Charlie Kirk
(1993-2025)
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With his right-wing group Turning Point USA, Mr. Kirk engaged controversial topics. Some students were inspired. Others found his views appalling.
By Sabrina Tavernise and Alyce McFadden
With his right-wing group Turning Point USA, Mr. Kirk engaged controversial topics. Some students were inspired. Others found his views appalling.
Charlie Kirk
(1993-2025)
Supported by
With his right-wing group Turning Point USA, Mr. Kirk engaged controversial topics. Some students were inspired. Others found his views appalling.
By Sabrina Tavernise and Alyce McFadden

Author, activist and host co-founded Turning Point USA and used huge social media reach to push rightwing causes

The slain head of Turning Point USA stoked campus culture wars and ‘treated faculty and students as enemies’’

From the daily newsletter: how do the young Club America members see their future without the political organizer?

Kirk, an influential Trump ally who at age 18 set up Turning Point USA, died in a shooting while speaking at a Utah campus event.

A young conservative revealed to the "Daily Show" co-host what he finds "awesome" about the right-wing commentator.

Espousing a fiery - and usually provocative - brand of conservatism, Charlie Kirk took the battle for converts to the place where…