Loved and loathed, the influencer rallied young men on campuses and built an online platform that rewrote the rules of political influence
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Loved and loathed, the influencer rallied young men on campuses and built an online platform that rewrote the rules of political influence
Loved and loathed, the influencer rallied young men on campuses and built an online platform that rewrote the rules of political influence
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Author, activist and host co-founded Turning Point USA and used huge social media reach to push rightwing causes

How a college drop-out built a Right-wing youth movement and reached the highest echelons of the Trump world

He combined social media-era lingo, campus activism and a readiness to embrace controversies to drive young conservatism

Moments after the news broke, the content started

The far-right activist, who was fatally shot this week in Utah, galvanized young conservatives through online antics and…

Charlie Kirk dropped out of college at 18 to co-found Turning Point USA. By 31, he had built a $92 million-a-year political…

How Charlie Kirk’s death fed the content machine