Raichik has joined TPUSA as a new contributor. She joins many accomplished, outspoken young women who are making a huge difference in American cultural life, such as Alex Clark, Morgonn McMichael, Lauren Chen, Savanah Hernandez, and so many others.
Speaking to the young women who gathered to hear messages of positivity, and how to be active as mothers, wives, and leaders in their communities, Raichik provided that hope and optimism.
Charlie Kirk welcomed her to the team, saying "Welcome @ChayaRaichik10, creator of @libsoftiktok, to the Turning Point USA Family!! We can't wait to get to work exposing the creeps and the predators who are coming after America's kids. Enough is enough."
"I'm just one individual who started a Twitter account," she said. "And I've been able to have legislators across the country enact laws to protect our children." She was speaking of the Parental Rights in Education Bill, a landmark law in Florida that ensures that parents are not kept in the dark by educators about their children's gender identity in schools.
"And guess what?" Raichik said. "You can do it too. So how do we take our country back? It starts with you. It starts with you finding your courage. It starts with you using your first amendment rights. It starts with you deciding to do something and take action. It starts with you joining your local campus chapter. It starts with you being brave."
"My story proves that one person can make a massive difference," she continued. "And I'm here today to give you some hope you too can make a difference. And you too can be a hero because all it takes is one person to stand up for what's right."
In addition to her own story of emerging from a real estate agent in New York to a massively influential force in culture, Raichik told the story of her grandfather in Lithuania during World War 2.
"Imagine you're just a teenager," she said, "attending boarding school in a far off city, away from your family when war breaks out across the surrounding countries. That's exactly the scenario that my grandfather found himself in in 1940.
"He was trapped in Lithuania with his fellow classmates as war was raging across Europe, as the Nazis hunted down every last you to murder them, this young group all by gave up on surviving. And that's when they found an unexpected savior. Allow me to introduce you to Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese diplomat working in Lithuania at the time he saw the dire situation that Jews were in and decided to put his life on the line, defy his superiors and save as many Jews as he can."
"He handed out visas to anyone who needed one. Some sources say that he issued over 5,000 visas, no doubt saving thousands of people from certain death. My grandfather was one of the lucky ones to receive such a visa and survived the war. Some estimates claim that as many as 100,000 people who are alive today are descendants from those who Sugihara saved."
"And I am one of them. I am here today, thanks to the actions of one individual I and tens of thousands of others will forever be indebted to him. There's a famous Jewish saying: 'Anyone who saves just one life has saved an entire world.' And as we see from Sugihara, there really is no limit to what one person can accomplish when they decide to stand up for their beliefs."
