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Comfortably seated in her home on a chalk-colored couch adorned with navy blue pillows, Cassie Clark, an influencer who makes North Carolina-centered content, recalled the moment a man was "berating" her in front of her teenage daughter for wearing a Charlie Kirk shirt.
"He started just berating me that Charlie Kirk didn't like people like him. Every time I would try to respond, he would start speaking over me," Clark told Fox News Digital.
North Carolina-based influencer Cassie Clark, tells Fox News Digital how her experience wearing a Charlie Kirk shirt in public inspired her to speak out politically.
Clark shared that while some of the responses to
her post on Xwere "extremely negative," there were commenters who "reached out and praised" her for speaking up.
The mother revealed that other influencers shared their fears of speaking out, telling Clark that if they were to "speak up" they would "lose sponsors" and "lose brand deals."
"To me, that's absolutely insane," she relayed. "We shouldn't be in a place in America where you can't say what you truly believe and you have to worry about getting pushback or losing money or losing a job over it when you're talking about something that half of the country agrees with you on. That's crazy."
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North Carolina influencer Cassie Clark faced a confrontation over her Charlie Kirk shirt and decided to speak out about conservative views on social media. (Credit: X @dogwoodblooms)
The post, which Clark made on Sept. 28, expressed that Clark didn’t fully believe "how hated conservatives were" until that day, citing various "nasty looks" that left her feeling "beyond disgusted."
She ended the post by writing that she was "not going to be silent anymore."
Charlie Kirk speaks at Utah Valley University on Sept. 10, 2025, in Orem, Utah. Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA, was speaking at his "American Comeback Tour" when he was shot in the neck and killed. (Trent Nelson/The Salt Lake Tribune/Getty Images)
The social media star made the garment purchase while attending the Salt and Light Convention in Marion, N.C., stating she never "thought about it again" until she wore it that day and experienced "nasty looks" and "pushback."
"I probably will continue to maybe not talk solely about politics, but I don't think I'm going to shy away from it anymore," the influencer said.
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"We're allowing the other side to just normalize their views, but we're being silent on our own. We're creating a playing field that's one-sided," Clark said.
Alba Cuebas-Fantauzzi is a freelance production assistant at Fox News Digital.
