Tag Archives: Turning Point USA

Rolling Stone reports: Turning Point USA CEO Charlie Kirk is cheerleading the far-right boycott of Target over the retailer’s Pride collection — which included trans-friendly youth apparel and other LGBTQ-positive gear — for what Kirk decries as “their support for grooming kids.” Kirk’s condemnation of the retailer coincided with TPUSA’s second-annual Pastors Summit in Nashville, Tennessee, this past week, where …

NBC News reports: A retired firefighter who went to a “cult deprogramming” expert to figure out how he came to believe Donald Trump’s lies about the 2020 presidential election was sentenced to more than four years in federal prison on Tuesday for chucking a fire extinguisher at police officers as they protected the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. Robert Sanford, …

“I actually even think we’re even more divided, in some ways, than we even were leading into the American Civil War. At least it was a Christian country back then, now we have different metaphysics and we have all sorts of different types of views. “But we have some things working in our favor which is the great hope is …

Kristen Doerer reports at Right Wing Watch: Brandt Wiggins is a follower of Nick Fuentes’ white nationalist America First movement, and this January, the TPUSA chapter at University of Alabama announced that Wiggins had assumed the role of vice president. Wiggins has peddled the great replacement theory and urged white people to “HAVE WHITE BABIES!!!” He’s advocated for men to …

Media Matters has the transcript: Okay, couple things, people say, Charlie, what’s the solution? What’s the solution? Well, actually I’ve laid out a solution, and it’s very simple: you must acknowledge it’s a sad day in America, number one. The number two: you must suck it up and you must call on every attorneys general and every DA to say, …

The Washington Post reports: As the 2024 presidential election cycle gets underway, the political arm of Turning Point USA, the influential right-wing nonprofit run by Charlie Kirk, is losing a key asset: Students for Trump. The separation follows a failed effort by Kirk’s main deputy, Tyler Bowyer, to assert greater control over the Students for Trump accounts. The changes floated …

The Chicago Sun-Times reports: The work of Homeland Security Investigations in Arizona, dubbed Operation Swipe Left, led agents to Norris “Nick” Stauffer, 27, who is charged here with disseminating child pornography, records show. It also resulted in criminal charges against more than a dozen people elsewhere — including at least two with political ties — amid allegations of livestreamed abuse, …

Current reports: For many MAGA Americans, Bolsonaro’s Christian nationalism, strong anti-LGBTQ beliefs, and disagreement with the scientific consensus on climate change make him a hero. One of those people, apparently, is Charlie Kirk. On February 3, Bolsonaro will come out of exile and travel to Miami to speak at a Kirk event called “Power of the People.” Charlie Kirk never …

“We have been warning about Ukraine, and this being a waste of money, and a waste of time, since the very beginning. And now they want to spend another 45 billion dollars. “Where is this money going? Where are the weapons going? Is it being audited? The answer is no. We are doing direct bank transfers into the treasury of …

Media Matters has the transcript: JAMES LINDSAY (TURNING POINT USA PANELIST):  This is what they do in unconventional warfare. They make these provocations. Drag queens are a provocation. It’s been an escalating provocation. First, they’re just dressing up in kind of somewhat you know, careful dress with their clown makeup, groomer clowns or whatever reading stories. They’re dancing, they’re grinding, …

The Arizona Republic reports: In the contract Turning Point USA executed for AmericaFest, the four-day convention scheduled for Dec. 17 in Phoenix, the nonprofit dedicated to free market and capitalistic principles asked for the city’s help in keeping competing organizations away. Turning Point USA asked the Phoenix Convention Center not to lease space to organizations it considered direct competitors in …

“I think the American family’s breaking because of this subsidized, prolonged adolescence of infant boy — of like infant men of 26, 27-year-olds. I’m telling you, young men need to be treated a lot harsher than they are right now. “And I know this, that sounds bad. They need to be challenged, put out into the wild, figure it out. …

Sacramento’s NBC affiliate reports: UC Davis said it canceled a conservative student-run event Tuesday evening because of a fight outside the venue, including some who might have worn Proud Boys apparel. However, the university said it canceled the event ahead of his speech because of a brawl between about 100 protesters and counter protesters led to pepper spray being used, …

TYT reports: A former Commerce Department official in the Trump administration was sentenced to a five-and-a-half year prison term after pleading guilty to possession of child pornography, federal prosecutors announced last week in a court filing. Under the terms of his plea deal, Adam Hageman was also sentenced to five years of parole after release and a mandatory requirement to …

Media Matters has the transcript: CHARLIE KIRK (TURNING POINT USA FOUNDER): I was told by everybody — it’s not the President Trump — but it is going to make you guys, wait till you see this, alright? In fact, this man is more hated by the media than Donald Trump, and that says something. OK? Which is, so, if you’re …

San Antonio’s ABC affiliate reports: A 19-year-old San Antonio man was arrested after threatening a mass killing at the Student Action Summit in Florida, the FBI said. According to a federal complaint, Alejandro Richard Velasquez Gomez made social media posts that the FBI determined were similar to another one posted before an actual mass killing and investigators allege he was …

“On Monday we talked about the fact there were openly neo-Nazi demonstrators outside the student action summit of the Turning Point USA. “We want to make clear these demonstrators were gathered outside the event and that they were not invited or endorsed by Turning Point USA. “A Turning Point USA spokesman said the group, ‘100 percent condemns those ideologies’ and …

Fox News reports: Turning Point USA issued a scathing cease and desist letter to ABC News on Tuesday, calling for the Disney-owned company to “retract the defamatory statements” made earlier this week on “The View” or face legal action. Fox News Digital has obtained the letter, addressed to ABC News New York bureau chief Joshua Hoyos and ABC assistant chief …

Media Matters has the transcript: Everyone in the Biden cabinet, none of them, I should say, were actually appointed because of merit. They were all appointed because they’re firsts. So we have the first Hispanic DHS secretary in Mayorkas, he’s doing a bang-up job. We have the first African American Defense Secretary in Lloyd Austin. We have the first female …

Patch Tampa reports: While thousands of conservative student activists cheered the words shared by some of the country’s top conservative leaders, including former President Donald Trump, at Turning Point USA’s 2022 Student Action Summit in the Tampa Convention Center, angry words were exchanged between young adults outside. Hundreds of activists came out for a “Don’t Facist Our Florida” protest organized …