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Students Rise Up Against Woke Indoctrination, Defend Free Speech After Charlie Kirk's Assassination
A powerful movement is unfolding across American schools and campuses as students peacefully push back against ideological indoctrination. From high schoolers demanding accountability for teachers who celebrated Charlie Kirk's murder to college students restoring vandalized memorials, young people are taking a stand for free speech and civil discourse. Turning Point USA chapter requests have exploded from 60,000 to over 120,000 inquiries following Kirk's assassination, putting the organization on track to establish a presence on every high school and college campus in America. Students are setting up debate tables, defending memorials, and refusing to be silenced, carrying forward a vision that proves movements cannot be stopped by violence.
Students Demand Teacher Accountability
Evidence has emerged of students rising up and peacefully pushing back against heavy-handed woke indoctrination across many schools and campuses. Three students approached their school board asking for a teacher to be fired after he made a post celebrating Charlie Kirk's murder. Students spoke up to say they didn't feel comfortable with their teacher celebrating a murder, demonstrating that teachers don't get to say whatever they want without repercussions, especially when it involves vile behavior that makes students uncomfortable.
One student addressed the school board directly: "We decided to come up and give our perspective on this subject considering it is our teacher and one of the people that will guide our futures. No matter what anyone says to me, I will never stand for violence, especially of a man who was publicly murdered in front of his wife, one of his children, thousands of students, and other bystanders. Charlie was not a racist. He did not hurt anyone sexually, and he did not kill anyone. Therefore, this was an unjustified cause of death that should never be celebrated. Charlie's children do not deserve to grow up without their father. Charlie's wife did not deserve to lose her husband. Charlie did not deserve to lose his life because of a different opinion. But this teacher deserves to lose his job."
Another student added: "As civilians and people of our great country, we hold ourselves to a higher standard than to support or worse yet rejoice in violence. Someone who advocated for an arrested murderer and assassinator of one of the greatest debaters and free speakers of our time should have no place in the classroom, more so around young children."
These open discussions and debates matter because there were plenty of speakers at the same meeting, including other teachers defending the teacher and saying he's allowed to say whatever he wants. That's why the power of speaking up for what you believe in matters.
Students Create Spaces for Open Dialogue
Cabot Phillips, a host from Morning Wire, posted something he witnessed in his hometown—a group of students setting up their own tables to encourage conversation. The table read: "Jesus is king. Ask us questions. Free Bibles, prayer," followed by a Bible verse. Students are simply setting up and having conversations about faith.
Similar scenes have unfolded on college campuses with students sitting at tables with signs saying "prove me wrong" on topics like "there are two genders"—the same approach Charlie used to use. These students are taking up the torch and trying it on their own campuses.
Unfortunately, many people setting up these tables to have open discussions have been harassed by students on campus to the point that they have to pack up and leave. This harassment happened at a school in Tennessee, highlighting what's wrong with the current campus climate.
Memorials Vandalized, Then Restored
Beautiful memorials created in Charlie's honor have been vandalized by some students, highlighting a key difference in how the two sides approach disagreement. At UNC Wilmington, a woman painted a beautiful memorial for Charlie that read: "If you believe in something, you need to have the courage to fight for those ideas, not run away from them and try and silence them." - Charlie Kirk. It was a beautiful, non-controversial memorial with absolutely nothing wrong with it.
Within approximately one day, the memorial was defaced with paint in the colors of the trans flag—light pink, light blue, and white. UNC Wilmington refused to act after leftists defaced the Rock Memorial for Charlie Kirk and harassed conservative students who tried to intervene. Conservative students initially tried to stop the vandalism, but these students pushed them out of the way. Eventually the conservative students stepped back and the vandals destroyed the memorial.
Video footage captured a girl sludging blue paint all over the quote. It's symbolic of the problem that needs to be fixed—breaking brainwashed students out of their ignorance. These students don't even know who Charlie is or what he stood for; they're vandalizing memorials out of pure ignorance.
The girl vandalizing the memorial claimed: "I'm fully religious, too. I know, but Kirk is definitely not the morals I support. I support where you're just taught to love your neighbor." She doesn't even know what Charlie ever said. Watching the brainwashing in real time is truly phenomenal. As she does something horribly disrespectful, she claims he's "just a racist and a homophobe."
It's wild to see how she fully believes she is totally in the right and that it's totally okay to be fully on camera and totally exposed doing this. She even apologized for stepping on flags at the memorial stuck in the ground while simultaneously pouring paint over the entire memorial that also covers the flags. Nothing clicks. Nothing makes sense.
She acknowledged: "All my friends at Chapel Hill are going to be like, 'She's iconic.'" Well, she certainly became iconic for all the wrong reasons on the internet.
Questions remain about where school law enforcement was during these incidents. Why can't a memorial be created and protected? Why is that not a thing? These memorials keep being ruined and then people come back and fix them.
But students continue to fight back. They are restoring these vandalized memorials after they're destroyed. Video footage shows students who came back to restore a memorial they had made—the slow effort of trying to clean up this country, clean up the mess that continues to be made, trying to find goodness and make it good again.
Beautiful Tributes and Lasting Legacies
The UVU campus where Charlie was assassinated now features extensive memorial sites. Students on the right memorialize someone who has been lost with beauty and peace, not by vandalizing anything.
LSU announced a lecture series honoring Charlie Kirk to promote free speech. New College of Florida made an even bolder statement: "Today we announced that we will commission a statue of Charlie Kirk to honor his legacy and incredible work after his tragic assassination. The statue, privately funded by community leaders, will stand on campus as a commitment by New College to defend and fight for free speech and civil discourse in American life. The location for the statue will be announced in the coming months."
The mockup of the statue is beautiful and perfectly emblematic of exactly what Charlie did and where he did that work—an open table, open conversation, open posture. It shows how historic this is and what he has done for this culture and society will be seen for generations to come. They will look back and hear the name and see him and remember what he stood for: open debate and free speech.
Students Demand Turning Point Chapters
Students are standing up and demanding that they be allowed to have Turning Point chapters at their high schools and colleges. High school students specifically are demanding to be able to start TPUSA chapters at their schools.
One student explained: "Charlie encouraged me to start a chapter at my high school. Unfortunately, school administrators have not approved the chapter yet. We've tried multiple times. This year at Glen Brook North, unfortunately they're not approved. Dr. Michael Taran, director of student activities, has denied our right to free speech. Email him. We need to start a chapter. We need to spread this movement. We have to recognize that. We have to continue his movement. And we have to make it even bigger and even stronger."
Another student added: "I tried to get Turning Point USA approved at Glen Brook North last year with my friend Nate. They denied us. You know what club they allow? Students Demand Action. They said our club already exists, but it didn't. It was a news club. That is nowhere near turning point. We need to get clubs approved at every high school around the nation. We must continue this fight."
The students enthusiastically shared Dr. Taran's email information, demonstrating the energy and determination of high school students in the purest best way.
Turning Point USA Experiences Massive Surge
Turning Point's campus stops are back. They started on September 22nd with Michael Knowles hosting. It was phenomenal with a packed house, and the team at Turning Point is going nonstop. Erika Kirk has been appointed as the new CEO and chair of the board for Turning Point USA, and new chapter requests have exploded beyond comprehension.
Andrew Kolvet, who was Charlie's executive producer and works at Turning Point, provided a huge update: "After Sunday's memorial service for Charlie, TPUSA received a massive surge of inquiries to start new chapters. Pre-Sunday, we had around 60,000 inquiries, which is already a huge amount. Post-Sunday, we are now at over 120,000 inquiries. Even accounting for attrition and duplicates, we are on the cusp of having a TPUSA or Club America chapter in every high school and college campus in America."
That was Charlie's dream. That was his vision.
One woman responded: "The media tried to shame a movement into silence. Instead, they sparked the biggest youth political surge in modern history. 120,000 plus inquiries, a chapter on every campus. Charlie's name is being carried like a flag. This isn't a retreat. This is the uprising."
Let this peaceful, faith-filled, facts-focused uprising grow. Kids are the most powerful because their voice will be heard for decades and decades to come. Watch out to those who thought silencing a leader would silence a movement. History will prove them wrong.
Video Transcript
Over the last few weeks, I have seen
evidence of students just rising up and
pushing back against the heavy-handed
woke indoctrination across many schools
and campuses. Peacefully, of course,
because that's how this movement works.
But nonetheless, something that I want
to show you guys. There are three
students who were asking for a teacher
to be fired after he made a post
celebrating Charlie Kirk's murder. I saw
a bunch of students, specifically with
this meeting, going to speak up and say,
"No, we don't feel comfortable with our
teacher celebrating a murder." Students
have power. I love just seeing them
exert it and show that like this is how
it works. Teachers don't get to just say
whatever they want all of the time and
then there's never repercussions for it.
Especially when it's vile behavior,
especially when students then feel
uncomfortable because it's like you're
what are you doing? I mean, this is just
a great little little snippet of that.
>> We decided to come up and give our
perspective on this subject considering
it is our teacher and one of the people
that will guide our futures. No matter
what anyone says to me, I will never
stand for violence, especially of a man
who was publicly murdered in front of
his wife, one of his children, thousands
of students, and other bystanders.
Charlie was not a racist. He did not
hurt anyone sexually, and he did not
kill anyone. Therefore, this was an
unjustified cause of death that should
never be celebrated. So, if you ask me,
Charlie's children do not deserve to
grow up without their father. Charlie's
wife did not deserve to lose her
husband. Charlie did not deserve to lose
his life because of a different opinion.
But this teacher deserves to lose his
job.
>> As civilians and people of our great
country, we hold ourselves to a higher
standard than to support or worse yet
rejoice in violence. Someone who
advocated for an arrested murderer and
assassinator of one of the greatest
debaters and free speakers of our time
should have no place in the classroom,
more so around young children. It really
just warms my heart to see kids just
standing up for what they believe in,
advocating for what they think is right,
and again having those open discussions,
those open debates, and having an open
conversation here where they're willing
to go speak their mind because there are
plenty of speakers in the same meeting,
other teachers defending the teacher and
saying, "Well, it's fine. He's allowed
to say whatever he wants." So again,
that's why the power of of the other
side matters of speaking up for what you
believe in. And so I love to see, you
know, young high school guys doing this.
Now, one of the hosts here from Morning
Wire, Cabbat Phillips, he posted
something that he saw in his hometown.
And I wanted to share this too because
it was a bunch of students setting up
their own tables and trying to encourage
conversation. Specifically with this one
about Christ, it says, "Jesus is king.
Ask us questions. Free Bibles, prayer,
and then a Bible verse. They're just
setting up and having conversations.
Jesus is king. Ask us questions." I love
that. I love it so much. I saw a bunch
of these happening on college campuses
too with students just sitting at the
tables and you know saying prove me
wrong there are two genders prove me
wrong the things that Charlie used to
do. Now all these other students are
just taking up the torch and trying it
on their own campuses. Unfortunately
though on that same note I also saw many
people setting up these tables trying to
have these open discussions and then
just being harassed by students on
campus to the point that they have to
pack up and leave. I saw that just
happen at a school here in Tennessee
like minutes away and it was so
disheartening because it just highlights
what's wrong. There were also some
beautiful memorials that were made in
Charlie's honor and some students
decided to vandalize those and attack
those as well which it just highlights
this key difference here. For instance,
this happened at UNC Wilmington. This is
a beautiful memorial that a woman had
painted for Charlie. It says, "If you
believe in something, you need to have
the courage to fight for those ideas,
not run away from them and try and
silence them." Charlie Kirk, a
beautiful, not controversial memorial.
Nothing wrong with it. Absolutely
beautiful. And within, I think, a day,
it turned into this, which also
important to note, those colors, light
pink, light blue, white. Seen that
before, the trans flag. UNCC Wilmington
refuses to act after leftists deface the
Rock Memorial for Charlie Kirk. And
Harold painted conservative students who
tried to intervene because there were
students here for a while that tried to
stop them and eventually these kids were
like pushing them out of the way. And
then eventually the conservative
students stepped back and they just
destroyed it. And it's it's
heartbreaking that also there was
nothing that was done, but this girl
came up and just started sludging the
blue all over the quote. It's just like
it's so symbolic of the problem that we
have that we need to fix that we need to
break these brainwashed students out of.
The ones who just like paint dump yes
cover. Who's I don't even know who
Charlie is. I don't know what he stood
for. I'm just doing this cuz I'm cuz I'm
ignorant. I mean that's that's what this
is and we need to wake them up from it.
This is just the other shot of that girl
just vandalizing this and she's saying,
"Well, you know this. I I'm religious,
too." Cuz you guys know I'm fully
religious, too.
>> We know.
>> I know.
>> Well, I do, but Kirk is definitely not
the morals I support or the I support
where you're just taught to love your
neighbor.
>> Respect.
>> Love your neighbor. Again, she doesn't
even know what Charlie ever said. That's
what's so just maddening. Watching the
brainwashing in real time is like truly
phenomenal. As you're doing something
horribly disrespectful, he is just a
racist and he was a homophobe and and so
that's why I just I have to do it's so
disgusting. It's also wild just to see
how she just fully believes that she is
totally in the right and this is totally
an okay thing to do and it is totally
okay to be fully on camera and be
totally exposed doing this. I mean,
that's crazy.
>> Yeah, I am sorry. I did not mean to step
on any of the flags. I will admit that.
I am sorry. I I don't think I did step
on those. She's being respectful by not
stepping on the flags at the memorial,
the ones stuck in the ground at the
bottom. But she's also pouring paint
over the entire memorial that also
covers the flags. I mean, nothing
nothing clicks. Nothing even makes
sense.
>> All my friends in Chapel Hill are going
to be like iconically.
>> All of my friends at Chapel Hill are
going to be like, "She's iconic."
Well, she certainly became iconic for
all the wrong reasons on the internet.
So that's what you get in modern day.
Sorry, not sorry. Where is the school
law enforcement like preventing this? Is
there is there any level of you can
create a memorial and it can just be
protected at all? Like why is that not a
thing? All these I keep seeing are just
being ruined and then people are coming
back and fixing them. But where is that?
But as I was saying, the kids continue
to keep fighting back. So they are even
restoring these vandalized memorials
after that happens. And here's just one
video of students who came back to
restore a memorial that they had made.
It's like the slow effort of trying to
clean up this country, clean up like the
mess that is just continues to be made,
but trying to find goodness, trying to
make it good again. And on the note of
good memorials, I wanted to show this.
This is from the UVU campus where
Charlie was assassinated. This is what
the school and a lot of the memorial
sites look like now.
>> I wanted to show you guys some of the
things that I noticed around campus
today.
Will I know I'll be safer out there?
What will I lose?
Will I lose
when all is my shield isn't there? Can I
trust you?
Can I trust you? Find me in the open.
All the good and broken.
[Music]
Nothing left unspoken.
[Music]
I am here.
Standing here.
See me in my
beautiful the
This is where my hope is.
It's just like this is how
students on the right memorialize
someone that has been lost. It's it's
beautiful. It's peaceful.
It's not vandalizing anything. I also
saw this which I thought was so cool.
LSU is announcing a lecture series
honoring Charlie Kirk to promote free
speech. So that is happening on one of
these campuses. Another school, New
College of Florida, they said, "Today we
announced that we will commission a
statue of Charlie Kirk to honor his
legacy and incredible work after his
tragic assassination last week. The
statue, privately funded by community
leaders, will stand on campus as a
commitment by New College to defend and
fight for free speech and civil
discourse in American life. The location
for the statue will be announced in the
coming months." And that's the mockup of
the statue,
which I I love that. I mean that it's so
it's so beautiful. It's so perfectly
emblematic of exactly what Charlie did,
exactly where he did that kind of work.
Open table, open conversation, open
posture. Let's talk. It gives me chills
because it shows how historic this is
and how what he did and what he has done
for this culture and the society will be
seen for generations to come. and they
will look back and hear the name and see
him and remember what he stood for,
which is that open debate, free speech.
And I just I thought this was the most
beautiful memorial that someone had. It
has like 20 million impressions.
Everyone was just like, "This is
beautiful." Now, the last video that I
want to show you guys is another video
of students just standing up and
demanding that they are allowed to have
Turning Point chapters at their high
schools and at their colleges. But these
guys are specifically high school
students who are demanding to be able to
start TPUSA chapters at their schools.
encouraged me to start a chapter at my
high school. Um, unfortunately, school
administrators have not approved the
chapter yet. We've tried multiple times
as Peter stated.
>> Um,
[Music]
>> this year,
>> what's the email? I love this energy.
The kids like, "What's his email? Give
me his phone number."
>> Glenn Brook North. We're at Glen Brook
North and unfortunately they're not
approved.
>> Dr. Michael Taran, director of student
activities, has denied our right to free
speech. Email him. We need to start a
chapter. We need to spread this
movement. We have to recognize that. We
have to continue his movement. And we
have to make it even bigger and even
stronger.
>> I tried to get Turning Point USA
approved to Clench North last year with
my friend Nate.
>> They denied us.
[Music]
>> Wait, you know what club they allow?
>> Students Demand Action.
Why did they deny you?
>> They said our club already exists, but
it didn't. It was a news club.
>> That is nowhere near turning point. We
need to get clubs approved at every high
school around the nation. We must
continue this fight. Who wants his
email?
>> Let's go.
>> Yeah.
>> Everyone ready?
>> MT
>> Oh, it's so good. It's such like high
school students being high school
students in the purest best way. Now,
speaking of Turning Point, their campus
stops are back and they just started on
the 22nd of September with our very own
Michael Nolles hosting it. It was
phenomenal. It was a packed house and
the team over at Turning Point is just
going nonstop. Obviously, as many of you
have probably heard, Erica Kirk has been
appointed as the new CEO and chair of
the board for Turning Point USA. And the
new chapter requests have just exploded
beyond frankly comprehension. This is
the very latest from Andrew Kvet, who
again was Charlie's executive producer
and works at Returning Point. Huge
update. After Sunday's memorial service
for Charlie, TBUSA received a massive
surge of inquiries to start new
chapters. Pre Sunday, we had around
60,000 inquiries, which is already a
huge amount. Post Sunday, we are now at
over 120,000 inquiries. even accounting
for attrition and duplicates. We are on
the cusp of having a TPUSA or Club
America chapter in every high school and
college campus in America. That's so
cool. That was Charlie's dream. That was
his vision. It's this is so it's so
cool. One woman wrote under that and she
said, "The media tried to shame a
movement into silence. Instead, they
sparked the biggest youth political
surge in modern history. 120,000 plus
inquiries, a chapter on every campus.
Charlie's name is being carried like a
flag. This isn't a retreat. This is the
uprising." Absolutely. And let this
peaceful, faithfilled, factsfocused
uprising grow. Kids are the most
powerful because their voice will be
heard for decades and decades to come.
So, watch out to those who thought
silencing a leader would silence a
movement. History will prove them wrong.
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