My name is Charlie Kirk.

I run the largest pro American student organization in the country, fighting for the future of our republic.

My call is to fight evil and to proclaim truth.

If the most important thing for you is just feeling good, you're gonna end up miserable.

But if the most important thing is doing good, you'll end up purposeful.

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Thank you everybody.

It's a great day to be in America.

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Everybody.

I want to just give a thanks to our amazing Turning Point USA staff that have put all this on.

The work they have put in is unbelievable.

Give it up for our Turning Point USA staff.

They've done an unbelievable job.

And we have people from all across the country here.

And for those of you that have been coming to Turning Point USA events for a couple of years, look around, everybody.

You are not alone, and we're gonna win, and we're gonna win big time.

Look around.

It's unbelievable.

We are here to celebrate the greatest nation ever to exist in the history of the world, to reclaim the narrative.

We have over ten thousand people from all across the country.

I'm told we have people from all fifty states.

From Alaska, who's from Alaska?

Out there?

Someone's there right there?

From Hawaii, who's from Hawaii.

Someone's got to be from Hawaii there to California.

We won't hold that against you.

How about Texas.

We got some people from Texas here in Arizona.

I mean, come on, we got some people from Arizona.

America is our home and what's been going on in our country for far too long is we have allowed self interested politicians and liars to take advantage of us and to destroy our home.

No more, We're taking back our country everybody.

We're not going to let it happen anymore.

We have a unique history and culture as Americans.

We need to be unafraid to say that.

Unfortunately, the fact that we as Americans have to now tolerate the renaming of schools from Abraham Lincoln to some sort of woke nonsense in San Francisco, the fact that we are not putting up statues to Thomas Jefferson, but instead tearing them down, we as Americans must understand that is a gift we get to live in the United States of America, a gift from God that we get to be Americans, the freest, most prosperous, greatest nation ever to exist.

America has always been focused on eternal principles rooted in the natural law.

We as conservatives, we are people that want to conserve the good, the true, and the beautiful against those that want to try and destroy it.

That means, and you've saw this in the last year, and I'll talk about in a second, that it's one thing to post something on television, or to do something weird on social media.

It's another thing to try to indoctrinate your kids.

We're not going to tolerate that anymore.

Parents are going to be first.

We celebrate our birthday every July.

The fact that we as a nation have a birthday is a big deal.

July fourth, seventeen seventy six, when Thomas Jefferson wrote, when in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands of that which is tied to them Anober the separate but equal station, which derives from the laws of nature and Nature's God.

Everybody, no other country in the history of the planet and the history of the human species, was founded on an eternal call that says you, as a human being, have dignity, that you have a right to speech, that you have a right to organize, that you have a right to start a family.

And we recognize in America, despite what the regime says currently, that those rights do not come from government.

They come from God, and you have them naturally and they can never take them away.

It is government's role to protect our rights against tyranny.

Government does not give you rights.

Government is not going to tell you how many people you got to have over for Thanksgiving or Christmas.

They work for us.

The United States Constitution starts with we the people.

They work for us everybody.

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Thank you everybody, well, thank you, please take us see thank you give it up for the Turning Point staff that made that video.

Is that not incredible?

That is just awesome?

Great to see all of you.

I just want to compliment our Turning Point staff for the promotion, the marketing, the branding of this world class event.

I mean, this is just extraordinary, isn't it.

And one of my favorite takeaways from today is to show that in Maricopa County you could get people through lines effectively and print badges and right, Maricopa County.

If you want to learn how to get ten thousand people through a line and print something with almost no problems, come to a Turning Point USA event.

That's all I gotta say.

Too soon is what they're saying, And they say it helps with healing.

Honored to be here everybody, and thank you guys for taking your valuable time to be here and to get recharged, re energized and to think deeply in the next couple of days of why we fight and why we sacrifice so much of our money and our energy and our time.

You see, we're in a very important time in our nation's history, and we as a movement, as a conservative movement, need a vision.

Without a vision, that people perish is what it says in the scriptures.

And I have the opportunity to travel the country and talk to lots of different people, and we have been lacking a coherent vision of what we as conservatives believe in and what we are fighting for.

Now we know what the bad guys are fighting for.

And a movement with no vision, we're nothing more than just a gang, just a random group of people with kind of shared ideas and shared values.

But a vision, something that we are aiming for, something as a movement, that we strive for, that we work for all of a sudden will make everything make sense again.

You see.

There's so many people here that are taking the bold and courageous step to homeschool your kids.

We're our homeschool mothers and fathers here that have said, in the last couple of years or in the last year, I'm going to go run for school board.

There's plenty of people here that have run for school, where people that have run for office, who here knocked on doors this midterm cycle for candidates.

You see, this room is the room that always goes the extra mile.

But one of the things we have to take a step back and say, well, what exactly are we fighting for?

What does success look like as a vision and as a movement.

So the vision of our opponents and the Marxist totalitarian left is filled with venom, hatred, darkness, resentment, arrogance, and despair.

Well, you go at length and you're going to hear about it from our amazing speakers about how the totalitarian left has taken over our institutions, how they're teaching our children this vile garbage of critical race theory and this woke nonsense.

We know what they want.

They want power, they want control, they want uniformity, and they want submission.

Now, this is not some sort of abstract concept.

One of the reasons why I believe that Turning Point USA is the most important organization in America is because we go to places where there are not a lot of conservatives.

At Turning Point USA, we play offense with a sense of urgency to go to places that we are in the ideological and philosophical minority.

And guess what, We're not always welcomed when we go to these college campuses, but we are going to win when we go to places that we are not always welcomed and we go there anyway.

And our Turning Point USA students and chapters are doing that every single day.

And so recently you probably saw my visit at the University of New Mexico, my mostly peaceful visit to the University of New Mexico where they did bring out the welcoming committee of the riot squad.

And these terrorists were there at the Universe of New Mexico and Albuquerque so bothered that our amazing Turning Point students wanted to have an event about free speech, the constitution, and conservative ideas.

Enjoy this short clip of what we just experienced.

Woo, who are you and give the cover?

You don't?

What do you think about the cops?

How do you think about the cops?

Cops?

You know what I say, especially the.

Gut Yeah, really pleasant and joyful people.

They're they're a movement of happiness and uplifting positivity.

But we did not allow these terrorists that try to prevent our students to be able to go to the event, that did everything to cancel it.

To win, we made a point at turning point us A to continue the event, saying we don't care the cost, we don't care what it's going to take.

And we also said, hey, if you're going to act like a domestic terrorist on a college campus, then we are going to mock you.

Relentlessly enjoy this and how peaceful they.

Are, because we want peace.

We're a ball solidary and bringing peace here.

But we're here to show them that love.

This is why we're going to win.

I mean, there is no way these people long term are going to win.

And it's going to require courage and boldness to go to places where even though they deploy their paid activists, we're going to keep on showing up.

In fact, I think we have our turning point leaders.

We Niversity of New Mexico here somewhere, and those are the real heroes that have to go to class every single day, that are spit on, that are called names, and they continue to fight.

So what is our vision as conservatives?

We know their vision is one of despair and confusion, the destroying of distinctions, one of the things that thetalitarian left wants to do for our society is to destroy the distinction between God and man, between man and woman, between good and evil.

They want to blur the lines that allow us to live in a free and stable and civil society, because you know what, they get a lot more powerful that way.

But our vision needs to be clear and bold.

How about this.

We want a country where our kids love America again.

We want a country where kids are taught about Jefferson and Madison and Jay, a country where they're taught about Abraham Lincoln and the beauty of the Declaration and the Constitution of the Federalist papers.

We want a country where kids are taught that if you judge somebody on the basis of skin, you are a racist, and we should instead care about character, not the complexion of somebody's skin.

Our vision for America, it's hard to believe I even have to say this is we want a country where kids can be kids again.

We want a country where kids are safe from groomer teachers and predators who are trying to put prescriptive pharmaceuticals into their bodies that will do irreversible damage.

We want kids to be kids again in America.

We want to live in a country where puberty is not treated like some sort of illness that needs irreversible medical surgery.

We want to live in a country where the innocence of children is preserved and protected.

We want to live in a country where we don't have to have the debate some sort of you have a debate.

There's no debate about pedophilia, period, end of story.

We want to live in a country where that's a non negotiable.

Our vision is that we want to value wisdom, eternal principles, prudence, common sense more than someone who has a PhD in North African lesbian poetry.

I believe there is more wisdom in the American plumbing community than at Harvard or Yale.

This one hits home.

We want to live in a country and build a country, and rebuild the country where it's easy to be a parent, where it's easy to get married and have children.

If we, as conservatives stand for anything, it should be to tell our young people that one of the most beautiful things you can do is to get married and have kids, and right now that is increasingly difficult in this confusing, chaotic time.

Young people say, well, it's just too expensive to get married and have children.

It's just too difficult, or I don't want to participate in the patriarchy.

What a robbery of joy.

I could say this now personally, we welcome the daughter into the world back in August.

Praise God to think that children.

Young people are growing up and being told that there's something oppressive or tyrannical about the covenant between a man and a woman and having children.

Hey, we as conservatives, if there's anything that we stand for, it is to be fruitful and to multiply.

And if you look at what the left is trying to do less children because human are a stain on the environment.

You look at every one of the things they're trying to teach, like, oh, you don't need kids, you could be happy with, you know, video games and some sort of promotion at your corporate job.

Maybe that is for you.

But one of the reasons why our generation it's very sad, is the most depressed, suicidal, alcohol addicted, and rug addicted generation.

And history is the stuff that gives you meaning they have been told is evil.

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Wow us A Wow, Welcome to America fet everybody.

It's great to be here in Phoenix, Arizona.

This is great.

Thirteen thousand people in Phoenix, Arizona for the largest multi day conservative events in the history of this country.

Everybody, unbelievable.

I gotta tell you the first of all, the Turning Point USA staff, have they not done an unbelievable job putting on this event.

We had to add all these bleachers back here.

It's incredible, It's unbelievable.

By the way, all fifty states are represented here at America Fest.

All fifty states and fourteen countries represented.

Albania, Canada.

Boy, you got a tough one there.

Justin Trudeau.

He's got to go.

Finland, Germany.

By the way, Conservatives are growing in Germany big time.

I'm told that these people are here legally, Honduras, Mexico, Israel, we love Israel, don't we love Israel?

We love Israel, Korea, Poland, we love Poland.

We could learn a lot from Poland.

I'll tell you what.

They have a border the United Kingdom.

Now they got to watch out if they'll let them back into their country.

China is here.

Somebody from China got the new Federal State of China's here, Austria and Japan fifteen countries represented here at America Fest as well.

I just think that's amazing.

And you look around.

You're here for a reason.

You are here to celebrate this country, but you are here to be filled with hope.

It's been a tough year, hasn't it.

There's been some wins and we'll celebrate those.

It's your third annual America Fest.

It's amazing.

Who here has been here for multiple years.

Raise your hand, that's amazing.

We're living through a top down revolution, everybody.

We're living through a revolution that's different than most others.

It is a cultural revolution similar to Mao's China.

But this revolution is when the powerful, the rich, the wealthy decide to use their power and their wealth to go after you.

Instead of building hospitals and improving our country, they are spending their money to destroy the greatest country ever to exist the history of the world.

George Soros, Loreene pal Jobs, Mackenzie Bezos, Reid Hoffman, Mark benniehoff Read Hastings, and yes, the person who calls himself President Joe Biden.

That's right.

The psychology is that of civilizational suicide.

This country has never lived through the wealthiest hating the country.

What makes this movement different is that you are here as a grassroots response to the top down revolution happening in this country.

You are here as teachers, as mothers, as students.

I want our Turning Point USA students to receive a round of applause.

These are the freedom fighters of America.

It's unbelievable what they're doing.

This is a bottom up resistance and it terrifies the ruling class.

I get asked sometimes by the media.

They say, Charlie, you know, don't you think the country is so divided right versus left.

I think there's some interesting divisions, But no, no, no, that's not the true division.

The real division is Washington, DC versus America.

Do you know what makes Turning Point USA different and America Fests different.

We do this event as far as possible away from the Kingdom of Washington, d C.

I think we have too many groups headquartered in DC.

I think these groups all were in DC, and we do all this work.

I inherently don't trust you if you have an office in Washington, d C.

I'm sorry.

You know what the other division is.

It's the powerful and the well connected versus the middle class, versus the everyday warrior.

The division in this country is versus the decent and the indecent.

As Victor Frankel said in Man Search for Meaning, through this time, where the question is still an open question, will the people who are the sovereign in this country do everything they possibly can with this incredible blessing given to us by God, to fight back and win against the elites that want to ruin it.

Now, some people say, oh, you know, these elites mean very well.

I think this is an important thing to talk on.

Talk about for a second.

The elites don't mean well when you have a wide open border and twelve thousand people are coming across the border every single day.

The elites don't mean well when they go after our children and they castrate our children in the name of medicine.

Our elites don't mean well when they put the leader of an opposition political party and try to put them in jail for seven hundred years.

These elites don't mean well.

In fact, they hate the United States Constitution, they hate the Declaration and what you represent.

Your presence here, the largest multi day event in conservative grassroots history, is a message that will be heard by these people because what they have been, the reason they've been able to do what they have done, is that we have allowed them to do this.

We've allowed them and we were too busy doing things that were very important, running our churches, running our business, growing our families.

And eleven years ago when Turning Point USA was started, I could not have imagined what God had in store for this organization.

And I want to take a second here because you know, every so often there's some you know, person from Media Matters that write some organizations some article about Media Matters.

By the way, God bless Elon Musk.

I hope he sues Media Matters into oblivion.

I'm going to talk about that in a second where they attack Turning Point and they say, oh, you know, Turning Point just does events and all this, by the way, if all Turning Point USA did was this event, that's a pretty amazing thing.

Just pulling off this event is no small accomplishment.

And by the way, while I'm thinking about it, Elon Musk, liberating Twitter will go down as one of the greatest free speech victories in the history of Western civilization.

You know how awesome it is where we can log onto Twitter and we could say, yeah, you know, Dylan mulvaney, he's a man.

Rachel Levine is a man and kind of like a creepy pervert.

Honestly, that January six is probably an inside job.

It's more of a FED surrection than anything else.

And that ninety nine percent of people on January sixth did nothing wrong.

That we can go on Twitter and say that, you know, George Floyd wasn't a hero, and Derek Chauvin was targeted in a Soviet style trial that was anti American and Unamerican.

One of the reasons why the powerfuler getting nervous is because we can finally speak again online.

One of the main victories of two thousand in twenty three is that we could say that's bs, No, you're not going to trans our kids, you're not going to groom our children, gonna You're not going to then call us these terrible, awful names when in reality you're the you're actually the things that you're calling us.

You see as this, as our ability to speak and challenge authority and challenge power grows, the likelihood of our victory increases.

You see, eleven years ago when we started Turning Point USA, we started in a very very humble way, and I want to take a step back because I want all of you to know the incredible journey that we have been on at Turning Point USA.

And I want to tell you the Turning Point story.

That's one of the first pictures there, Bill Montgomery, May he rest in peace.

That was at the Republican National Convention in twenty twelve.

Little did I know that God had in store that we were going to have an events nearly as big as the RNC Eleven years later.

It started in this office in La Mont, Illinois.

Who's from Illinois, anybody?

You know what's great about being from Illinois.

There's term limits in Illinois.

One term in office, one term in jail.

You know, we have cell numbers for our governors, different not cell numbers.

My grandmother passed away recently, lifelong Republican.

She's been voting Democrat ever since.

And so all right, see that's what's so great about Twitter being liberated.

I can say all these things, thank you, Elon Musk, thank you.

If I was streaming on YouTube right now, I would be completely gone.

It all started in this office, and I love it.

Apple, HP, Microsoft and Turning Point USA all started in a garage.

And so that garage right there in La Mont, Illinois was where this started.

What started as an idea, what started as a movement of one of two with no money, no connections, and no idea what I was doing is now a movement on one thousand, eight hundred high school and college chapters across the country, with six hundred thousand student activists three hundred thousand grassroots donors.

Only in America is a story like Turning Point USA possible.

Only in America is it possible to say, you know what, I don't like the way the country is going and to do something about it.

And throughout the years, you know, people have said, oh, you know, Turning Point you guys, you're too loud.

Why don't you just sit down and obey.

I don't know about you, but I think the people that have been running the conservative movement the last couple decades to just go be liberals, because that's what they actually are, and leave the conservative movement and allow us real conservatives to be in charge.

And the numbers speak for themselves.

A recent poll shows that high school boys are the most conservative that they have been in fifty years.

Fifty years.

Now.

I want to show you because to kind of give you an idea and a picture of what we're up against.

I go to these college campuses and I just, you know, I set up a table and I talk to these kids and I listen, and some of them are pretty fired up.

And I think this picture is a perfect picture of a left wing mail.

You know, they want a guy with a lisp, zipping around on a limescooter with a fanny pack carrying his birth control, supporting his wife's career while he works as a supportive stay at home house husband.

He has a playlist that is exclusively Taylor Swift.

And their idea of strength is this beta male's girlfriend opening a pickle jar just for him at turning Point, USA.

We resoundingly reject this.

We believe in strong, alpha, godly high tea, high achieving, confident, well armed, and disruptive men are the hope, not the problem in America.

Now, I got to show you this video.

It's unbelievable.

This is this is the left wing beta male in one picture.

By the way, I just I sit down at this is a University of Arizona, and I'm just getting comfortable, and this lunatic comes up and he perfectly by the way describes it.

I'm just saying, right, he got he got to get his vitamin D level up.

Come on, and you live in Arizona, Like, come on, this is what our turning point USA students and warriors have to deal with on a daily basis.

Watch this hate.

Yeah, would you like to have a substantive conversation or a substantive yeah, I love no man.

Would you like to have a conversation absolutely?

Yeah?

Yeah, Okay, I don't like you.

I think you spreadk I think you spread bigots.

I think you kissed a lot of people off because I just I mean, you're just an awful person.

I don't think you really want a debate because you're just here to piss people off and energize your crowd of racists.

What have I ever said that's racist?

Oh?

Can you name one thingport Charlie, Can you say a second thing I've ever said that's racist?

I think you're just trying to play a game, and I think this is obviously going.

To be easy.

I just want to hate you.

You're awful.

Get off my camp.

When have I ever said anything that's hateful?

Have an I stay.

He can't say anything I've ever said that's racist, because I've never said anything that's racist.

That is the American left in one picture.

Everybody lots of rage and no wisdom.

No country was ever saved by a male feminist.

Countless countries, though, were lost by weak beta males.

And at turning point, USA, not only do we celebrate masculinity, we believe that masculinity is the answer to so many of our problems in this country.

And let's put that pull up again.

The most conservative that young boys have been in fifty years.

There's a lot of negative news out there everybody, but young boys and young men are looking for something to connect to that gives them purpose, that says it's okay to be a man, that says there's not unlimited genders.

And by the way, just so we're clear, I got this from Billboard, Chris.

There are no genders, two sexes, and unlimited personalities.

That's the way that we should all answer it unlimited personalities.

Now, you might say, but Charlie, the women are so liberal.

Now, there's a lot of reasons for this, and I don't mean to dwell on it.

But you know what, at Turning Point USA, we're doing something about it.

Right.

They are the largest young women's leadership summit, two thousand and five hundred young conservative women.

I want to show you that in America you could start small and dream big and make a difference.

I am sick of the negativity.

This was our first ever Christmas event one hundred students eight years ago.

Eight years ago we had one hundred kids at a Holiday and Express in West Palm Beach, Florida.

People laughed at Turning Point USA.

They made fun of Turning Point USA.

They said, Turning Point USA is never going to be anything.

You know, Charlie, just you're a waste of time.

And you know what we did.

We kept our head down and we built and we outworked the competition and what started with one hundred kids, Look around, everybody, is now the largest event in the entire conservative movement.

You could see this the whole room.

It's just unbelievable.

Now.

I know many of you are saying, but you know, I have to send my kid to college.

I have to send my kid to college.

One of the ways that we're reaching students is online.

You see here, we are reaching millions and millions of young people every single day.

Joe Bob, Alex Clark, Savannah Hernandez.

We have an army of online influencers, our Turning Point USA Digital team.

It's the most dominant year online.

Don't take my word for it.

What does the New York Times say?

Writing in third person, mister Kirk?

Social media post garnered far more engagements a combination of likes, retweets, comments, and other interactions than those of mainstream news organizations like The New York Times and CNN.

Thank you New York Times for telling us the world that we're bigger than the New York Times.

Now, you might say, but Charlie, what exactly is going viral?

What is the content that is being seen?

So in another episode of Charlie goes to an Arizona taxpayer fund on campus.

I go to Northern Arizona University and some lunatic Charlie, you're scripting these things.

Trust me, I don't script any of this stuff.

I don't need a script it.

And you know, there was a whole mob there.

They were screaming at us, and there was some very very angry women that were screaming at me.

And I said, okay, you know Matt Walsh has the famous movie and God blessed Matt Walsh for it.

What is a woman?

Right?

So I said, why don't I ask this group of women what is a woman?

That is a woman?

What is That's a stupid question?

Question what is a woman?

It's not a trick question.

What is a woman?

You can't answer the question with the question, yeah, define the woman without saying woman.

And the social you're in college paying for an education?

What is a woman?

You don't need media training.

It's not a trick What is a woman?

You can't answer the question with the college kids of America going under the thousands of dollars into debt, who think it's a trick question when you ask them what a woman?

College is a scam everybody.

You got to stop sending your kids to college.

I'll tell you what.

And we're doing something to solve it at Turning Point USA newly launched Turning Point Academy.

You guys should go by the booth and say hello.

Leading an education revolution for homeschool moms and parents all across the country.

Turning Point Academy is leading the charge in curriculum development and teaching the teachers.

In addition at Turning Point USA, in addition to our high school program and our college program and student body presidents and our massive events, we recently launched something very near and dear to my heart.

We are in a spiritual war everybody that is beyond just the material that we are seeing.

I gave my life to the Lord in fifth grade in the suburbs of Chicago at Christian Heritage Academy, most important decision I ever made in my life.

And I encourage you to do the same, making Jesus Christ the chairman of the board of your life.

I started growing Turning Point USA, and the Lord kept on blessing Turning Point, and I just you know, would speak at a group here there and people say, oh, you ever spoken to church.

I have not, really, And then COVID happened and I made, without a doubt, the worst prediction in the history of American podcasting.

I look right into camera on the Charlie Kirk Show and I say, you know, all these lockdowns and all these orders to tell people to stay at home, they're not going to last.

The American Church is going to lead the resistance, is going to fight back against these lockdowns because the church loves liberty.

And that was one of the dumbest things I have ever said on the Charlie Kirk Show.

I was shocked when the Bride of Christ, the church shuddered in fear, when they took Easter and Pentecost from us, When we saw the faithful stay at home when we needed a revival more than ever, when suicides were going up, when alcoholism was going up, when drug addiction was going up, the church stayed and cowered in fear.

And I looked around, and I said, this is a time when the church should be defying these tyrants and these government leaders.

They called strip clubs essential, and they called marijuana dispensaries essential, and they called convenience stores essential.

And yet they said the church was non essential.

And so many pastors took it.

And then in the summer of twenty twenty, during Floyda Palooza, we saw churches parroting a live from the Pit of Hell when they said that America was systemically racist, and that you are a racist person because of the color of your skin.

And I looked around and I said, why is the church pedaling this?

And I took a step back.

I said, Ah, the Marxiste have took over the FBI, they have took over our colleges, and they're trying to take over the church nextxt And out of that we launched TPUSA Faith.

The mission statement of TPUSA Faith is very simple.

We want to kick wokeism out of the American Church as quickly as possible as the heresy that it is.

And we got to work.

We are organizing pastors across the country.

And some people say, but Charlie, you know, stop being political.

Excuse me, this is biblical.

Esther, Mordecai, Nehemiah, Jeremiah, Daniel all were counselors to the king Jeremiah twenty nine to seven.

Seek the welfare of the nation that you are in, because your welfare is tied to your nation's welfare.

It is biblical to defy tyrants.

The midwives to the Hebrews and Exodus one, we're told to slaughter the unborn, the newly born children, and they disobeyed Pharaoh, which pleased God.

Disobedience to tyrants is obedience to God.

Disobedience to tyrants is obedience to God because liberty, liberty is not man's idea, it is God's idea.

And we are at a period of time everybody where the American church.

Most American churches are not speaking out on these issues.

They say, you know, well, I just do the Gospel, so do we Do you think that the Gospel includes allowing the church to be called non essential and to stay shuddered and afraid.

Too many pastors have a much bigger wardrobe budget than a book budget.

Too many pastors are the cool kids giving a ted talk in a rock concert that is indecipherable from the world and not preaching the word.

You might say, but Charlie, I don't like this.

You know, religious level, Get over it, because this country was founded by courageous Bible believing Christians fifty five out of fifty six of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, where Bible believing church attending Christians.

Nine out of thirteen of the states at the American founding required you to be a Protestant Christian at the founding.

In the Declaration of Dependence, God is mentioned four times laws of nature and nature as God.

We appeal to a supreme judge of the universe.

There has been revival after revival.

Billy Graham led a revival to this country and he also said that communism is Satan's religion.

One of the reasons we are seeing the issues we're seeing in America today is because the church has been silent and the secular Marxists are taking over the nation.

Deep USA Faith on a daily basis seeks to wake up the church with courage and clarity and conviction to lead a movement to push back against the secular totalitarians in America.

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It's called Culture in Christianity, The Alan Jackson Podcast.

What makes it unique is Pastor Allan's biblical perspective.

He takes the truth from the Bible and applies it to issues we're facing today, gender confusion, abortion, immigration, doge Trump in the White House, issues in the church.

He doesn't just discuss the problems in every episode, he gives practical things we can do to make a difference.

His guests have incredible expertise and powerful testimonies.

They've been great friends and now you can hear from Charlie and his own words.

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Forward slash chart Welcome to America Fest.

Everybody.

Thank you, everybody.

The real thank you is the Turning Point team that worked their tail off this last year.

That's a usually applaudum.

By the way, I like this touch.

Look at all these students that we have at Turning Point.

You will look at this.

I like that.

They help win the election.

Everybody.

Young people move by thirty points this election cycle.

I'll tell you what the kids are all right, Welcome everybody.

It feels good to win back our country.

I'll tell you that this has been a difficult and challenging year in so many different ways, and we have to think back to where we were.

As the video said, in January of twenty twenty one.

January seventh of twenty twenty one, they said the Maga movement was dead.

They said that Donald Trump will never have a political future.

Joe Biden was coming in and putting people in prison for going into the Capitol rotunda and praying.

Joe Biden was mandating the vaccine, keeping the border completely and totally wide open.

We were seeing our country disappear and vanish from us.

But here's where you come in.

For every single one of you in this audience that never wavered, that always had the President's back, that continued to support him, you guys are the beginning portion of the greatest political comeback in American history.

Look at what we are up against, because it defies any sort of human reason.

From the lawfair they try to put Donald Trump in prison.

For seven hundred years, every major tech company banned Donald Trump from their platform.

Donald Trump was banned from Facebook, he was banned from Google.

He was banned from Pinterest because he's like a big Pinterest guy.

He was banned from Spotify.

He couldn't even listen to Phanom of the Opera.

They did everything they could to make him disappear, but there was a problem.

Is that you could put Donald Trump in exile at mar A Lago, but you can't make seventy five eighty million people disappear.

Is that they can make him as if Okay, we're gonna try to solve this problem, but what are you gonna do with the people of this country?

And that's where all of you that continue to do the work you entered, We entered front stage and it was difficult.

We were told that this was never going to happen, that the Democrat Party was immovable.

For all of you on campuses that continue to fight for conservative causes, that were graded differently, kicked out of class, that were smeared, that were slandered, it was as if there was no immediate hope.

But you guys had faith, and faith not just that we could take back our country.

And if we are honest with ourselves, we cannot take credit for what happened on November fifth.

The person, or more importantly, who deserves credit is God Almighty for saving this country and giving us four years of Donald Trump.

We didn't earn it.

We worked out of obedience, but we were inches away from a civil war.

And Donald Trump just so happened to turn his head at a specific time to look at a PowerPoint.

I mean, I'm going to do a lot of Maga rallies.

How many of Maga rallies does he do a PowerPoint presentation?

And he just happened to turn his head at that specific moment, and that bullet whizzed by and grazed his ear.

And by the grace of God, that we did not earn and we did not deserve.

His life was spared on July thirteenth in Butler, Pennsylvania.

He had every reason to play it safe after that, he had every reason to just kind of take it easy.

He had every reason not to continue to campaign, to say that I'm just going to kind of hope for the best.

He did more events.

He said, I'm going to go do outdoor events.

Forget it.

We're not going to let the bad guys win.

And you could tell who a person is in a moment of crisis.

You see our leaders talk a big game, but anytime they actually feel the pressure, they fold.

And we saw who Donald Trump actually is in that moment when he fell to the floor and he rose, he spoke to all of us at a fundamental level, at a level that we can't even put into words.

When he ascended and he said fight, fight, Fight, it was an anthem.

It was a clarion call for all of us that, regardless of what you are up against, this is a guy who did not need to be doing this.

You know that Donald Trump could have cut a deal.

Donald Trump could have cut a deal.

The final warning shot was when they raided mar A Lago in August of twenty twenty two.

That was the warning shot, like, hey, you better not do this thing.

Run for the presidency, cut a deal, golf for the rest of your life, or else we're going to put you in federal prison.

And Donald Trump had a choice, do I do the easy thing or the right thing?

And if there is one thing that you teach your child, it's you must do the right thing, even if it is the challenging thing.

He knew what he was signing up for.

Young Men are the most conservative they have been in over fifty years.

Fifty years.

Think about that now.

A reporter asked me, They said, Charlie, can you try to explain this phenomenon.

I said, yeah, it's very simple.

Young men want to be part of a political movement that doesn't hate them.

In fact, let me go a step further, that thinks they're essential to a future of a country that we need strong men and strong women, that we're sick and tired of hearing about toxic masculinity, when we are drowning in toxic femininity, when we become a feelings based culture.

You can't say that.

Can't do that, You're going to offend somebody.

And who is the most overtly masculine political figure of the last hundred years?

Now?

It's not Tim Wall stop it, Okay, that's not true.

Yeah, no, of course, it's the man who would never apologize for America, that stands proudly for our tradition in our history, that doesn't care about what sensibilities he offends.

That calls Justin Trudeau governor, the guy that just set and in many ways, this was an election that was more about culture than it was about politics.

That it was about who are we as a people?

What are we doing to the next generation To say that you have to be taught diversity, equity, inclusion, and critical race theory that you have to be under this transgenderism nonsense.

As a side note, by the way, as one of the first things that I hope this new administration does, we need to end the medical mutilation of our children called gender affirming care in this country immediately, and also say no men in women's sports ever.

But understand that was a controversial thing to say three or four years ago.

It took a little bit of a I don't care energy, a little bit of a masculine chip on the shoulder to say no, actually, you're not going to have some dude in my locker room changed with my daughter, and I'm not going to allow that to happen.

You see, they wanted us to be quiet and afraid and silent and subservient.

They wanted us to cower into our corner.

But the conservative movement has aige fundamentally.

I hope you guys understand this, and we can't lose it.

We must lean into it.

We call the shots, not the media, not the oligarchs, not Washington, DC.

And our asks are so simple.

The media like say, oh, there's radical the revolutionarire.

So here's our ass We want a border.

We want our kids to learn reading, writing, arithmetic, and not graphic pornography at the age of eleven.

We want our founding documents to matter much more than federal registry and bureaucracies.

We believe the Constitution is the law of the land.

We believe in three branches, not four.

We also believe, I know, this is so radical for them to understand that when you appropriate money, American citizens are first not Ukrainians.

Wow, Like what a concept.

And you add all of that together.

They are the radicals and they have been the radicals for quite some time.

And the final point I'll make is this is the remarkable power and potency of the truth tellers in this room.

You see, we have grown up in a time where we say the media is the worst.

The media is this, And in fact President Trump said that at his first ever magarelly.

Do you know where his first ever maggarelly was in this building?

This building was the first ever Magga rally.

Did you know that?

And the only feedback I have for President Trump is he says, the media is this.

The media is that, guys.

We are the media now, not them.

Their power is fading and waning.

No one reads their stuff, their subscriptions are going down, like CNN has less views than Hallmark movie reruns, which again it's Christmas.

A lot of people watch Hallmark during Christmas.

Anyway, that separate issue or Lifetime.

I do't I get them both, give you whatever, and they are increasingly irrelevant.

And what is relevant is the democratization and the decentralization.

And I said it want to happen.

When Elon Musk bought Twitter, I believe it was the most important and singular purchase sent the Louisiana purchase for this country.

I truly believe them.

And look at the clause set in motion, not happened sends Elon Musk bought Twitter.

It gave us the ability to speak our mind think about all the things that would have just happened without our ability to challenge it.

We were able to call out the BS on the southern border.

We were able to talk about the transing of our kids.

We were able to talk about what they're actually teaching in our schools.

We were able to actually talk about like hey, Kamala Harris can't speak in sentences.

Let's watch this clip which simple basic things and we joke around.

I do not think that we would have been able to expose the American people to how Joe Biden was brain damaged if it wasn't for Twitter or x because the media wasn't doing their job.

By the way, the media should all immediately lose their government issued licenses day one for the malpractice they did for covering for Joe Biden's sinility.

We are in the driver's seat and that comes with a lot of obligation.

We are the cultural force.

We are ascendant.

The bad guys are scattered, confused and afraid, and they will be back.

And the posture should not be one that, oh, we one, and that we're the greatest, that we're indestructible, and no, it's the opposite.

It should be one of humility, that we are actually in charge and we didn't earn it, but we have an obligation to deliver.

That we have an opportunity that we may never happen again.

It is a once in many lifetimes opportunity to fill the government with change makers.

I believe the four years of exile is the ultimate Romans twelve to two verse that God will use all things, all things for good for those who love Him.

When we got displaced from power in twenty twenty, how many of you guys said, boy, twenty twenty, this is the worst thing to happen, and we lost our country.

We were trying to see what was the takeaway here.

It felt as if it was so unjust, which it was, and it was so much lying and so much manipulation.

But God knew what he was doing.

What he was doing is he was putting our movement in a temporary state of exile where we could become stronger, we could become better, where we could turn the we could separate the frauds from the real people.

We could see who people really were, where we could expand our ranks.

We had to desire it more when our back was against the wall.

If we would have won in twenty twenty, the second term, I don't know if it would have been that great.

It would have just kind of been a little bit of COVID.

Okay, that's fine.

And the second term is almost never as good as the first.

And now we almost get two first terms and the second one.

We have a team that is ready to change the world and bring America back to greatness.

I will close with this, soak in this conference, everybody, this is the first major turning point conference where we can just celebrate what has been done.

So we got to keep our eyes on these students.

They're going to go nuts these next couple of days, I'll tell you.

But also go start a turning point.

You would say, college chapter.

Go start a turning point, you say high school chapter.

Go start a turning point USA five C school.

Go find out how your church can get involved, Sign up and become an activist.

America Fest is the starting point for us to take America to greater heights in twenty twenty five.

Remember how lost we felt a year ago, Remember how directionalist we felt.

And instead of saying we've won everything, I could take it easy and said, is that God gave us a reprieve so that we can reload, that we can lean in, and that we can make the conservative moment stronger than ever before.

And that's the resources you were going to see in the exhibit hall.

There will be people here that could change your life, future jobs, future friends, feet maybe in future spouses.

You never know.

Hear that a lot, but have that posture of activism action.

We have a slate oft speakers that is the greatest in the entire country.

I mean this is unbelievable we have here.

It's gonna be four days of energy and enthusiasm, and you guys help make it possible.

This is the greatest country ever to exist in the history of the world, and I can say wow.

There was a debate is God done with this country?

And now I can say confidently no, God is not done with America and our best days are ahead.

God bless you guys.

Thank you so much.

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