September 10, 2025, is a day that will live in infamy. On that day, 31-year-old Charlie Kirk, the nation’s most impressive, courageous, and successful young conservative, was assassinated on the campus of Utah Valley University.
For years, Kirk engaged young students on college campuses in debate and discussion on critical issues. His demeanor was always pleasant, for he respected those individuals with conflicting opinions.
Kirk believed in healthy debate and providing students with a different point of view from what they experienced from their leftist college professors and administrators. Sadly, today, colleges have become indoctrination camps for progressive ideology. Gone are the days when all political viewpoints were respected and allowed on campuses.
Kirk served as a one-man counterbalance to this dangerous groupthink and became incredibly popular and influential. His Turning Point USA chapters expanded in high schools and colleges across the country.
Young people flocked to hear Kirk because of his vast knowledge of an array of topics and his eagerness to civilly engage any individuals with different viewpoints.
Tragically, last Wednesday, a deranged murderer decided to respond to Kirk’s political outreach by assassinating him. The killer was motivated by “leftist” ideology and was involved in a transgender relationship.
Instead of showing courage and debating Kirk at Utah Valley University, the murderer exposed his cowardice and assassinated him. He robbed the country and the world of the brightest political star of his generation.
Charlie Kirk was destined for political office, possibly the presidency. Of all the advocates for the Make America Great Again (MAGA) agenda and the policies of President Donald Trump, Charlie Kirk was the most effective.
He is irreplaceable, for his combination of intelligence, business acumen, and devout Christian faith is incredibly rare. Fortunately, he married extremely well and his wife, Erika Kirk, is the logical successor to the astounding movement he created.
Charlie Kirk meant so much to so many people, but his loss most impacts his parents, his children, and his wife. Erika and Charlie Kirk started dating in 2018 and married in 2021. They have two young children, who will now grow up without their father.
She was intimately involved in every aspect of Kirk’s political and business endeavors. She attended his speaking engagements, listened to every podcast, and helped him mold Turning Point USA into a juggernaut.
On Saturday, Erika Kirk posted images on Instagram showing her leaning over her husband’s casket. She wrote, “They have no idea what they just ignited within this wife. If they thought my husband’s mission was big now…you have no idea. You. All of you. Will never. Ever. Forget my husband. I’ll make sure of it.”
She also wrote, “The world is evil” and that statement is undeniably true. The “evil” was revealed on Wednesday when Kirk was assassinated. It has also been on display countless times in the last few days from unhinged leftists celebrating his assassination.
It takes a truly “evil” person to celebrate the death of an innocent human being, especially a husband, father, and son. However, this is the political environment that conservatives must face in our country today. The left has been unleashed and has repeatedly resorted to threats or acts of outright violence.
In President Trump’s first campaign, leftists regularly attended his rallies and pummeled his supporters. On the day after his inauguration, during the “Women’s March,” pop star Madonna threatened to “blow up the White House.”
In 2017, a supporter of socialist U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) tried to kill House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA) and other Republicans practicing at a baseball field.
On the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) threatened conservative justices. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh was almost assassinated by a deranged leftist who was captured outside his home.
Numerous progressive celebrities and media personalities have spent the last few years threatening to do physical harm to President Trump from “punching” him to “putting a bullet in him.”
In 2024, President Trump barely survived two assassination attempts. In Butler, Pennsylvania, a shooter came dangerously close to killing President Trump, wounding him in the ear, and murdering courageous patriot, father, and firefighter Corey Comperatore, who sacrificed himself for his family.
On Wednesday, another leftist resorted to violence and killed Charlie Kirk. In response, some people want conservatives to avoid public debates and retreat from the spotlight. However, that is not the view of Erika Kirk.
On Friday, she addressed the nation, a mere fifty-four hours after he was viciously assassinated. Her speech was an amazing testament to her courage and resilience. She showed no signs of retreating. In fact, her goal is to expand the message and outreach of her husband’s remarkable organization, Turning Point USA.
The sixteen-minute address was truly astounding as Erika Kirk displayed unbelievable poise and composure. She vowed, “The cries of this widow will echo around the world like a battle cry.”
She also reassured the millions of people who supported her husband. She said, “To everyone listening tonight across America, the movement my husband built will not die. It won’t. I refuse to let that happen. It will not die. All of us will refuse to let that happen.”
Erika Kirk was not only responding as an aggrieved widow, but she was also speaking for millions of conservatives nationwide who are tired of the continual abuse they receive from lunatic leftists.
Conservatives are weary of being called “racists,” or “Nazis” for supporting the MAGA agenda. They are also compiling a list of all the leftwing crazies who are celebrating the death of Charlie Kirk.
The site, www.CharliesMurderers.com, “is a permanent…archive of Radical activists calling for violence. This is the largest firing operation in history.” Nearly 50,000 submissions have been made by not only Americans, but also people worldwide, disgusted by leftwing hate.
We are nearing 50,000 identities. Keep going.
— Expose Charlie's Mvrderers (@forcharliekirk1) September 14, 2025
The murder of Charlie Kirk has awakened conservatives throughout the world. The battle against destructive leftwing ideology continues. As Erika Kirk eloquently said, “Never surrender. We never will ever.”
Jeff Crouere is a native New Orleanian and his award-winning program, “Ringside Politics,” airs Saturdays from Noon until 1 p.m. CT nationally on Real America’s Voice TV Network & AmericasVoice.News and weekdays from 7-9 a.m. & 6-7 p.m. CT on WGSO 990-AM & Wgso.com. He is a political columnist, the author of America’s Last Chance, and provides regular commentaries on the Jeff Crouere YouTube channel and at Crouere.net. For more information, email him at jcrouere@gmail.com
