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

Episode Date: September 19, 2026

At one of Turning Point Action’s first events, Charlie delivered a battle cry to thousands of assembled activists, rallying them to retake their country in 2024.    Now, three years later, with the midterms only weeks away, Charlie's speech serves as a reminder of every person's individual duty to step up and do the hard work of fighting evil and restoring America.   Join us at TPAction.com/commit   Watch every episode ad-free on members.charliekirk.com!    Get new merch at charliekirkstore.com!Support the show: http://www.charliekirk.com/supportSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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've 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 a turning point USA college chapter. Go start a turning point you would 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. Here I am. Lord, use me. Buckle up, everybody. Here we go.

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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 out 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 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 and primary challenges against establishment Republicans. You're going to hear from six presidential candidates. You're going to hear from Mike Lindell. Is there Mike Lindell right there?

Stand up, Mike Lindel. The great Mike Lindel. promo code Kirk, by the way, at Mypillow.com, okay? 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 your country. Ukraine. It's a conservative movement that believes that this trans zealotry has no place in public life or near our children. It's a conservative movement that is ready to fight and win. You know, a lot of people are asking me, they say, Charlie, who's going to be the candidate in 2024? Now, I think it's going to be Donald Trump. It's really hard to beat him. I think we all agree,

right? And by the way, he thinks so highly of you. One phone call, he said, Charlie, I'll be there, because I know there is no more crowd more important than turning point for the energy, the enthusiasm, the passion, and the grassroots activity. Not every presidential candidate believes that, by the way. I wonder why. Makes you think, right? They must have something more important to do and then talk to you. But honestly, that's not the most important question. The most important question is what are we doing today to make sure that we have the infrastructure and the machinery to win the necessary states in the 2024 election? You see, the entire 2024 election is going to come down to three states, maybe four, but probably three. The

electoral map has changed a little bit. With the new census, I think we can all agree that if President Trump is the nominee, he'll win Iowa, he'll win Ohio, he'll win Florida, he'll probably win Florida by a million votes, he'll most likely win North Carolina. But the states that, let's just say, are going to be a challenge to my home state of Arizona, Georgia, and Wisconsin. The whole ballgame comes down to three states. Three states that Donald Trump won twice, so he has to win it a third time, but Donald Trump has to then show that he has more pieces of paper than the other side. Allow me to ask you a quick question. When was the last time, if ever, you got a second opinion on your mortgage? Or if you're renting, have you ever wondered if owning a home might actually

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That's 888-88-1-1-72. Or visit them online at Andrew and Todd.com. This is a new ball game that we're playing in everybody. It's no longer about candidate quality or messaging. It's now about who has the machine. Now, you might say, oh, Charlie, I think it's all about winning independence and messaging.

It's part of it. we have Senator John Federman from Pennsylvania everybody we have Joe Biden as president of the United States I could tell you this in Arizona that I mean they sabotaged Carrie Lake's election I could tell you that with all those failures those lines out there by the way it felt like flashbacks to Nam to trying to go vote in Scottsdale back in November

I'm like this this feels awfully similar if we do not have a robust machine that is willing to go after our low propensity voters do ballot chasing, secure our elections and pour hundreds of millions of dollars in Arizona, Georgia, and Wisconsin, it does not matter if we run the best candidate ever

and they try to run Jimmy Carter from hospice because they're going to have full-time grassroots workers chasing the ballots, doing the mule activity, What we need to start to realize is that if we want to win in 2024, we have to start to play the game that Democrats have been beating us at. We have to start to get in the arena. And it starts with securing our elections, everybody. It starts with filing lawsuits and making sure that we do not have this mass mail-in balloting.

Now, everybody has a role to play. At Turning Point Action, we feel that our role to play is to try to expand, the window of voting. I'll be honest. I'm a day of election guy. I like to vote on election day. At the same time, I saw what they did with Carrie Lake in Arizona. We are broadcasting our play and say, hey, everybody show up on one day, and the Democrats just want us to fall into that. In certain states, we're actually, they've embraced ballot harvesting, like in California, and in others, Republicans can do better and better for low propensity, voters, we have to embrace the same legal methodology of harvesting votes and chasing votes

where legal to increase our chances to defeat the Marxist Democrats in November of 24. So what does this look like? Arizona, Georgia, Wisconsin. This event is not just about, you know, oh yeah, super excited, get fired up, and then you go home. This is an event of action. You know you're losing our country. And I hate when people say this, but it is darn true. If we do not win back the White House in 2024, this country's going to be in a almost irreversible position. But here's what I know at my core. There are more of us than them. There are more of us than them. All we have to do is get that translated into more pieces of paper counted at the end than them. and we will win back the White House in 2024.

It's going to require a mentality shift. I think it's a waste of money to have $1.5 billion spent on a primary when we do not have the full-time infrastructure in the states that matter. I think it's a waste of money when I see these attack ads. I'm doing $50 million, $100 million, and all this.

I ask the question is, how many full-time people do you have on the ground right now in Wisconsin? registering voters, getting ready to chase ballots and do the early voting work. So at Turning Point, we're no longer going to complain. For those of you that know us well, we are people of action here at Turning Point. And so we are launching an effort, and you know this if you watch our program or our podcast, called Chase the Vote.

I think we have a whole thing here, where we are going to have the most aggressive, early voting, low-propensity voter campaign. Because I'll tell you this. If we say, hey, everybody show up on Election Day. you're going to have machine failures and tabulators. We need to have our low propensity voters show up. And I think we have something here. You guys can follow the QR code where we're going to be talking about this for the next couple of days.

Where if we have ballot chasers in the states that matter, then the Democrats will have no way to be able to get towards what they call victory. It's not possible because we've been playing for one day, election day. They've been playing for 30 days. imagine if we just do a little bit of it. Imagine if we just get some of our low propensity voters and we get them to turn out. They want to call everything a democracy.

By the way, we're a republic, not a democracy. I'm so sick when I hear this. But do you know what democracy is? Democracy's not what they think it is. Democracy's become a game. Who can get the most pieces of paper and put them in the ballot box in a 30-day period? I don't like it.

But you know what? I hate more. I hate losing. I hate not being in the White House. I hate seeing this craven, sinister, evil traitor that calls himself the President of the United States defecate on our country every single day. He's an evil man. And I will not be able to tell my daughter in good faith that I did everything I possibly could if we keep on doing the failed old strategy of just show up on Election Day. Just show up on Election Day. are 31,407 kindergartners starting school this month who wouldn't be alive if it hadn't been

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And they also know something else. Look around. The Republican Party is now a grassroots party. We are not a party of the oligarchs. We're not a party of the ruling class. And what we are going to be talking about through our breakout sessions, through our speakers,

through talking to the great experts of how we secure our elections, of how we stop this ridiculous pattern of mass mail and voting of possible through the legislature is this, is that we know the majority of Americans do not approve of what Joe Biden is doing. We know a majority of Americans think it is insane that our federal government says that men can give birth. Why is it that a majority of people believe something, and yet our government is totally out of touch with that? It's because they have designed and concocted a game. and the game came post-COVID.

Our reaction to COVID will go down as one of the most reckless responses. We never should have shut down our schools. We never should have had all these MRNA vaccines. Huge mistake. And we never should have allowed mass mail and voting to become the law of the land. And for some Republicans,

you think everything is about candidate equality. Everything is about messaging. That's important. Why do you think the Democrats are comfortable, running a brain-dead idiot who obviously can't speak in sentences. They are confident that their machinery is so good they could run anybody. But they are also afraid that if we as Republicans wake up and notice, adapt with agility, and we start to change the way that we do our grassroots activity, I firmly believe this, everybody,

we are going to win by so much that they will not be able to cheat to come even close if we fix our elections in these states. I firmly believe it. I'm going to say this as blunt as possible, but we have to fix it. If nothing changes in November of 2024, we're going to get really excited on election night. It'll seem that our candidate,

which will probably be Donald Trump, is up by a lot in Georgia, up by a lot in Arizona, up by a lot in Wisconsin. And you're going to go to bed. and you're going to wake up, like, that's weird. Where did all those ballots come from? And all of a sudden, a 200,000 Trump lead will become 120,000.

And then it will become Thursday. And it will become an 80,000 vote lead. And then it will be Friday. And it will be a 60,000 vote lead. And then it'll be Saturday, and it will be a 10,000 vote lead. And then it will be Sunday. And then it will be Joe Biden is up by 4,000 votes. And it will be in Arizona, which we have a tradition of taking entire quarters to count votes, 90-day minimum.

And it would just be that kind of six or seven-thousand-vote threshold where you just fall so short where you wonder if you could have done more. Same in Wisconsin, Arizona, or Georgia. If I'm terrifying you, I'm doing my job, because that's where we're on pace to land. 5,000 votes there, 6,000 votes there, 10,000 votes there. we outnumber the Marxists and what we are committed to doing at Turning Point Action is playing to win the Republican establishment has failed us

they will not do this the Republican establishment will not do this you know what we have to do this the people do we're going to step up we're going to do the tough but necessary work and I'll tell you they're afraid of you they hate you and they're afraid of you we have an opportunity to do something that will be unprecedented and historic,

have a people-led movement in defiance of all of the regime power, all the regime machinery, corporate power, FBI, Department of Justice, and social media, and it comes down to who can get the most pieces of paper and put them in the ballot box. And then who can count them, and there's other things that involve there. But I'll tell you, I'm excited for these next couple of days. I'm excited for you to make an informed decision in our straw poll. and you're going to hear from the best candidates that want to show up and that think that you're worthy of it. But this is a clear call to action.

Call the action to become a precinct commitment if you were not already, and you can sign up at tpaction.com. I'll close with this and we'll begin our speaker lineup, which just gets better and better and better as the night goes on. I get asked all the time, Charlie, what can we do? What can we do? What can we do? I feel like I'm losing my country. they are counting on your surrender. If you give up, they win.

But what if we look back and we realize we were just inches away from victory and that's when we decided to give up? I believe that this evil crime syndicate that has current occupation of our country are the most paranoid and fragile group of oligarchs running a nation and human history. And I know this.

I travel the country and I talk to so many of you that there is a volcanic eruption that is about to occur against these people that have been keeping January 6 defendants in gulags. A volcanic eruption that is about to explode against the people that are inditing Donald Trump. A volcanic eruption that's about to explode

against the people that say our democracy is safe and secure. You send a message these next couple of days. We play to win to defeat the Marxist Democrats. God bless you guys. Enjoy the next couple days. For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to charliekirk.com.