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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 gonna end up miserable. But if the most important thing is doing good, you will end up purposeful. College is a scam, everybody. You gotta stop sending your kids to college. You should get married as young as possible and have as many kids as possible. Go start a 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.
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Use me.
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Buckle up, everybody. Here we go. The Charlie Kirk show is proudly sponsored by Preserve Gold, the leading gold and silver experts and the only precious metals company I recommend to my family, friends and viewers.
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All right. Welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show. February 27, 2026. Blake, welcome.
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Howdy. I feel like this is a day where we're almost. It almost feels annoying because it feels like we're on the cusp of very dramatic events or we can't see them. So Bill Clinton testifying on the Epstein Pro, but it's behind closed doors. Can't watch it. Iran, we might bomb them any minute. We might have a war over the weekend. Apparently US Personnel are getting evacuated from
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sites China just realized their people out of Iran.
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Yeah. So a lot going on there. It could be the last minute brinkmanship before some deal is reached and it all pulls back or the decision might be made, but for now, we don't know.
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Yeah, we don't know. There's a lot that we are paying attention to and watching. Obviously, if anything breaks in the midst of this show, we will move to it immediately. We've got stories we have to hit here in the first part of this hour. Then we're gonna bring in Brandon Herrera, who's running for Congress in Texas at the middle of this hour. Then we have Pastor John Amonchukwu, Mikey McCoy. We're gonna be doing Ask Us Anything Fridays so you can call in. Join us members.charliekirk.com members.charliekirk dot com if you want to take part in that, actually ask questions on the air. But first, let's just go over what happened yesterday really quick with Hillary Clinton. She was actually in New York testifying before James Comer's committee about Epstein. Everything seems to be about Epstein. Yesterday. We talked a lot about it, debunking the NPR bombshell, which needed to be done. I noticed that a lot of news. More. Let's just say broadcast news from primetime, did that last night as well, following our lead. So I was glad to see that. But here. Here's what I will say. Hillary Clinton basically threw President Clinton under the bus yesterday. 598.
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If you really have specific questions about
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the Clinton Global Initiative or the relationship
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between the Clintons and Jeffrey Epstein and
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Ghislaine Maxwell, you gotta ask Bill Clinton.
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And that's a good. That's a great point. The number of times that she said, I don't know. You'll have to ask my husband was more than a dozen.
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Yeah. So basically, Frosty, Frosty, you want to know the state of the Clinton marriage? That was probably a very good tell. So Bill Clinton has now come out with his statement. He said, good morning. Welcome to Chappaqua. I guess I'm here today for two reasons. The first is that I love my country. And America was built upon the idea that no person is above the law, even presidents, especially presidents. Democracy requires every person to play their part, blah, blah, blah. The second reason I'm here is that girls and women whose lives Jeffrey Epstein destroyed deserve not only justice, but healing. They've been waiting too long for both. Though my brief acquaintance with Epstein ended years before his brief acquaintance, before his crimes came to light. And though I never witnessed during our limited interactions any indication of what was truly going on, I'm here to offer what little I know so that I might prevent anything like this from ever happening. I'll be blunt.
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I don't think Bill Clinton is there because he loves his country. I think he's there because he loves young women, as we know with Bill Clinton.
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Yeah. And then he kind of goes on. He's just saying, I had no idea the crimes Epstein was committing. I know what I saw. I know what I didn't. As someone who grew up in a home with domestic abuse, not only would I not have flown on his plane, if I had any inkling of what he was doing, I would have turned him in myself. All right, so that's gonna be the tone today from Bill Clinton. Bill Clinton's got a lot of explaining to do, lots of. Lots of splaining to do. We want to then transition over to this story. So we're gonna watch that again. It's behind closed doors. Maybe there'll be a leaked. Leaked photo today. Maybe they'll have to.
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We'll see.
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We'll see.
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But the headline from the New York Times.
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Blake.
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Yes, this is so sometimes Charlie would like to take a step back and focus on this big picture cultural issues. And I think this is a great example of it. If you open newyorktimes.com at this moment, their lead story is not Iran, it's not Epstein. It's the American birth rate is plunging. Here's why. Some say that's a good thing. The political class is worried about the historic drop, but the biggest change is among the youngest women who are the least ready to have children. It's entirely embracing the culture. Like let's call it the culture of death, the culture of decline, the culture of no future. Because this article comes out simultaneously with another headline and we'll talk about both. We have a story out of Canada with. It was a report from the. It was like the data chief of the Medical Assistance in Dying program for the province of Ontario. That's the largest province in Canada in 2023. So it's even worse now. In 2023, 65 people were able to kill themselves with the Medical Assistance and Dying program on the same day they applied for it.
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Exactly. So that's the big news. They get killed the same day that they applied for it.
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You apply to suicide and get it the same day.
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Can we just stop on this acronym of maid? Maid Medical Assistance in Dying. It's euthanasia. It's suicide. And the Canadian government, we've known this for a while, but this is what was crazy. Did you know that over 5% of deaths of all deaths in 2024 in Canada were MAID deaths? That's again assisted suicide. And they call it health care now. What's also very creepy is there was a horrific case. The name, only name we have for this is Mrs. B. Who's tried to withdraw her maid request and it was overridden by family. So she didn't want to die. She changed her mind. She. She cited religious convictions and values for why she changed her mind. And then they did it anyways and they killed her. So that is a death cult. When somebody who wants to live is unable to live because the doctors and a family member basically murdered her. That's what that is. That's murder. It's not suicide. That's murder.
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Exactly. No, it is. And these issues are so innately linked together. This desire to have no children, this desire to perpetuate adolescence, and then simultaneously at the end of life, to rush into suicide. Every horror story about assisted suicide that exists has already happened. Where people are pressured by family members into killing themselves because they're tired of taking care of them. Where supposed healthcare workers are pressuring someone into suicide rather than providing them actual treatment for what they want. There are cases where people who are suffering from disabilities where they're basically told, yeah, we can't actually supply you with any normal treatments. But, you know, there is, there is suicide, if you want that. If you're feeling depressed about things. And they're endlessly expanding it, they're expanding it to teenagers, they're expanding it to people who only have psychological distress. And I suspect inevitably they'll extend it to using it involuntarily on people that they decide are not worth treating in any way.
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And that, that is another story. There's an image of a. This New York Post has an image of this 26 year old that was killed because I guess he had mental illness and they killed him. He had mental illness. So instead of dealing with the mental illness, they killed him. Tell me that that makes any sense. His name was, by the way, I want to get his name. Keanu Vafaini's parents. His parents accused authorities of failing to protect their son who was euthanized at 26 despite a history of mental illness. If we can put his picture up, I think that would be important. Death cult. I don't think any country will be blessed for embracing such despicable, disgusting ideas. I want to show this picture. This is the guy. Throw it up. 631. This is just a terrible story. Keanu Vafeyen accused authorities of failing to protect their vulnerable son, the parents of him who was able to end his life with assisted suicide despite a history of mental illness. They say that Vafayen had seasonal depression, suffered from type 1 diabetes and lost vision in one eye when he died last December. So they just killed him. Here's what's very terrifying is Governor Kathy Hochul December said that she would sign a law, medical aid and dying, a bill giving state sanction to doctors in New York helping terminally ill patients end their lives.
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It's such a dark thing. Like, we always sympathize with people who are dying. But every incentive that legalizing assisted suicide creates is so profoundly negative for me. You're giving extra power to people who, I'll be frank, are often already inclined to feel they have godlike power over individuals. We again already have cases in other countries and I think in this country, but certainly in others where doctors decide, I don't think this person's life is worth Living. So I'm going to push suicide on them. I think that's the best outcome for them. Once you are creating a system where the medical where the group people who are supposed to treat illness have kill this person as a treatment. Shockingly they decide in a lot of cases killing this person is easier than trying to cure them or help them.
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Yeah, well. And again when they first passed this law it was bad enough but they mandated a minimum 10 day wait period. Now people are getting killed on the same day. Here's Charlie talking about medical assistance in death.
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616 the biggest innovation in Canada right now is they become the most famously pro suicide country in the world. Not a joke. They have long wait for medical procedures, mass proliferation of drug usage. Except of course if you want to be able to use suicide suicidal drugs or suicide pods. They call it maid M A I D. Medical assistance in dying.
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Yeah, it's pretty gross. And here's the sad part of this. You have a bunch of people that are sucking up resources. If you have socialized medicine this is how you look at it. They're consuming resources. They are either terminally ill or they want to die and they're ready to die. And so why not just help them do it earlier? Because guess what, you'll save some money, you'll save some resources. I'm not saying that that is the major driving force. I think they've convinced themselves that this is compassion, this is health care. But you better believe it's at least one of the motivations.
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Sort of two things at once. It's one on the one hand, viewing people from the eyes of the state as purely like resource consumers who can be optimized out of things like oh this person's at the end of their life they are useless. Discard them. And on the individual level seeing life only as basically a hedonic exercise. So my life is not very enjoyable at this point so I should just snuff it out at this moment. And that's why it does relate so directly to the children question as well. Because the same impulses that cause people to avoid having children to actively reject it, which the New York Times is celebrating are the same impulses that drive them to kill themselves when their lives are painful towards the end. And I think Charlie observed that as well. We have a good clip of him just talking about the attitude towards children. Let's do 622.
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Kids are largely presented as a burden, not a blessing. The people that live the most joyful and deepest lives tend to have kids and Then a lot of kids that their lives are harder, their lives are crazier, they're less about themselves, but they're deeper and more fulfilling.
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So here's the New York Times bottom line. They say that over half of women, so they celebrate it because their main point is that there's less sort of teenage pregnancies. Okay, that's their top line. But their top line is that now over half of 30 year old women, almost half, are childless. In 1976, that was just 18%. So at 30 years old, just 18% of women in the America were childless.
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And they have these quotes like Hope Beshever is one of these women. She has a deep ambivalence about having children. She wants control over her life. After a catch childhood. When she was 13, she had to care for her younger brothers, 2 and 4. And while her father, a corrections officer, worked. Sometimes I picture having a kid and I think of that overload. Two kids, both in diapers. Now 30, she is happily married and living in Denver. She works at a gym and says she is selfish with her time. And then she says, my husband and I, we like our peace.
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Yeah, okay, so this is all garbage,
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but I'll let you go off on that one.
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This is all garbage. So throw up that graph again. They actually put the graph up a little early. This is young. Married moms are the happiest. This is from the general social survey from 2018 to 2024. Married moms 40%. This is between ages 22 and 35 that are very happy. Married moms, 41%, by far the highest married and childless. Also the next highest. Look who is very unhappy. Unmarried moms and unmarried childless. Okay, Those are the groups, the cohorts that are not happy. If you are a woman and your goal is to live a fulfilling life and a productive life and a happy life, guess what? The odds are very much more in your favor to be happy and fulfilled if you are married with children or if you are married and you don't have children.
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That's good. True. But Charlie would point out it's not even just about, oh, you're rahedonic. Happiness life is not about pleasure. Life is about fulfilling duties as well.
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Well, but you won't. You will be happier if you will be happy. Duty and pursuing honor.
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In the long run you will. But it's also just. You have to say yes to your life is not, oh, I'm just going to have fun and do whatever I feel like and have no obligations. You increase the meaning and importance of your life when you embrace having obligations to other people, as Charlie would say, obligations to God, obligations to a spouse, and yes, obligations to the children you and your spouse have together. And it's a very bleak sign for our civilization if the New York Times is running out with this headline that just says, actually, everyone deciding to not have kids is a good thing. And, yeah, maybe a half century from now, no one will be around anymore. By the way, that's not our problem. We'll have killed ourselves.
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We'll just import a bunch of foreigners. We'll replace you. Imagine being a young woman just finding out that you're pregnant, not knowing where to go or what to do, not even knowing exactly what is going on in your body while the whole world tells her it's just a clump of cells. You and I, we both know the truth. We know it is a baby. And once she has an ultrasound that you provide and she sees the truth of the baby growing inside of her, you help her choose life. When you join us in providing ultrasounds with preborn and she sees her baby and hears her baby's heartbeat, you will double the likelihood that she will choose life. And 100% of what you give goes to providing ultrasounds. 100% preborn separately. Fundraises for administrative costs. $280 can save 10 babies. $28 a month can save a baby a month all year long. And a $15,000 gift. I know there's some of you out there that can afford this $15,000 gift will provide a complete ultrasound machine that will save thousands of babies for years and years to come. Call 833-850-2229 or click on the Preborn Banner at charliekirk.com today. Again, that's 833-850-2229 or click on the Preborn Banner at CharlieKirk.com I am thrilled. I'm stoked to have our next guest on the show. I've been following him closely, watching his race from afar. Actually, this will be the second time. And that's Brandon Herrera. He is running for Congress in Texas. Texas is 23rd, and it's made the news quite a bit. Brandon, welcome to the show. It's your first time. We're honored to have you.
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How's it going, brother?
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That is quite the armory you've got behind you.
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Just wait till you see the other gun rooms.
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Much more.
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Oh, my gosh.
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How's it going, guys? Some guys, they have, you know, they have book collections, other guys have empty collections, and then there's then there's this. That's impressive.
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Just to tell people that is what you're known for. You're not just piling up a lot.
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You're.
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What's the name of your channel?
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So the channel is just. My name is just Brandon Herrera. So I've used that over the last few years to, well, not only just have fun with friends and blow stuff up on the Internet, which is, you know, my dream job, but also to kind of use that platform to teach people about firearm history, firearm engineering design. And usually that's a nice gateway drug into the importance of the Second Amendment and the importance of the Constitution.
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You can tell that Brandon is entirely committed to the public interest because there is no other reason you would possibly step away from blowing stuff up on the Internet to try to enter.
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Right. You already have the dream job, Brandon. What the heck are you doing running for Congress? So your race has garnered national headlines in a big way. I've always been a fan of yours, even when you were running last time. And genuinely. And listen, you're going up against Tony Gonzalez and he's come into some scrutiny. Why don't you tell the story from your perspective of what's going on and why you think you would be better?
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For sure. Well, so when I initially decided to run last time, I just had an issue with Tony's voting record. I think he's a rhino. He voted to imprison President Trump. He voted against the Second Amendment for a Democrat gun control bill. He voted against the Fourth Amendment with wireless surveillance of American citizens, voted against border policy, which is crazy, in the biggest border district in the entire country here in District 23. So I just had an issue with, with his voting record. And that's an issue that continued, I hope, when we, we lost the last election, we lost it in a runoff because he got below 50% in the primary. He lost it in a runoff by about 400 votes after outspending us 10 to 1. So I figured that that would be a message that, hey, maybe you need to fix your behavior. And unfortunately, it just didn't go through. So I jumped into the race a second time. And very shortly after the rumblings of the scandal, the affair and everything started to hit. And just this last few weeks, it seems like the dam finally burst and people are finding out the truth about the kind of person that Tony Gonzalez is and why he needs to be replaced.
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So the details of this case, I don't want to be salacious. I don't want to hurl unfounded Accusations. You know, I would just want to be respectful because a woman did take her life in this instant. Would you walk us through what you know to be true?
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Sure, 100%. And, you know, a lot of people still say, you know, this is alleged, these are allegations. I'm not even willing to do that at this point because in my mind, from what I've seen and what I've seen proven, this is 100% fact. Actually, during the last election, during the. The runoff election, probably like, I think maybe 20 to 30 days out from the. The runoff against me, he engaged in predatory sexual behavior with a married female staffer. Him, of course, being a married father of six. This is completely unacceptable behavior, especially with a subordinate. But he. The text messages have been released now at this point where he was pressuring a staffer into a sexual relationship. And then, you know, the husband found out about it. It was a big ordeal. And it. One thing led to another, and he essentially wrecked the home to the point where on September 13th of last year, she committed suicide via self immolation. And it was pretty much swept under the rug. He tried to. To bury it. He would avoid journalists like the plague. He would run away from journalists, banned media from all of his events, and wouldn't deny it until a couple months later when no evidence came forward, no hard evidence. Then he went to a journalist and said, oh, yeah, all of these rumors are untruthful, I believe is what he said, and just kind of swept it away and denied it. And of course, we knew that wasn't true. There's a lot of people, former staffers that were coming forward that were trying to say, hey, we know this is a lie. But nobody would go on the record until about a month ago when a staffer, a former staffer of his that worked with Regina Santos, the. The staffer who killed herself, a staffer that worked with her very closely, came forward and he had text message receipts from Regina referencing the affair. He had personal allegories of accidentally facilitating extramarital behavior with their family cabin between Regina and Tony. And then Tony then smeared me and the staffers saying, how dare I give a disgruntled former staffer a platform? Which I didn't. He went to the media. I didn't facilitate that at all. He didn't. I. I didn't. I didn't say a word about it until after everything came out. The media. So it wasn't me giving him platform. He voluntarily went to media, but of course, it's my fault that he engages in this Sort of behavior. And then after that, after his denial, the husband came forward with verified, forensically, forensically proven text messages from Regina and Tony. And then now Tony's been caught in a lie, and I think his whole world's falling apart.
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C
And speaking of accusations, I know in the past he's called you both an anarchist and a neo Nazi. Those seem contradictory accusations to me. Has he ever apologized for any of those attacks?
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No. No, he still hasn't. I was called a neo Nazi, a Klan member, an anarchist, and a California lover in the same campaign. California loving liberal. Which is funny because he took a clip out of context from a podcast where I had said. He clipped it. Where I said California might be my favorite state in the country, and he just clipped that. The full sentence was talking about how beautiful California beaches were. I said, California might be my favorite state in the country if everybody who lived there.
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Yeah, I mean, I'm pretty sure.
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I think Charlie said the exact.
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Well, Charlie love paradise.
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And they ruined it.
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I actually wrote an op ed for the California Post that ran on Sunday talking about how when I'd land in California with Charlie, he'd always go, this state is so beautiful. It's a shame what they did to it. Every time he would say something along those lines. All right, so, okay, let's get that story aside. It's horrible. By the way, I actually somehow missed the, the self immolation part of that story. And I have to just say this out loud. Obviously, extramarital affairs are awful on their face. To do it in a way in which you might have been using funding or abusing the office or whatever is also terrible. I just want to say it sounds like if somebody's going to do that self immolate, then I got to believe there's underlying stuff there with that person. I just want to say that out loud because I. You can't put that all on. On an affair, in my opinion. But, but again, I don't know the details. It wasn't there. But that, that, that strikes me as somebody with deeply serious mental problems or, or something. I, I don't know.
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And none of us could know. Know the full situation at this point. The only person that, that could break this down objectively or give us the full story is no longer with us. But one thing I can say pretty confidently is that the affair and then all of the consequences of it were 100%. The domino that started everything cascading got it. Apparently, in order to cover it up, he was then kind of blacklisted. Her and kind of pushed her out of the job. So she, she lost the two things that she cared about because of this affair. And that's all right.
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Well, it's just an awful story. Yeah, Brandon, it's just an awful story. Thanks for walking us through it. So what, what's your vision for Texas? What's your vision as a congressman, for sure?
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Well, there's a lot of things, especially, that are specific to this district. So District, District 23 goes for all the way from the west side of San Antonio to the east side of El Paso and everything in between. It's the biggest district in Texas, and it's the biggest border district in the country. And so we need somebody who's going to be firm on the border. Now, President Trump has done quite a lot to help solve the Biden border crisis. It's night and day compared to where it was two, three years ago. But a lot of that stuff needs to be codified. We need to make sure the legislature actually passes bills that protect us because, you know, I hope we get 8 years of JD Vance after Trump is over. But, you know, the truth is, one of these days, we will have another Democrat in office. And if it was one stroke of a pen from President Trump to fix these things, it's one stroke of a pen away from being undone, and we cannot afford that as a country.
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Yeah. One minute left. Brandon, how can people support you, get behind you? And what's the timeline right now for this race?
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Well, it's the last day of early voting here in Texas, and the actual election itself is on March 3rd. So the biggest thing is get out. And vote turnout is going to be everything. It's the only way we're going to beat the Democrats in November. And it's the number one way that we're going to get people like Tony out of office in the primaries here. So if you want to check out the campaign, it's Brandon Harrow for Congress dot com. But if you're out in Texas District 23, I would be honored to have your vote and give West Texas the conservative voice it deserves.
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Well, man, keep, keep up the good work. You have been making waves. Like I said, I've been watching you from afar for, you know, in the first race. And you, you darn near pulled that thing off, too. I mean, you darn near did. And which is, which is a huge undertaking to take out an incumbent. It just is. It's a huge deal. So I think this is going to be your year. And we're watching and keep shooting and blowing stuff up. Don't ever stop. You know what I mean?
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I appreciate it, brother.
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All right, Brandon.
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Thank you guys so much for having me.
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I didn't know the exact number. I knew Armstrong was.
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Yeah, 11 of the 12. So this was an institution in the country that trained young men in the way they should go. It actually honored God. It told them to honor God in
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country, be an atheist and be a boy scout in good standing.
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Yeah. So this was a. And it gave them obviously outdoor skills and so much more character building. And then what did they do? They went woke. They did the DEI thing. They actually changed their name from Boy Scouts to Scouts of America because why now you have to let in girls. Now. There's actually really important psychology behind why that's bad.
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You need male only institutions.
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Yes, of courses. And why? Because imagine a young boy in front of a bunch of other boys is going to try and fail and embarrass himself way more readily than if you put a bunch of girls in front of him. If the girls are watching, he's not gonna want to make a fool of himself. He's not gonna wanna do a bunch of Stuff.
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When you take teenage boys and you insert women in there, instantly everything becomes about their relations, like with those women. And they become much more likely to compete with each other rather than to cooperate with each other. Tons of psychological stuff goes into this.
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Actually, I didn't realize Charlie. There's an old clip of Charlie. He's made my point. I just made 603 when I was
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13 years old and I was worrying about climbing a rock or starting a fire. If there were young ladies around, I would not have been climbing a rock or starting a fire. I would have been much distracted and talking, trying to make, you know, trying to make myself more socially acceptable and so on and so forth. There's a lot of character development that happens between those critical ages and being around other young men that are going through the same problems and failing and taking risks, I think is something that has made the Boy Scouts so successful. And it's also those people that have studied gender exclusive education goes to show the exact same thing is that focus, attention to detail, especially amongst those critical ages, is something that we should not sacrifice or remove from.
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That's a throwback clip.
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When I was 13 years old, he looked 13.
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I know.
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That is classic Charlie. He was right on target.
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Totally. Yeah, he was right on target. But you could tell he was younger. It was great. So the big news this morning is that Pete Hegseth, because you gotta understand the Boy Scouts and the Secretary of War or the Department of War, there's been a long running sort of kind of collaboration. You know, that's a pipeline for.
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They would do the Scout Jamboree and it would be on a military base.
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Correct.
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And there'll always be a lot of
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time they meet on military bases. So P. Hegseth gets in there. And this was actually something that he told me about before he was even in that this was something that he wanted to focus on and fix. And he has news this morning, 601,
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Scouting America agreed to make several key reforms. First, no more DEI 0. Scouting America will modify its policy to make clear that membership will be based solely on biological sex at birth and not gender identity. Scouting will also make clear that biological boys and girls will not be allowed to occupy or share intimate spaces together. Toilets, showers, tents, anywhere like that. Scouting America will honor those who serve by waiving the registration fees for children of active duty Guard and reserve families. In partnership with the War Department, Scouting America will introduce a new military service merit badge. These and other changes that Scouting America's leadership committed to will hopefully result in a rededication to the foundational ideals that have defined Scouting for generations. Duty to God and country, leadership, character and service.
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It's.
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It's so sad to read about it. I'm noting in the Department of War's announcement on this that membership dropped from there were 10 million boys participating in the boy. In just the Boy Scouts, only boys allowed in 1970. And that's with a significantly smaller population, maybe a similar number of like children of scouting age less than 1 million participating in 2026. And that's a big crash. Even a few years ago there was so much more. The Mormon Church was very involved in Scouts. They broke away because they started admitting girls. And I know a lot of other churches broke away.
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That's the problem. The only problem, I will say. I mean, this is great work from Secretary Hegseth. A massive improvement, there's no doubt. But the real underlying issue here is that girls should do their own thing. This is why we have Girl Scouts. There should be Girl Scouts and there should be Boy Scouts.
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Yes. And it's so sad to follow the decline of the Boy Scouts because it really, in my opinion is. It's such a charter of the decline of America. When you look at Boy Scouts values as they were articulated, even when I was in it just, you know, 20 years ago, it was such a perfect distillation of what you'd say are classic American values. Like you should clearly be theist. And let's be frank, it's a very generally kind of Judeo Christian outlook towards the world. Even if other religions are allowed in. It's like American civic Christianity when there was just a sort of default, oh yeah, like this is a Christian country and it has Christian values. And that's what it embodied along with serving your country, all this pro citizenship stuff and learn useful skills. We had an organization that tens of millions of boys went through that just taught you to love God, love your country and learn to learn how to be a man, do useful things, learn to be a man. And we it they deliberately destroyed it over the course of decades precisely because it was something so good and so beautiful.
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Yeah. There is a tendency in Western culture where the parasites, the horde of Wokies or whatever and the liberal Malays will attack healthy hosts. And they do that because they're good. And you have to have a backbone. You have to have strength of your own convictions, the courage of your own convictions to stop the onslaught. You have to be able to defend the good, the true, the beautiful. You cannot let the horde of vipers and wokies in our era take down what is good. Ultimately, we have to be men, strong men willing to defend those institutions. And yes, women need to defend them as well. But candidly, we're talking about Boy Scouts. You need to raise up strong men. I am telling you, there is no more effective, powerful force on the planet than a well formed, matured, fully functional, intelligent, self assured male man. That is a power source for Western civilization that cannot be defeated. And so there will be all kinds of assaults against the development of young men into fully grown, fully matured men. It just will be. And we have to protect the formation of men. It's one of the critical duties of this show. It's one of the critical duties of Turning Point. Yes, we care about the women. Yes, of course. But I'm telling you, young men, fully formed, fully ready to take on the challenges of this generation and the next and the next after that. If we have those men, Western civilization will not only survive, it will thrive. That's why there's always an attack against them. So we must defend the men. Charlie knew this. We know this. Still, hopefully you out in the audience know it as well.
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Com.