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    "title": "Debate and Switch",
    "modified_at": "2026-08-17 17:44:20",
    "published_at": "2026-08-17 17:44:00",
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    "subtitle": "When Charlie Kirk Questions Get Uncomfortable, TPUSA Supporters Change the Subject",
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    "body": "<p>Charlie Kirk&rsquo;s assassination should have produced a relentless search for answers. Instead, according to <strong>Dave Hodges, host of The Common Sense Show</strong>, the aftermath has produced something far more troubling: an expanding list of unanswered questions, institutional defensiveness and a conservative movement increasingly willing to attack its own rather than demand transparency.</p><p>Hodges has been following the Kirk investigation intently since the assassination, and he believes Turning Point USA (TPUSA) continues to damage its own brand by failing to adequately address legitimate questions surrounding what happened. The issue is not about blindly embracing every theory surrounding Kirk&rsquo;s death. It is about asking questions that deserve clear, evidence-based answers&mdash;and demanding those answers from the people and organization closest to the circumstances.</p><p><strong>ABOUT DAVE HODGES&hellip;</strong></p><p>Dave Hodges is a Christian conservative Journalist. He is also the host of The Common Sense Show Podcast. Hodges is a former college basketball coach, teacher and professor of psychology as well as a mental health practitioner. He believes nothing we&#039;ve been told about the Charlie Kirk murder is factual.</p><p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https://specialguests.com/tpusa-facing-increasingly-tough-questions-kirk/\"><strong>CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE</strong></a></p><p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>TO SCHEDULE AN INTERVIEW, CALL OR TEXT 512-966-0983 OR EMAIL </strong><a href=\"mailto:BOOKINGS@SPECIALGUESTS.COM\"><strong>BOOKINGS@SPECIALGUESTS.COM</strong></a></p><p style=\"text-align: center\">&nbsp;</p>\n    <figure\n        class=\"release-content-image release-content-image--contained release-content-image--align-center\"\n    >\n        <a class=\"release-content-image__link\"\n           id=\"image-8272aef3-903b-430f-bc7d-c23078a2130c\"\n           href=\"https://specialguests.com/guests-topics/\"\n           data-id=\"8272aef3-903b-430f-bc7d-c23078a2130c\"\n           data-track=\"Story Image View\"\n           data-placement=\"content\"\n                            target=\"_blank\"\n                rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\n                       style=\"width: 13.89%\"\n        >\n            <img\n                class=\"release-content-image__image\"\n                src=\"https://cdn.uc.assets.prezly.com/8272aef3-903b-430f-bc7d-c23078a2130c/-/format/auto/\"\n                alt=\" \"\n                            >\n        </a>\n        <figcaption class=\"release-content-image__caption\"> </figcaption>\n    </figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">260 Union Square NW, Suite #208</p><p style=\"text-align: center\">Hickory, NC 28601 </p><p style=\"text-align: center\">&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p>",
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