Cuts Both Ways: Epoch Times at AmFest to Remember Charlie Kirk, who was Cut Down and Innocent People being Cut Up
This December 18–21, The Epoch Times brings two of its most relentless truth-tellers to Turning Point USA’s AmFest: investigative reporter Joshua Philipp and senior editor Jan Jekielek. Each has spent years exposing forces that thrive in darkness—whether it’s the poisonous culture that tried to silence Charlie Kirk or the Chinese Communist Party’s brutal, industrialized organ-harvesting regime. Together, they represent two fronts of the same battle: the fight to protect truth and human dignity in an age determined to erase both.
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Philipp arrives at AmFest with “Truth Under Fire: The Framing of Charlie Kirk,” a blistering new documentary that examines the life, legacy, and assassination of a man whose only weapon was unfiltered honesty. Kirk understood that speaking plainly in a world addicted to distortion makes you dangerous to those who depend on lies. Philipp’s film shows how dangerous—and why the forces intent on suppressing truth saw him as a threat that had to be neutralized. Through exclusive evidence, interviews, and Philipp’s trademark investigative edge, the documentary makes one point unmistakable: Kirk wasn’t just targeted for what he said, but for what he represented—a society still capable of recognizing truth when it hears it.
While Philipp exposes an attempted silencing at home, Jan Jekielek is exposing a monstrous silencing abroad. His new book, Killed to Order, pulls back the curtain on the CCP’s state-run organ-harvesting system—where Falun Gong practitioners, among China’s most peaceful citizens, are imprisoned, blood-typed, and executed on demand so their organs can be sold for profit. Jekielek’s reporting documents a staggering moral crime: a regime that views healthy, spiritual people not as citizens but as inventory.
One story targets truth. The other targets life. Together, they reveal a world where authoritarian systems—foreign and domestic—thrive on fear, confusion, and suppression.
At AmFest, both Philipp and Jekielek will be available for on-camera, radio, and print interviews, offering deep insights into their investigations and the cultural battles shaping the future.
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OPTIONAL Q&A:
- How do authoritarian systems—foreign or domestic—successfully control narratives, and what patterns do you see repeating today?
- What makes truth-tellers like Charlie Kirk or persecuted Falun Gong practitioners such persistent targets for powerful institutions?
- How has the rise of AI changed the battlefield for truth, censorship, and state manipulation?
- What role should American media and policymakers play in confronting regimes that profit from suppressing truth or human life?
- Why do so many people—and governments—hesitate to confront the CCP’s organ-harvesting atrocities head-on?
- How do you investigate stories where the people responsible are actively trying to erase evidence and intimidate witnesses?
- What parallels do you see between information control in the U.S. and human-rights abuses abroad, even if the scale differs?
- What do you hope audiences at AmFest take away from your work about the cost—and necessity—of standing up to systemic deception?
ABOUT JAN JEKIELEK…
Jan Jekielek is senior editor with The Epoch Times, host of the show “American Thought Leaders” and was co-host of “FALLOUT” with Dr. Robert Malone and “Kash’s Corner” with now FBI Director Kash Patel. Years ago Jan studied the evolutionary biology of lemurs in Madagascar, and his life took an unexpected turn. Exposed to the realities of human rights violations in China, he ended up working with an underground railroad bringing Chinese dissidents through the Golden Triangle to Bangkok and ultimately to Western countries. It was then that he realized that telling unknown heroes’ stories was transformative, both for him and audiences.
Determined to tell true stories, Jan started working with The Epoch Times 20 years ago, at a time when popular narratives in the West hid the dark underbelly of communist China. He did some of the earliest reporting on the Chinese regime’s continuing practice of forced organ harvesting from prisoners of conscience, and he’s the author of the upcoming book, “Killed to Order: China’s Organ Harvesting Industry and the True Nature of America’s Biggest Adversary.”
Over the last five years, he has interviewed over a thousand thought leaders on camera, including heads of state, multiple U.S. cabinet secretaries and agency heads, and congressional members.
Jan specializes in long-form discussions that challenge assumptions. He’s also an award-winning documentary filmmaker, producing “DeSantis: Florida vs. Lockdowns,” “The Unseen Crisis: Vaccine Stories You Were Never Told,” and the “optimistic” Holocaust documentary “Finding Manny.”
ABOUT JOSHUA PHILIPP…
Joshua Philipp is an award-winning journalist and Senior Investigative Reporter at The Epoch Times. He is the host of ‘Crossroads,’ a news and analysis program on EpochTV. His works have included breakthrough investigations into the origins of Covid-19 and the Wuhan laboratory in the early days of the pandemic. He spearheaded the first documentary on the lab leak origins of the COVID-19 virus, released in April 2020. This groundbreaking documentary garnered over 75 million views, and while many tried to label it misinformation, its findings have since been vindicated by the White House and US intelligence agencies.
EXPERT ANALYSIS FROM JOSHUA PHILIPP
Joshua Philipp, senior investigative reporter at The Epoch Times and a recognized China expert, has mapped out these networks during his 15-plus years of research into the CCP. He provides a deeper context on the CCP’s attempts to subvert the systems and institutions in the United States. As the Chinese regime states, they aim to “strangle you with your own systems,” and that tactic is playing out across key industries and institutions in the US.
Josh is also a leading expert on Chinese unconventional warfare and United Front operations, which he has investigated and exposed since 2008. His 15-plus years of research and investigations on the Chinese Communist Party, subversion, human rights abuses and related topics give him unique insight into the global threat and political landscape.
CONTACT: Todd Baumann at 512-966-0983 or by email Jerry McGlothlin at bookings@specialguests.com.
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