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EXCLUSIVE: Rep Nancy Mace heads to Clemson in wake of Kirk assassination: ‘We won’t be silenced’

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EXCLUSIVE: U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., vowed to stand fearlessly with young conservatives in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination — a tragedy that sparked national outrage and led to three Clemson professors being fired after allegedly celebrating his death.
In an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital ahead of her address Wednesday at a Turning Point USA (TPUSA) gathering at Clemson University in South Carolina, Mace said she and other conservative leaders will continue speaking in public to honor the late TPUSA founder’s legacy, noting, «we’re not going to be afraid.»
The South Carolina gubernatorial candidate’s public appearance comes less than a month after Kirk, 31, was fatally shot while speaking at Utah Valley University on Sept. 10, leaving behind his wife, Erika, and two young children.
Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., was slated to address a Turning Point USA event at Clemson University on Wednesday. (Tracy Glantz/The State/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
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«I want all of our young people across South Carolina and the country to know that we are with them, that we are all Charlie Kirk and that they will be supported — that we aren’t going to allow anyone, or any political violence, to stop this movement or this moment,» Mace said.
«We are doing this for Charlie Kirk. We’re doing this for Turning Point. We’re doing this for the millions of Charlie Kirks that are now out there today, who want to carry the torch forward, and we’re not going to be afraid,» she added. «We’re going to continue to do these things in public. We’re going to respect and honor free speech and our faith, and we’re going to do it as publicly and valiantly as we can.»

People raise placards reading «This is our Turning Point» during a memorial service for slain conservative commentator Charlie Kirk at State Farm Stadium, Sept. 21, in Glendale, Ariz. (Brian Snyder/Reuters)
Following Kirk’s killing, Fox Digital reported young conservatives were harassed at on-campus memorials, as professors across the country faced firings over insensitive public posts condoning the activist’s murder.
At Clemson alone, three professors were terminated after allegedly celebrating Kirk’s death.
Mace said young members of the Clemson College Republicans and the Clemson TPUSA chapter worked together to ensure the public, elected officials and President Donald Trump were aware of the professors’ comments, and were instrumental in booting them from campus.
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«They made a difference where it mattered, because those who are promoting murder, inciting murder, shouldn’t be teaching our kids. Regardless of your politics or what your beliefs are, you shouldn’t be near students or indoctrinating them,» she said. «There are hundreds, if not thousands, of students on every campus across the country who are with you. When we speak up in numbers, we can’t be defeated.»
She added her message to parents concerned about leftist indoctrination on college campuses is one of hope.
«I have never been more proud and had more confidence in a generation than I do today, because these young men and women have stepped up in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s tragic murder, and they have stepped up to fill in the gap, and it is an inspiration,» Mace said.

Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., said she is proud of young conservatives speaking up in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
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The university also came under fire in April after Mace revealed Clemson had a health portal form that listed 15 gender identity options, excluding male and female.
Though the form was eventually taken down, Mace noted school officials «deflected any and all blame.»
«I expect better than that, and even when these professors came forward, we saw a slow response from Clemson,» she said. «Luckily, the Board of Trustees held an emergency meeting and did the right thing, so we are going to have to continue to have eyes on and put pressure on Clemson to do the right thing.»
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Mace said amid the chaos, it is important lawmakers and the courts step in to protect free speech, and continue to honor Kirk’s mission.
«The First Amendment is a right established by our founders, and when we need to step in, we should absolutely do that,» she said. «That’s what you saw happen in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination. You saw lawmakers step up, come forward, and protect the free speech of students on campuses everywhere.»
Fox News Digital’s Jasmine Baehr contributed to this report.
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Johnson accuses Schumer of blocking ‘real discussion’ to keep government open

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EXCLUSIVE: Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., is accusing Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., of refusing to vote to end the government shutdown to kowtow to his left-wing base.
Johnson told Fox News Digital in a sit-down interview that Democrats’ refusal to budge on their current position came up in an hour-long call with President Donald Trump Wednesday afternoon.
«[Trump is] very bothered by that, that Chuck Schumer would do this, Democrats would do this, because we haven’t,» the top House Republican said.
He noted that Democrats had voted on a similar measure to what Republicans are offering on 13 different occasions under former President Joe Biden.
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House Speaker Mike Johnson, right, is criticizing Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s, left, for refusing to agree to a GOP-led plan to avert a government shutdown. (Kent Nishimura/Bloomberg via Getty Images; Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)
«And even when the Republicans were in the minority, we did the right thing to keep the government open. And we fully expected that Schumer would do that again, as he always has, but not this time,» Johnson said.
«This is a selfish political calculation he’s made, that he’s got to prove to the far left that he’s going to fight Trump or something. So, we talked about our frustration with that.»
He said Trump appeared «happy» that Republicans remain unified in their federal funding stance but was concerned about the effects of a prolonged shutdown on everyday Americans.
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«But the reason we’re happy about that is because we know we’re doing the right thing for the American people,» Johnson said. «And Chuck Schumer and the Democrats are demonstrating that they are willing to inflict this pain upon the people for their own political purposes. And I think that is a tough thing for them to get over.»
He said of a meeting between congressional leaders and Trump that occurred Monday: «I tried my best in the White House, and he just is in no mood to have a real discussion about these issues. So, we are where we are.»

President Donald Trump, right, salutes Air Force Col. Christopher M. Robinson, commander, 89th Airlift Wing, before boarding Marine One upon his arrival at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, Friday, Sept. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Luis M. Alvarez)
Senate Democrats have now rejected a GOP-led plan to fund federal agencies through Nov. 21 three times.
The measure is called a continuing resolution (CR) and is aimed at buying House and Senate negotiators more time to reach a deal on fiscal year 2026 federal funding priorities.
The CR would keep current federal funding levels roughly flat while adding an extra $88 million in security spending for lawmakers, the White House and the judicial branch.
Democrats, furious at being largely sidelined in funding discussions, have signaled they would not accept any bill that does not also extend Obamacare tax subsidies that were enhanced during the COVID-19 pandemic. Those enhanced subsidies are due to expire at the end of this year.
But Johnson, who called the Obamacare subsidies an «end-of-year issue,» argued that the bill was a simple extension of federal funding, leaving Republicans with no realistic path for concessions.

Sen. Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., speaks with reporters near his office on Capitol Hill Sept. 18, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)
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«If it was not clean and simple, if I had loaded it up with a bunch of Republican partisan priorities, then there would be something for us to negotiate. I could take those things off and offer it again. I sent it over with nothing attached at all,» he said.
«It quite literally is just buying us time to finish the appropriations process, which was being done in a bipartisan manner. So, I don’t have anything to give, there’s nothing I can give. And Chuck Schumer has made such outrageous counter-demands and proposals that he’s the one that has to come to his senses.»
He was referring to Democrats’ counter-proposal for a CR, which would have repealed the Medicaid reforms made in Republicans’ One Big, Beautiful Bill, while restoring funding for NPR and PBS that was cut by the Trump administration earlier this year.
Fox News Digital reached out to Schumer’s office for a response but did not hear back by press time.
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Carlos Zanón: “El libro es un enfermo con una salud de hierro”

Es la cuarta vez que Carlos Zanón visita la Argentina pero esta, dice, la nota distinta. En el ambiente se respira otro aroma. La última vez —piensa— fue hace unos ocho o nueve años. “Sí, distinta. De todos modos es el día a día lo que tienes que evaluar. Se ve que la gente habla menos de política, por ejemplo. Eso es algo que me ha sorprendido. Hace diez años, cuando entrabas a un taxi o en un bar, todo el mundo hablaba de política. Ahora parece que la gente está bastante escaldada de hablar de política. Entonces hablamos de otras cosas, de la eliminación de River, y ya está”.
Este escritor nacido en Barcelona en 1966, autor de una veintena de libros —varios poemarios, también libros sobre música y un incipiente énfasis en la novela en los últimos años—, es uno de los grandes invitados del festival Semana Negra BA 2025. Hoy a las siete de la tarde va a estar junto a Claudia Piñeiro en una charla titulada “Charco noir: el género a un lado y otro del Atlántico”. Será en la Casa de la Cultura con la moderación de Hinde Pomeraniec. Y mañana, viernes, a la seis y media de la tarde conversará con Gabriela Saidon en el Centro Cultural de España en Buenos Aires.
“A la Argentina me unen los libros. Desde chaval ya leía autores argentinos”, dice del otro lado del teléfono, y recuerda a uno con mucho cariño: «Julio Cortázar para mí fue una fascinación». “He seguido leyendo las cosas que se hacían aquí. Tengo muchos amigos. Selva Almada, Claudia Piñeiro, Gaby Cabezón. La verdad es que tengo muchas referencias de lo que está pasando aquí“, dice quien hoy se ha vuelto una referencia en la novela negra. Su último libro, Love song (Salamandra, 2022), cuyos personajes viven con la máxima que “todo en la vida pasa una vez y media”, es una buena muestra.
El ingreso de Zanón al género negro fue “muy casual”: “No era consciente, porque en España el género negro es muy flexible, no es sólo el policial y las categorías no son tan marcadas como en otros países. A mí, como autor, el género puro y duro no me interesa. Me interesa más la tradición, que quizás viene de Patricia Highsmith, de una novela psicológica, una novela existencialista también. Me interesa más el por qué que el quién mató a quién: por qué suceden las cosas, qué harías tú en una situación determinada, qué pasa en las ciudades, de qué manera gestionamos las familias».
“Me interesa más explorar ambientes y personajes, también todo aquello que se mezcla con el fantástico, con lo histórico o simplemente con la novela costumbrista de toda la vida. Me interesa, sobre todo, una mirada negra”, dice Zanón y se pone su propio traje, el que más cómodo le queda, porque es el suyo, el que tiene “un cierto pesimismo, un cierto determinismo quizás”. “Mi mirada como escritor, mi visión de la sociedad, es más pesimista y determinista en el sentido de que el destino es el carácter. Lo que te va a pasar es como eres y de ahí no puedes escapar por mucho que lo intentes. Me interesa ese tipo de mirada en donde no hay salida. Es lo que yo llamo mirada negra”.
Antes de Love song y Taxi, antes de resucitar al emblemático detective de Manuel Vázquez Montalbán con Carvalho: problemas de identidad, incluso antes de Yo fui Johnny Thunders y de Tarde, mal y nunca, lo que había en Zanón era un poeta. “La poesía es la manera en que gestiono la literatura: trabajar las palabras y el contexto. Toda literatura, si es literatura, es música, y si es música, es poesía. Nos gusta cómo nos explican las cosas, más que lo que nos explican: las palabras que eligen, el tiempo, la musicalidad. La diferencia entre redactar y escribir es la música”.

En los sesenta y setenta, en la casa familiar de los Zanón no había libros desperdigados por las habitaciones ni una pila de títulos sosteniendo una maceta con un potus. Mucho menos una colorida biblioteca. Sus padres no eran grandes lectores, sin embargo le insistían con los beneficios de la lectura. A su padre le gustaba un libro, tal vez el único, Los tres mosqueteros de Alejandro Dumas, y se lo inoculó. “A mí tampoco, cuando era crío, me gustaba leer, pero sí me gustaba mucho Los tres mosqueteros. Lo leí muchísimas veces. Ese fue mi primer contacto con la literatura», agrega.
En el fondo del recuerdo aparece un tío, docente de primaria que murió en un accidente de tránsito. Cuando Carlos Zanón se fue a vivir con sus abuelos se encontró con su biblioteca. “Leer esos libros fue una manera de estar en contacto con él. Era una biblioteca absolutamente heterogénea, desde Cómo aprender kárate en treinta lecciones a una colección sobre las cien mejores obras de la historia. Recuerdo Lord Byron, Bécquer, Julio Verne, Emilio Salgari, los cuentos de Cortázar. Leía Madame Bovary a una edad que no entendía nada. Todo era como un misterio, un código secreto».
“Somos historias”, dice Zanón. “Nos explicamos todo como historias y creo que eso tiene que ver mucho con la ficción y con la función literaria. El hecho de abrir un libro, que es hecho individual, me parece que es algo imparable, algo siempre muy subversivo”. Ni las pantallas podrán, opina Zanón, porque “el libro es un enfermo con una salud de hierro”. “Leer no nos hace mejores, pero sí nos abre la cabeza y nos permite vivir otras vidas, porque con la que tenemos no nos es suficiente. Eso creo que es lo que dan los libros. A diferencia de otras plataformas, exige un esfuerzo, y es recompensado”, concluye.
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