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</div><div><b>The Turning Point USA Young Women's Leadership Summit is sponsored by a shady police nonprofit</b></div><div>06/10/23 </div><div>
</div><div><div class="paragraph paragraph--type--stories-text paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="fancy-elems-wrapper field field--name-field-stories-text-formatted field--type-text-long field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;">The weekend of June 9 will bring the Turning Point USA Young Women’s Leadership Summit back to Texas. The three-day event, which promises to be a hotbed of <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/Crgm-vMvI_u/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">transphobic</a>, staunchly anti-feminist propaganda and fearmongering about <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CrRIyVHPi4U/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">contraceptives</a> and <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CrL_5SHvyxi/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">trans women, is</a> sponsored in part by a sketchy nonprofit that fundraises off deceptive, pro-police appeals to right-wing media audiences. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;">Last year’s YWLS <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk/turning-point-usa-conference-young-women-leaders-suggests-their-role-get-married-and" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">event was</a> billed as a “celebration of freedom and femininity” for <b>“cuteservatives,”</b> and speakers told attendees that their mission was to find a conservative husband to settle down and have children with. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">This year, the event will be <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/4006786" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">sponsored</a> in part by the National Police Association, a shady nonprofit that <a href="https://nationalpolice.org/about" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">seeks</a> to bring “attention to the anti-police efforts challenging effective law enforcement.”<b> </b></span><b>But a 2019 investigative report from the <a href="https://www.indystar.com/story/news/investigations/2019/03/17/national-police-association-says-its-helping-police-chiefs-say-its-scam/3144585002/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">IndyStar</a> revealed that the organization does not have the support of local police departments, and local police chiefs call it a “scam.” </b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The IndyStar reported that the NPA fundraises based on the assumption that donations go directly toward supporting police officers, with letters sent to “vulnerable people” asking for donations to “give our law enforcement officers the crime prevention tools they need.” According to the IndyStar, these donations do not go to police agencies, and the outlet found that “only 25 percent of the group’s spending went to programming.” T<b>he letters the NPA sends paint “a dystopian picture of communities and police departments under attack</b>,” even if the picture is plainly false:</span></p><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247); margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 1.5rem;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;">The National Police Association's fundraising letters raise different issues depending on the city.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;">Fundraising letters in Germantown, Wisconsin, last year falsely warned that Germantown is a sanctuary city, a term that refers to states and municipalities that do not cooperate with federal immigration enforcement.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><b>“Countless Americans have already been robbed, mugged, raped and even murdered as a direct result of Sanctuary policies</b> of allowing known criminals to remain on the streets,” one copy of a National Police Association letter says, adding, “your gift of $15 is needed to reach citizens like you ... so they realize the kind of risks they're facing because their elected officials have allowed their communities to become sanctuaries for violent criminals.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;">Germantown Police Chief Peter Hoell told IndyStar the group “must not have researched the demographics.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;">“It’s so far-fetched, especially if you know Germantown,” Hoell said of the sanctuary city claim. “It’s a highly conservative community.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;">Hoell told residents to disregard the letter. He also reported the National Police Association to the U.S. Postal Inspection Service over what he considered to be fraudulent mail.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><b>“It’s a scam,” Hoel said. “It’s no different than any other scam — just a different angle.”</b></p></blockquote></div></div><div class="paragraph paragraph--type--stories-text paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="fancy-elems-wrapper field field--name-field-stories-text-formatted field--type-text-long field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The IndyStar reported that the NPA’s three employees were volunteers who were not paid by the organization.</span><b> According to the report, founder Eddie Hutchison — a full-time fraud investigator for the Indiana attorney general's office — worked just a few hours per week and received no income from the NPA in 2019. This appears to no longer be true,</b> as the group’s <a href="https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/820647764/202211719349300796/IRS990" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">2021 tax filings</a> show that<b> Hutchison was paid $96,000 for an average of 100 hours of work per week.</b> The other two executives listed on the form, Derek Peterson and Brad Shaw, reportedly work an average of 0.24 and 0.12 hours per week and receive $58,113 and $28,000, respectively.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;">Even the NPA’s website shows that not much of its donation income goes toward helping police departments directly <b>— <a href="https://nationalpolice.org/programs/grants/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">grants</a> for training or gear, it says, are limited to $1,000 per year.</b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><b>The NPA’s stances are standard pro-police talking points found across right-wing media<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">. </span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In 2021, the group also came out against the <a href="https://www.blackburn.senate.gov/2021/11/blackburn-announces-growing-support-for-legislation-to-keep-our-covid-heroes-employed" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">COVID-19 vaccine</a>, even though the illness was the <a href="https://www.npr.org/2022/01/12/1072411820/law-enforcement-deaths-2021-covid" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">leading cause of police deaths</a>. The same year, the NPA ran a <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/police-assault-filming-mobile-phones-b1965021.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">campaign</a> called “Stop Filming & Start Helping”</span> in an effort to refocus attention from police violence to police being “assaulted on the job.” The NPA website also features a “<a href="https://nationalpolice.org/wall-of-shame/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Wall of Shame</a>” with articles about people and policies the group sees as “<a href="https://nationalpolice.org/coddling-criminals-is-willful-criminal-negligence/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">coddling criminals</a>.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">NPA spokesperson Betsy Brantner Smith, who is <a href="https://www.tpusa.com/agenda" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">scheduled to speak</a> at YWLS, uses her <a href="https://twitter.com/NatPoliceAssoc/status/1665768403196342272" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Twitter account</a> primarily to spread awareness about anti-police violence but also to applaud anti-LGBTQ hate from <a href="https://twitter.com/sgtbetsysmith/status/1664976713657339905" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Megyn Kelly</a> and retweet attacks against <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/4006720" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Kohl’s</a> and <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/4006719" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Target</a> for selling Pride merch. Smith is a <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/4006716" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">frequent guest</a> on Newsmax, where she agrees with hosts that <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/4006725" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">crime is out of control</a> and that police need to be protected, offering little else.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;">[vid]</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><b>the organization also thrives off of <a href="https://nationalpolice.org/docs/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">filing lawsuits</a> seemingly intended primarily to generate <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12054785/National-Police-Association-sues-make-trans-Nashville-shooter-Audrey-Hales-manifesto-public.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">right-wing media attention</a> <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/nashville-shooting-police-group-sues-release-suspect-audrey-hales-manifesto" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">for the NPA</a> itsel</b>f.</p></div></div><div class="paragraph paragraph--type--stories-text paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="fancy-elems-wrapper field field--name-field-stories-text-formatted field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;">In April, the group <a href="https://fox17.com/news/local/national-police-association-responds-to-parents-of-covenant-school-motion-others-school-mass-shooting-nashville-tennessee" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">filed a lawsuit</a> pressing Nashville police to release the manifesto of the Covenant School shooter, which the school and parents filed separate motions to counter, citing safety concerns and asking time to allow surviving students to “finish the school year in peace.” NPA responded by saying the parents’ lawsuit is an “obvious expression of anguish seeking sympathy,” and “they will experience even greater suffering if they obtain a denial of public access that results in more school children being murdered.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><b>In December 2022, the NPA <a href="https://nationalpolice.org/the-national-police-association-files-lawsuit-against-hoa-for-making-father-remove-thin-blue-line-flag-flown-in-honor-of-his-fallen-officer-son/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">sued</a> an Ohio homeowners association for telling a resident to take down his “thin blue line” flag</b>, a pro-police symbol that has been increasingly <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/06/09/the-short-fraught-history-of-the-thin-blue-line-american-flag-309767" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">embraced by and associated with white supremacists</a>.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Shortly after the original IndyStar report, the NPA also <a href="https://www.indystar.com/story/news/investigations/2019/07/15/national-police-association-suing-two-trenton-police-officers-michigan/1696197001/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">sued</a> two officers who told the outlet that the organization was a scam.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;">Ahead of this year’s YWLS, Turning Point USA recently <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/charlie-kirk-tpusa-registered-sex-offender-1234743149/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">took a hit</a> over another one of its event sponsors, Rightside Up, whose founder is a registered sex offender convicted in 2014 of “attempted ‘coercion and enticement’ after trying to persuade ‘a minor female’ to ‘engage in sexual activity.’”</p></div></div></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
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