‘Raw courage’: Megyn Kelly remembers Charlie Kirk



Glenn Beck and Megyn Kelly were holding on to hope that the shooting of Charlie Kirk was not fatal while in the middle of recording an episode of “The Megyn Kelly Show.”

But it was during that episode that they got the horrific news: Their friend was assassinated at just 31 years old.

Days later, the news is no less shocking.

“I still don’t feel like I have my arms around it,” Megyn tells Glenn. “I don’t feel like I’ve totally digested the fact that he’s gone and the way in which he was taken. You know, Charlie truly was such a larger-than-life figure.”


“We say that term, but it was true about him. At 6’5”, he truly seemed larger than most of us. And he was, in his gifts and his tirelessness and just knowing exactly where the seam in every story was. And his raw courage,” she continues.

“You'd look at Charlie and you’d think, ‘Now that’s true courage,’” she adds.

Charlie said what others were afraid to say, and he said it with a kindness that softened even some of the more radical leftists on college campuses.

However, he was also widely misunderstood.

“He took a lot of slings and arrows for it and was demonized for being all the terrible things as opposed to people taking him on and saying, ‘Does he have a point?’” Megyn says.

“Megyn, how do we process this? How do we surface from this?” Glenn interjects.

“I think, as with any loss, we all have to go through the denial and the bargaining, you know, like I’m still refreshing my X account like hoping somehow there’s a reversal, you know, like somehow it was all wrong. Somehow we got it all wrong,” she answers.

“That’s a natural reaction when you’ve had a sudden loss in particular. And anger’s completely appropriate now, too,” she says, adding, “It’s completely appropriate.”

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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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‘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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SAY HER NAME: Democrats ignore Charlotte stabbing



A 34-year-old homeless man with a long criminal history has been arrested on charges of murdering a 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee — who fled the war in Ukraine for a better life here in America.

Decarlos Brown Jr. allegedly viciously stabbed Iryna Zarutksa on a light rail train in Charlotte, North Carolina, on August 22. CCTV footage revealed that the young woman was stabbed several times, including once in the neck.

She died on the spot.


“She was seeking the safety and the freedom and the promise that America still stood for something good. She never made it off that train alive because of the guy in the red hoodie. He’s a repeat offender, a man with a long rap sheet,” Blaze media co-founder Glenn Beck says, disturbed.

“Her name should be everywhere. Her story, when you see it, is like watching a horror film. It is extraordinarily evil and disturbing. Yet, outside of local coverage, you’re not seeing this anywhere,” he continues.

“No, there’s no wall-to-wall coverage, no breathless reporting, no endless panels on this,” he adds.

Glenn believes the mainstream media is ignoring this story because it “does not fit the narrative.”

George Floyd’s death in 2020 “generated tens of thousands of articles, cities were burned, corporations bent the knee,” and “media made it the moral center of the universe.”

“Why is this one completely invisible to the legacy media?” Glenn asks. “A young woman, an immigrant, a refugee, brutally loses her life on American soil, career criminal. Silence.”

“It brings up and makes you ask all the wrong questions. It shines a spotlight on a justice system that keeps turning violent men loose on the streets, over and over again. It reveals the double standard that screams louder than words, that some lives are politically useful,” he says, adding, “others are disposable.”

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Glenn Beck reacts to Dearborn, Michigan’s proposal to put Arabic on police uniforms



Last week, Dearborn, Michigan — a city near Detroit known for its large Islamic population, which drives much of the city’s culture — proposed adding a patch to its police officers’ uniforms that read "Dearborn Heights Police” in Arabic script.

While some reacted to the idea positively, public outrage far outweighed support. Shortly after the idea was announced, Dearborn’s mayor walked the Arabic patch proposal back, and the police department clarified it was a premature, unapproved idea.

Glenn Beck says the incident is more evidence that “we no longer respect the ethics and the constitutional norms that created this country.”

The proposed change was supposedly just meant to reflect and honor the city's large Muslim population, but Glenn says it’s far more than just “a small gesture of outreach.”

“It is a signal, and signals matter,” he says.

America was designed to be a melting pot: “You could come here from any land, speak any language, [practice] any faith, and ... if you believed in the laws and the Constitution of America ... and you upheld those things, we could melt together, and we could create something even greater than you could even imagine,” Glenn explains.

“We [don’t] erase cultures. We elevate what unites us instead of elevating what divides us, and we don't bend our civic institutions to mirror any kind of tribal or religious identities. We don't create parallel systems of justice or identity.”

Never in the history of this country has an immigrant or religious group had law enforcement “tailor itself to them,” he says.

In fact, it’s often been the opposite. Glenn points to Mormons, who were at one time persecuted for their faith, despite being “the most patriotic of any religion in America.” “They didn't bend America to their faith; they bound their faith to America,” he says, adding that Catholics, too, have faced religious persecution in this country.

But for some reason, Muslims have not only avoided persecution, they’ve been catered to. “Week after week, from the pulpits of the local mosque [in Dearborn], the imams openly declare their goal — not to join the American project, but to replace it, not to preserve the Constitution, but to subvert it.”

“They preach the supremacy of sharia law over American law, and now the police department, a symbol of our secular constitutional order, decides they want to appeal to that group? To wear that identity on its uniform?” says Glenn. “That's not inclusion. That's not assimilation. That's not the melting pot. It's the opposite. It's balkanization at its kindest.”

“It is the state bending towards the demand of a religious political ideology that seeks to replace our American civilization. Let me be really, super clear on this: This cannot stand,” he warns.

To hear more of Glenn’s commentary, watch the video above.

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Jasmine Crockett repeats ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ lines — but even Democrats are sick of it



Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) is running out of anti-Trump material, as she can’t seem to stop regurgitating the old Democrat talking points. She told California Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom on “This is Gavin Newsom” that D.C. is now “very dystopian.”

“It’s funny because I used to watch ‘The Handmaid’s Tale,’ and I can’t, right? I never finished, and I can’t watch it because it is too close to reality. And so, what we’re seeing is this militarization, and obviously it started in your state. That was kind of the testing grounds,” Crockett said.

“Going to your state, going to a black woman mayor’s city first, and now we are in yet another black woman-led city and taking over. And to me it goes, again, to the level of racism and hate that is constantly spewed out of this administration,” she added.

“What a stunning choice,” BlazeTV host Stu Burguiere tells Blaze media co-founder Glenn Beck on “The Glenn Beck Program.” “That’s like M. Night Shyamalan. I would never expect her to go to a racial claim,” he comments.


“Would you consider potentially putting together a fundraiser for the Democrats to come up with another literary reference than ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’? Like, is it possible we could get them a different book just so they could say that title of it?” he asks.

“Now,” he continues, “I know Jasmine Crockett, of course, is so stupid, she couldn’t even act like she read the book. She only said she was watching the Hulu show. But still, can we get them some reference other than ‘The Handmaid’s Tale?’”

“They’re already doing it,” Glenn warns, noting that the Democrats have realized an error in their language.

“The DNC has now blacklisted terms that they don’t want any of their people using. Now, tell me what these terms have in common — blacklisted terms: privilege, violence (as in environmental violence), dialoguing, triggering, othering, microaggression, holding space, body-shaming, subverting norms, systems of oppression, cultural appropriation, the Overton Window, existential threat to the climate, existential threat to democracy, existential threat to the economy, radical transparency, stakeholders, the unhoused, food insecurity, housing insecurity, people who immigrated, birthing person, cisgender, deadnaming, heteronormative, patriarchy, LGBTQIA+, BIPOC, allyship, incarcerated people, and involuntary confinement,” Glenn reads.

“Those are the words that the Democrats are now telling their people, ‘Don’t use any of these words.’ Those are the words that they forced everybody to use. So they are reading from a new book,” he says, adding, “They’re just burning their own book.”

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Glenn Beck shares the DISTURBING secret President Bush told him years ago



Back during the 2008 election, Glenn Beck was summoned to the White House by then-President George W. Bush. In a profanity-laden rant, Bush, who was angry about Glenn’s negative coverage of the Iraq War, excoriated him for suggesting that there were grounds to impeach him.

“The first thing the president says to me is ... ‘You know, a lot of people think they know how they can be the effing president. Well, they have no effing idea how to be the effing president,’” Glenn mimics in his best Bush accent.

Earlier that day, Barack Obama, who was still campaigning for president, had said that if he were the current president, he would just “bomb Pakistan.”

“This is at the point where Pakistan is kind of helping us. They’re not our friends. They’re more frenemies,” Glenn says.

When he mentioned Obama’s comment to President Bush, he responded with something Glenn has never forgotten.

“He said, ‘Oh, I heard that. Don’t worry about that. ... Trust me, Glenn, whoever comes into this office, no matter what party they’re in, they’re going to sit behind this desk, and they’re going to realize — because they’re going to be advised by exactly the same people that have been advising me — that they really have no choice. This is what they have to do,’” Glenn recalls.

When he left the White House that day, he was “freaked out.”

“I was like, ‘This is not good. The president isn’t really the president. The president is just listening to all these advisers who were advising the last president and the president before that,’” he says.

It became clear to him that day that the deep state is just “executing a long plan,” regardless of who sits at the Resolute desk.

“What difference does it make who we have in the office if that’s true?” Glenn asks.

He brings up this old story today because it’s becoming increasingly clear that President Trump has ended this trend of deep-state shadow advisers running the country.

On August 18 during his meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other European leaders, “Donald Trump sat at the table and said, ‘I’m just going to get ol’ Vlad on the phone,’ and he stands up, walks out of the room with all the world leaders, and he just picks up the phone and calls Vladimir Putin and says, ‘Hey, I just want to keep you up to speed of what's going on,”’ Glenn recounts.

“He didn’t ask for permission. He didn’t have anybody whispering in his ear. He’s leading the State Department. He’s leading the world. He’s keeping his own counsel. That hasn’t been done by a president in I don’t know how long,” he adds.

This is the reason “we’re once again the leaders of the world,” Glenn says.

“These advisers — all of these doctors and professors and people who have been in the State Department their whole life and know better than everybody — Donald Trump has said to them, ‘Shut up. I’ve seen your record. It doesn’t work.’”

To hear more of Glenn’s commentary, watch the clip above.

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Mother admits she prefers AI over her DAUGHTER



You've heard of young women getting engaged to their AI boyfriends, but have you heard of artificial intelligence replacing the bond between a mother and daughter?

Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck recently read one of these stories — which was about a mother who admitted to liking her AI companion more than her daughter — and it set off some serious alarm bells.

“She says, ‘I spend five hours a day with my new companion, and we play games, we do trivia, we just talk, and I like her more than my daughter,’” Glenn recalls. “Wow. So my first thought was, ‘This has got to stop. We can’t do this.’”

“We’re going to lose our humanity,” he says.


However, Glenn then realized that “maybe we have already lost our humanity in a different way.”

“I want to say we have to stop this, but then what do you replace it with? Then we just have this old woman at home by herself rotting away, not talking to anybody. Have we lost our humanity? Because my thought was, ‘What have I done to exercise my humanity?’” he says.

This is where the question “What would Jesus do?” comes into play.

“He’d stop. He’d notice the old lady. He’d sit down. He’d eat with her. He would chat with her. He’d spend time. He touched the untouchable. He didn’t outsource compassion,” Glenn explains.

“Why are we embracing fake AI friends and talking to them and everything else? Why are our kids on social media? Because real face-to-face stuff, real kindness, is really risky. It’s really risky. If I step into your loneliness, it means I have to feel my own loneliness,” he says.

“We stop being human and we just play this little game because ‘I don’t want to have to rearrange my afternoon; I’m really busy,’” he continues. “So we keep that risk at arm's length. And now we’re eliminating it because AI is always ‘fine.’ Machines never cry. They never ask for a ride to the doctor or to the airport.”

“We bury this human part of us because of convenience,” he adds.

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Detransitioner’s heartbreaking story exposes the dark side of ‘gender-affirming care’



It isn’t enough for conservatives to push back against the liberal-spawned transgender movement that’s urging vulnerable children to take artificial hormones and undergo irreversible surgeries that mutilate their healthy bodies. We need people who have experienced the horrors of trans mania firsthand to speak out.

Thankfully, some detransitioners are doing just that. One of them is Chloe Cole, an activist in California who’s sharing her experience “transitioning” genders starting when she was just 12 years old to warn gender-confused minors against the pitfalls of the trans movement.

On an episode of “Back to the People,” BlazeTV host Nicole Shanahan sat down with Chloe to hear her heartbreaking yet hopeful story.

Chloe was 12 years old when she was introduced to the transgender community on social media. She started following the accounts of many young trans people because she felt a connection to them.

“They reminded me so much of myself in so many different ways. A lot of these people were artistic; they were creative; they had a unique fashion sense; they were very individual; they wanted to set themselves apart from the other people,” she says.

Their struggle with being bullied for being tomboys or effeminate boys resonated deeply with Chloe, who was also being bullied in school. On social media, she witnessed their “sense of happiness and wholeness” as they created new identities by cutting their hair short, wearing clothes of the opposite gender, and adopting new names and pronouns.

Tragically, many of these kids found that their new identity was more accepted than their genuine one. This often led them to pursue surgeries and hormonal therapy.

And Chloe was no exception. She was put on the drug Lupron, which was originally used for reproductive cancers, hormonal disorders, and chemical castration for sex offenders.

However, “a lot of facilities have stopped using this drug to castrate those sex offenders because it's been deemed too cruel for use in that population,” says Chloe, pointing out the irony that it’s now marketed toward “perfectly healthy children.”

Convinced that she was truly a male, Chloe was put on testosterone and eventually had an elective double mastectomy at age 15. Her breasts weren’t just removed; they were intentionally reshaped to appear more masculine. All of this, she explains, was covered by insurance because California mandates that insurers cover all “gender-affirming care.”

Just a year later, though, when Chloe was 16, she began her detransitioning journey when she realized that she wanted to be a mother someday. She remains grateful that she didn’t pursue further surgeries that would have stolen that opportunity from her.

Today, Chloe is using her story and her voice to speak out about the dangers of transgenderism, offering hope to confused minors who feel stuck in the wrong body.

To hear Chloe and Nicole dive into the darkest parts of the transgender movement, including the horrendous grooming and predation trans-identifying kids are subjected to, watch the interview above.

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Is THIS why we haven’t returned to the moon?



It’s been 56 years since NASA landed the first humans on the moon. Since then, our knowledge and technology has exploded. Today, we know more than ever about space exploration, computing, robotics, and materials science — far surpassing the capabilities and innovations that made the Apollo 11 mission possible.

So why haven’t we been back?

Former nominee for NASA administrator Jared Isaacman tells Glenn Beck that the bureaucracy at NASA is what’s barring America from achieving her potential in space.

“There needs to be some sort of a reorganization of the agency so you can kind of get back to concentrating on the real needle movers — the things that if NASA doesn't do it, no one will, or if it is done, it'll be done by the Chinese or the Russians,” he says.

Another moon landing is important, says Isaacman, because of “what we may learn from a scientific perspective,” the potential for “economic benefit,” and for reasons related to “national security.”

But “despite having a space station up there for 20 years, the biggest accomplishment we've had is keeping people alive continuously for 20 years in the harsh environment of space, which is good. But we haven't figured out that magic wand” that “treats cancer” or “improves technology,” he says.

The problem isn’t that we can’t get to the moon; it’s that we keep standing in our own way.

“There's a lot of bureaucracy [at NASA] that's impeding progress,” says Isaacman.

For example, “NASA has yet to approve iPhones to go to the space station for their astronauts,” even though Russian astronauts have consistently brought theirs to the space station and even share them with American astronauts.

Isaacman says this is a “petty example,” but it paints a picture of just how severe NASA’s bureaucracy is.

One of the main problems, he says, is that “we've become very risk averse.”

But “there are some risks worth taking. Exploring the worlds beyond ours is a risk worth taking. You're not going to get there if you're not accepting some risk,” he says.

But how can we even begin to take calculated risks when there are “50 different departments” at NASA dedicated to safety?

“That's not to say safety isn't important, but if you have lots of people in a position to say no rather than bubbling it up logically to a single organization, it's going to be easier to just say no,” says Isaacman. “I mean the best way to keep astronauts and pilots safe is don't fly and don't go to space.”

To hear more of the conversation, watch the full interview above.

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