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Why I’m Picking Up the Mic Charlie Kirk Left for America

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12.07.2026

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Why I’m Picking Up the Mic Charlie Kirk Left for America

My generation will carry the memory of Sept. 10, 2025, with us forever. You probably remember the exact moment you heard Charlie Kirk had been shot during Turning Point’s American Comeback Tour.

Each of us made a decision the day Charlie left us. I know I did. Would we let Charlie’s microphone remain silenced, or would we pick it up, all the more determined to save America from the deadly ideology threatening to destroy it?

Personally, I chose the latter. That’s why I’m joining Turning Point as a campus debater on its Pick Up the Mic Tour this coming fall.

Created in the wake of Charlie’s death, Pick Up the Mic is a new version of the Prove Me Wrong events that had grown to draw thousands of college students by September 2025. My generation is hungry for the truth, and TPUSA knew Charlie would want these conversations to continue.

The Pick Up the Mic Tour will feature well-known conservative voices such as Riley Gaines, Will Witt, Graham Allen, Joshua Haymes, and Chloe Cole.

The tour also uniquely puts........

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