000And I looked around and I said, why is the church peddling this?
00:23:57.000Billy Graham led a revival to this country, and he also said that communism is Satan's religion.
00:24:03.000One of the reasons we are seeing the issues we're seeing in America today is because the church has been silent and the secular Marxists are taking over the nation.
00:24:12.000TPSA Faith, on a daily basis, seeks to wake up the church with courage and clarity and conviction to lead a movement to push back against the secular totalitarians in America.
00:24:57.000Candace Owens is without a doubt one of the most important, impactful voices in the conservative movement.
00:25:04.000Candace Owens started Blexit, and Blexit is now a part of Turning Point USA.
00:25:10.000Blexit is the largest black outreach program in the conservative movement, going into the inner cities and reaching out for conservative values on a daily basis.
00:25:25.000And I believe many of you share my disgust for how the American left has been dominating the black community over the last 50 or 60 years.
00:25:37.000We need to help assist Blexit in leading an exodus for the black community away from the Marxists and the left towards conservative values and principles and away from this nonsense that has been plaguing our cities over the last 40 or 50 years.
00:25:54.000This is Candace's vision, Brandon's vision, and we're honored to carry it forward at Turning Point USA.
00:26:00.000Now, we also bring Candace Owens on campus tours.
00:26:04.000Now, we have a big problem at Turning Point USA.
00:26:06.000We can't find rooms big enough of the campus tour stops we're doing to fit all the students that want to attend our campus tours.
00:27:19.000That guy's a hero for what he did, for decapitating Satan in a state capitol.
00:27:26.000And they say, oh, well, what about religious liberty?
00:27:28.000Yeah, you know, I'm sure that when James Madison wrote the U.S. Constitution, he was like, you know what?
00:27:34.000One day, I hope in many generations, Satanists can also have religious liberty too.
00:27:42.000That is just a small picture, everybody, of the amazing work we are doing at Turning Point USA.
00:27:47.000High school chapters, college chapters dominating online.
00:27:51.000Blexit, TPUSA Faith, our student body presidency project, and everything that we're doing at Turning Point USA, including this event, Young Women's Leadership Summit, and our training conferences and our campus tours, is making a sizable and a meaningful difference.
00:28:05.000But I know many of you are saying, Charlie, all that's great, but what happens if we don't win the next election?
00:28:14.000Now, a co-sponsor of this event is our sister organization that you're going to hear a lot of throughout the next couple days, Turning Point Action.
00:28:21.000And Turning Point Action has three very simple goals.
00:28:25.000Number one, to remake the Republican Party as a grassroots party from the bottom up and kick out the Romneys, the Paul Ryans from the Republican Party once and for all.
00:28:48.000It is not enough just to win elections.
00:28:51.000We need Republicans to act like conservatives, not just Republican in name only when they go to Washington, D.C., when they betray their voters.
00:29:05.000Turning point action is holding our leaders accountable.
00:29:56.000You want a border more than you want Zelensky to get more billions of dollars.
00:30:07.000You are repulsed when you see that go-go dancer show up with the turtle and Chuck Yuchumer and demand more of your taxpayer dollars while we are being invaded on a daily basis.
00:30:20.000I find it insulting that Senate Republicans have been able to get $200 billion to Ukraine while we cannot secure the southern border.
00:30:31.000You want an end to the medical child mutilation of our children that is called trans surgery.
00:34:46.000It might be starting a turning point USA chapter.
00:34:49.000It might be getting involved in the most important election of my lifetime and maybe the civilization's life.
00:34:58.000And what turning point action is going to do, and we've been very clear about this, is we're targeting an Arizona, Wisconsin, Georgia to chase ballots, to get low-propensity voters out, to engage in election month so that we do everything we possibly can to prevent the Democrats from steamrolling us again.
00:35:17.000Now, some people say, but Charlie, what about these other things?
00:37:27.000Throughout the next couple of days, there will be unlimited opportunities, chances to get hired, chances to get to work, chances to hear from the biggest speakers in the movement, chances to be able to network and to have these life-changing conversations.
00:37:40.000We're going to be doing our show off, you know, a media row here and also for members only.
00:37:45.000We're going to be interviewing Tucker and Glenn Beck and all of that.
00:37:49.000We have people that have traveled from every corner to say, you know, I want to be used.
00:37:54.000And I hope that the story of Turning Point USA, again, we started with no money, no connections, and no idea what I was doing, resonates with some of you because to despair is a sin.
00:38:44.000I'm thankful to our 300,000 people that donate financially to Turning Point USA.
00:38:49.000I'm thankful to the pastors that are speaking out boldly despite the cost.
00:38:53.000I'm thankful to the homeschool parents that have taken that leap of faith.
00:38:57.000I am thankful to the amazing amount of you that say, you know what, I'm going to go run and become a precinct committeeman.
00:39:03.000I'm going to run and hold my elected leaders accountable.
00:39:06.000I'm thankful for those of you that came here and you maxed out your credit cards and you went into your savings account because you love your country so much that just sitting idly by and buying pillows, promo code Kirk, is not enough to save the country.
00:39:45.000What a blessing from God that we get to be here in this state during this time.
00:39:50.000People ask all the time, Charlie, do you think we're going to win?
00:39:52.000Do you think we're going to win in 2024?
00:39:55.000And I answer it all the same time because if I said, oh, yeah, yeah, we're going to win, then you would go home and do nothing because you say, oh, you know, Charlie said, we're going to win.
00:40:02.000If I said, no, we're going to lose, you would go home and do nothing because, oh, Charlie's going to lose.
00:40:06.000Here's my answer, is that it's wholly dependent on what we do.
00:40:11.000It is completely dependent on how we act.
00:40:15.000What they fear is a grassroots, decentralized people-first movement.
00:40:21.000This is not supposed to be happening where you are right now.
00:40:25.00013,000 people in Maricopa County right before Christmas gathering and hearing from top speakers, being filled with energy and enthusiasm and marching orders and dispensing all across the country to go take back communities and take back school boards and these little micro sources of light against this overwhelming darkness.