Jasmine Ivan's Mission to Bring Turning Point USA Back to UC Irvine After Charlie Kirk's Death

[00:07] Hello. Hello.

[00:09] Hello.

[00:10] Hi.

[00:11] Hi.

[00:12] It's only by the blood of Jesus. He

[00:14] loves you. If this has touched your

[00:16] heart, I encourage you to go and seek it

[00:18] for yourself. Don't take it by my word.

[00:20] I listen to Charlie Kirk regularly and

[00:23] um I just loved how he was very vocal

[00:26] about his faith and he encouraged me to

[00:28] be vocal about my faith. He has gone

[00:31] through so much. He's gone through hell

[00:34] on earth to claim you as sons and

[00:38] daughters. He wants to lift you out of

[00:40] depression. He wants to lift you out of

[00:43] anxiety. It's not something to go

[00:44] through that it's not normal. That's

[00:46] what the devil wants to convince you of.

[00:48] For a while, my sister and I, we for a

[00:51] while, we've been like, "Let's go street

[00:53] evangelize."

[00:54] Jesus wants to free you from sin. He's

[00:56] I'm no better than you. He's freed me. I

[00:59] am free because of the blood of Jesus.

[01:02] Does that um compel you to like to go

[01:05] seek a relationship with God more and

[01:06] more? He was a brother in Christ. And I

[01:08] think a lot of people in the church and

[01:11] across the nation felt that and across

[01:13] the world. daughter, I've been waiting

[01:15] for you like just to literally come be

[01:17] wrapped up by my perfect love. Like his

[01:19] love is so perfect, right? He was

[01:21] perfect. God, fully God, fully man. So

[01:23] he died for you, Jasmine. And he wants

[01:25] you to live full for him fully, right?

[01:27] And it and it looks different for all of

[01:29] us. But but there's one truth that we

[01:32] have to say is that Christ died for you

[01:33] and he's risen. What saved you, which

[01:35] was which was only his love. So he loves

[01:38] you so much. Um but is that okay if I

[01:40] prayed for you and your friends? Anyway,

[01:43] thank you for this um this this meeting

[01:46] that you ordered, Lord. And I thank you

[01:48] for that they're your daughters, Lord.

[01:50] May they be the light and dark places,

[01:52] Lord. Thank you for Jasmine Ivan. In

[01:55] Jesus name I pray. Amen. Amen.

[01:58] So, when I found out about Charlie

[02:00] Kirk's assassination, I was actually

[02:02] walking out of a final exam that I had

[02:05] just finished and

[02:07] two girls were cheering his death.

[02:17] And so I just found an area where I sat

[02:19] and I started praying. I'm like, "What

[02:21] is this for, God? Like, why? Why is this

[02:24] happening?"

[02:32] When I heard Erica Kirk talk about if

[02:35] there's not a Turning Point USA chapter

[02:37] already on your campus, then go on our

[02:40] website and look into how you can get it

[02:43] started right away. It was definitely a

[02:46] confirmation.

[02:48] Hello.

[02:49] Hello. Is this Anthony?

[02:51] Yeah, speaking. How can I help you?

[02:54] Uh at this point, I'm just more like an

[02:56] adviser. try to help people stay in, you

[02:58] know, good terms.

[02:58] I'm a rising sophomore here at UCI, uh,

[03:01] eager to start Turning Point USA on our

[03:04] campus.

[03:10] I was actually around uh during when TPS

[03:13] actually got banned off of the campus.

[03:15] Wow. Okay. Oh. Um,

[03:18] so essentially what happened was back

[03:20] during the co times, this is actually

[03:22] illegal, like straight up like illegal

[03:24] with like jail penalties and tickets and

[03:26] stuff if you were like on the campus

[03:28] doing anything like half of them got

[03:30] expelled out of the campus for doing an

[03:32] event there.

[03:33] Wow.

[03:34] Wow. That's upsetting. It's just for the

[03:35] sake because I know you guys are

[03:37] definitely doing uh what Charlie Kirk,

[03:39] you know, like being vocal about our our

[03:41] beliefs are and u the conservative

[03:44] movement, but like that sort of upsets

[03:46] me and sort of makes me want to push

[03:48] more this um registration process for

[03:51] Turning Point USA because it's like the

[03:52] sake of having, you know, his movement

[03:56] completely banned from our campus.

[03:58] Schools are trying to institutionally

[04:00] lock out conservatives from being able

[04:02] to congregate and organize. That was

[04:04] always my only real disagreement with

[04:06] Charlie Kirk was ever, you know, the the

[04:08] whole college thing, right?

[04:09] Unfortunately, our colleague colleagues

[04:11] over at uh TPSA at UCI, a lot of them

[04:14] got in trouble because the school had

[04:16] created arbitrary like laws and policies

[04:18] that prevented conservatives from

[04:20] organizing on campus. Mind you, a campus

[04:22] they're paying to attend to and some of

[04:23] them live at, including myself, live

[04:25] there. I'm like, we need judges, we need

[04:27] lawyers, we need doctors, we need

[04:29] conservatives to fight back and like

[04:31] push against all this stuff. We need

[04:32] people in positions of authority and a

[04:34] lot of them were administratively

[04:35] punished uh through the student

[04:37] government. Some of them were expelled

[04:39] uh and we are told that the the club was

[04:41] shut down and blacklisted by the

[04:42] university

[04:48] especially with the the recent tragedy

[04:50] of the loss of Charlie Kirk. Uh clearly

[04:53] no school wants to be on the the wrong

[04:55] side of history now. uh everybody

[04:57] clearly wants to be in the the the right

[04:59] frame of mind or everybody wants to be

[05:01] in the right space. Uh but universities

[05:03] are obviously going to cover their

[05:05] tracks. They're Marxist strongholds at

[05:07] the end of the day. Like that's why we

[05:09] need, you know, strong Republican, you

[05:12] know, at least strong conservative

[05:13] judges in these spaces or at least

[05:15] people with it's common sense.

[05:16] So she's going to have to find other

[05:18] like-minded individuals that are willing

[05:20] to join a board with her. register

[05:24] to the USA

[05:27] is that you need an adviser that's going

[05:29] to be responsible. Secondly, you need

[05:31] somebody to step up to be the leader of

[05:32] the organization. You need to find other

[05:34] people that are willing to join your

[05:35] board. They are named. They will be in

[05:37] the school database of who's in charge

[05:38] of what, what members are on the board.

[05:41] ask if

[05:43] you would be willing to

[05:48] like at my time this was a mass issue

[05:51] because you'd have uh just a landslide

[05:53] of harassment from your your leftist

[05:55] colleagues. Uh you'd get essentially

[05:58] blacklisted from joining other clubs.

[06:00] You know, say maybe you want to join a

[06:01] woodworking club or you want to join a a

[06:03] video game club or something that has

[06:04] nothing to do with politics. But once

[06:06] they see you're on that list as a uh

[06:08] TPSA affiliate, a YAF affiliate or a

[06:10] College Republican, you're immediately

[06:12] your name is mud in the school.

[06:14] So, I can't say that there was much of a

[06:16] presence at UCI of uh Charlie Kirk's uh

[06:20] organization. Um I can say uh it's a

[06:24] little uh perplexing to me to hear that

[06:26] conservative students feel that it's a

[06:27] hostile campus.

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[06:51] The only rhetoric that I have actually

[06:53] seen, and again I'm not an expert on

[06:54] Kirk and his organization, but the only

[06:56] rhetoric I I've seen has to do with a

[06:58] rhetoric of exclusion, not of inclusion,

[07:00] of attempting to uh have professors

[07:03] dismissed uh for their views of

[07:06] attempting to uh silence students who

[07:08] are critical of of Charlie Kirk's

[07:10] frankly racist and anti-LGBTQ

[07:13] plus rhetoric

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[07:41] So, I'm currently headed to speak with

[07:45] leaders of campus organization and

[07:47] volunteer programs here at UCI to get

[07:49] Turning Point USA on my campus before

[07:52] the next before the beginning of this

[07:56] academic year. And so we're really

[07:59] excited. I've spoken with other students

[08:02] who are excited to bring this chapter on

[08:04] Turning Point USA and I know a lot of

[08:07] students will come together and continue

[08:11] what the movement was all about. So wish

[08:14] me luck.

[08:23] Um, so I do need a professor or a staff

[08:26] member to help me even get a TPUSA on

[08:30] campus because I doubt if they're

[08:32] Democrat they're going to want to be an

[08:34] administrator. So that's what I'm

[08:36] guessing has prevented TPUSA to start is

[08:40] having

[08:42] a professor to support your a TPUSA

[08:45] chapter. It may just be a rumor that

[08:49] Turning Point USA is not really banned.

[08:53] It was just a rumor. Maybe it was just

[08:55] something to put a scare on students who

[08:59] want to start a conservative movement on

[09:00] campus.

[09:07] I definitely want to take this chance to

[09:10] educate them on really what Charlie was

[09:14] for. And it was nothing against

[09:17] color, race,

[09:20] who you identified as

[09:34] I definitely see people having a maybe a

[09:39] positive view on this too, especially

[09:41] what's going on in our world and just

[09:43] saying, "Wow, That takes a lot of uh

[09:45] courage and boldness in your beliefs.