A chapter president with Turning Point USA (TPUSA) was reportedly assaulted on campus at University of Texas in Dallas on Tuesday.
Paige Neumann and her chapter vice president Grace were &#8220;tabling&#8221; — sitting at a table on campus and handing out literature to interested students — when someone approached the table on a bike and then attacked them, shattering both girls&#8217; phones.
TPUSA CEO Charlie Kirk shared videos and photos from the incident, describing what Neumann said had happened and noting that University Police had been briefed on the situation and were actively tracking down the alleged perpetrator.
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JUST IN — Our Chapter President, Paige Neumann, and her secretary Grace were just assaulted while tabling at the University of Texas at Dallas.
The attacker took a metal bike lock and slammed it against Paige&#39;s head (pictured below), hitting her so hard that it completely… <a href="https://t.co/xgG5QqbqOc">pic.twitter.com/xgG5QqbqOc</a>
&mdash; Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) <a href="https://twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/1904627799618707547?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 25, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;JUST IN — Our Chapter President, Paige Neumann, and her secretary Grace were just assaulted while tabling at the University of Texas at Dallas. The attacker took a metal bike lock and slammed it against Paige&#8217;s head (pictured below), hitting her so hard that it completely shattered Paige&#8217;s phone,&#8221; Kirk posted, adding. &#8220;It&#8217;s unclear if the perpetrator is female or trans.&#8221;
&#8220;Paige has filed a police report with University Police who are thankfully taking this matter seriously and are currently searching for the individual. Thankfully, Paige and her chapter VP Grace (whose phone was also destroyed) are both physically doing okay,&#8221; Kirk added.
&#8220;Our @TPUSA students are the tip of the spear on college campuses across the country. They are brave, strong, and resilient. Thank God for these amazing students,&#8221; he said.
Kirk later added, &#8220;The team suspects this to be the case but is unsure. This individual is believed to be the same person who disrupted a recent event with @alexstein99.&#8221;
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The team suspects this to be the case but is unsure. This individual is believed to be the same person who disrupted a recent event with <a href="https://twitter.com/alexstein99?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@alexstein99</a>
&mdash; Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) <a href="https://twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/1904629455332794625?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 25, 2025</a></blockquote>
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A producer for &#8220;Prime Time with Alex Stein&#8221; on The Blaze appeared to agree with Kirk, saying that the alleged perpetrator appeared to be the same person who had caused trouble at an event involving Stein: &#8220;This is the same psycho who kicked @AlexStein99&#8217;s equipment and then kicked me for filming him.&#8221;
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This is the same psycho who kicked <a href="https://twitter.com/alexstein99?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@alexstein99</a>’s equipment and then kicked me for filming him <a href="https://t.co/sx1HaJ3Xbt">https://t.co/sx1HaJ3Xbt</a> <a href="https://t.co/TNG6ISjIaN">pic.twitter.com/TNG6ISjIaN</a>
&mdash; JVT (@jvtentertains) <a href="https://twitter.com/jvtentertains/status/1904632561088799034?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 25, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Daily Wire host Matt Walsh blasted mainstream churches for their &#8220;milquetoast&#8221; and &#8220;lukewarm&#8221; response to transgender ideology at a Wednesday TPUSA panel with Charlie Kirk, declaring that some have essentially become &#8220;LGBT cult&#8221; institutions rather than Christian houses of worship.
During the panel, Walsh expressed that mainstream churches&#8217; failure to oppose transgender ideology wasn&#8217;t just an oversight, but &#8220;a deliberate choice&#8221; and &#8220;a deliberate surrender,&#8221; despite the Church&#8217;s role as &#8220;the vanguard against this kind of evil.&#8221;
&#8220;I wish &#8230; that I could say we were asleep at the wheel because if you fall asleep at the wheel, it&#8217;s not necessarily your fault. That&#8217;s something that happens accidentally,&#8221; Walsh said.
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Matt Walsh tells how the biggest problem about transgenderism is that the church is milquetoast and lukewarm about the subject, right up to the pastor. Some even can be considered an LGBT cult.<a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshShow?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@mattwalshshow</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@mattwalshblog</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/charliekirk11?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Charliekirk11</a> <a href="https://t.co/6ixm5tKZlV">pic.twitter.com/6ixm5tKZlV</a>
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Walsh recounted his experiences fighting transgender ideology from 2016 through 2021, noting the absence of religious leaders alongside him. &#8220;I was more likely to look over to my side and see a liberal feminist standing with me on this issue than a Christian pastor,&#8221; he said.
When pastors did address him, Walsh noted it was often to &#8220;condemn me for being too rude, for being too mean.&#8221; His response: &#8220;You don&#8217;t like my approach, what&#8217;s your alternative? Because your approach is nothing.&#8221;
Walsh blasted &#8220;woke churches&#8221; displaying rainbow flags, &#8220;If you have a rainbow in your church, it better be a part of some art display that references Noah&#8217;s Ark, because the rainbow flag is anathema, it is heresy.&#8221;
Still, the more significant problem than &#8220;woke churches,&#8221; according to Walsh, is the &#8220;milquetoast, lukewarm&#8221; churches that avoid addressing transgender ideology. These establishments might not say anything necessarily &#8220;wrong,&#8221; in Walsh&#8217;s view, but &#8220;it&#8217;s what&#8217;s not being said&#8221; that is of bigger concern.
The panel was hosted in Atlanta by Real America&#8217;s Voice and <a href="https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-real-americas-voice-232242864/episode/turning-point-tonight-with-jobob--270590352/">streamed</a> on TPUSA&#8217;s platforms.

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Democrats on Capitol Hill largely stayed mute when asked their thoughts on biological males participating in female sports.
A dozen Democrats were approached in Washington, D.C., and asked to respond to recent comments by California Governor Gavin Newsom on trans-identifying males playing in female sports leagues, according to a video obtained by The Daily Wire. Last week, Newsom called the situation “deeply unfair” to women.
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Most of the lawmakers ignored the question. Florida Rep. Maxwell Frost, California Reps. Robert Garcia and Derek Tran, Virginia Rep. Eugene Vindman, Washington Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, North Carolina Rep. Don Davis, New York Rep. Richie Torres, Nevada Rep. Susie Lee did not respond.
California Rep. Lateefah Simon responded that children “should be able to participate in all things in school.”
“We shouldn’t be worried about what’s in kids&#8217; pants. Let them play,” she said.
California Rep. Ro Khanna said he supports a California law enacted in 2013: “that the [California] Interscholastic Federation gets to make sure that trans kids are included, but there’s fairness and safety standards, and that they take those values into account. It’s been the law on the books for over ten years.”
Maryland Rep. Glenn Ivey dodged the query and said “to get some new questions, please.”
Florida Rep. Jared Moskowitz said “We’ve got to protect girls in sports, but at the same time make sure that we protect people in the LGBT community.”
In his debut episode of his new podcast, “This Is Gavin Newsom,” the California governor came out against biological men being allowed to participate in female sports, no matter how they identify.
Conservative commentator Charlie Kirk, Newsom’s first guest, asked the governor, “You, as the governor, should step out and say ‘no.’ Would you do something like that? Would you say no men in female sports?”
“Well, I think it’s an issue of fairness,” Newsom replied. “I completely agree with you on that. It’s deeply unfair.”
Last week, Senate Democrats unanimously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/senate-dems-block-bill-to-protect-womens-sports">voted</a> to block a Republican bill that would strip federal funding from schools that allow biological males to participate in female sports.

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WATCH: Dems Dodge Question On Men In Women’s Sports After Newsom Calls It ‘Deeply Unfair’

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Pro-life diaper company EveryLife is launching a prayer campaign along with prominent Christian leaders for couples hoping to have children.
The campaign, &#8220;Praying for More Babies in 2025,&#8221; is a &#8220;nationwide movement of prayer for couples longing for children.&#8221; It comes in response to &#8220;plummeting global fertility rates,&#8221; EveryLife said.
From March 11 to April 11, EveryLife is inviting married couples &#8220;longing for a child — whether awaiting their first or hoping for more&#8221; to <a href="https://everylife.com/pages/pray" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sign up</a> to be &#8220;covered in prayer&#8221; through the end of the year.
&#8220;The EveryLife team, alongside prominent Christian leaders and members of the faith community, will pray for each couple by name, standing in faith as they seek the blessing of a child,&#8221; EveryLife said. &#8220;Throughout the year, EveryLife will provide monthly updates to participants sharing the names of prayer partners lifting them up, encouraging scriptures, and an opportunity to report answered prayers as couples trust in God’s perfect timing.&#8221;
Some of the prominent Christians supporting the initiative are Lila Rose, Allie Beth Stuckey and her husband, Timothy, and Charlie Kirk and his wife, Erika.
Others voicing their support are surfer and speaker Bethany Hamilton and her husband, Adam Dirks, and several members of the Robertson family, famous for the A&amp;E series &#8220;Duck Dynasty.&#8221;
&#8220;Strong families make a strong nation, and together, we can help foster a future where life and family are valued and celebrated,&#8221; EveryLife said.
EveryLife was launched in 2023 by PublicSq., an online marketplace that works to help “freedom-loving Americans” find businesses that align with their values and <a href="https://www.outkick.com/meet-publicsq-the-conservative-alternative-to-amazon/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">brands</a> itself as a conservative alternative to Amazon.
The pro-life diaper company is growing quickly and now delivers diapers in all 50 states, the company said. EveryLife also supports pro-life organizations, donating diapers and wipes to crisis pregnancy centers.
When the company launched, EveryLife <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-pro-life-diaper-company-releases-powerful-ad" target="_blank" rel="noopener">released</a> an ad calling out progressive companies for embracing anti-life values such as <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/article/abortion-companies-travel-expenses.html#:~:text=Intuit%20said%20Friday%20it%20would,live%2C%E2%80%9D%20the%20company%20said." target="_blank" rel="noopener">saying</a> they would cover the travel expenses for their female employees’ abortions.
“While so many companies are promoting what is wrong, we choose to celebrate what is right — life,” the ad&#8217;s narrator said as a pregnant woman was shown gazing at her unborn child on an ultrasound screen.
“Every miracle from God, boy and girl, black, tan, and white, planned and unplanned, gifted and special,” the ad said. “Every one of them is celebrated here.”

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Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk praised Daily Wire editor emeritus Ben Shapiro Monday for his “willingness to speak out” on the flaws in the case against Derek Chauvin, the Minneapolis police officer who was found guilty of second degree murder for the death of George Floyd in 2020.
Shapiro joined Kirk on the former’s podcast Monday to speak about his push for President Donald Trump to pardon Chauvin.
“Ben, I want to compliment you for your willingness to speak out on this,” Kirk said. “Because it wasn’t just one injustice. This was the gateway drug towards mass anarchy in the streets and an unnecessary thousands of people dying on top of the baseline crime rate.”
Kirk then ceded the floor so Shapiro could make his case for pardoning Chauvin.
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Shapiro began by pointing out that the narrative surrounding the entire case was false from the beginning.
“The narrative that surrounded the Floyd-Chauvin killing was the narrative that America was inherently racist. Now, those allegations were never actually made at trial. There was never any actual allegation made by prosecutors or by anyone that Derek Chauvin quote unquote ‘killed’ George Floyd because George Floyd was black. And yet that was the narrative that burst out all over the country, that systemic American policing is racist,” Shapiro said.
Kirk agreed with that assessment, noting that race-based initiatives such as The 1619 Project and Robin DiAngelo’s fame were widely popularized thanks in large part to this event. “We had police departments defunding the police – in fact, you can look at a material increase in crime, in both Minneapolis and across the country, because of this one incident.”
“Not just the riots. We saw murder rates, we saw arson, we saw carjackings, we saw widespread gang violence because of one incident,” Kirk added.
Kirk also noted that “political pressure in the medical examination process” caused people to ignore significant aspects of Floyd’s autopsy report, including the fact that fentanyl and methamphetamines were found in his system at the time of his death.
“I want everyone to internalize that,” Kirk said. “There was a willingness to reach a conclusion that America was racist.”
Shapiro went on to say that the way the media presented the case led to America having to undergo “a sort of racial cleansing process” which led to $2 billion in property damage, all of which was excused by the public and by mainstream media.
Shapiro also noted that facts about Floyd’s death all indicate evidence for a potential pardon. First, jurors have said they felt public pressure and were scared to come back with anything but a guilty verdict.
Shapiro told Kirk that no federal hate crime charges were ever filed.
The extended video version of the incident also offers new insights. Floyd began shouting about not being able to breathe when he was in the back of the police car and nowhere near Chauvin, potentially indicating that he was already having a medical issue before being taken out of the car.
He mentioned that the Minneapolis Police training procedure taught the method Chauvin used, which was admitted during the trial. “The autopsy and medical report suggest that &#8230; at best there’s certainly reasonable doubt that he died because of the suppression techniques specifically that Derek Chauvin was using,” Shapiro argued.
Ultimately, the Daily Wire co-founder concludes that the evidence does not match up with a second degree murder conviction.
Shapiro allows that the footage looks “ugly” at first, which is how most people felt when they saw the video clip. But, he adds, that doesn’t make Chauvin guilty of second degree murder. And it’s hard to argue that the former police officer had a fair trial or an impartial jury.
Policing is a rough and difficult job, Shapiro added, saying, “none of it looks good on tape.”
“You don’t have to believe that Derek Chauvin is ‘innocent’ to believe that he is not guilty,” Shapiro said.
“Just as I think that it is very important that President Trump, for example, pardon pro-lifers, because the image in the public mind that has been created by the legacy media for decades on end is that pro-lifers are violently protesting outside abortion clinics and therefore they have to be arrested. That’s not true, and so I think the pardon is important.”
Shapiro says you don’t have to agree with him on every aspect of the case to at least agree that Chauvin did not receive a fair trial and that the “major railroading” which occurred was not just for Chauvin, but also for the police as a whole and of America in general because “this turned into the launching point for a years-long effort to characterize America as deeply and irredeemably racist.”
Chauvin was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ben-shapiro-calls-on-trump-to-pardon-derek-chauvin-who-is-rotting-in-prison-thanks-to-the-media" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sentenced</a> to 22.5 years in prison for Floyd’s death. He had been facing up to 40 years after being convicted of second-degree murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter. Under normal circumstances, he would have faced much less time, about 11 or 12 years behind bars.
The Daily Wire has launched a website, <a href="https://get.dailywire.com/pardon-derek/">pardonderek.com</a>, where people can sign a petition urging Trump to pardon Chauvin of his federal charges.

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The summer of 2024 was one of those whirlwinds of breaking news and total chaos where everything blends together. Over time, dates from that period get mixed up and transposed, just because so many things were happening all at once. So it can be useful to take a step back and think about the timeline a little bit. 
For example, you might not remember that, when Joe Biden officially announced he wasn&#8217;t running for president last year, it took just a couple of hours for the governor of California, Gavin Newsom, to make his own announcement. Newsom <a href="https://www.dailynews.com/2024/07/21/gov-gavin-newsom-says-vp-kamala-harris-can-guide-our-country/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">declared</a>, in no uncertain terms, that he wouldn&#8217;t make a bid for the presidency. Instead, he threw his full endorsement behind Kamala Harris, one of the least appealing and most uncharismatic candidates that Democrats have ever nominated for high office.
If you understand Gavin Newsom as the extremely calculating politician that he is, this kind of quick, knee-jerk decision-making raises a few questions. After all, it was an extraordinary move by Newsom, for a couple of reasons. First of all, most of the most important figures in the Democrat Party, like Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi, didn&#8217;t endorse Kamala Harris on the same day that Joe Biden was forced out. It took Obama nearly a week to come around to the idea. And secondly, of course, Gavin Newsom was correctly seen as a far more talented politician than Kamala Harris. He was almost certain to outperform her in every swing state. So why would he take himself out of the running so quickly?
If there was any doubt about Newsom&#8217;s intentions, we don&#8217;t have to wonder anymore. Gavin Newsom will run for president in 2028. He determined a long time ago that it&#8217;s better to run on his own, rather than try to defend a record as unpopular and destructive as Joe Biden&#8217;s. And Newsom will challenge the Republican candidate — most likely JD Vance — using a platform of faux moderation, rather than any kind of principle. Newsom&#8217;s plan is to stake out an untenable, inauthentic middle ground, on the theory that voters will come to see the Trump administration as too inflexible on social issues.
We don&#8217;t have to guess about this. In case you haven&#8217;t heard, Gavin Newsom has just launched his own podcast. It&#8217;s a show that makes the game plan pretty clear. One of Newsom&#8217;s first guests was Charlie Kirk, who proceeded to press Newsom on some of his party&#8217;s most unpopular positions.
Here&#8217;s one of the most important moments from the show, for example. Watch how Newsom responds when Kirk brings up the fundamental insanity of forcing women to compete against men in sporting competitions:
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It&#8217;s a pretty incredible surrender, even if Newsom doesn&#8217;t admit that he&#8217;s surrendering. He suggests that it&#8217;s profoundly unfair for a man to compete in women&#8217;s sports, as any sane person must. But then he still tries to find some kind of middle ground with the bit about how we have to have &#8220;grace&#8221; for self-identified trans people because &#8220;they&#8217;re more likely to commit suicide.&#8221; 
This is classic Newsom doublespeak. He&#8217;s not actually committing to any particular position.
He&#8217;s not saying anything that suggests he&#8217;ll comply with any of Trump&#8217;s orders on gender ideology. Nor is Newsom saying anything relevant to men like <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/a-fathers-tragic-fight-to-save-his-son-from-gender-ideology" target="_blank" rel="noopener">James Younger,</a> who just lost custody of his child because Newsom declared California a &#8220;sanctuary state&#8221; for child sex-changes. Instead, Newsom is using language that he thinks will resonate with conservatives — invoking the idea of &#8220;grace,&#8221; for example — without committing to any actual position.
But it falls flat because it&#8217;s a non sequitur. The concept of grace has nothing to do with affirming delusions. And that&#8217;s the central question here: Either we&#8217;re giving into the false claims of self-identified trans people, or we&#8217;re siding with reality and sanity. &#8220;Having grace,&#8221; to Democrats, has always meant giving into the falsehood. It means forcing women and girls to endure humiliation — and even brain damage, in some cases — for the benefit of narcissistic men.
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In this interview, rather than committing to an answer, Newsom is using a common rhetorical tactic among Democrats. It&#8217;s a tactic that Obama — who&#8217;s clearly Newsom&#8217;s mentor — perfected long ago. Newsom is essentially saying, incorrectly, that conservatives are offering a false choice. He&#8217;s saying we don&#8217;t really need to choose between affirming reality or affirming falsehood. He&#8217;s suggesting that somehow we can do both, without explaining how.
It&#8217;s reminiscent of a line from Obama&#8217;s inaugural address all the way back in 2009, when Obama said, &#8220;We reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals.&#8221; Obama wanted to pretend that defending this country from terrorists didn&#8217;t involve making uncomfortable decisions about, say, the rights of Al Qaeda terrorists in Guantanamo Bay. But during his term, Obama went on to make those decisions. And he did it because, in the real world, you actually have to make choices. On the other hand, in speeches (and in podcasts), you can pretend that there are no hard choices. Although, of course, in the case of the trans issue, this is not a hard choice. Men shouldn’t compete against women or be affirmed as women, period, no matter what. It’s not difficult.
To be clear about this, Newsom is not merely a slick talker. He&#8217;s not just someone who will use rhetorical tricks to avoid committing to anything. He will also lie — unapologetically and pathologically.
Later on in this podcast, Charlie brings up Newsom&#8217;s record as governor of California. Specifically, Charlie mentions Newsom&#8217;s decision to sign a law that enables school teachers to hide students&#8217; so-called &#8220;gender identity&#8221; from their parents. Watch how Newsom — who now claims he&#8217;s concerned about the &#8220;unfairness&#8221; of men playing in women&#8217;s sports — explains the law:
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So, Newsom is claiming that the law merely protects the rights of teachers to keep information to themselves. If a teacher notices that a student is using they/them pronouns, or identifying as a non-binary furry, then the law allows the teacher to remain silent, and hide that information from parents. That&#8217;s what Newsom&#8217;s saying. Of course, even if that were true, it would still be an outrageous piece of legislation. Under no circumstances should teachers be allowed to hide any relevant information from parents — including the fact that their child is demonstrating the symptoms of a serious mental health condition like gender dysphoria.
But just as a factual matter, the law Newsom signed actually goes a lot further than that. You can pull up <a href="https://lgbtqcaucus.legislature.ca.gov/sites/lgbtqcaucus.legislature.ca.gov/files/AB%201955%20SAFETY%20Act%20FAQs%20UPDATED%20%28002%29%20__0.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">materials</a> directly from the California legislature and the California attorney general, which explain the law in detail. This is also what the state of California, under Gavin Newsom, is arguing in court. From the California legislature: &#8220;Students have a constitutional right to privacy when it comes to sensitive information about them. &#8230; Under existing law, school staff are prohibited from outing students unless they have the student’s consent or are required to in a limited set of circumstances under state or federal law. &#8230; The SAFETY Act is necessary now because there has been a significant increase in policies and actions targeting LGBTQ+ students and the school personnel who support them. Some of these policies would require school staff to &#8216;out&#8217; students to their parents/guardians, in violation of existing law.&#8221;
In other words, they&#8217;re passing this law because they believe that children have an affirmative, constitutional right to keep information hidden from their parents. If Gavin Newsom didn&#8217;t believe this, he wouldn&#8217;t have signed the law, and he&#8217;d instruct his attorney general to stop saying this in court. Instead, he&#8217;s trying to have it both ways. He&#8217;s telling Charlie that teachers don&#8217;t have to hide anything from parents — and at the same time, the state of California says children have a constitutional right to hide their alleged &#8220;gender identity&#8221; from their parents. And that constitutional right, of course, can be enforced against teachers.
I&#8217;ll play some more clips from this interview in a second, but first I need to show you how the Democrats&#8217; leader in the House responded to Newsom&#8217;s answer here. This is yet another illustration that Newsom is clearly going to be the party&#8217;s nominee in four years. Newsom is the only prominent member of the party who&#8217;s capable of articulating a coherent sentence, even if the sentences are pathological lies. Here&#8217;s Hakeem Jeffries, for comparison:
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It&#8217;s not even worth dissecting what the dollar-store Obama was saying there. It just makes no sense. Say what you will about Newsom, but he doesn&#8217;t have this problem. When Newsom is confronted with a question he doesn&#8217;t want to answer, he has an uncanny ability to worm his way out of it.
Consider this exchange from the podcast, for example. Charlie asks Newsom why he was able to clean up San Francisco for the arrival of China&#8217;s president a couple of years ago, but not for American citizens. Here&#8217;s Newsom&#8217;s response, followed by his comments back in 2023 in response to a similar question:
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I challenged Gavin Newsom to explain why California Dems cleaned up San Francisco for Xi Jinping.
Gavin Newsom says I&#39;m weaponizing the issue. I say regular Americans deserve clean streets, not just when Chinese dictators show up.
Crime, chaos, and homelessness is a choice. San… <a href="https://t.co/kdmXoFnfJ5">pic.twitter.com/kdmXoFnfJ5</a>
&mdash; Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) <a href="https://twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/1897686702212444447?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 6, 2025</a></blockquote>
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And here&#8217;s the flashback to Newsom&#8217;s statement at the time:
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NEW &#8211; Newsom on Xi&#39;s visit: &quot;I know folks say, &#39;Oh, they&#39;re just cleaning up this place because all these fancy leaders are coming into town.&#39; That&#39;s true because it&#39;s true.&quot;<a href="https://t.co/qxp8UXZUuW">pic.twitter.com/qxp8UXZUuW</a>
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When he&#8217;s talking to Charlie Kirk in 2025, Newsom says he&#8217;s not the mayor of San Francisco. He&#8217;s just the governor of the state. So how can you hold him responsible for the level of filth in the city? But, just two years earlier, Newsom came out and admitted that yes, he made sure San Francisco was clean for the Chinese president.
This is utter shamelessness. And it&#8217;s why Newsom is the most effective candidate that Democrats can run in four years. He has no reservations, whatsoever, about lying at every available opportunity. It&#8217;s difficult to pin him down on anything, because he snakes his way out of it. And at the same time, Newsom understands that, if Democrats are going to win another election, they need to rethink the way they communicate with voters — particularly young voters. He is the only mainstream Democrat who&#8217;s come up with a new media strategy. Watch:
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Charlie Kirk FORCES Newsom to Admit Democrats are LOSING the Media War, and have a fear of Unscripted, Long-Form Podcasts:
NEWSOM: “We&#39;re losing. You dominate the media. We are toast.”
KIRK: “They can&#39;t survive without scripts. Haven&#39;t built intellectual muscle in 30 years.” <a href="https://t.co/5PsJPL4DgU">pic.twitter.com/5PsJPL4DgU</a>
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Republicans are flooding the zone with content, policy, and messaging — every. single. day. 
We can’t just sit back or “play dead”. Time to flip the script. <a href="https://t.co/JFQ2MQcwRV">pic.twitter.com/JFQ2MQcwRV</a>
&mdash; Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) <a href="https://twitter.com/GavinNewsom/status/1897654648640782548?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 6, 2025</a></blockquote>
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This is the opposite of the Kamala Harris approach, which was to hide from Joe Rogan and do a handful of hits on NBC. And from a strategic perspective, it&#8217;s a much better approach than whatever every other Democrat is doing. It&#8217;s a lot smarter than holding up a paddle in Congress, or interrupting the president, or vomiting out random words like Hakeem Jeffries.
And Newsom, uniquely, is good at it. The lawyer Laura Powell just unearthed this interview from a few years ago. It shows Newsom explaining his leadership philosophy. And about mid-way through, he references an essay from George Orwell called &#8220;Shooting an Elephant.&#8221; Watch:
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As Newsom understands the metaphor, you put a mask on — a fake persona — and then you warp your actual persona to match it. This is the Gavin Newsom origin story, in a sense. It&#8217;s a window into how he sees his political career. It&#8217;s not about authenticity. It&#8217;s not about good governance — about making sure that Los Angeles doesn&#8217;t burn to the ground, or that women aren&#8217;t assaulted during sporting competitions, or any of that. Instead, it&#8217;s about adopting a fake persona, and then making it work.
That&#8217;s a strategy that has clearly served Newsom well, up until this point in his career. But it won&#8217;t work anymore. In the context of gender ideology in particular, the approach falls apart completely. That&#8217;s because the trans issue is all or nothing. Either trans ideology is true and a person&#8217;s gender is fluid and determined by their self-perception, or it&#8217;s not true and a person&#8217;s gender is a biological reality that cannot be changed. If the former is the case, then there&#8217;s nothing unfair about having &#8220;trans women&#8221; in women&#8217;s sports. If the latter is the case, then &#8220;trans women&#8221; are not women and should not be treated as women or recognized as women in any context at all, ever.
But as this interview with Charlie Kirk makes clear, Newsom is trying to have his cake and eat it too. This is the untenable &#8220;middle ground&#8221; Democrats will try to stake out over the next few years on this issue, just like they&#8217;re going to shoot for a fake &#8220;middle ground&#8221; on so many other issues. Newsom is going to be leading this effort for the Democrat Party. The good news is that it won&#8217;t last. It can&#8217;t last. No ideology that depends on fraud and meaningless platitudes can ever serve as a substitute for the truth. People can see through lies far more easily than Gavin Newsom seems to think. He may not realize that now. But relatively soon — say, in about four years — it&#8217;ll be extremely obvious, even to him.

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California Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom has been slammed by both sides of the political aisle after he attempted to straddle the fence when it comes to the issue of trans-identifying males playing in women’s sports.
During the debut of Newsom’s <a href="https://x.com/charliekirk11/status/1897652344558584276">podcast</a> “This is Gavin Newsom,” his guest, conservative commentator Charlie Kirk, did not beat around the bush and flat out asked the longtime LGBTQ supporter if he would come out and say: “No men in female sports.”
“I think it’s an issue of fairness, I completely agree with you on that,” Newsom said. “So, that&#8217;s easy to call out. The unfairness of that.”
While it appeared that Newsom was diverting from his party and speaking out against men playing in women’s sports, he quickly reverted to the lies spread by Democrats and transgender activists that by not supporting transgender individuals, they “are more likely to commit suicide, have anxiety and depression.”
“And the way that people talk down to vulnerable communities is an issue that I have a hard time with,” the governor added. “So, both things I can hold in my hand. How can we address this issue with the kind of decency that I think is inherent in you, but not always expressed.”
Shortly after the clip surfaced online, liberals blasted Newsom for his “anti-transgender remarks.”
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Will Governor Gavin Newsom EVER say “No Men in Women’s Sports?”
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“Leaders of CALeg’s LGBTQ Caucus respond to Gov. Newsom’s comments on transgender athletes: &#8216;We woke up profoundly sickened and frustrated by these remarks,'&#8221; a post shared on X by a KCRA reporter read.
“Gavin newsom you are a f***ing coward for not standing with trans people. Would never support your ticket for President,” another person wrote on X.
Scott Wiener, a Democratic state senator from San Francisco who is openly gay, said it was deeply disappointing to hear Mr. Newsom “align” with Republicans on the issue, The <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/us/politics/gavin-newsom-transgender-sports-democrats.html">New York Times</a> noted.
“It was a gut punch from any Democratic leader, and particularly from Governor Newsom, because he has been such a staunch ally for the L.G.B.T.Q. community,” Mr. Wiener said.
Assemblymember Alex Lee, who represents part of the Bay Area, also <a href="https://x.com/alex_lee/status/1897668138239738279">took issue</a> with Newsom’s statements, <a href="https://ktla.com/news/california/disturbing-disappointed-sickened-california-reacts-to-newsoms-shift-on-trans-athletes/">KTLA</a> noted.
“WTF. Trans people and LGBTQ+ people are under attack,” he said on X. “We don’t need our [governor] caving to conservative talking points that further hurt and scapegoat 1% of the population.”
However, Newsom’s comments on the issue were also called out by those on the Right, too, with many noting it as political and nothing else.
Riley Gaines wrote on X, “Wow. This is the first time I’ve seen Newsom directly asked this question. As you&#8217;d expect, he continues to sit on the fence.  He admits the unfairness is a problem but won&#8217;t take meaningful action out of fear of being perceived as unkind…”
Republican Assemblymember Bill Essayli, of Corona, wrote on X, “This is stunning. Talk is cheap. Why don’t you support my bill AB 844 to reverse CA’s law allowing boys to compete in girls sports? You’re the Governor, not a commentator!”
“Let me fix the headline: ‘Gavin Newsom Flip-Flopped on Trans Athletes in Sports after viewing the polling.’ Of course it’s @ccadelago covering up for Gavin. Politico needs to hire someone for California who is brave enough to take on the one party rulers,” Ric Grenell wrote.

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The Daily Wire and Turning Point USA’s new documentary scrutinizing the radical gender ideology movement, “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/videos/identity-crisis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Identity Crisis</a>,” is now streaming exclusively on DailyWire+.
The documentary exposes the societal failures enabling the continued mutilation of children and features raw interviews with victims of the movement, including individuals who have detransitioned themselves, and parents in the throes of a familial transgender battle.
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Speaking to Daily Wire editor emeritus Ben Shapiro, TPUSA co-founder Charlie Kirk called the film an “accompaniment” to Matt Walsh’s “What is a Woman?” and said it explores “one of the moral crimes of the century.”
“This goes deep into the severity and the graphic brutality and the medieval nature of what transitioning actually is,” Kirk said.
Shapiro says that the same “Normie Revolution” that swept Donald Trump into office could bring about a change to the transgender status quo.
“Because the Democrats have lost their minds and because they’ve swung so far to the Left, what that means is that what we are actually seeing is something that I’ve described as the ‘Normie Revolution,’” Shapiro said. “What we’re seeing is, it is now subversive to just be normal.”
Along with firsthand accounts from victims of the trans movement, “Identity Crisis” features key players fighting that movement, such as activist Riley Gaines, detransitioner Chloe Cole, and author Dr. James Lindsay. The film explores the shocking origins of the trans movement, specifically the disturbing work of Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey, whose “degenerate” experiments on children also feature in “What is a Woman?&#8221;

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In a sweeping interview, Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk and Daily Wire editor emeritus Ben Shapiro discussed “Identity Crisis,” a new film from both organizations that unmasks the “graphic brutality” of so-called gender transitions.
“Identity Crisis,” which premiered today and is free to stream on X through the weekend, scrutinizes the radical gender ideology movement, with a sharp focus on the societal failures enabling the continued mutilation of children.
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Kirk says the film is an &#8220;accompaniment&#8221; to Matt Walsh’s “What Is A Woman?” and it will delve deep into “one of the moral crimes of the century.”
“This goes deep into the severity and the graphic brutality and the medieval nature of what transitioning actually is,” Kirk said.
The trans agenda, according to Kirk, “cloaks itself on its surface … as live and let live.”
“But it&#8217;s never been about that,” he continued. “Instead, it&#8217;s like, ‘No, allow me to propagandize your 13-year-old child, and then put them under general anesthesia and chop off their breasts because it&#8217;s good for them.’&#8221;
Shapiro says that the same “Normie Revolution” that swept Donald Trump into office could bring about a change to the transgender status quo.
“Because the Democrats have lost their minds and because they&#8217;ve swung so far to the Left, what that means is that what we are actually seeing is something that I&#8217;ve described as the ‘Normie Revolution,’&#8221; Shapiro said. “What we&#8217;re seeing is, it is now subversive to just be normal.”
In Trump’s second term, Kirk hopes to build support for a Department of Justice crackdown on hospitals and care centers that embrace “gender-affirming care” and perform sex-change surgeries on minors.
“This is one of the moral crimes of the century,” Kirk said. “We&#8217;re exposing it in this movie.”
“Identity Crisis” features interviews with activist Riley Gaines, detransitioner Chloe Cole, and author Dr. James Lindsay. It also documents the stories of parents and children who have been victimized by the transgender ideology.

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The Daily Wire and Turning Point USA’s powerful new documentary scrutinizing the radical gender ideology movement, “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/videos/identity-crisis-official-trailer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Identity Crisis</a>,” is now available for free on X.
The documentary exposes the societal failures enabling the continued mutilation of children and features raw interviews with victims of the movement, including individuals who have detransitioned themselves, and parents in the throes of a familial transgender battle.
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Parents silenced. Kids manipulated. Doctors profiting. &#8216;Identity Crisis&#8217; tells the stories the mainstream media won’t.
Watch &#8216;Identity Crisis&#8217; for FREE on X for 72 hours. <a href="https://t.co/vpJ77XBony" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/vpJ77XBony</a>
— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDailyWire/status/1877716776274075718?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">January 10, 2025</a></blockquote>
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“Identity Crisis dives headfirst into what was one of the most pressing issues of the 2024 election, and we’re thrilled to partner with Turning Point USA to distribute this project that is rooted in shared values and a commitment to fearless storytelling,” Daily Wire Co-Founder and Co-CEO Jeremy Boreing said.
The film is inspired by Matt Walsh’s groundbreaking 2022 documentary, “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/videos/what-is-a-woman" target="_blank" rel="noopener">What Is a Woman?</a>,” which also tackled culturally important gender issues.
“Daily Wire and Matt Walsh’s ‘What is a Woman?’ was a triumph that changed the cultural and political landscape in America. ‘Identity Crisis’ is the culmination,” TPUSA co-founder Charlie Kirk said. “TPUSA is honored to partner with DW to make sure as many moms, dads, grandparents and kids get to see this film in hopes of ending one of the great human rights crimes of our era, the medical mutilation of America’s children.”
Along with firsthand accounts from victims of the trans movement, “Identity Crisis” features key players fighting that movement, such as activist Riley Gaines, detransitioner Chloe Cole, and author Dr. James Lindsay. The film explores the shocking origins of the trans movement, specifically the disturbing work of Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey, whose “degenerate” <a href="https://x.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1569321827578560513" target="_blank" rel="noopener">experiments</a> on children also feature in “What Is A Woman?&#8221;
The gripping and at-times challenging documentary ends with a message of hope — and a call to action from one father, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/one-fathers-nightmare-battle-for-3-year-old-son-mom-is-raising-non-binary" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harrison Tinsley</a>, putting up the fight of his life for his son.
“We’re at a crazy moment in history, and people are gonna look back: you&#8217;re going to be remembered as a coward, or someone who stood up to protect children. And I’m gonna stand up to protect children,” Tinsley says in the film. “And I want you to do that, too.”
“We need to be brave,” the father says.
&#8220;Identity Crisis” is <a href="https://x.com/realDailyWire/status/1877716776274075718">free on X</a> through the weekend. The film will be available exclusively on DailyWire+ beginning Monday, January 13.

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Republicans will head into 2025 with the White House, control of both the U.S. House and Senate, and big expectations from voters to do something with it. Influential conservative activist Charlie Kirk says the party should make lawmakers that get in the way of the Trump agenda pay the price, but warned that the base will have to carefully pick its spots.
Kirk, 31, sat down with The Daily Wire at Turning Point USA’s America Fest in Phoenix, Arizona where he candidly broke down which Republicans are on his primary list. The Turning Point USA founder is a staunch Trump supporter who often speaks with the president-elect, and he is one of the top high profile conservative voices arguing that Republicans owe it to the American people to fall in line with Trump&#8217;s agenda.
&#8220;I find it very perplexing that Joe Biden gets all of his nominees and Republicans are happy to vote for many of them,&#8221; he told The Daily Wire. &#8220;Some Republicans give a harder time to Donald Trump&#8217;s nominees than Joe Biden&#8217;s nominees. There are Republicans that voted for Merrick Garland. There are Republicans that voted for [Alejandro] Mayorkas. There&#8217;s Republicans that voted for Lloyd Austin. No questions. And yet when it comes to Donald Trump&#8217;s nominees, it&#8217;s like the most challenging thing.&#8221;
Kirk said he has an exact &#8220;criteria&#8221; for Republicans that should be challenged through a primary in a way that won&#8217;t be &#8220;reckless or irresponsible&#8221; for the party.
&#8220;We&#8217;re gonna find Republican senators that have the following criteria. Number one, they&#8217;re in deep, deep, deep red states. So if we were to replace them, there will not be a general election issue, right? So we don&#8217;t want to try to go after someone like Thom Tillis, who I&#8217;m not a huge fan of, who might be in a razor thin race in North Carolina which would lose us a senate seat.&#8221;
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&#8220;Number two, we&#8217;re gonna find people that have a repeated pattern of not listening to the will of their voters on very core issues that matter to them, border, immigration, foreign aid, size and scope of government, and then of course, whether or not they voted for Trump&#8217;s impeachment and also Trump&#8217;s cabinet,&#8221; Kirk continued. &#8220;And the final thing is this: we want to try to create, not a lesson, but I guess that&#8217;s one way to say it, where senators get out of line, they will be removed.&#8221; 
One senator on his list is Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, who was first elected in 2014.
&#8220;He voted for the impeachment of Donald Trump,&#8221; said Kirk. &#8220;People don&#8217;t remember that. Bill Cassidy voted for the impeachment of Donald Trump. He&#8217;s trying to play like he&#8217;s some sort of, you know, friend of Donald Trump now. He&#8217;s got to go. He has routinely been the biggest supporter of sending money to Ukraine despite our border being wide open, which is not popular with the voters of Louisiana. So he&#8217;s on the top of the list.&#8221; 
Cassidy, who has met with a number of Trump nominees in recent weeks, including <a href="https://x.com/petehegseth/status/1866988332292747431?s=46">Pete Hegseth</a> and <a href="https://x.com/kash_patel/status/1869834089961754716?s=46">Kash Patel</a>, met with Trump in June 2024 and <a href="https://www.cassidy.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/cassidy-releases-statement-following-meeting-with-president-trump/">issued a statement at the time</a> promising to work with Trump if he became the next president. In a a Saturday statement to The Daily Wire, a spokesman for the senator said, &#8220;Senator Cassidy continues to work for the state of Louisiana and for the United States. He looks forward to working with President Trump so that our country does great again over the next four years. This is what Louisiana voters care about.”
But not all the senators that have found themselves on the other side of the conservative base meet Krik&#8217;s criteria. Kirk and others are unhappy with Senator Joni Ernst of Iowa for her recent behavior towards Trump nominee Pete Hegseth, but she doesn&#8217;t fully meet their criteria for the primary list, particularly since she&#8217;s going to be in a competitive race.
&#8220;And here&#8217;s how it would work,&#8221; he noted, &#8220;if we were to remove Joni Ernst, the National Republican Senate groups would be like, &#8216;Oh, your fault.&#8217; They would rather make an example out of us try to make an example out of Joni Ernst. So we&#8217;re trying to be wiser than that.&#8221; 
<div id="attachment_850599" style="width: 874px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/charlie-kirk-has-thoughts-on-which-republicans-need-a-primary-challenge/conservatives-gather-in-phoenix-for-annual-americafest-5" rel="attachment wp-att-850599"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-850599" class="wp-image-850599 size-large" src="https://www.dailywire.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/GettyImages-2190485533-864x576.jpg" alt="" width="864" height="576" srcset="https://www.dailywire.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/GettyImages-2190485533-864x576.jpg 864w, https://www.dailywire.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/GettyImages-2190485533-300x200.jpg 300w, https://www.dailywire.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/GettyImages-2190485533-768x512.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px" /></a>PHOENIX, ARIZONA &#8211; DECEMBER 22: Turning Point USA executive director Charlie Kirk is silhouetted against a large video of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump during Turning Point USA&#8217;s AmericaFest at the Phoenix Convention Center on December 22, 2024 in Phoenix, Arizona.  (Photo by Rebecca Noble/Getty Images)</div>
The Turning Point founder also mentioned Senator Mike Rounds of South Dakota, James Risch in Idaho, and Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia, who is part of leadership.
&#8220;There needs to be consequences when you don&#8217;t listen to the will of the voters,&#8221; Kirk said. &#8220;So we&#8217;ll see how they vote for the cabinet. That will definitely play into this.&#8221;
&#8220;Bill Cassidy, there&#8217;s nothing he can do at this point,&#8221; he added. &#8220;He voted to impeach Donald Trump, of which we believe you need to be retired.&#8221; 
Rounds and Capito did not respond to requests for comment, but a spokesman for Risch told The Daily Wire: “Senator Risch will vote to confirm President Trump’s nominees, just as he did during President Trump’s previous term.”
Questioned on what role he believes Trump will play on all of this, Kirk said he doesn&#8217;t think Trump would actively campaign against incumbents, but that his silence could be just as impactful.
&#8220;I think his silence will be the most powerful thing,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Not endorsing a candidate will end up being an endorsement if that were to happen, because look, he has to still work with the US Senate. He&#8217;s got to get ambassadors through, he&#8217;s got to do stuff. I don&#8217;t imagine him endorsing challengers. Bill Cassidy, he might, I don&#8217;t want to speak for him or for his team, but someone who actually voted to impeach him, I think that would probably reach to a level where he might do something, but probably not.&#8221; 
&#8220;It&#8217;s gonna be primary season sometime soon,&#8221; he added with a grin. 
As for what role Turning Point would play in primary season, Kirk appeared energized and ready to go. He says his organization will play a &#8220;heavy role,&#8221; including drafting the candidates, invigorating the grassroots, raising money for independent expenditures, and ballot chasing. 
&#8220;Republican primaries are different than general elections,&#8221; he explained,  &#8220;Our ask is not something extreme, the Washington insiders are trying to say Turning Point is just trying to cause problems. Well, not really, they&#8217;re the ones that cause the problems for not listening to their voters. If you vote like Ted Cruz or vote like Mike Lee, we think you&#8217;re a hero. You decided to vote a certain way that is against what your voters want.&#8221;
&#8220;We just want a Republican Party that is as conservative as its voters,&#8221; he argued. &#8220;Some people would say, and it sounds good, &#8216;Oh well, Charlie, we just won a huge election. Why are you picking these fights?&#8217; That&#8217;s exactly actually why — because the people gave us a mandate and the senators aren&#8217;t listening to that mandate.&#8221;
&#8220;So it&#8217;s time for some sorting out,&#8221; he concluded.

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The Daily Wire and Turning Point USA announced Thursday that they are teaming up on the powerful new documentary &#8220;Identity Crisis,&#8221; which scrutinizes the radical gender ideology movement.
Inspired by and building upon Matt Walsh’s groundbreaking 2022 documentary, &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/videos/what-is-a-woman" target="_blank" rel="noopener">What Is a Woman?</a>&#8221; the new documentary has a sharp focus on the societal failures enabling the continued mutilation of children. The announcement comes mere days after the Tennessee Attorney General <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/12/06/exclusive-tn-senator-jack-johnson-explains-what-prompted-legislation-protect-children-trans-surgeries/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">defended the state’s law protecting children from trans surgeries</a> at the Supreme Court of the United States; the legislation in question was spurred by reporting by Matt Walsh and the Daily Wire investigating Vanderbilt’s gender clinic. 
The news of Daily Wire’s acquisition of the film was shared onstage by Ben Shapiro, editor emeritus and co-founder of The Daily Wire before unveiling the official trailer for audiences at AmericaFest 2024. The announcement emphasizes a shared and ongoing mission of the two organizations to impact pivotal cultural issues.
&#8220;Identity Crisis&#8221; is set to premiere on X on January 10 and will be available for free through the weekend. The film will then be available exclusively on DailyWire+ beginning Monday, January 13.
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“After the resounding impact of What Is a Woman?, it’s only natural for The Daily Wire to continue tackling the cultural questions that shape our society,” said Daily Wire Co-Founder and Co-CEO Jeremy Boreing. “&#8217;Identity Crisis&#8217; dives headfirst into what was one of the most pressing issues of the 2024 election, and we’re thrilled to partner with Turning Point USA to distribute this project that is rooted in shared values and a commitment to fearless storytelling.”
“Daily Wire and Matt Walsh’s &#8216;What is a Woman?&#8217; was a triumph that changed the cultural and political landscape in America. ‘Identity Crisis’ is the culmination,” said Kirk. “TPUSA is honored to partner with DW to make sure as many moms, dads, grandparents and kids get to see this film in hopes of ending one of the great human rights crimes of our era, the medical mutilation of America’s children.”
The gripping new documentary features interviews with gender experts, victims of the mutilation movement, and key players of the conservative movement including activist Riley Gaines, detransitioner Chloe Cole, and author Dr. James Lindsay. 
Also spotlighted are the victimized children and parents who are struggling to fight the rampant social contagion that has infiltrated families across the country. Through frank, heartbreaking conversations and an unflinching look at the medical realities of “transitioning,” &#8220;Identity Crisis&#8221; asks: what are the ramifications of these movements for our country’s society and future generations?
&#8220;Identity Crisis&#8221; is written and directed by Marcus Wada and produced by Kevin Ford, Wada, and Natalie Bovard, with Charlie Kirk, Nelda Buckman, and Marina Minas serving as executive producers.

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The Daily Wire And Turning Point USA Team Up For New Documentary: ‘Identity Crisis’

The Daily Wire & TPUSA Announce Partnership For New Documentary 'Identity Crisis' 

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