'We will never be silenced': Erika Kirk vows to keep Charlie Kirk's 'dreams alive' in wake of assassination

Erika Kirk, wife of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, appeared on her late husband’s show Friday, during which she spoke about continuing Kirk’s legacy as well as sharing personal glimpses into Kirk’s life. 

Erika Kirk said, "we prayed on it, we really tried to discern properly how to go about the next few stages and steps of everything, and we’ve been very intentional in a way that always keeps Charlie first and his dreams alive and his legacy going. And what’s so beautiful is to see all of you step in and do that."

She said part of the reason she agreed to come onto the show was "because I gave assurance to people that Turning Point USA is continuing, and it is. I mean, we are so blessed to have more work than we even could ever dream of. I mean, it’s beautiful. And Turning Point Action, full steam ahead, so powerful. All of the other programs within Turning Point USA, everyone knows what they’re doing. Everyone has their marching orders."

She spoke on the roots of the Charlie Kirk Show, noting how during the pandemic, her and her husband would go hiking "every morning," and one morning after coming back, Charlie Kirk was pulled aside by Erika Kirk’s mom. "And she said, 'you know what, honey,' she said, 'God has blessed you with an amazing voice, and you will be the Rush Limbaugh of your generation." Two days later, she said, Charlie Kirk was in talks about the podcast. 

"To see the Charlie Kirk Show grow from that moment until now has been so humbling and beautiful, and he loved every single day. He read every email." 

She called the audience "almost like an extended form of family," and said that Turning Point USA, Turning Point Action, and the Charlie Kirk Show is a "triple threat and the audience was the master and main component of that. Because Charlie and the Charlie Kirk Show is not just a show, it has a movement attached to it. It has the youth movement attached to it." 

As for the future of the show, Kirk said, "the Charlie Kirk Show is not going anywhere. My husband’s voice will live on. The show will go on. We will have rotating hosts, rotating casts, rotating people coming on. We will have consistency. The members-only group will continue to go on. All of his socials that God has blessed us with, the people who follow those socials, will go on. Nothing is changing." She added that posts to social media would not be posted as if it’s from him. "That’s tone deaf and really disturbing, and anyone who does that’s like, morbidly off."

"What's happening is the team is keeping this alive, because we have Charlie in each and every one of us, and it is going to be continually the North Star of the conservative movement, of the voice of the youth, of the voice of the base. And that will not end, and the members-only will continue to grow, and that will be the tight-knit network of family members that supported and loved Charlie and the team, and that's what it is. It's a family and a team. And this is not, this is not going anywhere. It's just not."

She said that there is still content from her husband "that no one has heard yet," including speeches, interviews, and podcasts.

"So, I mean, in the words of my husband, buckle up, because there is a lot of content to be had. And we have so many amazing things down the pipeline that we are working on currently that will unveil in due time. I am so excited." 

She said she felt the prayers from those who sent them in the wake of her husband’s killing, and said, "all of them matter and we will never be silenced. We will never be silenced. And that’s why continuing his platform in a beautiful, honorable way will reinforce that we will never be silenced.

Erika Kirk was asked about the puppets sitting on the desk where Charlie Kirk’s empty chair lies, to which she revealed that they are from the Kirks’ daughter. "Every day she'd watch the show, and she did it because daddy would take the item that she gave to him and have it on the show with him." She said Kirk "loved it" because "it was a little piece of her" he could have with him on the show.

"And he's a father. He's a, I mean, unbelievable husband, but father and loved his babies, and he wasn't embarrassed by that. He's so proud of it, yeah, if Gigi made him something, or if she puts a sticker on his shirt or a sticker on his face, or gave him a figurine to bring to work. He did it, and he loved it. He didn't care what other people thought."