Charlie Kirk: A good and faithful servant



When Charlie Kirk was asked in an interview how he would want to be remembered, he answered without hesitation.

“I want to be remembered for courage for my faith. That would be the most important thing. The most important thing is my faith in my life,” he said.

In honor of Charlie’s wish, BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock says, “I think he will be,” before reading Matthew 25:23: “Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Come and share your master’s happiness.”

“I think God is well pleased with Charlie Kirk and what he accomplished in his 31 years of life,” he says.


Kirk accomplished more in his 31 years than most people do in a lifetime — including becoming a major part of America’s strong faith-based conservative base.

“I really don’t like political partisanship, but there is a difference between the two political dynamics, the left and the right. And the difference is at their base, and I’m talking about the hardcore base of the conservative movement. It’s all based on biblical principles,” Whitlock explains.

“Charlie Kirk was a part of that base, that evangelical part of the conservative movement that really is trying to inflict, impose, influence government policies through a biblical lens,” he continues.

However, this is what angered leftists and the mainstream media the most, who labeled Kirk as polarizing.

“For the left, the most passionate people are the most secular people. … They stand shoulder to shoulder with the transgender crowd, the Alphabet Mafia, the pro-abortion crowd … and it’s because their worldview isn’t really biblical,” Whitlock says.

Rather, their worldview is “racial.”

And Charlie aimed to help the leftist youth see the world for more than the color of someone’s skin or a rainbow of genders.

“And that’s why I say hats off to Charlie Kirk. That in some ways, today is a celebration of a great young man, of someone that at an early age figured out how to match his talents with an activity and a passion and a life’s work that glorified and honored God,” Whitlock says.

“He recognized that this world has become so political, and that politics are driving so much of our worldview, that if he doesn’t inject Christianity and a biblical worldview into politics, we’re going to lose more and more people, and this world is going to become more and more worldly and secular, more and more hostile to God,” he continues.

“And Satan realized this man had to be stopped, because he was having too much impact on this world,” he says. “He was converting and opening the eyes of too many young people, and he had to be stopped.”

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Allie Beth Stuckey reflects on her best memories with Charlie Kirk



Yesterday, Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk was fatally shot while hosting a speaking event at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah.

Charlie, only 31 years old, leaves behind his devoted wife, two young children, a powerful organization that reshaped the conservative movement, and a grieving nation already feeling the profound void of his absence.

When she heard the horrible news of Charlie’s death, Allie Beth Stuckey, BlazeTV host of “Relatable,” canceled her regular programming to both honor and reflect on the time she shared with one of the most transformative torchbearers in conservative America.

In 2017, when Allie was just entering the world of politics, Charlie Kirk — a rising star in the conservative movement — invited her to speak at Turning Point USA’s second annual Young Women's Leadership Summit.

Fast-forward two years later, and Allie was asked to help plan and host the event. Even though she was due with her baby around the same time the summit would take place, she agreed to help because it was Charlie who was asking.

“I knew that if Charlie was leading it, then no matter what, that it was worth doing,” she says with tears in her eyes.

“I am one of thousands of people who can say that Charlie believed in me. He platformed me. He helped shape me long before I had done anything impressive,” she says.

Unlike most people in politics, who are kind only if it gets them something in return, Charlie was genuinely kind — and not just to the people he liked and knew well. His graciousness extended to those who hated him and called him their enemy — and was perhaps even greater.

“I almost wrote that Charlie treated everyone the same ... [but] I realized that is not true. He was loving toward his friends, but he went out of his way to show even more grace to the people that considered themselves his enemies,” says Allie.

In 2022, Allie recalls doing a joint speaking engagement with Charlie at Auburn University. One hostile student stormed up to the mic and accused Charlie of being racist for calling out crime and fatherlessness in the black community.

“And he responded to her — I remember I got to watch this up close in true Charlie fashion — with precision, with boldness, but most of all with gentleness,” says Allie.

“For 13 years, Charlie worked with all kinds of people — from high school students, college volunteers, thousands of employees to the most powerful people in media and government. And I have not met one person who has ever had anything negative to say about Charlie Kirk,” she continues.

The magic of Charlie lay not in his brilliance, his leadership qualities, or his visionary mindset — although these qualities were certainly profound in him — but “because very simply, he was a good friend.”

Charlie embodied what it means to “share the arrows,” says Allie.

“If someone said something true, and they were taking flak for it, no matter their political affiliation, Charlie was the first in their inbox cheering them on,” she says.

“If you are a college student who is getting bullied for saying something true in class, Charlie would find a way. He would exhaust his network to find a way to reach you and to encourage you. If you were a politician running for office and you were getting raked over the coals, Charlie would go to bat for you.”

As an example, Allie points to her joint segment with Charlie on Fox News last month. They talked about the rise in Christian music, highlighting the work of Forrest Frank, who’s become a transformative voice in contemporary Christian culture.

Frank reposted their segment to his social media page and was hit with furious backlash from people who maligned Allie and Charlie — “but especially Charlie.”

“So what did Charlie do? He reached out to Forrest, not to defend himself, but just to encourage him — to tell Forrest that he's doing a great job and that he's cheering him on,” says Allie.

She also recalls the memory of speaking with Charlie at a megachurch in Phoenix, Arizona.

“We got to do what Charlie really loved more than debates, more than campaigning, and that was [defending] the faith. His knowledge of the Bible, his relentless passion for truth just absolutely overflowed into everything,” says Allie.

“I know if I could have texted Charlie this morning and asked him, ‘Hey, Charlie, I've got this really tough subject to talk about today, what do you think about it?’ ... I know exactly what he'd tell me,” she says. “He would just have said, ‘Jesus — that's it. Just point them to Jesus.”

To hear Allie’s full tribute, watch the video above.

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Our inspiring statesman: The Charlie Kirk legacy



Charlie Kirk was only 31 years old when he was taken from this Earth, but his time here has undoubtedly left a lasting imprint on not just the nation’s youth — whom he was dedicated to reaching — but all Americans.

Blaze News editor in chief and BlazeTV host Matthew Peterson, BlazeTV host Jill Savage, and Blaze Media Washington correspondent Christopher Bedford are devastated by the tragic loss.

“Charlie Kirk built an organization and helped build a movement that ultimately propelled him to the very heights of American politics,” Peterson says on “Blaze News: The Mandate.”

“And what we saw today was unspeakable evil, really, a political assassination of someone who was a political leader. This was someone who is a bright light, who I first met at the Claremont Institute’s Lincoln Fellowships,” he continues.

But Charlie wasn’t your average leader.



“Famously, Charlie didn’t go to college. Incredibly smart guy. He sought out wisdom. He sought out knowledge. He was a very sharp student, and he constantly adjusted and changed when he learned new things or saw new things as he was building and helping to make America great,” Peterson says.

“He was an incredible, incredible human being who never stopped doing, who never stopped learning, and who never stopped building,” he says, adding, “And ultimately I think that what he wanted to be was a statesman. ... This is what he wanted to become: an American statesman who changed things for the good. And that is what he did.”

Bedford agrees, though he notes that there was “a strange side” of Charlie that he “didn’t expect.”

“Sweetness. Humility, which really surprised me. Soft-spoken, kind. He had taken personal interests in people. You knew him through Claremont. I knew him through some hunting and fishing trips that our late friend Foster Friess put together and then later on through podcasts and events,” he explains.

While Bedford recalls that the events were “big, glitzy, glamorous, shiny, light-filled things with all kinds of celebrities,” he says Charlie “was not like that.”

“Not in person. Someone who’s married, someone with two children,” he says.

And Bedford has noticed that Charlie’s passing has stirred something in Americans, regardless of how political they are.

“One woman I know, who’s not — she just follows politics tangentially, one of my friends’ wives, she texted me and said, ‘I’m feeling really delicate right now. Not delicate like a flower, delicate like a bomb,’” he says.

“They’ve just killed a cultural figure,” he continues. “Not a politician, not a businessman, but a cultural figure who touched a lot of lives and was in a lot of living rooms with people and was on their personal devices and was on their Instagram feeds and TikToks and came into their classrooms and talked to them on campus and touched a lot of people.”

Peterson couldn’t agree more with Bedford’s friend’s wife, commenting, “Delicate like a bomb is right.”

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Glenn Beck’s poetic tribute to Charlie Kirk sparks the next phase for fearless leadership



Yesterday, Charlie Kirk, beloved conservative voice and founder of Turning Point USA, was shot and killed by a gunman while speaking at an event for his American Comeback Tour on the Utah Valley University campus in Orem, Utah.

The news of his death has shaken conservative America to its core.

“I’ve only felt this way one time before,” Glenn Beck says. “I had just signed a contract with Premiere Radio Networks, and my show was to begin on January 1, 2002. And then tragedy struck at the World Trade Center, and I was called and told, ‘You start tomorrow.’”

“I spent most of the day and the night by my bedside praying for the words to share with you on that day. I spent most of the day yesterday in that same position. I pray that the words that I need to speak to you today come from Him and that you hear them,” he says through tears.

“There are moments when words from another age suddenly feel as though they were written for this moment,” Glenn says.

He references the famous 1947 poem by Dylan Thomas titled “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night,” which is written from the perspective of a son pleading with his ailing father to fight against impending death.

“Do not go gentle into that good night / Rage, rage against the dying of the light,” the speaker beseeches.

Thomas’ words are “a mandate for all of us,” Glenn says. “Do not go quietly when truth is on the line. Do not surrender. Do not surrender to the shadows, even when — and especially if — you think the battle can no longer be won.”

“Charlie Kirk lived that mandate. He knew the cost of speaking unpopular truths. He knew the fury of those who wanted him silenced. But Charlie pressed on. In his short life, he embodied that defiance.”

But he did it not with hatred or vengeance but with “the kind of righteous defiance that has always marked those who refuse to bow to the idols of our age,” Glenn says.

Like George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and John Adams, who “raged against the certainty of an empire,” knowing full well that “the gallows awaited them,” Charlie Kirk fearlessly fought the encroaching darkness of our time.

“Every single generation is called to resist the temptation to go quietly into the good night. It’s just our turn,” Glenn says.

He compares Charlie’s shocking death to “a knockout punch ... another body blow in a season that is already heavy with grief.”

But we are not out of the game. If anything, Charlie’s death is a rally call — a cry for courage and strength in the face of unspeakable evil.

“I am here to tell you, if his life meant anything, it’s this: Silence in the face of darkness is not an option,” Glenn says.

“He did not go gently. He stood. He spoke. He challenged. He knew, as Dylan Thomas wrote, that even the wise men and the good men must resist the dying of the light because surrender only hastens the darkness.”

“Today, that mantle falls to us — to me, to you, to every single person alive today that hears my voice,” he says.

“You and I cannot drift into the shadows. We cannot sit quietly while freedom fades. This is our moment to rage. But rage not with hatred ... not with anger, but with courage. Rage not in violence, but in truth-telling. Rage against the lies, against the apathy, against the hopelessness that says there is nothing you can do,” he continued.

“There is always something you can do,” Glenn encourages.

“The most defiant act in an age when the world throws hate around like it could be purchased in any dime store or 7-Eleven is an act of kindness. When you offer nothing but love, kindness, and the unrelenting truth, those are the flames in the night. Those are the flames that hold back the darkness.”

“My friend Charlie Kirk carried that torch. He was forced to lay it down yesterday. And it is ours to pick up.”

To hear Glenn’s full response, watch the episode above.

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Remembering the Legacy of Conservative Hero Charlie Kirk | Ep 1114
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Remembering the Legacy of Conservative Hero Charlie Kirk | Ep 1114

‘You’re all guilty of this’: How media lies fueled the murder of Charlie Kirk



Yesterday, America suffered a devastating loss when beloved conservative activist and Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk was fatally struck with a bullet in the neck while speaking at an event during his "American Comeback Tour" at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah.

Kirk’s horrific death has sent shockwaves through conservative America, who just lost one of its bravest and most impactful warriors.

“He dared do what the left apparently thinks you should die for, which is have a respectful dialogue,” says Sara Gonzales, BlazeTV host of “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered,” fighting back tears.

Charlie’s method was honorable: “Change hearts and minds not by force ... not with hate but just with a dialogue,” she says.

Sara finds the timing of Charlie’s murder uncanny — “Charlie was just in the news” a couple days ago when CNN’s Van Jones excoriated him for his comments about the murder of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska.

On an episode of “The Charlie Kirk Show,” Kirk said, “A white Ukrainian refugee was murdered just because she was white; everybody knows that, obviously.”

Van Jones, ignoring the fact that the suspect for Zarutska’s murder was captured on camera saying, “I got that white girl,” ignorantly responded, “For Charlie Kirk to say, ‘We know he did it because she’s white’ when there’s no evidence of that is just pure race mongering, hate mongering. It’s wrong.”

“Charlie Kirk, he should be ashamed of himself. No one mentioned the word race, white, black, or anything except him,” Jones lied.

“And you wonder why people are being radicalized,” says Sara.

“If you're listening to CNN, you're thinking that Charlie Kirk is the actual bad guy, not the guy who said [‘I got that white girl’].”

And that, she says, is precisely why he was murdered yesterday.

“Was this only a matter of time? They tried to kill our president. That didn't work. They're just going to start what — going after all of us now?” she asks.

BlazeTV contributor Matthew Marsden adds, “We've said on this show many, many times that if you call someone a white supremacist, if you call them a Nazi, if you call them a fascist, then what you're doing is you're justifying any violence that is being committed against them because those things are evil.”

For the liberals who are now making statements on social media bemoaning Kirk’s death and condemning political violence, he has a powerful message: “You're all guilty of this.”

To hear more of Sara and Marsden’s reaction to yesterday’s horrific news, watch the episode above.

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‘How DARE you’: Nina Turner EXPLODES at Liz Wheeler over ‘the brokenness of the black family’



Former Ohio state Sen. Nina Turner (D) doesn’t appear to care to get to the heart of why a 23-year-old Ukrainian woman was brutally stabbed and killed while riding a train in North Carolina by the suspect, 34-year-old black man named Decarlos Brown.

And she made this clear during a fiery debate with BlazeTV host Liz Wheeler on Chris Cuomo’s NewsNation show.

Wheeler brought up that not only is “the brokenness of the nuclear family” an issue when it comes to raising children who turn into nonviolent and sane adults, but “the brokenness of the black family” is also a major issue.

That’s when Turner shouted, "Oh no! You're not going to sit up there and talk about the brokenness of the black family. How dare you?"


"Do not single out the black family," Turner added. "The nerve of you."

While Wheeler tried to continue speaking to make her point, Turner continued to speak loudly over her.

“This wasn’t even a spicy comment,” Wheeler reflects on “The Liz Wheeler Show.”

“Even Barack Obama spoke about the brokenness of the black family and the fact that fatherlessness, when children are raised without a present father, this leads to drastic increases in the number of crimes that they commit,” she adds.

And she has the receipts.

“But if we are honest with ourselves, we’ll admit that what too many fathers also are is missing, missing from too many lives and too many homes. They have abandoned their responsibilities, acting like boys instead of men. And the foundations of our families are weaker because of it,” Obama said in a 2008 speech.

“You and I know how true this is, true everywhere, but nowhere is it more true than in the African American community. We know that more than half of all black children live in single-parent households, a number that has doubled — doubled — since we were children,” Obama continued.

“We know the statistics — that children who grow up without a father are five times more likely to live in poverty and commit crime; nine times more likely to drop out of schools and 20 times more likely to end up in prison. They are more likely to have behavioral problems, or run away from home or become teenage parents themselves. And the foundations of our community are weaker because of it,” he added.

“Funny,” Wheeler comments. “I didn’t hear in the background, Nina Turner screeching ‘How dare you?’ and ‘The nerve of you!’ when Barack Obama made these exact same points.”

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Is Generation Z COMPLETELY Reshaping the Nation as We Know It?? | Ep 1113
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Is Generation Z COMPLETELY Reshaping the Nation as We Know It?? | Ep 1113

Liberal media calls out MAGA influencers instead of Charlotte stabber



A disturbing video of the murder of a 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee, Iryna Zarutska, has been making the rounds on social media — leaving citizens frustrated that crime is so out of control in America.

However, the mainstream media doesn’t view the attack the same way.

“Let me tell you the angle that the mainstream media took. It wasn’t, ‘Horrible criminal who should have been behind bars murders innocent woman in Charlotte, North Carolina.’ It wasn’t that,” BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales says.

Rather, publications like Axios have chosen to write headlines like, “Stabbing video fuels MAGA’s crime message.”


“Yep, it’s those pesky MAGA Republicans once again. Those MAGA influencers. It might as well have said, ‘MAGA pounces on stabbing video to fuel their crime message.’ Like, make this make sense. So, in the article, the problem is not that we have crazy psycho murderers roaming the streets,” Gonzales says.

“The problem is just MAGA influencers are drawing repeated attention to elevate the issue of urban crime and accuse mainstream media of uncovering shocking cases,” she continues, noting that it gets worse.

“You only thought that that was the bottom. I haven’t hit the bottom yet. There is no bottom typically when it comes to these people, these despicable mainstream media hacks. ... It’s not just that they say that MAGA is elevating the issue of urban crime. It’s not that urban crime is elevating itself because it’s happening too frequently. That’s not it,” she explains.

“The problem is security cameras,” she says, shocked.

The Axios article reads, “The rising number of surveillance cameras in public spaces, including on Charlotte’s light rail, has become a big accelerant in these cases.”

“The video is easily shared or leaked, and can instantly pollinate across social media — a visual counterpoint to statistics showing crime decreases,” a bullet under the article’s previous point reads.

“So, the problem really is that surveillance cameras exist, and we shouldn’t have surveillance cameras because then ... if a tree falls in the woods and nobody hears it, does it actually happen?” Gonzales mocks.

“Or is the problem you for deciding that we should have things like law and order in this country? Is the problem you for expecting too much, average citizen, who doesn’t like all of this crime happening around them?” she continues. “Maybe the problem is you. Certainly not the murderer, according to Axios.”

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Whitlock: Why this murder is the ‘death knell’ for Black Lives Matter



As the mainstream media and leftist politicians rush to sympathize with the alleged murderer of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska, BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock is pointing out how real Americans are feeling — and it’s far from the same way.

“As someone that understands the power of social media and that the social media deal drove the entire Black Lives Matter movement, and it’s very influential, that even with this legacy media blackout, this incident I’m calling the death knell for black culture, the image of black Americans,” Whitlock says.

“It feels like irrevocable harm to the reputation of black people. Everybody is posting videos. Everybody’s posting stats about black-on-white crime. And none of this should be surprising,” he continues.


While Black Lives Matter relied on their “fact” that black men needed to live in fear of being gunned down by white police officers every day, Americans are now waking up and realizing that wasn’t exactly the truth.

“At some point, we’re going to show you what black criminals are doing to white people. And there’s far more examples of this than white police officers behaving inappropriately. And there will be far more video showing white police officers defending themselves from aggressive black criminal suspects,” Whitlock says.

“And the question I’m asking today, among other things, it’s like the people that supported Black Lives Matter, when are they going to apologize? When are they going to publicly acknowledge that their Black Lives Matter movement has created this backlash that has put black people’s reputation at the lowest point?” he continues.

“Our reputation is at the lowest point in American history. And the Black Lives Matter movement created this, created the racial idolatry, and helped drive this new form of racial tribalism,” he says, adding, “a form of tribalism that America was moving away from.”

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