'We are not afraid': Glenn Beck, Allie Beth Stuckey, and Alex Stein jump into the breach to complete Charlie Kirk's tour



Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck and BlazeTV hosts Allie Beth Stuckey and Alex Stein are among the conservatives who have agreed to step into the breach and complete Charlie Kirk's fall campus tour in the wake of the Turning Point USA founder's assassination earlier this month.

Turning Point USA, now under the tutelage of Erika Kirk, announced on Monday that the tour would resume, starting with a stop at the University of Minnesota.

The widowed mother of two evidently meant it when she told the nation, "If you thought that my husband's mission was powerful before, you have no idea. You have no idea what you just have unleashed across this entire country."

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"Nobody can match the energy and hard work and drive that Charlie had — I mean, literally nobody," the eponymous host of "Prime Time with Alex Stein" told Blaze News. "So it's going to be up to a team of people to continue Charlie's mission of defending the First Amendment as well as the entire Constitution."

Beck, whom Kirk asked to participate in the tour prior to his assassination, told Blaze News, "I begged them not to have me help them complete the college tour because I'm not Charlie Kirk. I can't do what Charlie Kirk does."

Nevertheless, the bereaved conservative indicated that he will do his best on Oct. 9, teaching young Americans about their country's history and honoring his late friend.

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Following TPUSA's announcement regarding the tour, Allie Beth Stuckey noted, "Honored to join Turning Point’s college tour this fall. We're not going anywhere. For Jesus, for America, for Charlie."

'We have to keep Charlie's mission alive.'

Stuckey, who will be at Louisiana State University on Oct. 27, subsequently revealed that Kirk had asked her to join him on the tour prior to his assassination by a leftist coward and noted that while the date has changed, the directive remains the same.

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The shooting on September 10 serves as a painful reminder of the continued threat posed by the radical left.

Beck underscored to Blaze News that the message sent by the tour's completion is, "We are not afraid. We will not sit down. We will not comply. We will not hate. We will not respond in kind. We will love you. We will serve you. But we will continue to speak."

"You have to live fearlessly," said Stein, who has been attacked on numerous occasions by violent liberals. "You have to live unapologetically."

Stein, whose next date on the tour is Sept. 24 at the University of Central Florida, suggested further that the refusal to throw in the towel after the bloodletting earlier this month is "going to inspire a lot of people to actually go out there and have difficult conversations."

Other guests and speakers on the tour include Megyn Kelly and Tucker Carlson, along with Republicans including: Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte, Utah Gov. Spencer Cox, Utah Sen. Mike Lee, and Ohio gubernatorial nominee Vivek Ramaswamy.

"We have to keep Charlie's mission alive because that's what Charlie would have wanted," Stein said.

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'Exactly what he wanted': Charlie Kirk's widow is taking over as CEO of Turning Point USA



Erika Kirk, the widow of assassinated Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, stated shortly after her husband's death, "They killed Charlie because he preached a message of patriotism, faith, and of God's merciful love. But they should all know this: If you thought that my husband's mission was powerful before, you have no idea — you have no idea what you just have unleashed across this entire country."

'We will not surrender or kneel before evil. We will carry on.'

"You have no idea the fire that you have ignited within this wife," continued Mrs. Kirk. "The cries of this widow will echo around the world like a battle cry. To everyone listening tonight across America: The movement my husband built will not die. It won't. I refuse to let that happen."

Megyn Kelly, one of the fallen patriot's friends to guest-host "The Charlie Kirk Show" in Phoenix this week, revealed on Thursday with the show's executive producer, Andrew Kolvet, that Kirk's widow will take a leading role in fulfilling Charlie's mission — as CEO and board chair of Turning Point USA.

"This is exactly what he wanted," said Kolvet.

"It had to be, right?" said Kelly. "I don't think anybody would accept a leader of the organization who they didn't feel completely understood Charlie and would be 100% dedicated to fulfilling his vision for where this group is going."

Kirk's chief of staff, Michael McCoy, said, "She's our retribution."

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Erika Kirk, the founder of the nonprofit Everyday Heroes Like You and the mother of the late CEO's two children, will helm an organization that has a presence at over 3,500 American schools, over 2,000 TPUSA student groups, and over 800 TPUSA faith groups. Kolvet recently indicated that TPUSA has been inundated with well over 37,000 new chapter requests.

According to its tax filings, TPUSA's revenue for the fiscal year ending June 2024 was $85 million.

The TPUSA board indicated that Erika Kirk's election was unanimous.

"All of us at Turning Point USA have a special role in carrying Charlie Kirk's mantle and completing his vision of bringing us all closer to our Lord and fostering a prosperous country for generations to come," the board said in a statement.

"As Charlie always said, 'We have a country to save.' We will not surrender or kneel before evil. We will carry on," continued the board. "The attempt to destroy Charlie's work will become our chance to make it more powerful and enduring than ever before."

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Vanity Fair smears Charlie Kirk — but race-hustling author just ends up attacking common sense



Ta-Nehisi Coates, the race obsessive who suggested in 2020 that rioting was a "natural reaction" among black Americans, has joined David Corn of Mother Jones and other radicals in smearing Charlie Kirk after his assassination, allegedly by a leftist homosexual.

In his desperation to demonize Kirk, Coates — who penned hagiographies for Breonna Taylor and Michael Brown — provided the public with a reminder both of his own radicalism and the left's intolerance of common sense.

The critical race theorist was apparently prickled when some of his fellow travelers — namely Ezra Klein of the New York Times, Sally Jenkins of the Atlantic, and California Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom — dared to say nice things about Charlie Kirk.

Coates evidently decided to compensate for his liberal peers' relatively decent remarks by penning an anti-Kirk polemic for Vanity Fair, thereby contributing further to the genre of conservative demonization that appears to have helped set the stage for the Turning Point USA founder's slaying.

In his Sept. 16 article, Coates, a Vanity Fair contributing editor, argued that Klein, Jenkins, Newsom, and other members of the "political class" were "sanitizing" Kirk's legacy by focusing on his numerous good-spirited campus engagements with people from different walks of life, instead of complaining about the murdered patriot's politics, which Coates claims "amounted to little more than a loathing of those whose mere existence provoked his ire."

Coates, who wrote in one of his books that the firefighters and police who died in the process of saving lives on 9/11 "were not human to me" but rather "menaces of nature," noted:

It is not just, for instance, that Kirk held disagreeable views — that he was pro-life, that he believed in public executions, or that he rejected the separation of church and state. It’s that Kirk reveled in open bigotry. Indeed, claims of Kirk’s "civility" are tough to square with his penchant for demeaning members of the LGBTQ+ community as "freaks" and referring to trans people with the slur "tranny."

Coates was clearly upset by Kirk's use of the term "freaks"; however, in context, it's clear that the TPUSA founder was being charitable, as more damning words may have been more appropriate.

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Kirk stated on a Dec. 9, 2022, episode of "The Charlie Kirk Show" that the Biden administration was "being run by freaks. That's not an exaggeration; that's not hyperbole. At the highest stakes imaginable, people that have very deep-seated mental problems are running some of the most consequential government programs conceivable."

Kirk specifically referred to Demetre Daskalakis and Samuel Brinton, a pair of individuals who fit the bill.

Daskalakis is the sex-obsessed homosexual "activist physician" who until recently served as director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases and previously served as Joe Biden's monkeypox adviser.

'I want to be able to get married, buy a home, have kids, allow them to ride their bike till the sun goes down, send them to a good school, have a low-crime neighborhood, not to have my kid be taught the lesbian, gay, transgender garbage in their school.'

Blaze News previously reported that Daskalakis, an LGBT activist with a track record of pushing drugs to facilitate promiscuous sexual behavior among homosexuals, had a history of denigrating straight Americans, sharing satanic imagery on social media, and showing up in public in bondage gear.

Brinton, a mustachioed nuclear engineer who ran a "Physics of Kink" class and made a habit of dressing in women's clothing, served as deputy assistant secretary for spent fuel and waste disposition in the Office of Nuclear Energy at the Energy Department. He pleaded guilty last year to petit larceny for stealing women's luggage.

Brinton's profile on CLAW Corp.'s website reportedly stated that he has "been active in the kink world since 2013, [hosted] monthly kink parties in their dungeon in Washington, DC, and estimate they have spanked over 2,000 cute butts."

In addition to suggesting Kirk was bigoted for calling sexual deviants "freaks," for criticizing racially motivated black-on-white crime, for expressing concern over Haiti's infestation by "demonic voodoo," and for suggesting the southern border was transformed under the previous administration into the "dumping ground of the planet," Coates faulted Kirk for another common-sense assertion, namely:

The American way of life is very simple. I want to be able to get married, buy a home, have kids, allow them to ride their bike till the sun goes down, send them to a good school, have a low-crime neighborhood, not to have my kid be taught the lesbian, gay, transgender garbage in their school while also not having them have to hear the Muslim call to prayer five times a day.

Just in case advocacy for homeownership and marriage didn't strike readers as bigoted, Coates — who reportedly likened the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas terror attacks against Israel to the Nat Turner slave uprising in 1831 — insinuated that Kirk was anti-Semitic, even though days earlier, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the fallen patriot was a "lion-hearted friend of Israel" who "fought the lies and stood tall for Judeo-Christian civilization."

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After rattling off numerous mainstream American views Kirk espoused, Coates stated, "Kirk subscribed to some of the most disreputable and harmful beliefs that this country has ever known."

Coates, who is the Sterling Brown chair in the English department of the federally funded Howard University, continued his bitter rant, insinuating that Kirk got a taste of his own medicine — writing that "Kirk endorsed hurting people to advance his preferred policy outcomes" — calling Kirk an "unreconstructed white supremacist," and suggesting that his public life was cancerous.

The Vanity Fair piece concludes by hinting that Kirk, a man who worked diligently to improve his country and promote civic engagement among American youth, was like the "men who sought to raise an empire of slavery."

Blaze News has reached out to Vanity Fair for comment.

While Coates appears to have moved on from writing comic books, his hateful article demonstrates that he's not finished writing fiction.

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