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There are some moments that rip the scab off the comfortable lie that violence only ever happens to someone else, and the shooting of Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University on September 10, 2025, is one of them. What began as another campus speech turned into a national wound in an instant, and conservatives across this country felt the chill of a direct attack on our movement and our right to speak openly in public.
Glenn Beck, fighting to keep his composure, revealed that his daughter Cheyenne was only about ten feet away from Kirk when the shots were fired and that she had recorded a tribute song with David Osmond the night before in honor of Kirk. Beck’s quiet disclosure — that he “never thought this song would be sung by my daughter for Charlie Kirk” — underscored the raw personal cost felt by families who have spent years building a conservative revival from the ground up.
Let us be clear: this is not just the loss of one charismatic leader, it is an assault on the civic muscle that defends free speech and civil society. The predictable calls for “both sides” rhetoric and media equivocation cannot paper over the fact that a political assassination on an American campus is an existential wake-up call for anyone who loves liberty. We must be unapologetic in naming evil and demanding a response that protects speakers and students alike.
Colleges once touted as marketplaces of ideas have become battlegrounds where cowardice and cancel culture mingle with the worst impulses of our political opponents. Campus organizers and university administrators who prioritize optics over security owe a heavy accounting to the families and to the students who now must reckon with fear where there should have been safety. Conservatives will not surrender campus commons to intimidation and cowardly violence.
Turning Point USA and the movement Charlie helped galvanize have vowed to carry his mission forward, and the organization has quickly moved to ensure continuity in leadership during this dark hour. Erika Kirk has been chosen to step up and steer the ship through grief and into a future where Charlie’s work will be defended and expanded, a necessary decision to keep the cause alive and focused.
Law enforcement has acted and a suspect is in custody, but justice in these cases cannot be a perfunctory box checked by officials; it must be full, transparent, and carry the full force of the law to deter copycats and to reassure a shaken nation. Conservative Americans must demand nothing less than maximum clarity and accountability from prosecutors who hold the public trust to prosecute such a heinous attack without political softness.
In moments like this, small gestures become beacons: a daughter recording a song for a man she admired, a community refusing to be cowed by hatred. Let that song be our promise — that we will remember, that we will stand, and that the movement Charlie built will not be silenced by bullets or by fear. Hardworking Americans who love freedom will carry his voice forward and make sure his sacrifice fuels a renewal, not a retreat.
