Charlie Kirk, who founded Turning Point USA, was killed on Sept. 10 while speaking at an event at Utah Valley University. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
The resolution described Kirk as a "devoted Christian," "dedicated husband," and a "loving father" of two, explaining his founding of Turning Point USA and commending his personification of the First Amendment.
It resolved the House of Representatives to condemn Kirk's assassination and all forms of political violence; commend law enforcement for catching Kirk's alleged killer; extend condolences to Kirk's family; honor Kirk's life, leadership and legacy; and call upon all Americans—regardless of race, party affiliation, or creed—to "reject political violence, recommit to respectful debate, uphold American values, and respect one another as fellow Americans."
Charlie Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA, speaks during the Turning Point Action conference, July 15, 2023, in West Palm Beach, Florida. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)
"At the time, of course, there were legislative priorities that needed to be done by the federal government to stop bitter segregation—I've always held that," Kirk said. "The American people thought they were getting minor legislative adjustments to say that segregation based on race is evil and wrong. In reality, what they got was the birthing of a permanent deep state of bureaucrats that were looking for racism where it didn't exist—eventually with affirmative action, quotas and hiring practices expanded beyond race into LGBTQ-type issues.
"What the Civil Rights era really birthed was this idea that it's the federal government's job not just to say that discrimination is wrong, but to actively go against any sort of disparate outcome, and try to even the score under the guise of equity."
Kirk went on to discuss Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I have a dream" speech, saying he was "100% bought into" the need for equality, but adding he believed the Civil Rights Act was expanded further than the initial intention.
"At the time, a majority of Americans wanted to see an end to desegregation," he said. "They didn't want to see new segregation put forward in the in eventually in anti-white hiring practices, affirmative action, or the entire federal bureaucracy having racial hiring quotas.
"Eventually, you look around, and you have the left defending Black-only dormitories at hundreds of universities across the country, Black-only graduation ceremonies… you look back to the Civil Rights Act and you say maybe we overreached and built something we didn't intend, a federal Leviathan in the form of anti-racism."
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In an Oct. 31, 2022, episode of "The Charlie Kirk Show," titled "A Naked Smear of MAGA," Kirk discussed the Oct. 28, 2022, attack against Nancy Pelosi's husband, saying directly, "I'm not qualifying it, I think it's awful."
David DePape, a Canadian citizen living in the U.S., was sentenced to life in prison in 2024 after attacking Paul Pelosi with a hammer, causing two head wounds and injuries to his right arm and hand.
DePape, who Kirk described in the episode as someone who was "not sane," admitted to devising a plot to hold then-Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi hostage and "break her kneecaps" if she did not admit to allegedly telling "lies" about the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential campaign. She was not home at the time of the attack.
Charlie Kirk was a conservative activist who led Turning Point USA. (Alex Brandon/The Associated Press)
In an Oct. 26, 2024 "The Charlie Kirk Show" podcast episode, Kirk claimed Jewish donors have been the No. 1 funding mechanism of radical, open-border neoliberal quasi-Marxist policies, cultural institutions and nonprofits.
"This is a beast created by secular Jews," Kirk said. "Now it’s coming for Jews, and they’re like, ‘What on Earth happened.’ It’s not just the colleges. It’s the nonprofits, it’s the movies, it’s Hollywood, it’s all of it."
Kirk, a longtime supporter of Israel, later argued in a Nov. 16, 2023, episode of "The Charlie Kirk Show", titled "Elon Musk Smashes the Digital Narratives," that some Jewish organizations and donors, including the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), helped fund "anti-white" or "cultural Marxist" ideas aligned with the Black Lives Matter movement or Diversity and Equity Inclusion (DEI).
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He noted he does not believe all Jewish people are anti-White — specifying that he did "not like generalizations."
"I don't like generalizations," Kirk said in the episode. "Not every Jewish person believes that. But it is true the Anti-Defamation League was part and parcel with Black Lives Matter. It is true that some of the largest financiers of left-wing anti-white causes have been Jewish Americans. They went all in on woke, and it wasn't just ADL, it was some of the top Jewish organizations in the country that have done that. In fact, we have seen this with the recent retreat of Jewish donations that are no longer going to be administered to colleges."
Kirk added that after the October episode, critics labeled him as antisemitic, clarifying he was "glad that Jewish Americans are reconsidering their financing of cultural Marxism, and people misunderstood it intentionally and slandered us as being antisemites."
While "Cultural Marxism" has been used as an antisemitic phrase, commentators have been known to use it without antisemitic intent.
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