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The 'red-pilled' youth: The most important issue to college-age men
BlazeTV host Liz Wheeler spent her fall season speaking at college campuses and private events across the country — and she recalls one question on the tip of every young man’s tongue.
“I started to notice this fall that there’s a pattern in the questions that I was getting asked off the record. They were questions that were very different from the questions that I was asked on the record,” Wheeler explains.
“Their question to me was asking if I knew why the Trump administration’s mass deportations were off to what appears to feel like a slow start,” she says.
And it’s not because they’re “racist,” as many on the left would accuse them of being.
“The reason why they care is because of the implications that — it's not just illegal immigration, but mass migration has had on their lives. A lot of these young men … are more conservative than the men of my generation, the Millennial generation,” she says, noting that a common label placed on these young men is “red-pilled.”
“They’re embracing traditional values a little bit more. They want to get married. They want to have children. They are more religious. They want to buy a home. They want the stability of, you know, what maybe our parents would have sought after,” she continues.
“And yet, these young men on these college campuses are facing a problem as they get their college degree thinking that they’re going to be prepared for the workforce. They’re going to be able to get a good job, have a paycheck, be able to support a wife, and provide for a family,” she adds.
These men are instead finding that they’re not able to get jobs, buy homes, or support families.
“Even if they have a decent-paying job, they’re not able to afford a down payment on a home because 25 years ago they could have bought, you know, a split-level starter home in a suburban neighborhood somewhere in the Midwest for $150,000 or $175,000, and they could afford a down payment on that,” Wheeler explains.
“But today, that same house is like $375,000, and $375,000, even if they could maybe afford the monthly payment of a mortgage for a house of that price, they cannot afford the down payment. And so they feel very helpless,” she says, pointing out that this is where immigration comes in.
“They look at these millions upon millions, tens of millions of illegals who are taking up these homes, and they realize that the demand for these homes from these illegals is part of what drives the price so high, so high that it’s unaffordable to these young men,” she continues.
And these concerns remind Wheeler of someone else.
“This is what Charlie Kirk used to do. He used to speak to these young men on college campuses and not just — he wasn’t just lecturing them. Charlie wasn’t just there to shake his finger and wag his finger and tell them why they’re wrong,” she explains.
“Charlie listened. He listened to their grievances. He listened to what these young men were experiencing. And he didn’t just listen to set himself up for, like, you know, an own-the-lib type of response,” she continues. “He listened so that he could help solve the problem.”
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Journey's Jonathan Cain pays tribute to Charlie Kirk with 'No One Else'
Journey’s Jonathan Cain first met Charlie Kirk in 2016 outside the Republican National Convention in Cleveland.
The conservative firebrand was in rare form, recalls Cain. The activist held a Big Government Sucks sign and vowed, “We’re gonna change the world.”
'I said to Paula, "He could be president someday,"' he says. 'He had the drive and the wisdom of the ages. … He reached generations.'
Kirk did just that. He started a youth movement in Turning Point USA. The organization empowered conservative college students nationwide and played a pivotal role in President Donald Trump’s 2024 re-election campaign.
His viral debates woke up countless Gen Zers to the power of faith and conservative values. And following his Sept. 10 murder, his legacy sparked a conservative college revival.
'No one else'
Cain, a singer/songwriter and keyboardist for Journey for 45 years, got to know Kirk via his wife, President Donald Trump’s spiritual adviser Paula White-Cain.
“It was such a blow to free speech, a mockery of everything he had done,” Cain tells Align of Kirk’s murder. The musician decided to write a pastor appreciation song for the slain leader.
“Not many pastors came close to what he accomplished … the revival, bringing kids back to church, having them look at their family values,” Cain says.
That impulse became “No One Else,” a new single dedicated to Kirk’s memory and cultural impact.
No one else reached generations
Could heal with truth and conversation
Setting all differences aside
No one else could question hate
Turn hearts and minds with true debate
From the battle our nation will arise
Faithful servant, you’ve done well
No one else
Like a few songs in his decades-long repertoire, this one came to him quickly.
“I went into my studio. ... Thirty minutes later, I fleshed out everything I wanted to say,” he says.
Men of faith
The track, like Kirk’s death, brought out the worst of the venomous left.
“The social commentary was really disgusting,” Cain recalls of some online reactions. “They accused me of trying to make money. … There’s very little money in music any more.”
Cain is an industry veteran, so he shrugged off the naysayers. He still seems stunned that he tried to get Rolling Stone magazine interested in covering his song, to no avail.
“They didn’t want to touch an interview with me,” he says. “The song was about Charlie.”
Like Kirk, Cain is a man of deep faith, as is his wife. The Cains’ Trump connection found them running into Kirk often over the years. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member was continually struck by how Kirk got “into the hearts and minds” of his young followers, sharing his conservative Christian values along the way.
“I said to Paula, ‘He could be president someday,'” he says. “He had the drive and the wisdom of the ages. … He reached generations.”
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'He saved you for music'
Cain credits his father, a “prayerful man,” for instilling faith in him at an early age. His faith was shaken by a 1958 fire at his school in Chicago, a disaster that took the lives of 93 children and three nuns.
“How could that evil happen?” he asked himself at the time.
His father, again, nudged him toward a spiritual path. He took the youngster to music school, imploring him to share his gifts with others.
“He saved you for music,” his father told him. The 8-year-old couldn’t initially get his hand around a guitar, but he did as he was told, and the music began to flow through him.
That wasn’t all.
“The idea of Jesus stayed with me, firmly planted,” he says.
Fateful Journey
The rest, as they say, is music history. Cain released his first solo record in 1976, joined the Babys three years later, and, in 1980, took over as the keyboardist for Journey. The band became a sensation, with Cain contributing keyboards and critical songwriting for the iconic band.
He played a key role in the band’s most famous song, “Don’t Stop Believin’,” with lyrics inspired by his father.
Now, at 75, he is prepping for Journey’s 2026 tour, complete with a reconstructed knee. Journey may keep rocking, but Cain knows when it’s time to step away from the band.
“I don’t want to die on the road. I’ve been out there for 50 years. … It feels like the time to get off the train is here,” he says.
He admits that matters have not always been smooth with longtime bandmates like Journey founder Neal Schon, including legal dustups in recent years.
“It’s sad, but it happens to most bands,” he says, noting that Mick Jagger and Keith Richards aren’t mates in the traditional sense, given their decades of acrimony. Still, the show must go on, and Cain appreciates his bandmates and, even more, the fans.
“They’re the gold that has given me a career. ... I’m grateful and thankful for them. I want to go out the right way,” he says. “I’ll be 77 to 78 [by the time the tour ends]. That’s enough.”
'Do I have to stay until I'm assassinated?' Marjorie Taylor Greene lashes out over calls to finish her term
Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia has had some choice words for her critics following her unexpected decision to retire in the middle of her term.
Greene announced she will be retiring on January 5, 2026, before completing her term after a public falling out with her longtime ally President Donald Trump. Greene claimed the dispute originated over her calls to release the Epstein files, an effort Trump later came around to support. Other reports suggest the two split after the White House quietly discouraged Greene from pursuing higher office.
'F**k you in the sweetest most southern drawl I can enunciate.'
Regardless of the root cause, Trump disowned one of his most loyal supporters, prompting Greene to call it quits. At the same time, Greene has had some harsh words for critics who said she should at least serve out the rest of the term she was elected to.
"Oh I haven’t suffered enough for you while you post all day behind a screen?" Greene asked Mike Cernovich, who called for her to finish serving her term. "Do I have to stay until I’m assassinated like our friend Charlie Kirk. Will that be good enough for you then?"
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"S**t posting on the internet all day isn’t fighting," Greene added. "Get off YOUR ass and run for Congress. I fought harder than anyone in the real arena, not social media. Put down your little pebbles and put your money where your mouth is."
Greene went on to equate calls from critics to finish serving her term to "typical Republican men" demanding women to "get back in the kitchen." Notably this was on her official government account.
"Typical of Republican men telling a woman to 'shut up get back in the kitchen and fix me something to eat,'" Greene said. "F**k you in the sweetest most southern drawl I can enunciate."
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"I have been trying to tell all you 'men' that our kitchen pantry is empty with spider webs, our house has been ransacked, the windows and doors are broken and busted, and the greedy rich bastards have twisted your minds into a sick state that you all continue in the two party toxic political system and act like college football playoffs yet is burying you and your children and their children and their children in a pine box in a shallow grave."
"Get off your ass and fix your own damn food and clean up the kitchen when you're done."
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