In response to the heartbreaking assassination of Charlie Kirk, millions of Americans have been inspired to take action to save our country and return to their faith. In his short lifespan of 31 years, he had a monumental impact on our country, and it was on display during his memorial service, which attracted over 200,000 supporters and featured speakers such as President Donald Trump, Vice President J.D. Vance, commentator Tucker Carlson, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and several other cabinet members.
It was an incredible tribute to a life well lived, to a man who had the right priorities of God, family, and country. Unfortunately, his passing has exposed tremendous hate and unmistakable evil within the Democratic Party.
This animosity was on display in the U.S. House of Representatives in the aftermath of his assassination. A call for prayer by the U.S. Representative Lauren Boebert (R-CO) was opposed by Democrats who vocally denounced her wonderful idea.
Eventually, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution to honor Charlie Kirk with the support of 215 Republicans and 98 Democrats. It offered sympathy to his family, denounced his assassination and honored Kirk as a “courageous American patriot” who “lived out his faith with conviction, courage, and compassion.”
Sadly, 60 Democrats either voted “present” or did not vote for the resolution. Even worse, 58 Democrats voted against this worthwhile resolution, including U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY).
In a disgusting speech to her colleagues, she said Kirk’s “rhetoric and beliefs were ignorant, uneducated and sought to disenfranchise millions of Americans.” Ocasio-Cortez claimed that the resolution would “bring great pain” to African Americans who experienced “segregation, Jim Crow and the legacy of bigotry.”
In response to her comments, the Executive Producer of “The Charlie Kirk Show,” Andrew Kolvet said, “Her words were disgraceful. Congress couldn’t even unite to condemn the assassination of Charlie Kirk, an American hero. That’s shameful.”
Of course, Kolvet is right, Ocasio-Cortez lied about Charlie Kirk. He was not a racist, and, as the resolution noted, he worked “tirelessly to promote unity.”
This is why Kirk offered progressives an opportunity to debate him on college campuses throughout the country. He treated all of them with respect and dignity, giving them the biggest platform he could offer.
His proposal of debate and wholesome discussion was met by violence and a bullet from a deranged leftist. It ended his life, but not his life’s work, which will now soar to new heights and have even greater influence.
Currently, his organization, Turning Point USA, has 3,500 high school and college chapters, but, as of September 18, 2025, Turning Point had received 62,000 requests for new chapters.
In the aftermath of his assassination, Turning Point USA will become an even more powerful organization. This is distressing to the hateful Democrats, who will continue to demonize Charlie Kirk.
For example, U.S. Representative Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) said she voted against the Kirk resolution because he was a racist. She compared the resolution to the Confederacy. In a CNN interview, she said, “Just like we made sure those Confederate relics were taken down…the idea of a new age relic being propped up is something I could not subscribe to.”
Crockett’s comments were both defamatory and reprehensible. If Crockett cared about the truth she could have asked CNN analyst Van Jones, a diehard Democrat, who was feuding with Charlie Kirk in the days before his assassination.
On CNN, Jones revealed that he received a text from Kirk one day before his murder. In the text, Kirk offered him “a respectful conversation about crime and race” on his program. Kirk also promised that he “would be a gentleman as I know you would be as well…We can disagree about the issues agreeably.”
Jones was incredibly impressed by the offer, noting that “Charlie Kirk and I were not friends. At all.” He said, “In the past week and a half, just watching people talk about civil wars and censorship and all this stuff coming out of his death, I just thought it was important to let people know. Don’t put that on Charlie Kirk.”
Jones remarked, that on “The last day of his life, he was reaching out to have not more censorship, (but) more conversation, more dialogue, with somebody who, honestly, was one of his adversaries, me.”
Fortunately, Jones came to understand the greatness of Charlie Kirk. He should educate the ignorant U.S. Representative Ilhan Omar (D-MN), who has been making vile statements about Charlie Kirk ever since his assassination.
Omar called Kirk “hateful,” and shared a video that “Kirk was Dr. Frankenstein, and his monster shot him through the neck.” This behavior is disgraceful, but not surprising for a politician who advocates more for radical Islam and her home country of Somalia than for the United States of America.
Omar declared that Kirk’s legacy should be relegated to “the dustbin of history,” and wished the nation would “hopefully move on and forget the hate that he spewed every single day.”
Well, sorry to disappoint you, Representative Omar, but his legacy will continue to expand in the years ahead. As Stephen Miller, Deputy Chief of Staff, said in his comments at Charlie Kirk’s memorial, his enemies “have no idea the dragon you have unleashed.”
As Miller said, the left has “nothing to offer, but bitterness.” He encouraged those who will continue his legacy to be “worthy” of his “sacrifice” and to defeat the “forces of darkness and evil.”
Ultimately, the effort to silence Charlie Kirk and demonize his legacy will fail miserably. As Vice President J.D. Vance noted, the memorial for Charlie Kirk was not a “funeral, but a celebration and a revival.”
Kirk’s impact on our country will extend beyond politics into religion and culture. It will lead to not only more Republicans, but more Christians, more traditional families, and more love of the United States of America. Well done, Charlie Kirk.
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
