Standing in front of the Tarrant County Courthouse Saturday evening, activist Carlos Turcios urged the thousands gathered to take Charlie Kirk’s death as “a wake-up call.”

Turcios, a member of the Tarrant County GOP and writer for the conservative online publication The Dallas Express, his wife, Zoey Turcios, and several Tarrant-based conservative activist groups gathered Saturday for a march and rally in downtown Fort Worth to honor Kirk, the founder of the conservative youth organization Turning Point USA who was fatally shot at a college event in Utah earlier this month.

“What we face is not politics as usual,” Turcios shouted into a microphone. “It’s not merely policy disagreement — this is spiritual warfare.”

Throughout the rally, activists and elected officials echoed the message,

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