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Jan. 22, 2026 - Lionel Nation
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Candace Owens DESTROYS Erika Kirk & TPUSA – New Bombshell Timeline EXPOSED!

Candace Owens DESTROYS Erika Kirk & TPUSA – New Bombshell Timeline EXPOSED!

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End of TPUSA 00:11:24
You know, every single day we see more and more evidence of the unraveling, the collapse, the destruction, the elimination, the control demolition of TPUSA and its structure, and also what happens to Erica Kirk.
Every day, Candace Owens goes on in her various podcasts and guests, and she rips the lid and pulls the scab off more wounds and allows more purulence and pus to ooze out.
There's no end to this.
Pretty soon, pretty soon, I wouldn't be surprised if TPUSA is made out to be some kind of a CIA spook haven with meaning spies and CIA operatives and weird people and globalist jackals and the strangest people.
I'm going to leave it there because you're also seeing people, apparently, from what we're hearing, if it's true, running for the hills.
People say, I'm getting out of here.
And internal suspicion.
So where does it go?
What's the end game?
Six months, a year from now.
Who wins?
Who wins in this case?
That's the question.
And that's what I find fascinating because if you look at what's going on and what I think, what I'm able to portend and augur in terms of the future, what I, I being rather, dare I say, pythonic and Vatic, reading the entrals of the beast, you know, this doesn't end with a press conference and it sure as hell doesn't end with an apology tour.
It ends with slow institutional collapse, disguised as restructuring, while Candace Owens walks away stronger, louder, and more independent than ever.
And Erica Kirk becomes the internal casualty of a system trying to save itself.
Because what is happening now is not a temporary scandal, but a structural fracture that political organizations almost never recover from.
Once public trust and donor confidence and staff morale morale rather begin to erode and disappear at the same time.
And every day Candace speaks, she exposes contradictions TPUSA leadership cannot answer without admitting weakness, hypocrisy, or incompetence, or worse, which, by the way, forces them into silence, half statements, and carefully staged damage control that convinces no one and satisfies no one.
And over the next six months, the first visible sign will not be firings, but exits, quiet departures, communications staff updating LinkedIn profiles, event coordinators taking personal leave, PTO, whatever it's called, buyouts, severance, regional directors stepping down to pursue other opportunities and spend more time with their family.
Yeah, that's it.
That's the ticket.
Which, by the way, is always the corporate euphemism for internal panic.
Because when people closest to operations leave, it signals leadership confidence is gone.
And that's when donor pressure accelerates behind the scenes.
Not in press releases, but in phone calls and delayed checks and conditional pledges and funding tied to organizational stability, restructuring, which is donor language for fix this or we walk.
And once that pressure builds, it moves upward to board members, major stakeholders, shareholders, power brokers who don't care about personalities, but care deeply.
about optics and revenue and flow and institutional survival.
And that is where the real fight happens, because boards hate embarrassment and fear and they fear, in particular, unpredictability.
And Candace Owens represents unpredictability to TPUSA leadership.
Not because she's reckless, but because she refuses to be managed or contained or softened.
And she keeps getting stronger.
She's building up momentum.
She's like the expanding universe.
She's like the Hubble.
It's picking up speed.
And this, of course, terrifies bureaucratic organizations that depend on message discipline and donor-friendly narratives.
And in that environment, Erica Kirk becomes the focal pressure point.
Not necessarily because she is solely responsible for the controversy, but because organizations under stress always look for containment figures.
Someone who can be isolated or sidelined or quietly removed to reassure donors that the problem has been handled.
And the most likely outcome for Erica is not dramatic public termination, but a gradual erosion of authority, reduced visibility, reassignment to advisory roles, of strategic sidelining.
It all sounds great.
Or eventually, eventually, quiet exit, framed as a new opportunity or personal transition.
Because institutions prefer soft landings that avoid lawsuits.
Unless you're a YouTuber, you don't want donor boner.
You don't want, well, maybe anyway.
Donor backlash and internal revolt.
And if the pressure continues, she becomes the sacrificial figure used to signal reform without really addressing deeper, deeper, more integral structural problems.
And that dynamic creates internal resentment.
Because you see, staff recognize when leadership uses individuals as shields, which further accelerates morale and collapse and staff turnover, while TPUSA leadership scrambles to preserve the structure that Candace is operating in a completely different universe where she doesn't need board approval or donor committees or institutional cover.
She's on her own.
She's a one-woman show, and that's it.
And she only needs her audience.
And that audience is growing precisely because people see her as the only one with the guts and the intrepidity who's willing to say what others whisper, which gives her authenticity.
Capital organizations cannot manufacture.
And that authenticity becomes leverage.
Because when she speaks, she shapes conversations and forces responses and drives engagement.
While TPUSA leadership, they don't know what they're doing, ostensibly.
They're reacting defensively and slowly, which is the worst posture in a media environment, driven by speed and momentum and emotional intensity.
And by the way, you're hearing more.
Candace is going to be talking about internal whistleblowers, inside skinny, those within TPUSA, which, don't be surprised, if somebody panics and just demands loyalty oaths or just fires huge swaths and divisions of people,
which looks terrible, you know, try to identify some Quizling, some Benedict Arnold, some turncoat, which will further inspire more anger and resentment.
And people are wondering, what about Charlie?
And they look at TPUSA leadership and then they look at Erica and they're saying, wait a minute, I don't recognize this anymore.
Watch.
Within a year, within a year, this situation becomes impossible to ignore.
And a year goes by fast.
Candace evolves fully into an independent political tsunami, a force with her own platform, infrastructure, direct monetization channels, speaking circuits, partnerships with alternative outlets and long-form content ecosystems.
And that will rival traditional conservative organizations in reach and engagement.
And they, and by the way, the regular folks, the people who do the conventional cable news, they don't understand it.
They don't understand it.
They still don't understand the power of what we do here.
And meanwhile, TPUSA becomes smaller and quieter and more cautious, retreating into safer messaging, fewer public risks, sanitized programming.
And by the way, what made them so great was their aggressive stance.
You can't be aggressive when all eyes are on you.
And all of this will be designed to keep donors comfortable.
And then the donors are going to say, what am I donating to?
I'm a donor of what exactly?
What?
You don't have Tyler.
I mean, Tyler.
You don't have Charlie.
Apparently, you don't have Erica, which might be good.
What exactly do we have?
What am I donating to?
And these donors become uncomfortable.
And rather than energize grassroots supporters, they decide to internalize.
And Erica Kirk, in this scenario, is either pushed out quietly or repositioned into a low-influence role where she no longer controls narrative direction.
Because leadership will decide that visibility equals liability.
And that's how institutional survival logic works.
Oh, yeah.
And also, you're going to ask yourself, she's going to say, but I don't need TPUSA.
They're going to want me.
They love me.
I'm beautiful.
I'm talented.
I'm Charlie's widow.
I can sing.
I can dance.
They love me.
I can cry on command.
I'm sincere.
I can dance.
I was a beauty contest winner.
I was a beauty queen.
We'll see about that.
And the people closest to the controversy are going to be removed first, regardless of nuance.
And this will create the second wave of instability because once insiders see leadership sacrifice one of their own, the internal culture shifts from loyalty to self-preservation and cannibalization.
Let's Be Clear 00:08:07
Staff protect themselves rather than the mission.
And then leaks increase paranoia.
And it spreads and operational effectiveness declines.
And then once the scrum starts, the tsunami, the oclocracy, the social media mobs, the pitchfork and torch crowd.
And the irony of all this is brutal because the organization that once branded itself as rebellious youth culture slowly transforms into a corporate-style advocacy machine obsessed with liability management and optics control.
And let me also say something.
I have no idea as to the internal financial structure of the organization, but it better be clean because you have just thrown down the gauntlet.
And many people believe, I for one, that one of the worst things you can do, especially now during this pivotal time, is to threaten to sue a YouTuber.
Do you know who these people are?
See, they don't, they don't understand who we are and how powerful we are.
Friend of mine, let's call him Vinny, one time told me, please forgive me.
But he said, you know, we can drown them in our urine.
I said, what the hell are you talking about?
He says, there's so many of us.
It's huge.
There are so many of us.
You don't understand this.
We are immane.
We are gigantic.
They don't understand this.
Cable news may have, I don't know anymore, but may have in some cases a lot of viewers, but they don't have that sense of committed advocacy.
And all this is going on while Candace becomes the disruptive voice they once pretended to represent.
And the staff hemorrhage continues as ambitious young operatives realize that energy and influence now flow outside the institution rather than through it.
Because talent follows momentum, not logos and branding.
And by the way, momentum is clearly shifting towards independent creators and away from centralized gatekeepers.
And as this unfolds, there will be attempts to rewrite the narrative, the storyline, the official story.
Selective leaks blaming internal miscommunication, vague statements about moving forward and possibly quiet efforts to smear Candace.
And let me warn you, don't do this.
I've never seen anybody who lives for this.
I don't understand.
It's like Trump in terms of this weird momentum, this internal inertial bubble they live in.
Efforts to smear Candace or minimize her impact while simultaneously distancing Erica from leadership responsibility, good luck with that one.
But those tactics rarely work on audiences that already distrust institutional, old-fashioned messaging.
And instead, they backfire on them because they reinforce the perception that TPUSA leadership is protecting itself rather than confronting reality.
And the message of Charlie and the message of the momentum is lost.
And over time, what remains of the organization, and to an extent Erica too, is not what it once was.
Fewer staff, smaller events, reduced cultural relevance.
You don't want to hear the, whatever happened to, not good.
And also, you'll see a heavier reliance on legacy donors rather than organic grassroots support.
While Candace, oh yes.
While our Candace occupies a larger cultural footprint, speaking to millions directly without filters, all the while shaping discourse and the conversation and the discussion in ways, well, that centralized organizations no longer can.
And Erica, Mishkina, bless her heart.
Erica becomes a case study in how political institutions handle internal crisis by narrowing exposure rather than addressing foundational issues, which leaves unresolved tensions simmering, simmering beneath the surface.
And this dynamic doesn't resolve through compromise, because Candace's brand is built on independence and confrontation with establishment behavior, not accommodation.
So any attempt by TPUSA to reconcile would require concessions that they are structurally unwilling to make, at least ostensibly.
Which means the fracture and the cracks harden and lines solidify and the system reshapes around a new center of mass, a new center of influence.
And the final stage of this process looks quiet on the surface, but dramatic underneath.
TPUSA stabilizes itself as a smaller, more controlled entity, focused, focused on survival compliance and donor maintenance.
Erica Kirk either exits quietly or remains marginalized within the organization with diminished authority and public presence, while Candace, oh God, our beloved Candace expands outward into a full-scale political media hurricane, an operation that dwarfs her former role and positions her as a long-term independent power broker in conservative culture,
not tied to any single organization, not dependent on institutional approval, and certainly not constrained by internal politics.
And that is the part TPUSA leadership cannot undo.
Because once an independent platform reaches critical mass, it doesn't need permission to exist.
And that's why every additional attempt to contain the situation only accelerates the outcome.
See, because audiences recognize strength when they see it and weakness when they sense it.
And right now, Candace Owens projects strength while TPUSA, I'm sorry to say, projects institutional anxiety.
And Erica, by the way, becomes the symbol of internal fallout of what once was.
I don't want to say has been, but she'll look anachronistic.
And that asymmetry defines the next six to 12 months, not through dramatic headlines, remember, but through slow, steady shifts in loyalty and funding and staffing and cultural influence until one side emerges leaner but stronger and the other remains intact but diminished.
And the lesson is brutal.
Brutal but consistent across history.
Organizations that prioritize control over credibility eventually lose both, while individuals who build trust with their loyal audiences gain leverage that no board or vote or donor class can take away.
Thank You, Friends 00:01:40
That's exactly what we're talking about right now.
This is so fascinating because every time we turn around, there's another angle to it.
So my friends, I thank you.
Thank you so much.
What do you think?
How long TPUSA can simply just not exist.
First without Charlie, then without Erica, and then what's the point?
And I feel sorry for the thousands and thousands of young people who signed up and wanted to follow in Charlie's footprints and footsteps, but have been abandoned altogether.
Abandoned, abnegated, untethered, dispatched, cut, abandoned.
So I thank you for that.
Thank you for your kind comments as well.
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And also, I have some questions for you that I will always come up with, about five questions that kind of set the tone.
I'm really interested to see what you think and what you believe.
So my friends, I thank you so much for this.
Thank you so much for your loyalty.
Thank you so much for your care.
Remember, what we're talking about right now is not being vindictive.
But when they went after Candace, I made a big mistake.
Because like they said, the line in Jack Reger, remember, you wanted this.
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