WATCH: See Glenn's full speech from Values Voter Summit

This afternoon in Washington, D.C., Glenn spoke at the Values Voter Summit on the extraordinary change occurring throughout politics in America and the role faith is going to play.

"I think we're on the verge of extraordinary times," Glenn told the crowd, "and I think our vision is way too small."

As one attendee tweeted, with his chalkboard at his side, Glenn poised to lay out the facts about what challenges the country faces, and how, if people of faith don't stand firm, it could look like a "brave new world".

 

Glenn pointed out that there have been amazing advancements in technology — things that could empower Americans to educate themselves beyond their imagination without stepping foot on a college campus, but they're also shifting the focus of many from what matters and causing those in power to hold onto it as strongly as possible.

"90% of what you're living is garbage," Glenn noted, pointing out how families sit around the dinner table with their eye fixed to their mobile device or watching TV.

Glenn's point here wasn't that technology is bad, he encourages his audience to use social media every day to spread the truth, his point is that we're allowing it to shift our focus from what we're supposed to be doing and who we really are. It's taking individuals into a world of virtual reality, further away from the truth. Hardly something Americans need in a time when the media and politicians are running from reality as fast as possible.

The Beck household has a new policy now, Glenn explained, no video games in the house. Not because Glenn thinks video games are evil, but because his son was so fixated on the virtual, not the real. The information and communication advancements are incredible and useful, but they're for life outside of the house.

"I put on our chalkboard at home: The next person caught playing video games in this home can find all of the electronics at the bottom of the pool," Glenn said.

Despite the universal opposition to Glenn's new rule (including his own), overnight the family dynamics fundamentally changed. They spent more time talking and interacting with one another, reading the scriptures together, it kept them from being distracted from one another at home.

Glenn compared this to what he believes the country needs to. Not cut out electronics, but interact with one another on a personal level. Focus on the things that matter.

"It's not hard to fix the things that are wrong with our world," Glenn explained, "because we are all individually broken."

Glenn explained that as a nation, America is focused on the wrong things and losing its way, because our families are focused on the wrong things. And, many Americans are looking for someone else to fix the problems.

"When the country was founded, what used to be at the center of every town?" Glenn asked the audience.

The answer: The Church.

"What's at the center now?" he continued.

Shopping and entertainment.

Glenn's point? It's no secret that Americans are fat and addicted to entertainment. But while progressive mayors, like Bloomberg, go after the businesses, Glenn pointed out that it's a problem with the individual and the family, not the overall community. Almost all of our problems can be boiled down to the individual level.

"We are fat and addicted to entertainment and television," Glenn continued. "If you're designing a house, what is at the center? Your kitchen and living room."

"What we design is who we are," he added. "It's time to redesign."

And Glenn wasn't just talking about our neighborhoods, but the whole system. The country, from an individual level to a national level needs to be redesigned to focus on the truth and the individual.

Using education as an example, Glenn explained that the solution isn't clearly not looking to government leaders for solutions to the problems with society, the solutions is shifting focus back to the things that matter — who we are, faith, family, and charity.

"Serving God is serving your fellow man," he said to the Values Voter attendees. "That's the American religion. That's why we're charitable. Serve your fellow man."

Glenn noted that serving our fellow man and a belief in a better tomorrow are what make America exception. He went on to recount the true story of Thomas Edison and Tesla. While most give credit for the innovation of affordable electricity to Edison, it's Tesla who was responsible for a/c (the alternating current). For that history, click HERE, but it all boils down to one man trying to hold onto power instead of doing what's right for the individual.

Does that remind you of anything going on just down the street at in the Capitol building? It should, and that's where Glenn was headed next.

Wrapping up his speech, Glenn told the crowd that they are close to winning. He pointed out the dismal poll number from inside the GOP that are being reported across the media — except, he had a different take. What the media isn't tell the public is that the low GOP approval rating is from Republicans. Americans are upset with the leadership in the Republican Party because they aren't representing them. Instead, they're focused on holding onto power.

“You are looking at a one party system,” Beck told the audience Saturday at the Values Voters Summit in Washington.

“You’re looking at a system with John Boehner, John Cornyn, Lindsey Graham, Chuck Schumer, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, they’re all the same. I am thrilled to say we are finally standing up. We are finally saying ‘No, this is what we believe and we will not move.”

Beck said the notion that Cruz and Lee will harm the Republican Party by holding firm against Obamacare is wrong.

“I’m tired of people saying, ‘oh but we might lose, yes. And we just might win,” Beck said, causing the ballroom to erupt in a rousing standing ovation.

He also pointed out that President Obama’s approval rating now is three points lower than President George W. Bush’s approval rating was at this point in his second term. Given that Obama has the backing of the media when Bush had the scorn of the media, Beck said he believes Republicans should show more backbone.

“The guy who had the press going after him saying, I think this guy might be a vampire,” Beck said of Bush. He added of Obama, “He has the movies. He has the university system. He has television. He has the news. He has GE, Comcast, and NBC. And he still has a lower approval rating than Bush.”

“Why are Republicans at 28 percent approval? I’m surprised they’re that high,” Beck said. “They will tell you because of peope like Ted Cruz or people like Mike Lee. That couldn’t be further from the truth. I believe those two guys are stopping the Republicans from having an 18 percent approval rating. These guys are truly remarkable. They both went to their constituents in the election and said, this is exactly who I am and this is exactly what I’m going to do. And now they are getting hammered by the press and the Republicans for doing exactly what they said they were going to do.”

Americans want a party that actually represents them.

"We don't want to start a third party," he noted, comparing the lack of principle in the GOP with the Whig party — the party the Republicans rose from the ashes of.

“Let me tell you a little story. History repeats itself. ‘You don’t want to start a third party.’ But there were about 20 Whigs and a few Democrats who said, you’re lying to us. It’s time to end slavery and you’re lying to us.”

Seeming to make a comparison to Ted Cruz, Beck noted how “Charles Sumner was one of the most unpopular senators. He was tearing apart the Whig party. Everything you’re hearing has happened before.”

He added, “It was six years later that a big gawky skinny guy with a goofy hat stood up and said I’m a Republican and I’m going to end slavery."

"You’re on the verge of winning. And it’s going to happen quickly if you don’t compromise you’re values."

Civics isn’t optional—America's survival depends on it

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Every vote, jury duty, and act of engagement is civics in action, not theory. The republic survives only when citizens embrace responsibility.

I slept through high school civics class. I memorized the three branches of government, promptly forgot them, and never thought of that word again. Civics seemed abstract, disconnected from real life. And yet, it is critical to maintaining our republic.

Civics is not a class. It is a responsibility. A set of habits, disciplines, and values that make a country possible. Without it, no country survives.

We assume America will survive automatically, but every generation must learn to carry the weight of freedom.

Civics happens every time you speak freely, worship openly, question your government, serve on a jury, or cast a ballot. It’s not a theory or just another entry in a textbook. It’s action — the acts we perform every day to be a positive force in society.

Many of us recoil at “civic responsibility.” “I pay my taxes. I follow the law. I do my civic duty.” That’s not civics. That’s a scam, in my opinion.

Taking up the torch

The founders knew a republic could never run on autopilot. And yet, that’s exactly what we do now. We assume it will work, then complain when it doesn’t. Meanwhile, the people steering the country are driving it straight into a mountain — and they know it.

Our founders gave us tools: separation of powers, checks and balances, federalism, elections. But they also warned us: It won’t work unless we are educated, engaged, and moral.

Are we educated, engaged, and moral? Most Americans cannot even define a republic, never mind “keep one,” as Benjamin Franklin urged us to do after the Constitutional Convention.

We fought and died for the republic. Gaining it was the easy part. Keeping it is hard. And keeping it is done through civics.

Start small and local

In our homes, civics means teaching our children the Constitution, our history, and that liberty is not license — it is the space to do what is right. In our communities, civics means volunteering, showing up, knowing your sheriff, attending school board meetings, and understanding the laws you live under. When necessary, it means challenging them.

How involved are you in your local community? Most people would admit: not really.

Civics is learned in practice. And it starts small. Be honest in your business dealings. Speak respectfully in disagreement. Vote in every election, not just the presidential ones. Model citizenship for your children. Liberty is passed down by teaching and example.

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We assume America will survive automatically, but every generation must learn to carry the weight of freedom.

Start with yourself. Study the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and state laws. Study, act, serve, question, and teach. Only then can we hope to save the republic. The next election will not fix us. The nation will rise or fall based on how each of us lives civics every day.

Civics isn’t a class. It’s the way we protect freedom, empower our communities, and pass down liberty to the next generation.

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.

'Rage against the dying of the light': Charlie Kirk lived that mandate

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Kirk’s tragic death challenges us to rise above fear and anger, to rebuild bridges where others build walls, and to fight for the America he believed in.

I’ve only felt this weight once before. It was 2001, just as my radio show was about to begin. The World Trade Center fell, and I was called to speak immediately. I spent the day and night by my bedside, praying for words that could meet the moment.

Yesterday, I found myself in the same position. September 11, 2025. The assassination of Charlie Kirk. A friend. A warrior for truth.

Out of this tragedy, the tyrant dies, but the martyr’s influence begins.

Moments like this make words feel inadequate. Yet sometimes, words from another time speak directly to our own. In 1947, Dylan Thomas, watching his father slip toward death, penned lines that now resonate far beyond his own grief:

Do not go gentle into that good night. / Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Thomas was pleading for his father to resist the impending darkness of death. But those words have become a mandate for all of us: Do not surrender. Do not bow to shadows. Even when the battle feels unwinnable.

Charlie Kirk lived that mandate. He knew the cost of speaking unpopular truths. He knew the fury of those who sought to silence him. And yet he pressed on. In his life, he embodied a defiance rooted not in anger, but in principle.

Picking up his torch

Washington, Jefferson, Adams — our history was started by men who raged against an empire, knowing the gallows might await. Lincoln raged against slavery. Martin Luther King Jr. raged against segregation. Every generation faces a call to resist surrender.

It is our turn. Charlie’s violent death feels like a knockout punch. Yet if his life meant anything, it means this: Silence in the face of darkness is not an option.

He did not go gently. He spoke. He challenged. He stood. And now, the mantle falls to us. To me. To you. To every American.

We cannot drift into the shadows. We cannot sit quietly while freedom fades. This is our moment to rage — not with hatred, not with vengeance, but with courage. Rage against lies, against apathy, against the despair that tells us to do nothing. Because there is always something you can do.

Even small acts — defiance, faith, kindness — are light in the darkness. Reaching out to those who mourn. Speaking truth in a world drowning in deceit. These are the flames that hold back the night. Charlie carried that torch. He laid it down yesterday. It is ours to pick up.

The light may dim, but it always does before dawn. Commit today: I will not sleep as freedom fades. I will not retreat as darkness encroaches. I will not be silent as evil forces claim dominion. I have no king but Christ. And I know whom I serve, as did Charlie.

Two turning points, decades apart

On Wednesday, the world changed again. Two tragedies, separated by decades, bound by the same question: Who are we? Is this worth saving? What kind of people will we choose to be?

Imagine a world where more of us choose to be peacemakers. Not passive, not silent, but builders of bridges where others erect walls. Respect and listening transform even the bitterest of foes. Charlie Kirk embodied this principle.

He did not strike the weak; he challenged the powerful. He reached across divides of politics, culture, and faith. He changed hearts. He sparked healing. And healing is what our nation needs.

At the center of all this is one truth: Every person is a child of God, deserving of dignity. Change will not happen in Washington or on social media. It begins at home, where loneliness and isolation threaten our souls. Family is the antidote. Imperfect, yes — but still the strongest source of stability and meaning.

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Forgiveness, fidelity, faithfulness, and honor are not dusty words. They are the foundation of civilization. Strong families produce strong citizens. And today, Charlie’s family mourns. They must become our family too. We must stand as guardians of his legacy, shining examples of the courage he lived by.

A time for courage

I knew Charlie. I know how he would want us to respond: Multiply his courage. Out of this tragedy, the tyrant dies, but the martyr’s influence begins. Out of darkness, great and glorious things will sprout — but we must be worthy of them.

Charlie Kirk lived defiantly. He stood in truth. He changed the world. And now, his torch is in our hands. Rage, not in violence, but in unwavering pursuit of truth and goodness. Rage against the dying of the light.

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.

Glenn Beck is once again calling on his loyal listeners and viewers to come together and channel the same unity and purpose that defined the historic 9-12 Project. That movement, born in the wake of national challenges, brought millions together to revive core values of faith, hope, and charity.

Glenn created the original 9-12 Project in early 2009 to bring Americans back to where they were in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. In those moments, we weren't Democrats and Republicans, conservative or liberal, Red States or Blue States, we were united as one, as America. The original 9-12 Project aimed to root America back in the founding principles of this country that united us during those darkest of days.

This new initiative draws directly from that legacy, focusing on supporting the family of Charlie Kirk in these dark days following his tragic murder.

The revival of the 9-12 Project aims to secure the long-term well-being of Charlie Kirk's wife and children. All donations will go straight to meeting their immediate and future needs. If the family deems the funds surplus to their requirements, Charlie's wife has the option to redirect them toward the vital work of Turning Point USA.

This campaign is more than just financial support—it's a profound gesture of appreciation for Kirk's tireless dedication to the cause of liberty. It embodies the unbreakable bond of our community, proving that when we stand united, we can make a real difference.
Glenn Beck invites you to join this effort. Show your solidarity by donating today and honoring Charlie Kirk and his family in this meaningful way.

You can learn more about the 9-12 Project and donate HERE

The critical difference: Rights from the Creator, not the state

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When politicians claim that rights flow from the state, they pave the way for tyranny.

Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) recently delivered a lecture that should alarm every American. During a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing, he argued that believing rights come from a Creator rather than government is the same belief held by Iran’s theocratic regime.

Kaine claimed that the principles underpinning Iran’s dictatorship — the same regime that persecutes Sunnis, Jews, Christians, and other minorities — are also the principles enshrined in our Declaration of Independence.

In America, rights belong to the individual. In Iran, rights serve the state.

That claim exposes either a profound misunderstanding or a reckless indifference to America’s founding. Rights do not come from government. They never did. They come from the Creator, as the Declaration of Independence proclaims without qualification. Jefferson didn’t hedge. Rights are unalienable — built into every human being.

This foundation stands worlds apart from Iran. Its leaders invoke God but grant rights only through clerical interpretation. Freedom of speech, property, religion, and even life itself depend on obedience to the ruling clerics. Step outside their dictates, and those so-called rights vanish.

This is not a trivial difference. It is the essence of liberty versus tyranny. In America, rights belong to the individual. The government’s role is to secure them, not define them. In Iran, rights serve the state. They empower rulers, not the people.

From Muhammad to Marx

The same confusion applies to Marxist regimes. The Soviet Union’s constitutions promised citizens rights — work, health care, education, freedom of speech — but always with fine print. If you spoke out against the party, those rights evaporated. If you practiced religion openly, you were charged with treason. Property and voting were allowed as long as they were filtered and controlled by the state — and could be revoked at any moment. Rights were conditional, granted through obedience.

Kaine seems to be advocating a similar approach — whether consciously or not. By claiming that natural rights are somehow comparable to sharia law, he ignores the critical distinction between inherent rights and conditional privileges. He dismisses the very principle that made America a beacon of freedom.

Jefferson and the founders understood this clearly. “We are endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights,” they wrote. No government, no cleric, no king can revoke them. They exist by virtue of humanity itself. The government exists to protect them, not ration them.

This is not a theological quibble. It is the entire basis of our government. Confuse the source of rights, and tyranny hides behind piety or ideology. The people are disempowered. Clerics, bureaucrats, or politicians become arbiters of what rights citizens may enjoy.

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Gifts from God, not the state

Kaine’s statement reflects either a profound ignorance of this principle or an ideological bias that favors state power over individual liberty. Either way, Americans must recognize the danger. Understanding the origin of rights is not academic — it is the difference between freedom and submission, between the American experiment and theocratic or totalitarian rule.

Rights are not gifts from the state. They are gifts from God, secured by reason, protected by law, and defended by the people. Every American must understand this. Because when rights come from government instead of the Creator, freedom disappears.

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.