From the Archive: Charlie’s 2023 Live Free Tour Speech at Texas Tech

00:00:03 Speaker 1: My name is Charlie kirk I run the largest pro American student organization in the country, fighting for the future of our republic. 00:00:11 Speaker 2: My call is to fight evil and to proclaim truth. 00:00:14 Speaker 1: 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'll 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 and have as many kids as possible. Go start at turning point. You would say college chapter. Go start aturning point, yould say 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. 00:00:45 Speaker 2: Here I am Lord, Use me. Buckle up, everybody, Here we go. 00:00:56 Speaker 1: Noble Gold Investments is the official gold sponsor of the Charlie Kirkshaw, a company that specializes in gold I rays and physical delivery of precious metals. Learn how you could protect your wealth with Noble Gold Investments at noblegold investments dot Com. That is Noblegoldinvestments dot Com. 00:01:15 Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you, everybody, please take a seat. Thank you. It is uh. 00:01:23 Speaker 1: It's great to be back in Lubbock, Texas. I gotta tell you I was here earlier last fall. I guess I'll tell you why I was here. It's gonna upset some of you. So my my father and my uncle, my aunt all went to the University of Oregon. So we're big Ducks fans. 00:01:39 Speaker 2: See. 00:01:39 Speaker 1: Now, you guys are gonna get upset. See and I okay, first of all, I have nothing against you know, I've always I was a big Texas tech fan. 00:01:48 Speaker 2: Rest in peace Mike Leach when he was here, and. 00:01:51 Speaker 1: I was always pulling front and I can't stand the longhorns there awful. 00:01:54 Speaker 2: So we can agree on that, right, Okay. So we're we're all and. 00:02:00 Speaker 1: So we make a habit out of trying to go to a game or two. And Lubbock isn't too far from Phoenix where I live, and I come here. We have amazing time and everyone was super gracious except for all the f bombs, you know, being thrown at us Stock fans, and it was the goof. I was literally getting upset. I got to tell you what you guys do. 00:02:16 Speaker 2: This throwing the food thing on the What is this all about? You know they're tortilla's flying whatever. 00:02:23 Speaker 1: And then I learned they tried to get rid of it, and you guys kept the tradition alive, and I kind of had. 00:02:29 Speaker 2: Respect for it. 00:02:30 Speaker 1: I kind of said, you know what, you guys keep doing it regard. 00:02:33 Speaker 2: You know, no matter how much. 00:02:34 Speaker 1: They try to tell you, you guys keep fighting the man and you keep on throwing. 00:02:38 Speaker 2: And I kid you not. I saw somebody up in the cheap sheets. 00:02:41 Speaker 1: There was a tortilla that flew like one hundred and fifty yards and went right on the thirty yard line. And you guys put like holes in them to try to perfect the aerodynamicism. Do you do you guys that like the frat houses, like, you know, you try out or you you kind of figure out the best way. I've never seen I've seen tortillas fly so far. So I needless to say, it was, uh, you guys totally choked. I gotta be honest, it was not a good night at the end of it. And uh, but anyway, good memories for me, not so good for you. But uh and then we uh we Okay, it's very passionate folks here. And then we had a great Sunday at Trinity Church. So it's great to be back in love with Texas everybody. And and do me a favor. Anytime you ever ever play those long horns, you gotta beat them. 00:03:35 Speaker 2: That's just uh, it's got to be right in there. 00:03:37 Speaker 1: So I don't want to talk for too long before we get to questions, because I think that's the most important and the most fun, and that's. 00:03:41 Speaker 2: Why you're here. 00:03:43 Speaker 1: I've I've done a lot of studying recently about the history of Texas and it's fascinating and this is kind of one of the last bastions of how Texas used to be and what the future of Texas should really look like, which Texas was largely unsettled, in fact, so much so that the Mexicans were like, if you guys can settle in Texas, like you can have it, Like if you're able to kind of figure something out in Texas, like, go ahead. 00:04:11 Speaker 2: It's not easy land. It's tough land. 00:04:13 Speaker 1: You have the Comanche Indians that were not exactly easy, you know, to live with, and you know, very very violent, and so my people, the Scots Irish were crazy enough to you know, navigate the Appalachian Trail and go west and come to this place now known as Texas. And in the early stages of Texas, Texas was the closest. 00:04:33 Speaker 2: Thing to a Jeffersonian republic. 00:04:35 Speaker 1: There was really like, no police, no standing army, and it was the law and the belief in the code of the West that kept Texas together. 00:04:46 Speaker 2: And it's very interesting. 00:04:47 Speaker 1: It's the most similar, the most eerily similar example I can find to how the Hebrews lived in the Old Testament, where they had no police and no standing army, and it wasn't perfect. People still, you know, did bad things. But Texas turned into this powerhouse where so many different cultures and different civilizations said, you know, we don't really want to settle there, And for whatever reason, Texas all of a sudden started to grow and grow and became its own country first, the Republic of Texas. 00:05:17 Speaker 2: And anytime you spend. 00:05:18 Speaker 1: Time around Texans, there's something different. There's you're Americans, but you're also Texans. I'll never forget the first time I did a speaking event in Texas, they did this hailed Texas flag thing. 00:05:29 Speaker 2: And then also that was like. 00:05:30 Speaker 1: What this is really nothing against it because I love people that are proud of where. 00:05:34 Speaker 2: They're from and thankful for where they're from. 00:05:37 Speaker 1: And in the clearest possible way, Texas needs to start acting like Texas again, and Texas need to get that attitude back where you need to go tell the federal government to go pound sand you're going to secure the boarder yourself. 00:05:49 Speaker 3: And I want to talk to you about an issue so many Americans faith, and that's health insurance. There's an organization I really really appreciate called Christian Healthcare Ministries CHM is a faith based alternative to health insurance. And this is real stuff, folks like you've gotta listen in With CHM, you're not paying into a company's profit margin. 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Slash Charlie and use promo code Charlie. 00:07:13 Speaker 1: And Texas, which twenty years ago was nowhere incomparable population I was ten million more people than the state of New York. This place is one of the best places America still has to offer. 00:07:25 Speaker 2: And I'll give you another example. 00:07:27 Speaker 1: Texas never should have locked down for the virus lockdowns that happened during COVID. And the spirit of Texas is one of self sovereignty, one of liberty, one that tends to buck the trend. 00:07:39 Speaker 2: And I firmly believe this. 00:07:41 Speaker 1: That America cannot get back to greatness, which I think a lot of you guys are here tonight because you want to see America made great again. 00:07:48 Speaker 2: I think that's why a lot of you are here. 00:07:53 Speaker 1: That would be a great slogan if someone ran for president on that, it would be really great. And it cannot happened if Texas just becomes a flatter version of Tennessee. Texas needs to go back into its roots of the can do attitude, to look towards that pioneer spirit. And there is a toughness in the Texans that I've known that is very, very unique. There is an attitude too. You guys got attitude, Like holy holy crow, you guys got attitude. But I love it, and I love it in a way where a lot of people are now looking for leadership, obviously, and what an opportunity. And we look around the country right now, people are moving to the state and what drives me nuts. I'm sure you know this if you spend any time in Travis County in Austin, or in Harris County in Houston. 00:08:44 Speaker 2: A lot of people are moving. 00:08:45 Speaker 1: To the state and they continue to act and vote in the pattern that they previously had when they destroyed the state that they fled from, and I mean they destroyed California. Then they come to Texas and they say, oh, I don't like the fact that you know and Texas. You can own firearms the way you can't leaven why'd you move here exactly? 00:09:04 Speaker 2: Why'd you try to come here and try? 00:09:07 Speaker 1: Like Another thing that drives me crazy is they like, we need to expand abortion access in Texas and I'm like, well, where are you from? And they're like, well, I'm from Massachusetts. Like okay, then go back to mass Tuesday, have abortion all over the place. Like, don't tell Texas how to run itself. Actually stop trying to colonize Texas. And I think that's a really important thing. 00:09:30 Speaker 2: Again, it's not a racial thing either. 00:09:31 Speaker 1: And this is what's so amazing is that some of the most proud Texans are originally from Mexican descent and they're on the border and they're part of the Texas story. 00:09:41 Speaker 2: And I think we can all agree. 00:09:42 Speaker 1: Though, and I want to just emphasize this and then we'll do questions. Is that what's happening on the southern border is one of the most outrageous crimes against this country that we have seen in any of our lifetimes. 00:09:52 Speaker 2: And it is. 00:09:58 Speaker 1: To have a to have anywhere between ten to fifteen thousand people coming across the border is an invasion. I don't care what your politics are. You could be here to be on the super far left. It doesn't matter. It's unsustainable and this is not a racial thing, but the bad guys actually look at it as a racial thing now in a very perverse way. They might end up being wrong, but it's still wrong what they're doing because they think and it's not my belief system of this, but just look at what the Castro Brothers have said repeatedly. They said that as Texas becomes more Hispanic and less white, they thought that Texas would. 00:10:34 Speaker 2: Become more left wing. 00:10:35 Speaker 1: Well it's not that simple, actually, because it turns out the Hispanic community is not a monolith and that there's a lot of Hispanic conservatives out there that don't believe that men can give birth, and they want a secure border, and they want police and they want a rule of law. 00:10:51 Speaker 2: So it's not that simple. 00:10:54 Speaker 1: But what it does do outside of the politics is it does destabilize a country. And that's the bigger point is that you cannot have an unregulated flow of millions of people. We're not doing background checks, we're not doing DNA testing, we have no idea where they're from, and act or even believe that somehow a stable country can continue. And for those of you that either came to this country legally or your parents did, what is happening on the southern border is an insult to all of you that waited in line. 00:11:28 Speaker 2: It is an insult for all. 00:11:29 Speaker 1: Of you that had to go through the proper protocol and process. That basically what it is is why did you Why did you follow the law? And what they're saying basically is you don't have to follow the law anymore. 00:11:42 Speaker 2: And I am, I am. I've been patient, and. 00:11:46 Speaker 1: I actually have seen more and more fight out of your governor recently. I wish it would have happened earlier, and I want to see that next step taken, and I think I think his administration is getting closer and closer to that, which is it is now time for Texas to start to deport the foreigners that have come here to this state and return them to their country of origin. 00:12:08 Speaker 2: It is time to now do that. 00:12:12 Speaker 3: I had the honor of a lifetime to call Charlie a friend. And what I remember most wasn't just what people saw on stage, It was what was behind the scenes that was an unwavering commitment to his faith, his love for his family, and his genuine desire to encourage others to live with courage and conviction. Charlie believed that following Christ wasn't something you compartmentalize. He didn't put it in a box. He lived it out loud. It shaped how he lived, how he served, how he treated people every single day. Charlie Kirk American Martyr captures that heart. This documentary isn't just simply about remembering Charlie. It's an invitation for each of us to ask what kind of legacy we're building and whether we're willing to stand firm in our own faith. 00:12:56 Speaker 2: When it's tested. 00:12:58 Speaker 3: I hope that you'll watch it with your family and have those conversations together. Go to angel dot com slash kirk. That's angel dot com slash kirk, become an Angel Guild member, watch Charlie Kirk American Martyr and help bring more stories of faith, courage and conviction to audiences around the world. 00:13:19 Speaker 2: Largely because. 00:13:22 Speaker 1: The federal government has left us no choice, and it is a very simple moral question. If the federal government is tasked with the safety and the well being and the administration of the rule of law, and they have year over year told you they are not going to do that. Texas, which was once its own country, which can therefore declare an invasion clause easier than any other state in the nation, does. 00:13:46 Speaker 2: Not just have a right, but a duty to take. 00:13:50 Speaker 1: This into its own hands and to fix this problem. And I think Greg Abbott, to his credit, has been feeling the pressure. 00:13:57 Speaker 2: And has been doing some stuff. 00:13:59 Speaker 1: I mean, you've got the barrier, he's got the razor wire, you got balloons on the you know whatever, whatever those big things are in the big objects in the Rio Grande Valley. 00:14:07 Speaker 2: That's fine. You got the National Guard. It's hard for me to paint this picture. 00:14:10 Speaker 1: If you haven't seen the video I encourage you to look at it where Texa National Guard really steamrolled by hundreds of people last week as if like no, no, no, this is our country, We're just going to come right in. And you know, some people say, well, the Texas National Guard should have resisted, But the Texas National Guard, in an idea, should have resist. 00:14:27 Speaker 2: Think about it. 00:14:27 Speaker 1: They would have gotten probably arrested by the federal government for you know, violent confrontation of migrants. And that's another important point, which is There are some people that are coming that can fit the quote unquote migrant mold, but a vast majority of these people are military age, fighting age males that are twenty twenty one and twenty two years old from one hundred and twenty different countries. We know that thousands of people have been intercepted on the southern border from the terror watch list, and we have no idea where they're going on the interior of the United States. And I hate to say, but this feels awfully intentional. It feels as if that they want this to happen. Now why we can have a robust discussion about it. But I don't get from the current ruling regime that they love the country like you do, that they love the country the way that those of you that serve this nation. Due in fact, I feel as if they want to turn it into something different, that they want to try to overwhelm the system. Before some of you yell up and say or a conspiracy theorist, well you guys should study an academic paper that is called the Cloward Piven Strategy. It was written in the nineteen seventies by two academics, Cloward and Piven. They were communists self describe Marxist and communists, and they said, hey, the way that we Communists are going to take over America is three steps, three very basic things. We need to try to make sure America borrows so much money that the currency is worthless and the national that becomes unsustainable. We need to try to build an administrative state or a deep state bureaucracy that swallows for the private sector, and have DC be the most important part of the country, and uncontrolled mass migration into America to destabilize the fabric. Now we wouldn't know any one of those three things. Of course, we are borrowing a trillion dollars every one hundred days in this country. For those of you that want to own a home, for those of you that want to have a future, it is literally getting stolen from you by these unelected bureaucrats in Washington, DC. Again, this is not a political statement. In two thousand and twenty, when there was a different president, the average income to be able to afford a home in this country was fifty nine thousand dollars a year. 00:16:38 Speaker 2: According to zilo dot com. 00:16:39 Speaker 1: It is now one hundred and six thousand dollars a year to be able to comfortably own a home in this country. Now it might be less here in Lubbock, Texas. 00:16:45 Speaker 2: I don't know. 00:16:46 Speaker 1: I mean, but I bet think property has gone up everywhere. Bet it's gone up here too. But it's probably a little bit easier here. But your incomes are probably not as high as they are in Dallas, so it all kind of evens out. And by the way, that's what they want. They don't want you to own homes. They want you to be permanent renters for the rest of your life because you're easier to control. When I was landing here in Lubbock, I saw so many small towns and it reminded me how mass urbanization has destroyed this country. And there's something very dark about big cities. Not just the fact that the worst ideas come out of cities, not just the fact that the worst politics come out of big cities and the most crime. But I want you to think for a second. It's very easy to be anonymous in a big city. You don't have to know your neighbor. You can kind of just blend in. For those of you that have grown up in a small town, it is impossible to be anonymous in a small town that there's an accountability. Your neighbors check in on you. Everyone kind of has a reputation in a small town. That's the drunk, that's the thief, that's the priest. Stay away from that guy. That's the guy you want to try to do business with. Everybody has, for better or worse, but everybody's reputation because that closeness creates community. 00:18:05 Speaker 2: In New York City, you can. 00:18:07 Speaker 1: Kind of just be an anonymous, you know, widget and an eight million person beast. 00:18:13 Speaker 2: I don't think that's a good thing. 00:18:14 Speaker 3: Actually, Hi, folks, Andrew Colvett here, I'd like to tell you about my friends over at why Refi. You've probably been hearing me talk about why Refi for some time now. We are all in with these guys. If you or someone you know is struggling with private student loan debt, take my advice and give them a call. 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I think it's a better country when you know your neighbor's names. 00:19:23 Speaker 2: I think it's a. 00:19:23 Speaker 1: Better country where you own property and you go to church and your kids are raised walking around a farm, not staring at a screen all day long. I think it's a better country when when you don't have to wonder that you're gonna have to go, like riskily into debt to be able to own a home. And these might strike you as overwhelmingly political statements, but they really aren't, because it's the restoration of a normal way of life and you guys still have it a little bit here. 00:20:01 Speaker 2: In West Texas. 00:20:03 Speaker 1: And if there's one thing I can communicate to you is you need to fight to protect that thing, because how many pockets around this country have they allowed us to lose that American way of life where they come in with big developers and mass urbanization and cities that used to be very very let's just say, Livapole just become kind of unthinkably progressive. And they are targeting West Texas, they are targeting Amarillo, they are targeting Lubbock because they look at themselves as imperialists that there will not be a square inch where they don't control. There's a book that was recently published, and I can't help but just think of so many of you. The book's title is called White Rural Rage, The Threat to Democracy. And so if you get in a car and go thirty miles west or thirty miles east from here, you will find the people that this book talking about. These are two professors that wrote this book, and they were beautifully welcome on MSNBC. 00:21:05 Speaker 2: And for those of you that own farms and you work with your hands, and. 00:21:09 Speaker 1: You go to church, you happen to be white. They think you're the threat to democracy. And I think, first of all, how sick you must be to blame the people that have done the right thing for the last one hundred years, and originally we're homesteading and raised a family and paid their taxes. 00:21:26 Speaker 2: Many of them served in the military. 00:21:28 Speaker 1: And they blame the white rural rage voters because they don't think the way that the Harvard academics want them to think. 00:21:37 Speaker 2: And in fact, dare I. 00:21:39 Speaker 1: Say that it is the white rural rage that very well might save this country one day. It very well might end up course correcting us. And it's not a racial thing, but they're making it a racial thing because it's those that own property and they have different values than that of the regime. So we need Texas to be Texas again, for that attitude and that spirit to be reignited. And I'm just so touched. I mean, look at this turnout here on campus. There's something happening. I don't know what it's going to look like or how it's going to manifest politically. 00:22:14 Speaker 2: I've been doing this now for eleven years. 00:22:16 Speaker 1: I have visited more college campuses than any other speaker in the last decade. I've never seen crowds like we are drawing right now. And I believe it's because so many of you in gen Z, you are up. You have reached your limit of the nauseating, woke nonsense that has permeated the culture. That you actually don't want to worry about getting fired from your job for using the wrong pronoun That you want in America that is strong, that is decent, that is stable, that is orderly. You want to be able to get married and have kids. And this is one of the reasons why. And again this is this what the data shows why young men are the most conservative that they have been in the last fifty years, and young ladies, we. 00:23:05 Speaker 2: Got some work to do, but. 00:23:09 Speaker 1: It shows a lot of promise because I truly believe that there are more decent Americans than in decent Americans and that we're going to course correct. 00:23:18 Speaker 2: This and the entire spirit. 00:23:21 Speaker 1: A turning point USA is we do want to see this country return to greatness, and we believe we're returned to greatness by recommitting ourselves to foundational principles and by not being afraid to confront the parasitic ideologies that have. 00:23:33 Speaker 2: Been destroying this country. And what are those ideologies. 00:23:36 Speaker 1: You can call them wokeism, you can call them Marxism, but they are decaying the society all around us, and it's resulting in an untouchable oligarchy that is not listening to the people, that is more and more afraid that this silent majority might be silent no longer. And as we can see here by this incredible turnout and what's happening, I think our numbers are increasing to such a level that keeps them very nervous. 00:24:04 Speaker 3: For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to Charliekirk dot com.