Erika Kirk finds surprising inspiration from Rachel Maddow on anti-ICE protests

Turning Level USA CEO Erika Kirk took stunning inspiration from feedback made by liberal MS NOW host Rachel Maddow, drawing a parallel between the continued anti-ICE protests and the upswing that has occurred following her husband’s homicide.

On the kickoff of TPUSA Religion’s inaugural Make Heaven Crowded tour in Los Angeles on Wednesday, Kirk cited a dialog Maddow had earlier this month with late-night host Jimmy Kimmel, which she stated was shared in a bunch chat with the workers of “The Charlie Kirk Present.”

“I am unable to even consider I am saying their names in a church,” Kirk jokingly instructed the group at LA’s Harvest Church.

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Erika Kirk, CEO of Turning Level USA, speaks on the kickoff of the “Make Heaven Crowded” tour in Los Angeles, California on Wednesday, January 21, 2026. (Screenshot/Turning Level US)

Through the dialog, Kimmel requested Maddow if she believed something would come of the protests which have erupted towards the Trump administration, to which Maddow firmly replied, “Sure, I do.”

“By way of political science, there’s what’s referred to as the ‘3.5% rule,’ which is that in the event you take a look at the several types of authoritarian regimes all over the world during the last century, upon getting 3.5% of the inhabitants protesting nonviolently towards a dictator or an authoritarian, that is primarily an unstoppable pressure that they cannot resist, and that retains them from consolidating dictatorial energy.”

“It is not a lot greater than what we’re already seeing on the streets towards Trump,” Maddow added.

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MS NOW host Rachel Maddow invoked the “3.5% rule” relating to the long-lasting influence she believes the protests towards the Trump administration can have. (Randy Holmes/Disney through Getty Pictures)

Kirk shared her personal insights from that trade.

“It was fascinating as a result of he requested her the query, ‘Do you suppose these protests are serving to?’ Personally not. I believe it is demonic. However I understood the sensation of what she stated,” Kirk stated.

“She principally stated that when 3.5% of the inhabitants is protesting peacefully, and also you’re in nonviolent protest mode, it is very troublesome to let that go unnoticed. And it is very troublesome to place that again within the closet. It simply causes one thing,” she continued. “And I believed to myself: Charlie, in a approach, in a wholesome approach… he believed deeply within the energy of some devoted ones who would stand up and rise up for Christ, stand for the church, for what is sweet and delightful on this world, and struggle towards evil. And that solely takes a small share, 3.5%.”

Kirk then pointed to the big turnout at her husband’s memorial service, which stuffed a complete stadium of Christians of each denomination, and stated, “All of us got here collectively.”

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Erika Kirk pointed to her husband’s memorial service as proof that Charlie Kirk sparked a motion amongst Christians. (Charly Tribelleau/AFP/Getty Pictures)

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“It did not matter in the event you had been Baptist. It did not matter in the event you had been – I do not know, give me one other – Pentecostal or Catholic, it did not matter. You had been all there beneath the banner of Christ. That was necessary,” Kirk stated. “And I say that as a result of I wish to – this is the reason this tour exists. It brings unity. It is attempting to deliver that collective of three.5% collectively. And also you confirmed the distinction when 3.5% of this nation stands up and prays for this nation and is in revival, in comparison with the opposite aspect of what they suppose can change this nation, however can truly destroy this nation. The imaginative and prescient of that’s hanging. It is hanging. And Charlie knew that.”

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“And I simply need us to – I simply need us to grasp and notice that the fireplace of the Holy Spirit will not be supposed to remain inside the 4 partitions of the church. It is not,” she continued. “If we wish to proceed the wildfire of this revival throughout the nation, our mission is easy. It is at all times been easy. It is at all times been easy. Convey individuals to Jesus. Fill heaven. Quite simple.”