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</font><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">see KIRK chls 2 and three 3</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></div><div><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; word-spacing: 3.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Many of the same social media influencers who attended Trump’s “Social Media Summit” on July 11 have rallied to defend his racist attacks against U.S. Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY-D), Rashida Tlaib (MI-D), Ayanna Pressley (MA-D), and Ilhan Omar (MN-D). And a number of them are bankrolled by the Kochs, the Bradley Foundation, and other large right-wing foundations.</font></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; word-spacing: 3.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In a <a href="https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1150381395078000643" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">tweet</a> July 14, Trump called for the minority freshman lawmakers, fierce critics of his policies, to “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came.” All four are American citizens, and three of the four were born in the United States.</font></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; word-spacing: 3.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Since then, Trump has doubled down on the attacks, saying the lawmakers “hate our country,” and did nothing to abate chants of “Send her back!” at a recent campaign rally in North Carolina.</font></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; word-spacing: 3.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In the face of widespread outrage, Trump’s friends from the Summit have gone out of their way to justify his actions.</font></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; word-spacing: 3.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Heritage Foundation condemned Trump’s comments, but <a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/07/16/americans-are-the-real-casualties-of-the-trump-squad-showdown/" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">also suggested</a> that he made them out of love for the country and that the “destructive and divisive nature of the rhetoric of the members of Congress in question” was to blame.</font></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; word-spacing: 3.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Media Research Center (MRC) used its “Newsbusters” site to criticize mainstream media coverage, writing that “<a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/kristine-marsh/2019/07/18/joy-behar-trump-tweets-against-omar-why-cant-he-be-charged-hate" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">Trump didn’t say anything violent</a>” and publishing another piece titled, <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/tim-graham/2019/07/17/squad-wont-condemn-antifa-terrorismwhere-media" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">“The ‘Squad’ Won’t Condemn Antifa Terrorism….WHERE Are The Media?”</a></font></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; word-spacing: 3.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And Will Chamberlain’s <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">Human Events</em> published a <a href="https://humanevents.com/2019/07/18/whats-the-difference-between-ilhan-omar-and-piers-morgan/" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">piece</a> arguing that there’s a double standard at play because Trump’s targets aren’t white, claiming that “Ilhan Omar…really <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">is</em> a danger to the U.S.,” and concluding that Trump’s chanting supporters can’t be blamed “for wanting to protect America.”</font></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; word-spacing: 3.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Although the mainstream media has done a good job of covering Trump’s inaugural Social Media Summit and his racist attacks, there has been very little reporting on who bankrolls this online echo chamber of right-wing, anti-immigration, and white nationalist pundits.</font></p><h2 style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 10px; word-spacing: 3.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Heritage Foundation</font></h2><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; word-spacing: 3.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Heritage Foundation has been one of the <a href="https://www.google.com/search?biw=1425&bih=734&tbs=cdr%3A1%2Ccd_min%3A1%2F1%2F2019%2Ccd_max%3A7%2F19%2F2019&ei=o6swXeHDDe2I_QbSz7ewBg&q=heritage+foundation+asylum&oq=heritage+foundation+asylum&gs_l=psy-ab.3..0.4897.11583..11882...0.0..1.670.2156.8" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">top supporters</a> of Trump’s anti-immigration push on the right.</font></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; word-spacing: 3.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Those who attended the Trump summit from Heritage include Robert Bluey, vice president of communications and executive editor of the group’s news website, “The Daily Signal”; Bridgett Wagner, vice president of policy promotion; Maria Sousa, digital director; Lyndsey Fifield, social media manager; and Jessica Anderson, vice president of Heritage Action for America.</font></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; word-spacing: 3.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Sarah_Scaife_Foundation" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">Sarah Scaife Foundation</a> is a major source of revenue for the Heritage Foundation, providing the group with at least $18 million since 1985. The foundation also funds a number of other anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim organizations, including the Center for Immigration Studies and the David Horowitz Freedom Center.</font></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; word-spacing: 3.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Billionaires Charles and David Koch and their partners in Stand Together (formerly known as the Seminar Network) have given over $5.7 million to Heritage since 1998 through their various <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Koch_Family_Foundations" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">family foundations</a>, and the Koch network’s preferred donor conduit duo of DonorsTrust and Donors Capital Fund has chipped in <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/DonorsTrust_and_Donors_Capital_Fund_Grant_Recipients" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">another half million</a> since 2010.</font></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; word-spacing: 3.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Milwaukee-based Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation has provided at least another <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Contributions_of_the_Bradley_Foundation" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">$5.9 million</a> to Heritage since 1998 and the <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Mercer_Family_Foundation" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">Mercer Family Foundation</a>, run by one of the “blow-it-all-up billionaires” behind Trump’s rise to power, Rebekah Mercer, has given at least another $1 million since 2015.</font></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; word-spacing: 3.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Heritage generally steers clear of the xenophobic language prevalent among other Trump influencers. Heritage researcher Jason Richwine, coauthor of a controversial report concluding that allowing illegal immigrants a pathway to citizenship would cost taxpayers trillions, resigned from Heritage when it became public that he had <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2013/05/08/heritage-study-co-author-opposed-letting-in-immigrants-with-low-iqs/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.75e506e30221" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">argued</a> in his Harvard dissertation that, “The average IQ of immigrants in the United States is substantially lower than that of the white native population, and the difference is likely to persist over several generations.”</font></p><h2 style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 10px; word-spacing: 3.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Media Research Center</font></h2><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; word-spacing: 3.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Brent Bozell’s MRC operates “NewsBusters,” a site that claims to be “documenting, exposing and neutralizing liberal media bias.” It has a section entitled “Trump Coverage Studies” that attempts to refute mainstream media stories on Trump.</font></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; word-spacing: 3.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">MRC has received at least <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Mercer_Family_Foundation#Grants" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">$7 million</a> from the Mercer Family Foundation since 2015; <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Contributions_of_the_Bradley_Foundation" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">$2.4 million</a> from the Bradley Foundation since 1998; and <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Sarah_Scaife_Foundation" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">$1.4 million</a> from the Sarah Scaife Foundation since 2012.</font></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; word-spacing: 3.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">MRC claims to “not associate with known white nationalists,” and took down a piece it had promoted last year from a white nationalist website, which stated that Black people “are a threat to all who cross their path,” after it was <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2018/07/11/newsbusters-promoted-white-nationalist-piece-claimed-black-people-are-threat-all-they-encounter/220643" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">reported by MediaMatters</a>. It was not the first time, however, that NewsBusters had linked to or promoted white nationalist websites.</font></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; word-spacing: 3.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bozell was a fierce critic of Trump prior to the 2016 election, but since repeatedly attacked the press for criticizing the president.</font></p><h2 style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 10px; word-spacing: 3.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Project Veritas</font></h2><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; word-spacing: 3.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Project Veritas, a 2015 grantee of the Trump Foundation, is run by <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/James_O%27Keefe" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">James O’Keefe</a>, a right-wing activist and provocateur who uses deception and manipulative editing in his “investigations.”</font></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; word-spacing: 3.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Due to O’Keefe’s methods, Project Veritas has been plagued by <a href="https://www.projectveritas.exposed/legal-issues" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">legal issues</a> over the years, and the group is barred from seeking donations in Florida, Maine, Mississippi, Utah, and Wisconsin.</font></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; word-spacing: 3.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Project Veritas’s funders are difficult to identify as the group receives the majority of its funding through donor conduits. DonorsTrust and Donors Capital Fund have given the group <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=DonorsTrust_and_Donors_Capital_Fund_Grant_Recipients" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">over $4.8 million</a> since 2011.</font></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; word-spacing: 3.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">O’Keefe has been <a href="https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2014/02/14/old-photos-surface-showing-breitbart-okeefe-hobnobbing-white-nationalists" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">criticized</a> for associating with radical white nationalists for years and has appeared on InfoWars — conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ infamous radio show denounced by ex-staffers as a “den of racism and harassment” — multiple times. After InfoWars was removed from social media platforms for promoting violence and hate, O’Keefe <a href="https://twitter.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/1026516710382292993?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1026516710382292993&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mediamatters.org%2Fresearch%2F2018%2F08%2F06%2Fempire-strikes-back-right-wing-media-defend-alex-jones-after-infowars-banned-several-major-platforms%2F220912" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">tweeted</a>, “InfoWars targeted, taken off social media. These tech companies’ practices are opaque and given their power must be made more transparent. We will expose the entire rotten tech machine.”</font></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; word-spacing: 3.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">InfoWars has also <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/infowars-is-working-to-sanitize-a-white-nationalist-group/" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">hosted</a> Patrick Casey, the leader of the white nationalist group Evropa, which helped plan the deadly Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017. Evropa has since rebranded itself as the American Identity Movement.</font></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; word-spacing: 3.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Most recently, O’Keefe has <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/ginni-thomas-teams-up-with-james-okeefe-in-dark-money-operation-to-protect-trump/" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">teamed up</a> with Ginni Thomas, a former Heritage staffer and wife of Justice Clarence Thomas, and the American Legislative Exchange Council’s (ALEC) chief marketing officer, Bill Meierling, to launch a new dark money operation to “protect President Trump.”</font></p><h2 style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 10px; word-spacing: 3.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Prager University</font></h2><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; word-spacing: 3.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Prager University, a social media video project of Dennis Prager and an attendee at the Trump Summit, has been banned and/or restricted on YouTube, Facebook, Spotify, and Twitter for providing a platform for hate speech.</font></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; word-spacing: 3.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Anti-Semitic Owen Benjamin, anti-LGBT Steven Crowder, and former Turning Point USA Communications Director Candace Owens have all contributed to Prager University. Owens <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/candace-owens-hitler-was-ok-until-he-tried-to-go-global" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">left Turning Point USA</a> after many campus chapters called for her resignation following her statement that “Hitler was an ‘OK’ leader until he tried to take his message global.”</font></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; word-spacing: 3.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In studying Prager University, the sociologist Francesca Tripodi <a href="https://datasociety.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Data_Society_Searching-for-Alternative-Facts.pdf" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">writes</a> that Prager’s project creates “a dense network of extremist thinkers” that “allows for those who identify as mainline conservatives to gain easy access to white supremacist logic.”</font></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; word-spacing: 3.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Prager University has received <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Contributions_of_the_Bradley_Foundation" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">at least a million dollars</a> since 2010 from the Bradley Foundation. Bradley internal documents examined by CMD show that Bradley funds Prager for its strong reach across social media platforms and <a href="https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2017/05/31/bradley-foundation-funds-right-wing-media-machine/" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">because</a> it “distills (conservative/Judeo-Christian) principles into content-rich, entertaining five-minute video ‘courses’ taught by public intellectuals, many of whom are Bradley Prize winners.”</font></p><h2 style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 10px; word-spacing: 3.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Turning Point USA</font></h2><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; word-spacing: 3.6px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Charlie Kirk’s <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Turning_Point_USA" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: inherit; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">Turning Point USA</a> has a history of racism that extends beyond former employee Candace Owens. The group’s former chapter president at University of Nevada, Las Vegas used racial epithets and exclaimed “white power” while hugging another individual who shouted “we’re going to rule the country” and “fuck the niggers” in a <a href="https://splinternews.com/turning-point-usa-boots-member-after-viral-white-power-1834667020" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: inherit; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">video</a> that went viral earlier this year.</font></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; word-spacing: 3.6px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Kirk also named Kyle Kashuv, widely known for his racial slurs, to be Turning Point USA’s high school outreach director. Kashuv <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/06/03/junior-offender" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">resigned from the post</a> when he was outed by a former classmate who said he “used the N-word frequently,” ranked women’s attractiveness by race, and referenced his “Jewish slaves.”</font></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; word-spacing: 3.6px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Turning Point USA has received close to <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ed_Uihlein_Family_Foundation" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: inherit; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">$300,000</a> since <b>2014 from GOP megadonor <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Richard_Uihlein" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: inherit; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">Richard Uihlein</a>‘s Ed Uihlein Family Foundation.</b></font></p></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2019/03/trump-to-sign-executive-order-mandating-campus-free-speech/">https://www.alternet.org/2019/03/trump-to-sign-executive-order-mandating-campus-free-speech/</a></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">no lnx</font></div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Trump to sign executive order mandating campus ‘free speech’</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>
</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> Trump to sign executive order mandating campus ‘free speech’ White House/Shealah Craighead</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">written by David Badash / The New Civil Rights Movement<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>March 21, 2019</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">255</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">At 3:30 Thursday afternoon President Donald Trump is scheduled to sign the executive order he promised while speaking at the far right Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) several weeks ago. The order, framed as protecting…</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">At 3:30 Thursday afternoon President Donald Trump is scheduled to sign the executive order he promised while speaking at the far right Conservative Political Action Conference (<b>CPAC) </b>several weeks ago. The order, framed as protecting “free speech” on college and university campuses, is actually a direct threat to defund them by rescinding a wide array of federal grants for research and other programs.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CPAC 2020</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">?</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">@CPAC</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> “I will be signing an executive order requiring colleges and universities to support free speech if they want federal research dollars” @realDonaldTrump  #CPAC2019 #WhatMakesAmericaGreat</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Trump isn’t actually advocating for “free speech,” he’s working to make it easier for far right extremist groups and their positions to enter the marketplace of ideas – unencumbered, and without context or warning, on the nation’s colleges and universities. It is a literal attempt to move the nation to the right – or alt-right – starting with college-aged Americans.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Leading up to the push for the executive order are several years of conservative outrage that came to national attention when far right wing or extremist pundits like Ann Coulter, Ben Shapiro, and Milo Yiannopoulos saw their speeches canceled at various colleges, mostly due to overwhelming outrage from students who pay thousands or tens of thousands of dollars to receive an education.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>According to the President’s son, Donald Trump Jr., today’s executive order is the result of a “push” from the far right wing group Turning Point USA (TPUSA), founded by conservative activist Charlie Kirk.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Donald Trump Jr.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">?</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">@DonaldJTrumpJr</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> Super excited today that @realdonaldTrump is signing an executive order today to protect free speech rights for ALL students!</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Great work by @TPUSA and @charliekirk11 who have been pushing this since the first time I met him years ago</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A big momentous day! #MAGA</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Kirk, perhaps best known for being a close friend of Donald Trump Jr., is also known for the embarrassingly false tweets he produces on a regular basis. Trump Jr. and TPUSA are closely aligned, as are TPUSA and the Trump campaign. Politico calls Kirk “Trump’s man on campus,” and The Weekly Standard called him “Kid Trump.” Trump last year was interviewed by Kirk at a White House event for college students hosted by an anti-gay hate group.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">One year ago, almost as if publishing a prediction, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) warned of “Turning Point USA’s blooming romance with the alt-right.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fast forward to this past December.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Kirk and TPUSA’s Communications Director <b>Candace Owens </b>traveled to London to launch Turning Point in the UK, as Buzzfeed News reported last month.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Owens, in a discussion with potential recruits, brought up Hitler and, as many reports state, appeared to defend him, saying, “if Hitler just wanted to make Germany great and have things run well, OK, fine. The problem is that he wanted, he had dreams outside of Germany.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Headlines encapsulated her remarks:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Candace Owens: Hitler Was ‘OK’ Until He Tried to Go Global” (Daily Beast)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“One of Trump’s most vocal black supporters seemed to defend Hitler in a recent speech” (Washington Post)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Candace Owens’ Bonkers Take On Nationalism Includes A Defense Of Hitler” (Huffpost)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Candace Owens: If Hitler Was Just a Nationalist, He’d Be Fine” (Ebony)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>One year earlier, in December of 2017, the award winning journalist Jane Mayer at The New Yorker published an article on TPUSA titled, “A Conservative Nonprofit That Seeks to Transform College Campuses Faces Allegations of Racial Bias and Illegal Campaign Activity.”</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">That lengthy and in-depth article includes this disturbing revelation:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As Turning Point’s profile has risen, so has scrutiny of its funding and tactics. Internal documents that I obtained, as well as interviews with former employees, suggest that the group may have<b> skirted campaign-finance laws</b> that bar charitable organizations from participating in political activity. Former employees say that they were directed to work with prominent conservatives, including the wife of the Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, in aid of Republican Presidential candidates in 2016. Perhaps most troubling for an organization that holds up conservatives as the real victims of discrimination in America, Turning Point USA is also alleged to have fostered an atmosphere that is hostile to minorities. Screenshots provided to me by a source show that Crystal Clanton, who served until last summer as the group’s national field director, sent a text message to another Turning Point employee saying, “i hate black people. Like fuck them all .?.?. I hate blacks. End of story.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This is the organization that President Trump, the Trump family, and the Trump campaign are not only intimately involved with, but now creating national policy with.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">All Americans, but especially college students, educators, researchers, and actual civil rights supporters and advocates, should be extremely concerned.</font></div></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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Photo Credit: Isaac Edikauskas (YAL Michigan State Chair)</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><a href="https://www.webstagram.one/tag/youngamericansforliberty" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none;">#youngamericansforliberty</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><a href="https://www.webstagram.one/tag/SJSU" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none;">#SJSU</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><a href="https://www.webstagram.one/tag/YAL" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none;">#YAL</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><a href="https://www.webstagram.one/tag/CampusAction" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none;">#CampusAction</a></font></div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">salon </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...</font></div><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Trump lapdogs fetched and rolled over on command recently at CPAC </b>— a gathering of the American right under the sponsorship of the American Conservative Union, or in the words of former Trump official, Count Seb Gorka, “The biggest conclave of conservatives in the United States.”</font></p><div class="p7_24" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">A dedicated masochist, perhaps bored with the kinkier elements of internet pornography, might want to watch some of the speeches and panel discussions from CPAC, all of them now on YouTube. More than depraved thrills, they offer insight into the modern right wing.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> <b>Charlie Kirk, the leader of Turning Point USA,</b> an organization committed to Trumpian evangelical work on college campuses, told an approving audience that “liberals have always hated America.” Kirk’s consigliere, Candice Owens, a black Republican who recently told an audience that Hitler would have been fine if he “just wanted to make Germany great,” cited as evidence that racism no longer exists in America the fact that she “has never been a slave.” Wayne LaPierre, executive vice president of the NRA, advocated arming everyone but toddlers as the solution for every social ill. And speaking of guns, Jerry Falwell Jr., a nut that did not fall far from the family tree, implied that his sons would shoot Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez if she tries to take their cows.</span></font></p><div class="p8_24" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The main event, of course, was President Donald Trump. The emperor made his entrance to the blaring mawkishness of Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the USA,” and actually hugged a large American flag, while grinning ear to ear. The audience roared as Trump made it to first base with the Stars and Stripes. It was one of many times they would rise to their feet in ecstatic displays of devotion. Trump’s speech combined megalomania with right-wing observational comedy. It was almost a combination of Fidel Castro and Jerry Seinfeld, if both men were incoherent.</font></p><div class="p9_24" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The most alarming aspect of the speech was not that Trump lied about easily verifiable matters. For example, he claimed that when he took office the stock market was “headed down toward disaster.” (In reality, <a href="https://money.cnn.com/2016/12/30/investing/dow-stocks-2016-trump/index.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">it finished 2016 with a 13.6 percent gain</a>.) It wasn’t even that Trump lied about matters that might result in the eradication of women’s rights and violence toward elected officials. He repeated the slander, now popular in right-wing circles, that Democrats want to rewrite laws so that doctors can execute live babies after birth. The most disturbing part of the horror show was that no matter how absurd, narcissistic or psychotic Trump became — bragging about his inaugural crowd, inventing stories about conversations with a military general named “Raisin Cane,” mocking concerns about climate change — the audience dutifully and enthusiastically stood at attention, cheering, laughing and applauding. CPAC’s own internal survey showed that 91 percent of attendees “strongly approve” of Trump’s performance as president.</font></p><div class="p10_24" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The giddiness of the crowd makes other polling numbers seem rather banal when they indicate that <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/4-beliefs-prevalent-among-trump-003005069.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">45 percent of Trump supporters believe that white people are the most oppressed group in the United States</a>, and that 45 percent also believe Jefferson Davis would make a better president than Barack Obama. During the 2016 campaign, majorities of Trump voters believed that his run for the presidency represented America’s “last chance for survival,” and that <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/trump-birther-obama-poll-republicans-kenya-744195" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Obama was born outside the United States</a>.</font></p><div class="p11_24" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fox News has become the bastion of far-right conspiracy theory, which amounts to little more than good business, considering that 46 percent of Trump voters believe that Hillary Clinton’s emails include details regarding “Pizzagate” — the theory that the former secretary of state and first lady was running a pedophile sex ring from the back room of a Washington pizza parlor. <a href="https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/articles-reports/2016/12/27/belief-conspiracies-largely-depends-political-iden" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Sixty-two percent of Trump voters believe</a> that “millions of illegal immigrants” cast votes, presumably for Clinton, in the 2016 race. Brett Kavanaugh, some might recall, during his testimony in front of the Senate asserted that Christine Blasey Ford’s allegations that he had sexually assaulted her was orchestrated as “revenge for the Clintons.”</font></p><div class="p12_24" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Trump’s base does not represent a political movement as much as it constitutes a nervous breakdown in motion. Like any psychotic detachment from reality, it will not happen without painful consequences. <a href="https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/09/12/study-shows-two-thirds-us-terrorism-tied-right-wing-extremists" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Two-thirds of terrorist attacks in the United States are now tied to right-wing extremist groups</a>, the ADL reports a staggering increase in right-wing incidents of anti-Semitism, and everything from white supremacist organizations to state militias continue to show an increase in membership as “conservative” Americans are becoming radicalized to believe anything, and adopt hostility toward the very idea of multicultural democracy....</font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=</font><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/viral-video-showing-covington-catholic-high-school-students-prompts-propaganda-warfare-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/viral-video-showing-covington-catholic-high-school-students-prompts-propaganda-warfare-2</a></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</div><div><b>Viral Video Showing Covington Catholic High School Students Prompts Propaganda Warfare</b></div><div>
</div><div>By Jared Holt | January 22, 2019 2:33 pm</div><div>
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</div><div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;">In a video that went viral, a group of students from Covington Catholic High School in Kentucky appeared to mock indigenous activist Nathan Phillips, who encountered the teens at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., after participating in last weekend’s Indigenous Peoples March. The teens had just taken part in the annual March for Life, a parade of Catholic high schools and right-wing groups who oppose reproductive rights and hope to overturn <em style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">Roe v. Wade</em>, the 1973 Supreme Court decision that made abortion legal in all 50 states. After the video spread on Twitter over the weekend, the teens’ families hired a communications firm to launch <a id="LPlnk510984" href="https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/local/2019/01/21/covington-catholic-runswitch-pr-helped-student-in-controversial-video/2638400002/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">multi-level public relations campaign</a> to wage war against the press.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;">The viral video <a id="LPlnk39448" href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/new-video-details-emerge-of-kentucky-high-school-students-viral-encounter-in-dc" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">shows a young man</a> who has publicly identified himself as Nicholas Sandmann, grinning and standing silently, facing Phillips, just inches from the Omaha tribe elder’s face, while Phillips plays a drum and sings. Sandmann’s classmates parody Phillips as he plays. Twitter has <a id="LPlnk819085" href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/21/tech/twitter-suspends-account-native-american-maga-teens/index.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">suspended</a> the account that first sent video of the incident viral. Since that video achieved virality, more video clips of the events that day have emerged.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;">With each new video clip, right-wing hucksters alleged there was additional proof that the Covington Catholic boys should be exonerated for their display, despite the fact that none of the subsequent video clips prove that the boys did not demonstrate disrespectful behavior toward Phillips—rather, all video evidence reaffirmed that interpretation. What the clips did do, however, is provide documentation of verbal harassment of the boys by demonstrators from a Black Hebrew Israelite group prior to their encounter with indigenous activists. Despite the fact that additional footage showed the kids had been riled up before encountering Phillips, the clips do not change the facts of what happened after they did.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;">A response to the viral video first launched in a part of right-wing internet that could be aptly likened to a landfill and ascended into the stratosphere. The pushback campaign first took off with fame-hungry media personalities like YouTube hoaxer Joey Salads, climbed through a mill of pro-Trump propagandists, thrust itself into “respectable” conservative outlets, and eventually reached its cruising altitude at Fox News—an elevation where President Donald Trump encountered the narrative and tweeted out its message to the nation[djt tweet]</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;">Right-wing activists created and spread hashtags like <a id="LPlnk656689" href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23VerifiedBullies" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">#VerifiedBullies</a> and <a id="LPlnk512382" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/StandWithConvington?src=hash" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">#StandWithCovington</a>. Others began <a id="LPlnk117484" href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe4GpGHHeX0iGJpMYR3yjrxfRT8m-jdwXF6zcrQqu59qtuSzg/viewform" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">building a database</a> of verified Twitter users who had criticized the teens—and in extreme cases provoked harassment and violent rhetoric against the students—and demanded that those users be <a id="LPlnk724662" href="https://twitter.com/ali/status/1087397806019510275" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">suspended</a> and, if they were media professionals, to be fired. So far, that campaign <a id="LPlnk982430" href="https://www.thewrap.com/vulture-writer-on-covington-students-i-just-want-these-people-to-die-simple-as-that/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">has cost</a> at least one media professional their job. All the while, right-wing personalities siphoned off the outrage campaign to <a id="LPlnk687466" href="https://twitter.com/ali/status/1087521467590299653" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">promote</a> their own personally branded media efforts.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;">Charlie Kirk, president of Turning Point USA, asked how “anyone still trust the media after this weekend” and declared that journalism “is dead.”</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;">...</p></div></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">no lnx</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" /><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The Washington Post</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></div><div>
</div><div><b>‘These children are barefoot. In diapers. Choking on tear gas.’</b></div><div> </div><div>A migrant girl from Honduras, part of a caravan of thousands traveling from Central America, cries after running away from tear gas thrown by U.S. border agents. (Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)]</div><div>
</div><div>By Tim Elfrink and</div><div>Fred Barbash November 26 at 6:09 AM</div><div>
</div><div>A little girl from Honduras stares into the camera, her young features contorted in anguish. She’s barefoot, dusty, and clad only in a diaper and T-shirt. And she’s just had to run from clouds of choking tear gas fired across the border by U.S. agents.</div><div>
</div><div>A second photograph, which also circulated widely and rapidly on social media, shows an equally anguished woman frantically trying to drag the same child and a second toddler away from the gas as it spreads.</div><div>
</div><div>The three were part of a much larger group, perhaps 70 or 80 men, women and children, pictured in a wider-angle photo fleeing the tear gas. Reuters photographer Kim Kyung-Hoon shot the images, which provoked outrage and seemed at odds with President Trump’s portrayal of the caravan migrants as “criminals” and “gang members.”</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Trump officials said that authorities had to respond with force after hundreds of migrants rushed the border near Tijuana on Sunday, some of them throwing “projectiles” at Customs and Border Protection personnel.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The chaos erupted Sunday around the bustling San Ysidro border crossing, which Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said was closed “to ensure public safety in response to large numbers of migrants seeking to enter the U.S. illegally.”</span></div><div>
</div><div>But Democratic leaders, human rights advocates and others focused on the images of the two children in particular. Many pointed to the children left gagging from the gas attack as evidence that Trump’s push against a caravan of asylum seekers from Central America had gone too far.</div><div>
</div><div>“Shooting tear gas at children is not who we are as Americans,” tweeted Tom Perez, chairman of the Democratic National Committee. “Seeking asylum is not a crime. We must be better than this.”</div><div>
</div><div>[Why tear gas, lobbed at migrants on the southern border, is banned in warfare]</div><div>
</div><div>Gavin Newsom, the Democratic governor-elect of California, argued that images of kids sprinting from tear gas run counter to American ideals.</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“These children are barefoot. In diapers. Choking on tear gas,” he tweeted. “Women and children who left their lives behind — seeking peace and asylum — were met with violence and fear. That’s not my America. We’re a land of<b> refuge. Of hope. Of freedom</b>. And we will not stand for this.”</span></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">Others, such as Democratic Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, noted that the families at the border crossing were fleeing violent conditions in Central America and had the right to seek asylum.</span></div><div>
</div><div>Asking to be considered a refugee & applying for status isn’t a crime.</div><div>
</div><div>It wasn’t for Jewish families fleeing Germany.</div><div>It wasn’t for targeted families fleeing Rwanda.</div><div>It wasn’t for communities fleeing war-torn Syria.</div><div>And it isn’t for those fleeing violence in Central America. https://t.co/qhv7Rr1itn</div><div>
</div><div>— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@Ocasio2018) November 25, 2018</div><div><b>
</b></div><div><b>Unlike the relatively bipartisan criticism of Trump’s now-abandoned family-separation method of deterring migrants, the initial outrage at the tear-gassing of children appeared to come primarily from Democrats and critics of the president.</b></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Some on the right expressed the view that the migrants could avoid getting tear-gassed by not hurling projectiles or by not attempting to cross the border “illegally.”</span></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">If you don’t want to be hit with tear gas when entering a country illegally then don’t enter the country illegally</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">— <b>Charlie Kirk</b> (@charliekirk11) November 26, 2018</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Trump’s response in an early-morning tweet on Monday was to call for Mexico to return the migrants to their home countries, and to again threaten to “close the border permanently.”</span></div><div>
</div><div>That’s never been done, and experts interviewed by The Washington Post on Sunday night knew of no provision explicitly allowing Trump to permanently close the borders. Most of the border, with the exception of designated crossings, is already closed, which doesn’t stop migrants from entering.</div><div>
</div><div>[Borderline: Navigating the invisible boundary and physical barriers that define the U.S.-Mexico border]</div><div>
</div><div>So it probably would not solve Trump’s problems with asylum seekers, who, by law, must be allowed to present their claims if in fact they are able to cross the border anywhere.</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“This is yet another of several Trump attempts to change what he disparagingly calls the policy of ‘catch and release’ without or against legal authority,” said Yale Law School’s Harold Hongju Koh, legal adviser to the State Department during the Obama administration. “All have been blocked. What he does not understand,” Koh said in an email, “is that everyone crossing our Southern border is not illegally present. Those with valid asylum claims have a legal right to assert those claims and remain.”</span></div><div>
</div><div>Closing the border “permanently” or otherwise would conflict with the asylum laws, agreed Peter S. Margulies, an immigration law expert at Roger Williams University School of Law.</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Mexico should move the flag waving Migrants, many of whom are stone cold criminals, back to their countries. Do it by plane, do it by bus, do it anyway you want, but they are NOT coming into the U.S.A. We will close the Border permanently if need be. Congress, fund the WALL!</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 26, 2018</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div>Had the migrants made it to the border and presented themselves as asylum seekers, U.S. officials would have been required by federal law to consider their claim before sending them back to Mexico. Indeed, they are required to do so whether the migrants cross at a designated point of entry or anywhere else.</div><div>
</div><div>U.S. District Judge Jon S. Tigar forcefully reminded Trump of that law last week when he issued a nationwide restraining order against the president’s plan to consider asylum requests only from migrants who cross at legal checkpoints. It was Tigar’s ruling that prompted Trump to lash out last week against the “Obama judge” and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, which in turn brought a rare rebuke from Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.</div><div>
</div><div>Trump’s legal options appear limited. “The border is very long,” Margulies told The Post. But if the administration can “stop people just short of the border, there’s a better argument that those people are not entitled to asylum. I think it would be terrible policy and I think it would be morally repugnant,” he said, “but the administration would be on better legal footing.”</div><div>
</div><div>Attempting to stop them short of the border appears to be just what Trump may be planning.</div><div>
</div><div>The Post’s Joshua Partlow and Nick Miroff, citing Mexican officials and senior members of President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s transition team, reported that the administration is working with the incoming government of Mexico on a plan that would require asylum seekers to wait in that country while their claims moved through U.S. courts.</div><div>
</div><div>While Trump hinted at such a possibility in a tweet Saturday, he did not offer any detail. He could try to invoke an exception to the law called “safe third country,” which permits the government to keep asylum seekers in another country, in this case Mexico, under a bilateral agreement while their claims are being considered in the United States.</div><div>
</div><div>However, there are several catches to that provision, American Civil Liberties Union immigration attorney Lee Gelernt told The Post on Sunday night. If and when an agreement is worked out, the law says, “there needs to be an assurance that individuals waiting on the Mexican side are safe, not just from the Mexican government but from gangs” and others.</div><div>
</div><div>"We believe it would be impossible for the U.S.” to make that assurance, he added.</div><div>
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</div><div>Tim Elfrink joined The Washington Post in 2018</div></div><div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></div></div></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">nyer</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Some speakers began to lose their taste for on-campus provocation. In March, Richard Spencer appeared at Michigan State University. Two dozen protesters and counterprotesters were arrested outside the venue—the Pavilion for Agriculture and Livestock Education—and Spencer ended up speaking to a near-empty hall. Afterward, he posted a video. “I really hate to say this, and I definitely hesitate to say this,” he said, “but Antifa is winning.”</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The last time I checked, the only content on FreeSpeechWeek.com was a photo of Yiannopoulos and the words “milo will return to berkeley in spring 2018.” I texted Yiannopoulos, who had recently been shilling dietary supplements from the InfoWars studio, in Texas, to ask whether this was true. “Yes I am going back to Berkeley,” he responded. “Working it out with the students now.” No one at U.C. Berkeley had heard about any such plans.</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Still, conservative speech at Berkeley continued in Yiannopoulos’s absence. In April, <b>Charlie Kirk, the executive director of the national conservative student group Turning Point U.S.A. and a friend of Donald Trump, Jr., announced that he would give a talk at Berkeley</b>. He tweeted:</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">My message will be quite clear:</font></span></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></span></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Open borders are inhumane</font></span></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></span></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">We must build a militarized wall</font></span></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></span></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">There are only 2 genders</font></span></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></span></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Berkeley should be defunded.</font></span></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>Speaking alongside Kirk was Turning Point’s communications director, Candace Owens, a vitriolic young conservative with a knack for creating viral moments.</b>Before she went by her own name, Owens was a YouTuber who called herself Red Pill Black, a reference to the fact that she was an African-American who had “escaped the Democrat plantation.</span>” Near the beginning of the talk, two hecklers stood up, and one of them shouted, “These aren’t ideas, this is Fascism.” They were ejected, and the audience cheered. “Antifa, if you really take a look at their platform . . . they seem to be the ones that are the white supremacists,” Owens said. “They feel like their ideas are so supreme to everybody else’s that they have the right to boycott, to be violent.”</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Four days after the panel, Kanye West tweeted, “I love the way Candace Owens thinks,” followed by several tweets in which he expressed his “love” for Donald Trump. Despite widespread bewilderment and outrage, West refused to back down, insisting that his views were not about politics per se but about the higher principle of untrammelled expression. “Love who you want to love,” West tweeted. “That’s free thought.”</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In late May, Congress held a hearing on “Challenges to the Freedom of Speech on College Campuses.” One of the witnesses was Bret Weinstein, a biologist who, until recently, taught at Evergreen State College, in Olympia, Washington. Last year, after he wrote a controversial e-mail, students protested and demanded that he be fired. Amid growing unrest on campus, a group of students posted a photo of themselves wielding baseball bats. Weinstein sued the college, alleging that it had failed to protect him from “threats of physical violence,” and left his teaching job. The college admitted no wrongdoing, but settled for half a million dollars. At the congressional hearing, Weinstein was introduced with the title Professor-in-Exile. “The First Amendment is simply not sufficient to protect the free exchange of ideas,” he said.</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Near the end of the school year, I met Erwin Chemerinsky, the law-school dean, at a coffee shop in downtown Berkeley. “There is no guarantee that the marketplace of ideas will lead to truth, and that’s obviously a big problem,” he said. He is a Voltairean, not a Panglossian. Nonetheless, he continued, “My distrust of government is so great that I can’t think of a way to address that problem without making it worse.”</span> Later, I talked to john powell. “There are any number of areas—gay rights, animal rights, housing—where legal reformers have set out to change the law,” he said. “If our speech laws looked more like Canada’s, would that be the end of democracy as we know it?”</font></div></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></div><div><ul><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Si<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">mon Maloy</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://mediamatters.nationbuilder.com/r?u=3YhLhUxTGfXV40jjcf0E7zQgA_lKgFY2qUmWqav0z4SFky3xhY7WOQbWes_ALN2QShWRAF_epieXkWKKaeJElAZtrheH3rgXC_z2DpXagNz4XKC6mErlb2B9oPse4fVpEnlKMRn05mny9dYL58Px5KoKtFBRPr1a7YHeEhz5cHA&e=2fd18ded548fce9ef66e074aaf01da3d5df1923b&utm_source=mediamatters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1014weekly&n=67&v=1450" style="">read the book</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">by Turning Point USA's<b> Charlie Kirk. Kirk, a staple on Fox News, is relevant largely because of friendships with the Trump family.</b></span></font></li></ul></div><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Reading the mess of a book, Maloy comes to the following conclusion: "This is why the Trump family loves Kirk; he and his book are pure expressions of Trumpist politics. He leans intensely on white grievance while mocking the plights of minorities (one chapter is titled 'Black Victimization Bunco');</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> he demands the in-group (conservative students) receive protection and status ('safe spaces,' unchallenged expression of any idea) while also demanding that protection and status be denied to out-groups (liberals, minorities); and he makes zero effort to reconcile these contradictions while substituting aggressive combativeness for substantive heft. It’s a simple trick: posture as an alpha tough guy, but when the slightest offense arises, performatively howl like a whipped dog."</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Kirk's group is best known for the time that its members <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://mediamatters.nationbuilder.com/r?u=H-qEORLjmEZ0R4IEh6LC5XiIMMZLzL0JDt_4-dFf5VzY65UDuxDHxfhSpA41VVSA0grEw6_uaOJYOFtQ53Fu2Pk0s-6hLqmEwqgwVM1_FGn6lytElY3ZsCwr0Ql2w6SCNf_6oVSDhKBi97atF35Yob-Ytc6B3-JqGeKBec_hhN49Qom6Jb5LKHblbtdLxjjvmPmmaifFn90f1Cz2pvEitQ&e=2fd18ded548fce9ef66e074aaf01da3d5df1923b&utm_source=mediamatters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1014weekly&n=68&v=1450" style="">wore diapers</a>.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><em><strong>Also:</strong></em> After Taylor Swift endorsed Democrats in Tennessee, Kirk <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://mediamatters.nationbuilder.com/r?u=3YhLhUxTGfXV40jjcf0E7zQgA_lKgFY2qUmWqav0z4TXyl4S9GDvLORes1Ib_JJXs0IQKQUN1rpeOS8Qt8bdEdlVgTgz1yzD7AJGudJOlh4X3AX1bjAK1i02yZQgN0J0vwjKQbkxu5MoCPq48odM8nxvBoCQB-yqXBcYX7ubw9m9SdbtDBgl6v8phETM4_ZB&e=2fd18ded548fce9ef66e074aaf01da3d5df1923b&utm_source=mediamatters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1014weekly&n=69&v=1450" style="">endorsed</a> a 4chan conspiracy theory that she may not have formed political opinions on her own.</font></p><div><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/ron-desantis-david-horowitz-race-war" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/ron-desantis-david-horowitz-race-war</a></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> Sunday, the <em>Washington Post</em> <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/gop-candidate-for-fla-governor-spoke-at-racially-charged-events/2018/09/09/c6d3a63c-b114-11e8-a810-4d6b627c3d5d_story.html?utm_term=.09353b58f290" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">detailed</a> <b>Florida GOP gubernatorial candidate Rep. Ron DeSantis' ties to an extremist group founded by far-right activist David Horowitz</b>.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">According to the <em>Post</em>, DeSantis was a speaker in at least <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">four "Restoration Weekend" conferences hosted by the David Horowitz Freedom Center (DHFC) in 2013, 2015, 2016, and 2017 in Palm Beach, Florida, and Charleston, South Carolina.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">At the 2015 engagement in Charleston, DeSantis <a href="https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/ron-desantis-spoke-at-event-with-racist-sexist-talks" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">said</a>, "I just want to say what an honor it’s been to be here to speak ... David has done such great work and I’ve been an admirer. I’ve been to these conferences in the past but<b> I’ve been a big admirer of an organization that shoots straight, tells the American people the truth and is standing up for the right thing."</b></font></p><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 20px;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">At the DHFC events, DeSantis appeared alongside such figures as Milo Yiannopoulos, the former Breitbart writer who called feminism "<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/nov/27/milo-yiannopoulos-has-huge-support-in-australia-men-must-call-him-out" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">cancer</a>" and <a href="https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oJhHwspZGcg" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">defended statutory rape</a>; James Damore, the author of the "<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jan/11/discriminate-conservatives-james-damore-suing-google-intolerance" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Google memo</a>" that called women genetically inferior at computing jobs; and<b> Charlie Kirk, the president of Turning Point USA, a far-right youth group that is engineering <a href="https://psmag.com/education/the-right-wing-plot-to-take-over-student-governments" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none;">takeovers of student elections</a> on college campuses.</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Horowitz himself, once a prominent member of the New Left movement in the 1960s, has gone on to preach an <a href="https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/david-horowitz" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">ideology of hate</a> against immigrants, Muslims, and people of color. He has said the Palestinian people are <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/263450/its-time-designate-black-lives-matter-terrorist-frontpage-editors" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Nazis</a>, compared Black Lives Matter to the <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/263450/its-time-designate-black-lives-matter-terrorist-frontpage-editors" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">KKK and al-Qaeda</a>, <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/david-horowitz-knows-obama-is-a-muslim-because-he-hates-america-so-much/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">claimed</a> former President Barack Obama was "inviting the terrorists to behead more Americans," said that blacks "<a href="https://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=24317" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">would still be slaves</a>" if not for "the sacrifices of white soldiers," and argued that the "<a href="https://www.newsweek.com/ron-desantis-spoke-event-hosted-white-race-war-theorist-1113110" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">real race war</a>" in America is against white people.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>According to the <a href="https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/david-horowitz" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none;">Southern Poverty Law Center</a>, Horowitz has also used his online periodical, <em>FrontPage Mag</em>, to promote material from <em>American Renaissance</em>,</b> a white supremacist publication, arguing that its founder Jared Taylor is "no more racist ... than Jesse Jackson and the NAACP."</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">DeSantis, a <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/ron-desantis-trump-ad-704926/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">devoted supporter</a> of President Donald Trump, has spent the last few weeks facing controversy for his statement that Florida should not "<a href="https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/republican-candidate-ron-desantis-warns-florida-voters-not-monkey-electing-black" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">monkey this up</a>" by electing Andrew Gillum, his Democratic opponent and the first African-American major party nominee for governor of Florida.<b> He was also discovered to be the administrator of a <a href="https://www.snopes.com/news/2018/08/31/ron-desantis-leaves-racist-facebook-group-says-unknowingly-member/" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none;">racist Facebook group</a>, which he claims he was added to without his knowledge.</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/donald-trumps-ambassador-religious-freedom-lobbied-behalf-anti-islam-activist">https://www.alternet.org/donald-trumps-ambassador-religious-freedom-lobbied-behalf-anti-islam-activist</a>?src=newsletter1094336</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>an ambassador representing President Donald Trump lobbied the United Kingdom on behalf of jailed activist Tommy Robinson, the founder of the far-right English Defence League.</b> According to Reuters,<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> the U.S. ambassador inquired about Robinson's safety during a meeting with Britain's ambassador in Washington, D.C.</span></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The discussion about Robinson, who gained worldwide notoriety for his anti-Islam rhetoric, was peculiar considering it was brought up by Sam Brownback, the U.S. ambassador of international religious freedom. Why an ambassador of religious freedom would speak on behalf of a religious persecutor has not yet been explained by the Trump administration.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, was arrested in May after broadcasting a Facebook live video outside a courthouse during a child-molestation trial. He was sentenced to 10 months in prison for contempt of court and an additional three more months for breaking the terms of a previous suspended sentence, the Guardian reported.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Robinson has become a figurehead of the alt-right at home and abroad, including the U.S. He has stylized himself as a journalist who covers Islamic issues. In 2009, he founded the English Defence League, a far-right, counter-jihadist group that harasses Muslims.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Robinson's cause has attracted solidarity in America. On Friday, Turning Point U.S.A. founder and staunch Trump supporter Charlie Kirk referenced Robinson in a tweet that attacked the mayor of London.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“Sadiq Khan is trying to lecture the world on ‘free speech’ while Tommy Robinson is locked in a London prison for speaking his mind,” the tweet said.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Robinson's jailing has generated mass protests in Britain. On Saturday, demonstrators campaigning for the release of Robinson incited a riot in central London by <b>blockading a bus being driven by a woman in a headscarf</b>, the Independent reported.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Dozens of protestors reportedly surrounded the bus as it entered Trafalgar Square. The group displayed “Britain Loves Trump” signs as they shoved them on the bus' windows.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Those protestors would be happy to learn that Brownback shared their concerns about Robinson's safety.<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> The failed former governor of Kansas told Kim Darroch, the British ambassador to the U.S., that the U.K. would need to show Robinson more sympathy, otherwise Trump may feel compelled to speak out against the case, Reuters reported.</span></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Brownback's interference on behalf of Robinson represents another situation in which a member of the Trump administration acted counterintuitively to his or her supposed role. Like former EPA chief Scott Pruitt, who rolled back regulations that were designed to protect the environment, Brownback's lobbying efforts could not be justified as an attempt to restore religious freedom. If anything, his lobbying furthered the marginalization of Muslims</font></p><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></div><div><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Owens burst onto the scene recently <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://mediamatters.nationbuilder.com/r?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mediamatters.org%2Fblog%2F2018%2F04%2F24%2Fwhat-know-about-scott-adams-and-candace-owens-right-wing-commentators-kanye-west-promoted%2F220028&e=2fd18ded548fce9ef66e074aaf01da3d5df1923b&utm_source=mediamatters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=617weekly&n=23&v=1400" style="">after</a>Kanye West praised her way of thinking. She is the communications director for Turning Point USA, a group for young pro-Trump supporters that once staged a protest where members <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://mediamatters.nationbuilder.com/r?u=https%3A%2F%2Fgizmodo.com%2Ftweets-about-diapers-broke-the-entire-conservative-yout-1823345007&e=2fd18ded548fce9ef66e074aaf01da3d5df1923b&utm_source=mediamatters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=617weekly&n=24&v=1400" style="">all wore diapers</a>.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Owens made more noise this week when <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://mediamatters.nationbuilder.com/r?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mediamatters.org%2Fblog%2F2018%2F06%2F12%2Feven-conservative-women-are-shredding-candace-owens-attack-metoo-movement%2F220423&e=2fd18ded548fce9ef66e074aaf01da3d5df1923b&utm_source=mediamatters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=617weekly&n=25&v=1400" style="">she blasted</a>the #MeToo movement, claiming it was a witch hunt on men. Unbelievably, she also claimed that she talked to CEOs and men in politics, who told her that they were <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://mediamatters.nationbuilder.com/r?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mediamatters.org%2Fvideo%2F2018%2F06%2F12%2Fcandace-owens-says-she-speaks-ceos-and-men-politics-who-wont-hire-women-she-blames-metoo%2F220428&e=2fd18ded548fce9ef66e074aaf01da3d5df1923b&utm_source=mediamatters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=617weekly&n=26&v=1400" style="">not hiring women</a>. While normal people would be outraged by the admission of illegal hiring practices, Owens used it as a reason to attack #MeToo.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Owens' comments even received <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://mediamatters.nationbuilder.com/r?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mediamatters.org%2Fblog%2F2018%2F06%2F12%2Feven-conservative-women-are-shredding-candace-owens-attack-metoo-movement%2F220423&e=2fd18ded548fce9ef66e074aaf01da3d5df1923b&utm_source=mediamatters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=617weekly&n=27&v=1400" style="">criticism from conservative women</a> who pointed out that her rhetoric is damaging to survivors and victims. And that's not the only criticism coming from the right. A competing group for young conservatives <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://mediamatters.nationbuilder.com/r?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonexaminer.com%2Fopinion%2Fyoung-americas-foundation-warns-charlie-kirk-could-cause-long-term-damage&e=2fd18ded548fce9ef66e074aaf01da3d5df1923b&utm_source=mediamatters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=617weekly&n=28&v=1400" style="">wrote a memo</a> calling out Turning Point as damaging. In return, Turning Point <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://mediamatters.nationbuilder.com/r?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonexaminer.com%2Fopinion%2Fturning-point-usa-leaks-screenshots-to-infowars&e=2fd18ded548fce9ef66e074aaf01da3d5df1923b&utm_source=mediamatters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=617weekly&n=29&v=1400" style="">seems to have leaked</a> information to a host at Alex Jones' Infowars who Owens has <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://mediamatters.nationbuilder.com/r?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Frealcandaceo%2Fstatus%2F1004016486288166912%3Flang%3Den&e=2fd18ded548fce9ef66e074aaf01da3d5df1923b&utm_source=mediamatters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=617weekly&n=30&v=1400" style="">recently praised</a>.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Also: Turning Point held a conference for women. 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</div></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">mma</font></div><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Turning Point USA, the student-aimed conservative organization that <a href="https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/04/06/trump-young-conservatives-college-charlie-kirk-turning-point-usa-217829" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">raises its money</a> by stoking fear among rich conservative donors about the alleged liberalization of college campuses, will host its fourth annual <a href="https://www.tpusa.com/ywls" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Young Women’s Leadership Summit</a> June 14 through 17. Slated to address the young women attending is a roster packed full of misogynists.</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">While Turning Point USA (TPUSA) is perhaps most famous for a laughable 2017 stunt in which its members donned <a href="https://gizmodo.com/tweets-about-diapers-broke-the-entire-conservative-yout-1823345007?utm_campaign=socialflow_gizmodo_facebook&utm_source=gizmodo_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">adult diapers</a> and sat in oversized playpens to express their outrage over <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/diaper-turning-point-usa-kent-state-student-conservative-youth-repulican-kaitlin-bennett-a8230021.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">safe spaces</a>, its <a href="https://www.tpusa.com/aboutus/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">stated mission</a> is to “identify, educate, train, and organize students to promote the principles of freedom, free markets, and limited government.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">” Despite TPUSA’s lofty goals, the organization’s events are often little more than sophomoric </span><a href="https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/turning-point-usa-campus-stunts/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">spectacles</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> designed to fearmonger -- often via </span><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2018/04/10/fox-news-ran-over-50-segments-month-fearmongering-about-college-campuses-these-two-organizations-are/219900" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Fox News airtime</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> -- about the supposedly leftist leanings of U.S. colleges. But the group also has a more sinister history that includes </span><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2017/02/02/us/milo-yiannopoulos-ivory-tower/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">hosting</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2017/02/20/conservatives-shocked-discover-milo-yiannopoulos-terrible-human-being/215400" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">serial harassers</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">and </span><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2018/04/12/turning-point-usa-and-campus-reform-are-defending-florida-professor-ties-white-nationalist-group/219907" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">defending racists</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. Overall, TPUSA is focused on combating </span><a href="https://twitter.com/TPUSA/status/855117371480068098" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">“political correctness,”</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> and conferences like the Young Women’s Leadership Summit are one vehicle used to accomplish this goal.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">TPUSA’s website <a href="https://www.tpusa.com/ywls" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">invites</a> “young, conservative women” to apply to attend the summit, and it promises to deliver “professional development and leadership training,” as well as opportunities to network with fellow young conservatives. While at first glance, the event seems to be about women's empowerment, the slate of speakers scheduled to present says otherwise. The <a href="https://www.tpusa.com/ywls" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">roster</a> includes people who publicly support misogynistic policies, routinely dismiss the importance of issues that advance gender equality, and use dangerously sexist rhetoric. Here is a breakdown of 10 of those speakers and their histories of anti-women messaging:</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2018/06/13/tpusa-invited-slate-sexists-speak-its-young-women-s-leadership-summit/220435#Charlie%20Kirk" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Charlie Kirk</font></a></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2018/06/13/tpusa-invited-slate-sexists-speak-its-young-women-s-leadership-summit/220435#Jeanine%20Pirro" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Jeanine Pirro</a> </font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2018/06/13/tpusa-invited-slate-sexists-speak-its-young-women-s-leadership-summit/220435#Dana%20Loesch" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Dana Loesch</a> </font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2018/06/13/tpusa-invited-slate-sexists-speak-its-young-women-s-leadership-summit/220435#Kimberly%20Guilfoyle" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Kimberly Guilfoyle</font></a></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2018/06/13/tpusa-invited-slate-sexists-speak-its-young-women-s-leadership-summit/220435#Katie%20Pavlich" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Katie Pavlich</font></a></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2018/06/13/tpusa-invited-slate-sexists-speak-its-young-women-s-leadership-summit/220435#Kayleigh%20McEnany" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Kayleigh McEnany</font></a></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2018/06/13/tpusa-invited-slate-sexists-speak-its-young-women-s-leadership-summit/220435#Tomi%20Lahren" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Tomi Lahren</font></a></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2018/06/13/tpusa-invited-slate-sexists-speak-its-young-women-s-leadership-summit/220435#Ben%20Shapiro" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Ben Shapiro</font></a></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2018/06/13/tpusa-invited-slate-sexists-speak-its-young-women-s-leadership-summit/220435#Candace%20Owens" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Candace Owens</font></a></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2018/06/13/tpusa-invited-slate-sexists-speak-its-young-women-s-leadership-summit/220435#Jordan%20Peterson" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Jordan Peterson</font></a></p><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 2px; clear: both; border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(0, 153, 255);"><a id="Charlie Kirk" name="Charlie Kirk" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Charlie Kirk</font></a></h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The founder, chief fundraiser, and public face of TPUSA, “<a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-05-07/conservative-boy-wonder" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">boy wonder</a>” Charlie Kirk has a long history of attacking feminism and a tendency to dismiss and mischaracterize the problems women face. He is also ever-ready to <a href="https://twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/918168547230183424" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">complain</a> <a href="https://video.foxnews.com/v/5776486173001/?#sp=show-clips" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">about</a> girls intruding on sacred male spaces like the Boy Scouts.</font></p><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 5px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><a href="https://twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/979012792345878528" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">More</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/974724859195424768" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">than</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/1003469315042152449" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">once</a>, Kirk has taken to Twitter to mischaracterize feminism as man hating, writing that “modern day feminism is much more about hating men than empowering women.”</font></p></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 5px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Kirk spent the day of the January 2017 <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2017/01/21/politics/trump-women-march-on-washington/index.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">Women’s March</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/822840943363653633" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">attacking</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/822841946674778112" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">protesters</a> on Twitter and <a href="https://twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/822899576633982976" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">claiming</a>there was no <a href="https://twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/822824556444299268" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">need</a> for the protests <a href="https://twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/954810908538277890" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">because</a> “women are actually doing very well.”</font></p></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 5px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Kirk seems to delight in <a href="https://twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/849226802547617792" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">frequently</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/587985692485091328" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">claiming</a> that there is no gender wage gap (<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/research/2016/04/12/myths-facts-gender-pay-gap-and-need-equal-pay/209873#79percent" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">there is</a>). According to his tweets, not only is the wage gap “<a href="https://twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/983711601730772992" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">one of the most dangerous and divisive lies in today’s time</a>,” but “<a href="https://twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/982724577938767873" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">by every metric women are doing much better than men in America.</a>”</font></p></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 5px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Kirk has a <a href="https://twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/996556149540446208" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">long</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/997622829033119744" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">history</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/648198464011112449" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">of</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/700152295716032512" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">attacking</a> Planned Parenthood, which provides essential health services that are, in some parts of the country, <a href="https://www.vox.com/identities/2017/3/17/14942772/planned-parenthood-defund-tom-price-dana-bash-counties-list" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">unavailable</a> to women anywhere else.</font></p></li></ul><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 2px; clear: both; border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(0, 153, 255); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a name="Jeanine Pirro" id="Jeanine Pirro" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; outline: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jeanine Pirro</font></a></h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">At first glance, Fox’s Jeanine Pirro seems an obvious choice for the summit. As the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/08/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/as-successor-arrives-pirro-looks-back.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">first woman</a> elected to serve as the district attorney in New York’s Westchester County, Pirro spent years <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2018/03/08/insane-toxic-trump-adulation-jeanine-pirro/219577" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">working on behalf</a> of abuse survivors, often women and children. Since her years as DA, however, Pirro has seemingly turned her back on abuse victims, using her Fox show, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Justice with Judge Jeanine</em>, to downplay sexual misconduct allegations.</font></p><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 5px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">When Pirro’s former Fox colleague Gretchen Carlson reported then-Fox CEO Roger Ailes’ many instances of severe sexual misconduct, Pirro aggressively defended Ailes, <a href="https://www.thewrap.com/fox-news-jeanine-pirro-rips-gretchen-carlsons-absurd-lawsuit/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">dismissing</a> Carlson’s lawsuit as “absurd” and <a href="https://people.com/tv/jeanine-pirro-defends-roger-ailes-in-gretchen-carlson-sexual-harassment-lawsuit/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">describing</a> Ailes as a “no-nonsense guy.”</font></p></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 5px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In October 2016, Pirro was quick to defend then-candidate Donald Trump after the release of an <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Access Hollywood</em> <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-recorded-having-extremely-lewd-conversation-about-women-in-2005/2016/10/07/3b9ce776-8cb4-11e6-bf8a-3d26847eeed4_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.8070da36937c" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">video</a>, which caught him bragging about sexually assaulting women. Two days after the video was released, Pirro <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2016/10/10/fox-host-trump-sexual-assault-claim-just-locker-room-talk-and-frat-house-language/213694" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">dismissed</a> Trump’s violent remarks as “locker room talk" and "frat house language." She also proudly <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2018/03/08/insane-toxic-trump-adulation-jeanine-pirro/219577" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">announced</a> that the video did nothing to change her vote, and that Trump was still an undoubtedly better choice than “double-talking woman” Hillary Clinton.</font></p></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 5px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Days later, when <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/13/us/politics/donald-trump-women.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">multiple women</a> reported that Trump had touched them inappropriately, Pirro <a href="http://insider.foxnews.com/2016/10/14/judge-jeanine-trump-sexual-assault-allegations" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">rejected</a>their reports as “a little too convenient” and criticized their timing.</font></p></li></ul><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 2px; clear: both; border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(0, 153, 255); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a id="Dana Loesch" name="Dana Loesch" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; outline: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dana Loesch</font></a></h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">NRA spokesperson Dana Loesch is a remarkably bad choice to speak at a women’s conference, considering her numerous glib comments about rape, her mischaracterization of issues that advance gender equality, and her cruel attacks against transgender women. Additionally, Loesch has openly ridiculed college-aged women, the demographic TPUSA’s summit is aiming to capture, for wanting access to contraceptives.</font></p><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 5px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">After conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh aimed <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/research/2012/03/05/limbaugh-launched-46-personal-attacks-on-fluke/184269" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">misogynistic insults</a> at Sandra Fluke, a Georgetown Law student who testified in front of Congress about access to contraceptives, Loesch <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/research/2012/03/20/cnns-dana-loesch-and-the-bullying-campaign-agai/186286" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">launched a barrage of heinous attacks</a> against her. She denounced Fluke as unable “to control her sexual urges” and claimed that Fluke had testified that she “simply cannot stop getting it on.”</font></p></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 5px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Loesch then <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/research/2012/02/29/young-womens-health-care-needs-are-no-laughing/186514" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">extended</a> her attacks to seemingly include all college-aged women who want access to contraceptives, ridiculing them for acting “like they’re nymphos” and dismissing young women's call for contraceptives coverage as "insulting to the original spirit and intent of the suffrage movement."</font></p></li></ul><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 5px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Loesch has a history of making flippant remarks and <a href="https://twitter.com/DLoesch/status/171459226756063232" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">ill-advised</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/DLoesch/status/177912460588744704" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">jokes</a> about rape, including <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2017/07/28/nra-spokesperson-penalizing-gun-owners-improperly-storing-firearms-shaming-rape-survivor/217430" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">comparing</a>the penalization of gun owners for improperly storing firearms to “shaming a rape survivor.”</font></p></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 5px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Loesch has been <a href="https://twitter.com/DLoesch/status/540936329291264000" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">quick</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/DLoesch/status/540943953021763585" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">to</a> fearmonger about false reports of sexual assault (which researchers say <a href="http://www.ndaa.org/pdf/the_voice_vol_3_no_1_2009.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">make up</a> only an estimated 2 to 8 percent of allegations), and she came immediately to the <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2012/08/19/cnns-dana-loesch-excuses-gop-rep-akins-legitima/189439" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">defense</a> of former Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO) after he claimed that it’s “really rare" for women subjected to "legitimate rape" to become pregnant.</font></p></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 5px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In addition to her trivializing rhetoric on rape, Loesch has <a href="http://www.newsweek.com/nra-dana-loesch-women-feminism-toxic-masculinity-guns-witch-hunt-967575" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">made</a> careless and insensitive comments about gender, including <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2018/06/07/nra-spokesperson-dana-loesch-some-women-wouldn-t-know-what-masculinity-was-if-it-hit-them-face/220390" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">claiming</a> that some women “wouldn’t know what masculinity was if it hit them in the face."</font></p></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 5px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">According to Loesch, the gender wage gap <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2016/01/13/the-blazes-dana-loesch-calls-gender-pay-inequal/207961" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">is</a> “an absolute myth.” And after actress Jennifer Lawrence wrote an essay describing her own experience with pay inequality, Loesch <a href="https://twitter.com/DLoesch/status/654374298413477889" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">denied</a> that “sexism” played a role in Lawrence’s experience, instead accusing Lawrence of having a “self esteem issue.”</font></p></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 5px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Loesch has additionally aimed cruel and <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/trans-woman-prison-suicide-jenny-swift-doncaster-misgendering-can-kill-a7513441.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">dangerous</a> <a href="http://danaloeschradio.com/dana-loesch-criticizes-bruce-jenners-sexual-appropriation" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">attacks</a> at transgender women, going out of her way to <a href="https://twitter.com/DLoesch/status/776197033623367680" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">misgender</a> former soldier and whistleblower Chelsea Manning.</font></p></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 5px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Loesch also <a href="https://twitter.com/DLoesch/status/776124351380795392" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">claimed</a> that Manning was given “preferential treatment” and an “unnecessary surgery” when she received hormone therapy while in prison. In reality, hormone therapy is <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2014/05/14/fox-news-attacks-special-treatment-for-transgen/199305" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">medically necessary</a>, and to say otherwise simply serves to dismiss the health needs of transgender women.</font></p></li></ul><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 2px; clear: both; border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(0, 153, 255); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a id="Kimberly Guilfoyle" name="Kimberly Guilfoyle" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; outline: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Kimberly Guilfoyle</font></a></h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Former Assistant District Attorney Kimberly Guilfoyle has repeatedly used her platform as a Fox News host to make misogynistic and demeaning remarks, and she has spoken out in support of street harassment.</font></p><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 5px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In a bizarre 2014 endorsement of catcalling, Guilfoyle <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2014/08/28/let-men-be-men-fox-news-hosts-defend-catcalling/200585" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">defended</a> street harassment by arguing that society should “let men be men” and insisting that “men are going to be that way.”</font></p></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 5px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Later in the same year, during a discussion about women voting, Guilfoyle <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2014/10/21/fox-host-young-women-on-juries-are-not-a-good-i/201255" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">asserted</a> that “young women on juries are not a good idea” because “they don’t get it.” She went on to contend that they’d be better of going “back on Tinder or Match.com.”</font></p></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 5px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Guilfoyle has also <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2015/09/29/foxs-guilfoyle-asks-what-the-heck-is-wrong-with/205863" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">derided</a> women who have abortions in the third trimester as “selfish and disgusting,” even though women who receive abortions that late in their pregnancies do so <a href="https://www.vox.com/identities/2016/10/20/13346470/trump-clinton-debate-abortion-laws-nine-months" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">because of</a> serious concern for the fetus or their own health and are thus often forced to make <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/research/2016/10/25/six-must-read-accounts-women-who-have-actually-had-late-term-abortions/214093" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">heartbreaking and terrifying</a>medical decisions.</font></p></li></ul><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 2px; clear: both; border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(0, 153, 255); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a id="Katie Pavlich" name="Katie Pavlich" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; outline: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Katie Pavlich</font></a></h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Katie Pavlich is an editor at the conservative outlet Townhall as well as a Fox News contributor. Pavlich has a history of using insensitive rhetoric and spreading misinformation about sexual assault as well as a tendency to espouse sexist tropes. In 2015, Pavlich gave a disastrous speech on sexual assault at Iowa State University, during which she insulted sexual abuse survivors and spread misinformation about the realities of sexual assault on campuses.</font></p><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 5px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">During the Iowa event, Pavlich <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2015/03/12/listen-to-fox-contributor-katie-pavlichs-trainw/202875" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">argued</a> that the incidence of sexual assaults on college campuses had been exaggerated and advanced the evidence-free notion that allowing students to carry concealed guns on college campuses could reduce sexual assault (the NRA <a href="https://www.tpusa.com/ywls/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">is a sponsor</a> of TPUSA’s Young Women’s Leadership Summit). She also made the wildly insulting claim that "lots of the time" women "make a decision about whether you are going to stop a sexual assault or not" before it happens and sarcastically apologized while disagreeing with a woman who shared that she was sexually assaulted as a child. </font></p></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 5px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2016/02/03/foxs-katie-pavlich-i-guarantee-you-that-vladimi/208378" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">In 2016</a>, Pavlich “guarantee[d]” that Russian President Vladimir Putin and “the Saudis” would find then-presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s voice “grating.”</font></p></li></ul><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 2px; clear: both; border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(0, 153, 255); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a id="Kayleigh McEnany" name="Kayleigh McEnany" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; outline: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Kayleigh McEnany</font></a></h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Many of the speakers invited to TPUSA’s summit have served as Trump apologists, but perhaps none have done so as consistently as Republican National Committee spokesperson Kayleigh McEnany. In her constant defense of Trump’s sexist and violent rhetoric, McEnany has demonstrated her own indifference toward the sexism and abuse that women often face at the hands of powerful men.</font></p><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 5px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">McEnany defended Trump in the aftermath of the release of the <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Access Hollywood</em> video, which contains Trump’s claims that when he sees a “beautiful woman” he will “just kiss” them and not “even wait” to speak to them first. The video also features Trump saying that “when you’re a star… you can do anything,” including grabbing women “by the pussy.” McEnany <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2016/10/12/cnn-trump-apologist-kayleigh-mcenany-i-dont-think-trump-was-condoning-sexual-assault-leaked-tapes/213797" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">claimed</a> that she didn’t “think [Trump] was condoning sexual assault.”</font></p></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 5px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Days later, after <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/13/us/politics/donald-trump-women.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">multiple women</a> said that Trump had sexually assaulted them, McEnany <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2016/10/14/cnn-s-kayleigh-mcenany-claims-donald-trumps-claim-stronger-his-accuser-s/213855" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">argued</a> that “Donald Trump's claim is stronger” than that of one of the accusers.</font></p></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 5px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">McEnany also <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2016/08/02/cnn-trump-apologist-defends-trumps-comment-women-harassed-work-should-find-new-jobs/212093" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">excused</a> Trump’s tone-deaf <a href="http://time.com/money/4434855/donald-trump-ivanka-sexual-harassment/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">assertion</a> that if his daughter was sexually harassed at work, she ought to find a new job. She claimed that was “the same advice I would give to my sister.”</font></p></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 5px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Her sycophancy continued in 2017, when she <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2017/06/28/cnns-kayleigh-mcenany-defends-trumps-sexist-comments-irish-reporter/217084" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">contended</a> that Trump crossed no boundaries when he made a <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/06/28/i-bet-she-treats-you-well-trump-calls-over-irish-reporter-compliments-her-nice-smile/?utm_term=.7f80c1616e7f" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">sexist</a> remark to an Irish reporter.  </font></p></li></ul><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 2px; clear: both; border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(0, 153, 255); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a id="Tomi Lahren" name="Tomi Lahren" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; outline: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Tomi Lahren</font></a></h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fox’s Tomi Lahren has built a career out of making unapologetically cruel and anti-feminist rants. She has a long history of attacking women and empowerment movements, including during a speech at the 2016 TPUSA summit.</font></p><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 5px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">During her 2016 YWLS <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jw-IqoEL7Uo" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">speech</a>, Lahren attacked various groups of women and derided modern day feminism. About liberal women, she told the crowd, “You notice the difference between a conservative women’s conference and a liberal women’s conference, because y’all dress like women.” In reference to Hillary Clinton, she proclaimed, “Don’t tell Hillary, but you can wear a dress and still be a woman,” and then she called both Clinton and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) “men” based on the clothes they wear. She accused actress Lena Dunham of making false rape accusations, and she commented that Dunham was “somewhere getting undressed on HBO” and “no one wants to see that.” She described feminists as “barely women,” and she described the modern-day feminist movement as “all about “gimme -- it’s gimme this, gimme this.”</font></p></li></ul><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 5px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On another occasion, during a particularly vicious tirade, she <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/video/wonder-woman-is-out-of-the-u-n-because-she-doesnt-send-the-right-message/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">described</a> modern-day feminism as “the dumbest load of hypocritical crap ever masqueraded as an equality movement.”</font></p></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 5px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In an interview with <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Playboy</em>, in which she <a href="https://womenintheworld.com/2017/05/03/in-interview-with-playboy-tomi-lahren-says-feminism-is-bad-for-america/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">described</a> feminism as “bad,” she implied that feminism attempts to simplify women into “wanting free abortions or free birth control, and by using a false statistic like the 77 cents on the dollar bullshit.”</font></p></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 5px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In another instance, she slightly tweaked her previous definition of the feminist movement, <a href="https://twitter.com/TomiLahren/status/677189063581954049" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">arguing</a> that feminism is in fact “about man-bashing & free birth control.”</font></p></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 5px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Lahren once claimed female activists attending a planned “<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/08/us/a-day-without-a-woman.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">Day Without Women</a>” protest were not “real women.” <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/video/tomi-lahren-offers-a-clear-message-to-left-wing-feminists-this-is-what-real-women-look-like" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">According</a> to Lahren, “Real women don’t have to remind the world every single day that history once slighted us. Real women don’t wake up and skip work to march for abortions or paid contraceptives.” She <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/video/tomi-lahren-offers-a-clear-message-to-left-wing-feminists-this-is-what-real-women-look-like" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">added</a> that she wasn’t sure about “a day without women, but I could use a day without this nasty feminist BS masqueraded as women’s rights.”</font></p></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 5px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Lahren <a href="http://insider.foxnews.com/2018/01/22/tomi-lahren-final-thoughts-blasting-womens-march-linda-sarsour-mean-girls" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">condemned</a> the 2017 Women’s March as a “vulgar display of hate and bitterness” and “a giant temper tantrum clogging our streets and hurting our ears and eyes.” She condemned the protesters themselves as “actual mean girls” and <a href="https://twitter.com/TomiLahren/status/822869468670001152" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">opined</a>, “If only these marchers put this much time/effort into their families & life choices. Perhaps then they wouldn't have to glorify abortion.”</font></p></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 5px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">She <a href="https://twitter.com/TomiLahren/status/918621820206465024" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">complained</a> about girls being allowed into the Boy Scouts.</font></p></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 5px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">She (<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/research/2016/04/12/myths-facts-gender-pay-gap-and-need-equal-pay/209873#79percent" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">wrongly</a>) <a href="https://twitter.com/TomiLahren/status/828419260858920961" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">denied</a> that there is a gender-based wage gap.</font></p></li></ul><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 2px; clear: both; border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(0, 153, 255); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a id="Ben Shapiro" name="Ben Shapiro" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; outline: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ben Shapiro</font></a></h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Daily Wire’s Ben Shapiro frequently misinforms his audiences about the obstacles women face, demeans and attacks transgender women, and serves as a reliable source of misogynistic commentary on multiple issues.</font></p><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 5px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Shapiro has <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/525298611014225920" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">repeatedly</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/839498612044247043" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">denied</a> the existence of a gender wage gap (once again, <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/research/2016/04/12/myths-facts-gender-pay-gap-and-need-equal-pay/209873#79percent" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">it's real</a>). When actor Jennifer Lawrence discussed her experience with pay inequality, Shapiro <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/research/2015/10/19/conservatives-dismiss-jennifer-lawrences-experi/206265" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">claimed</a> she was just “whining about a bad contract.”</font></p></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 5px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He has <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/863926131124129792" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">dismissed </a>the impact that having children has on women’s earnings potential. </font></p></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 5px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Shapiro is <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/696170625828675588" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">against</a> women serving in combat positions, tweeting: “Women SHOULD NOT register for the draft. National service is one thing. Combat? Come the hell on.”</font></p></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 5px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He has <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2017/08/11/ben-shapiro-google-memo-fewer-women-are-interested-getting-tech-because-all-demands-work-life/217600" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">claimed</a> that “fewer women are interested in getting into tech because of all of the demands of work-life balance.”</font></p></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 5px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He has repeatedly <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/722262247494385664" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">attacked</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/971941690876469248" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">misgendered</a> transgender women, tweeting that transgender people <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/723541741312172033" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">have</a> “mental illness[es]” and <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/821476901902434305" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">claiming</a> that Chelsea Manning only “think[s]” she’s a woman.</font></p></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 5px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In response to the 2015 edition of MTV’s <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Video Music Awards</em>, Shapiro <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/638187441254330368" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">tweeted</a>: “Feminism is apparently the proposition that women are empowered by showing their breasts, but men are sexists for looking at them. #VMAs”</font></p></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 5px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/601430863650291712" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">accused</a> “leftist women” of “redefin[ing]” rape and <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/525298611014225920" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">cautioned</a> his followers not to believe “the lies” about “rape culture.”</font></p></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 5px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/434480614796836864" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">mocked</a> Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke for her activism on contraceptive access and <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/243530975122956290" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">labeled</a>her a “fascist” for wanting contraception to be more accessible to workers.</font></p></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 5px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Shapiro has <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/923744293856059393" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">launched</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/817211257761607680" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">numerous</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/878376540479733761" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">attacks</a> against planned Parenthood, <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/685192414844174336" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">claimed</a> that women who seek abortions are “kill[ing] their own children,” and <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/161315095467659264" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">denied</a> that medical care received by pregnant women is part of “women’s health.” </font></p></li></ul><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 2px; clear: both; border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(0, 153, 255); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a id="Candace Owens" name="Candace Owens" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; outline: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Candace Owens</font></a></h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">TPUSA’s communications director, Candace Owens, is a vicious critic of the #MeToo movement. She has attacked its leaders and maliciously defamed and insulted victims of abuse. Owens has also maligned feminism and she often promotes sexist and demeaning tropes.</font></p><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 5px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Owens has been a vocal critic of the #MeToo movement, which has helped elevate the voices of people who have experienced abuse and has led to the rightful downfall of <a href="https://www.vox.com/a/sexual-harassment-assault-allegations-list" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">numerous abusive men</a>. Owens, however, has <a href="https://twitter.com/RealCandaceO/status/1006281535765516289" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">accused</a> the movement of turning “sexual assault into a trend,” <a href="https://twitter.com/RealCandaceO/status/1006278364708077569" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">contended</a> that its premise is that “women are stupid, weak & inconsequential,” and claimed the movement<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2018/06/12/candace-owens-says-she-speaks-ceos-and-men-politics-who-wont-hire-women-she-blames-metoo/220428" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;"> is</a> at fault for men who won’t hire women. Owens’ attacks on #MeToo were so tone deaf and clueless that even conservative women <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2018/06/12/even-conservative-women-are-shredding-candace-owens-attack-metoo-movement/220423" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">condemned them</a>, causing <a href="https://twitter.com/willsommer/status/1006682956021354496" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">at least one</a> conservative organization to pull out of the conference, and leading TPUSA’s Kirk to <a href="https://twitter.com/SearsAl/status/1006593671427485702" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">beseech</a> attendees not to attack Owens publicly.  </font></p></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 5px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Owens also <a href="https://twitter.com/RealCandaceO/status/962044128396640256" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">wrote</a> that the “entire #metoo” movement was evidence of how “vicious and cunning women can be when they feel scorned.”</font></p></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 5px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">She <a href="https://twitter.com/RealCandaceO/status/982971987713843200" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">argued</a> that the leaders of the movement “were at one time willing to trade sex for career advancements” and accused them of leading a “political witch hunt.”</font></p></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 5px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Owen’s has <a href="https://twitter.com/RealCandaceO/status/1006317579365961728" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">promised</a> that her 2018 TPUSA speech will center on why she “hate[s] the #metoo movement.”</font></p></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 5px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Owens has <a href="https://twitter.com/RealCandaceO/status/892456577550233600" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">claimed</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/RealCandaceO/status/894712140615094276" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">that</a> women “are being systematically taught to equate ‘regret’ with ‘rape,’” an old and incorrect assertion that is sometimes <a href="https://www.usnews.com/opinion/civil-wars/articles/2018-01-10/women-dont-lie-about-being-raped" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">used</a> to minimize the reality of sexual assault.</font></p></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 5px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">She has <a href="https://twitter.com/RealCandaceO/status/1006275027875090433" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">accused</a> “modern feminism” of “singlehandedly (sic) deteriorating relationships and eventual motherhood” and <a href="https://twitter.com/RealCandaceO/status/971790833321209857" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">argued</a> that feminists “hate men” and are “miserable.” She also <a href="https://twitter.com/RealCandaceO/status/1006275027875090433" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">claimed</a> that “if you believe in equality between men and women, you cannot be a feminist today.”</font></p></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 5px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Owens <a href="https://twitter.com/RealCandaceO/status/997434432498921477" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">has perpetuated</a> sexist tropes with such statements as “Women are naturally jealous creatures. It’s not a trait they grow out of, they just get better at hiding it.”</font></p></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 5px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">She once <a href="https://twitter.com/RealCandaceO/status/997165058122813440" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">relayed</a> the “interesting theory” that “something bio-chemically happens to women who don’t marry and/or have children” to her Twitter followers. She offered comedians Chelsea Handler, Kathy Griffin, and Sarah Silverman as “evidentiary support.” In a similar vein, she <a href="https://twitter.com/RealCandaceO/status/958419794935582721" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">noted</a> that “the most vicious perpetuators of modern feminism almost never have any children.”</font></p></li></ul><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 2px; clear: both; border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(0, 153, 255); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a id="Jordan Peterson" name="Jordan Peterson" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; outline: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jordan Peterson</font></a></h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Right-wing YouTube star and Canadian professor Jordan Peterson advances a philosophy that demonizes and demeans women, refuses to respect the needs of transgender women, and shares videos that have been <a href="https://theoutline.com/post/3537/alt-right-recruiters-have-infiltrated-the-online-depression-community?zd=1&zi=qke7d2k4" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">described</a> as a gateway into the “alt-right” for men suffering from depression.</font></p><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 5px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Peterson has <a href="http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2018/03/19/jordan-peterson-and-fascist-mysticism/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">argued</a> for a hierarchical system built around gender and has condescendingly <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/18/style/jordan-peterson-12-rules-for-life.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">claimed</a>that those who view our culture as an “oppressive patriarchy” simply don’t want to “admit” that the “current hierarchy might be predicated on competence.”</font></p></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 5px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">During a discussion about the “<a href="https://www.vox.com/world/2018/4/25/17277496/incel-toronto-attack-alek-minassian" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">incel</a>” (short for involuntarily celibate) who <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2018/04/24/alleged-toronto-attacker-has-confirmed-links-misogynistic-online-communities/220029" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">murdered</a> 10 people in Toronto, Canada, at least in part because of his antipathy toward women, Peterson <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/18/style/jordan-peterson-12-rules-for-life.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">suggested</a> that the “cure” for violent men is “enforced monogamy” to ensure that lower-status men get to have sex with women.</font></p></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 5px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Peterson has <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/18/style/jordan-peterson-12-rules-for-life.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">argued</a> that “conscientious and agreeable women” are more likely to prioritize their families over their work.</font></p></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 5px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He has <a href="https://www.facebook.com/drjordanpeterson/posts/1546167995447330" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">questioned</a> whether “feminists avoid criticizing Islam because they unconsciously long for masculine dominance?” and <a href="https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson/status/913531363915128832" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">asked</a>, “Is it possible that young women are so outraged because they are craving infant contact in a society that makes that very difficult?”</font></p></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 5px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He <a href="https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson/status/810162542160920576" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">warned</a> against women trying to “usurp” men.</font></p></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 5px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He has <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3gC2OJkx_A" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">called</a> <a href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/josephbernstein/heres-how-breitbart-and-milo-smuggled-white-nationalism" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">Nazi sympathizer</a> and <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/milo/2016/10/07/full-text-milo-feminism-auburn/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">unapologetic anti-feminist</a> Milo Yiannopoulos “unstoppable” and “an amazing person.”</font></p></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 5px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Peterson <a href="https://www.chronicle.com/article/What-s-So-Dangerous-About/242256" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">ardently rejects</a> the right of transgender people to be called by their prefered pronouns and insists that calling people by the pronouns they prefer won’t “do [them] any good in the long run.” In reality, misgendering is a <a href="https://everydayfeminism.com/2017/01/misgendering-trans-people-is-violence/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold !important;">cruel and dangerous</a> act.  </font></p></li></ul></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">fail</font></div><div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> day after it was reported that Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) would be allowed to bring her newborn daughter Maile Pearl Bowlsbey onto the Senate floor if necessary, a conservative pundit for Turning Point USA lamented the impact that baby could have on future legislation that might affect children and mothers.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">After there were complaints about how having a nursing newborn among the mostly male Senate might affect the political body’s “<a href="https://nypost.com/2018/04/18/senate-votes-to-let-babies-in-chamber-but-not-without-grumbling/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">decorum</a>,” Richard Armande Mills took to Twitter to express misgivings.</font></p><div id="TeadsNative" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“I agree with their statements on “decorum.” Not because I have a problem with babies at the workplace, but because I have issues with Duckworth potentially being able to weaponize that baby to affect legislative decision making. And I could see her doing that,” <a href="https://twitter.com/RAMRANTS/status/986943084192645120" rel="noopener" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Mills tweeted</a>.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...</font></p></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">jane m</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On  <span data-page="page_1" data-reactid="155" style="box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: geometricPrecision;">Tuesday, in a convention center in West Palm Beach, Florida, amid chants of “USA!” and “The wall is going to be built!,”<b> Donald Trump, Jr., kicked off a three-day annual summit for Turning Point USA</b>, a conservative nonprofit. <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Based outside of Chicago, Turning Point’s aim is to foment a political revolution on America’s college campuses, in part by funnelling money into student government elections across the country to elect right-leaning candidates. But it is secretive about its funding and its donors, raising the prospect that “dark money” may now be shaping not just state and federal races but ones on campus.</span></span></font></div><div class="SectionBreaksectionBreak1ppA7" data-reactid="152" style="box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: geometricPrecision;"><p data-reactid="157" style="box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: geometricPrecision;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Turning Point touts its close relationship with the President’s family. The group’s Web site promoted Don, Jr.,’s appearance for weeks, featuring a photo of him raising a clenched fist. Its promotional materials include a quote from the younger Trump praising Turning Point: “What you guys have done” is “just amazing.”<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Lara Trump, the wife of Don, Jr.,’s brother Eric, is also involved with the group. In West Palm Beach on Wednesday, she hosted a luncheon promoting Turning Point’s coming Young Women’s Leadership Summit. The group’s twenty-four-year-old executive director and founder, <b>Charlie Kirk,</b> told me that he counts Don, Jr., as “a personal friend.”</span></font></p><p data-reactid="159" style="box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: geometricPrecision;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Turning Point casts itself as a grassroots response to what it perceives as liberal intolerance on college campuses. Kirk has called college campuses “islands of totalitarianism”; he and his supporters contend that conservatives are the true victims of discrimination in America, and he has vowed to fight back on behalf of what he has called his “Team Right.” Kirk is a frequent guest on Fox News, and last summer he was invited to give a speech at the Republican National Convention. That was where he met Donald Trump, Jr., and “hit it off”</span> with him, Kirk said. After the convention, Kirk divided his time between Turning Point activities and working for the Trump campaign as a specialist in youth outreach. “I helped coördinate some rather successful events with him,” Kirk told me, referring to Don, Jr., “and I also carried his bags.” When friends threw Kirk a surprise birthday party earlier this year, Don, Jr., attended, as did Sebastian<b> Gorka,</b> the former Trump White House adviser.</font></p><p data-reactid="161" style="box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: geometricPrecision;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As Turning Point’s profile has risen, so has scrutiny of its funding and tactics. Internal documents that I obtained, as well as interviews with former employees,<b> suggest that the group may have skirted campaign-finance laws that bar charitable organizations from participating in political activity.</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Former employees say that they were directed to work with prominent conservatives, including the wife of the Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, in aid of Republican Presidential candidates in 2016. Perhaps most troubling for an organization that holds up conservatives as the real victims of discrimination in America, Turning Point USA is also alleged to have fostered an atmosphere that is hostile to minorities.</span> Screenshots provided to me by a source show that <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>Crystal Clanton,</b> who served until last summer as the group’s national field director, sent a text message to another Turning Point employee saying, “<span class="small" data-reactid="163" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase; font-style: inherit;">i hate black people</span>. Like fuck them all . . . I hate blacks. End of story.”</span></font></p><p data-reactid="166" style="box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: geometricPrecision;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Clanton, who resigned after serving as the group’s second-highest official for five years, at first declined to comment. “I’m no longer with Turning Point and wish not to be a part of the story,” Clanton told me over e-mail. Later, in a second e-mail, she said, <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“I have no recollection of these messages and they do not reflect what I believe or who I am and the same was true when I was a teenager.”</span></font></p><p data-reactid="168" style="box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: geometricPrecision;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">John Ryan O’Rourke, the former Turning Point employee who received the text messages from Clanton, requested that the messages “not be used in any article or background information concerning Turning Point” and declined to comment on them. Kirk said in an e-mail that “Turning Point assessed the situation and took decisive action within 72 hours of being made aware of the issue.” Soon after, Clanton left the organization.</font></p><p data-reactid="170" style="box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: geometricPrecision;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">While Kirk served as the public face of Turning Point, Clanton, its former field director, acted as its hands-on boss, according to former employees. In a 2016 book that Kirk co-authored with Brent Hamachek, “Time for a Turning Point: Setting a Course Toward Free Markets and Limited Government for Future Generations,” he described Clanton as “the best hire we ever could have made.” He called her “integral to the success of Turning Point while effectively serving as its chief operating officer.” He added, “Turning Point needs more Crystals; so does America.”</font></p><p data-reactid="172" style="box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: geometricPrecision;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Former Turning Point employees say that the organization was a difficult workplace and rife with tension, some of it racial. Gabrielle Fequiere, a former Turning Point employee, told me that she was the only African-American hired as a field director when she worked with the group, three years ago. “In looking back, I think it was racist,” she said. “At the time, I was blaming myself, and I thought I did something wrong.” Fequiere, who now works as a model, recalled that the young black recruits that she brought into the organization suddenly found themselves disinvited from the group’s annual student summit, and that when she herself attended, she watched speakers there who “spoke badly about black women having all these babies out of wedlock. It was really offensive.” (Kirk, through a spokesman, denied that any such incidents occurred, and said,<span data-page="page_2" data-reactid="174" style="box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: geometricPrecision;"> “These accusations are absolutely baseless and even absurd.”)</span></font></p><p data-reactid="176" style="box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: geometricPrecision;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fequiere said that Clanton fired her on Martin Luther King, Jr., Day, on the grounds that she was not performing her job well. “I was the only black American employee they had, and they fired me on M.L.K. Day—it was so rude!” Fequiere told me. She added, “I felt very uncomfortable working there because I was black,” but she said she had seen white employees mistreated, as well. “My Democratic friends had told me that some Republicans didn’t care about the poor and minorities, and I thought it wasn’t true, but then I found the people they were talking about!”</font></p><p data-reactid="178" style="box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: geometricPrecision;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Speakers at Turning Point events on various college campuses have been accused of going out of their way to thumb their noses at ethnic and cultural sensitivities. The conservative provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos, for instance, whose appearance Turning Point co-hosted with the College Republicans at the University of Colorado, in Boulder, said that despite being gay, he hated “faggots,” lesbians, and feminists, who, he said, “fucking hate men.”</font></p><p data-reactid="180" style="box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: geometricPrecision;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In an effort to mock campus opposition to hate speech, members of the Turning Point chapter at Kent State University staged a protest last fall in which they appeared on campus wearing adult diapers and sucking on pacifiers while proclaiming “Safe Spaces are for Children.” The protest stirred widespread ridicule, and Kirk’s spokesman said that he disapproved of the display and later issued guidelines against other chapters repeating it.</font></p></div><div class="SectionBreaksectionBreak1ppA7" data-reactid="182" style="box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: geometricPrecision;"><p data-reactid="183" style="box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: geometricPrecision; margin-top: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Kirk grew up in Wheeling, Illinois, and was an Eagle Scout; in a 2015 speech to the Conservative Forum of Silicon Valley, he said that his “No. 1 dream in life” was to attend West Point, but the slot he considered his went to “a far less-qualified candidate of a different gender and a different persuasion” whose test scores he claimed he knew. (Kirk said he was being sarcastic when he made the comment.) An older acquaintance encouraged him to forgo college and launch a conservative analogue to the progressive advocacy group MoveOn.org. Kirk acknowledged in an interview that it is something of an irony that he heads an organization devoted to waging political warfare on campuses when he never actually attended college himself. </span>“I joke that I wasn’t smart enough to go to a four-year school,” Kirk told me, although he noted that he continued his studies at a community college.</font></p><p data-reactid="185" style="box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: geometricPrecision;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">MoveOn, however, has one part set up as a super <span class="small" data-reactid="187" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase; font-style: inherit;">pac</span>, and another as a 501(c)4 “social-welfare group,” both of which are legally allowed to engage in political elections. It also has a policy of disclosing the names of anyone contributing five thousand dollars or more. In contrast, Turning Point is a <b>501(c)3 c</b>harity. This means that, unlike MoveOn donors, Turning Point donors can take tax deductions for their contributions and remain anonymous. In exchange for these benefits, however, the Internal Revenue Service strictly prohibits charities such as Turning Point from engaging either directly or indirectly in political elections.</font></p><p data-reactid="190" style="box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: geometricPrecision;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Several former Turning Point employees told me in interviews that they felt they were asked to participate in activities that crossed lines drawn by campaign-finance laws for groups like theirs. Payden Hall, who worked for Turning Point during the 2016 Presidential campaign, told me that<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Clanton, who was her boss, e-mailed her at her Turning Point address to make arrangements for her to coördinate with Ginni Thomas, the wife of the Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, to help Ted Cruz’s Presidential campaign.</span> “That’s where the ambiguity began,” Hall recalled. Soon after, she said, Ginni Thomas, who was supporting Cruz’s candidacy and is on Turning Point’s advisory council, left a voice message for Hall and her sister, who also worked for Turning Point, saying that she was sending two hundred Cruz placards to them to distribute in the coming Wisconsin Presidential primary.</font></p><p data-reactid="190" style="box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: geometricPrecision;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...</font></p><div class="SectionBreaksectionBreak1ppA7" data-reactid="182" style="box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: geometricPrecision; font-family: " adobe="Adobe" caslon="Caslon" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px"><div class="IframeEmbedcontainer2tNnk" data-reactid="192" style="box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: geometricPrecision; margin-bottom: 32px;"><div class="IframeEmbediframeCaption2sEAG" data-reactid="194" style="box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: geometricPrecision;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: geometricPrecision; line-height: 1.22; margin: 13px 0px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="font-style: normal; box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: bolder;">Audio:</span></span><i> </i>Listen to Ginni Thomas’s voice mail.]</font></p></div></div><p data-reactid="195" style="box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: geometricPrecision;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Crystal gave Ginni Thomas my private mailing address without my permission,” Hall recalled. “They gave out employees’ personal information to the wife of a Supreme Court Justice.” The next thing she knew, she said, hundreds of Cruz placards arrived at her home. “We threw them out,” Hall said. She was a Cruz supporter, but, she says, “We wanted to volunteer on our own terms, not to give in to pressure from a boss. I felt that if it wasn’t crossing a legal line, it was crossing a professional one.”</font></p><p data-reactid="197" style="box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: geometricPrecision;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Trevor Potter, a former Republican commissioner on the Federal Elections Commission who is the founder and president of the Campaign Legal Center, a nonpartisan campaign-finance-law watchdog group, said that Turning Point is barred from aiding political campaigns. “Under the law, a 501(c)3 can’t engage in political action or give anything of value to a campaign, including students, or the names of students</span>,” he said. “If what Turning Point USA was doing was helping Republicans on campus and feeding them to campaigns, that’s a political operation, and it sounds as if it crosses the line.”</font></p><p data-reactid="199" style="box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: geometricPrecision;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Reached by phone, Ginni Thomas declined to comment. Clanton’s lawyer, Robert Grabermann, said that if she e-mailed Hall “at her TPUSA email address, it was an honest oversight and sincere mistake on Ms. Clanton’s part. Ms. Clanton categorically denies using TPUSA resources to aid any political campaign activities. She fully understands the 501 (c)(3) guidelines, and has on many occasions consulted with legal counsel to ensure that all personal campaign<span data-page="page_3" data-reactid="201" style="box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: geometricPrecision;"> involvement was compliant with 501 (c)(3) rules.”</span></font></p><p data-reactid="203" style="box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: geometricPrecision;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Susan Walker, who worked for Turning Point USA in Florida, in 2016, told me that the group did aid Republican political campaigns. Walker said that a list she created while working for Turning Point, with the names of hundreds of student supporters, was given without her knowledge to someone working for Marco Rubio’s Presidential campaign. “That list had, like, seven hundred kids, and I worked my ass off to get it,” she said. “I had added notes on every student I talked to, and they were all on it still.” The Rubio operative, she added, “shouldn’t have had that list. We were a charity, and he was on a political campaign.”</font></p><p data-reactid="205" style="box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: geometricPrecision;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">E-mails and interviews from other former Turning Point employees in South Carolina and Ohio showed crossover between Presidential-campaign work and work for the charity, as well. In South Carolina, a chain of e-mails shows, Kirk asked a Turning Point USA employee to round up students to support Cruz at the behest of two officials with a pro-Cruz super <span class="small" data-reactid="207" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase; font-style: inherit;">pac</span>. In a January 25, 2016, e-mail, Drew Ryun, a Turning Point advisory-council member who was helping run one of the pro-Cruz super <span class="small" data-reactid="210" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase; font-style: inherit;">pacs</span>, asked Kirk to get another Turning Point employee to “send” the super <span class="small" data-reactid="213" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase; font-style: inherit;">pac</span> “as many kids as possible.” Ryun, a former deputy director of the Republican National Committee, explained that he needed “as many kids as you can generate for a WSJ piece on efforts in” South Carolina. After Kirk agreed to help, the e-mail thread shows, Kirk coördinated with Dan Tripp, Ryun’s associate at the pro-Cruz super <span class="small" data-reactid="216" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase; font-style: inherit;">pac</span>, who headed its operations in South Carolina and is the founder and president of Ground Game Strategies.</font></p><p data-reactid="219" style="box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: geometricPrecision;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Yes!” Kirk answered Tripp when asked for help from Turning Point. “What part of SC?”</font></p><p data-reactid="221" style="box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: geometricPrecision;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Greenville, Spartenburg or Anderson Counties,” Tripp replied.</font></p><p data-reactid="223" style="box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: geometricPrecision;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Time of day and how long?” Kirk asked.</font></p><p data-reactid="225" style="box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: geometricPrecision;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“I’m thinking 2 hours late Sunday afternoon. Canvassing, training and pizza,” Tripp responded.</font></p><p data-reactid="227" style="box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: geometricPrecision;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“You got it, will recon shortly,” Kirk e-mailed back. Kirk explained that a Turning Point employee in South Carolina named Anna Scott Marsh would be the point person, and added that “Anna will be helping. Let’s rock this!”</font></p><p data-reactid="229" style="box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: geometricPrecision;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Soon after, e-mails show, Marsh, the Turning Point employee, promised to round up the requested recruits. “Sending something out tonight, and will send you a list hopefully tomorrow . . .  I’m sure we can find some solid students here.” Marsh declined to comment about her e-mails.</font></p><p data-reactid="231" style="box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: geometricPrecision;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Asked about these practices, Kirk referred me to a statement from his lawyer, Sally Wagenmaker: “Turning Point USA works diligently to comply entirely with all relevant laws and regulations governing not-for-profit organizations. <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Turning Point USA focuses on fiscal conservatism, free market economics, and related student education and advocacy, a</span>ll completely within applicable Section 501(c)(3) legal constraints.”</font></p><p data-reactid="233" style="box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: geometricPrecision;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ryun confirmed that the exchanges occurred, but said that Kirk e-mailed him “via his personal e-mail and on his personal time!” Tripp, too, confirmed the e-mails, but said, “We welcomed many volunteers to our efforts and were grateful for their support. It would be quite troubling if campaign finance rules were interpreted to prevent conservative volunteers from exercising their right to be involved in the political process.”</font></p><p data-reactid="235" style="box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: geometricPrecision;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In a phone interview, Kirk declined to identify the donors who have supplied his group’s eight-million-dollar-plus annual budget, noting that many prefer to remain anonymous. But Kirk has spoken and fund-raised at various closed-door energy-industry gatherings, including those of the 2017 board meeting of the <b>National Mining Association and the 2016 annual meeting of the Independent Petroleum Association of America</b>. In our interview, Kirk acknowledged that some of his donors “are in the fossil-fuel space.”</font></p><p data-reactid="237" style="box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: geometricPrecision;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Kirk’s ties to fossil-fuel magnates are controversial because Turning Point has helped organize opposition on campuses to students calling for schools to divest from fossil-fuel companies.<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> </span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Turning Point distributed a guide for college students with a foreword by Kirk, titled “10 Ways Fossil Fuels Improve Our Daily Lives.” In it, he argues, “Across the nation, college students are clamoring for their campuses to divest from fossil fuel . . . students are indoctrinated to believe the myth that fossil fuels are dirty and renewable energy is a plausible alternative . . . ” Turning Point, which also runs an online “Professor Watch List” that targets professors it believes are liberal, blamed “leftist professors” in its booklet for having “perpetuated” these “myths.” In the interview, Kirk told me that “We think targeting fossil fuels is rather unfair, and it is not really in the best interests of the universities to favor one type of political agenda over another.” It’s a message that “went great,” he said, when he delivered it at energy-industry meetings.</span></font></p></div><div class="SectionBreaksectionBreak1ppA7" data-reactid="239" style="box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: geometricPrecision; font-family: " adobe="Adobe" caslon="Caslon" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px"><p data-reactid="240" style="box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: geometricPrecision; margin-top: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Last May, <em data-reactid="242" style="box-sizing: inherit;">The Chronicle of Higher Education</em> published <a href="https://www.chronicle.com/article/Inside-a-Stealth-Plan-for/240008" target="blank" class="ArticleBodylink1FS03" data-reactid="245" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-image: linear-gradient(rgb(255, 255, 255), rgb(255, 255, 255)), linear-gradient(rgb(255, 255, 255), rgb(255, 255, 255)), linear-gradient(rgb(0, 0, 0), rgb(0, 0, 0)); background-position: 0px 87%, 100% 87%, 0px 92%; background-size: 0.05em 1px, 0.05em 1px, 1px 1px; background-repeat: no-repeat, no-repeat, repeat-x; background-attachment: initial, initial, initial; background-origin: initial, initial, initial; background-clip: initial, initial, initial; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: geometricPrecision; text-decoration-line: none; margin-left: 1px; text-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px 1px 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px 2px 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px -1px 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px -2px 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) -1px 1px 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) -1px 2px 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 1px 1px 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 1px 2px 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) -1px 0px 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px -3px 0px; position: relative; z-index: 0;">an investigative report</a> on what it called Turning Point’s “stealth plan for political influence.</span>” The story recounted accusations on multiple campuses that the group had funnelled money into student elections in violation of the spending caps and transparency requirements set by those schools. It detailed how student candidates backed by Turning Point had been forced to drop out of campus elections at the University of Maryland and Ohio State “after they were caught violating spending rules and attempting to hide the help they received from Turning Point.” It also quoted Kirk saying in an appearance before a conservative political group in 2015 that his group was “investing a lot of time and money and energy” in student-government elections.<span data-page="page_final" data-reactid="248" style="box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: geometricPrecision;"> (In the story, Kirk denied any wrongdoing and said it was “completely ludicrous and ridiculous that there’s some sort of secret plan.”)</span></font></p><p data-reactid="250" style="box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: geometricPrecision;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/a-conservative-nonprofit-that-seeks-to-transform-college-campuses-faces-allegations-of-racial-bias-and-illegal-campaign-activity#brochure" class="ArticleBodylink1FS03" data-reactid="252" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-image: linear-gradient(rgb(255, 255, 255), rgb(255, 255, 255)), linear-gradient(rgb(255, 255, 255), rgb(255, 255, 255)), linear-gradient(rgb(0, 0, 0), rgb(0, 0, 0)); background-position: 0px 87%, 100% 87%, 0px 92%; background-size: 0.05em 1px, 0.05em 1px, 1px 1px; background-repeat: no-repeat, no-repeat, repeat-x; background-attachment: initial, initial, initial; background-origin: initial, initial, initial; background-clip: initial, initial, initial; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: geometricPrecision; text-decoration-line: none; margin-left: 1px; text-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px 1px 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px 2px 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px -1px 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px -2px 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) -1px 1px 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) -1px 2px 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 1px 1px 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 1px 2px 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) -1px 0px 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px -3px 0px; position: relative; z-index: 0;">copy of a Turning Point brochure</a> prepared for potential donors that I obtained provides a glimpse into the group’s tactics. (A former Turning Point employee said the brochure was closely held, and not posted online so that it couldn’t leak.) Its “Campus Victory Project” is described as a detailed, multi-phase plan to “<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">commandeer the top office of Student Body President at each of the most recognizable and influential American Universities.”</span></font></p><p data-reactid="255" style="box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: geometricPrecision;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Phase 1 calls for victory in the “Power 5” conference schools, including the Atlantic Coast Conference, the Big Ten Conference, the Pacific 12 Conference, the Big 12 Conference, and the Southeastern Conference. Phase 2 calls for winning the top student-government slots in every Division 1 N.C.A.A. school, of which it says there are more than three hundred. In the first three years of the plan, the brochure says, the group aims to capture the “outright majority” of student-government positions in eighty per cent of these schools.</font></p><p data-reactid="257" style="box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: geometricPrecision;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Once in control of student governments, the brochure says, Turning Point expects its allied campus leaders to follow a set political agenda. Among its planks are the defunding of progressive organizations on campus, the implementation of “free speech” policies eliminating barriers to hate speech, and the blocking of all campus “boycott, divestment and sanctions” movements. Turning Point’s agenda also calls for the student leaders it empowers to use student resources to host speakers and forums promoting “American Exceptionalism and Free Market ideals on campus.”</font></p><p data-reactid="259" style="box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: geometricPrecision;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Today, Turning Point claims to have a presence on more than a thousand college campuses nationwide, and to have “a stronger, more organized presence than all the left-wing campus groups combined.”</b> Kirk told me his group had started three hundred new chapters in the past year. The Campus Victory Project brochure names more than fifty four-year colleges and universities where it claims the group helped effectuate student government victories in the 2016–17 year, including the<b> University of California, </b>Los Angeles, Syracuse, Purdue, Michigan State, Wake Forest, and the University of Southern California, and it names a hundred and twenty-two more schools whose governments the group hopes to “commandeer” in Phase 2. The brochure notes that completing the task will take money: specifically, $2.2 million.</font></p><p data-reactid="261" style="box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: geometricPrecision;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Kirk, in his interview, denied that any of these funds would directly pay for students’ campaigns. “We do not directly fund any of these candidates,” he said. Instead, he explained, “We will support them through levels of leadership,” including training and what he called “leadership scholarships.”</font></p><p data-reactid="263" style="box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: geometricPrecision;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The prospect of “dark money”—contributions from anonymous donors to national ideological groups—flowing into campus elections has alarmed some students. “Students were outraged that our elections were being influenced from outside,” Danielle Di Scala, who last year was vice-president of the student government at Ohio State University, said. “I’d never seen that before, but it’s starting to be a trend. The problem,” she told me, “is it can price some student candidates out of the market when others are getting money from groups with unlimited funds.”</font></p><p data-reactid="265" style="box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: geometricPrecision;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Andy MacCracken, the executive director of the National Campus Leadership Council, said he worries that campus elections are “particularly vulnerable” to outside money, “because there aren’t really any standard rules.” MacCracken says it’s been “shocking to see how much of an operation there is from Turning Point,” adding that “there’s really nothing comparable that I’m aware of from left-wing groups.” The push, he suggested, reflects a recognition on the part of conservatives about the future value of student leaders. “I can totally imagine they’re thinking that if we can win this on campuses, they will be the thought leaders down the road. This is a way to win it efficiently at the start. The challenge, though,” he says, “is that so much of this is in the dark.”</font></p><p data-reactid="267" style="box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: geometricPrecision;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/a-conservative-nonprofit-that-seeks-to-transform-college-campuses-faces-allegations-of-racial-bias-and-illegal-campaign-activity" name="brochure" class="ArticleBodylink1FS03" data-reactid="268" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-image: linear-gradient(rgb(255, 255, 255), rgb(255, 255, 255)), linear-gradient(rgb(255, 255, 255), rgb(255, 255, 255)), linear-gradient(rgb(0, 0, 0), rgb(0, 0, 0)); background-position: 0px 87%, 100% 87%, 0px 92%; background-size: 0.05em 1px, 0.05em 1px, 1px 1px; background-repeat: no-repeat, no-repeat, repeat-x; background-attachment: initial, initial, initial; background-origin: initial, initial, initial; background-clip: initial, initial, initial; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; 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</font></font></font></font></div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Inside a Stealth Plan for Political Influence</font></font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">To fight campus liberalism, a right-wing group is funneling thousands of dollars to student-government campaigns</font></font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></font></font></div><div><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Charlie Kirk, <strong data-auto="strong_text" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">higher</strong> <strong data-auto="strong_text" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">education</strong> is a political battleground -- a place where his "Team Right" has been losing for too long.</font></font></font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The rising young conservative star uses his frequent Fox News appearances to blast college campuses as "islands of totalitarianism" filled with liberal students and faculty members who force their worldview upon those around them. So Mr. Kirk's nonprofit political-advocacy group, Turning Point USA, launched a secret counteroffensive. The goal: getting young conservatives elected to student government at universities around the country.</font></font></font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Campus-based groups of all political stripes have long encouraged their members to pursue leadership roles, and so have fraternities and sororities. What makes Turning Point unique, student leaders say, is that its outside parent organization provides critical manpower -- and thousands of dollars -- to help win elections.</font></font></font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Critics say Turning Point has taken on the role of a "super PAC" for student government.</font></font></font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Evidence of Turning Point's influence in student elections can be found from coast to coast. The <strong data-auto="strong_text" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Chronicle</strong> identified at least a dozen colleges that featured candidates who were either Turning Point members, were endorsed by Turning Point, or received campaign assistance from Mr. Kirk's group.</font></font></font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"It might seem like kind of a silly thing to try to take over student-government associations," Mr. Kirk, 23, said during a public appearance before a conservative group in 2015. But he noted that at large universities, student-government budgets can be as much as tens of millions of dollars. And student leaders increasingly have the bully pulpit to champion certain causes -- whether progressive issues like divesting college endowments from fossil fuels, or conservative priorities like the elimination of free-speech restrictions.</font></font></font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"We're not going to change the professor's mind. You're not going to get teachers fired," Mr. Kirk told the group. "But the only vulnerability there is, the only little opening, is student-government-association races and elections, and we're investing a lot of time and energy and money in it."</font></font></font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Turning Point's student-government push, he told the audience, is a "rather undercover, underground operation." The organization has been much more outspoken in promoting its Professor Watchlist website, which lists faculty members who the conservative group believes have a "radical" agenda. Turning Point was founded in 2012 and says it has a presence on more than 1,000 college campuses.</font></font></font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Some of Turning Point's election candidates have been victorious. At a couple of other colleges, the organization's contributions eventually leaked out -- leading to front-page student-newspaper scandals and the abrupt withdrawal of the affiliated candidates.</font></font></font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In elections this spring, candidates at Ohio State University and the University of Maryland at College Park dropped out after they were caught violating spending rules and attempting to hide the help they received from Turning Point.</font></font></font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The group's interest in University of Maryland elections appears to go back to at least 2015, when 3reyer Hillegas, then president of the campus's College Republicans chapter, sent a message to the club's email list.</font></font></font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Anyone who wants to run for SGA president. Turning Point is offering to pay thousands of dollars (literally) to your campaign to help get a conservative into the position," Mr. Hillegas wrote. "If you are interested in being one of these candidates, let me know!"</font></font></font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">There are potential off-campus perks to stacking student government with conservatives. In state capitals and in Congress, the support or opposition of student leaders can help determine the fate of <strong data-auto="strong_text" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">education</strong> legislation. If stutdent-body presidents rally behind a proposed law, that boosts its credibility. A student-body president at the University of Colorado at Boulder, Marcus Fotenos, helped persuade state lawmakers this year to pass a bill outlawing "free-speech zones" on campus. Conservatives have long complained that free-speech zones are a way for libera, administrators to stifle unpopular points of view.</font></font></font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Gov. John W. Hickenlooper of Colorado, a Democrat, signed the law last month. Mr. Fotenos previously pushed for his student government's legislative council to pass a resolution supporting free speech -- a resolution that Turning Point praised as a "heroic stand" on the issue. Mr. Fotenos declined to comment to The <strong data-auto="strong_text" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Chronicle</strong> about any connection to Turning Point.</font></font></font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"I'm no: sure what you're referring to," Mr. Fotenos said before hanging up. "I've got to go now though, so I'll talk to you later."</font></font></font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mr. Fotenos's victory last year was marred by bribery allegations -- his "Revolution" slate of candidates was accused of trying to buy votes by giving away pizzas and cookie cakes to students. The college's election commission voided Mr. Fotenos's win and tossed him off the ballot.</font></font></font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Then something strange happened. A prominent Denver elections lawyer, Ryan R. Call, surfaced to argue on behalf of Mr. Fotenos and the other Revolution candidates. Mr. Call is a former chairman of the Colorado Republican Party and last year served as treasurer for a pro-Donald Trump super PAC called Rebuilding America Now.</font></font></font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">After Mr. Call got involved, the University of Colorado's chancellor, Philip P. DiStefano, decided to reinstate Mr. Fotenos as the winner. In an interview with Charlie Kirk, The <strong data-auto="strong_text" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Chronicle</strong> asked if Turning Point paid for Mr. Call's legal services.</font></font></font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"I'm not at liberty to comment on that at this time," Mr. Kirk said.</font></font></font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mr. Call told The <strong data-auto="strong_text" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Chronicle</strong> he would not reveal who paid him, because it is a "matter of attorney-client privilege."</font></font></font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">STUDENT GOVERNMENT is where many future politicians get their start. Hillary Clinton was a former student-body president. So were Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon, among others.</font></font></font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But even though college can be a political breeding ground, some student-government presidents say their roles have a tradition of being nonpartisan. The emphasis should be on helping students, they say, not on some proxy battle between left and right.</font></font></font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And they argue that Turning Point's aggressive involvement is the wrong way to build a pipeline of young conservative leaders.</font></font></font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"It is kind of shocking that they would turn to trying to corrupt student-government elections to try and do that," said Griffin Thomas, who was elected Rice University's student president last year. This year, after the Rice student newspaper revealed that Turning Point was actively recruiting students to run for office, Mr. Thomas pushed for legislation that prohibits students from accepting donations from outside groups. Student leaders at Rice approved Mr. Thomas's new rule unanimously.</font></font></font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The largest public universities have the population of a small city, but student-government campaigns are clearly amateur affairs. College-office hopefuls might spend as little as a few hundred bucks on their campaigns. Even if they spend more, the purchases are modest items designed to raise name recognition: signs, T-shirts, or novelties like stickers, key chains, and beer koozies.</font></font></font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In that type of small-scale environment, a flood of outside money and manpower can make a big difference. In his 2015 public appearance before the David Horowitz Freedom Center, which describes itself as a group that "combats the efforts of the radical left and its Islamist allies," Mr. Kirk said the Turning Point staff provides a professional suite of campaign services to its chosen students.</font></font></font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"They wake up every single day, just as if you're running a congressional or mayoral race or senate race, trying to develop messaging, fliers, banners, Twitter profiles, to try to get that student-government-association person elected," Mr. Kirk said.</font></font></font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">With student races, the strategy of out-spending the competition comes relatively cheap.</font></font></font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"You would be amazed," Mr. Kirk said. "You spend $5,000 on a race, you can win. You could retake a whole college or university."</font></font></font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Turning Point's assistance often continues right up to election day, when the organization will provide on-the-ground campaign workers who flood the university's hallways, rounding up students and collecting their electronic votes using iPads.</font></font></font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Email records obtained through a request to the University of South Florida show that the "leadership directors" within Turning Point's Campus Leadership Project can function as unofficial campaign managers for sponsored students. The project bills itself as a provider of scholarships, networking, and leadership training.</font></font></font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">One such leadership director, Alex Chorak, cared enough about the details of USF presidential candidate Ryan Soscia's campaign that he discussed T-shirt designs with him.</font></font></font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Let me know what you think about this logo on the blue background. I like the lighter blue t shirts better and think people would love rocking that color especially in the spring," Mr. Chorak wrote. "Also 1 would love to get on a call with the campaign manager and just talk about some things I believe are extremely important."</font></font></font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In an interview with The <strong data-auto="strong_text" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Chronicle</strong>, Mr. Kirk rejected the idea that Turning Point is in charge of student campaigns.</font></font></font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Giving T-shirt color advice, I think, is hardly running campaigns," he said. Mr. Kirk said that while Turning Point encourages its members to be student leaders, that can include getting involved in athletics or becoming the heads of fraternities or sororities.</font></font></font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">If those students decide to run for office, Mr. Kirk said, it is a "bottom-up, grassroots, organic" decision. Mr. Kirk denied that his group is engaged in a stealth effort to get students elected -- contradicting his statements from two years ago.</font></font></font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Absolutely not." he said. "That's completely ludicrous and ridiculous, that there's some sort of secret plan."</font></font></font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The USF emails show the conversation between Mr. Soscia and Mr. Chorak went beyond just T-shirt colors, however. In December, shortly after he attended a Turning Point USA event, Mr. Soscia sent the organization an itemized spreadsheet with a proposed budget for his presidential campaign: $19,537.</font></font></font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Item quantity and event frequency is certainly up for discussion," Mr. Soscia wrote. "Please let us know what is available to be sponsored on your end."</font></font></font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A couple of weeks later, Mr. Chorak wrote that he was "working hard" to approve the USF budget.</font></font></font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"The reason it is taking so long is because it is roughly 3 times what the majority of schools are," he wrote. "I'm trying to explain that it is due to the importance, competition, and the relative size of the school."</font></font></font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">IN MID-DECEMBER, hundreds of conservative college students descended on South Florida, courtesy of Turning Point USA. They had been chosen to attend the Winter In West Palm Beach Activist Summit, where the speakers included Donald Trump Jr., the conservative commentator Tomi Lahren, and Senators led Cruz of Texas and Ben Sasse of Nebraska.</font></font></font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"West Palm Beach was a blast," said Kadin Llewellyn, an Ohio State student who was until recently president of the university's Turning Point USA student chapter.</font></font></font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In between the speakers and training sessions, Mr. Llewellyn said he was introduced to Mary Honaker and Carla Gracia.</font></font></font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">They were Ohio State students, too. And they were running for student-government president and vice president. Mr. Llewellyn said it was a Turning Point leadership director, Kennedy Copeland, who made the introduction.</font></font></font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">During that conversation, Mr. Llewellyn said, Ms. Honaker talked openly about how Turning Point's financial assistance could be hidden from university administrators by simply underreporting how much the candidates had spent. Students at Ohio State aren't allowed to spend more than $4,000 on their campaigns.</font></font></font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A couple of months later, the campaign was in full swing at Ohio State, but Mr. Llewellyn and many other members of his student chapter were upset. They harbored deep doubts about whether the "Mary and Carla" ticket was truly conservative.</font></font></font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"I felt I was manipulated and lied to during the process," said Mr. Llewellyn, who complained that Turning Point chose to back a candidate it thought could win, even if it meant abandoning its values.</font></font></font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Things would get worse for Turning Point at Ohio State. When the group's staff members attempted to recruit another student as part of their slate of election candidates, the student hit the "record" button -- and leaked the audio to The Lantern student newspaper.</font></font></font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"A huge part of what Turning Point does, that's really important to the donors, is running these student-government races," Ala-na Mastrangelo, Turning Point's heartland regional director, said in the recorded phone call. She also emphasized the importance of secrecy.</font></font></font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Keep it, like, on the DL," Ms. Mastrangelo told the student. "Like hard-core on the DL, because Turning Point in general has a huge reputation for being really conservative. They're starting to call us the alt-right."</font></font></font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ms. Mastrangelo declined to comment to The <strong data-auto="strong_text" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Chronicle</strong>.</font></font></font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A text message sent to the Ohio State student, also leaked to The Lantern, explained part of Turning Point's motivation for keeping things hush-hush:</font></font></font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Liberals consistently dominate campus student government and our goal is to take them out secretly without them knowing what's coming," wrote Kennedy Copeland, a leadership director for Turning Point USA. Ms. Copeland did not return a call from The <strong data-auto="strong_text" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Chronicle</strong>.</font></font></font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The leaked communications -- combined with a photo showing the presidential candidate Mary Honaker attending the West Palm Beach activist retreat -- doomed the Turning Point ticket.</font></font></font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The breaking point came when a rival campaign filed an elections complaint alleging that the "Mary and Carla" campaign had violated Ohio State's $4,000 cap on spending, and then lied about it. The complaint alleged that the two students had "falsified and misrepresented numerous elements" of their fund raising and expenses, including the $871 that the pair said they spent on campaign-related clothing.</font></font></font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In reality, the complaint said, the campaign had spent more than $7,600 on campaign T-shirts. The complaint included receipts in that amount from a T-shirt vendor, billed to Mary Honaker.</font></font></font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ms. Honaker and Ms. Gracia dropped out the same day.</font></font></font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Reached by phone, Ms. Honaker told The <strong data-auto="strong_text" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Chronicle</strong> that her campaign wasn't connected to Turning Point.</font></font></font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"They didn't end up being involved in our campaign, but they did approach us," Ms. Honaker said. Asked about Mr. Llewellyn's statement that her campaign was not only supported by Turning Point but that she had personally discussed strategies to hide the money, Ms. Honaker replied, "I don't recall that conversation happening."</font></font></font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Then she hung up. Ms. Gracia did not return calls seeking comment.</font></font></font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On March 21, Mr. Llewellyn submitted his resignation letter as president of Ohio State's Turning Point chapter.</font></font></font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"For what it is worth going forward, I have a few parting pieces of advice," he wrote. "Number one is to avoid the student election scene, as even politics on a micro level bring out the worst in people."</font></font></font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">TURNING POINT USA is perhaps best known for its controversial Professor Watchlist website, which identifies hundreds of college faculty members who, according to the group, "advance a radical agenda in lecture halls."</font></font></font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mr. Kirk's larger goal, as outlined in a book he wrote last year, is to make Turning Point "the MoveOn.org of the right." In Time for a Turning Point, he praises Move-On's influence in all 50 states and its strong campus presence, even as he blasts the progressive group for promoting "anti-American propaganda." Mr. Kirk's political vision calls for a greater emphasis on the principles of the Founding Fathers and shrinking the size of government.</font></font></font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Since founding Turning Point roughly five years ago, Mr. Kirk has enjoyed a rapid rise, buoyed by frequent media appearances and deep-pocketed donors who include Gov. Bruce Rauner of Illinois, a Republican, and Foster Friess, an evangelical philanthropist. In 2012, Turning Point had a budget of less than $52,000, according to the group's tax returns. Last year, it was $5.5 million, Mr. Kirk wrote in his book.</font></font></font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bloomberg News called Mr. Kirk a "Conservative Boy Wonder" in 2015. A year later, he was delivering a speech at the Republican National Convention and campaigning with Donald Trump Jr. for the Republican nominee.</font></font></font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In mid-October, Mr. Kirk appeared at Fox News's Millennial Town Hall, in Las Vegas, seated next to Donald Trump Jr. and Lara and Eric Trump. Tax experts told The <strong data-auto="strong_text" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Chronicle</strong> that Turning Point's connection to the event may have violated federal rules prohibiting 501(c)(3) charities from engaging in political activity -- the event had a pro-Trump tone, and a Turning Point staff member promised on Facebook that "expenses will be covered" for students who attended.</font></font></font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mr. Kirk responded by saying Turning Point funds were not used to transport students to the town hall. Sally Wagenmaker, a lawyer who represents Turning Point, said, "This was a town-hall forum put on by a news outlet, not a political campaign event."</font></font></font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Back in 2015, when Mr. Kirk spoke about his student-government plans with the David Horowitz Freedom Center, he boasted that Turning Point's strategy to "retake student-government associations" had "never been done on a broad scale" before.</font></font></font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But in recent conversations with The <strong data-auto="strong_text" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Chronicle</strong>, Mr. Kirk described his group's role much differently. Turning Point, he wrote in an email, isn't doing anything different than other campus organizations that encourage their members to be leaders, including athletic teams, Christian youth groups, Jewish student clubs, and Greek-life organizations.</font></font></font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"As you know, fraternities and sororities in most cases completely control the student-election process on campus," Mr. Kirk wrote. "Are they also a part of your story or is this story just about Turning Point USA?"</font></font></font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In a phone interview, Mr. Kirk struck the same tone and said there have been Turning Point members who ran for student government without the parent organization's knowledge.</font></font></font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mr. Kirk provided a copy of a thank-you email he'd recently received from a student who had just become SGA president at a liberal-arts college in New England. The student wrote that she was naturally a shy person but had gained the confidence to run for president after hearing Turning Point USA speakers encourage students to run for office at the West Palm Beach retreat.</font></font></font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"She ran completely on her own," Mr. Kirk said.</font></font></font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But records show that in many other cases, student campaigns are being supported by Turning Point in a way that typically doesn't happen with fraternities, student clubs, or other campus-based organizations.</font></font></font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Candidates backed by Turning Point have received professional campaign advice from its employees, who are willing to travel to campus for in-person, sit-down strategy sessions. In the recorded phone call at Ohio State, a Turning Point employee said the group would pay student campaign workers "$20 to $50 a day." When Turning Point provides a campaign with T-shirts, yard signs, or other essentials, that assistance can be worth thousands of dollars.</font></font></font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Next month, the National Campus Leadership Council will hold its Presidential Leadership Summit, which includes 200 incoming and departing student-body presidents. Andy MacCracken, the council's executive director, said one of the items to be discussed is how to strengthen the election process -- a decision partially prompted by reports about Turning Point in student media.</font></font></font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"There's a need to better understand best practices and really implement sound policies," Mr. MacCracken told The <strong data-auto="strong_text" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Chronicle</strong>. "Otherwise it could be easily sort of manipulated for outside political interests."</font></font></font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The University of Maryland's student government last year changed its election rules to prohibit donations from outside nonprofit groups, A.J. Pruitt, the student-government president, said the change was "somewhat in response" to Turning Point's interest in elections.</font></font></font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"That was new, and people were uncomfortable with that," Mr. Pruitt said in an interview. "It was not necessarily the political ideology of the organization but just the fact that an outside group was coming in and trying to meddle in a process that is really supposed to be student-centric."</font></font></font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Despite the new rule, Turning Point became an issue in this year's student election at Maryland. The Diamondback student newspaper obtained emails showing that the Unity Party slate of student candidates had its campaign logo designed by Turning Point. That logo was then used for the campaign's T-shirts, yard signs, and social-media posts. The Unity Party never disclosed the help it received from Turning Point in campaign-finance reports filed with the university.</font></font></font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Less than 12 hours after the student newspaper published its article, the Unity campaign withdrew from the race. Mr. Pruitt and other members of the opposing One Party cruised to victory.</font></font></font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The secrecy that surrounds Turning Point's activities speaks volumes, Mr. Pruitt said.</font></font></font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"If you were comfortable with what you were doing, why wouldn't you just come out and do it?" he said. "If they really believe this was 100-percent right, why wouldn't they put their name on it?"</font></font></font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">WHEN ALYCIA Hester, Turning Point USA's former campus coalitions director, talks about student governments, she expresses frustration at the dominance of left-leaning students, whom she blames for the rise of "safe spaces" on campus. Ms. Hester, whose job at Turning Point focused on helping student-government campaigns in the Big 10 Conference, also says it's "weird" that some colleges don't allow Christmas trees to be displayed.</font></font></font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Those little things are what student government controls," she said.</font></font></font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But Turning Point-backed candidates typically don't talk about safe spaces or Christmas trees on the campaign trail. What's striking about their campaign platforms is how generic and conventional they are. Combating sexual assault is a common theme, as are reducing student fees and encouraging diversity.</font></font></font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Yet there is one policy proposal that almost always shows up with Turning Point's candidates: promoting Uber.</font></font></font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The ride-sharing service has long been touted by conservative politicians as an example of free-market innovation. Student government can push for Uber in two important ways: lobbying local municipalities to allow Uber service on campus, and setting aside student-government funds for late-night "safe ride" programs that provide free or discounted Uber service to students.</font></font></font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In Mr. Kirk's book, a group of "Turning Point USA activists" are credited with helping the University of Southern California's student government reach its free-ride arrangement with Uber. Mr. Kirk's book mentions Uber 42 times.</font></font></font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This spring, when the "Mary and Carla" campaign started at Ohio State, it included an "Uber/Lyft" free-ride proposal, and the candidates cited USC's program as a model.</font></font></font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">At the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa last year, the student-government president at the time, Lillian Roth, was an outspoken supporter of bringing Uber back to campus. She even met with Tuscaloosa city officials on the issue, and the city allowed Uber to resume service last summer.</font></font></font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ms. Roth was endorsed by Turning Point's student chapter at Alabama. Her father, Toby Roth, has long been active in Alabama politics and is a registered lobbyist for Uber. Mr. Roth said his daughter didn't have a conflict of interest in advocating for Uber.</font></font></font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"She was not a decision maker in the process," he said. "Whether or not Uber came to campus was not in her discretion. If she was on the City Council in Tuscaloosa, if she was the mayor of Tuscaloosa, then yes, I think recusal would be in order."</font></font></font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">At the University of Oregon, a petition drive last year sought to bring back Uber, which left Eugene in 2015 after a dispute with the city. The petition surfaced at around the same time that a Turning Point-backed slate of candidates started campaigning for student government, according to Max Burns, a former Student Senate president. The slate was called One Oregon, and the candidates made the return of Uber one of their signature campaign promises.</font></font></font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mr. Burns said he was suspicious of One Oregon's large amount of spending, which included buying half-page ads in the student newspaper for an entire week.</font></font></font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">So he confronted the One Oregon candidate for student-government president, Zach Rentschler, in front of Mr. Rentschler's campaign tent. It was a heated conversation.</font></font></font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Zach, are you getting your money from outside sources?" Mr. Burns demanded.</font></font></font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mr. Rentschler admitted that he was.</font></font></font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The "Students for Uber" petition drive, meanwhile, was accused of sending out text messages that promoted One Oregon's campaign, and the student newspaper reported that the petition was linked to Turning Point USA.</font></font></font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Turning Point connections proved fatal to One Oregon's campaign. Despite a fund-raising haul of nearly $23,000 -- more than double what two other student campaigns raised, combined -- Mr. Rentschler lost his bid for the presidency. Students were bothered by Turning Point's involvement; in an interview, Mr. Rentschler acknowledged that the issue had hurt his candidacy.</font></font></font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But Mr. Rentschler, who describes his political leanings as "center right," said the importance of Turning Point was exaggerated. Bringing back Uber was his own idea, he said, and he was motivated by a desire to see students "getting home safe." He argued that Turning Point was never promised anything in return for its support.</font></font></font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">What kind of support, exactly, did Turning Point provide? Mr. Rentschler declined to say.</font></font></font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The finance reports for One Oregon list Webloot Screen Printing as the campaign's T-shirt vendor. Wayne Hench, the store's owner, says it was a somewhat unusual transaction.</font></font></font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">For one, Mr. Rentschler wanted a total of 3,500 T-shirts and 100 sweatshirts, considerably more than the typical student-government campaign orders.</font></font></font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">One Oregon wanted its shirts designed more elaborately, too. Campaigns normally ask Mr. Hench for a single color on the front and a single color on the back. Occasionally they'll splurge for two colors on the front.</font></font></font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"These guys had a three-color front with a three-color back," Mr. Hench said. The total bill: $14,950.</font></font></font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mr. Hench took a $7,500 deposit, which became a hassle because the store's credit-card processor wasn't used to such large amounts. It was flagged as possible fraud, and Mr. Hench had to talk with the credit-card holder a couple of times on the phone to get the payment processed. The man paying the bill was understanding about the inconvenience.</font></font></font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">That man, Mr. Hench said, was in Chicago. His name was Charlie Kirk.</font></font></font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"You spend $5,000 on a race, you can win. You could retake a whole college or university."</font></font></font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Turning Point in general has a huge reputation for being really conservative. They're starting to call us the alt-right."</font></font></font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Liberals consistently dominate campus student government and our goal is to take them out secretly without them knowing what's coming."</font></font></font></p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a id="AN0123093306-2" class="rs_skip" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><span class="medium-bold" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; font-weight: bold; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation" /></a><a data-auto="ep_link" href="https://web-b-ebscohost-com.oca.ucsc.edu/ehost/detail/detail?vid=12&sid=fc56d843-3106-4e8f-85b0-6a3969384b3d%40sessionmgr103&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#toc" id="hd_toc_118" title="Where Student Elections Involved Turning Point" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Where Student Elections Involved Turning Point</a></font></font></font><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a id="AN0123093306-3" class="rs_skip" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><span class="medium-bold" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; font-weight: bold;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation" /></a><a data-auto="ep_link" href="https://web-b-ebscohost-com.oca.ucsc.edu/ehost/detail/detail?vid=12&sid=fc56d843-3106-4e8f-85b0-6a3969384b3d%40sessionmgr103&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#toc" id="hd_toc_120" title="WON" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">WON</a></font></font></font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">U. OF COLORADO AT BOULDER</font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Election Date: April 2016 Candidates: Revolution slate of candidates, including for president</font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Turning Point praised winning candidates, declined to say whether it paid for their lawyer</font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">U. OF WISCONSIN AT MADISON</font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Election Date: March 2017 Candidates: Maxwell Goldfarb and Dylan Resch</font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Turning Point paid for signs for legislative candidates</font></p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a id="AN0123093306-4" class="rs_skip" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><span class="medium-bold" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; font-weight: bold; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation" /></a><a data-auto="ep_link" href="https://web-b-ebscohost-com.oca.ucsc.edu/ehost/detail/detail?vid=12&sid=fc56d843-3106-4e8f-85b0-6a3969384b3d%40sessionmgr103&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#toc" id="hd_toc_127" title="LOST OR WITHDREW" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">LOST OR WITHDREW</a></font><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">OHIO STATE U.</font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Election Date: March 2017 Candidates: Mary Honaker and Carla Gracia (withdrew)</font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Turning Point secretly backed slate of candidates accused of violating spending rules</font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">PENNSYLVANIA STATE U.</font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Election Date: March 2017 Candidates: Sammy Geisinger and Jorge Zurita-Coronado (lost)</font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Turning Point provided campaign advice and election-day volunteers</font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">U. OF MARYLAND AT COLLEGE PARK</font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Election Date: April 2017 Candidates: Unity Party ticket of candidates, including for president (withdrew)</font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Turning Point provided campaign-logo design</font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">U. OF OREGON</font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Election Date: April 2016 Candidates: One Oregon slate of candidates, including for president (lost)</font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Turning Point paid for campaign T-shirts</font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">U. OF SOUTH FLORIDA</font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Election Date: March 2017 Candidates: Ryan Soscia and Logan Holland, candidates for president and vice president (lost)</font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Turning Point provided campaign guidance and discussed paying some expenses</font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">U. OF VIRGINIA</font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Election Date: February 2017 Candidates: Kelsey Kilgore, candidate for president (lost)</font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Candidate said Turning Point employee was "helping me out with my campaign"</font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Charlie Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA: "You're not going to get teachers fired. But the only vulnerability there is, the only little opening, is student-government-association races."</font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Diamondback student newspaper at the U. of Maryland at College Park obtained emails showing that Turning Point USA had designed the logo of the Unity Party slate of student candidates.</font></p><p class="body-paragraph" data-auto="body_paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Caroline Larkin (left) and Jon Ciavolino, shown here with Katie Albert, their campaign manager, were Unity Party candidates for student government at the U. of Maryland. 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none;">[1]</a> or right wing <sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turning_Point_USA#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[2]</a></sup> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/501(c)(3)" class="mw-redirect" title="501(c)(3)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">501(c)(3)</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonprofit_organization" title="Nonprofit organization" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">nonprofit organization</a> founded on June 5, 2012 by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheeling,Illinois" title="Wheeling, Illinois" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Wheeling, Illinois</a> high school graduate <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Kirk(conservative_activist)" title="Charlie Kirk (conservative activist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Charlie Kirk</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turning_Point_USA#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[3]</a></sup> The organization states its mission is to "identify, educate, train, and organize students to promote fiscal responsibility, free markets and limited government."<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turning_Point_USA#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[4]</a></sup></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;" /><div id="toc" class="toc" style="background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 7px; display: table; zoom: 1;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /></font></font><div class="toctitle" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" size="4" face="Times New 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255);">Contents</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></h2> <span class="toctoggle" style="user-select: none;"> [<a role="button" tabindex="0" class="togglelink" style="background: none; cursor: pointer;">hide</a>] </span></div><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turning_Point_USA#Affiliations_and_infrastructure" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Affiliations and infrastructure</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turning_Point_USA#Student_activities" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Student activities</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turning_Point_USA#Finances" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Finances</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turning_Point_USA#Controversies" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">4</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Controversies</span></a><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turning_Point_USA#Professor_Watchlist" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">4.1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;"><i>Professor Watchlist</i></span></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turning_Point_USA#Denial_of_recognition_on_campus" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">4.2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Denial of recognition on campus</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turning_Point_USA#Involvement_in_student_government_elections" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">4.3</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Involvement in student government elections</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turning_Point_USA#Other_controversies" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">4.4</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Other controversies</span></a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-9" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turning_Point_USA#References" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">5</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">References</span></a></li></ul></div><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;" /><h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Affiliations_and_infrastructure">Affiliations and infrastructure</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Turning_Point_USA&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Affiliations and infrastructure" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h2><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Turning Point's allies include <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illinois" title="Illinois" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Illinois</a> Governor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Rauner" title="Bruce Rauner" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Bruce Rauner</a> and billionaire <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foster_Friess" title="Foster Friess" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Foster Friess</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turning_Point_USA#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[5]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turning_Point_USA#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[6]</a></sup> Friess also serves on the organization's advisory council, alongside <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginni_Thomas" class="mw-redirect" title="Ginni Thomas" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Ginni Thomas</a>, wife of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Supreme_Court" class="mw-redirect" title="US Supreme Court" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">US Supreme Court</a> Justice <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_Thomas" title="Clarence Thomas" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Clarence Thomas</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turning_Point_USA#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[7]</a></sup> Turning Point's non-profit board consists of Charlie Kirk (President), William Montgomery (Secretary/Treasurer), and George Hamstra (Director).<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turning_Point_USA#cite_note-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[8]</a></sup></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Groups that are aligned with Turning Point include <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Veritas" class="mw-redirect" title="Project Veritas" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Project Veritas</a>, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartland_Institute" class="mw-redirect" title="Heartland Institute" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Heartland Institute</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_Works" class="mw-redirect" title="Freedom Works" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Freedom Works</a>, and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Rifle_Association" title="National Rifle Association" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">National Rifle Association</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turning_Point_USA#cite_note-9" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[9]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turning_Point_USA#cite_note-10" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[10]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turning_Point_USA#cite_note-11" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[11]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turning_Point_USA#cite_note-12" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[12]</a></sup></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Charlie Kirk has disavowed any relationship with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alt_right" class="mw-redirect" title="Alt right" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">alt right</a> groups.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turning_Point_USA#cite_note-13" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[13]</a></sup> However, he has been a contributing writer for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breitbart_News" title="Breitbart News" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Breitbart News</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turning_Point_USA#cite_note-14" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[14]</a></sup> and Turning Point has previously shown support for former Breitbart editor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos" title="Milo Yiannopoulos" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Milo Yiannopoulos</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turning_Point_USA#cite_note-15" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[15]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turning_Point_USA#cite_note-16" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[16]</a></sup> including when the organization sponsored him at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Colorado" title="University of Colorado" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">University of Colorado</a> and Miami University (OH).<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turning_Point_USA#cite_note-17" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[17]</a></sup>Turning Point has also sponsored controversial conservative pundit, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomi_Lahren" title="Tomi Lahren" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Tomi Lahren</a>, at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Carolina_University" title="East Carolina University" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">East Carolina University</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turning_Point_USA#cite_note-18" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[18]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turning_Point_USA#cite_note-19" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[19]</a></sup></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Numerous Turning Point affiliated individuals have run for local political offices across the country, including <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kings_Park,New_York" title="Kings Park, New York" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Kings Park, New York</a> Board of Education member JuanPablo Andrade and successful <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bannockburn_Elementary_School_District_106" title="Bannockburn Elementary School District 106" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Bannockburn Elementary School District 106</a> Board of Education candidate Jake Leahy.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turning_Point_USA#cite_note-20" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[20]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turning_Point_USA#cite_note-21" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[21]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Student_activities">Student activities</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Turning_Point_USA&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Student activities" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h2><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Turning Point USA has more than 1,000 chapters in colleges and high schools and has registered thousands of voters since 2012.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turning_Point_USA#cite_note-22" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[22]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turning_Point_USA#cite_note-23" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[23]</a></sup></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Turning Point holds several yearly national conferences, including the Young Woman's Leadership Summit, High School Activist Conference and Young Latino's Leadership Conference. They have also sponsored outside conferences such as the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_Political_Action_Conference" title="Conservative Political Action Conference" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Conservative Political Action Conference</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turning_Point_USA#cite_note-24" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[24]</a></sup></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">According to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloomberg_News" title="Bloomberg News" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Bloomberg News</a>, each of Turning Point's paid workers is supposed to meet a quota to make at least 1,500 student contacts per semester.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turning_Point_USA#cite_note-25" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[25]</a></sup> Student volunteers have several different themes for promoting conservative ideas, including "The Healthcare Games," "Game of Loans," and "iCapitalism."<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turning_Point_USA#cite_note-26" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[26]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Finances">Finances</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Turning_Point_USA&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Finances" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h2><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Turning Point's revenues were $78,890 in 2012, $443,859 in 2013, and $2,052,060 in 2014.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turning_Point_USA#cite_note-27" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[27]</a></sup> Charlie Kirk has stated that TPUSA received $5,000,000 in 2016.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turning_Point_USA#cite_note-28" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[28]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Controversies">Controversies</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Turning_Point_USA&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Controversies" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h2><h3 style="background: none; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Professor_Watchlist"><i>Professor Watchlist</i></span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Turning_Point_USA&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Professor Watchlist" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h3><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">First appearing on November 21, 2016, Turning Point USA also operates a website called <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professor_Watchlist" title="Professor Watchlist" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Professor Watchlist</a></i> in order to "expose and document college professors who discriminate against conservative students, promote anti-American values, and advance leftist propaganda in the classroom."<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turning_Point_USA#cite_note-29" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[29]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turning_Point_USA#cite_note-30" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[30]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turning_Point_USA#cite_note-31" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[31]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turning_Point_USA#cite_note-32" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[32]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turning_Point_USA#cite_note-33" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[33]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turning_Point_USA#cite_note-34" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[34]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turning_Point_USA#cite_note-35" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[35]</a></sup> The website lists academics who “promote anti-American, leftwing propaganda in the classroom” according to a blog post by Charlie Kirk.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turning_Point_USA#cite_note-36" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[36]</a></sup> Tips are accepted from the public, and over 200 professors are currently listed.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turning_Point_USA#cite_note-37" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[37]</a></sup> The website has been criticized as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racist" class="mw-redirect" title="Racist" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">racist</a> and pro-<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascist" class="mw-redirect" title="Fascist" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">fascist</a>, using <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveillance" title="Surveillance" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">surveillance</a> type propaganda to manipulate ideas of truth, equality, and freedom.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turning_Point_USA#cite_note-38" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[38]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turning_Point_USA#cite_note-39" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[39]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turning_Point_USA#cite_note-40" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[40]</a></sup> Critics have compared Professor Watchlist to the actions of U.S. Senator <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_McCarthy" title="Joseph McCarthy" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Joseph McCarthy</a>, who tried to publicly identify American citizens as Communists and Communist sympathizers in the 1950s.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turning_Point_USA#cite_note-41" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[41]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turning_Point_USA#cite_note-42" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[42]</a></sup></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In May 2017, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Arizona_University" title="Northern Arizona University" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Northern Arizona University</a> criminology professor Luis Fernandez stated that Turning Point surveillance of him led to multiple threats. <sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turning_Point_USA#cite_note-43" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[43]</a></sup> In the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Crimson" title="Harvard Crimson" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Harvard Crimson</a> Harvard Professor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danielle_Allen" title="Danielle Allen" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Danielle Allen</a> also stated that she was threatened after being targeted by Charlie Kirk and Turning Point. <sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turning_Point_USA#cite_note-44" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[44]</a></sup></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><h3 style="background: none; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Denial_of_recognition_on_campus">Denial of recognition on campus</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Turning_Point_USA&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Denial of recognition on campus" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h3><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">At <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_University" title="Drake University" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Drake University</a>, Turning Point was denied recognition as an official student organization based on student senate concerns that the organization has "a hateful record," "aggressive marketing" and "an unethical privacy concern."<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turning_Point_USA#cite_note-45" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[45]</a></sup></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">At <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hagerstown_Community_College" title="Hagerstown Community College" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Hagerstown Community College</a>, a student's attempt to start a Turning Point group was initially blocked when the school said the organization duplicated an existing group. The student's lawsuit led to the school revising its policy on student organizations, clarifying that school funded groups will be denied if they duplicate existing groups while unfunded groups face no such restriction.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turning_Point_USA#cite_note-46" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[46]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>In February 2017, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Clara_University" title="Santa Clara University" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Santa Clara University</a> denied official recognition for Turning Point as a campus organization. </b>The Associated Student Government voted 16 to 10 to deny recognition to Turning Point at the February 2nd senate meeting.<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turning_Point_USA#cite_note-47" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[47]</a></sup> As of March 2017, this decision was overturned by the Vice Provost for Student Life, and Turning Point has been recognized as a Registered Student Organization.</span><sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turning_Point_USA#cite_note-48" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[48]</a></sup></font></p><h3 style="background: none; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Involvement_in_student_government_elections">Involvement in student government elections</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Turning_Point_USA&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Involvement in student government elections" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" face="Times New Roman" size="4">According to The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronicle_of_Higher_Education" class="mw-redirect" title="Chronicle of Higher Education" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Chronicle of Higher Education</a>, Turning Point USA has secretly been involved in influencing <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student_government" class="mw-redirect" title="Student government" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">student government</a> elections at a dozen colleges and universities, which some have claimed constitutes a violation of their 501(c)(3) status.<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turning_Point_USA#cite_note-49" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[49]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turning_Point_USA#cite_note-50" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[50]</a></sup> Universities that have been targeted by this effort include <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio_State_University" title="Ohio State University" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Ohio State University</a>, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Wisconsin-Madison" class="mw-redirect" title="University of Wisconsin-Madison" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">University of Wisconsin-Madison</a>, and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Maryland" class="mw-redirect" title="University of Maryland" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">University of Maryland</a>. These revelations led to conservative candidates at the University of Maryland withdrawing from student elections after failing to report assistance from Turning Point.<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turning_Point_USA#cite_note-51" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">[51]</a></sup></font></p><h3 style="background: none; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Other_controversies">Other controversies</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Turning_Point_USA&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Other controversies" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h3><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In 2016, Turning Point at Grand Valley State University filed a lawsuit against the trustees of the school. The complainants asked the court to prohibit enforcement of GVSU's Speech Zone policy and declare it a violation of the students’ 1st and 14th Amendment freedoms.<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turning_Point_USA#cite_note-52" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[52]</a></sup></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In December 2016, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PolitiFact" title="PolitiFact" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">PolitiFact</a> reported that Turning Point falsely quoted Nancy Pelosi.<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turning_Point_USA#cite_note-53" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[53]</a></sup></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Also in May 2017, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DePaul_University" title="DePaul University" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">DePaul University</a> refused to allow Turning Point to post "Gay Lives Matter" posters on campus. Matt Lamb, a spokesperson for Turning Point, said that the action by DePaul was an infringement of free speech rights. 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During the discussion, one attendee, sitting with a handful of others in the back of the room, said he was "very much a capitalist" and a "very proud Trump voter." He added that he was part of a student group called Turning Point USA, and that they came to "dialogue" and hear different points of view.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The four students in the back-row-right caucus left shortly thereafter, but not before several speakers called the group out for what they represent--which is bigotry and the witch hunting of the left on college campuses.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">RIGHT-WINGERS on campus are certainly nothing new, and DePaul in particular is no stranger to right-wing goons. Last year, a protest of some 250 students <a href="https://socialistworker.org/2016/05/26/banging-on-the-doors-of-bigotry" style="text-decoration-line: none;">ran reactionary troll-in-chief Milo Yiannopoulos off campus in the middle of his speech</a>.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>But what is Turning Point USA, </b>a group whose website proclaims it to be the "biggest and most far-reaching youth organization in America"? <a href="http://tpusa.com/aboutus/our-mission/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">According to the website</a>:</font></p><blockquote style="margin: 1em 2em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Turning Point USA educates students about the importance of fiscal responsibility, free markets and limited government. Through non-partisan debate, dialogue and discussion, Turning Point USA believes that every young person can be enlightened to true free market values.</font></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Turning Point USA was founded in 2012 by Wheeling, Illinois, high school graduate Charlie Kirk at the ripe age of 18. The same year, he began writing for Breitbart News, the website of the so-called "alt-right" and online home of Milo Yiannopoulos.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Kirk has appeared on Fox News, CNBC and Fox Business news more than 90 times, according to his website. He's been described as a rising star in the conservative movement and gained national prominence through his campus organizing and frequent media appearances.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">His meteoric rise culminated in <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBA4jdU7C_s" style="text-decoration-line: none;">a speech at the 2016 Republican National Convention</a>, which he began with the motto of Turning Point USA: "Big government sucks."</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Nearly every publication Turning Point USA publishes brings its argument back to this right-wing libertarian formulation. On its website, the group feature <a href="http://tpusa.com/publications/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">pamphlets and articles </a>with such titles as "5 Reasons Big Government Is the Real War on Women," "10 Ways Fossil Fuels Improve Our Daily Life" and--my personal favorite--<a href="http://hypeline.org/its-time-for-a-worldwide-capitalist-revolution/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">"It's time for a worldwide capitalist revolution."</a></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">According to the pamphlet <a href="http://tpusa.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/10WaysBGHarmsYou.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none;">"10 Ways Big Government Harms You,"</a> big government punishes "diversity" by punishing "diversity of opinion"--especially against conservative opinions. "True diversity is not found in skin tone or sexual preference," the pamphlet says. "True diversity is found inside each and every citizen's mind."</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Apparently, "Students who tend to support big government ideology shout down and protest limited government speakers on their campuses. Whether it is Condoleezza Rice, Ann Coulter or Donald Rumsfeld, these students do not want to engage the speakers in a debate of ideas; they want them silenced."</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ah yes, those proponents of small government, Rice and Rumsfeld and their "small government" massive expansion of government surveillance and "small government" invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">According to Turning Point, students who object to Coulter object to her on the grounds that they support "big government"--not because of <a href="http://racisminamerica.org/the-top-10-most-obnoxious-and-racist-ann-coulter-quotes/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">her constant stream of racist, sexist and imperialist bile</a>.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"BIG GOVERNMENT" is responsible for everything Turning Point USA disdains, from imposing safety regulations that hamper small business to affirmative action:</font></p><blockquote style="margin: 1em 2em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Affirmative action programs are another classic example of big government creating groups of victims, namely women and minorities and convincing them that without government's force they would not be able to succeed. Once the premise was accepted, they then used affirmative action to gain a foothold and establish control within the entire American university system. The benefiting groups have been big government supporters ever since.</font></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In this way, Turning Point is just a new version of old bigoted ideas that claim "undeserving" minorities are taking away jobs and spots at universities from those who supposedly really deserve them.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Turning Point USA also presents itself as a populist voice representing the put-upon small business owner against big industry:</font></p><blockquote style="margin: 1em 2em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Before big government passes any kind of new tax or new fine, the first thing they do is consult with the wealthiest leaders of industry to make certain that they will be able to easily adjust to the new rules. Nobody in big government consults the poor or the hard-working private business owner about how the rules will impact them.</font></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">If only capitalism were pure and free from government meddling, they argue, everyone could be a successful small business owner and we would have never-ending prosperity for everyone who deserves it.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And what does that "government meddling" include? Any kind of government assistance to workers in the form of welfare, health care, minimum-wage legislation, affirmative action or other protections against racism or sexism.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">TURNING POINT USA talks a lot about how "Big Government Sucks," but as a campus group, its activism is largely focused around its other favorite slogan, "Socialism Sucks." Turning Point USA's most well-known campus project is its <a href="http://www.professorwatchlist.org/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Professor Watchlist</a>, a website that lists more than 150 professors who "advance a radical agenda in lecture halls."</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Students can suggest professors to add to the list for such offenses as <a href="http://www.professorwatchlist.org/index.php/watch-list-directory/search-by-name/49-susanna-ashton" style="text-decoration-line: none;">decrying a party where students dressed as gang members</a>, <a href="http://www.professorwatchlist.org/index.php/watch-list-directory/search-by-name/209-stephanie-baran" style="text-decoration-line: none;">being a socialist</a> and <a href="http://www.professorwatchlist.org/index.php/watch-list-directory/search-by-name/196-dale-maharidge" style="text-decoration-line: none;">posting strongly worded comments on social media</a>. In other words, professors can be put on the list for merely discussing racism or having a Twitter account.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Anthea Butler, a professor included on the Watchlist, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/dec/02/us-universities-professor-watchlist-free-speech" style="text-decoration-line: none;">succinctly wrote</a>:</font></p><blockquote style="margin: 1em 2em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">For tenured professors like myself, the Professor Watchlist is an annoyance that takes away from research, teaching and time with students. For professors on the tenure track, or lecturers who are trying to keep a contract job, being named on the Professor Watchlist could mean diminished opportunities for their careers if colleges and universities do not understand the purpose and nature of these groups.</font></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">To justify their witch hunt, these right-wingers present themselves as being in the forefront of a fightback against "college professors who discriminate against conservative students and advance leftist propaganda in the classroom."</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Turning Point USA's campus activism is primarily focused on feeding left and liberal professors to conservative media outlets like Campus Reform, and putting them on the Watchlist.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">At many universities, the organization invites Milo Yiannopoulos to campus--<a href="http://www.jsonline.com/story/news/education/2016/12/14/breitbart-writer-targets-transgender-uwm-student/95420206/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">like at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UVM) where Yiannopoulos insulted a transgender student</a> who had protested a school policy that required "nonconforming genitalia" to be covered in the locker room.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"The way you know he's failed is I can still bang him," Yiannopoulos said about the trans woman. The student later dropped out of UVM.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Turning Point USA spends considerable time and money publishing blacklists and paying workers to maintain 1,500 student contacts per semester. Its wealthy sponsors ensure there's a never-ending pool of <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-05-07/conservative-boy-wonder" style="text-decoration-line: none;">money to send 100 activists to the Conservative Political Action Conference</a> or to print their delightful "Socialism Sucks" T-shirts.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-05-07/conservative-boy-wonder" style="text-decoration-line: none;">According to Bloomberg</a>, Turning Point USA claims to have raised $1 million in the first half of 2015 from wealthy donors such as Foster Friess, who spent $2.1 million on Rick Santorum's presidential campaign. Because Turning Point USA is a 501(c)3 nonprofit advocacy group, its donors are anonymous.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On campus, you might see these activists with their "Socialism Sucks" and "Big Government Sucks" T-shirts at tables alongside large signs imploring students to share what they love about capitalism.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">You can pick them out in a class because they'll be the ones complaining loudly against persecution of conservatives. And you'll find them in a meeting of socialists, claiming they want to "dialogue" about their bigoted ideas.</font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">dictable outcomes of the Charlottesville, Va., attacks earlier this month was that rather than lead to a reasoned and careful conversation about the rise of hate groups in our nation, it led to debates about whether the white supremacist neo-Nazis on display were the victims of discrimination. In Trumpland everything is on its head. Thus we have become desensitized to its dangerous combination of absurdity and malice.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But Charlottesville is not only a story about the mainstreaming of hate and fascism in the Trump era; it’s also a story about how the right has engaged in an all-out war to dismantle our public universities. As we have watched the rising public displays of fascism and bigotry sweep across the nation, it has been easy to overlook the fact that many of these rallies have been purposefully staged on college campuses. The decision to hold these rallies on campuses and to thereby provoke counter-protests also on campuses is a deliberate move by the right: one designed to allow them to further their narrative that college campuses are places that are hostile to free speech.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">These days, as many of us across the nation head back into classrooms, we would do well to remember that campus hysteria over free speech has a long history. Before the recent attacks in Charlottesville on the University of Virginia campus, universities grappled with the effects of the McCarthyist red scare of the 1950s. In that period the fear was that communists were infiltrating universities in order to brainwash students and bias knowledge production in favor of a sinister commie agenda.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The details may shift but the pattern of right-wing assaults on higher ed are always the same. Create panic and hysteria by overblowing a perceived threat. Paint the student as an innocent threatened by dangerous professors or describe the student as a whiny, but no less threatening, snowflake determined to undermine any sense of social order. And sow the seeds that will make the public fear, distrust and disapprove of our colleges and universities.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 1950 fewer than 50,000 Americans out of a U.S. population of 150 million were members of the Communist Party. But that tiny statistic of .033 percent didn’t temper right-wing fears of communist subversion. Government loyalty boards investigated millions of federal employees and more than 39 states required teachers and other public employees to take loyalty oaths.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">At a certain level the McCarthy era attacks on higher education as a hotbed of left politics that threatened the fabric of our society never let up; they simply morphed with the times.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In the ’90s, as debates raged over the pernicious effects of multiculturalism and diversity and what Dinesh D’Souza called “<a href="mailto:https://www.amazon.com/Illiberal-Education-Politics-Race-Campus/dp/0684863847" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">illiberal education</a>,” they had little sway. But the events of 9/11/2001 gave the right new traction in their attacks. Led by David Horowitz and Daniel Pipes of Campus Watch, the argument was that universities were not patriotic enough. In Horowitz’s “<a href="mailto:https://www.amazon.com/Art-Political-Other-Radical-Pursuits/dp/1890626287/ref=sr_1_1%3Fs=books%26ie=UTF8%26qid=1504278027%26sr=1-1%26keywords=the+art+of+political+war" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">The Art of Political War</a>,” published just before the  9/11 attacks, he wrote,  “For some time now, conservatives have watched anxiously as tenured leftists have conducted mind experiments on American campuses, regulating speech and punishing ideas that are politically incorrect.”</font></p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">As Vijay Prashad noted in a piece for “</span><a href="mailto:http://www.frontline.in/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Frontline</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">” in November 2004, the right-wing popular radio host Rush Limbaugh discussed David Horowitz’s efforts to out liberal faculty on his nationally syndicated radio program: “The Right had taken care of the ‘liberal bias’ in the media, he announced, and the new war will be on the academy. In the language of right-wing critics like Horowitz, today’s communists are leftist professors, but the scandal is no less sensational.”</span></font><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Thus the 1950s era of red-baiting started to adjust to a new version of blue-baiting.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Blue-baiting replaces the communists of red-baiting with liberals who advocate for marginalized identities, social equality and civic justice. It describes these ”blue” activities as a threat to our society and a violation of our nation’s core values. The transition to blue-baiting from red-baiting started as the right moved to attack academic attention to identity politics and campus efforts to diversify the curriculum.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The goal of red-baiting is to intimidate, and today’s blue-baiting continues that trend. But even worse, blue-baiting follows in the footsteps of red-baiting and is designed to destroy public trust in higher education. Ultimately the goal, as seen in the not-so-subtle policies of Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, is the total destruction of public education as a common good and as a foundation for civic engagement.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Blue-baiting operates today alongside red-baiting as a strategy designed to dominate the narrative and control the conversation.  In fact, Kathryn Olmsted, chairwoman of the Department of History at University of California, Davis, <a href="mailto:http://thenewpress.com/books/right-out-of-california" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">argues in her study of Herbert Hoover’s use of red-baiting</a> that the red scare allowed today’s alt-right politics to emerge. Their efforts enabled the ideology and tactics that led to cultural fears that leftists “were endangering the home and family.” Whether attacking red commies or blue liberals, the goal is to convince the public that everything they hold dear is under attack and that college campuses are ground zero.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">What’s of even greater concern is that today their plan is working better than ever. A <a href="mailto:http://www.people-press.org/2017/07/10/sharp-partisan-divisions-in-views-of-national-institutions/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">recent study by the Pew Research Center</a> found that for the first time a majority of Republicans (58 percent) say colleges have a negative effect on the way things are going in this country. Just two years ago, 54 percent of Republicans said colleges had a positive impact on the country’s direction, with 37 percent rating higher education negatively.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The 20 percent decline in support can be traced directly to news media coverage of blue-baiting activities on campuses that characterize students legitimately protesting the alt-right as rabid menaces to the social order.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Today news about college campuses is overwhelmingly dominated by coverage of the debates over free speech.  <a href="mailto:v" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">As Inside Higher Education reports</a>, “virtually every day Fox News, Breitbart and other conservative outlets run critical articles about free speech disputes on college campuses, typically with coverage focused on the perceived liberal orthodoxy and political correctness in higher education.”Stories about the antifa movement, for instance, focus on the notion that these protesters are scary and violent. And piece after piece, <a href="mailto:http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/14/us/what-is-antifa-trnd/index.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">like this recent one from CNN</a>, puff up the myth that anti-fascists are “just as dangerous, if not more dangerous than the right wing could ever be.”</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Every year there seems to be one higher education policy issue that spreads rapidly throughout the states,” says Thomas Harnisch, director of state relations and policy analysis at the American Association of State Colleges and Universities <a href="mailto:https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/articles/2017-07-31/campus-free-speech-laws-ignite-the-country" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">in a piece in US News and World Report.</a> “This year it’s campus free speech legislation.”</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">These conflicts over free speech on campus are a direct result of conservative efforts to stir things up and to pass laws purportedly designed to protect free speech on campuses that they suggest limit it. “The campus free speech legislation has largely, if not exclusively, been introduced by conservative state lawmakers who have argued that campuses are not doing enough to ensure that all viewpoints are welcome to be expressed,” Harnisch says.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It’s worth pausing for a moment to reflect on how successful the right has been in launching its narrative that free speech is threatened on campuses these days.  One article after another covers the story as it has been framed on the right with little or no attention to the fact that these arguments are either overblown or completely without merit.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Less than a year ago Turning Point USA launched Professor Watchlist, a website designed to call out college professors who “discriminate against conservative students and advance leftist propaganda in the classroom.”</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Turning Point’s founder and executive director, Charlie Kirk, wrote a blog post to explain that the purpose of the list was to expose professors who are out of line. “Throughout the next 120 days, Turning Point USA will be running ads to make sure students, faculty, and administrators see that these professors made the Professor Watchlist.” The 22-year-old closed his post with the chilling phrase: “We believe these people need to be exposed.”</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But guess what? Even if we assume that the list is fair and accurate, which is a big assumption, the list fingers a paltry .013 percent of the entire professoriate in this nation as a threat to free speech. Rather than highlight an epidemic of lefty profs who discriminate against the right, it proves there isn’t one.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="mailto:http://www.salon.com/2016/12/04/academic-witch-hunts-are-back-the-new-mccarthyism-a-sign-of-the-stupidity-of-the-post-truth-era/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">As I wrote for Salon shortly after Turning Point was launched</a>, the problem with the list — besides its more than obvious blue-bait tactics — is that it’s really stupid. It makes claims that have no basis in reality. It exaggerates. It creates crisis where there is none. And worst of all, it promises to increase conflict rather than improve it.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In the coming weeks <a href="mailto:https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp%3Fid=372" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">about 20.4 million students will begin their next year at college.</a>  But rather than hear about the real challenges this generation of college students will face, chances are pretty good that the news will focus on the campus debates over free speech that have been orchestrated by the right.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Despite the fact that only about <a href="mailto:https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2016/02/freshman-survey/462429/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">9 percent of college students will even participate in a campus protest</a>, it is far more likely that their activities will be covered than <a href="mailto:https://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/paying-for-college/slideshows/10-student-loan-facts-college-grads-need-to-know" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">the 70 percent of students</a> who will graduate with loans averaging $37,172. 44.2 million Americans <a href="mailto:v" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">are burdened with student loan debt</a> and 59 percent of millennials have no idea when their student loans, which average monthly payments of about $350, will be paid off.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But rather than cover that story, we will hear that white supremacist Richard Spencer was denied <a href="mailto:https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2017/08/22/after-charlottesville-white-nationalist-richard-spencer-is-not-welcome-to-speak-at-penn-state/%3Futm_term=.55ea16fa3e9b" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">yet another speaking engagement.</a></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And that leads me to the real crisis facing higher education in our nation. While everyone gets distracted by debates over free speech, Republican-controlled states are slashing support for higher education at precisely the time when our nation’s students need more, not less, funding.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="mailto:http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-pol-gop-dems-state-control-20170804-story.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Republicans now hold 34 governorships</a>, matching the party’s all-time high from 1922. And it is those same governors, like Wisconsin’s Scott Walker, who have been behind cuts in funding for their state’s colleges. Recently elected Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens <a href="http://news.stlpublicradio.org/post/eve-big-speech-greitens-swings-budget-ax" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">cut $68 million</a> in core funding to colleges, universities and community colleges in his state for the current budget year.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="mailto:https://www.cbpp.org/research/state-budget-and-tax/funding-down-tuition-up" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">According to a Center on Budget and Policy Priorities report</a>, in total, after adjusting for inflation, funding for public two- and four-year colleges is nearly $10 billion below what it was just before the recession. They further report that the average state is spending $1,598, or 18 percent, less per student than before the recession.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">To make up for the shortfall in public funding students work while going to school. <a href="https://cew.georgetown.edu/cew-reports/workinglearners/#full-report" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Forty percent</a> of students work at least 30 hours a week. About 25 percent work full-time and go to school full-time. <a href="mailto:http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/08/07/california-colleges-full-of-hungry-students/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">A recent study found that</a> 13 percent of households with students at community colleges and 11 percent with students at four-year colleges worried about having enough money to buy food in 2015.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">UC Berkeley’s food pantry served more than 2,000 students last spring, or 5 percent of its total student population, but it’s the student protesters who are getting the news coverage and leading <a href="mailto:https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/02/uc-berkeley-protests-milo-yiannopolous" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">President Trump to talk about defunding Berkeley even more.</a></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This is not to say that counter-protests and free speech debates aren’t important and don’t deserve our attention. But it is stunning to note the public apathy toward the systematic defunding of higher ed — a move that affects all families regardless of political beliefs.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And yet the shrill blue-baiting continues, distracting us from our real crises, sowing distrust in higher education and disincentivizing those on the right from even seeking college degrees — a move guaranteed to help a party <a href="mailto:http://www.people-press.org/2016/09/13/2-party-affiliation-among-voters-1992-2016/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">that appeals to the less educated.</a></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Despite the fact that the right has tried to twist the meaning of “baiting” by turning the phrase “race-baiting” on its head, it is worth remembering that the term red-baiting and my neologism blue-baiting each derive from the verb “to bait.” Which means to set dogs to bite and harass another animal that is usually chained. The goal is for the dogs to subdue the attacked animal by incapacitating it or killing it.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The chained animal in this story is our institutions of higher ed.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Make no mistake: The right’s blue-baiting has zero interest in helping make our colleges more open to debate and discussion. But it does want to unravel the one institution our nation needs in order to foster an informed and educated citizenry.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></p><div wibbitz="embed-main-player" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="bio-new body_activism" style="width: 630px; line-height: 22px; height: auto; border-top: 3px solid rgb(223, 223, 218); clear: both; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="author-bio" style=""><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://sophiamcclennen.com/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Sophia A. McClennen</a> is professor of international affairs and comparative literature at Pennsylvania State University. Her latest book, co-authored with Remy M. Maisel, is, <a href="http://amzn.com/1137427965" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Is Satire Saving Our Nation? Mockery and American Politics</a>. </font></p></div></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">===</font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>