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Audrey Wrushen retweeted
Charlie often warned against “wearing the costume of the holy.”
Invoking God or quoting Scripture means little if our fruit doesn’t match. But how do we discern what is truly of God, and what is simply dressed up to look holy?
That question was at the heart of my message today at @LibertyU, a place special to both Charlie and me.
Jesus said, “You will know them by their fruits.” Are we growing closer to Christ, becoming more truthful, humble, loving, and forgiving, or are we letting anger and noise pull us away from Him?
Charlie understood the importance of living his faith through his actions. He challenged people, listened to those who disagreed with him, and devoted his life to building something bigger than himself. That is the kind of fruit I hope my children see in me, and that others, whether they agree with me or not, might see as well.
Audrey Wrushen retweeted
I planned to watch the Chicks on the Right interview with Erika Kirk last night, but I was exhausted. I’m glad I waited until this morning because this conversation deserved my full attention.
I’ve never hidden my support for Erika, but I wasn’t prepared for how profoundly relatable she would be. In my eyes, she’s always seemed larger than life. The CEO of TPUSA, leading the organization Charlie built while raising their children under extraordinary public scrutiny.
But what struck me most wasn’t the CEO. It was the young widow.
And I suspect a whole lot of women who lost their husbands young will recognize themselves in this interview.
Widowhood is one of those things that shouldn’t be relatable. But when it is, it means something.
Watching Erika’s demeanor change throughout the interview was remarkable. When she discussed TPUSA, you heard the CEO. When she talked about their children, you heard the mother. But when she spoke about Charlie, her entire face lit up. You saw the wife who still adores her husband.
Nearly 20 years into widowhood myself, I recognized that immediately. Some things never change.
Then came the laughter, the sparkle suit, the absurd stories that only become funny afterward, and those little moments that fellow widows understand all too well.
“Joy and grief can live in the same household at the same time.”
I don’t know that I’ve ever heard our reality expressed more beautifully.
I was equally struck by her grace, faith, and perspective. She understands that strangers on the internet only know half the story. They weren’t there for the highs, the lows, or the private conversations between husband and wife. Charlie entrusted her with TPUSA, and she has every right to celebrate its success while faithfully stewarding what he built.
Her reminder that it’s easy to destroy but difficult to build, her call for discernment and judging people by their fruits, and her refusal to surrender her peace to those attacking her were especially powerful.
Her forgiveness isn’t an absence of pain. It’s a decision to surrender that pain to God rather than allow it to consume her life or her children’s lives.
And her faith is central to everything. From Charlie’s journals and his relationship with God to the memorial and the revival she believes it inspired, she’s navigating this journey with a foundation I deeply admire.
I also loved her optimism for America. Neither she nor Charlie embraced the black-pill mentality. They believed in building something better, and she’s continuing that work.
But beneath all of it is a mother creating new traditions, laughing at life’s absurdities, and making room for joy in a household that will always know grief.
The final question about where she sees herself in 20 years hit particularly hard. Here I am, nearly 20 years into widowhood, knowing I couldn’t possibly have imagined where life would take me when I was standing where she is today.
Her hope is to have faithfully stewarded Charlie’s legacy and passed it on to their children. There’s something absolutely beautiful about that.
And when she said she’ll tell her own story one day, but right now it isn’t about her, I thought that spoke volumes about her character.
I came into this interview admiring Erika Kirk as a leader. I walked away admiring her even more as a wife, mother, woman of faith, and fellow widow.
For those of us who’ve walked this road, seeing our experiences reflected in someone whose circumstances are otherwise so different is profoundly meaningful.
And Erika was absolutely right in her praise of Chicks on the Right. They gave her the space to be herself, and the result was a beautiful conversation.
Some interviews inform you. Others stay with you.
This one will stay with me. ❤️
Audrey Wrushen retweeted
Ahem. Five years ago I wrote a column about DNA test results that showed there was a 99.999998 percent chance that Ilhan Omar and her second husband Ahmed Elmi were siblings. A few hours before we went to press my informant was arrested by Biden's FBI. Funny that.
Audrey Wrushen retweeted
You know… I will never understand people who have been given so much by this country, who have achieved extraordinary wealth and success under liberties paid for in American blood, yet choose to so blatantly disrespect the flag that represents them.
LeBron James has enjoyed opportunities and privileges most Americans could only dream of, yet here he is practicing his golf swing during the National Anthem.
Meanwhile, thousands of American families have received that same flag, folded over the coffins of those who gave their lives defending everything it represents.
The irony of disrespecting the very symbol of the sacrifices that secured his right to do so is apparently lost on him.
It certainly isn’t lost on me.
Audrey Wrushen retweeted
J’ai entendu dire que la France était finie, qu’il était trop tard pour la sauver.
Mais la France est toujours aussi belle, enviable même. Sa grandeur n’a pas disparu, elle ne demande qu’à renaître.
Nous avons surmonté en un an un problème cent fois plus grave, sans avoir les moyens dont dispose la France.
La France pourrait y arriver en une semaine.
Audrey Wrushen retweeted
Oh… I LOVE THIS. The racist activists are now apparently convinced they can intimidate me and my attorney, CJ Grisham, by publicly calling upon spirits, invoking witchcraft, and encouraging others to participate in some sort of spiritual attack against us. At court, they followed CJ around with a voodoo doll, punching holes into it. They have done the same with me. They did it at the Karmelo Anthony trial.
Allow me to make myself EXTREMELY clear.
I LOVE it when you do this.
Because I am fully aware that I was chosen to walk through a spiritual battle between good and evil. And every time you pull another stunt like this, you only strengthen my conviction that this battle is about something much bigger than me.
You think you’re frightening me. You’re not.
You’re reminding me exactly Who I serve.
You are so consumed with hatred for me and my attorney that you’ve now resorted to publicly calling upon spiritual forces to come against us. And you seem to think this is some grand demonstration of power.
Meanwhile, I’m over here smiling because I know something you apparently don’t.
You cannot summon something more powerful than the God I serve.
My faith is not a decorative cross around my neck. It’s not a Bible verse in my bio. It’s not something I put on display when life is comfortable and then abandon when the enemy starts throwing punches.
My faith was forged in the fires of adversity. I’ve walked through things that should have destroyed me. I’ve been knocked down, threatened, attacked, and tested in ways most people will NEVER understand. And most people don’t WANT to be in my shoes.
And yet, here I stand.
Not because I’m exceptionally powerful. Because the God I serve is.
Ephesians 6:12 tells us that we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, powers, and spiritual wickedness in high places.
I believe that with every fiber of my being.
And let me tell you something else. As Christians, we are not commanded to tremble before darkness. We are commanded to put on the full armor of God and STAND. Not negotiate with darkness. Not surrender to darkness.
Not run and hide because somebody decided to light a few candles, draw a few symbols, and call upon spirits.
STAND.
You see, here’s the fundamental difference between us. You’re publicly calling upon spirits to come against people you despise.
I’m calling upon Jesus Christ to give me the strength, wisdom, discernment, and courage to continue standing for what is right.
You’re asking for spiritual reinforcements. I already know Who commands the armies of Heaven.
And I don’t need to wish evil upon you to have confidence in Him. In fact, Scripture commands me to pray for those who persecute me. That’s a level of spiritual strength that hatred will never understand.
You cannot intimidate someone out of their faith when their faith is the very reason they refuse to be intimidated.
And you certainly cannot frighten me with spiritual warfare when I already believe the ultimate victory belongs to Jesus Christ.
“No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper.”
So summon whatever you want. Post your pictures. Light your candles. Make your theatrical statements.
I’ll keep praying. I’ll keep reporting. I’ll keep defending the truth. And I’ll keep standing beside my attorney as we fight these battles through the proper legal channels.
Because I don’t fight for the approval of the world, and I certainly don’t live in fear of its darkness.
I serve the King of Kings.
I’ve read the end of the Book.
That’s why I will be smiling at you. All of you. On November 6th.
Also… message to the cute little witches who posted this… that’s not a real photo of me. It’s doctored to make my forehead look bigger. You may want to check your little black book to make sure your hexes work with fake and doctored photos. I know… doctoring things is like second nature to you. Just a tip.
Audrey Wrushen retweeted
If we are being honest, the best person to be the new White House Press Secretary should be Kari Lake, if Katie Zacharia is departing.
She has over 20 years of experience in the media. She is an excellent speaker, she understands how the fake press operates.
Kari is diehard MAGA. It would be the press's worst nightmare having to deal with Kari. She does not take bullshit from anyone.
Plus, her name follows the K trend. Kayleigh, Karoline, Katie and Kari.
Audrey Wrushen retweeted
🚨MEET SAYLOR GRAHAM. SHE’S ONLY SEVEN YEARS OLD. AND SHE’S FIGHTING TO RECOVER AFTER BEING SHOT IN THE FACE AT SCHOOL.
I want everyone to take a moment to look at this beautiful little girl.
Her name is Saylor Graham, and she is one of the youngest survivors of yesterday’s horrific mass shooting at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon.
Saylor, who uses a wheelchair and already lives with significant medical challenges, was inside the classroom when 16-year-old Griffin J. John II opened fire with a 12-gauge shotgun, killing three children and a 25-year-old teacher.
Saylor survived.
And tonight, there is some encouraging news.
According to the Bend Police Department’s latest update, Saylor received lifesaving treatment at the scene and is now hospitalized at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, where she remains in serious but stable condition.
This little girl and her family were already fighting battles long before a gunman entered her classroom.
According to a GoFundMe established to support her recovery, Saylor has numerous existing medical needs. Her parents are both self-employed, and caring for their daughter has already significantly limited their ability to work.
Now they’re facing an unimaginable additional burden.
Hospital expenses. Travel. Lodging. Lost income. And the uncertainty of what Saylor’s recovery will require in the weeks and months ahead.
I’m sharing the fundraiser below for anyone who would like to help.
If you cannot contribute financially, I’m asking you to do something else.
Pray for Saylor. Pray for her parents. Pray for her medical team. And pray for every family whose life was forever changed yesterday. Please also share her story and her fundraiser everywhere. 
Four innocent people didn’t get to come home. Saylor did survive, and I’m praying this beautiful little girl continues to fight her way back to the life she deserves.
God bless you, sweet Saylor. ❤️🙏
Audrey Wrushen retweeted
We believe that the West can awaken from its long slumber – and rekindle the fire that was first lit in ancient Greece millennia ago.
Audrey Wrushen retweeted
LOL. Abdul El-Sayed just melted down on stage when Mike Rogers tied his biggest funders to groups that support the Muslim Brotherhood.
El Sayed: "I literally condemned it, and you know it!"
Rogers: "Don't make stuff up."
Then it got even worse for El-Sayed, who Rogers says owns a home in the UAE, when he tried to insult Rogers for having a home in FL: "At least Florida's in the United States."
Audrey Wrushen retweeted
I just left a screening of the 47-minute film documenting Hamas’s October 7 atrocities. The Jewish community formally invited Mayor Mamdani to join us.
More than 100 seats. Every single one occupied except one.
His.
Audrey Wrushen retweeted
France is burning.
Europe opened its borders and failed to confront radical Islamism.
AOC, Mamdani, El-Sayed, and Talarico want to take us in this direction.
Europe is the warning. We should not let this happen here.
Audrey Wrushen retweeted
I’ve seen this Vanity Fair photo of Erika Kirk used to push a pretty ugly theory.
The argument goes something like this: women without college degrees are more likely to vote Republican, TPUSA wants to reach young women, therefore Erika is intentionally being presented as a struggling mom to make that life look appealing and ultimately discourage young women from going to college.
And apparently the evidence is right there in the picture. The “worn couch.” The toys. Her daughter in her lap. Someone even looked through that window at the parking lot outside TPUSA headquarters and called it a “carport.”
There’s a rather enormous problem with that analysis.
That is Charlie Kirk’s office.
Erika doesn’t have an office of her own at TPUSA. She works from the couch in Charlie’s office rather than taking his place at the desk. Their children spent time there with their father before he was murdered, and she continues bringing them to work with her.
So perhaps the couch isn’t there to make a multimillionaire look poor. Perhaps the children aren’t there to sell motherhood over college. Perhaps the parking lot isn’t a “carport” signaling modest suburban life.
Maybe the problem is the narrative being imposed on the photograph, not the photograph itself.
That’s a widow who is now a working mom, tasked with carrying on her husband’s legacy, sitting with her little girl in her murdered husband’s office.
There should still be some things we’re capable of seeing as human before we turn them into politics.
Audrey Wrushen retweeted
My beef with Abdul:
He says he’s a doctor. He’s not. He’s unlicensed.
He’s for abolishing the police. He deleted the tweet, but CNN found it.
His staff denied he’s a dual citizen w Egypt. Video shows Abdul saying he’s a dual citizen and he summered in Egypt.
He refuses to condemn the Muslim Brotherhood and Iran.
He blames terrorism on America’s policies.
He calls Israel bloodthirsty. Who uses that language?
He says he hasn’t taken a penny of corporate contributions, but his FEC report shows he received $1.9 million in contributions from 629 corporate executives, including from Nvidia, Google and Pfizer.
Abdul is a conman.
Audrey Wrushen retweeted
What we are witnessing in Brazil is the biggest political backfire in modern political history.
Communist tyrants came after Brazil’s Trump, Jair Bolsonaro.
He survived an assassination attempt.
They banned him from running for office.
Then they threw him in jail.
They accused him of attempting a coup after his election was stolen, just like they did here to Trump.
He’s currently serving a 27 year prison sentence.
The response: His wife won a Senate seat. His son Carlos won a Senate seat. His son Renan won a seat in Congress. His son Flávio is ahead of Lula for president of Brazil.
His son could unseat the very tyrant who threw him in jail.
The persecution of Bolsonaro has backfired into a political retribution against those who weaponized Government against the people's will.
You might be able to try to silence a man but you cannot silence a movement.
Audrey Wrushen retweeted
Charlie once spoke at Cambridge University in a room that was totally against him. When he talked about it on his show, he said: “We need to be unafraid to go into those environments… We need to be unafraid to go into the place where we’re not always going to be applauded. We’re not always going to be celebrated. We’re not always going to be welcomed with open arms.”
Vanity Fair put me on their New Establishment list and I understand why some are asking why I would sit down with them. The answer is two-fold: 1) They were going to write something whether I participated or not. I could leave their audience with a story about me told entirely by other people, or I could speak for myself. 2) Growing our movement means going places where everyone doesn’t already agree with us.
That’s what our students do on campuses every day, by the way. They set up a table and talk to whoever walks up, including people who disagree with them. They don’t pack up and go home just because someone says something they don’t like or flips their table or spits on them. I ask them to have that courage every day and I should be willing to do the same thing.
As conservatives, we know that legacy media outlets are often hostile to us. But it doesn’t make sense to retreat until every magazine, university, cultural institution and media platform we disagree with comes to our side. Charlie didn’t do that, neither do our students, and I won’t do it either.
Will they take digs at me? Of course. They spent plenty of time on my appearance, clothes and mannerisms rather than our growth, momentum, and resilience. There are things in the piece that lack context, that were petty, and in some cases even sort of mean, but that was to be expected. But now faith, freedom, and family are sitting in the pages of Vanity Fair, and a whole lot of people who don’t follow Turning Point USA are reading about those principles.
To keep taking back ground as conservatives, we need to boldly walk into the left’s “safe spaces,” sharing our values, and talking about why America is worth fighting for. If we actually want to win the culture, we can’t just surrender huge parts of it to the left and then complain that they control it.
There are a lot of opinions about the list and the profiles. Mine is that we need more dialogue, not less, and a lot more conservatives willing to walk into rooms where we aren’t expected, aren’t always welcomed, and certainly aren’t guaranteed applause. My plan is to keep walking into them.
Vanity Fair’s New Establishment list:
1. Sam Altman: The Oppenheimer
2. Dario Amodei: The Paradox
3. Elon Musk: The Mad King
4. Jensen Huang: The Man Selling Picks and Shovels for the Gold Rush
5. Kevin Warsh: The Market Mover
6. JD Vance: The MAGA Heir
7. Marco Rubio: The MAGA Spare
8. Sundar Pichai: The Constant Gardener
9. Ted Sarandos: The Winner
10. Neal Mohan: The New Hollywood Mogul
11. Andy Jassy: The Big Chop
12. Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump: The Prodigal Son-in-Law and Favored Daughter
13. John Ternus: Not Far From the Tree
14. Zohran Mamdani: The Merry Mayor
15. Josh Kushner: The Good Kush
16. Gwynne Shotwell: The Adult in the Room
17. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: The Free Radical
18. Pope Leo XIV: His Holiness the Humanist
19. Meredith Kopit Levien: The Lady of the Gray Lady
20. Satya Nadella: Macro at Micro
21. David Ellison: The Son Also Rises
22. Gavin Newsom: The Californian
23. Marc Andreessen: The Edgelord
24. Sheik Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan: The Gamesman
25. Tarek Mansour and Luana Lopes Lara: The Odds Couple
26. Christopher Nolan: Zeus
27. MacKenzie Scott: The Giver
28. Alex Karp: The Philosopher King
29. Delphine, Antoine, Alexandre, Frédéric, and Jean Arnault: Their Father’s Children
30. Josh D’Amaro: Not Named Bob
31. Lachlan Murdoch: The Fortunate Son
32. Laurene Powell Jobs: The Benevolent Billionaire
33. Tucker Carlson: MAGA’s Savonarola
34. Kaitlan Collins: The Anchor
35. Taylor Sheridan: The Lone Ranger
36. Ryan Coogler: The Virtuoso
37. Daniel Katz, David Fenkel, Nicolette Aizenberg: The Only Studio With Drip
38. Matthieu Blazy: The Crown Prince
39. Jon Ossoff: The Prospect
40. The Democratic Socialists: The Insurgents
41. Bad Bunny: The Headliner
42. Bari Weiss: The Arriviste
43. Shayne Coplan: The Blockchain Brat
44. Donald Trump Jr.: The Grifter
45. Donna Langley: That’s Dame Donna to You
46. Ryan Murphy: The Counselor of Camp
47. James and Kathryn Murdoch: Gone Their Own Way
48. Alex Soros and Huma Abedin: The True Blues
49. Hasan Piker: Island in the Stream
50. Erika Kirk: The Widow’s Peak
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