Get organized: Ohio, Virginia critical

Some new polls came out today - Gallup is back up to a 5 point lead for Romney but they are still an outlier poll. Most polls have Romney up 50-47 fairly consistently. But how is he doing in the swing states? One new poll today showed Romney pulling even with Obama 48-48 in Wisconsin.What can you do and where can you do it in order to help push Romney over the finish line first?

"So last night it's about 11:00 and just got yelled at by my wife and she, you know, she's yelling at me about this interview that we did with this ‑‑ the father of slain Navy SEAL in Benghazi and I didn't respond quickly enough that the president and the vice president were dishonorable when I was asked, and I hesitated and she's like, the answer is yes! Dishonor!" I'm like, yes, dear. Yes, dear. So that, right after that I was thinking, I should leave the state. And I was thinking, "We should go to Ohio." Because as I'm looking at everything, this really is going to come down to Virginia and Ohio. And I can't figure the people in Ohio out. I can't. I don't know what ‑‑ but just like when you're watching the debate the other night, I'm in Texas and so I'm watching this from Texas and I'm thinking, "What are you doing?" Well action I'm surrounded by Texans. All of the Texans. We all had our guns out shooting at ‑‑ getting ready to shoot them in the air, you know? That debate wasn't made for us. That was made for, what, a couple of counties probably in Ohio. That's who they're talking to. Well, I'd like to talk to those people in Ohio. I'd like to know what's really going on, on the ground in Ohio," Glenn said.

"We went to Free PAC and I spoke there and there were 8,000 people and it was on fire. And people were working all day, they were going out door to door. So I wrote to Matt Kibbe yesterday and I said, what are you guys doing in Ohio? Can we come and cover any of this stuff in Ohio and maybe we'll do, you know, a rally or whatever, but I'd like to talk to the people in Ohio and I'd like to cover the people who are going door to door. I'd like to cover the 9/12 project. I'd like to cover the TEA Parties. I'd like to cover the people who are actually out on the streets and going door to door. I'd like to ‑‑ I'd like to find the people who are doing it and hold them up. And also encourage them, kind of being there ‑‑ I'd like to be there with a little cup of water as they run by to the next door just, 'Grab the water. Go.' Because it is going to come down to Ohio."

"Now, I don't know how many people are still out there that think, 'It doesn't make a difference' or 'I'm not sure if I'm going to vote' or, 'I don't know, if the weather's fine.' But this makes a huge difference. This makes a huge difference. And I want to speak directly to libertarians here. Don't make the mistake that people made in France after the turn of the century or the last century, you know, the century before, two centuries ago ‑‑ okay, the French Revolution. Don't make that mistake that Thomas Paine made. Revolutions or collapse is not a good thing."

"Now, I don't agree, as you know, I don't agree with everything Mitt Romney says, but I do know this: The guy prays on his knees and the guy is humble just like Abraham Lincoln. If you read the stuff on Abraham Lincoln, you read his first inaugural address, he ‑‑ I don't agree with everything Abraham Lincoln was saying in retrospect. He was like, 'You know, we can't really take this on, you know, but we have to keep the union together' and blah, blah‑blah. But he wasn't making it about slavery, even though he was trying to solve slavery. He believed in that. He just didn't believe in it this way and that wasn't his main priority. His main priority was to save the union. It wasn't until he fell to his knees and said, 'What do you want? What is it you want? You want me to ‑‑ you want me to free the slaves? Fine, I'll free the slaves. I'll make that the number one priority. Help us.' That's when everything changed. But you have to be humble and on your knees.

"And may I ask you, do you believe Barack Obama is either of those things? There is a huge difference. One is offering you free stuff and an easy life and free money and free Obama phones and free everything. The other is saying, 'Look, this is going to be tough, but it's worth it. We can do it. We can create jobs.' He didn't say 'Let's destroy the car industry. He didn't say that.' What he said was let's do this the right way. Let's have them go through a structured bankruptcy. Let's have them go through their books and see where they need to shed so they can restart and survive." You had Barack Obama give GM a short‑term fix. Long‑term GM does not survive unless it ‑‑ because it's going to go bankrupt again. And it will not survive. It can't be ‑‑ it has to go through the reset process so it can restart. We're going to go through some pain. Which do you want it? Do you want honor and integrity and merit? Do you want something that's lasting and real, or do you want a short‑term fix? There's a lot of Americans that want a short‑term fix. It is ‑‑ we have waited too long. All of us. All of us. Ronald Reagan talked about it, JFK talked about it, FDR talked about it. He said at some point, FDR said he thought it was going to be in the 1980s and he said it would be irresponsible, but they did it anyway. But he said, we're going to have to pay for these sins probably by the 1980s. It will collapse."

Well, we knew this. Our whole life I've heard, you know, 'This is not going to last. It's going to collapse. It's going to collapse. It's not going to last. You can't keep doing this stuff. And you're going to have to pay for it.' So we've known. Well, now is the time to pay for it, and every single day that goes by, it gets worse. And it's going to get harder. And we are going to end up like Greece if we go down the same path as Greece, which was... a giant federal bureaucracy where everybody was on the dole, there was no real work ethic anymore.

"Do you know in healthcare, do you know that Barack Obama in the healthcare bill has now described a full‑time workweek as how many hours? Thirty. Since when is it thirty‑hour workweek, France? When did that happen? That is now the official workweek according to the Barack Obama healthcare program. Thirty‑hour full‑time workweek. It's forty. This is the kind of stuff they did in Greece, and we'll end up like Greece."

"So I just want to ‑‑ I want to find out what ‑‑ who are these people in Ohio. I need to understand you. Because Ohio, we've always ‑‑ I've always understood you. You're good, decent, hard working people. What ‑‑ what kind of black spell has been cast on Ohio? I don't understand it. I really don't. And I want to understand it. I'd like to next week suggest ‑‑ and believe me when I wrote, you should see the e‑mail chain now that's going through the company. 'Oh, dear God. What?' But last night about 11:00 I wrote to the staff and I said, 'I'd like to be in Toledo, I'd like to be in Columbus and Cleveland and maybe Fort Wayne, Indiana and maybe Virginia next week. And I'd like to do the radio and television show and then maybe, you know, maybe something, some sort of a rally or something at night. But I want to meet the people who are actually out doing the work, and I want to understand what do you think is at stake and I want to understand what has happened in Ohio and then I want to ‑‑ I want to hand you that glass of water on your way."

Stu, however, wasn't as optimistic that Glenn would be in Ohio considering he just spent a lot of money on a special set for election night, not to mention the lack of notice for doing radio and television in a different state.

"So you want to put together something in Ohio with all of this notice of zero workdays?" he asked Glenn.

"Yes. I think it's a great idea," Glenn said.

The West is dying—Will we let enemies write our ending?

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The blood of martyrs, prophets, poets, and soldiers built our civilization. Their sacrifice demands courage in the present to preserve it.

Lamentations asks, “Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by?”

That question has been weighing on me heavily. Not just as a broadcaster, but as a citizen, a father, a husband, a believer. It is a question that every person who cares about this nation, this culture, and this civilization must confront: Is all of this worth saving?

We have squandered this inheritance. We forgot who we were — and our enemies are eager to write our ending.

Western civilization — a project born in Judea, refined in Athens, tested in Rome, reawakened in Wittenberg, and baptized again on the shores of Plymouth Rock — is a gift. We didn’t earn it. We didn’t purchase it. We were handed it. And now, we must ask ourselves: Do we even want it?

Across Europe, streets are restless. Not merely with protests, but with ancient, festering hatred — the kind that once marched under swastikas and fueled ovens. Today, it marches under banners of peace while chanting calls for genocide. Violence and division crack societies open. Here in America, it’s left against right, flesh against spirit, neighbor against neighbor.

Truth struggles to find a home. Even the church is slumbering — or worse, collaborating.

Our society tells us that everything must be reset: tradition, marriage, gender, faith, even love. The only sin left is believing in absolute truth. Screens replace Scripture. Entertainment replaces education. Pleasure replaces purpose. Our children are confused, medicated, addicted, fatherless, suicidal. Universities mock virtue. Congress is indifferent. Media programs rather than informs. Schools recondition rather than educate.

Is this worth saving? If not, we should stop fighting and throw up our hands. But if it is, then we must act — and we must act now.

The West: An idea worth saving

What is the West? It’s not a location, race, flag, or a particular constitution. The West is an idea — an idea that man is made in the image of God, that liberty comes from responsibility, not government; that truth exists; that evil exists; and that courage is required every day. The West teaches that education, reason, and revelation walk hand in hand. Beauty matters. Kindness matters. Empathy matters. Sacrifice is holy. Justice is blind. Mercy is near.

We have squandered this inheritance. We forgot who we were — and our enemies are eager to write our ending.

If not now, when? If not us, who? If this is worth saving, we must know why. Western civilization is worth dying for, worth living for, worth defending. It was built on the blood of martyrs, prophets, poets, pilgrims, moms, dads, and soldiers. They did not die for markets, pronouns, surveillance, or currency. They died for something higher, something bigger.

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Yet hope remains. Resurrection is real — not only in the tomb outside Jerusalem, but in the bones of any individual or group that returns to truth, honor, and God. It is never too late to return to family, community, accountability, and responsibility.

Pick up your torch

We were chosen for this time. We were made for a moment like this. The events unfolding in Europe and South Korea, the unrest and moral collapse, will all come down to us. Somewhere inside, we know we were called to carry this fire.

We are not called to win. We are called to stand. To hold the torch. To ask ourselves, every day: Is it worth standing? Is it worth saving?

The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. Pick up your torch. If you choose to carry it, buckle up. The work is only beginning.

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.

Stop coasting: How self-education can save America’s future

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Coasting through life is no longer an option. Charlie Kirk’s pursuit of knowledge challenges all of us to learn, act, and grow every day.

Last year, my wife and I made a commitment: to stop coasting, to learn something new every day, and to grow — not just spiritually, but intellectually. Charlie Kirk’s tragic death crystallized that resolve. It forced a hard look in the mirror, revealing how much I had coasted in both my spiritual and educational life. Coasting implies going downhill. You can’t coast uphill.

Last night, my wife and I re-engaged. We enrolled in Hillsdale College’s free online courses, inspired by the fact that Charlie had done the same. He had quietly completed around 30 courses before I even knew, mastering the classics, civics, and the foundations of liberty. Watching his relentless pursuit of knowledge reminded me that growth never stops, no matter your age.

The path forward must be reclaiming education, agency, and the power to shape our minds and futures.

This lesson is particularly urgent for two groups: young adults stepping into the world and those who may have settled into complacency. Learning is life. Stop learning, and you start dying. To young adults, especially, the college promise has become a trap. Twelve years of K-12 education now leave graduates unprepared for life. Only 35% of seniors are proficient in reading, and just 22% in math. They are asked to bet $100,000 or more for four years of college that will often leave them underemployed and deeply indebted.

Degrees in many “new” fields now carry negative returns. Parents who have already sacrificed for public education find themselves on the hook again, paying for a system that often fails to deliver.

This is one of the reasons why Charlie often described college as a “scam.” Debt accumulates, wages are not what students were promised, doors remain closed, and many are tempted to throw more time and money after a system that won’t yield results. Graduate school, in many cases, compounds the problem. The education system has become a factory of despair, teaching cynicism rather than knowledge and virtue.

Reclaiming educational agency

Yet the solution is not radical revolt against education — it is empowerment to reclaim agency over one’s education. Independent learning, self-guided study, and disciplined curiosity are the modern “Napster moment.” Just as Napster broke the old record industry by digitizing music, the internet has placed knowledge directly in the hands of the individual. Artists like Taylor Swift now thrive outside traditional gatekeepers. Likewise, students and lifelong learners can reclaim intellectual freedom outside of the ivory towers.

Each individual possesses the ability to think, create, and act. This is the power God grants to every human being. Knowledge, faith, and personal responsibility are inseparable. Learning is not a commodity to buy with tuition; it is a birthright to claim with effort.

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Charlie Kirk’s life reminds us that self-education is an act of defiance and empowerment. In his pursuit of knowledge, in his engagement with civics and philosophy, he exemplified the principle that liberty depends on informed, capable citizens. We honor him best by taking up that mantle — by learning relentlessly, thinking critically, and refusing to surrender our minds to a system that profits from ignorance.

The path forward must be reclaiming education, agency, and the power to shape our minds and futures. Every day, seek to grow, create, and act. Charlie showed the way. It is now our responsibility to follow.

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.

Glenn Beck joins TPUSA tour to honor Charlie Kirk

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If they thought the murder of Charlie Kirk would scare us into silence, they were wrong!

If anything, Turning Point will hit the road louder than ever. On Monday, September 22, less than two weeks after the assassination, Charlie's friends united under the Turning Point USA banner to carry his torch and honor his legacy by doing what he did best: bringing honest and truthful debate to Universities across the nation.

Naturally, Glenn has rallied to the cause and has accepted an invitation to join the TPUSA tour at the University of North Dakota on October 9th.

Want to join Glenn at the University of North Dakota to honor Charlie Kirk and keep his mission alive? Click HERE to sign up or find more information.

Glenn's daughter honors Charlie Kirk with emotional tribute song

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On September 17th, Glenn commemorated his late friend Charlie Kirk by hosting The Charlie Kirk Show Podcast, where he celebrated and remembered the life of a remarkable young man.

During the broadcast, Glenn shared an emotional new song performed by his daughter, Cheyenne, who was standing only feet away from Charlie when he was assassinated. The song, titled "We Are One," has been dedicated to Charlie Kirk as a tribute and was written and co-performed by David Osmond, son of Alan Osmond, founding member of The Osmonds.

Glenn first asked David Osmond to write "We Are One" in 2018, as he predicted that dark days were on the horizon, but he never imagined that it would be sung by his daughter in honor of Charlie Kirk. The Lord works in mysterious ways; could there have been a more fitting song to honor such a brave man?

"We Are One" is available for download or listening on Spotify HERE