Charlie Kirk

December 1: Joy Reid broadens her MAGA hate to Tea Party.

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Former CBS and NBC anchor Katie Couric unsuccessfully tried not once, not twice, but three times to get Pennsylvania Democratic Sen. John Fetterman to label President Trump as anti-democratic on Thursday’s episode of her Next Question podcast. It was just another example of former broadcast anchors and reporters confirming that they were not the down-the-middle reporters they claimed…

The 21st annual Free Speech Week marked a pivotal moment in America’s push toward reinvigorating free speech principles, hailed by the Media Research Center (MRC). The late Charlie Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA, was posthumously awarded for his fierce advocacy of free speech rooted in Christian and conservative beliefs. The tribute sparked discussions about growing intolerance and…

Americans increasingly support the First Amendment as Big Tech platforms and the U.S. government draw down their censorship efforts. This was evident in a 2025 poll showing that over half of Americans strongly disagree that the First Amendment is too broad.

On this 21st annual Free Speech Week, the Media Research Center recognized numerous individuals across the political sphere from the Trump administration to the halls of Congress and from public advocacy to the courts, but none were more deserving than the late Turning Point USA Founder Charlie Kirk. 

MRC president David Bozell appeared on Fox & Friends First Friday Morning to honor Charlie Kirk as the sole winner of MRC's annual free speech award. Host Todd Piro asked Bozell what other factors went into choosing Kirk for this award. 

Global censorship has surged in recent years, but a brave few have steadfastly stood against tyrannical regimes attempting to tighten their grip in America and abroad

After years of contending with the Biden White House and its anti-free speech Big Tech collaborators, free speech defenders face an administration far friendlier to their values and, as a result, a wildly different social media landscape. 

The Media Research Center announced Wednesday that it is awarding its annual Free Speech Award exclusively to Charlie Kirk, the late founder of Turning Point USA and a fearless defender of the First Amendment. This approach differs from that taken in 2024, when 35 people were recognized for their strong efforts to defend free speech rights. 

While Wednesday night’s CNN town hall with Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) was 92 minutes of what our Jorge Bonilla dubbed “an extended infomercial for socialism in America,” NewsNation held a town hall a few miles away at the Kennedy Center that not only ran longer, but featured a robust debate with a parade of guests spanning both age and the…

Wikipedia added yet more critical language to assassinated Turning Point USA Founder Charlie Kirk’s page days before his posthumous reception of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Media Research Center had found.

If you have been reading, watching or listening to the coverage of the war in Gaza, post October 7, 2023, it should come as no surprise that public opinion has been turning against Israel, even in this country. Poll after poll has shown this to be the case, and the latest findings by The New York Times and Siena University, show that more Americans back the Palestinians for the first…

The nation is rightly traumatized by the horrible assassination of Charlie Kirk. The media is filled, also rightly, with give and take trying to understand what can and should be done so that we don’t see more of the same. But unfortunately, much of the expression that I hear is informed by the same misguided sense of right and wrong that brought to fruition the horrible act.