From the Archive: “If You Give Up, They Win” — Charlie’s 2023 ActCon Speech

Charlie Kirk (0:03)

My name is Charlie Kirk. I run the largest pro-American student organization in the country, fighting for the future of our republic. My call is to fight evil and to proclaim truth. If the most important thing for you is just feeling good, you're going to end up miserable. But if the most important thing is doing good, you will end up purposeful. College is a scam, everybody. You got to stop sending your kids to college. You should get married as young as possible, have as many kids as possible. Go start a Turning Point USA college chapter. Go start a Turning Point USA high school chapter. Go find out how your church can get involved. Sign up and become an activist. I gave my life to the Lord in fifth grade. Most important decision I ever made in my life, and I encourage you to do the same. Here I am. Lord, use me. Buckle up, everybody. Here we go.

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Thank you, everybody. Please take a seat. Well, I want to apologize for something that is not my fault. Thank you for waiting as long as you guys did. That was totally unacceptable. It's not on us, and I want to thank you guys for that. It's ridiculous, to be perfectly honest, to make you guys wait hours and hours. So, I hope you'll forgive me for something that I could not control. But you guys are the best, and you guys wanted to see Tucker Carlson, and Donald Trump, and Dan Bongino, and so badly.

And hi, Linda, how are you? And I have a lot of thoughts on that situation, but we're all not yet here now, but we're almost all here now, and I'm not going to say it now. Welcome to our Turning Point Action Conference, everybody. We're going to have a couple of amazing days here.

We have all 50 states represented. We have thousands of student activists that are running Turning Point USA High School and College chapters across the country.

We have hundreds of pastors present. We have some of the most important social media influencers. We have over 150 credentialed media here. So, if you sit... Yeah, most of you are booing. We'll see if they tell the truth. We have the people that make the party what it is today, make it happen. Now, many of you have come to Turning Point USA events in the past, or Turning Point Action events. This event's a little bit different. This is the first multi-day event that Turning Point Action is hosting. Now, what is Turning Point Action? Turning Point Action is our political arm. You see, we're best known as going to college campuses so you don't have to. Going to UC Berkeley, going to Harvard, going to Brown. And I'm happy to report that at Turning Point USA, we have more high school chapters than college chapters, and hundreds of thousands of young people involved in our student movement.

But what we are doing here at Turning Point Action is for all ages. You see, what we're doing at Turning Point USA is so important for education, for American values. But if you're like me, I am sick of what the Republican Party has become in the last couple of years. Do you agree?

I do not immediately think just because you have an R in front of your name that you're going to go fight. In fact, I'm awfully skeptical of some people that have R's in front of their name. This event is going to be unlike any other. This event, you're going to be hearing from people that are running for office in primary challenges against establishment Republicans. You're going to hear from six presidential candidates. You're going to hear from Mike Lindell.

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You're going to hear from grassroots leaders. You're going to hear about how we secure our elections. You're going to hear about how we hold our elected officials accountable. You're going to hear about how we're going to win in 2024

And this event is not just about Democrats' bad, Republican good. It's about a new conservative movement. It's about a conservative movement that is in harmony with you, the voters. It's about a conservative movement that cares far more about the Southern border invasion than getting involved in this proxy war in Ukraine.

It's a conservative movement that believes that this trans zealotry has no place in public life or near our children.