Turning Point USA to Return to the Scene of Charlie Kirk’s Assassination on Anniversary * The Gateway Pundit * by Randy DeSoto, The Western Journal

Turning Level USA plans to return to Utah Valley College in Orem on the anniversary of founder Charlie Kirk’s assassination to carry what guarantees to be a robust occasion.

“Remembering his life. Honoring his legacy,” TPUSA posted on social media.

“Be a part of us 9/10 on the UCCU Middle on the campus of UVU with Glenn Beck, Frank Turek, and extra as we mirror on Charlie Kirk’s extraordinary impression,” the put up additional acknowledged.

Turek is a well known Christian apologist who was with Kirk when he was shot on the UVU occasion. Beck has been a staple at Turning Level’s annual AmericaFest occasions in Phoenix.

Remembering his life. Honoring his legacy.

Be a part of us 9/10 on the UCCU Middle on the campus of UVU with Glenn Beck, Frank Turek, and extra as we mirror on Charlie Kirk’s extraordinary impression: https://t.co/DbKZifYSDz pic.twitter.com/kFZr465FKZ

— Turning Level USA (@TPUSA) August 21, 2026

I seen at a Turning Level headquarters open home that I attended in March that a number of audio system referred particularly to Sept. 10, or 9/10, in order that date is one thing that could be very a lot of their considering and vocabulary.

I argued in an article earlier this summer season and within the 2026 version of my e book, “We Hold These Truths,” that Charlie Kirk was a Thomas Paine for our time.

In different phrases, he was a cultural chief outdoors of presidency who actually shifted American society again towards liberty, and in his case, again towards God.

Kirk said simply months earlier than he died, “If I’m to be identified for something, I need to be identified for being brave for my religion.” I contended that he, like Paine and different cultural leaders I wrote about, equivalent to Frederick Douglass, Julia Ward Howe, and Frank Capra, helped form the political dialogue of their historic eras.

I used to be in a position to witness a few of his work via Turning Level USA as a reporter for The Western Journal masking CPAC. I interviewed him a number of occasions there, and I keep in mind him being surrounded by college-aged college students carrying swag with messages like “Socialism Sucks” and “Large Authorities Sucks.”

I spoke to him particularly as regards to socialism for a news story that I wrote in early 2020, following the discharge of a ballot displaying that seven in 10 millennials can be inclined to vote for a socialist candidate.

He argued that it was the results of years of indoctrination happening on faculty campuses — however, he added, college students can usually be turned away from socialism just by asking them two questions. First, do you belief the federal government? And if not, why do you need to make it greater?

In my e book and in a current Western Journal podcast, I argued that Kirk was like Paine by way of his cultural affect.

Many individuals won’t notice that Paine, in “Common Sense,” which was revealed in January 1776, cited the Bible a number of occasions in his argument about why the American colonies ought to declare their independence from Nice Britain.

Relating to being ruled by a king, he wrote, “Because the exalting one man so significantly above the remainder can’t be justified on the equal rights of nature, so neither can it’s defended on the authority of Scripture; for the desire of the Almighty, as declared by Gideon and the prophet Samuel, expressly disapproves of presidency by kings.”

The pamphleteer advocated that, as an alternative of being topic to the arbitrary whims of royal decree, the colonists must be topic to God and His everlasting legal guidelines. “However the place, say some, is the king of America? I let you know, Pal, he reigns above, and doth not make havoc of mankind just like the royal brute of Britain.

“But that we could not seem like faulty even in earthly honors, let a day be solemnly set aside for proclaiming the constitution [creating a new government for America]; let it’s introduced forth based mostly on divine legislation, the Phrase of God [the Bible]; let a crown be positioned thereon, by which the world could know, that as far as we approve of monarchy, that in America THE LAW IS KING. For as in absolute governments the king is legislation, so in free international locations the legislation must be King; and there must be no different,” Paine wrote, six months earlier than colonists signed the Declaration of Independence.

“Common Sense” sold 125,000 copies within the first three months after its launch and 500,000 by the tip of the Revolutionary Battle. For a nation of not more than 4 million on the time, these are some fairly spectacular numbers. The pamphlet remains to be in print to at the present time.

In at present’s parlance, we’d name that going viral, which is what Kirk additionally did with tens of millions of social media followers and “The Charlie Kirk Present.”

TPUSA shared a clip final month of Kirk exhorting that we must always observe “God’s instructions in opposition to the tradition, not in consistency with the tradition.”

Construct for eternity, not simply at present. pic.twitter.com/FWoESunTAU

— Turning Level USA (@TPUSA) July 9, 2026

“To face, in my view, on everlasting truths, combat for the nation, combat for our civilization, after which additionally perceive that you just, particularly as males, however girls as properly, you’re obligated to do tough and arduous issues.”

This text appeared initially on The Western Journal.