Republican Vice President JD Vance guest-hosted “The Charlie Kirk Show” in honor of his slain friend, and he used the platform to ask supporters to call out those who celebrated Kirk’s assassination.

Vance offered a somber remembrance for Kirk and vowed that Kirk’s friends and supporters would continue the effort to carry on his legacy after his assassination.

‘We owe it to our friend to ensure that his killer is not just prosecuted but punished. And the worst punishment is not the death penalty, but the knowledge that Charlie’s mission continues after he’s gone.’

“When you see someone celebrating Charlie‘s murder, call them out. Hell, call their employer!” Vance said.

“We don’t believe in political violence, but we do believe in civility. And there is no civility in the celebration of political assassination,” he added.

“Get involved! Get involved! Get involved!” the vice president said emphatically. “It’s the best way to honor Charlie‘s legacy. Start a chapter of [Turning Point] USA or get involved in the one that already exists! If you’re older, volunteer for your local party, write an op-ed in your local paper, run for office.”

Vance suggested that Americans could expect more political violence in the future.

“I can’t promise you this is gonna be easy. I can’t promise you that all of us will avoid Charlie’s fate. I can’t promise you that I will avoid Charlie’s fate,” he said ominously. “But the best way to honor him is to shine the light of truth like a torch in the very darkest places. Go do it!”

“We owe it to our friend to ensure that his killer is not just prosecuted but punished,” Vance added. “And the worst punishment is not the death penalty, but the knowledge that Charlie’s mission continues after he’s gone.”

Vance went on to quote St. Paul’s letter to the Ephesians from the Bible.

RELATED: Video shows Vice President JD Vance helping to carry Charlie Kirk’s casket onto Air Force Two

“Let all of us put on that armor and commit ourselves to that cause for which Charlie gave his life,” he concluded, “to rebuild a United States of America and to do it by telling the truth.”

The suspect in Kirk’s murder has been identified as Tyler Robinson, and recent reports said that he was in a romantic relationship with a male who was transitioning into a female. Some suspect the LGBTQ agenda might have been the motivation for the assassination.

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The Democratic governor of Pennsylvania is facing fierce online criticism for misleading people about the political violence his own family faced.

Gov. Josh Shapiro posted a statement opposing comments from President Donald Trump about leftist violence in the wake of the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Shapiro cited the recent firebombing that severely damaged his official residence.

‘Democrats are truly in a very bad place. Nobody can save them but themselves.’

“No one party is immune from political violence. My family and I can attest to that. Using the rhetoric of rage and calling some of our fellow Americans ‘scum’ — no matter how profound our differences — only creates more division and makes it harder to heal,” Shapiro posted on Sunday.

“We are at an inflection point in America. Violence transcends party lines — and the way to address it and have true peaceful debate is for leaders to speak and act with moral clarity,” he added. “That needs to start with the President.”

In response, many online pointed out that even the violence against Shapiro’s family home was allegedly committed by a leftist.

“I’m very sorry about what you went through governor. I’m very sorry about what your family and children went through. But the person who set your house on fire and tried to burn you is from your own tribe. He’s a left wing nut job,” reads one popular response with more than 10K likes.

Shapiro’s official residence was firebombed in April on Passover, and police arrested a car mechanic from the Harrisburg area for the crime. Cody Allen Balmer, 38, allegedly lit the governor’s mansion on fire with two Molotov cocktails to protest Shapiro’s support for Israel.

Shapiro’s statement artfully dodged the fact that, according to police, his family had been targeted by a staunch supporter of Palestine.

RELATED: Biden, Obama, and others on the left call for end of political violence after death of Charlie Kirk

His critics on social media were not letting him get away with it.

“It’s disappointing that Shapiro, who himself was targeted by left wing extremists when they burned down his home, can’t clearly say that threat is real,” Pradheep Shanker of National Review responded. “Democrats are truly in a very bad place. Nobody can save them but themselves.”

“Josh Shapiro’s house got burned down by a pro-Palestine leftist activist, and I don’t think a single conservative condoned or celebrated it — unlike the millions who celebrated Charlie Kirk’s death. Yeah, the Right has its occasional loons, but there’s no equivalence,” pastor Nathan Chester replied.

“Your house was burned down by a dirtbag leftist who was also scum. But you’ll defend the scum because your party is so terrified of the monster they created,” another detractor wrote.

Shapiro is seen as one of the possible candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2028. Blaze News has reached out to his office for comment.

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Chicago radio personality Michael Baisden went on record to voice his displeasure with NFL tributes to Charlie Kirk over the weekend.

Kirk, a 31-year-old political commentator, was murdered at a university event in Utah on Sept. 10, leaving his wife, Erika, and two children behind.

The majority of home NFL teams honored Kirk with a moment of silence on Sunday, with the Baltimore Ravens, Cincinnati Bengals, Detroit Lions, Indianapolis Colts, and Minnesota Vikings being the only teams that did not, according to the New York Post. Apparently, this was not enough for Baisden.

‘Seeing it play out in real time is disgusting.’

Baisden’s career in media has garnered him a massive following, including nearly four million followers on Facebook and about 530,000 on Instagram. On both pages, Baisden shared the following message.

“How do you feel about NFL teams honoring Charlie Kirk? Talk about a slap in the face of black players!” he wrote, alongside an image from AT&T Stadium that honored Kirk.

Baisden received a lot of support on his Instagram page, with many commentators referring to disgraced NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who kneeled during the national anthem in 2017.

“I stopped watching football when kneeling was a reprimanded offense,” said one reader with a black-power fist as the display picture.

“No surprise there at all. The NFL support[s] racism and has for some time now,” a bakery account wrote.

Like most, though, actual football players did not see Kirk as a racially divisive figure, nor did they see his murder as a cause for celebration or criticism.

RELATED: Carolina Panthers fire employee for showing his true colors after Charlie Kirk’s death

“You don’t have to agree with Charlie Kirk or his views, but taking someone’s life over differences is never justified,” said Joshua Hines-Allen, defensive end for the Jacksonville Jaguars. “The whole situation is tragic. Prayers and condolences to his family and loved ones,” he wrote on X.

Dallas’ own iconic former wide receiver Dez Bryant admitted on X that he was not familiar with Kirk when fans started asking him if posts he was making were in relation to the shooting. When one reader tried to say Bryant was supporting racism, Bryant rebuffed the claim and said, “Nobody deserves to die the way [that] man died.”

Bryant later added, “Seeing people who are excited about Charlie Kirk dying are f**ked up human beings. … Sending love to his family.”

Two-time Super Bowl winner and former Ravens wide receiver Torrey Smith voiced a similar sentiment on X, saying, “Celebrating the death of someone you don’t share the same beliefs as is wild.”

“Seeing it play out in real time is disgusting,” the broadcaster wrote; Ravens star quarterback Lamar Jackson shared the post.

RELATED: New York Yankees waste no time before honoring Charlie Kirk

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Three-time Super Bowl winner Julian Edelman, a former New England Patriots wide receiver, wrote on X that he is praying for the Kirk family.

“Violence like this is never acceptable,” Edelman added.

Even polarizing announcer and former Washington Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III said he was disgusted by what he was seeing online.

“Celebrating his death makes you a despicable human,” Griffin wrote. Griffin also asked for prayers for Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska, the woman who was murdered on a train in Charlotte.

Baisden now hosts a podcast under his own name while operating a dating and travel website called Mingle City.

The site boasts that Baisden was credited by former President Barack Obama’s campaign with “being instrumental in his election and re-election,” while also claiming Baisden was “the first and loudest national voice to sound the alarm on the Trayvon Martin killing!”

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The assassination of a prominent Minnesota state lawmaker and her husband in June was not carried out by a leftist, as some conservatives contend, but allegedly by a pastor who spent his adult life preaching about Christ.

In the wake of the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, some on social media point to the June 14 killing of Minnesota House Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman and her husband as evidence of a conservative killing and maiming Democrats.

‘Those two days don’t represent how I have been living the last 40 Years as a Christian.’

The response from some conservatives on X has been to brand accused Minnesota assassin Vance Luther Boelter a Democrat or a leftist lunatic or to suggest he was not a Trump supporter.

The trouble with those arguments is that they are opposed by most of the evidence in the killings of Hortman and her husband, Mark Hortman, and the grievous wounding of state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette.

It has become commonplace to see blame-trading in high-profile crimes such as assassinations and assassination attempts. The left often engages in deliberate deception. Social media is filled with the lie that Kirk assassination suspect Tyler Robinson is a Republican, when ample evidence has emerged alleging that he is an indoctrinated leftist and a homosexual who was living with a man pretending to be a woman.

FBI Director Kash Patel on Monday said Robinson “claimed that he had an opportunity to take out Charlie Kirk, and he was going to do it because of his hatred for what Charlie stood for.”

Boelter faces 14 criminal counts

Boelter, 58, of Green Isle, Minn., has been indicted in state and federal courts on 14 criminal counts that include stalking, murder, attempted murder, use of firearms in furtherance of a felony, and felony cruelty to an animal for the shooting of the Hortmans’ dog, Gilbert.

Anecdotal evidence that emerged June 14 during the largest police manhunt in Minnesota history suggested that Boelter had ties to Democrats and the prominent Democrat “No Kings” protest movement.

RELATED: Accused Minnesota assassin: ‘If you want to save the country you have to get your hands dirty’

Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton appointed Vance Boelter to the Governor’s Workforce Development Council in 2016. Current Gov. Tim Walz appointed Boelter to a similar board in 2019.Minnesota Secretary of State

But an examination of Boelter’s life found clear evidence that Boelter has lived by conservative values and that he allegedly targeted four lawmakers in the predawn hours of June 14 at least in part because they are Democrats.

What muddies the picture in the Minnesota case is that Boelter is an enigma. He has not been involved in state or local politics as a volunteer or donor. There is some evidence that he has voted in Republican elections and is a supporter of President Donald J. Trump.

Inconsistent reasoning

His alleged reasoning for the shooting rampage has been inconsistent, twisted, and bizarre. According to a handwritten letter he allegedly left in a getaway vehicle found in Belle Plaine, Minn., the suspect said Democrat Gov. Walz ordered him to kill Minnesota’s two Democrat United States senators so that Walz could run unencumbered for a seat in Congress.

While the FBI says Boelter kept a handwritten “hit list” of more than 60 Democrat officials and organizations, he apparently did not target U.S. Sens. Amy Klobuchar or Tina Smith on June 14. The targets on that day were the top state legislative Democrat and three other Democrat state lawmakers.

Boelter’s story has evolved since June 14. He first told Alpha News that the June 14 violence was meant to involve citizen’s arrests of Minnesota lawmakers for allegedly covering up 400 sudden deaths caused by COVID-19 shots. He claimed that neither his opposition to abortion nor his support for President Trump was his motivation.

Boelter told Blaze News in interviews from his jail cell in Elk River, Minn., that he never intended to shoot anyone. His actions on June 14 somehow went “horribly wrong.” It was the capstone of a two-year undercover investigation of vaccine deaths, he said, although he has yet to produce any evidence from this alleged investigation.

Boelter told Blaze News that while he is not yet able to share his full reasoning for the June 14 attacks and his time on the lam June 15, the violence of that day stood in stark contrast to the life he lived since childhood in Sleepy Eye, Minn.

“Those two days don’t represent how I have been living the last 40 Years as a Christian,” Boelter said in a text to Blaze News on Aug. 7.

RELATED: How did a religious, small-town Minnesota boy morph into an alleged political assassin?

“No Kings” fliers were found in a decommissioned police SUV owned by Vance and Jenny Boelter after the June 14 killings of Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark Hortman.Minnesota State Patrol/X

Alleged evidence of Boelter being a liberal boils down to three facts. In the decommissioned police vehicle he allegedly used to visit the homes of lawmakers on June 14, police indicated he had a pile of fliers that read “No Kings,” a reference to nationwide anti-Trump rallies held the same day as the murders.

The “No Kings” fliers were disclosed by the Minnesota State Patrol, which released an image of the signs on X June 14. “The photo is of flyers inside the vehicle of the suspect in today’s shootings,” the State Patrol wrote. Minnesota State Patrol Col. Christina Bogojevic advised Minnesotans to stay away from the “No Kings” protests scheduled for that day as a result.

There was no reference to the “No Kings” fliers in any of Boelter’s federal charging documents or the FBI search warrant affidavit. The photo released by the Minnesota State Patrol was not included in any of the other Boelter court documents.

The widely circulated photo of the fliers on June 14 led many, including Charlie Kirk, to initially conclude that Boelter was from the political left.

Boelter was appointed by two successive Democrat Minnesota governors — Mark Dayton and Walz — to workforce development boards on which Boelter served from 2016 until 2023. These were volunteer positions. The boards issued advisory reports on issues affecting the Minnesota workforce.

Boelter served on a similar body in Dakota and Scott Counties, the Dakota-Scott Workforce Development Board. He began a term as board chairman in October 2021. The board “oversees employment programs within Dakota and Scott counties, including at CareerForce Centers in Burnsville, West St. Paul, and Shakopee,” according to a Dakota County news release. “The board’s 27 members represent the public and private sectors.”

RELATED: Jenny Boelter files for divorce from Minnesota assassination suspect Vance Boelter

Vance Luther Boelter is charged with killing former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman (DFL-Brooklyn Park) and shooting state Sen. John Hoffman (DFL-Champlin).Minnesota Legislature

Most of Boelter’s career was spent at companies that process and sell food items, including Gold ’n Plump chicken, Johnsonville Sausage, Gerber Products, Lettieri’s/Greencore, 7-Eleven, and Marathon Oil.

Boelter is by all accounts a devout Christian. Raised in a Lutheran family of six children in southern Minnesota, Boelter described a conversion experience he had while working a summer job at the Del Monte vegetable packing plant in Sleepy Eye, Minn.

He earned a practical theology certificate at Christ for the Nations Institute in Dallas, a charismatic interdenominational Bible college. Boelter was involved in campus Christian groups while studying at St. Cloud State University. He served as a campus pastor in the mid-1990s at Southwest Minnesota State University in Marshall, Minn.

After getting married in October 1997, Boelter and his wife formed a Christian-based nonprofit organization, Revoformation Ministries Inc. The organization appeared to be related to the New Apostolic Reformation, an evangelical Christian movement.

The New Apostolic Reformation includes the belief that “an age of revival began around 1900, during which essentials that the Church lost or suppressed long ago were gradually ‘revived’ or ‘restored,’” according to Father Thomas Buffer, a priest writing in the Catholic Times.

Boelter went on missionary trips to the Democratic Republic of the Congo sponsored by the Minnesota-based Global Impact Center. During those trips he gave several sermons that chastised Christian churches in America for their alleged lack of unity and failure to uphold traditional teachings on marriage and sexual morality.

An outgrowth of those mission trips was the establishment of the Red Lion Group, a company that sought to increase locally grown food for distribution throughout the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Boelter and his wife, Jenny, were partners in Red Lion Group with the Rev. Mcnay Nkashama and his wife, Nathalie, according to documents obtained by Blaze News. The Nkashamas are both native to the DRC and now live in Minnesota.

Evidence of Boelter’s political leanings is more difficult to find than evidence of his business dealings. His childhood friend, David Carlson, told reporters that Boelter is no liberal and has supported President Trump. Carlson said Boelter did not have an interest in state or local politics.

There are no records in the Federal Election Commission database or Minnesota Campaign Finance Board records that show Boelter ever donated to a political candidate, political party, or political action committee.

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A teacher in Canada has been suspended for allegedly showing young students the “violent” video of the assassination of Charlie Kirk, according to reports.

An unnamed teacher reportedly showed the Charlie Kirk assassination video to students in grades 5 and 6 — typically ages 10-11 — at the Corvette Junior Public School in Toronto, Ontario.

‘While an investigation must still be conducted to learn all of the details, the report of this incident is extremely troubling and completely unacceptable.’

The school employee was “supervising a French immersion class and was not the regular teacher” on Thursday when the alleged incident happened, according to the New York Post.

“Several students from his class went home and complained to their parents, traumatized at witnessing the on-camera death, which they were forced to witness numerous times over,” a source told the Toronto Sun.

The source noted, “While playing this video repeatedly, he gave a speech to his students regarding anti-fascism, anti-trans, and how Charlie Kirk deserved for this to occur.”

RELATED: Stephen King forced to apologize for Charlie Kirk remarks, threatened with lawsuit, ripped as ‘evil, twisted liar’

Jennifer Koptie – the principal of the Corvette Junior Public School – reportedly sent a letter to parents on Friday addressing the alleged incident.

“We are writing to inform you about an incident that is reported to have taken place in your child’s class yesterday,” the letter apparently read. “During class, students were said to have been shown a portion of a violent video in response to questions being asked about a recent tragic event in the United States.”

The Toronto District School Board confirmed to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation that the traumatic video was related to Kirk’s murder.

“While an investigation must still be conducted to learn all of the details, the report of this incident is extremely troubling and completely unacceptable,” Koptie stated.

“Parents subsequently reached out to school administrators, who will be putting him on leave at the start of the school day, September 12, 2025,” the principal wrote.

The letter stated, “We recognize the seriousness of this matter and have taken immediate steps to follow all appropriate policies and procedures.”

Koptie said the staff member will not return to the school until the investigation is complete.

“I also want to assure you that our top priority is supporting students,” Koptie said. The principal noted that the school’s social workers were available on Friday to provide support to any traumatized students.

The Toronto District School Board did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Blaze News regarding the alleged incident.

Kirk was fatally shot on Wednesday while speaking at an outdoor event at Utah Valley University.

As Blaze News reported, vigils and celebrations of Charlie Kirk’s life have arisen not only across the country, but all over the world.

Meanwhile, an associate professor for the study of religion and political science at the University of Toronto has been put on leave after making derogatory remarks about the Turning Point USA founder that have been described as “disgusting.”

Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck has launched a fundraiser to support Kirk’s family: his wife, Erika, and their two young children.

RELATED: Video: Joe Rogan shaken by Charlie Kirk’s murder, warns against celebrating his death; Charlie Sheen says it’s a ‘dark day’

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One of the last times BlazeTV host Steve Deace saw Charlie Kirk, Deace recalls having a long conversation with him to discuss the state of the country and the conservative movement.

Deace’s wife, who was there, said later, “I just have a feeling that whatever we do moving forward, he’s going to be a big part of it.”

When the pair last spoke on Tuesday, Deace received a text from Charlie: “Thank you, you are a dear friend.”

And he is among the thousands of Americans who can count themselves forever changed — for the better — by the Turning Point USA founder.

“I’m devastated. I’m angry,” Deace says through tears. “But now is not the time for anger. There will be a time. There will be a time, and it is coming soon. But we have to mourn first so that that anger does not eat us alive.”

“Charlie was the best of us,” he continues. “He was the brightest of the lights. He was literally one of the last people left on our side still trying to change minds, still trying to persuade, who hadn’t given up. And that frankly was just too much light for the darkness in our world right now.”

“If the enemy wanted to target our most important general, he did. The void that is left here is incalculable. There is no single person that could possibly step into the shoes of everything Charlie was a part of and helped to lead or made happen. It’s going to take more than a village. It’s going to take a movement to fill his shoes,” he adds.

While Deace is at a loss as to why Charlie was taken, he believes there must be a reason.

“I am going to trust that a God who did not even spare his own son for me or Charlie or for you, whose son the grave could not hold and whose last enemy, death, he conquered,” Deace says, “I am going to trust that someday in the future I’m going to look back on this, and I’m going to say, ‘Devil, that was the dumbest thing you could have possibly done.’”

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My liberal friends are completely oblivious about how radicalizing the last week has been for tens of millions of normal Americans. Zero clue. So I am telling you, my liberal friends and leftists everywhere. This is what has happened.

I’m not talking about people who are “online.” I mean regular, everyday Americans. “Normies.” People who scroll through Facebook posts and Instagram reels from the Dutch Bros drive-thru line. Political moderates who have water cooler chats about Mahomes touchdowns and Bon Jovi concerts, not Twitter threads or Rachel Maddow monologues.

These normal, middle-of-the-road, nonpolitical citizens just become politically active. They realized that politics cares about them, even if they don’t particularly care about politics.

Millions of them. Tens of millions. They’re logging on, they’re engaging, and they’re furious. And I’ll be candid: They blame you guys. They blame the left. Regardless of whether you believe it to be justified, they think you’re the bad guys here. And they are reacting accordingly.

I can already hear some of you racing toward the comments to start screeching in moral indignation, so I’m going to be blunt: Shut up and listen to what I’m telling you. Your movement will lose any semblance of relevance if you don’t develop some small measure of self-awareness, and — absent someone force-feeding you bitter medicine — you guys collectively lack the humility to do this on your own.

Here are the facts.

1) Tens of millions of Americans started the week seeing a 23-year-old blonde woman — a young woman in whom virtually every parent watching pictured their own daughter — stabbed in the neck by a career criminal. These people then found out the murderer had been released from jail 14 times over.

2) Two days later, tens of millions of Americans saw on video Charlie Kirk get murdered speaking to college students. Millions of these people knew who Charlie was; millions of them didn’t. Upon seeing the video, however, these normal Americans from across the land and across the political spectrum agreed that he was the victim of a terrible, fundamentally unjustifiable crime, and their hearts broke in sympathy for his family.

Good people who had never even heard the name Charlie Kirk before wept.

3) Immediately after seeing the footage of a peaceful young man getting shot in the neck, these same people logged on to Facebook and Instagram (remember, we are talking about regular Americans, not perpetually online Twitter or Bluesky users) and saw some of their local nurses, teachers, college administrators, and retail workers celebrating this horrific crime. Not just defending it but cheering it.

These are all facts. You may not like the implications of these facts, and we can certainly debate the underlying causes thereof, but, indisputably, they are factual statements nevertheless.

RELATED: Charlie Kirk’s assassination ignites global fire: Patriots hold memorials from the UK to South Korea

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Here’s what it means for Democrats reading this: These normal, middle-of-the-road, nonpolitical citizens just become politically active. They realized that politics cares about them, even if they don’t particularly care about politics.

After watching Iryna Zarutska and Charlie Kirk both bleed out from the neck, they think their lives and the physical safety of their families — the bedrock of human society, the foundation of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs — depend on political activation, whether they desire it or not. These people are now sprinting — not jogging, not walking, but racing — to the right.

Because they blame you guys for everything that just happened.

When they see footage of Decarlos Brown stabbing a Ukrainian refugee to death, they don’t see just one demon-possessed man. They picture every university administrator, HR bureaucrat, and DEI apparatchik that ever lectured them about systemic racism, the “carceral state,” or the need to release violent crime suspects without bail in the name of social justice.

They then think back to conversations they’ve had with their cop friends — their buddy from high school who quit the force after getting tired of being called a racist, their friend at the local YMCA who vents about having to release career criminals because Soros-funded prosecutors aren’t willing to file charges — and they realize everything the left has told them over the last five years has been utter BS.

All BS. Not even smart BS, but stale, mid-grade, low-IQ BS. Ordinary Americans see right through it, and they don’t like how it smells.

And they blame you. Because even if you count yourself as a moderate Democrat, your party supported the district attorneys, city council members, and mayors that let fictitious concerns about mental health and racial justice supersede very real concerns for their families’ safety.

When these Americans see blood erupt from the side of Charlie Kirk’s neck, they don’t see just a martyred political activist. They think of every extreme leftist they’ve ever met who calls anyone to the right of Hillary Clinton a fascist and constantly jokes — “jokes” — about punching Nazis and “bashing the fash.”

They realize that there really do exist people who wish to see them dead for their moderately conservative political beliefs, their Christian faith, and even the color of their skin.

They ask themselves if the violence visited upon Charlie might one day show up on their own doorstep.

And they blame you. Because even if you’re just a center-of-the-road liberal, you lacked the courage to police your own ranks. You let modern-day Maoist red guards run loose across every facet of society, and what started with social media struggle sessions has now turned to .30-06 bullet holes.

When these Americans log on to social media and see their neighbors justifying, celebrating, glorifying murder, they realize that some who walk among them are soulless ghouls at best, literally demon-possessed at worst.

These people — whether they faithfully attend church every Sunday or only attend with relatives once a year, on Christmas Eve — start talking about things like spiritual warfare. They implicitly understand that no normal human casually celebrates the mortal demise of a peaceful person.

And they blame you. Because even if you condemned Charlie Kirk’s murder, they probably haven’t seen you condemn those in your own movement who cheered it on. They view you as complicit in allowing heartless fellow travelers to celebrate death, and it repulses them.

RELATED: TPUSA plans historic memorial for Charlie Kirk

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For all of these situations, what has your response been? Nothing but BS.

In response to Iryna Zarutska bleeding out on the floor of a train, you post nonsensical statistics about reductions in reported crime. In reality, anyone who’s been to a major urban center in the last decade knows that actual crime has skyrocketed, and victims do not waste their time reporting it to cops who don’t have the manpower to respond and prosecutors who seek to downgrade as many felonies as possible to misdemeanors.

In response to a 31-year-old man taking a bullet to the neck in front of his family, you post nothing but nonsensical whataboutism. “What about January 6?” Honest answer: After you let Liz Cheney spend two years operating a star chamber in the House, combined with countless other failed attempts at “lawfare” against Trump, no one cares any more.

“What about Paul Pelosi?” That’s not comparable to Charlie Kirk getting shot, and we all know it. Also: Paul who?

“What about regulations on assault rifles?” That’s not going to get you very far when one of these killers used a knife and the other one used a common hunting rifle.

In response to teachers, health care workers, and thousands of other liberals cheering on Charlie’s murder, it’s nothing but more BS and misdirection.

“It’s not THAT many people celebrating!” Yes, it is. Everyone has seen it on their Facebook and Instagram feeds.

“I thought you guys didn’t support cancel culture.” We don’t cancel people over their opinions; we’re more than happy to see people lose their jobs — especially their taxpayer-funded jobs — for actively cheering on murder, though. If you can’t see the difference, that’s your own shortcoming.

All BS. Not even smart BS, but stale, mid-grade, low-IQ BS. Ordinary Americans see right through it, and they don’t like how it smells. You probably don’t like hearing this. But you need to hear it. Because I’m right, and as you reflect on this, you know I’m right.

The ranks of my political movement gained millions of righteously angry new members last week. We have a mandate to ensure that these crimes never happen again, and that’s exactly what we are now going to do. If you want to keep a seat at the table as we do so, you’d better clean house and start policing your own.

Editor’s note: A version of this article appeared as a post on X (formerly Twitter).

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Pastors have a sacred duty. They are shepherds of flocks and responsible for discipleship, biblical teaching, spiritual counseling, and the administration of sacraments. It’s a high calling.

In recent days, pastors from all across the nation did something they might not do at a “typical” church gathering: They preached based on what happened last week, helping their congregations process the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

‘I’m sad. I’m mournful. But I’m not in despair, because we serve a God of hope.’

And how could they not?

Speak to almost anyone — aside from the liberals celebrating Charlie’s death — and they will tell you that something about this tragedy feels different. It’s heavy in a way we cannot understand, process, or describe. Charlie’s murder represents the collision of good and evil: a loving husband, father, and man of God so violently and unjustly murdered under the influence and inspiration of demonic forces.

We cannot ignore the spiritual warfare taking place in our country. Charlie certainly didn’t, and neither did countless pastors who knew it was necessary to guide their flocks through unfathomable tragedy.

Here is a roundup of how pastors addressed Kirk’s murder.

How could this be, God?

Pastor Luke Barnett of Dream City Church answered the question he received from many, including his own board members.

“Pastor, what are we going to do? What are we going to do? Charlie is gone to be with the Lord.”

Barnett answered, saying that it was his role, and the role of followers, to double down. “We’re going to feed more people,” he explained, save more people, and call out a sin when it is a sin.

The pastor explained that Kirk was not only a friend to him but a lover of Jesus Christ and an American patriot.

“He loves the United States of America. He not only loves it, he’s vested. He’s bled for it. He died for it,” Barnett said.

Not only has Kirk been a motivating factor for living his life and showing his faith unashamedly, but he has been a role model for those in the faith who have been afraid to preach the truth.

“How could this be, God?” Barnett repeated. “This man’s being used by you to shape and mold the young minds of America. How could this be, God?”

This turning point, as Barnett called it, should be a point to rise up and defend faith like it has not been defended for decades. It’s a time to defend traditional marriage, to defend the fact that God chooses your gender, and to harness the explosion in faith that is to come after Kirk’s death.

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You might have pulled the trigger yourself

Bishop Patrick Wooden Sr. warned followers at the Church of God in Christ that once people are put in office and then viciously demonize their political opponents, they, figuratively speaking, may have pulled the trigger themselves.

Calling out the media’s inability to criticize religions other than Christianity, Wooden cited politicians like Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) for inciting political confrontations in public against those who disagree.

“When you start saying stuff like that, calling your political opponents Nazis, fascists, stuff like that. Well, sooner or later, a kook is going to hear that. A crazy person is going to hear that, and they’re going to act on it,” the pastor explained.

A lack of logic and consistency among those who oppose Kirk, including his assassin, are showing that they “don’t know God,” Wooden continued, focusing on the sheer audacity of taking Kirk’s life over a disagreement.

“I pray that our country has not degenerated to the point that if you cannot overcome someone’s point of view, someone’s stated position,” he said. “I hope we haven’t degenerated to the point where the response is, then you shoot him with a gun.”

People may disagree, and they should stand their ground, Wooden added, but they should never turn to violence.

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You’ll see it in their eyes

Pastor Michael Clary of Christ the King Church rightly revealed that pastors can expect to see many first-time visitors in their pews following Kirk’s death.

“Perhaps even many non-Christians, who are seeking answers and guidance as they process their anger, sorrow, grief, and confusion,” Clary said.

Describing Kirk as a “threat the left cannot tolerate,” Clary described Kirk as a martyr, “unusually gifted by God,” and so uniquely attractive to young people that he could lead a spiritual movement and shift what it means to be Christian for an entire generation.

Kirk gave his life identifying good and evil, the pastor went on, appropriately drawing attention to that which is tearing the United States apart and “sending people to hell.”

As such, Clary advised that pastors give their parishioners the medicine they seek in mourning Kirk’s death.

“So give them Jesus. Give them the Bible. Give them the gospel. Give them hope. Help them apply God’s word to their lives. Give them a vision for the supremacy of Christ in all things.”

More alive than ever

Pastor Rob McCoy from Godspeak Calvary Chapel spoke of Kirk’s character, and as his pastor, he said that in death, Kirk would be more alive than ever.

“He honored those who disagreed with him. He’d let them go to the front of the line because he knew that debate and and the use of words would stave off violence,” McCoy said, echoing comments that have been shared across the globe.

Kirk even traveled to South Korea with McCoy a week before his death, a report a churchgoer revealed.

“I’m running out of tears,” McCoy, reportedly said, fighting to harness his emotions. “I didn’t think I could cry that much … but I’m crying.”

Many shared the feeling, including McCoy, that Kirk did more for Christianity than any minister in modern-day America. The key was being unafraid to have Christ in the center of his politics and to bring God into the town square where he shared his views.

Kirk is an example of why truth-tellers are targeted, McCoy continued. But “the truth is never afraid of a lie.”

Armed with the truth, prophets, apostles, and faithful others are silenced with bullets instead of reason, McCoy said at one point.

“I’m sad. I’m mournful. But I’m not in despair, because we serve a God of hope.”

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The past few weeks have seen multiple terrible tragedies — the Catholic school shooting, the stabbing of Iryna Zarutska, and the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

And BlazeTV host Rick Burgess believes they all have one thing in common, and it’s definitely not guns. Rather, the killers are “demon-possessed,” he tells Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck on “The Glenn Beck Program.”

“You go to kill children in cold blood, just because they’re gathering and while they’re praying, and you seem to be repulsed at even the mention of Jesus Christ, as the demons always are in Scripture,” Burgess explains.

“Why do you think that these demonic forces feel like they’ve been invited here? We’ve been killing babies for how long now? This was a pagan practice of slaughtering babies, and now we’ve taken human life and we’ve dumbed it down so much,” he continues.

Burgess cites video games and Hollywood as a reason that an increasing number of people don’t see killing as “real.”

“Look at them sitting down on these video games with blood and guts, and they’re being dumbed down to the killing of people like it’s not real, like they’re playing a video game. They’re watching movies by the same people who lecture us about guns as they all slaughter people like it’s no big deal,” he tells Glenn.

“We have lost our ever-loving minds, and then we turn around and can’t believe that we’re living in darkness,” he adds.

“The guy who, you know, killed Iryna in Charlotte … was he mentally ill, or was he demon-possessed? … How would you know the difference?” Glenn asks.

“I know what Scripture says, and I know some of the markers. Let me be perfectly clear, because I’m telling you what I’m saying, but I want to be perfectly clear on what I’m not saying. I am not saying, nor do I think it’s accurate to say, that all mental illness comes from demonic forces. That’s not true,” Burgess explains.

“The brain is just like any part of the body. It can be sick. It can have a chemical imbalance. And we have wonderful doctors. Now, do we need to address how we take care of the mentally ill? Yes, we do. It needs some work. But there are people that their brains are just sick just like your heart would be,” he continues.

However, Burgess believes someone like Decarlos Brown was demon-possessed.

Brown said in a recorded phone call to his sister that he didn’t know her name, didn’t speak to her, and that he just took out his knife and killed her. After explaining what he did, he said, “What kind of person does that?”

“That’s demon possession,” Burgess says, adding, “He is under the control of something else.”

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