Erika Kirk is marking the primary Valentine’s Day without her late husband, right-wing conservative influencer Charlie Kirk.
“What I’d give for another love letter… They’d such a deep reverence about them,” Erika, 37, wrote via Instagram on Saturday, February 14, alongside a photograph of a letter she received from her late husband prior to his premature death.
“You’d intentionally put aside the noise of the world and hand me words that felt sacred crammed with a depth of affection each of us could never quite articulate,” she continued within the caption. “I read all of it even slower now. And as I read your words, the load on my heart jogs my memory of a reality that we were never promised gray hair and rocking chairs although we assumed it was guaranteed. But my goodness, do I like telling the babies concerning the fullness of our covenant that left a mark on my soul. My favorite love story.”
Charlie was shot and killed in September 2025 while speaking at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah. He was 31.
“It’s with a heavy heart that we, the Turning Point USA leadership team, write to notify you that early this afternoon, Charlie went to his everlasting reward with Jesus Christ in heaven,” a press release from Turning Point USA read on the time, confirming the political activist’s death.
After a 33-hour manhunt, a 22-year-old suspect turned himself into authorities on the behest of his parents, was subsequently arrested and charged for allegedly murdering Charlie. He’s currently being held without bail in a Utah jail. If convicted, the 22-year-old faces the death penalty.
Erika has since taken over as CEO of Turning Point USA, the right-wing conservative nonprofit cofounded by Charlie and Bill Montgomery in 2012. Within the midst of pyrotechnic-heavy public remembrances, quite a few public appearances, conservative in-fighting and a controversial hug with Vice President JD Vance, Erika has been outspoken about her personal experience with grief.
“…there isn’t any linear blueprint for grief. In the future you’re collapsed on the ground crying out the name Jesus in between labored breaths,” Erika, 36, wrote via Instagram in October 2025. “The following you’re fidgeting with your kids within the living rooms surrounded by family photos, and feeling a rush of something you’ll be able to only try and define as divinely planted and bittersweet joy as a smile breaks through your face.”
Erika Kirk (née Frantzve) celebrated her thirty seventh birthday with a throwback video of her late husband, Charlie Kirk. “I at all times loved celebrating you, and possibly since it was a mirrored image of how beautifully you usually celebrated me,” Erika captioned an Instagram video on Thursday, November 20. “I romanticized growing old with you, the love of […]
She continued on the time, “They are saying time heals. But love doesn’t ask to be healed. Love asks to be remembered. It’s humbling to comprehend that this magnitude of suffering didn’t steal my love for my husband. It amplified it. It crystallized it.”
On Valentine’s Day 2026, Erika went on to induce her followers to “honor the Sabbath this weekend together with your family members.”
“And in case you’re married, take a minute to sit down down and write to them a love letter. One which shows you see them, you’re keen on them, you honor them, and you would like to proceed to be higher for them,” she added. “A letter like this may appear trivial, but you only never know the course life will take, if the Lord calls you home, even in your absence, as they reflect in your words, your love continues to be serving them.”
She concluded with a selected message to her late husband, “I like you Charlie baby, you’ll at all times be my Valentine.”