“Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty.”
I came across this line from Thomas Jefferson in July while reading about our nation’s founding 250 years ago, and it really stood out to me.
As I was thinking through all our nation has accomplished and all the challenges it has faced, it is clear that Jefferson was right. It is easier to sit back and ignore what is happening in our country. To accept the dangerous growth of power by those who hate our country and the ideas that make it great. It is easier to look away from the direct threats to our freedom.
But doing the hard work to preserve liberty has always been Turning Point USA’s mission. I’m grateful for patriots like you who refuse to accept the “calm of despotism.’
Though nearly 250 years old, his warning remains timely. Just weeks ago, the co-chair of the Democratic Socialists of America went on Fox News and, with a straight face, confirmed their radical agenda.
Deconstruct the U.S. Senate, tear down the Supreme Court, defund the police, open the borders, give amnesty to illegal immigrants. We have heard the Left talk about these dangerous ideas and policies over the past few years, but they are getting bolder. And they are getting more extreme.
As Americans, we must ask ourselves: do we ignore these fundamental threats to our nation and society because it is the easy thing to do? Or do we fight them head-on, knowing the risk and the challenge but also knowing it is the right thing to do?
This is exactly why Charlie started Turning Point USA. This is exactly why our mission continues instilling pro-America, pro-freedom values in our nation’s youth and in our nation’s communities. This is exactly the impact you are making.
Will you continue equipping and empowering patriots across the country to defend
America’s founding principles as radicals continue to try to tear them down?
The Left won’t back down from pushing their radical ideas and resorting to destruction, including vandalizing our new statue of Charlie at our Phoenix headquarters. So we must go toe-to-toe in the battle of ideas.
At Turning Point USA, we refuse to back down against this challenge.
– Our campus speakers are “picking up the mic” on over 400 campuses this fall, continuing the debate, dialogue, and civil discourse Charlie started.
– High school “Club America” chapters are growing across the country, with over 5,000 chapters on campuses.
– TPUSA Faith supports over 12,000 faith leaders as they stand for truth in the face of dangerous ideas.
– Americans are encouraged to check their voter registration status to ensure they can make their voice heard.
– Communities are being united by shared, pro-freedom values while radicals try to divide them with “identity politics.’
One of our college student activist leaders, Kay from Florida, told our team recently:
“Before getting involved with Turning Point USA, I often stayed quiet, unsure how to express my beliefs or afraid of others’ reactions. Turning Point USA not only helped me discover my voice but also gave me the confidence to use it boldly, unapologetically, and without fear of others’ opinions. Their leadership and message have strengthened my conservative values and deepened my understanding of why those principles matter.”
Kay is one of millions of students, community members, and faith leaders who are a part of the Turning Point USA mission and who refuse to be “timid.”
This is the mission Charlie started. This is the mission we must continue to undertake. This is the fight we must win generation after generation.
For Freedom and for Charlie,
JPWALAWE KINK
Erika Kirk
Generous support helps to train and equip young patriots across the country to defend America’s founding principles, embrace their faith, stand up for the values that have made our country great, and push back against dangerous radical ideas. Together, we can protect the American freedom that was secured for us 250 years ago for generations to come. God bless you.
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Francis Schaeffer stated, “The ignorance of the Church is more dangerous for a culture than the decadence of the world.” So, if you’re going to one of those churches that is silent on cultural issues (i.e. the decadence of the Democratic party platform), leave and go elsewhere!
Kate Steinle (2015, San Francisco) 32-year-old Kathryn “Kate” Steinle was shot and killed on July 1, 2015, while walking with her father on Pier 14. The shooter, José Inez García Zárate (also known as Juan Francisco López-Sánchez), an illegal immigrant from Mexico who had been deported multiple times, fired a single .40-caliber round that ricocheted off the pier and struck her in the back. He claimed he found the stolen gun and it discharged accidentally. A San Francisco jury later acquitted him of murder and manslaughter charges but convicted him on a firearm possession count (later overturned on appeal). He had been released by local authorities despite an ICE detainer.
Laken Riley (2024, Athens, Georgia) 22-year-old nursing student Laken Riley was attacked and murdered on February 22, 2024, while jogging near the University of Georgia campus. She died from blunt-force trauma and asphyxiation. José Antonio Ibarra, a Venezuelan national who entered the U.S. illegally in 2022 near El Paso and was released into the country, was convicted in a 2024 bench trial of malice murder, felony murder, kidnapping, and aggravated assault with intent to rape. He was sentenced to life without parole. Prosecutors said he targeted her while “hunting for females.
Jocelyn Nungaray (2024, Houston, Texas) 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray was kidnapped, sexually assaulted, and strangled to death on June 16, 2024. Her body was found the next morning under a bridge in a creek. Two Venezuelan illegal immigrants—Johan José Martínez-Rangel (apprehended and released by Border Patrol in March 2024) and Franklin José Peña Ramos (apprehended and released in May 2024)—were charged with capital murder. Authorities allege they lured her, bound her, assaulted her, and dumped her body. Both face capital murder charges.
Juan Ramón-Vásquez (Philadelphia example of a repeat offender shielded by sanctuary policy) An illegal immigrant from Honduras previously deported, he was in Philadelphia custody in 2014 when ICE lodged a detainer. Local authorities released him under sanctuary policies. After release, he repeatedly raped a young child (his girlfriend’s daughter) over an extended period. He later received a lengthy state prison sentence for the sexual assaults plus additional federal time for illegal reentry. U.S. prosecutors explicitly linked the failure to honor the detainer to the subsequent crimes.
If discipleship is important to most churches, and I think it is, why is it that pastors continue to use a very non-effective way of teaching their congregants?
Since when are long monologues the best way to teach and train anyone?
What if, in schools, all the teachers did was give long monologues and never asked questions of the students and never allowed the students to ask questions of them?
How well would they learn?
The same applies to the church, correct?
Interactive dialogue is normally considered far more effective than long monologues.
Interactive dialogue would be the same type of learning you would have with one-on-one tutoring which I would say is universally accepted as way more effective than listening to a long monologue.
Do the pew-sitters have any responsibility to call their leadership into account when their leadership is sitting silently by and watching a God-given republic be lost?
During the Holocaust of the 1940s, as trains went by the churches carrying Jews to the gas chambers, should the pew-sitters have said something to their silent leadership?
Why is it that most pew-sitters sit idly by as they watch their leadership be silent, knowing full well that there are many people sitting in their pews who brainlessly continue to vote for the party that supports and endorses communist socialist principles and candidates?
Will the pew-sitters and leadership in this country ever wake up?
