Republicans have spent a lot of energy making sure you remember Charlie Kirk .

After the conservative influencer was shot and killed in September, his funeral was televised live from Arizona’s State Farm Stadium. Flags flew at half mast in red states across the country. President Donald Trump declared Oct. 14, 2025 — Kirk’s birthday — an official National Day of Remembrance. Fox News awarded Kirk’s wife, Erika, with the first-ever “ Charlie Kirk Legacy Award.” And, online, there has been a never-ending stream of posts venerating Kirk as a martyr who died defending white Christian values. To say nothing of the hundreds of people who lost their jobs after the right-wing mob doxxed them over critical posts about Kirk.

So it is somewhat notable that in the last few weeks Kirk’s fac

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