Charlie Kirk’s horrific assassination on Wednesday has led many people to wonder about the future of the conservative movement. While Kirk will be sorely missed in the discourse, many political figures are stepping up to the podium with some choice words for their enemies.

On Thursday, the Daily Wire’s Ben Shapiro released a statement attempting both to dispel rumors and to encourage those who are mourning the loss of the late conservative giant.

‘We’re going to pick up that bloodstained microphone where Charlie left it.’

In the statement, Shapiro cut through earlier rumors that he would be canceling speaking events in the future. “Now, it’s still up to us. I saw a lot of rumors online today — I was made aware of this by my team — that I canceled some sort of college tour. That’s bulls**t. I saw those rumors. They are false. I will be coming to college campuses, many of them this year. So will we all, I am sure, because we’re Americans, and we’re not going to be deterred.”

The co-founder of the Daily Wire made clear that intimidation would not stifle free discussion of ideas. “Charlie’s voice is not silent. We’re going to pick up that bloodstained microphone where Charlie left it,” Shapiro said.

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“And to those who would intimidate, who would seek to stop us, who would seek to end free discussion, who believe that they have ownership over public spaces and can violently threaten and kill people who speak freely: We are not going to stop, and I have two words: F**k you.”

Turning Point USA and the Daily Wire have had a strong partnership in shaping the contemporary conservative movement.

While the future may seem uncertain, Shapiro made one point very clear: “We will not stop telling the truth. We will never stop telling the truth. We will never stop debating and discussing. We will never stop standing up for what America is and for what she should be, and we will never let Charlie Kirk’s voice die.”

“Goodbye to my friend Charlie Kirk. May your memory be a blessing for your family and for your country and for all of us.”

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Joe Rogan and his recent guest, actor Charlie Sheen, had live reactions to the assassination of Charlie Kirk during the latest episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience.”

During the podcast interview with Sheen that was recorded on Wednesday afternoon, Rogan was notified in the middle of his broadcast that Kirk had been shot.

‘You’re allowed to disagree with people without celebrating the fact they got shot.’

A visibly distraught Rogan asked aloud near the end of this podcast, “Should we bring this up? I guess we have to. So this just happened. We just found out that Charlie Kirk got shot.”

Sheen replied, “It’s f**king awful.”

After it was confirmed that Kirk was assassinated, Sheen commented, “Murdered for having a different opinion from somebody else. A different ideology from somebody else. His beliefs didn’t align.”

“He doesn’t deserve that,” Sheen added. “Nobody deserves that.”

Upon hearing the news that Kirk had been killed, Rogan was visibly shaken over the assassination, exhaling loudly in a video clip.

Rogan then skewered MSNBC for commentary that suggested that the shooting of Kirk was possibly “a supporter shooting their gun off in celebration.” Rogan remarked, “Oh God. What a crazy take. Like it might not have been someone assassinating someone for the wrong opinion.”

Rogan noted that MSNBC had a narrative of attempting to “try to pin it on a crazy Trump supporter with a gun going wacky.” As Blaze News reported, MSNBC analyst Matthew Dowd was fired following “insensitive” comments he made during the live coverage of the shooting of Kirk.

Rogan made a correct prognostication when he uttered, “There’s gonna be a lot of people celebrating this.” Blaze News brought to light some of the more reprehensible reactions by left-wing supporters celebrating the murder of Kirk.

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Rogan delivered a warning about the dangers of people celebrating the murder of Kirk.

“It’s so scary. It’s so dangerous to celebrate or to in any way encourage this kind of behavior from human beings,” Rogan explained. “It’s not a violent guy. He’s talking, he’s talking to people on college campuses. He wasn’t even particularly rude. He tried to be pretty reasonable with people.”

“He’s a very intelligent guy,” Rogan said of Kirk, then added, “Whether you agree with him or don’t – and there’s a lot of stuff that I didn’t agree with him on, and that’s fine – you’re allowed to disagree with people without celebrating the fact they got shot.”

Sheen chimed in, “You can’t disrespect his passion.”

Rogan encouraged people not to celebrate Kirk’s murder but to embrace more “discourse” to resolve differences. Rogan urged people who disagree with people like Kirk to engage in debate to prove who has the best ideology by compelling conversation.

Rogan proclaimed, “No one deserves this, folks. No one that has different opinions, no one deserves that. No, this is horrible, no.”

The prolific podcaster pointed out that people will celebrate Kirk’s assassination because we live in a “f**ked up time,” when “people have really fallen into this trap of us against them.” Rogan was concerned about the possible ramifications of the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

Rogan revealed that he met Kirk once at a gun range, and he was a “nice guy” when they met.

“This is a f**ked up time,” Rogan stated. “People are so divided in this country, so divided. And there’s so many people that love it. They love that we’re divided, and they profit off that division, and they stoke the fires, and they do it for their own profit. And it’s so f**king gross. It’s so gross.”

Rogan pleaded that this should be a “wake-up call” for everyone.

“This is a dark day,” Sheen said, to which Rogan immediately agreed.

Rogan recommended that Americans need to “have a conversation about being able to have conversations,” or “it’s going to get a lot worse.”

“That’s what’s scary,” the comedian continued. “Scary that this could spark off some kind of real violent conflict.”

“That guy had a lot of fans. A lot of people loved that guy,” Rogan said of Kirk. “And if they find out that he got killed for something they vehemently oppose in the first place, it could send people over the edge.”

Sheen warned that Kirk’s assassination could be a “flashpoint moment.”

You can watch the entire “Joe Rogan Experience” episode with Charlie Sheen here.

RELATED: New York Times continues SPLC demonization of Charlie Kirk, accuses him of provocation

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An employee at a special education school in Arizona is accused of having an illicit relationship with a student, according to authorities.

Charlotte Huesby, a 24-year-old therapeutic support staff member at the Austin Centers for Exceptional Students in Peoria, was arrested Sept. 3.

The father told investigators that the student spent ‘nearly every weekend with Charlotte’ beginning in 2024, and spent most of his 2025 summer break living with her, according to the documents.

The Peoria Police Department informed Blaze News that Huesby was charged with sexual conduct with a minor and sexual exploitation of a minor, both class 2 felonies.

KSAZ-TV said an investigation began Aug. 28 when officers were sent to Austin Centers for Exceptional Students where the school’s superintendent had discovered “inappropriate text messages” between a 17-year-old student and Huesby.

The station said a portion of the court documents read, “Earlier in the day, a school counselor conducted a regularly scheduled counseling session with a student, and the student wanted to talk about an incident involving the victim. The student said she and the victim were hanging out on [Aug. 27] and the victim told the student that [the victim] and a staff member had a sexual relationship.”

The victim had videos of the sex encounters with the school staffer, police said.

The teen told detectives that he and Huesby “began dating” weeks after meeting at school in 2024 and had sexual contact on a regular basis after meeting.

The student alleged that Huesby got a hotel for a night and invited him to stay over. The couple allegedly had sexual intercourse at the hotel, which was reportedly recorded on video. KSAZ reported that Huesby told the boy that she wanted him to impregnate her.

Authorities report that another student informed a guidance counselor about a video circulating in a social media group chat allegedly depicting the teen engaging in sexual activity with the staff member.

Once the alarming allegations surfaced, the school immediately placed Huesby on administrative leave.

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During a Sept. 3 interview with investigators, Huesby confessed to having sex with the boy between 10 and 15 times, according to court documents. Huesby was arrested after the interview.

Meanwhile, the father of the alleged victim reportedly told detectives that he believed his son was in a relationship with an 18-year-old high school senior named “Angie.” However, the son reportedly informed his father later on that “Angie” was actually the 24-year-old paraprofessional.

The father told investigators that the student spent “nearly every weekend with Charlotte” beginning in 2024 and spent most of his 2025 summer break living with her, according to the documents.

The dad “never knew Charlotte was 24 and worked at [his son’s] school,” police wrote in their report.

Huesby was terminated from the Austin Centers for Exceptional Students on Aug. 29, according to the school.

Huesby had worked at the school for six years, according to KSAZ.

The Austin Centers for Exceptional Students said in a statement provided to KSAV:

On August 28, 2025, The ACES learned of a potential case of misconduct involving a paraprofessional employee and a high school student which allegedly took place outside of school hours and off campus. The ACES promptly notified law enforcement officials. The individual in question was immediately suspended, and a complete investigation was initiated. The staff member’s employment was terminated from our Peoria location on August 29th. On Sept 3rd, we learned from the authorities that the former employee was taken into police custody. All individuals employed by The ACES are required to undergo comprehensive initial and ongoing federal, state, and local criminal background checks, routine drug testing, and maintain a current Arizona IVP fingerprint clearance card. As we have done over the last 30 years, The ACES will continue to place the welfare and safety of our students as our highest priority.

The Austin Centers for Exceptional Students offers a “multifaceted special education program, designed specifically for students with emotional disabilities, autism, intellectual disabilities, specific learning disabilities, or other educational challenges.”

The Peoria Police Department told Blaze News that this case “remains an active investigation.”

Huesby’s arraignment hearing is scheduled for Sept. 17.

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When Charlie Kirk was asked in an interview how he would want to be remembered, he answered without hesitation.

“I want to be remembered for courage for my faith. That would be the most important thing. The most important thing is my faith in my life,” he said.

In honor of Charlie’s wish, BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock says, “I think he will be,” before reading Matthew 25:23: “Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Come and share your master’s happiness.”

“I think God is well pleased with Charlie Kirk and what he accomplished in his 31 years of life,” he says.

Kirk accomplished more in his 31 years than most people do in a lifetime — including becoming a major part of America’s strong faith-based conservative base.

“I really don’t like political partisanship, but there is a difference between the two political dynamics, the left and the right. And the difference is at their base, and I’m talking about the hardcore base of the conservative movement. It’s all based on biblical principles,” Whitlock explains.

“Charlie Kirk was a part of that base, that evangelical part of the conservative movement that really is trying to inflict, impose, influence government policies through a biblical lens,” he continues.

However, this is what angered leftists and the mainstream media the most, who labeled Kirk as polarizing.

“For the left, the most passionate people are the most secular people. … They stand shoulder to shoulder with the transgender crowd, the Alphabet Mafia, the pro-abortion crowd … and it’s because their worldview isn’t really biblical,” Whitlock says.

Rather, their worldview is “racial.”

And Charlie aimed to help the leftist youth see the world for more than the color of someone’s skin or a rainbow of genders.

“And that’s why I say hats off to Charlie Kirk. That in some ways, today is a celebration of a great young man, of someone that at an early age figured out how to match his talents with an activity and a passion and a life’s work that glorified and honored God,” Whitlock says.

“He recognized that this world has become so political, and that politics are driving so much of our worldview, that if he doesn’t inject Christianity and a biblical worldview into politics, we’re going to lose more and more people, and this world is going to become more and more worldly and secular, more and more hostile to God,” he continues.

“And Satan realized this man had to be stopped, because he was having too much impact on this world,” he says. “He was converting and opening the eyes of too many young people, and he had to be stopped.”

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Texas police are still investigating the gruesome alleged attack at a Dallas motel where a man was decapitated with a machete in front of his wife and child.

Court documents said that Yordanis Cobos-Martinez got into an argument with 50-year-old Chandra Mouli Nagamallaiah at the Downtown Suites motel off of Interstate 30 in Old East Dallas on Wednesday. A witness said the argument was over a broken washing machine.

After hacking the man’s head off, he kicked it twice and then picked it up and dropped it by a dumpster.

The witness, who worked with 37-year-old Cobos-Martinez, told police that the suspect was angry at Nagamallaiah for talking to the witness to translate during the argument instead of talking to Cobos-Martinez directly.

Cobos-Martinez then allegedly obtained a machete and began hacking at Nagamallaiah, who yelled and tried to run off through the parking lot toward the motel office. The victim’s wife and son came out and tried to stop the attack, but Cobos-Martinez allegedly pushed them off and continued.

Police say the attacker went through the victim’s pockets and took his cell phone and key card.

After hacking the man’s head off, he kicked it twice and then picked it up and dropped it by a dumpster.

Dallas Fire-Rescue followed the man, who was bloodied, until police were able to arrest him.

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(WARNING: Very graphic and disturbing video.) Gruesome video apparently showing some of the attack surfaced on social media.

Dallas County Jail records say that Cobos-Martinez is facing a capital murder charge and being held without bond.

KDFW-TV reported that he’s also being held on an immigration hold which may indicate that he’s in the country illegally.

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President Donald Trump revealed on Friday morning that the suspected assassin of Charlie Kirk is now in custody and was apparently turned in by a family member at the urging of a faith leader.

“I think with a high degree of certainty we have him in custody,” Trump told “Fox & Friends.” “Everyone did a great job. We worked with the local police, the governor — everybody did a great job.”

Just hours earlier, the FBI released additional photos of the suspected assassin as well as footage showing him bounding across the rooftop at Utah Valley University, then dropping down onto the grass below.

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The president indicated that based on what he was told just five minutes before the interview, a minister involved with law enforcement urged the suspect’s father to turn in his son and apparently collaborated with a U.S. marshal.

Blaze News has reached out to the FBI for comment

This is a developing story.

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