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Speaker 1: Hi there, folks, Welcome to Stinchfield. So we were expecting

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Speaker 1: the now CEO of Turning Point USA and widow of

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Speaker 1: going to be at Old Miss. It should be a

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Speaker 1: this event is about to take place. Amanda, Welcome to

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Speaker 2: Hay Grant, thanks so much for having me. We've got

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Speaker 2: a video plane behind me. I see a timer. They've

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Speaker 3: Talk, so I'll try to pack it in.

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Speaker 2: They have, I think, for the most part, gotten everyone

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Speaker 2: but the arena already looked packed at this point, so

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Speaker 2: I'm not sure where they squeeze all those people. And

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Speaker 2: I'm sure that they are complying with fire code. But

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Speaker 2: it's going to be an incredible night. Vice President Jade Vance,

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Speaker 2: as you said, and Charlie Kirk for excuse me, and

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Speaker 2: Erica Kirk. For Erica, you know, this is an emotional

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Speaker 3: This is a project that she's very passionate about.

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Speaker 2: She loves this organization because she loved what Charlie stood for,

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Speaker 2: And Vice President jd Vance also had a very close

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Speaker 2: anyone better. As you know, the vice president filled in

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Speaker 2: I think the Vice president is going to have some

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Speaker 2: It's incredible to see.

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Speaker 1: Has Erica done any of these events since the murder

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Speaker 2: Yeah, following the memorial She's not done anything on this scale.

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Speaker 2: I don't know what the seating capacity is of this

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Speaker 2: it is a huge production grant. You've seen any time

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Speaker 3: So these folks are in for a treat tonight.

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 1: One of the things I broadcast in Dallas, so Texas

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Speaker 1: It's a pretty conservative university as far as universities go.

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Speaker 1: You're still going to have your problems, but it's more

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Speaker 1: like protesters, rabble rousers, anybody there like that, Amanda.

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Speaker 2: So when we walked in, there was a guy with

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Speaker 2: As all of us, but just spreading the Gospel and

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Speaker 2: to what you were saying, Grant, you know were I

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Speaker 2: have noticed. I've observed this amazing thing with SEC schools.

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Speaker 2: And obviously I'm biased as an Auburn grad, but I

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Speaker 2: Tell them to add Auburn to the list of procects.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, no, Auburn is it's a little tougher school to

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Speaker 1: to all of this, Amanda, are they starting soon? Is

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Speaker 1: All right, well, Amanda, I'll take it back here and

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Speaker 6: Why refly, thank you, thank you, it's this thing there,

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Speaker 6: it is, okay, thank you very much, it's a real

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Speaker 6: pleasure to be here. You know, I didn't hear chanting

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Speaker 5: Like Charlie, Charlie, can I hear it?

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Speaker 7: Please?

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Speaker 6: Gives me chills every time.

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Speaker 6: My name is Lane Schomberger. I'm the chief investment officer

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Speaker 6: Turning Point, frankly for allowing us the opportunity to sponsor

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Speaker 6: this amazing tour. It's been an incredible tour and what

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Speaker 6: That is how much debt our students in this country have. Okay,

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Speaker 6: You came to school with a dream, with a desire

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Speaker 8: my life and I had to start again with just

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Speaker 8: my children and my wife. I thank my lucky stars

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Speaker 8: to be living here today because the flag still stands

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Speaker 8: for freedom and they can't take that away. And I'm

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Speaker 8: proud to be an American women ly STDA, I'm free,

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Speaker 8: and I won't forget.

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Speaker 10: The man who died who gave that right to me.

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Speaker 10: And I'm gladly stay up next to you and defenders

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Speaker 10: till today, because there rain no doubt I love this land.

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Speaker 5: God bless us.

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Speaker 8: From the lakes of Minnesota to the hills of Tennessee,

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Speaker 8: across the plains of Texas, from Cedar Shining Sea from

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Speaker 8: Detroit down to Houston and New York too. La. There's

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Speaker 8: pride in every American hardness. Time we're standing in see

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Speaker 8: then I'm proud to be an American. We're released. I

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Speaker 8: know I'm free, and I won't forget the man who

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Speaker 8: died who gave that right to me.

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Speaker 5: And I'm gladly stand up next to you.

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Speaker 8: And defendersting On today because there rain no doubt I

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Speaker 8: love this land.

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Speaker 10: God bless the US.

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Speaker 5: Thank y'all so much. God bless y'all. God bless America.

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Speaker 5: God bless Charlie Kirk. Thank you guys for showing up.

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Speaker 5: Please welcome to the stage.

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Speaker 7: Oh Miss thirty Point USA Chapter President Leslie Luckman.

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Speaker 5: Good evening.

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Speaker 11: I am Bleslie Lackman, President of your Ole Miss Chapter

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Speaker 11: of Turning Point USA. It is with mixed emotions that

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Speaker 11: I'm sending her at this moment. You're profoundly proud of

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Speaker 11: the event that is happening. Thank you for coming this evening,

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Speaker 11: and we're moved and motivated by the response from Old

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Speaker 11: Miss students and community in support of this event. The

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Speaker 11: outpouring of kindness and encouragement has been fueled the planning

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Speaker 11: of tonight Let's also take a moment to express gratitude

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Speaker 11: to the security and law enforcement, not only not only

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Speaker 11: for their extraordinary assistance today working to help keep us safe,

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Speaker 11: but for the diligent and hard work every day putting

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Speaker 11: their lives on the line. A big thank you so

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Speaker 11: goes out to our Turning Point USA field representative Jacob

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Speaker 11: Lawrence and our regional manager Noah Durham, Dickinson Davidson, the

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Speaker 11: Turning Point team, plus the entire declaration of an independent

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Speaker 11: center here on campus by doctor Skull Teddy. It is

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Speaker 11: their support of this chapter that has helped us grow

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Speaker 11: and develop ambitious goals.

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Speaker 5: Most of all, thank you for Turning Point.

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Speaker 11: USA for supporting our chapter and giving us the resources

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Speaker 11: and training to pull off an event of this size.

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Speaker 11: If you are at another university and are interested in

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Speaker 11: starting a chapter, please go to TURNINGPOINTUSA dot com slash

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Speaker 11: get involved today. We will quickly help you get plugged

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Speaker 11: in to find a chapter. Finally, attend our biggest event

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Speaker 11: of the year, America Fest, this December in Phoenix, Arizona.

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Speaker 5: It is an event you won't want to miss.

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Speaker 11: In July, fellow student and Turning Point Treasurer Symphony career,

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Speaker 11: and I traveled to Dallas for the Turning Point Women's Conference,

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Speaker 11: where we were removed by many speakers like Riley Gaines,

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Speaker 11: Erica Kirk, and Charlie Kirk. It was there from that

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Speaker 11: stage that Charlie called out to Ole miss as an

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Speaker 11: example in response to a question. In the following weeks,

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Speaker 11: I did everything I could to get our university to

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Speaker 11: invite him as a speaker, figure out how to fund it,

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Speaker 11: and make Oxford, Mississippi a stop on his tour, and guys,

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Speaker 11: we're here. I was so excited when it came to

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Speaker 11: fruition and our first promotional poster was printed with today's

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Speaker 11: date on it. It has felt opposite every day since

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Speaker 11: the tragedy of September tenth, twenty twenty five. Let's share

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Speaker 11: this moment to appreciate all of the many coincidences in

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Speaker 11: our lives that bring us together, good and terrible. Charlie

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Speaker 11: Kirk WA's hope for me young people who want to

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Speaker 11: find America to evolve a positive path. If you share

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Speaker 11: these values, come to our next Turning Point meeting.

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Speaker 5: Be a part of this group.

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Speaker 11: November eleventh, five pm and PM in the Union Ballroom,

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Speaker 11: Stand up for your beliefs and remember, elections matter finally.

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Speaker 11: Elections matter finally to my sisters at Piebetifi, Chancellor voice

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Speaker 11: of this elite University of Ole Miss my family, thank

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Speaker 11: you for providing an environment that enriches and supports me

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Speaker 11: to unbashfly and passionately represent the principles of freedom, free market,

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Speaker 11: limited government, and conservative values to the swaths to the

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Speaker 11: most important college students in the United States of America.

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Speaker 11: Now on three, please join me in honoring Charlie Kirk

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Speaker 11: by holding up a rally sign that is on your

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Speaker 11: chair for a quick photo moment. If you can reach underneath,

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Speaker 11: it's under seat. If you don't have a sign, cheer

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Speaker 11: loudly whenever you.

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Speaker 4: Guys are ready.

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Speaker 8: You look ready?

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Speaker 4: Okay, are you ready?

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Speaker 5: Ready? Three?

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Speaker 8: Two?

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Speaker 5: One? Beg you guys. There you go, potty toddy, very

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Speaker 5: old miss tradition style.

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Speaker 11: Now join me in welcoming the fifth Vice President of

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Speaker 11: our great country, the United States of America, Jennie Vance

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Speaker 11: and up next, turning points CEO and Charlie's wife, Erica Kirk.

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Speaker 4: When you make that covenant with the Lord on that altar,

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Speaker 4: don't let that fire burn out from the altar.

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Speaker 3: That love is so special and so powerful.

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Speaker 4: You married your soulmate, You married the person who God

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Speaker 4: made for you. He was the perfect father, He was

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Speaker 4: the perfect husband. Charlie always believed that God's design for

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Speaker 4: marriage and the family was absolutely amazing and it is.

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Speaker 4: And over and over he would tell all these young

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Speaker 4: people to come and find their future spouse, become wives

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Speaker 4: and husbands and parents. And the reason why is because

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Speaker 4: he wanted you all to experience what he had. He

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Speaker 4: wanted everyone to bring Heaven into this earth through love

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Speaker 4: of enjoy that comes from raising a family. It's beautiful.

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Speaker 4: And to the turning point, USA chapters that are watching

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Speaker 4: all across America right now, you are the heartbeat of

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Speaker 4: this future and of this movement. Everything that Charlie build.

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Speaker 4: You guys are the legacy holders of that, your living

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Speaker 4: proof that his mission did not die with him. It

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Speaker 4: lives through you. And Charlie always said, the next generation

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Speaker 4: will decide whether freedom endoors, and because of you, I

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Speaker 4: know that freedom will endure.

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Speaker 12: The next speaker is a very very special speaker and

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Speaker 12: she has had a heroic last year and I believe

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Speaker 12: she's the best mom in the world, truly, the best

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Speaker 12: mom in the world. She is my hero and the

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Speaker 12: love of my life. Join me in welcoming Aaron ta Kirk.

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Speaker 4: Wow, good evening, old miss Oh Mammy. I love you

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Speaker 4: guys too. Oh it's hard not to cry after watching that.

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Speaker 4: I haven't seen that portion of him saying that video

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Speaker 4: since that day happened, Bye Charlie. When he came on campus,

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Speaker 4: he loved to immerse himself in the culture of the

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Speaker 4: campus that he was in. And so from word on

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Speaker 4: the street, you guys have a chant out there. I hear.

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Speaker 4: It's a good one.

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Speaker 13: It's hotty toddy.

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Speaker 3: I love it.

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Speaker 4: I love it. But it's a tremendous honor and blessing

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Speaker 4: to be on stage today. And this is this is

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Speaker 4: what Turning Point USA is all about. This is what

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Speaker 4: the future of our country is all about. And I

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Speaker 4: want to thank you all also on a personal level,

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Speaker 4: for all of your prayers and all of your support,

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Speaker 4: not only for our family, but for the Turning Point

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Speaker 4: USA family, which includes all of you, especially those that

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Speaker 4: are students part of the Turning Point USA chapter. At

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Speaker 4: Ole miss So, I love you guys truly, this whole.

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Speaker 4: You guys have no idea how helpful it is to

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Speaker 4: have all of you in my life because you help

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Speaker 4: me feel even more deeply connected to my husband, and

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Speaker 4: I thank you for that. I think all of you

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Speaker 4: feel and I say that also because you guys are

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Speaker 4: the heartbeat of Turning Point USA. You're the heartbeat of

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Speaker 4: this organization. And every time we were at an event,

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Speaker 4: especially when that Charlie was speaking at, he would always

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Speaker 4: ask beforehand. He would always ask Mikey or the team.

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Speaker 4: He'd say, who in the audience is a Turning Point

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Speaker 4: USA chapter leader or chapter member? And whenever there was

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Speaker 4: a student there, he would stop everything before the event

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Speaker 4: and he would sit down with them. He would ask you,

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Speaker 4: what your name is, what you're studying, what is the

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Speaker 4: issues that are going on on campus. He would take

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Speaker 4: the time to make sure that you, guys knew he

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Speaker 4: was investing into you, into your chapter, into your school,

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Speaker 4: because that was a pulse point for him. And being

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Speaker 4: on campus right now, for me, is is a spiritual

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Speaker 4: reclaiming of territory. And let me explain that because there

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Speaker 4: is a lot of symbolism in today. It's Wednesday, seven

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Speaker 4: weeks and the more that I am coming to grips

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Speaker 4: with the permanency of this nightmare, the more that I'm

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Speaker 4: starting to realize and witness that the enemy he doesn't

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Speaker 4: want you. He wants your territory, he wants your influence.

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Speaker 4: And when our team asked my dear friend, Vice President

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Speaker 4: J D. Vans to speak today, I really prayed on

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Speaker 4: it because obviously it's a very emotional, emotional day. But

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Speaker 4: I could just hear Charlie in my heart. I could

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Speaker 4: just hear him say, go reclaim that territory, bib Go.

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Speaker 4: The battles already won. God's love conquers. And that's why

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Speaker 4: I'm here today. I'm here because this moment it can

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Speaker 4: either be your breaking point or your wake up call,

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Speaker 4: essentially your turning point if you will. And at this moment,

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Speaker 4: every single one of us has a choice to make

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Speaker 4: whether we stand for freedom or we're just gonna fall

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Speaker 4: for everything else. But I want to encourage you, especially

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Speaker 4: the students here, find your voice. You are the courageous generation.

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Speaker 4: That's what you are, all of you, gen Z. You

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Speaker 4: are the courageous generation. Hear me when I say that.

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Speaker 4: My husband believed that to his core. That's why he

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Speaker 4: went on campuses, That's why he was trying to reach you.

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Speaker 4: You are the courageous generation own it, make him proud

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Speaker 4: and students beyond ole.

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Speaker 9: Miss.

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Speaker 4: If you are pursuing a chapter on your campus, Harness

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Speaker 4: this amazing opportunity to advocate for something that you truly

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Speaker 4: believe in and express it in the most articulate way

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Speaker 4: of what exactly you're advocating for. You're advocating for America,

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Speaker 4: You're advocating for freedom of speech. Because our chapters on

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Speaker 4: high school campuses, I love it. Charlie was so excited

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Speaker 4: when he named the programs for high schools. He said,

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Speaker 4: we're gonna name it Club America because he goes, who

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Speaker 4: could hate that name? It's the perfect name, Club America?

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Speaker 4: And he loved it. Who could be against it? And

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Speaker 4: I want you to know that if you are trying

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Speaker 4: to start a chapter, I'm with you. We're with you,

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Speaker 4: Charlie's with you. You have an arsenal of turning port

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Speaker 4: USA staff members that are with you. But I also

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Speaker 4: what I've been able to sit back and witness is

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Speaker 4: the leaders that have stepped up to ensure that chapters

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Speaker 4: can happen. For example, I don't know if you guys

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Speaker 4: saw what happened earlier this week with Governor Rob DeSantis,

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Speaker 4: which is amazing. I want to give him a massive

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Speaker 4: shutout because he said, we're announcing a partnership with Turning

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Speaker 4: Point USA. We want to make sure that all high

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Speaker 4: schools in Florida, anybody in a high school that wants

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Speaker 4: to start a Club America chapter will be able to

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Speaker 4: do that. There will be no impediments to that and

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Speaker 4: certainly no discrimination. That's amazing. And then also Governor Youngkin,

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Speaker 4: I want to thank him as well. He donated generously

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Speaker 4: to Turning Point USA to support new Turning Point USA

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Speaker 4: chapters all over the Commonwealth of Virginia. How powerful is

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Speaker 4: it's a new I'm certain So when I heard that,

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Speaker 4: I just looked up and I was like, all right, Charlie,

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Speaker 4: two down, forty eight to go. I see you. But

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Speaker 4: Club America and Turning Point USA chapters, if you're wondering

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Speaker 4: what those values are, it's life, liberty, and the pursuit

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00:42:26,520 --> 00:42:29,359
Speaker 4: of happiness. And that's what our country was founded on.

659
00:42:30,920 --> 00:42:34,680
Speaker 4: And when you succeed in establishing that chapter, I want

660
00:42:34,680 --> 00:42:38,120
Speaker 4: to commend you because that experience will leave a mark

661
00:42:38,200 --> 00:42:41,640
Speaker 4: on you that will influence every choice that you make

662
00:42:41,680 --> 00:42:43,600
Speaker 4: for the rest of your life and generations to come

663
00:42:45,800 --> 00:42:50,120
Speaker 4: earn your voice. Charlie loved the word earn, earn your voice.

664
00:42:50,960 --> 00:42:54,120
Speaker 4: This is about your legacy, each one of you in

665
00:42:54,160 --> 00:42:57,680
Speaker 4: this room, everyone watching. When you earn your voice and

666
00:42:57,800 --> 00:43:00,920
Speaker 4: you stand up for what is right, that is a

667
00:43:01,000 --> 00:43:04,840
Speaker 4: part of your legacy, your family's legacy, just as much

668
00:43:05,200 --> 00:43:08,640
Speaker 4: as it is part of Charlie's legacy. Don't forget that.

669
00:43:10,040 --> 00:43:13,600
Speaker 4: Don't ever forget that. Because if there's one thing I've learned,

670
00:43:14,760 --> 00:43:19,719
Speaker 4: especially being with Charlie for the past seven years, it's

671
00:43:19,760 --> 00:43:23,960
Speaker 4: that the hope we're looking for is not found in Washington,

672
00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:30,480
Speaker 4: It's not found in media. It's right here, all of you.

673
00:43:30,800 --> 00:43:40,160
Speaker 4: This is the hope. And he saw that. He saw

674
00:43:40,200 --> 00:43:43,680
Speaker 4: that it's in stadiums like this. Charlie had a visual

675
00:43:43,719 --> 00:43:47,279
Speaker 4: in his head. He loved the on campus events, but

676
00:43:47,360 --> 00:43:51,120
Speaker 4: for the night events he had he would send Tyler

677
00:43:51,239 --> 00:43:55,320
Speaker 4: pictures and the team pictures of I want our chapter

678
00:43:55,400 --> 00:43:59,080
Speaker 4: events to look like this, and he's sent a picture

679
00:43:59,320 --> 00:44:02,880
Speaker 4: of one of the largest football college football stadiums in

680
00:44:02,920 --> 00:44:08,920
Speaker 4: the country. Packed That was his vision. And that's what

681
00:44:09,080 --> 00:44:17,840
Speaker 4: makes all of this so powerful, because your generation is

682
00:44:17,920 --> 00:44:21,839
Speaker 4: living at a crossroads and you are living in one

683
00:44:21,880 --> 00:44:27,040
Speaker 4: of the most defining moments in American history, and we

684
00:44:27,080 --> 00:44:31,200
Speaker 4: are all witnessing in real time the battle that is

685
00:44:31,360 --> 00:44:36,080
Speaker 4: raging for the soul of your generation. Again, your generation.

686
00:44:38,320 --> 00:44:42,239
Speaker 4: This is far more than political. And you will hear

687
00:44:42,280 --> 00:44:45,600
Speaker 4: the world and the culture, for that matter, pressure you

688
00:44:45,680 --> 00:44:50,880
Speaker 4: and say go with the flow. Don't ruffle feathers, don't

689
00:44:50,920 --> 00:44:56,720
Speaker 4: say that you might offend someone, might lose some friends

690
00:44:56,760 --> 00:44:59,719
Speaker 4: if you wear a red hat, if you go to

691
00:44:59,760 --> 00:45:07,439
Speaker 4: a t or any point USA chapter event. But when

692
00:45:07,480 --> 00:45:09,480
Speaker 4: I hear that, I just I need to be so

693
00:45:09,680 --> 00:45:12,440
Speaker 4: blunt and honest with you now, because before, when I

694
00:45:12,480 --> 00:45:15,960
Speaker 4: heard it, I said, okay, Now, when I hear that,

695
00:45:19,560 --> 00:45:27,440
Speaker 4: if you're worried about losing a friend, you might I

696
00:45:27,480 --> 00:45:32,880
Speaker 4: lost my friend. I lost my best friend. And if

697
00:45:32,920 --> 00:45:37,480
Speaker 4: you're nervous about standing up for the truth. The assassination

698
00:45:37,840 --> 00:45:46,799
Speaker 4: of my husband puts into perspective all those fears. It

699
00:45:46,880 --> 00:45:50,760
Speaker 4: really does, because my husband never went with the flow.

700
00:45:52,040 --> 00:45:58,240
Speaker 4: He swam in the streams of significance, and Charlie knews

701
00:45:58,280 --> 00:46:04,280
Speaker 4: so deeply to his core that comfort doesn't change the world.

702
00:46:05,560 --> 00:46:08,560
Speaker 4: And you cannot influence the world when you look like it.

703
00:46:12,760 --> 00:46:16,640
Speaker 4: The enemy of truth doesn't need to destroy a nation overnight.

704
00:46:18,080 --> 00:46:21,480
Speaker 4: He just needs to convince people that truth no longer matters,

705
00:46:23,680 --> 00:46:27,759
Speaker 4: and the enemy thrives when Christians don't speak up, when

706
00:46:27,800 --> 00:46:34,560
Speaker 4: citizens don't vote, when students don't think for themselves. But

707
00:46:35,760 --> 00:46:38,840
Speaker 4: in Ephesians chapter five, verse eleven, it says, have nothing

708
00:46:38,920 --> 00:46:41,600
Speaker 4: to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather

709
00:46:41,760 --> 00:46:46,200
Speaker 4: expose them. That's what it means to live as sultan light,

710
00:46:47,800 --> 00:46:51,080
Speaker 4: to bring flavor to a world gone bland, and clarity

711
00:46:51,239 --> 00:46:54,239
Speaker 4: to a world that lost its way and it's lost

712
00:46:54,280 --> 00:46:59,239
Speaker 4: in confusion. Because Christians are called to go into the

713
00:46:59,280 --> 00:47:02,160
Speaker 4: public space to correct airwood truth. And that's what my

714
00:47:02,280 --> 00:47:07,400
Speaker 4: husband did when he would sit there with his microphone.

715
00:47:08,520 --> 00:47:13,439
Speaker 4: I got to watch this evolve over the years. At first,

716
00:47:13,520 --> 00:47:17,640
Speaker 4: he would hold the microphone the whole time, he would listen.

717
00:47:20,160 --> 00:47:23,080
Speaker 4: Ven as the years went on, he would put the

718
00:47:23,120 --> 00:47:27,640
Speaker 4: microphone down and he wasn't listening. He was hearing. He

719
00:47:27,760 --> 00:47:31,200
Speaker 4: was absorbing what the students were saying and what they

720
00:47:31,239 --> 00:47:38,920
Speaker 4: were asking. He was engaging, he was calm, he wasn't combative.

721
00:47:39,320 --> 00:47:44,240
Speaker 4: He never insulted. He just wanted you to think again.

722
00:47:44,320 --> 00:47:46,160
Speaker 4: Like I said, he never told you what to say.

723
00:47:46,200 --> 00:47:48,799
Speaker 4: He just wanted to challenge you so that what your

724
00:47:48,920 --> 00:47:53,120
Speaker 4: convictions were, you actually understood why you had them, rather

725
00:47:53,160 --> 00:47:56,120
Speaker 4: than they being talking points because your professor told you so,

726
00:47:56,400 --> 00:48:00,440
Speaker 4: or your friend told you so. He wanted the best

727
00:48:00,480 --> 00:48:06,560
Speaker 4: of you because he demanded the best of himself. And

728
00:48:06,680 --> 00:48:11,479
Speaker 4: Charlie would say this all the time. Your rights don't

729
00:48:11,520 --> 00:48:16,120
Speaker 4: come from the government, they come from God. And he

730
00:48:16,239 --> 00:48:22,960
Speaker 4: knew what every founding father knew. And almost nearly almost

731
00:48:23,120 --> 00:48:26,480
Speaker 4: every university has forgotten that you cannot have freedom without virtue,

732
00:48:26,480 --> 00:48:31,560
Speaker 4: and you cannot have virtue without God. And that's what

733
00:48:31,640 --> 00:48:34,360
Speaker 4: makes this nation so different, that's what makes it worth

734
00:48:34,360 --> 00:48:40,560
Speaker 4: defending as a courageous generation. And another thing that Charlie

735
00:48:40,680 --> 00:48:42,319
Speaker 4: used to say all the time is that it does

736
00:48:42,360 --> 00:48:46,200
Speaker 4: not take skill to be courageous. It takes a choice

737
00:48:46,520 --> 00:48:53,880
Speaker 4: to be courageous. And now's the time to make that choice.

738
00:48:53,880 --> 00:48:55,600
Speaker 4: Either you sit on the sidelines. I mean, I don't

739
00:48:55,640 --> 00:48:59,799
Speaker 4: know what else can wake you up. I really don't

740
00:48:59,840 --> 00:49:03,200
Speaker 4: know what else could stir that fire within you to

741
00:49:03,239 --> 00:49:06,120
Speaker 4: get involved, or to use your voice, or to make

742
00:49:06,160 --> 00:49:09,319
Speaker 4: a difference. If you're looking for another sign I have.

743
00:49:11,200 --> 00:49:15,719
Speaker 4: I have no idea what to tell you. I just

744
00:49:16,000 --> 00:49:24,279
Speaker 4: I just want to encourage you though that yes, this

745
00:49:24,440 --> 00:49:29,360
Speaker 4: is about America, and yes, my husband would say saving

746
00:49:29,440 --> 00:49:33,480
Speaker 4: Western civiliz excuse me, civilization. That's true, I'm both friends.

747
00:49:34,840 --> 00:49:37,760
Speaker 4: But deeper than that, this is about your soul, because

748
00:49:37,800 --> 00:49:42,520
Speaker 4: the fight for freedom starts within inside of each and

749
00:49:42,560 --> 00:49:52,560
Speaker 4: every one of you. So again, please stand firm against

750
00:49:52,680 --> 00:49:56,160
Speaker 4: the wickedness of the devil and the schemes of man.

751
00:49:58,000 --> 00:50:02,640
Speaker 4: Be alert because his te are so clever. What he'll

752
00:50:02,680 --> 00:50:06,040
Speaker 4: do is he will find one thing. He will find fear,

753
00:50:06,160 --> 00:50:08,640
Speaker 4: he'll find disappointment. He will find one thing, and he

754
00:50:08,680 --> 00:50:10,839
Speaker 4: will wedge it in between you and the Lord, and

755
00:50:10,880 --> 00:50:13,919
Speaker 4: he will make it grow. He will make it grow

756
00:50:14,200 --> 00:50:19,880
Speaker 4: so much that you lose sight. It becomes this almost

757
00:50:19,960 --> 00:50:25,040
Speaker 4: like an eclipse where the truth is hidden behind it.

758
00:50:26,280 --> 00:50:29,359
Speaker 4: And yes, the light's still there, but you can't see

759
00:50:29,360 --> 00:50:33,439
Speaker 4: it anymore. That's the enemy's tactic. And the bottom line

760
00:50:33,440 --> 00:50:36,560
Speaker 4: is that the enemy doesn't need to change your theology.

761
00:50:37,080 --> 00:50:40,600
Speaker 4: He just needs to change your vision. And if he

762
00:50:40,640 --> 00:50:43,960
Speaker 4: can get in your head and blur your vision and

763
00:50:44,719 --> 00:50:51,719
Speaker 4: distort your vision, he'll do whatever he can. But what

764
00:50:51,760 --> 00:50:57,000
Speaker 4: the enemy forgets, though, is that the presence of a

765
00:50:57,120 --> 00:51:02,120
Speaker 4: shadow is proof that there is light. He forgets that,

766
00:51:02,920 --> 00:51:05,960
Speaker 4: and Charlie's murder might seem like we're standing in a shadow,

767
00:51:06,440 --> 00:51:09,440
Speaker 4: as if death was the victory meant for the enemy.

768
00:51:09,480 --> 00:51:13,799
Speaker 4: But looking around in this arena, you are proof that

769
00:51:13,960 --> 00:51:30,960
Speaker 4: this light of truth burns so brightly, So brightly, the

770
00:51:31,040 --> 00:51:34,640
Speaker 4: Lord is calling you to rise. Please hear me when

771
00:51:34,640 --> 00:51:40,040
Speaker 4: I say that courageously he is. Do not be afraid.

772
00:51:40,200 --> 00:51:42,799
Speaker 4: It is so easy to be afraid, but we are

773
00:51:42,840 --> 00:51:50,040
Speaker 4: commanded to not be afraid. And when you take that stand,

774
00:51:51,280 --> 00:51:55,560
Speaker 4: it will encourage and inspire someone else to do the same,

775
00:51:57,160 --> 00:52:01,759
Speaker 4: whether that is someone in your circle, whether that's a

776
00:52:01,800 --> 00:52:05,360
Speaker 4: family member, whether that's someone you never even met before

777
00:52:05,400 --> 00:52:07,680
Speaker 4: because they saw you posting.

778
00:52:07,320 --> 00:52:09,640
Speaker 7: Something on social media.

779
00:52:10,400 --> 00:52:12,919
Speaker 4: You can't change in nation if you're enslaved to fear,

780
00:52:15,400 --> 00:52:20,720
Speaker 4: and you can't call out corruption, if you're still chained

781
00:52:20,760 --> 00:52:25,239
Speaker 4: to comfort, and you can't stand for truth if you

782
00:52:25,360 --> 00:52:42,400
Speaker 4: first do not kneel before the Lord. And I know

783
00:52:42,480 --> 00:52:44,440
Speaker 4: I keep saying it, but I'm trying to drive home

784
00:52:44,480 --> 00:52:52,480
Speaker 4: a point with you all being labeled as the courageous generation,

785
00:52:52,640 --> 00:52:58,560
Speaker 4: because this generation will decide if America remembers who she

786
00:52:58,760 --> 00:53:05,399
Speaker 4: is or if she'll forget. And I believe with all

787
00:53:05,400 --> 00:53:09,520
Speaker 4: my heart that God placed you here now, an ole

788
00:53:09,600 --> 00:53:15,120
Speaker 4: miss not by accident, but by assignment. There is no

789
00:53:15,239 --> 00:53:18,000
Speaker 4: mistake that you are here in this stadium in arena today,

790
00:53:19,160 --> 00:53:25,920
Speaker 4: no mistake. God doesn't make mistakes, doesn't make mistakes. And

791
00:53:28,120 --> 00:53:31,560
Speaker 4: when being on this campus, I think of eighteen year

792
00:53:31,560 --> 00:53:36,120
Speaker 4: old Charlie who would always say, you know, when I

793
00:53:36,200 --> 00:53:40,560
Speaker 4: started this, I had I had no money, no connections,

794
00:53:40,560 --> 00:53:44,040
Speaker 4: and I had no idea what I was doing. But

795
00:53:44,600 --> 00:53:46,160
Speaker 4: what he did know what he was doing was that

796
00:53:46,200 --> 00:53:49,719
Speaker 4: he was obeying the Lord. He was obeying what the

797
00:53:49,760 --> 00:53:53,680
Speaker 4: Lord had placed inside of his heart to fight for.

798
00:53:55,640 --> 00:53:55,799
Speaker 13: Good.

799
00:54:06,239 --> 00:54:10,759
Speaker 4: And he persevered. He persevered, and look what he left us.

800
00:54:11,960 --> 00:54:15,719
Speaker 4: Look what he left us with. He didn't leave us

801
00:54:15,760 --> 00:54:20,480
Speaker 4: empty handed. He builds a machine and all of you

802
00:54:20,520 --> 00:54:23,760
Speaker 4: are a part of that. Again, the heartbeat of Turning

803
00:54:23,760 --> 00:54:29,360
Speaker 4: Point USA. That's what happens when you obey the Lord

804
00:54:31,680 --> 00:54:35,640
Speaker 4: a movement like this, it becomes unstoppable, it becomes the

805
00:54:35,760 --> 00:54:43,840
Speaker 4: revival that it is. And I just want this to

806
00:54:43,920 --> 00:54:47,759
Speaker 4: be the generation that says, we will not apologize for

807
00:54:48,040 --> 00:54:52,799
Speaker 4: loving our country first, we will not be silent about

808
00:54:52,800 --> 00:54:56,520
Speaker 4: our faith. We will not back down when the world

809
00:54:56,560 --> 00:55:01,440
Speaker 4: tells us to kneel, because we bow only to the

810
00:55:01,520 --> 00:55:17,720
Speaker 4: King of kings, and it's from him that we rise.

811
00:55:19,880 --> 00:55:27,920
Speaker 4: I personally still believe in America. I still believe in

812
00:55:27,960 --> 00:55:31,560
Speaker 4: her founding. I still believe in her future. I don't

813
00:55:31,560 --> 00:55:33,880
Speaker 4: care if people think it sounds crazy, but I still

814
00:55:33,880 --> 00:55:38,640
Speaker 4: believe that our nation can heal. But we can't save

815
00:55:38,680 --> 00:55:43,160
Speaker 4: a country that we're too afraid to defend. We can't.

816
00:55:52,920 --> 00:55:56,040
Speaker 4: On a more personal note, inside of our when we

817
00:55:56,080 --> 00:56:01,880
Speaker 4: first moved in our home, inside of our bedroom, I

818
00:56:01,960 --> 00:56:04,359
Speaker 4: had on the side wall when you walk in. It

819
00:56:04,400 --> 00:56:11,040
Speaker 4: was above the bookshelves. It says, unto framed pieces of paper,

820
00:56:11,120 --> 00:56:14,960
Speaker 4: it says, they will be known by the boldness of

821
00:56:15,000 --> 00:56:19,600
Speaker 4: their faith. And when I hung on that, as many

822
00:56:20,040 --> 00:56:22,480
Speaker 4: women can attest to this, When you hang things, you

823
00:56:22,520 --> 00:56:23,799
Speaker 4: see him all the time, you just kind of go

824
00:56:23,800 --> 00:56:29,600
Speaker 4: about your life. And so being in the position that

825
00:56:29,680 --> 00:56:32,640
Speaker 4: I am now, it took me a while to even

826
00:56:32,719 --> 00:56:35,520
Speaker 4: just make it back into our bedroom. I used to

827
00:56:36,680 --> 00:56:39,799
Speaker 4: sprint from the opening door into the bathroom and sprint out.

828
00:56:39,800 --> 00:56:41,600
Speaker 4: I was not ready to walk into our bedroom yet.

829
00:56:43,239 --> 00:56:45,880
Speaker 4: And when I was finally able to sleep in our

830
00:56:45,920 --> 00:56:49,480
Speaker 4: bed for the first time, slept on his side of

831
00:56:49,480 --> 00:56:53,800
Speaker 4: the bed, and I noticed because he had to sleep

832
00:56:53,840 --> 00:56:58,360
Speaker 4: a certain way on his side facing the outside of

833
00:56:58,400 --> 00:57:00,879
Speaker 4: the bed because he had a bad back. I'm sure

834
00:57:00,920 --> 00:57:02,960
Speaker 4: most of you didn't know that, but he had a

835
00:57:02,960 --> 00:57:06,560
Speaker 4: really bad back anyways. So it's also why he wore

836
00:57:06,560 --> 00:57:09,399
Speaker 4: compression stocks socks too. I know a lot of people

837
00:57:09,400 --> 00:57:13,680
Speaker 4: are like, why do you wear compression socks? Circulation anyways,

838
00:57:13,719 --> 00:57:18,600
Speaker 4: so he he would sleep that direction, and so I

839
00:57:18,680 --> 00:57:22,680
Speaker 4: found myself sleeping that direction as well. And when I

840
00:57:22,720 --> 00:57:26,680
Speaker 4: woke up for the past several nights that I've been

841
00:57:26,680 --> 00:57:29,880
Speaker 4: able to be in there, I saw that the first

842
00:57:29,920 --> 00:57:36,000
Speaker 4: thing I'd see is that on the wall they will

843
00:57:36,040 --> 00:57:38,720
Speaker 4: be known by the boldness of their faith. And I

844
00:57:38,760 --> 00:57:41,000
Speaker 4: thought to myself, he saw that every single morning he

845
00:57:41,040 --> 00:57:43,240
Speaker 4: woke up. I didn't because I'm on the other side

846
00:57:43,240 --> 00:57:45,880
Speaker 4: of the bed, so I'm facing the window. But he

847
00:57:45,960 --> 00:57:49,000
Speaker 4: saw that every single morning. And then I thought to myself,

848
00:57:50,640 --> 00:57:54,480
Speaker 4: because when I go to the office, I will never

849
00:57:54,560 --> 00:57:56,560
Speaker 4: sit in his office chair. So I sit There's like

850
00:57:56,600 --> 00:57:58,400
Speaker 4: a couch on the side when you walk in, and

851
00:57:58,440 --> 00:58:05,680
Speaker 4: I sit on the couch and on his desk flanked

852
00:58:05,720 --> 00:58:13,680
Speaker 4: between the Bible verse of Micah, chapter six, verse three,

853
00:58:13,880 --> 00:58:16,560
Speaker 4: It all kind of came together for me. So he

854
00:58:16,600 --> 00:58:19,160
Speaker 4: sees us on the wall, and then he sees on

855
00:58:19,240 --> 00:58:23,440
Speaker 4: his desk these three questions that he would ask himself

856
00:58:24,120 --> 00:58:31,040
Speaker 4: every single day, and it would be what is something

857
00:58:31,080 --> 00:58:35,280
Speaker 4: I can do for someone today? The second one was

858
00:58:35,400 --> 00:58:37,720
Speaker 4: what is something I can do to add value to

859
00:58:37,800 --> 00:58:41,720
Speaker 4: the world today? And the third was how can I

860
00:58:41,800 --> 00:58:45,960
Speaker 4: honor God today? Those are the three questions combined with

861
00:58:46,040 --> 00:58:50,280
Speaker 4: the words he saw every single morning. So to me

862
00:58:53,120 --> 00:58:57,000
Speaker 4: seeing that seeing on his desk, that was him suited

863
00:58:57,120 --> 00:59:02,280
Speaker 4: up with the armor of the Lord every day. That

864
00:59:02,440 --> 00:59:08,200
Speaker 4: was his combination. And what I'm realizing with that is

865
00:59:09,640 --> 00:59:13,960
Speaker 4: those were the action points of how to have courage.

866
00:59:15,480 --> 00:59:17,600
Speaker 4: Because you can ask me, well, how do I get

867
00:59:17,640 --> 00:59:23,080
Speaker 4: how do I become courageous? Ask yourself those three questions

868
00:59:23,120 --> 00:59:31,960
Speaker 4: every single day, and I promise you you will get courage.

869
00:59:32,240 --> 00:59:39,720
Speaker 4: You will because what death amplifies even more is that

870
00:59:40,400 --> 00:59:45,920
Speaker 4: you only get one life, this one. That's it. It's

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Speaker 4: an eternal life. So that's why you have to live

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Speaker 4: like it matters. But I want to remind you that

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Speaker 4: God has created you