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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

‘If You Strike Me Down, I Shall Become More Powerful Than You Can Possibly Imagine.

2026-05-15

[DailyCaller] Lightning Literally Strikes Just Feet From Anti-Erika Kirk Protesters At Hillsdale College Commencement

There were only about 60 protesters, some of them were from out of the area and county
— Ruth Daglow (@RuthDaglow) May 12, 2026

More than three dozen protesters rallied outside the Hillsdale County Courthouse hours before the ceremony began, with participants arriving from Macomb, Calhoun, Monroe and Branch counties, the Hillsdale Daily News reported. The demonstrators took issue with the college’s involvement in the 1776 Commission, the Barney Charter School Initiative and various school voucher programs, according to the outlet.

A group called Hope in Action organized the demonstration,

What odds, dear Reader, that the group is yet another tentacle of the Antifa/Black Bloc anarcho-communist syndicate?

WILX reported. Demonstrator Allison Bader, who attended with her daughter Norah, opposes what she called “blatant racism, homophobia, and sexism” tied to Turning Point USA and Project 2025, she told the station.

Inside the auditorium, Erika Kirk urged Hillsdale’s 400-member graduating class to model themselves after her late husband, according to the New York Post (NYP). “Through his learning, Charlie was better able to recognize his duty to pursue truth and to defend liberty, and this responsibility he felt to God. He felt it for our family, to our country, and that was born from what he learned,” Kirk told the audience, per the outlet.

Hillsdale President Larry Arnn wrapped the ceremony by conferring on Kirk two honorary degrees of public service, with the first recognizing her own contributions and the second awarded posthumously to Charlie Kirk, according to the NYP. Arnn was fulfilling a promise he made at the activist’s September memorial, per the outlet.

A gunman killed Charlie Kirk in September as he addressed students at Utah Valley University in Orem during a Turning Point USA event. Suspected shooter Tyler Robinson remains jailed pending trial.

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