09/13/2025
I hadn't posted yet because I didn't have the words for what unfolded on Wednesday. I still don't, but silence in the face of hate isn't what we do. After I sobbed through Erika Kirk's statement, I allowed her quiet rage and unshakeable faith to fan the flames of the fire that's catching not only across our country, but around the world. I dried my tears and steeled my backbone, and I turned her pain and my outrage into my battle cry. For years, I've been pretty middle of the road. I'm more libertarian than Republican, but there have been admittedly very few issues on which I've agreed with modern-day Democrats. Now, this is no longer about left versus right. It's about civility versus savagery. Good versus evil. It's about no longer abiding a social climate that's hellbent on indoctrinating our children into weakness and hatefulness and bullying people into silence for the sake of someone else's feelings, which are often devoid of facts. No one should quietly accept or tolerate the gleeful celebration of a man's murder. A man who only wanted to TALK to people. Who used civil discourse to move hearts and minds and laid down his life for his beliefs and whose words have been cherry-picked and twisted into things he never meant or stood for. It's time to take back the narrative and honor what Charlie Kirk started-- a movement to reclaim the roots and soul of our country. It's time to be patriots, in the truest sense of the word. Use your voice, and use it loudly. Hate will not win, and America will not fall to people who hate it and everything it once stood for-- faith, family, freedom.
