In His Own Words
Him speaking, at length and in context: keynotes at Student Action Summit and AmericaFest, the 2024 Republican National Convention, church and campus addresses, book talks, and long-form interviews with hosts friendly and hostile. The primary record, unedited where it survives that way.
Part of Charlie Kirk
53 moments in this segment.
- - Charlie Kirk at CPAC, 2013. Kirk, then 19 and in the first year of Turning Point USA, speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Maryland.
- - Charlie Kirk speaking at CPAC, 2015. Kirk addressing the 2015 Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Maryland.
- - Early address at the Young Women's Leadership Summit, 2016. A 2016 recording of the twenty-two-year-old founder teaching over four hundred conservative women campus activism tactics; among the earliest full speeches available.
- - Charlie Kirk at CPAC, 2017. Portrait-format image of Kirk speaking at the 2017 CPAC in National Harbor, Maryland.
- - Charlie Kirk at CPAC, 2018. Kirk speaking at the 2018 Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Maryland.
- - Address to the 2018 NRA-ILA Leadership Forum. His speech to the National Rifle Association's leadership forum at the 2018 annual meetings in Dallas.
- - Steamboat Institute Freedom Conference session with Candace Owens. Moderated presentation with Candace Owens at the Steamboat Institute's tenth annual Freedom Conference, hosted by an academic moderator.
- - Panel with Alex Marlow and Nigel Farage on Andrew Breitbart's legacy. Onstage conversation at TPUSA's Student Action Summit in West Palm Beach with Breitbart's editor-in-chief and Nigel Farage.
- - CPAC 2019 address. His speech at CPAC 2019, posted by the conference's own channel.
- - Remarks at the 2019 Young Women's Leadership Summit. Full session including Kirk, Candace Owens and Jeanine Pirro at TPUSA's 2019 women's conference.
- - Address at the 2019 Student Action Summit. Breitbart's recording of his speech to TPUSA's flagship student conference in 2019.
- - Full CPAC 2020 speech. His complete address to the Conservative Political Action Conference at the Gaylord Hotel in Maryland, posted by a local news station.
- - Book signing and interview for The MAGA Doctrine. A near hour-long promotional session answering reader questions about his book The MAGA Doctrine.
- - 2020 RNC remarks, posted by the Trump campaign. The Trump campaign's own upload of his 2020 convention speech, showing how the campaign used it.
- - Full speech at the 2020 Republican National Convention. His address on the first night of the 2020 RNC, delivered 24 August 2020, as stated by PBS.
- - Full 2020 RNC remarks, The Hill's recording. An independent recording of his complete 2020 Republican National Convention address.
- - With a supporter in Tempe, 2020. Kirk speaking with a supporter at a 'Liberty for Trump' event at the Graduate Hotel in Tempe, Arizona.
- - Full CPAC 2021 speech. Complete address at CPAC 2021 in Orlando, delivered 26 February 2021.
- - Erika and Charlie Kirk, 2021. Kirk photographed with Erika Frantzve, whom he married later that year, at a Turning Point USA event.
- - Freedom House Church town hall. Full ninety-minute church town hall combining a talk with audience questions.
- - Church address: Winning the Invisible War. A full fifty-minute sermon-style talk at Awaken Church on spiritual warfare and Christian practice, one of his religious rather than political appearances.
- - Address at Without Walls Church. A full church address recorded in January 2022; the upload carries no description.
- - Onstage discussion with Matt Walsh at the 2022 Young Women's Leadership Summit. Full two-hour session with Matt Walsh on gender and womanhood at TPUSA's 2022 women's conference.
- - Church address on Christians and political involvement. Full talk at Legacy Church arguing that Christians should engage in politics.
- - Full AmericaFest 2022 session with Greg Gutfeld. His complete AmFest 2022 stage session alongside Fox News host Greg Gutfeld.
- - AmericaFest 2023 opening-day address. His full day-one speech at TPUSA's AmericaFest 2023, captured from the conference stream.
- - Keynote to Arizona home-school graduates, 2023. A graduation keynote to Arizona home-schooled students, uploaded years later by the organising association.
- - Michael Knowles interview: rapid-fire questions. A near hour-long informal interview format in which he answers a long run of yes-or-no questions.
- - Charlie Kirk, 2023. Kirk speaking with attendees at the 2023 Turning Point Action Conference in West Palm Beach, Florida.
- - On AmericaFest attendance and his relationship with Fox News. A short interview with Breitbart's editor-in-chief in which he discusses attendance records and his strained relationship with Fox News.
- - TPUSA Faith talk on obedience and religious practice. A seventeen-minute talk for TPUSA's religious arm on Christian obedience.
- - George Janko Show interview. Ninety-minute interview timed to the release of his book Right Wing Revolution.
- - Announcing his book Right Wing Revolution. A show segment in which he introduces and describes his 2024 book.
- - Setting out his argument that college is a scam. A monologue laying out the central thesis of his book The College Scam in his own words.
- - Responding to student objections on the value of college. An eleven-minute segment in which he answers pushback to his argument about higher education.
- - Full speech at the Turning Point Action event with Trump and RFK Jr. His complete remarks at a Turning Point Action rally featuring Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
- - Onstage discussion with JD Vance at Generation Church. Full conversation with the 2024 Republican vice-presidential nominee at a church in Mesa, Arizona.
- - With Megyn Kelly on the 2024 election result. A joint reflection with Megyn Kelly recorded days after the 2024 presidential election.
- - Full address at AmericaFest 2024. His keynote at TPUSA's AmericaFest weeks after the 2024 election, framed by his channel as a victory address.
- - Full conversation with Gavin Newsom. The complete recording of his appearance as the first guest on California governor Gavin Newsom's podcast, an unusual cross-partisan sit-down.
- - Conversation with Erika Kirk on family and faith. A joint sit-down with his wife on marriage, faith and building a life, on his own show.
- - Jordan Peterson interview on his personal story. Long-form interview in which Peterson takes him through his background, his decision to skip university and his rise in conservative politics.
- - His own channel's cut of the Jordan Peterson life-story interview. Kirk's channel posts the full Peterson conversation about his upbringing and career under his own framing.
- - Erika and Charlie Kirk, June 2025. Kirk photographed with his wife Erika at a Turning Point USA event three months before his death.
- - Onstage session with Riley Gaines at the 2025 women's summit. A conference session with swimmer and activist Riley Gaines at TPUSA's 2025 Young Women's Leadership Summit.
- - Official White House portrait of Charlie Kirk. Portrait of Kirk by White House photographer Daniel Torok, released as a work of the US federal government and therefore in the public domain.
- - Speech at the TPUSA Educators' Summit. His address to TPUSA's education arm on raising children within a Christian framework; posted a month after his death.
- - Address to the 2025 Young Women's Leadership Summit. His remarks to an audience of roughly 2,500 women at TPUSA's 2025 women's summit.
- - Iced Coffee Hour long-form interview. An unstructured 106-minute interview covering media, money and his career, on a non-political finance podcast.
- - Full speech at a Turning Point Action event, July 2025. A complete twenty-minute address posted by Turning Point Action without further identifying detail.
- - Talk on dating and relationships before a student audience. A near hour-long address to roughly a thousand students on modern dating and marriage.
- - Full Oxford speech. His prepared address at Oxford, distinct from the student question session that followed.
- - His final interview, recorded the day he died. Interview with Andrew K. Smith at the Restaurantology Summit in Salt Lake City on 10 September 2025, on entrepreneurship and organisation-building; recorded hours before his assassination.
