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Candace Owens dismantles Turning Point USA's claim of 6 million concurrent YouTube viewers for their alternative Super Bowl halftime show, comparing the impossible metrics to actual top YouTube streams like the World Cup and India's moon mission. She calls out Andrew Kolvet and the organization for what she terms "crony capitalism" and purchased reality, drawing parallels to the HBO series The Righteous Gemstones. Owens also reveals explosive new leads in the Charlie Kirk investigation, including a potential connection between Erika Kirk's best friend Tracy Martin and a high-ranking Border Patrol official named Thomas Martin who has scrubbed his online presence, while presenting evidence that Tracy had a "bad feeling" about the UVU event on September 10th.

February 9, 2026

The Super Bowl Halftime Culture War

The Super Bowl halftime show created what internet culture calls "go slop" - a forced choice between teams. Americans were supposed to either support Bad Bunny and the NFL's performance or turn off their televisions and watch Turning Point USA's alternative "all-American" halftime show. According to some voices in the conservative movement, failing to enjoy every moment of the Turning Point performance meant you didn't love Jesus.

Owens clarifies her own position on Super Bowl halftime performances, noting she has never been a conservative stereotype on this issue. She defended Rihanna's 2023 performance when conservatives claimed she was channeling the devil, and she enjoyed the Shakira and Jennifer Lopez show. When Bad Bunny was announced, she approached it with an open mind despite not knowing his music.

Bad Bunny's Performance: The Good and the Reality

Owens acknowledges the positives of Bad Bunny's performance, particularly praising the set design that resembled a pueblo, a Spanish town with a mercado and bodega. She found it authentic to his experience and reflective of communities throughout America. The performers and dancers clearly rehearsed extensively, and the electrical line concept was clever and fun.

The downside was the language barrier. The performance was almost entirely in Spanish, preventing non-Spanish speakers from emotionally connecting with it. However, Owens points out this isn't Bad Bunny's fault - he was booked, and English is his second language. His music is exclusively in Spanish. The real question is who booked him. According to Owens' research, Jay-Z controls Super Bowl halftime performances in partnership with the NFL, and Jay-Z doesn't speak Spanish.

The raw numbers tell the story of the performance's success: Nielsen estimates 128 million people watched the Super Bowl game, which increased to 135 million viewers during halftime. Seven million additional people tuned in specifically for the halftime show, making it objectively successful by viewership metrics.

Turning Point USA's Impossible Viewership Claims

When Bad Bunny was announced, immediate backlash emerged because he had previously worn a dress - something Owens strongly opposes as emasculation rooted in what she describes as Kabalistic and satanic practices. Because of this controversy, Turning Point USA announced they would produce an alternative all-American Super Bowl halftime show, with President Trump tweeting support and Republicans across the political sphere encouraging people to turn off their TVs.

Nobody actually turned their TVs off. The viewership numbers jumped for the NFL broadcast. But Turning Point USA's claims about their own performance are where things become problematic. Andrew Kolvet stated on air that they saw over 10 million concurrent views across all social channels at one point, and claimed over 20 million total viewers.

Owens, as a YouTuber with over 10 years of experience, calls these numbers impossible fabrications. She walks through the evidence systematically. After the performance allegedly had 6 million concurrent viewers on YouTube, the video showed only 5,839 views with 175 comments but 667,000 likes - metrics that are mathematically impossible and indicate manipulation.

Comparing to Legitimate Top YouTube Streams

To illustrate how absurd Turning Point's claims are, Owens presents the official list of top YouTube streams based on concurrent viewership. The highest was India's moon mission with 8 million concurrent viewers - believable for a nation of 1.5 billion people. Turning Point wants people to believe they came in second place globally.

Positions two through twenty are all World Cup soccer matches - the biggest sport in the world. Brazil versus Croatia in the 2022 World Cup had 6.1 million concurrent viewers. Football is a sport exclusively popular in America, and Turning Point further divided that audience by marketing only to conservatives, yet they claim to have matched or exceeded the World Cup.

Owens compares the suspicious metrics to authentic Turning Point content. When Erika Kirk addressed the nation as a widow after Charlie Kirk's death - a moment when everyone was supportive and watching - that video received 4.1 million views with 36,000 comments. This views-to-comments ratio is legitimate. The halftime show claims over 20 million views but only 46,000 comments, which is statistically impossible.

As another example, Owens' own "Letter to Erika" episode got 3.1 million views with 28,000 comments - nearly the same comment count as a video claiming 20 million views.

Crony Capitalism and Purchased Reality

Owens draws a parallel to the 2024 Democratic primary, where no Democrat voted for Kamala Harris, yet the DNC machine with its massive resources simply declared her the candidate and acted shocked when she lost. Similarly, Turning Point USA now has so much money they believe they can purchase reality itself.

She describes this as the opposite of free markets and meritocracy - it's crony capitalism. People who aren't particularly impressive or smart are suddenly billionaires, with money being thrown at them while smarter, harder-working people struggle. This echoes Tucker Carlson's comments at a conference when he questioned where this money comes from and how these people become wealthy.

Even Tyler Bowyer, who Owens identifies as a sexual deviant and committed homosexual, tweeted about the performance showing two men dancing on each other, claiming Turning Point had one of the largest YouTube concurrent live streams in history. Owens states bluntly: "Everything is fake, a lot of it is gay. These are the righteous gemstones" - referring to the HBO series about corrupt televangelists.

Seth Dillon Testifies Under Oath About the Hamptons Meeting

At a religious liberty commission hearing on anti-Semitism, Seth Dillon of The Babylon Bee testified under oath. Carrie Gress, a Catholic, used the opportunity to press him on multiple topics, first questioning his stance that "Christ is King" can be anti-Semitic depending on context. When she noted that Ben Shapiro fired Owens from Daily Wire after she said "Christ is King," Dillon claimed he never said that phrase was anti-Semitic but does consider Owens an anti-Semite for saying "way worse than that." Gress responded that she listens to Owens daily and has never heard anything anti-Semitic.

Gress then pivoted to asking about the Hamptons meeting. Dillon's testimony contradicted previous clean, buttoned-up statements from attendees. He confirmed there were about 30 people handpicked and invited by Charlie Kirk personally, with the theme being "save the West" and a primary focus on the threat of Islam. However, he admitted there was "heated and spirited debate about the issue of Israel" - a significant admission since previous statements characterized it as merely a "spirited debate."

Dillon acknowledged that Charlie Kirk himself said in that room that not being sufficiently supportive of Israel could be ruinous for someone in his position, and that criticizing Israel would lead people to try to denigrate and destroy you by calling you anti-Semitic. This confirms what Max Blumenthal originally reported and what Owens stated: Charlie was being pressed by Zionists about his shifting position on Israel, things got heated, and Charlie was stressed.

Dillon then claimed Owens "lied about a situation like that and tried to portray it as though the Jews were trying to blackmail Charlie," resulting in death threats. He stated that Owens put his face on a movie poster for "I Know What You Did Last Summer," suggesting he had a role in Charlie's murder, which led to someone trying to kill him and his family.

The Truth About What Happened in the Hamptons

Owens responds by pointing out the absurdity of claiming victimhood over a humorous thumbnail. She never said anyone was blackmailed - Charlie Kirk himself used the term "morally blackmailed" to describe how he felt about his position on Israel. Clips exist of Charlie speaking about feeling morally blackmailed.

Initially, Seth Dillon and others characterized the Hamptons meeting as a lovely, spirited debate. Now under oath, he admits it got heated. Owens asks why it would get heated if Charlie's position on Israel wasn't shifting. If he just loved Israel and everyone agreed, why the heated argument?

Everything Owens reported was true: it got heated, Charlie was pressed, he was stressed about what happened, and this stress spilled over into his conversation with Megyn Kelly. Both Kelly and Tucker Carlson told the truth about how Charlie was feeling. Owens also confirms that Benjamin Netanyahu did call, which Erika Kirk denies but Andrew Kolvet has acknowledged by saying Netanyahu offered to take Turning Point to the next level.

Charlie Kirk was so done with Israel that he didn't even want Netanyahu on his radio show when the Israeli Prime Minister was doing podcast rounds. The only reason to lie about all this, Owens argues, is because there's something to hide - it feels like motive. An honest person would say, "Yeah, I got into an argument with him. I wish that wasn't the last time I saw him."

Owens can now confirm that on June 18th, Charlie Kirk went to the White House and went head-to-head with Benjamin Netanyahu and his associates who wanted more American military action in Iran. Charlie argued that the base would hate this and convinced Trump to keep it as a limited operation - what became Operation Midnight Hammer. Tucker Carlson spoke about how Charlie stood up for Americans and their promise of no wars. The very next day, June 19th, Erika Kirk purged 126 posts from her Instagram.

Major Break in the Investigation: Thomas Martin Connection

Mitch Snow, who dealt with the full force of Andrew and Erika's PR machine after they dug up his past and claimed he was a habitual liar, has not moved his story one inch. He remains certain he saw Erika Kirk on the evening of January 8th at Fort Huachuca leaving a hotel with a Kash Patel lookalike. After seeing Erika, he claims he stumbled upon what appeared to be the conclusion of a military briefing before a mission in a borrowed building used by the Joint Task Force Southern Border Unit.

Owens introduces Tracy Martin, Erika's best friend for over 15 years. They've done everything together - Tracy runs Romanian Angels, Erika modeled for her clothing brands, and their families are close. Tracy is also close to Erika's stepfather's family. Owens had trouble learning anything about Tracy's husband, Thomas Martin, which was unusual given his build that looks military-esque.

A potentially explosive tip came in: There is a Director of US Border Patrol and Chief of Staff of the Southern Command in Tucson named Thomas Martin. He's been based in Tucson since at least the 1980s when he was just an agent at the border, steadily climbing the ladder. This Thomas Martin has gone through great lengths to completely wipe his public presence. His LinkedIn profile shows "Thomas Martin, Director, US Border Patrol, location: greater Tucson area" but clicking it leads nowhere. Zoom Info shows he was Deputy Chief Patrol Agent at the Department of Homeland Security - the same department for which Erika's mother has extensive contracts.

Owens found Thomas Martin mentioned in a 1985 lawsuit reported in the Times Union. The article discusses the Sanctuary Movement trial, where a man picked up a hitchhiker and began smuggling humans across the border and hiding them in churches. Pastors and priests from Southside Presbyterian Church, along with Roman Catholic priests, a nun, and six church lay workers, were going on trial in Tucson for concealing illegal aliens.

Agent Thomas Martin wrote to his superiors arguing they shouldn't invade these churches because it would become a talking point that the US government thinks nothing of breaking down church doors to "drag Jesus Christ out to be tortured and murdered." This Thomas Martin has been living in the Tucson area for decades, at least until 2011 when records show him working with Southern Command.

Owens clarifies this is not Thomas G. Martin who works in Border Patrol in Buffalo, New York - that's a different person. She requests tips about the Tucson-based Thomas Martin at moretips@candaceowens.com.

Tracy Martin's Premonition About September 10th

Owens received a solid tip that Tracy's daughter is actually Erika's assistant. Most shockingly, Owens has text messages from September 11th showing that Tracy told friends her daughter was supposed to be at UVU on September 10th, but Tracy had a bad feeling about it. Erika's best friend had a divine intuition that her daughter shouldn't go to UVU, so she stopped her from going.

If Tracy had such a strong premonition that she prevented her own daughter - who may be Erika's assistant - from attending, why didn't she share this warning with Erika about Charlie not going? Why didn't the assistant mention to Erika that her mother said she shouldn't go because something bad might happen? Then something bad did happen. Tracy's intuition was correct, but only her daughter was protected from it.

Owens concludes: "I don't know what's going on, but I know that it is not what they are telling us is going on."

Street Light Interference and Charlie Kirk

Some people tried to make an issue of Owens mentioning that lights would flicker around Charlie Kirk, calling her a witch. Both she and Erika Kirk have confirmed this phenomenon in their recollections. Owens points out this is a real condition called SLI (Street Light Interference), a documented phenomenon where people claim to cause street lights to turn off or flicker upon approach. It's also associated with photosensitive epilepsy, where seizures are triggered by flashing, strobing, and flickering lights.

Many people in the comments of Owens' episode about the GATE program shared similar experiences. Owens also addresses criticism about discussing Charlie's "third eye," clarifying that Charlie spoke to her about this in 2018 and she has it in writing. The conversation, which she interprets in the context of the pineal gland rather than anything demonic, was part of what ultimately brought Charlie to the Christian faith after he had a bad experience with a coach or spiritual advisor he was working with at the time.

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