Steve Deace: The void left by our ‘most important general’ is as big as a movement



One of the last times BlazeTV host Steve Deace saw Charlie Kirk, Deace recalls having a long conversation with him to discuss the state of the country and the conservative movement.

Deace’s wife, who was there, said later, “I just have a feeling that whatever we do moving forward, he’s going to be a big part of it.”

When the pair last spoke on Tuesday, Deace received a text from Charlie: “Thank you, you are a dear friend.”

And he is among the thousands of Americans who can count themselves forever changed — for the better — by the Turning Point USA founder.


“I’m devastated. I’m angry,” Deace says through tears. “But now is not the time for anger. There will be a time. There will be a time, and it is coming soon. But we have to mourn first so that that anger does not eat us alive.”

“Charlie was the best of us,” he continues. “He was the brightest of the lights. He was literally one of the last people left on our side still trying to change minds, still trying to persuade, who hadn’t given up. And that frankly was just too much light for the darkness in our world right now.”

“If the enemy wanted to target our most important general, he did. The void that is left here is incalculable. There is no single person that could possibly step into the shoes of everything Charlie was a part of and helped to lead or made happen. It’s going to take more than a village. It’s going to take a movement to fill his shoes,” he adds.

While Deace is at a loss as to why Charlie was taken, he believes there must be a reason.

“I am going to trust that a God who did not even spare his own son for me or Charlie or for you, whose son the grave could not hold and whose last enemy, death, he conquered,” Deace says, “I am going to trust that someday in the future I’m going to look back on this, and I’m going to say, ‘Devil, that was the dumbest thing you could have possibly done.’”

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A storm is brewing in Iowa — and Republicans should take note: 'There are danger signs'



In recent years, Republicans have enjoyed sweeping victories in the red state of Iowa, most recently with President Donald Trump's 13-point statewide victory in the 2024 presidential election. However, there are warning signs that this monumental lead is beginning to erode.

For the first time in three years, Democrats managed to break the Republicans' supermajority after Iowa Democrat Catelin Drey defeated Republican Christopher Prosch for an open state Senate seat on Tuesday. Drey won the district by a jaw-dropping 10 points, which is a dramatic departure from Trump's 11-point victory in the district back in November.

'If it can happen in Woodbury County, Iowa, this can happen anywhere in America.'

Steve Deace, a native Iowan and host of the "Steve Deace Show" on BlazeTV, cautioned that this shift is part of a growing political phenomenon in the Hawkeye State that poses a real threat to Republican leadership.

"This is not an isolated incident," Deace told Blaze News. "They have been doing this to us for several years now. If they can do it in Woodbury County, which Trump won by 23 points in 2024, then they can pretty much do it absolutely everywhere.”

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Normally, Republicans easily sail to victory in Western Iowa, Deace said. They could even nominate "a ham sandwich for Congress" and it would win because "there is no blue area in that part of the state." But now that Trump will no longer appear on the ballot, Republicans may have a tougher time.

"What we have seen as a trend line for the last several years now is that if Trump is not on the ballot, our people just don't turn out. That's just a fact."

After Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds announced she would not seek re-election, her imminent departure opened the playing field to a slew of candidates. Notably, Reynolds endorsed Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida's presidential bid in 2023.

On the Democratic side, former Assistant Attorney General Rob Sand has pitched himself as a gun-toting moderate in an effort to capture some of the Republican vote. On the Republican side, Congressman Randy Feenstra has been considered the front-runner, but Deace says he "excites no one."

"This is just a complete indictment of the complacency of Republicans," Deace told Blaze News. "There's energy on the other side."

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One source familiar with Iowa's ongoing political battles told Blaze News that the GOP's inability to put forward an energizing candidate is the product of a perfect political storm.

Sand has focused much of his campaign on improving water quality and advocating against the CO2 pipeline projects, echoing the concerns of landowners and farmers. In doing so, Sand and other Democrats have made an effort to make Republicans synonymous with the pipeline, furthering the apparent divide between the GOP candidates and their constituents.

"There is a lot of grassroots to see [Feenstra] as the pipeline guy. ... There's just not excitement for candidates right now," the source told Blaze News.

"Our people are just not motivated, by and large, to vote for the Republican Party brand as a brand anymore," Deace told Blaze News. "And so you've got to prove to them you're worth their time and effort for them to show up. And I think that this is a wake-up call for the next midterm."

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The source, who was granted anonymity to speak freely about Iowa's political landscape, said the disconnect between the conservative base and the lackluster candidates is ultimately because of external influence in politics.

"There is a little fatigue," the source told Blaze News. "There are a lot of state senators and state reps who are very good, very conservative, if not the most conservative in the country overall. We're so conservative that the moderates that are in there get more conservative voting records because they just don't want to take the flak."

"But there's a money factor in play," the source added, speaking about lawmakers who ascend to national politics. "There's a reason a bunch of these guys don't want to go to D.C. They want to stay home. They got a farm to worry about."

“There are danger signs," Deace told Blaze News. "Because if it can happen in Woodbury County, Iowa, this can happen anywhere in America."

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3 Senate races that could flip the balance of power: 'This is a wake-up call'



With the 2026 primaries fast approaching, there are three U.S. Senate seats onlookers should keep an eye on.

Republicans are currently enjoying a supermajority after sweeping the 2024 elections, controlling the White House, the House of Representatives, and the Senate.

The freshman senator narrowly won his seat in 2020 by just one point.

After November, Republicans flipped four seats: Ohio, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Montana. These victories flipped the Senate and put Republicans in a comfortable 53-seat majority while Democrats fell back to just 47 seats.

Although the GOP has a healthy majority, there are some more potential pick-up opportunities — and losses — for Republicans going into next year's primaries.

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One of the most contentious Senate races will be for Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff's seat in Georgia. Several prominent challengers have emerged in recent months, most notably with Republican Rep. Mike Collins throwing his hat in the race back in July. Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has also been floated as a potential candidate, but she has not formally moved to run for the seat.

The freshman senator narrowly won his seat in 2020 by just one point against Republican incumbent Sen. David Perdue. Given this razor-thin margin, Republicans have set their sights on taking back Ossoff's seat, and early polling suggests it's within reach.

The Cook Political Report currently rates Ossoff's seat as a toss-up, and some polls mirror this rating. In a hypothetical race between Ossoff and Collins, the Democratic incumbent has polled with an average three-point advantage, according to RealClearPolitics. Another recent poll shows Collins trailing Ossoff by just one point, according to findings from TechnoMetrica Institute of Policy and Politics.

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Another pick-up opportunity for Republicans emerged in Michigan after Democratic Sen. Gary Peters announced his retirement in January. Several Democratic candidates, like Rep. Haley Stevens and state Sen. Mallory McMorrow, have since launched their own campaign bids, but the future nominee will inevitably have to put up a fight against Republican challengers.

Former Republican Rep. Mike Rogers is considered the frontrunner among the GOP candidates in the Michigan Senate race. Rogers previously ran and narrowly lost against Democratic Sen. Elissa Slotkin in 2024, but he has since relaunched his Senate campaign with the hopes of flipping the swing-state seat.

Slotkin managed to defeat Rogers by just 0.3% in November, signaling the support behind the Republican challenger. Earlier in the year, Rogers was polling several points ahead of his Democratic counterparts, and Cook Political Report has rated the Senate seat a toss-up.

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Although Republicans are poised to potentially flip some seats, there may be some warning signs in the Midwest.

Republican Sen. Joni Ernst (Iowa) reportedly will not seek re-election in 2026, leaving a vacancy in the deep-red state. The Cook Political Report has rated the seat as leaning Republican, and the GOP has maintained a prominent presence in Iowa at both the local and national level.

Despite the success Republicans have enjoyed in the Hawkeye State, Democrats have begun to secure their own electoral victories. Most recently, Democrat Catelin Drey defeated Republican Christopher Prosch for an open state Senate seat, flipping the GOP's supermajority for the first time in three years.

Steve Deace, a native Iowan and host of "The Steve Deace Show" on BlazeTV, told Blaze News that this swing in favor of Democrats is taking place because Iowans are not energized by any Republican candidates they have to choose from.

"There are danger signs, because if it can happen in Woodbury County, Iowa, this can happen anywhere in America," Deace said.

"Our people are just not motivated, by and large, to vote for the Republican Party brand as a brand anymore. So you’ve got to prove to them you’re worth their time and effort for them to show up, and I think that this is a wake-up call for the next midterm."

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Chip and Joanna Gaines embrace LGBTQ ‘spirit of the age’ and ‘punch back’ at Christian fans



Chip and Joanna Gaines’ new show, “Back to the Frontier,” has stirred up backlash from their Christian supporters, as it features a homosexual couple who used a surrogate to become fathers to their two boys.

The Gaineses did not take the backlash well, with Chip doubling down on their position by writing in a post on X: “Talk, ask qustns, listen ... maybe even learn. Too much to ask of modern American Christian culture. Judge 1st, understand later/never.”

“It’s a sad sunday when ‘non believers’ have never been confronted with hate or vitriol until they are introduced to a modern American Christian,” he added.

BlazeTV host Steve Deace of the “Steve Deace Show” is disappointed in the Christian couple.


“You are watching Chip and Joanna Gaines now continue to descend into the abyss,” Deace says. “Now, what I think will be fascinating about them is they have chosen — well, Chip in particular tried to be a keyboard commando tough guy the last time they got exposed and went about not just deconstructing his faith, but reconstructing and attempting to say, no, they actually represent the true light of Christianity.”

“And that generated a way bigger level of backlash than what I’ve seen with others who have gone down this road,” he adds.

Deace explains that this is a common pattern that unfolds when it comes to Christian television stars like Chip and Joanna.

“What you see is using us to gain an audience. And then once you gain a certain foothold of that audience and credibility with said audience, to the point now that you cross over as something that’s known mainstream,” Deace explains.

“Once that crossover happens, then the offer is brought to you from the spirit of the age. Bow to the shibboleth of the damned, the rainbow jihad. And they pretty much all do,” he adds.

Now, what Chip has done by calling out his own base may have caused irreversible damage.

“They chose not to just abandon their base or assume that their base would not know and just stay with them no matter what. They chose to punch back at their base. So we’ll see if it works out for them or not,” Deace says. “It’s a bold choice, Cotton.”

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Pro-life leader: Democrats only ‘win’ the abortion debate by hiding what abortion is



When it comes to abortion, the Democrats never describe what they’re intent on defending. Instead, they pick and choose words that represent a woman’s freedom rather than the murdering of a baby.

“They pretend to be talking about abortion, and they talk about women’s rights, the Constitution, women’s health freedom. Well, we agree with all those things. We just don’t agree with the killing of babies,” pro-life leader Frank Pavone tells BlazeTV host Steve Deace on the “Steve Deace Show.”

“They don’t want to admit that the baby’s even there,” he adds.

This is why when it comes to changing the way Americans see abortion, Pavone points to a South Dakota law that required that abortionists say to women getting the procedure, “This procedure is about to destroy a whole, separate, unique, living human being.”


“The law actually provided those words as what that abortionist had to say to the woman,” Pavone says. “Now, Planned Parenthood and the abortion industry objected, and they said, ‘Oh, that’s just ideology and belief. You can’t require somebody to say that.’ And when the court looked at it, the conclusion they came to was: This is not ideology or belief. This is simply scientific fact.”

“The court said, ‘No, no, no, no. The difference with this is, this is the only procedure that involves the intentional destruction of a human life,’” he continues.

“And so that is where I think we have to begin. How do we get to the end of abortion? Maybe we ought to start by defining abortion,” he adds, noting that this is why there is so much miscommunication between the left and the right when abortion becomes the topic of debate.

“In a sense, we’ve had a pretend debate in America over abortion. We think of the word, we’re thinking about the destruction of a whole, separate, unique, living human life. We’re thinking about an act of violence. The other side uses the same word, but they’re thinking about freedom and rights and women’s health,” he explains.

“It’s like, what in the world are we talking about? What is an abortion? And the only way that the other side ... ‘wins’ any of their battles is precisely by not facing that question,” he adds.

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‘Children as assets’: Gay couple’s viral IVF video reveals just how far Obergefell has gone



A video has gone viral of a gay man explaining how he and his partner are choosing two embryos via in vitro fertilization that they will be transferring to two surrogates.

“We’re so happy that we decided to purchase as many frozen eggs as we could, 40, because that leaves us with these 10 embryos for two babies. And we’re told that the majority of journeys take two to three transfers to get pregnant,” the man explained.

“We’ve decided which embryo on both sides that we want to transfer to our two surrogates. We’ll keep you updated as we do the transfers and as we find out whether or not we’re pregnant,” he continued.

“But we’re not going to share the sex of both babies until we’re officially pregnant, just like any other expecting parents would,” he added.

BlazeTV host Steve Deace does not like what he’s hearing.


“So, that’s a homosexual man talking in depth, in detail, about essentially trying to manufacture a human life on an open market with him and his gay lover. And this video went everywhere. It was viral everywhere on social media over the weekend,” he explains.

Deace cites Katy Faust — founder and president of Them Before Us, a global children’s rights nonprofit that focuses on a child’s right to a mother and a father — who blames the Obergefell v. Hodges Supreme Court case for same-sex couples manufacturing human life.

The Obergefell v. Hodges’ Supreme Court case decided that the fundamental right to marry is guaranteed to same-sex couples.

“Her argument really is that Obergefell is the genesis of all these kinds of videos ... and Katy points out, the central core of her premise, the best that I can understand it, is that since Obergefell, the paradigm of child-rearing and procreation has completely flipped,” Deace says.

“And in the past, what happened for thousands of years essentially of human existence is that children and their priorities were put ahead of the adults,” he continues. “And now what we have is that the children are assets to be acquired.”

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MIDTERMS 2028: Here's what Republicans must prioritize



It may feel like election season is over, but it’s just beginning, as the midterms are right around the corner.

And with President Donald Trump doing such a phenomenal job on issues like the border and immigration, BlazeTV host Steve Deace is curious as to how Republicans will be able to mobilize the same voters who came out in 2024.

“As hard as it was to assemble the coalition that it took to win the last election, I think it’s going to be harder to keep it together, because these are not groups of people that are used to necessarily being aligned on an issue-by-issue basis and the traditional Venn diagram of our politics,” Deace explains.

“And I have a little experience with this as one of the OG COVID scamdemic narrative dissenters. I found myself aligned with people like RFK Jr. and Naomi Wolf and Joe Rogan that I was not aligned with on a myriad of other issues, but we had one thing in common,” he continues.


“And that was we smelled a rat and we were seeking out truth,” he adds.

Which is why Deace believes that “the issues that are trending are going to be very important in telling the tale in what kind of voter comes out to vote in November of ‘26.”

“I’m actually writing a book on a topic very similar to this right now, and it goes to the base of what I believe actually drives all issue vote choice and others. Academic research backs this up. And that is voters' emotions,” pollster Brent Buchanan agrees.

“If you use the 2024 election as a case study, the turnout among men was the highest as a percentage that it’s been in at least my lifetime in being in politics. Why? Because a huge swath of men were absolutely ticked off, angered, upset, frustrated, you know, kind of all within that anger bucket of emotions,” Buchanan says.

“And that is the number-one driver of turnout in elections," he says. "Anxiety is the number-one driver of people digging into what they believe or looking up and trying to figure out where else can I go to make my anxiety go away."

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Civilizational collapse: Less than 15% of 30-year-olds are married homeowners



Americans used to settle down and start families in their 20s, but according to a chart that went viral all over social media this past weekend, that’s not even happening once they hit 30.

The chart revealed a steep drop-off from 1990, where it sat around 45%, plummeting to under 15% in 2025.

“This is a loss. ... This is like how ‘WALL-E’ happens. No exaggeration. This is the death of a culture. This is without spiritual revival. You cannot materialistically return from this,” BlazeTV host Steve Deace says, horrified.

“If you’re the Chicoms, you don’t need to risk a nuclear war. Just wait this thing out, man,” he adds.


And Deace has a few theories as to why there has been such a significant decline in married homeowners by the age of 30.

“This is unrecoverable. Percentage of 30-year-olds who are both married and homeowners in the last 75 years. You won’t dig out of that. And there’s all kinds of reasons. There’s economic reasons that are very valid. Cultural reasons that are very valid. Familial reasons — where are the dads that modeled this? Very valid,” Deace says.

“Legacy gone, responsibility gone, the family unit gone. If that is not fixed or course-corrected, I’m just going to tell you right now, your kids and grandkids — and I’m talking about my own — they’re going to live in a communist country and/or need to know Arabic. You are not going to Netflix-and-chill your way past that,” he continues.

“So that graphic right there, my friends,” he adds, “is where the rubber hits the road.”

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Can young right-wing men save themselves from 'cultural death'?



Young men have been shunning the left to show an interest in religion, the right, and traditional lifestyles at promising rates — but that doesn’t mean our country is in the clear.

Particularly because, of all members of society in America, young, white, Christian men face the biggest uphill battle when it comes to the culture wars raging all around us.

BlazeTV host Steve Deace is well aware.

“It is true that if you are a young, white male, particularly one who is a Christian and either desires to be married to a woman and have children with her or already is, virtually every institution that matters in this culture has you marked for cultural death,” Deace says.

“You are on a most-wanted enemies list,” he adds.


In order to change this, Deace says we need to "confront this racialism” in the church and “call it out for the demonic evil that it is.”

“If we don’t, these young men will reject the church out of disdain for the social stigma they are receiving for nothing other than the lack of melanin in their skin,” he says.

“You’re just not going to be able, for any prolonged period of time, [to] tell white men, as they see a black young man stab to death another white young man, and raise and make money off of that crime, that heinous crime. You can’t just tell them, ‘Well, shucks, nothing’s happening here. Move on.’ That’s just not sustainable,” executive producer Aaron McIntire agrees.

“When you are being castigated … if you're being discriminated against … you’re not just going to let that go. History has shown that just can’t go on into perpetuity,” he adds.

While Deace doesn’t believe that our own form of racial idolatry is the correct response, he does believe it will be the response if this continues.

“A petty criminal who probably died of a fentanyl overdose gets global days of remembrance, with protests and riots all over the freaking world. … This black kid over some form of acknowledgement of diss or beef culture stabs one of his classmates right in the heart and raises $100K, crowdfunds $100K in just days off of it,” Deace says.

“If we don’t correct that, the opposite form of racial idolatry is exactly what we are going to get,” he adds.

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