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Writer Emily Zanotti thinks that Republican Sen. Eric Schmitt (Mo.) sent out his talking points and press availability about his conspiracy theory about former special counsel Jack Smith before he made them in the hearing and was fact-checked to his face. She's not the only one who appears to have noticed that Schmitt's false claim suddenly appeared online via influencers quickly.

Zanotti noted that she was seeing right-wing media folks already pushing out talking points alleging perjury by Smith.

"Oh man, the influencer instruction emails went out BEFORE the testimony," she said, showing a post from Benny Johnson.

In the screen capture, Johnson appears to accuse Smith of perjuring himself.

Schmitt mistakenly claimed that Smith was in Atlanta, Georgia, the day after Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis revealed she'd dated a consultant her office later hired. As Schmitt told it, Smith was in Atlanta for an NBA game, seeing the Atlanta Hawks, and it raised suspicions about whether he was working with Willis.

Smith made it clear he'd never met Willis and wasn't in Atlanta for an NBA game. Schmitt smirked, reminding Smith he's "under oath." Smith made it clear he'd never been to an NBA game in Atlanta.

Schmitt flashed a blown-up poster board of text exchanges showing Willis with Smith and the text messages about Smith's seats for the game. Smith asked if he could see it again. He said that they'd removed it so quickly he didn't get a chance to see who was alleging what.

Schmitt even sneered, "It's ok. I think you've already perjured yourself."

That's when it became clear that the "Hawks" game that was being discussed was, in fact, the Iowa Hawkeyes playing the University of Maryland. Smith said he wanted to see Caitlin Clark play.

It appeared TPUSA got them too, as Schmitt went on Charlie Kirk's old show after the hearing, where they also repeated the conspiracy theory but then revealed that Schmitt was proven false.

Schmitt has attempted to save himself from what critics are calling a "humiliating" moment on national television by saying that it was his job "to ask the questions."

Former New York Daily News reporter Helen Kennedy thinks that this was clearly part of a broader effort by Republicans for a big "gotcha."

"I may need to go get my tinfoil hat, but I really think there was a big right-wing campaign ready to go based on the assumption that Schmitt was going to pull a splashy gotcha moment," she said on BlueSky. "The Axios story and all of these right wingers immediately crowing that Smith got got. And then not following up."

The Axios story she is referencing is a piece that dropped Tuesday morning before the hearing claiming that Schmitt's name is being passed around as a vice presidential running mate.

Litigator Dilan Esper commented, "It's nice to see the sausage being made every once in a while. Yes, there are plenty of people who simply repeat whatever talking points they are given. They have no intellectual honesty and don't confirm things or think for themselves. And something like this can expose them."

Even local Missouri news reporters made the same observation.

Mark Maxwell, political editor of KSDK News in St. Louis, quipped, "This is what it looks like when pre-rehearsed coordinated talking points go out to a goober host with zero knowledge or curiosity about what actually happened in the real world. Just deeply embarrassing for everyone involved. Back in Missouri, we still await return calls/emails."

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Christian nationalists like to claim that America was founded as a Christian nation, even though scholars and moderate pastors overwhelmingly agree this was not the case. Now a recent report reveals that Christian nationalists are growing in the United States — and doing so by spreading hateful views about vulnerable minority groups.

"Michael Spangler does not look like a white supremacist and antisemite," wrote Bob Smietana from Religion News on Sunday. Despite his clean-cut appearance, however, Smietana pointed out that Spangler eventually "began talking about Jews. And a broad smile broke across his face."

Spangler then asked Smietana, “You’re asking if I oppose the Jews who murdered Christ?", adding that he believes the Bible condemns Jews as “the enemies of God and all men. We need to consider them and treat them accordingly.”

Smietana described Spangler as in the same category as Joel Webbon and Joshua Haymes: "A segregationist and 'race realist' whose start-up church, which has a handful of families, bars Black people out of fear of 'harmful race-mixing,' Spangler is one of a small but growing group of pastors and internet influencers who openly embrace racist and antisemitic views, casting them as true Christian ideas."

Dale Partridge is another example in this trend.

"For Dale Partridge, an Arizona pastor and another member of the New Christian Right channel, that one-way trip has included significant transformation," Smietana wrote. "A decade ago, Partridge was a lifestyle blogger and social justice evangelical entrepreneur who had been 'saved from success.' In 2015, he gave a TEDx talk called 'How to Value People over Profits' based on his book of the same title. His most controversial view was that yoga pants are sinful."

Smietana added, "In recent years, Partridge, who has more than 300,000 social media followers and more than 40,000 on YouTube, has rebranded himself as a chain-smoking, hardcore Christian nationalist, claiming women should not be allowed to vote, Black Americans should not be citizens and Jews were ruining Germany before the Nazis took over."

"'So this Nazi or National Socialist movement terrified the Jews because it represented a powerful form of Christian nationalism,' he said in a video clip posted on social media." Smietana continued.

He also pointed out that "Partridge has argued for America to become 90 [percent] white again, as it was in the 1960s, and called for the deportation of 100 million immigrants."

Earlier in September, The Dispatch's Eli Kronenberg reported that the late Charlie Kirk's activist group Turning Point USA is also being taken over by Christian nationalists.

"Jonah Scott became president of the University of Central Florida’s Turning Point chapter within months of arriving on campus in the fall of 2024, after previously founding a chapter at Seminole State College," Kronenberg wrote. "He said the chapter’s meetings in his first year took place in a small conference room that held 30 to 40 students, but after Kirk’s death, the chapter had to start booking the campus’s largest meeting room in order to accommodate more than 200 students."

Kronenberg continued that "with a growth in attendance came a shift in tone. When Scott stood for reelection as president this spring, some new members sought to push the chapter in a different direction, and Scott lost." Scott told Kronenberg that "I think Turning Point became a lot more of a Christian organization since Charlie passed, and they wanted more Christian leadership. I myself am Jewish, so there was a lot of that. Though we did incorporate a lot of Christian stuff into the group, I think a lot of people wanted it to be a more explicitly Christian organization.”

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A political activist group that has long supported President Donald Trump, the late Charlie Kirk's Turning Point USA, is reportedly struggling with its identity as Christian nationalism has become an increasingly potent influence within its ranks.

"Jonah Scott became president of the University of Central Florida’s Turning Point chapter within months of arriving on campus in the fall of 2024, after previously founding a chapter at Seminole State College," reported The Dispatch's Eli Kronenberg on Thursday.

"He said the chapter’s meetings in his first year took place in a small conference room that held 30 to 40 students, but after Kirk’s death, the chapter had to start booking the campus’s largest meeting room in order to accommodate more than 200 students."

Kronenberg added that "with a growth in attendance came a shift in tone. When Scott stood for reelection as president this spring, some new members sought to push the chapter in a different direction, and Scott lost." Scott told Kronenberg that "I think Turning Point became a lot more of a Christian organization since Charlie passed, and they wanted more Christian leadership. I myself am Jewish, so there was a lot of that. Though we did incorporate a lot of Christian stuff into the group, I think a lot of people wanted it to be a more explicitly Christian organization.”

A former chapter president also told Kronenberg that "Everything’s like, ‘Oh, God did this, God did this. If you don’t support us, you’re not a God-loving person.’ That kind of feels like the vibe. It feels like it’s more like Christian extremism now.”

Kronenberg added that "several students" who he spoke to echoed that critique. Additionally, as right-wing influencer Candace Owens spreads conspiracy theories about Kirk's death, the organization has fought radicalization from that angle too.

"Most chapters have taken a big-tent approach to discussions surrounding Owens’ criticism of Turning Point," Kronenberg wrote. "Van Lemay, a high school student who leads a Club America group at West Michigan Aviation Academy, said it was 'sickening' to hear lies about Turning Point leaders, but cited Kirk’s support for the free exchange of ideas as a reason to hear critics out in meetings. 'I think that it’s really good actually to bring these conversations into real life, because most of this is online rhetoric and kind of lives within social media,' Lemay told The Dispatch. 'When you have something completely online, that’s often when it gets spun to the more extreme.'"

He added, "Asked how he would encourage chapters to handle discussions surrounding Owens’ conspiracy theories, Kolvet pointed out that today’s high school and college students came of age during the COVID pandemic, which he said led to a collapse in trust of authority figures. 'I’m super sympathetic to young people that question … official narratives or information from government authorities,' Kolvet said. 'Yes, it’s okay to ask questions. It’s quite another thing to engage in warrantless, reckless character assassination of people who themselves are victims, in this case Erika Kirk.'"

Kirk was assassinated one year ago as of Thursday, a moment that galvanized a Christian nationalist movement that has already largely rallied behind Trump.

“The religious right has been ascendant during the second presidency of Donald Trump, and they’ve harnessed his disdain for rules and norms to blur the lines between church and state,” reported Vox's Christian Paz in May. “Inside the White House, the secretary of defense has framed the war in Iran and American military action abroad as sanctioned and guided by God. Outside the government, this alliance between church and state often skirts near the edge of outright idolatry. Conservative pastors are erecting golden statues of Trump (but insisting it does not mirror the infamous golden calf of the Old Testament). They’re extending their hands over the president in prayer after comparing him to Jesus and standing by him, with some mild criticism, after he cast himself as an AI-slop Messiah.”

Despite Christian nationalist claims, America was not founded as a Christian country.

President Thomas Jefferson, who also co-authored the Declaration of Independence, famously wrote a letter to the Danbury Baptists during his administration arguing that “believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between Man & his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should ‘make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,’ thus building a wall of separation between Church & State.”

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9 26 INTERCEPT

Fired After the Charlie Kirk Revenge Purge, They’re Still Unemployed

Jessica Washington

A year after his killing, people who lost their jobs for criticizing Charlie Kirk are still suffering under the erosion of free speech.

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Joshua Haymes, a former pastoral intern at Pete Hegseth’s church, is a Christian nationalist who has also said Adolph Hitler was “misunderstood.”

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August 17, 2026, edition of America First, streamed on Rumble

NICK FUENTES (HOST): There's an alternate timeline by the way, where Candace Owens doesn't exist and Tucker Carlson doesn't exist. And a week after Charlie Kirk is assassinated, we round up antifa, we round up the DSA, we round up the far-left agitators and activists and foot soldiers and donors, and we make it so that they are never able to hold power over us ever again. There's an alternate timeline where that happens.

And by the way, there's a ripple effect. Think about the timeline. Charlie Kirk killed on September 10. Few months later, we discover the fraud in Somalia about the $8 billion these Somalis are stealing from us. We uncover the extent of this. We send Customs and Border Patrol and ICE into the city to clean it up. Who shut it down? When ICE came to Minneapolis to prevent these foreigners from stealing from us -- And this is in The New York Times, they said Somalians stole $9 billion from Minnesota taxpayers. And when the Minnesota attorney general found out about it, the Somalian community said, “If you try to press charges, we will accuse you of racism. We'll bring the DOJ down on you. We'll accuse you of racism and say you're discriminating against us.”

This is the contempt with which these fucking people hold us in -- the left and their foreign-born allies. We send in ICE to clean this up and who stood in the way and prevented ICE from deporting these people or shutting down the fraud? It was the same radical left that killed Charlie Kirk, that was chasing ICE through the streets in cars, that was punching them and trying to attack them as they apprehended illegal immigrants. And that's ultimately why we don't have mass deportations.

Think of the ripple effect. If we had held the left accountable in September 2025, we could have deported the Somalis in December 2025. We could carry out mass deportations without ICE agents having covered their face out of fear of retaliation. We could deport illegals without ICE agents having to fear being sniped at or blown up at ICE facilities.

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07/21/2026

Judd Legum @ Popular Information: ICE is lying about body cams. These documents prove it.

In February 2026, months after ICE’s $75 billion windfall, Acting Director Todd Lyons said that only 3,000 of ICE’s 13,000 officers wore body cams. ICE was avoiding compliance with the policy by simply not ordering many body cams.

Robert Reich @ Substack: Trump’s Two Killing Fields

In the Trump manosphere, violence is seen as a sign of virility. When that virility is challenged, the automatic response is to escalate the violence.

Yunior Rivers @ Democracy Docket: Trump’s DOJ launched a new ‘election integrity’ website. It’s riddled with errors

The errors would be embarrassing on any federal website. On this one, they also appear to serve an ideological purpose.

Hannah Knowles @ The Washington Post: A religious sect is at the heart of an old fight getting attention in a GOP race

Rep. Andy Biggs, the party’s likely nominee for Arizona governor, faced criticism from fellow Republicans over his handling of a small police force more than a decade ago.

David Edwards @ Raw Story: Turning Point silences GOP whistleblowers invited to speak against Trump-backed candidate

Allies of Turning Point USA blocked two people with sexual misconduct allegations against a Trump-backed Arizona congressional candidate from speaking at a Republican district meeting. The candidate is former Pinal County Sheriff Mark Lamb, who is running for Arizona's 5th Congressional District on a platform of "God, family, and freedom" with President Donald Trump's endorsement.

Spencer MacNaughton and Sean Robinson @ Uncloseted Media: ‘Hand Jobs, Oral Sex and Anal’: Pete Hegseth's Pastor Wants Gay Men Prosecuted for These Acts

Doug Wilson believes the U.S. should become a Christian theocracy, married women shouldn’t have the right to vote and gay sex should be illegal.

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Mark Lamb, the former Pinal County sheriff, overcame a late push from self-funding candidate Daniel Keenan in Arizona’s 5th District. Lamb will enter November as the heavy frontrunner in the deep-red Phoenix-area district to replace Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), who is running for governor.

Keenan had poured nearly $2 million of his own cash into the campaign and attempted to make Lamb’s alleged sexual misconduct and abuse of power central to the race. Lamb has denied the allegations.

But Lamb — bolstered by Trump and Arizona-based Turning Point USA — managed to ward off the attacks.

The race’s outcome reveals the strength of Trump’s endorsement, and it’s the latest example of how willing GOP primary voters have been to accept scandal-ridden candidates favored by the president.

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A Republican politician was given a slap on the wrist for abusing her office to silence a critic of Charlie Kirk.

"[Alaska state] Rep. Sarah Vance — one of the state’s leading Christian Nationalist lawmakers — likely violated state ethics laws when she used her legislative office to threaten the Homer News over its coverage of a memorial she helped organize for Charlie Kirk," wrote The Alaska Current's Matt Acuña Buxton on Wednesday. "Her letter to Carpenter Media, sent on Alaska State Legislature letterhead, sparked a firestorm in local media last fall, with reporters and editors resigning after ownership gave in to Vance’s threat that 'the consequence will be financial as well as reputational' if they didn’t soften the story."

“Vance — who made headlines for, among other things, complaining that a hearing on Missing Murdered Indigenous Women didn’t include the experiences of white women — wrote the letter to corporate ownership, complaining about the Homer News and its local born-and-raised reporter for describing Kirk as espousing ‘often racist and controversial views,’” wrote Buxton on Wednesday.

Despite Vance using her Alaska State Legislature Letterhead to suppress the story, the House Select Committee on Legislative Ethics decided Vance should simply be warned not to do it again.

Vance has consistently complained that attempts to hold her accountable violate her First Amendment rights. Ironically, her letter seemed to have violated the reporter’s rights, as “the story not-so-mysteriously disappeared in the following days, replaced by a rewritten version that sanded off the uncomfortable edges of Kirk’s legacy, without the input or even notification of the local reporters and editors.”

Buxton added, “Dramatically changing a story without a reporter’s and an editor’s input is taboo on its own, let alone the fact that it was corporate ownership bowing to political pressure, and the resulting exodus continues to reverberate across Alaska’s media landscape.” He pointed out that the article did not mention Kirk’s promulgation of COVID-19 conspiracy theories, the racist great replacement theory and climate change misinformation.

“According to the ethics report, Vance didn’t meaningfully participate in the investigation, other than requesting that the complaint be dismissed,” Buxton wrote. “Still, just by looking at the letter, the ethics panel could see that, yes, the letterhead was used, and the committee determined that the contents of the letter fell into the realm of partisan political activity.”

Vance claims that she is the victim.

“The irony is not lost on me,” Vance said in a statement. “The committee contends that calling out partisan bias somehow constitutes partisan political activity. Nor is it lost on my constituents that Charlie Kirk paid the ultimate price for exercising his constitutional right to peaceful free speech, losing his life in an act of political violence. Now, in defending his memory and speaking openly about issues that matter to my community, I find my own speech being scrutinized through a process that many view as an attempt to silence dissent.”

Buxton observed that “Vance’s threats were just one example in a larger conservative cancel culture war over what they felt was unfair treatment of Kirk in the wake of his assassination. People lost their jobs, including a teacher-of-the-year finalist (costing the district $300,000), a university professor in Tennessee (costing the system $1.7 million) and a Florida biologist (ending in a $485,000 settlement). Merely quoting President Trump, for example, was enough to put an ex-cop behind bars for 37 days (netting him a $835,000 settlement).”

Even though prominent Democrats from former President Joe Biden and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) to Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and ex-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) immediately denounced Kirk’s shooting, Republicans like President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance and Fox News commentator Jesse Watters blamed Democrats for the assassination and claimed they rejoiced in his death. This led to a wave of cancellations against individuals who said anything negative about Kirk in the aftermath of his death, and in turn organizations being required to compensate individuals whose rights were violated in the process.

For example, the Republican Oglethorpe County, GA paid $270,420 to high school English teacher Michelle Mickens and $17,080 to her attorney for accurately posting that Kirk had been a gun enthusiast after he was shot to death. It was determined that the district had violated her First Amendment rights.

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After Turning Point USA's Charlie Kirk was fatally shot in Utah on September 10, 2025, countless critics of the MAGA activist — from California Gov. Gavin Newsom to progressive Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) — condemned the killing in no uncertain terms. AOC called out the "depravity of Kirk's brutal murder." But President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance, Fox News' Jesse Watters and many other MAGA Republicans blamed Kirk's critics for the murder, exalting Kirk as a martyr for the MAGA movement.

According to The Guardian's Noah Kirsch, however, the rhetoric on Kirk has changed dramatically since then.

"Ten months since his assassination," Kirsch explains in The Guardian, "Charlie Kirk's name and likeness are still proliferating online — just not the way the far-right activist would have wanted. Audio of the gunshot that killed him has become a TikTok meme, as have ironic reposts of the apparentAI-slop song 'We Are Charlie Kirk,' which was originally created as a posthumous tribute. He was the butt of a crude joke during the Netflix roast of Hollywood star Kevin Hart in May. The next month, a viral tweet encouraged people to take 'a shot' in his honor on Juneteenth. And a trend known as 'Kirkification' has emerged, in which internet pranksters superimpose his face on to unlikely images, such as the Mona Lisa, a woman in a bikini, or Jeffrey Epstein."

Kirsch continues, "This contemptuous, at times nihilistic, humor marks a dramatic shift from the period immediately following Kirk's death in September, in which conservatives sought to suppress criticism of the late MAGA luminary. Hundreds of people were fired or otherwise disciplined for denouncing him, which has since resulted in several settlements over alleged first amendment violations."

Author/media analyst Alex Turvy notes that after Kirk's murder, MAGA Republicans were canceling people for even mild criticism of him.

Turvy told The Guardian, "For the first few weeks, the only safe thing to say was praise. When you mandate reverence on a medium built for irony, (the internet), you don't freeze the image, you load the spring. A lot of the mockery was that pressure releasing."

Eviane Leidig, director of research and outreach at the Center for the Study of Organized Hate, told The Guardian, "The jokes about Charlie Kirk are symbolic of what have been pretty seismic shifts happening within the online culture. After his passing, there was really a power vacuum when it came to who was going to be the next big voice for young conservatives and for MAGA…. A lot of young people (are) looking at him and the legacy of his messaging and thinking that it's really cringe. It's not cool anymore."

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Alex Clark guest: “People don't die from measles in modern countries where children are well fed and well nourished”

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Alex Clark guest: “People don't die from measles in modern countries where children are well fed and well nourished”

Bob Sears on TPUSA's Culture Apothecary: “The media portrays measles as a deadly infection that's going to kill everyone left and right. That's not played out in our country for many decades now. It's not a fatal infection in a well-nourished nation.”

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From the June 22, 2026, edition of Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark,posted on Spotify

ALEX CLARK (HOST): So what else could come back besides chickenpox?

BOB SEARS (GUEST): Measles could come back.

CLARK: Is that concerning?

SEARS: People don't die from measles in modern countries where children are well fed and well nourished.

CLARK: But what about these recent stories? I thought there were kids that died of measles.

SEARS: That is up for debate.

CLARK: What do you mean?

SEARS: There's some interesting information that has come out, very recent. The families of the kids who died of measles in Texas recently, that was, like, last year. I mean, this is all, you know, second, third hand, so I'm not a firsthand, you know, privy to this information. But what was has been reported and published on online is some lawyers hired some hired some doctors to review the medical records of those children who tragically died, and those children died from other infectious complications from other bacteria after they are already done with measles. The measles had already come and gone. They were better from measles and they died from other things. And the hospitals apparently ignored that and then didn't provide them with the right care. I don't know firsthand what's true about this.

CLARK: OK.

SEARS: But what I know is the chance of a healthy child dying from measles who's well nourished is -- it's probably somewhere as high as one in eighty thousand or one in a hundred thousand. It's it's it's a very tiny number. When you look at published research, you'll see numbers as as high as one in ten thousand cases where kids will die of measles. If you include kids who are not well nourished, kids who maybe have like vitamin A deficiency or really slim, not growing well, a little undernourished, if you include them, it's maybe one in ten thousand rate of death. So that's a very small fatality rate for an infection.

The media portrays measles as a deadly infection that's going to kill everyone left and right. That's not played out in our country for many decades now. It's not a fatal infection in a well-nourished nation. So the answer, as measles continues to increase, is let's feed our children healthy. Let's feed our kids vitamin A foods. Let's give them cod liver oil so they get supplemented with vitamin A. If you have enough vitamin A in your system, you should sail through measles without problems. It's not a cure. It doesn't stop you from getting measles, but it should make your measles way less severe. And that's the answer.

And because, honestly, fewer and fewer people are comfortable with the measles vaccine because it's part of the MMR vaccine, the triple live virus MMR vaccine, because fewer people get that vaccine now, I think consequently, we're going to see more measles. And that doesn't mean that the vaccine is why we got rid of measles in the first place. I mean the reason we got rid of measles fatalities is because we all started eating better.

So, I mean, measles is a very complicated discussion. It probably deserves its own hour, you know, alone, and we don't have time for that. But bottom line is the vaccine is one of the riskier ones, so people don't trust it as much anymore. People aren't getting it as much anymore. I don't think we can ignore the likelihood that we're going to see more measles because of that. So we can prepare ourselves, like I mentioned, with good nutrition to kind of weather that increases in measles. Maybe we'll come out with a safer measles vaccine in the future, and people will feel comfortable with that with that again.

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  1. ### New reporting links skepticism of the vitamin K shot to newborn deaths. Influencers and media figures have been fearmongering about the shot for years.

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  1. ### Turning Point USA’s Alex Clark is on a misinformation campaign against hormonal birth control

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  1. ### On CNN, RFK Jr. adviser Calley Means says Kennedy “is not concerned with measles”

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The conservative political organization founded by the late Charlie Kirk is planning an event at a Phoenix-area high school, and the students are not happy to be hosting such an "extremist" speaker.

As highlighted in a report from The Daily Beast, Turning Point USA CEO Erika Kirk is scheduled to speak next week at Pinnacle High School in North Phoenix. She and the organization — founded by her husband and known for promoting far-right, MAGA-aligned ideas — are "not being met with open arms by students and parents," however, with members of the school and the community speaking out in the local press.

“I don’t know why she’s coming here, to be honest,” Francisco Sanchez, a senior at Pinnacle High School, told 12 News Phoenix. “I think the topics that she talks about are too extremist for a school. I think there are better representatives we can have.”

“It’s a little crazy because I would never have expected someone like her to show up at a high school," senior Kasandra Acosta told the network. “I’m pretty shocked. Honestly, I’m surprised it’s even happening."

"It’s not just your average citizen coming over to speak to the club," Bobbe Noland, a parent of a Pinnacle High student, told the Arizona Republic. "She brings politics with her, she brings division with her, just because everybody in America is divided."

Parents speaking with the Republic about the situation also said that they were concerned about the security concerns that Kirk's presence might cause at the school. She previously backed out of a speaking event at the University of Georgia due to safety concerns.

The school confirmed to parents that Kirk's event would result in a greater security presence at the school. Some parents countered, demanding that the event be moved to an after-school timeslot, if safety is such a concern.

“We regularly work with community partners to support public safety during gatherings," Phoenix Police said in a statement to 12 News. "As with any event, our officers will continue to monitor activity, review available information, and adjust deployment strategies as needed to help ensure a safe environment for students, staff, and the surrounding community."

Kirk was named CEO of Turning Point last year, after her husband was shot and killed at a speaking event at a Utah university. Since then, the organization has become embroiled in new controversies, with its own former and current employees buying into conspiracy theories suggesting that Charlie Kirk's death was orchestrated by outside forces.

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Critics say Erika Kirk’s Turning Point USA (TPUSA) has gone toxic in red-state Arizona, possibly to the point of derailing races it sticks its nose in.

“Turning Point USA has been blamed by a senior Arizona Democrat after conservative‑backed candidates fell short in a closely watched election for control of the Salt River Project (SRP) board, which oversees the state’s largest public utility,” reports Newsweek.

The races involve the critical Salt River Project board, which makes decisions over access and pricing for resources, and it sets the economic structure of the state and some of its neighbors. But Newsweek reports Arizona House Democratic Leader Oscar De Los Santos saying the conservative activist group’s heavy involvement in the race mobilized opposition voters and gave his own party an unintended boost toward clean‑energy aligned candidates.

“TPUSA pumped an unprecedented amount of money into this election,” De Los Santos wrote on X. “Voters came out in droves against TPUSA. Turnout was more than 400 percent of 2024 turnout.”

Turning Point USA worked arm-in-arm with the brand of President Donald Trump, at least until TPUSA factions began opposing Trump’s invasion of Iran. But the two appear to still smell enough alike to make a vote against one a vote against both.

“Leadership elections for the Salt River Project are usually sleepy affairs, but this year’s races were unusually high-profile,” reported the Phoenix New Times. “That’s because Turning Point Action, the political arm of the Charlie Kirk-founded Turning Point USA, decided to flex its financial and organizational might in the battle to control the massive public utility, which serves 2 million customers throughout much of the East Valley. Turning Point spent gobs of money advertising for a pro-industry slate of candidates and even sent an army of employees and volunteers to harvest ballots — a legal practice in SRP elections — in hopes of fending off a progressive slate called the Clean Energy Team.”

“For all that effort, Turning Point’s toxic brand may have worked against it,” the Times said.

The Clean Energy Team flipped two seats on the 14-member district board, shifting control of the body to clean-energy-friendly board members more open to renewable energy investment and more skeptical of fossil fuels and data centers. But team also “gained several seats on the district’s 30-member advisory council,” said The Times. “In fact, in 13 head-to-head races for district leadership — including races for president and vice president — Clean Energy Team candidates won 11 of the matchups.”

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Turning Point USA (TPUSA) has been blamed by a senior Arizona Democrat after conservative‑backed candidates fell short in a closely watched election for control of the Salt River Project (SRP) board, which oversees the state’s largest public utility.

Newsweek has contacted Turning Point Action, TPUSA's advocacy and campaign arm, through its website for comment.

Why It Matters

The SRP is one of the most critical water and power systems in the Southwest, providing water to hundreds of thousands of acres of farmland as well as electricity to millions of residents. The composition of its board therefore shapes decisions over access and pricing for these resources, while also influencing the state’s economic structure and that of the wider region.

What To Know

Arizona House Democratic Leader Oscar De Los Santos said the conservative activist group’s heavy involvement in the race mobilized opposition voters and helped tip the balance toward clean‑energy aligned candidates.

“TPUSA pumped an unprecedented amount of money into this election,” De Los Santos wrote on X. “Voters came out in droves against TPUSA. Turnout was more than 400 percent of 2024 turnout.”

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Elections were held this week for control of the SRP board, pitting a group of conservative-backed candidates against clean-energy advocates.

According to unofficial results published on the SRP website, several TPUSA-backed candidates were successful, including President Chris Dobson and Vice President Barry Paceley. However, their opponents have secured an eight-to-six majority on the board, per reporting from The New York Times and The Arizona Republic.

Early voting for the utility board election began in March, with the race quickly shaping into a contest by between clean-energy candidates and those backed by Turning Point USA, the group founded by the late activist Charlie Kirk.

Turning Point Action chief operating officer Tyler Bowyer said that the race, and the group’s involvement, could set the stage for other upcoming elections in the state, telling E&E News: “The SRP territories, they’re pretty blue. If we can get turnout and activate the toughest place in the state for us right now, that could play a huge role for us later on in November.”

According to The Arizona Republic, citing a spokesperson for the SRP, around four times as many ballots were cast in this year’s race as in 2024.

And those on the clean-energy slate were able to make sizable gains, flipping a number of board seats—and taking control of the board—while securing victories in advisory council elections, doubling their representation from four to eight out of 30 seats, The Arizona Republicreported on Wednesday.

However, as well as the presidency and vice presidency, traditional SRP candidates maintained control of the water board—results Turning Point celebrated as denying clean-energy advocates full control of the project.

What People Are Saying

Arizona House Democratic Leader Oscar De Los Santos posted to X:“MONUMENTAL ELECTION EARTHQUAKE IN ARIZONA TONIGHT: Consumer advocates & clean energy candidates defeated Turning Point USA in a huge utility election and FLIPPED the majority of the utility board. SRP will be the largest utility in the country with a clean energy majority.”

“After the massive Democratic victories we’ve seen across the country, the blue wave has now hit Arizona,” he wrote in a separate post. “Just wait until November: TPUSA is going to get crushed at the ballot box. Mark my words.”

SRP vice president Barry Paceley told The Arizona Republic:“We will strive to keep the most affordable rates, highest reliability, and seek the most economic and clean energy generation. We are saddened that several of our highly qualified candidates were not elected who would've been instrumental in the future success of Salt River Project."

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Joe Kent, President Donald Trump’s former National Counterterrorism Center Director, told right wing commentator Tucker Carlson on Wednesday that he believes a “foreign nexus” was behind the assassination of the late right-wing advocate Charlie Kirk.

“Things really got going on Tuesday when Kent told conservative writer (and two-time failed California gubernatorial candidate) Michael Shellenberger he’d be willing to testify in accused Kirk murderer Tyler Robinson’s defense that the FBI botched the investigation,” wrote The Bulwark's conservative pundit Will Sommer in an analysis of Kent’s comments. “Kent told Shellenberger he was warned his own inquiry into Kirk’s murder—which he operated from his government post, separately from the FBI—could hurt the prosecution against Robinson.”

Kent then told Carlson, “I was definitely warned of that over and over again. If I end up having to [be called as a witness], then I’ll do it. It’s not something I’m seeking.”

As Sommer pointed out, FBI Director Kash Patel reportedly was concerned about Kent’s investment in conspiracy theories about Kirk’s assassination as far back as October. Now that Kent has gone public with his accusations, he has become a “public player” in the ongoing debate.

“Kent’s recent theorizing about the case has raised questions about how Owens got her hands on group-chat messages Kirk sent just a few days before his death,” Sommer wrote. “Speculation that Kent was her source is now rampant. Those text messages, which Owens published last October, featured Kirk complaining to friends that Jewish donors were pressing him to support Israel in various ways, including banning Tucker Carlson from a TPUSA conference. They provided Owens with evidence for her earliest allegations that Kirk was killed by Israel.”

Separate from the role Kent has played in spreading these conspiracy theories, Sommer concluded that “the controversy itself signals that the right’s divide over Kirk’s death isn’t going away. In fact, the fissures could become completely unbridgeable if Kent’s comments about Kirk’s killing end up materially impacting” the trial of Tyler Robinson, Kent’s alleged assassin.

Historian Max Boot expressed concern for The Washington Post earlier this month that Kent will fan the flames of anti-Semitism by claiming Israel is responsible for the US war in Iran. He resigned as Trump’s National Counterterrorism Center Director earlier in March to protest Israel’s supposed involvement.

“As so often happens, the Jews — or, if you prefer a polite euphemism, ‘Zionists’ or ‘the Israel lobby’ — make a handy fall guy,” Boot explained. “What the right-wing fringe once whispered — that this was ‘a war for Israel’ — suddenly burst onto the front pages last week thanks to Joe Kent’s resignation as director of the National Counterterrorism Center. In a blistering public letter, Kent wrote that ‘Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation’ and that ‘we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby."

Speaking with AlterNet on the subject, Jonathan Sarna, emeritus professor of American Jewish history at Brandeis University and author of “Lincoln and the Jews: A History” and “When General Grant Expelled the Jews,” told AlterNet that he shares Boot’s concerns, particularly when it comes to how the conspiracy theories parallel an infamous 1903 hoax, “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.”

“If you go back to ‘The Protocols of the Elders of Zion’ — the great antisemitic forgery of the turn of the last century — that really began this sense that Jews are all-powerful, that they operate behind the scenes, and that whatever happens is ultimately their fault,” Sarna told AlterNet. “Before then, for centuries, the prevailing view was that Jews were persecuted and lowly because they had killed Christ, and that was what they deserved — they were powerless. That was their punishment. But ‘The Protocols’ flipped that.”

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  1. ### Ben Shapiro: “What Candace [Owens] is doing right now is absolutely satanic to Erika Kirk”

02/25/26

  1. ### Dan Bongino on Candace Owens’ “investigative series” of Erika Kirk: “This just can’t be what this movement is. And if it is, I don't, I just don’t want any part of it.”

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The conspiracy theory civil war engulfing the late Charlie Kirk's Turning Point USA shows how it and the MAGA movement overall are being "hobbled" by their own lies, according to an analysis from MS NOW.

In September, Kirk — founder of the far-right advocacy group, TPUSA – was shot and killed during a speaking event at a Utah college. While 22-year-old Tyler James Robinson was ultimately charged with the shooting, other figures in the MAGA and far-right political movements have increasingly claimed, without evidence, that his death was the result of a conspiracy. These theories, most popularly espoused by Candace Owens, allege that Kirk's killing was arranged by forces connected to Israel, or even by people within TPUSA.

According to a report from The Bulwark last week, a growing number of employees within TPUSA have begun to question the official narrative surrounding their old boss's death. One former employee, Aubrey Laitsch, alleged in a video that her recent firing was the result of her doing just that.

“I have a lot of concerns and a lot of questions about what took place that day and the events leading up to that day,” Laitsch said. “It is from my own experience that you can’t question the narrative and work at Turning Point. That is how I feel, that is how other people I’ve talked to feel.”

Analyzing the unfolding situation in a piece for MS NOW on Friday, Zeeshan Aleem wrote that this corrosion of trust and embrace of conspiracy theories within TPUSA is emblematic of right-wing politics overall, as the spread of disinformation has left it "hobbled" and at risk of being "cannibalized" by itself.

"We don’t know why Laitsch lost her job. But her insinuations illustrate how the right is being hobbled by its abject distrust in institutions," Aleem explained. "The very fact that Laitsch believes that considering conspiracy theories about Kirk’s death is what got her fired — and wants to share that information publicly — shows how the right is at risk of being cannibalized by its own brain rot. Premier MAGA organizations are being riven by an inability to achieve consensus reality even within their side of the political spectrum."

Aleem highlighted other prominent examples within the MAGA right, including the Heritage Foundation, which is grappling with "how much racism the right is willing to tolerate within its ranks." Donald Trump, he added, is "the political and intellectual epicenter" of this growing trend on the right, given his goal of "extinguishing the distinction between truth and falsehood."

"Politically convenient fabrications such as 'the 2020 election was rigged' aren’t the kind of political speech that a group can use only in 'moderate' doses and control purely for the benefit of its authors," Aleem wrote. "If normalized, it will infect an entire movement, rendering truth less important than who can win battles for attention using any claim that affirms the group’s basest instincts."

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TPUSA spokesperson links diversity efforts to the Potomac River sewage leak: “White men created Western civilization”

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On Sunday, February 8, Kid Rock headlined Turning Point USA's All-American Super Bowl Halftime Show — a MAGA alternative to the actual 2026 Super Bowl Halftime Show, which featured Puerto Rican reggaetón star Bad Bunny. MAGA Republicans were furious because Bunny, an outspoken critic of President Donald Trump's immigration policies, performed en español at the event. But Bunny attracted a lot more viewers: CBS News reported that 135 million people watched Bad Bunny, while the El Paso Times reported that that 6.1 million people watched Turning Point's event.

In other words, Bad Bunny attracted roughly 22 times as many viewers.

In a biting article published on February 9, Salon's Amanda Marcotte describes Kid Rock's Turning Point USA show as a sad example of MAGA's "bid for cultural relevance."

"Perhaps it's a sign that I am an empathy-poisoned liberal," Marcotte argues, "but it was hard to choke back the pity watching the alternative halftime show aired by Turning Point USA during Sunday's Super Bowl game. Despite having months to book and organize an event that was supposed to draw millions away from the real deal, TPUSA couldn't even pack the small space for audience members on the soundstage — not a stadium, arena, theater or even a club — they rented for the occasion. The promise of seeing the washed-up Kid Rock in an intimate setting appears to thrill no one."

Marcotte continues, "Organizers declared that huge numbers of Americans would prefer this to the actual halftime show, but the anemic audience present for the taping suggested they couldn't get anyone who isn't a paid TPUSA staff member…. Unfortunately for them, the live chat on YouTube suggested the fans weren't tuning in for the music, but out of a sense of duty to their MAGA tribe. Commenters referenced Jesus, TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk, the American flag and hating Bad Bunny — but no one seemed to have much to say about the music or the performances."

The Salon journalist argues that while Rock's TPUSA performance was "boring," Bunny's "electric performance" was "sheer joy — a celebration of Latino culture and American values."

"TPUSA's night was doomed from the get-go," Marcotte writes. "Beyond snagging Kid Rock as a last-minute salvation, the show had no marketing aside from 'Watch this to trigger the liberals'…. In the end, Kid Rock wasn't really the star of the 'All-American Halftime Show.' No, it was the ghost of Charlie Kirk…. No doubt it was good at getting their aging audience to open up their wallets, after asking their grandkids how to use the 'superchat' donate function on YouTube. But as a bid for cultural relevance — well, let's just say Bad Bunny has nothing to worry about."

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02/03/2026

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Kyle Mantyla

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) suggested that three 2024 congressional elections may have been rigged against the GOP while speaking to reporters on Tuesday.

Turning Point USA, the right-wing political group founded by Charlie Kirk, announced the lineup on Monday for what it’s billed as an alternative Super Bowl halftime show, and people on social media aren’t exactly singing its praises.

The late Charlie Kirk’s organization Turning Point USA is planning and promoting what it calls a “conservative friendly” alternative to the NFL sponsored Super Bowl halftime show. The NFL show features Puerto Rican raggaeton artist Bad Bunny. Headling the TPUSA show is Kid Rock. If you know anything about these artists, you know that both use profanity and explicit lyrics. The key difference for people supporting the alternative show is that Bad Bunny is Puerto Rican and performs his lyrics in Spanish. This has MAGA folk in a tizzy. They want their Super Bowl white and English.

As his extensive and friendly communications with Epstein were revealed, Steve Bannon's candidate lost a “vitally important” election.

The rancher famous for armed standoffs with the government said the left is "more correct" on immigration.

The president’s willingness to push a line that was obviously untrue was an odd and unnecessary misstep.

Judge Jeanine is doing damage control, but it’s not going well.

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02/02/2026

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Kyle Mantyla

President Donald Trump called into the podcast of his former Deputy FBI Director, Dan Bongino, and said that Republicans should “nationalize” the voting process, especially in fifteen “crooked” states, while insisting that undocumented immigrants are voting in America.

During his Monday program, Bongino lashed out at the people he perceived as his enemies while he was working for the FBI.

Martin will no longer head the Justice Department task force that pushed investigations into Trump’s foes.

“This overperformance is a warning sign to Republicans across the country.”

“Something’s broken. The motherboard’s fried. We’re short-circuiting somewhere.”

The Wall Street Journal dropped a bombshell report over the weekend on what it dubbed an “unprecedented” deal between a foreign country and an incoming U.S. president, in this case, the United Arab Emirates and Donald Trump.

His followers are drifting toward Nick Fuentes, his onetime nemesis.

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The hopes many conservatives had for a revitalization of the MAGA youth movement following the death of pundit Charlie Kirk have taken a turn, according to a new profile by New York Magazine, with the space becoming overrun by "darker forces" and "conspiracism."

The piece, published on Wednesday, explores numerous groups and individuals jockeying for influence following Kirk's death, but while his organization, Turning Point USA, has seen a surge in popularity in some parts of the US, the overall youth movement has become "engulfed" in the same "antisemitism and conspiracism" that has taken over much of right-wing politics. While Kirk's death was initially met with an "overwhelming show of unity," it has since "devolved day by day into something more like civil war."

Among those leading the conspiracy charge, author Simon van Zuylen-Wood noted, is Candace Owens, a long-time far-right activist and pundit who emerged as an "assassination truther," suggesting that Kirk's death was part of a large scheme orchestrated in some way by Israel. While this has made her a pariah in some corners of the MAGA movement, she has seen a rise in popularity overall, with her podcast creeping into the Spotify top 10 this past fall.

Speaking with Lesley Lachman, TPUSA chapter president at the University of Mississippi, van Zuylen-Wood said she "jokingly shushed" questions about her Jewish lineage and stressed that she was "staying away from Candace right now." She was also, however, "a conspiracy buff" who had become enmeshed in "a conservative political culture in which the thirst for conspiracism is bottomless."

The piece also relayed the story of another would-be college Republican activist, Auburn University freshman Brilyn Hollyhand, who faced "an ambush" of questioning after bringing his "One Conversation at a Time" show to the University of Mississippi. Attendees grilled him over "not being right wing enough" and seemed critical of his unwillingness to denigrate "immigrants who hoped to enjoy the American Dream by the book," in addition to "illegal" immigrants.

He also faced intense scrutiny for his support of the US-Israel relationship, as the audience at the event supported a complete end to the partnership in pursuit of an "America First agenda." Hollyhand was left "baffled" by the reactions, the piece explained, "as if the whole world had shifted underneath his feet in the few weeks since Kirk’s death."

The piece also details the increasing influence of Nick Fuentes over the MAGA youth movement: an avowed antisemite who has frequently called out everyone from Kirk to Donald Trump for not being right-wing enough. The encroachment of darker strains of conspiracy and antisemitism into the movement, the piece argued, was a mirror of earlier conflicts between TPUSA and Fuentes' supporters.

"The consensus among students I interviewed is that Fuentes is in everybody’s feed and there is no point in denying his influence," van Zuylen-Wood wrote.

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Cracks are appearing in the right-wing student organization Turning Point USA following the leak of texts from its founder, the late MAGA influencer Charlie Kirk, in which he discussed Jewish donors pulling funding over his links to former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, according to The Bulwark.

Screenshots of the texts were shared by far-right pundit Candace Owens, who, according to Newsweek, "has been criticized by some over what she has posted, which has been described as rumors and conspiracy theories.

In the texts, Kirk, who was a strong supporter of Israel, said that he had lost a $2 million donation from a Jewish donor over his refusal to disinvite Carlson from an upcoming event.

The authenticity of the texts, described as "unsavory" by The Bulwark's Sam Stein, was confirmed Tuesday by Turning Point USA spokesman Andrew Kolvet, who shared the texts to government officials immediately following Kirk's assassination, Newsweek reports.

"I did share it with some people in government because it happened really quick," Kolvet said. "It was, you know, it took 33 hours for authorities to get their suspect. And in those first moments, we wanted no stone unturned."

These texts, Stein says, show "some broader significance," saying that since Kirk'sdeath, "there has been a big fight over his legacy."

Journalist Will Sommer explains that Kirk's friend and former Turning Point employee Owens was floating conspiracies including one in which she said "Kirk was about to turn on Israel and there's kind of this implication that Israelcommitted the assassination."

"People were telling her, 'Candace, you don't have the goods, it's over for you,' and then she came out with this text message on Monday," Sommer says.

In the text message, Kirk said donors were getting mad at him for hanging out with Carlson, an outspoken critic on Israel.

"Jewish donors play into all the stereotypes," Kirk wrote. "I can not and will not be bullied like this."

In a following text, Kirk said recent events were "leaving me no choice but to leave the pro-Israel cause."

Stein says this text leak feeds into Owens' conspiracy theory that Israel killed Kirk, one that has been debunked by those close to him.

Sommer agrees, saying, "This gets to the larger issue. The right has realized they have a lot of political capital from this assassination. People like [President Donald Trump's deputy chief of staff]Stephen Miller said they were going to use this to crush the left."

Carlson and Owens, Sommer says, "are throwing up to more rational people on the right that it's kind of a smokescreen and they're distracting from what should be the big 'crush the left moment'. I think this is becoming a real issue for Turning Point USA. They're kind of being led around by Candace Owens here."

Stein agrees and says now people will be looking at Turning Point USA to see "what do they say about Israel?"

"There's a real divide in the ranks over the U.S.Israelialliance here," Stein said.

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12/22/2025

by

Peter Montgomery

Vice President J.D. Vance spoke Sunday at Turning Point USA’s annual AmericaFest conference, where Erika Kirk, widow of the group’s slain founder, endorsed Vance for president in 2028. Vance demonized “the left,” promoted Christian nationalism and right-wing populist conspiracy theories, and, unlike other speakers, refused to criticize far-right and antisemitic elements of the conservative movement like fascist personality Nick Fuentes.

Other conference speakers were willing to challenge the movement’s bigots and extremists. Podcaster Ben Shapiro took on Tucker Carlson for having provided Fuentes with an overly friendly platform from which to spread his poison. (Carlson, also invited to speak, mocked Shapiro’s concerns.) Former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy challengedFuentes's bigotry along with racially coded ideas like “Heritage Americans” that have taken root in the MAGA movement.

But Vance, who has his eye on 2028, was apparently not willing to risk alienating anyone on the right, demonstrating the concept of NETTR—“no enemies to the right”—that has been at the center of the ongoing turmoil over Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts defense of Carlson’s promotion of Fuentes.

“President Trump did not build the greatest coalition in politics by running his supporters through endless self-defeating purity tests,” Vance said from the stage.

“I didn’t bring a list of conservatives to denounce or deplatform,” Vance said, asserting that “the best way to honor Charlie is that none of us here should be doing something after Charlie’s death that he himself refused to do in life.” Kirk, Vance said, “trusted all of you to make your own judgment,” adding, “And we have far more important work to do than cancelling each other.” The truth is that Charlie Kirk had both denounced Fuentes and banned him from TPUSA events.

Vance deployed shameless demagoguery against “the left.” People of faiths, he claimed, have realized that Democrats “don’t care about anything other than maybe transing their kids.”

After criticizing some progressive politicians, he said that what they all have in common is that “they are puppets." He continued: "They don’t actually matter. They are cogs in a machine that wants to make you poorer, that wants to make you less powerful, and wants to make you less safe in the country your ancestors built.” Vance urged attendees to honor Charlie Kirk by fighting to “take the country back from the people who took his life.”

He celebrated the Trump administration for achieving “net negative migration” and relegating diversity, equity and inclusion “to the dustbin of history.” Vance declared, “In the United States of America, you don’t have to apologize for being white anymore.”

Vance also touted plans to target organizations and funders that oppose the Trump regime’s agenda:

To honor Charlie and to honor all of you, we’re working to end the scourge of left-wing violence in the United States of America. We’re going after the far-left crime networks, but we’re also going after the monsters that fund them. We don’t just want to go after the antifa member who threw a brick at an ICE agent, we want to know who bought the brick and we’re going to prosecute them too.

Vance slammed “activist groups,” “rogue district judges,” “Soros DAs” and others, before claiming:

What unites them? They win when our country loses, they get rich when you get poorer, they hire the illegals that they bring in to take your jobs. They drink fine wine in the countries they ship your jobs to. They censor you because they’d rather destroy the Constitution than risk losing an argument. They bring in millions of voters because they know they can’t win the argument with the people who are already here. And you know what else unites them? We’re going to kick their ass in November and every year after that.

TPUSA has followed its founder’s path from libertarianism to Christian nationalism, and Vance delivered a similar message, declaring, “The only thing that has truly served as an anchor of the United States of America, is that we have been, and by the grace of God always will be, a Christian nation.” (Historian Heather Cox Richardson has addressed the Christian nationalist aspects of Vance’s speech in her newsletter.)

“I’m not saying you have to be a Christian to be an American. I’m saying something simpler and truer. Christianity is America’s creed—the shared moral language from the Revolution to the Civil War and beyond,” Vance said. “Across that history, our country’s major debates have always centered on how we could best as a people please God.”

“Even our famously American idea of religious liberty is a Christian concept,” Vance said. “Because we’re all creatures of God, we must respect each individual’s pathway to that God.”

He then shifted into the kind of religious-persecution rhetoric that the Christian nationalist right has long used as a political organizing tool, culminating with the notion that patriots may need to be willing to sacrifice their lives if “that’s what God asks them to do”:

But over the last 50 years there has been a singular focus, a war that has been waged on Christians and Christianity in the United States of America. And let me say, of all the wars that Donald Trump has ended, that is the one we’re proudest of.

For decades, the left has labored to push Christianity out of national life. They’ve kicked it out of the schools, out of the workplace, out of the fundamental parts of the public square. Freedom of religion transformed into freedom from religion. And in a public square devoid of God, we got a vacuum. And the ideas that filled that void preyed on the very worst of human nature rather than uplifting it. They told us not that we were children of God, but children of this or that identity group. They replaced God’s beautiful design for the family—that men and women could rely on and turn to one another—with the idea that men could turn into women so long as they brought the right bunch of pills from big Pharma. They had all the religious fervor of a zealous convert, without any of the grace or forgiveness of a true Christian. Scripture tells us, by your fruits ye shall know them. And we might ask, what are the fruits of these people and their principles? And the answer is a man named Tyler Robinson who killed my friend.

Think about it. He is everything that the far left wants from our young men. He rejected the conservatism and the spirituality, the values of his small town family. He moved into a small apartment. He became addicted to porn. He became addicted to hate. And he ended up sleeping with somebody who doesn’t know whether they’re a man or a woman. That is the nightmare scenario. But that is the scenario that the left has actively advertised that they want for American families. And the young men in the audience in particular, that is exactly why we have to fight them. Because the fruits of true Christianity are men like Charlie Kirk. The fruits of true Christianity are good husbands, patient fathers, builders of great things, and slayers of dragons. And yes, men who are willing to die for a principle if that’s what God asks them to do.

Because so many of us recognize that it is better to die a patriot than live a coward.

Vance closed with a pledge of victory:

if you miss Charlie Kirk, do you promise to fight what he died for? Do you promise to take the country back from the people who took his life? Do you promise to help defeat the radicals who cheered his death? Do you promise to honor his memory by having faith in the God he loved? My friends, commit to these things and I promise you victory.

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12/19/2025

by

Kyle Mantyla

Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest conference turned into a war between Ben Shapiro and Tucker Carlson on Thursday as the two men spent much of their speeches trading blows.

Hegseth’s crusade against the Chaplain Corps undermines readiness, trust, and pluralism.

Anthony D’Esposito will be expected to investigate ethical lapses, despite his own alleged ethical lapses.

Why Media Matters is naming Nick Fuentes the 2025 Misinformer of the Year.

James Fishback’s campaign may not be flashy but it sure is fashy.

Since Trump returned to office, the Education Department’s civil rights office has not resolved a single racial harassment investigation. It sends a message that “people impacted by racial discrimination ... don’t matter,” one attorney said.

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RWW

12/18/2025

by

Kyle Mantyla

Bongino told colleagues more than a week ago that he would not be returning to Washington headquarters this year, according to people familiar with the matter.

The billionaire president’s delivery grew frantic as his speech on the economy wore on, ending with him practically shouting.

He says he did “some very bad things.” But in Trumpworld, that’s a plus.

The president has tried to minimize their friendship, but documents and interviews reveal an intense and complicated relationship. Chasing women was a game of ego and dominance. Female bodies were currency.

State partners with Turning Point USA to form clubs in every Tennessee school.

Katie Miller, the wife of Trump henchman Stephen Miller, is trying to reinvent herself as a squeaky-clean model for MAGA women. People who knew her growing up saw someone far different.

The president’s obsession with self-aggrandizement and self-glorification is pitiful, and it’s getting worse.

The judges rejected a Christian Nationalist curriculum that downplayed systemic racism, spread election lies, and pretended the Bible was history.

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AmericaFest, an annual convention run by the late Charlie Kirk's Turning Point USA, kicked off this week under a cloud of chaos and contention, according to an MS NOW analysis, as the organization contends with conspiracies and control of Kirk's MAGA media empire being "up for grabs."

This year's convention, set to run from Thursday to Sunday in Phoenix, marks Turning Point's first since Kirk was shot and killed in September. Since then, "a revolving door of Republican politicians and commentators" has been "vying for screen time" on "The Charlie Kirk Show," the late pundit's web series noted for its popularity and influence on the far right.

As MS NOW's Andy Campbell noted in his analysis of the event, "none have emerged as a clear replacement for" at the head of Turning Point USA, not even his widow, Erika Kirk, who has taken over as CEO. Kirk's "audience and podcasting empire remain very much up for grabs," as does his position as "leader of a nationwide political youth movement."

"The events at AmericaFest may narrow the field: meet-and-greets have been scheduled with far-right provocateurs who built substantial podcast followings of their own amid Trump’s rise to power, including Jack Posobiec, Alex Clark and Michael Knowles." Campbell wrote.

The event also comes as Turning Point is contending with significant infighting among the MAGA influencer crowd over conspiracies surrounding Kirk's killing. This has been led largely by conservative commentator Candace Owens, who has floated numerous conspiracies about who she suspects might have been behind Kirk's death, ranging from the Israeli government to the French government to even unnamed members of Turning Point against whom she has "lodged vague accusations of financial fraud" without evidence.

Owens was initially invited to a livestream conversation about the dispute with Erika Kirk, but the event ultimately did not take place. Instead, the pair had what Owens described as "a 4.5-hour conversation" that left her still unconvinced of the official story of Kirk's death.

In September, 22-year-old Utah resident Tyler Robinson was arrested and charged with shooting Kirk at a Utah Valley University event. His parents turned in Robinson after they recognized him from security footage released to the public and after a conversation in which he allegedly implied he was the shooter.

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12/15/2025

by

Kyle Mantyla

President Donald Trump seized on a shocking and still-developing report about the deaths of filmmaker Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Reiner, using the moment to settle political scores rather than acknowledge the gravity of the allegations.

Two married pastors at Greg Locke’s central Tennessee church have resigned, claiming the founding pastor created a spiritually abusive and manipulative culture.

One year in, and the club of young Republicans that touts itself as the most MAGA of them all isn’t happy. They’ve gotten what they’ve wanted, and it still isn’t enough. If last year’s iteration of their annual gala was a preview for what life under a second Trump administration would be — ubiquitous authoritarian gestures, Christian nationalism ascendant, and a growing global far-right front with Washington at the center — then this year’s event showed how even some of the president’s most die-hard supporters are pushing for even more.

The Trump administration’s boldest moves against the bureaucracy share a common thread: Mark Paoletta’s signature.

As if exasperated by a quarrel during Thanksgiving dinner, columnist Michael Sean Winters pleads with whoever will listen: “Can everyone please stop talking about ‘Christian nationalism?’”

In recent appearances, Charlie Kirk’s widow has hardly been asked about Turning Point USA’s right-wing mission.

The white-supremacist influencer is laying the groundwork to go even bigger.

He is descended from Russian Jews—you know, the kind of people who were once denounced as alien and unassimilable. Today, his project is to unleash government persecution of those he deems alien and unassimilable. How far will Miller’s sadistic designs go?

Scott Yenor, who has offered views on women, marriage and LGBTQ rights, helped to found secretive fraternal order.

Trump officials were told that cutting aid to South Sudan would exacerbate a deadly cholera epidemic. They did so anyway.

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After Turning Point USA's Charlie Kirk was fatally shot on September 10, his widow, Erika Kirk, became the organization's new leader. Many MAGA Republicans were quick to blame liberals, progressives and Democrats for the murder — even though countless Democrats, from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) to former Presidents Joe Biden and Barack Obama, wholeheartedly condemned it. But MAGA figures also attacked each other.

In an article published on December 15, Salon's Amanda Marcotte examines the feud between Erika Kirk and far-right MAGA podcaster Candace Owens.

"The swift anointing of Charlie Kirk's widow Erika as the new head of TPUSA did nothing to prevent the explosion of infighting that has been rapidly consuming the world of online MAGA media in the months since her husband's killing," Marcotte explains. "If anything, it's backfired. As I predicted, (Erika) Kirk is turning out to be a weak and ineffectual leader, persuading even more people in the very online right that now is their moment to get ahead in a crowded field. The rhetorical slugfest is growing increasingly ugly to watch. But in the process, MAGA is revealing what is likely the movement's biggest weakness: It's dominated by hustlers who are more interested in making money and growing their brand than they are in MAGA as a political project."

Owens is a major conspiracy theorist, and Marcotte notes that she has been "generating a seemingly endless number of conspiracy theories" about Kirk's death.

"Owens' rhetoric about Erika Kirk has grown increasingly personal," the Salon journalist observes. "Most shockingly, she keeps implying Kirk was involved in her husband's murder, and accusing her of defrauding TPUSA donors. Last week, Owens released a video saying Kirk doesn't have the strength to lead TPUSA, which follows pointed comments she made in early December about how 'in love' Charlie Kirk had been with a woman she says he dated before meeting his wife. The success Owens is having with this behavior is causing a lot of rifts."

Marcotte continues, "Tucker Carlson, who has long believed the future of MAGA is in getting ever-nuttier, has sided with Owens, going on the popular show hosted by Theo Von to insinuate the FBI is lying about who killed Charlie Kirk…. Right-wing podcaster Tim Pool, who typically loves spreading disinformation, turned on Owens, calling her a 'degenerate C-word' and an 'evil scumbag.' Even white nationalist Nick Fuentes, who hated Kirk when he was alive, has claimed he wants to 'expose' Owens, and has unleashed racist and misogynist abuse at her."

Marcotte argues that the "blizzard of conspiracy theories pushed by Owens and Carlson" has "destroyed the ability of GOP leaders to exploit Kirk's death in the manner they had intended."

"Owens is a classic case of a Frankenstein's monster, turning on the very people who created her," Marcotte writes. "Although it's a shame to see so many Americans continue to follow her down the rabbit hole, if it's causing the MAGA movement to turn on each other, then that’s a result all democracy-lovers can cheer."

*Amanda Marcotte's full article for Salon is available at this link.

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Who’s afraid of Candace Owens?

A movement built to support Donald Trump can’t cordon off conspiracy theories

Written by Matt Gertz

Published 12/11/25

Long-simmering feuds among right-wing influencers reached a boiling point this week when Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk’s widow Erika used an appearance on Fox News to denounce people she said were “making hundreds of thousands of dollars” by pushing conspiracy theories about her husband’s killing. Her plea for those individuals “to stop,” obviously intended for her husband's former colleague, the popular streamer Candace Owens, triggered an outpouring of criticism on the right against “extremists” promoting “hateful conspiracy theories” who had somehow been allowed into the movement.

But in a sign of the durable position such conspiracy theorists hold within the movement — and the immense demand for their work — many of the high-level pundits trying to lay down guardrails did not mention by name either Owens or her primary ally in the MAGA schism, Tucker Carlson.

“The Right’s media apparatus is how the Right teaches its followers how to think, and it’s currently getting consumed by conspiracy, psychodrama, and tabloid conflicts,” The Manhattan Institute’s Chris Rufo said in one such salvo. “If left unchecked, it will turn the audience into the equivalent of a Third World click farm.”

Can you imagine?

It is patently absurd to claim that right-wing media figures injecting deranged lies into their audience is somehow a new phenomenon. The right is dominated by President Donald Trump, the poster child for “conspiracy, psychodrama, and tabloid conflicts.” And Rufo’s ilk were happy to foster such insanity as long as it was pointed at the left in the service of electing Republicans.

But now the same tools are being turned inward, against other right-wingers, and while they’re furious that this is happening, the apparatus they helped build is so powerful that they are unable to name their foes.

A fight over Charlie Kirk’s legacy — and the Jews

Hamas’ October 7, 2023, attack on Israel caused a split in a right-wing commentariat otherwise united around Trump. One side includes conservative Jews like Ben Shapiro and Laura Loomer, who supported Israel’s subsequent brutal campaign in Gaza and traffic in anti-Muslim invective. On the other side are “America First” figures like Owens and Carlson who both opposed the campaign and used it as an opportunity to revive noxious antisemitic conspiracism. The divide has repeatedly made headlines, particularly in November when Carlson gave a friendly interview to Nick Fuentes, a white nationalist streamer who regularly rails against “the Jews,” who he has claimed “are destroying this country.”

Owens has been claiming since Charlie Kirk’s tragic killing in September that at the time of his death, he was coming around to her view of Israel. Based on that premise (which Kirk allies deny), she has speculated that Kirk may have been assassinated by pro-Israel henchmen worried that he was turning on them, perhaps with help from elements within TPUSA and the U.S. military. These sorts of wild claims are typical of Owens’ oeuvre: She is currently being sued for claiming that the first lady of France is secretly a transgender woman, and has told her followers that she has been targeted for death by an assassination squad composed of French law enforcement and “at least one Israeli.” Her claims have been denounced by the likes of Shapiro and Loomer, but cheered on by Carlson and fellow traveler Alex Jones.

Erika Kirk appeared on Fox’s Outnumbered on Wednesday to address in part what host Harris Faulker described as “hate” and “conspiracies” in the wake of her husband’s death.

“Come after me, call me names, I don't care,” she said. “Call me what you want, go down that rabbit hole, whatever. But…when you go after the people that I love and you're making hundreds of thousands of dollars every single episode going after the people that I love because somehow they're in on this? No.”

“My message to them is to stop — to stop,” she concluded.

Neither Erika Kirk nor Faulkner mentioned Owens’ name. But Owens immediately recognized that the segment had been “about me.” And rather than stopping at the widow’s request, she doubled down.

The Fox segment encouraged other right-wing pundits who typically avoid weighing in on intramovement controversies to speak out — albeit without mentioning who they were talking about.

Fox star Sean Hannity used his radio show on Wednesday to call out online commentators for “saying the most incendiary, outrageous, bizarre, conspiratorial, in some cases, outright racist, white nationalist, virulent antisemitism, and they make money off the, quote, clicks that they can then monetize because, you know, people like the shock value of it.” After praising Erika Kirk’s Fox appearance, he lashed out at “people with no evidence spreading the most vile, hateful conspiracy theories about Charlie's assassination,” calling them “grifters” who are “not MAGA.”

The hosts of Fox & Friends likewise aired Erika Kirk’s remarks and criticized unnamed persons pushing conspiracy theories about her husband’s death on Thursday. “People are making money. They have unsubstantiated theories and are running with it,” Brian Kilmeade said.

MAGA slop king Benny Johnson also posted the video of Erika Kirk going “absolutely SCORCHED EARTH against evil people monetizing Charlie Kirk's death and attacking her family and the families of those close to Charlie and TPUSA,” adding: “Thank God we are finally here. The Demons are Screaming.” He has not mentioned Owens by name on X since posting in April 2024 about a potential Owens/Shapiro debate over antisemitism.

For Fox contributor Hugh Hewitt, meanwhile, this is a tempest in a teapot. Responding to a discussion started by Rufo’s post on Wednesday, he claimed that such (unnamed, of course) “grifters” only have the “illusion of influence,” while “center-right to conservative media is flourishing.” Citing podcasts with relatively small audiences and Fox’s Special Report, “the most watched news show by serious people in the country,” he commented, “A handful of extremists cannot pollute the sea of offerings but it’s still best just to ignore them.”

It is certainly possible in a fractured media environment for a Republican apparatchik with intellectual pretensions to find some voices who will make him feel good about the choices he’s made. But Owens and Carlson both host podcasts on Spotify’s top-10 list, and the latter spoke at the 2024 Republican National Convention after shepherding the selection of JD Vance as the next vice president.

The guardrails are gone and all the conspiracy theorists are here

The MAGA movement that everyone on both sides of the divide supported during the 2024 presidential election worships a notorious fabulist who emerged in GOP politics thanks to his role as the nation’s chief birther, reshaped his party around the twin lies that he actually won the 2020 election and that the ensuing January 6 riots by his supporters were righteous, and is constantly lifting up the most noxious online slop imaginable.

Trump’s emergence speaks to both the willingness of mainstream right-wing institutions to accept a conspiracy theorist at the highest level of power, and the eagerness of the right-wing audience to buy the sort of lies he was selling. And his ascension has made it virtually impossible for the resulting movement to draw lines and fully cut loose people who promote deranged falsehoods and bigotries.

Owens and Carlson became right-wing stars by promoting the same types of feverish claims while climbing established institutional pathways. New York magazine detailed Owens’ conspiratorial habits of thinking all the way back in 2016, before her tenure at TPUSA, her nearly 200 appearances on Fox weekday shows over a five year span, or her time as Shapiro’s colleague at The Daily Wire. And Carlson had spent years mainstreaming white nationalist talking points as a Fox host before the network finally showed him the door. The pair assembled loyal audiences thanks to those right-wing institutions, which have found themselves able to take away their jobs but not able to stop viewers from following them to their new spaces.

And Carlson and Owens profited not in spite of their conspiracy theories, but because they fit neatly within a right-wing echo chamber that seemed purpose-built for their generation and propagation. People like Rufo and Hannity were happy to play along with bullshit about Haitian immigrants eating pets or the Democrats assassinating a party staffer when they could use such claims for the benefit of Trump and the GOP. But now that the same habits of mind that made a swath of the right into QAnon adherents are turned inside the tent, they are deeply concerned.

Meanwhile, neither Trump nor Vance seem at all interested in trying to reestablish guardrails. Indeed, their administration is filled with conspiracy theorists seemingly picked for that very reason, indicative of a political movement that is marbled through with crackpots and extremists. And the worst is surely yet to come.

MMA

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The New Republic’s Jim Geraghty thinks MAGA has gone completely off the deep end with its latest conspiracy theory: that Charlie Kirk is not really dead, placing him alongside figures like Elvis Presley and Tupac Shakur in the pantheon of “still alive” myths.

Writing Monday, Geraghty said the conspiracy is coming from people known for insisting they are “just asking questions,” and added, “I wish I were making that up, but I am not.”

The Manhattan Institute released a report dividing the Republican Party into two groups, a small, "but still sizable faction" with policy beliefs that aren't all that conservative. In fact, they're actually progressive on multiple issues. The report revealed that a "significant" amount of those now believe that the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Towers were an "inside job," the moon landing was fake, and stories of the Holocaust are "exaggerated" or never happened.

Far-right commentator Tim Pool welcomed "controversy-courting gadfly" Milo Yiannopoulos on the show where he questioned if Kirk's assassination was real.

“The astronomically inadequate explanations given, in my view, for the actions before, at, and after Charlie’s death and the behavior afterwards from both the federal government and Turning Point executives — you think nothing of his deeply, deeply sinister wife?" he continued.

Former Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.), who was recently pardoned by President Donald Trump, was also on the show, and pressed Yiannopoulos on how Kirk's wife was "sinister."

"Have you seen the difference in the size of her hands with Charlie’s in their wedding pictures, and then compared it to him in his casket?" Yiannopoulos asked.

"Are you saying she’s a man?" Santos questioned.

"No, no. I'm saying that wasn't Charlie in there," Yiannopoulos claimed.

He went on to ask whether Kirk's body was somehow "lost" or "vanishingly slight."

Geraghty compared it to the conspiracy theories that question whether former President John F. Kennedy actually survived the Dallas shooting in 1963.

The columnist also cited a glowing *Wall Street Journal*profile on Pool from July in which they painted the podcaster, his guests "and those like him, represent the new wave of right-of-center voices. They’re the wise minds and leaders on the rise, shaping the discourse and guiding the national conversation."

Geraghty explained, "Poll results like that suggest that Trump has succeeded in attracting two sizable and significant groups to his political coalition: disaffected Democrats who rarely agree with the Republican Party on policy but like Trump’s personal style, and lunatics who doubt that the Holocaust or moon landing happened or that al-Qaeda is responsible for the 9/11 attacks."

Read the full column here.

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Politico reports a group of Trump-aligned super PACs are working to oust Indiana Republicans who have opposed flagrant mid-decade redistricting giving Republicans a boost in preserving their House majority.

Andrew Kolvet, spokesperson for Turning Point, told POLITICO that the group would partner with other aligned PACs to dedicate an “eight-figure spend” to “primary people that are standing in the way of the president’s agenda.”

“We look at Indiana as a test case and a cautionary tale, potentially one or the other, it’s their choice,” said Kolvet. “This is a super high priority, and we’re going to be working with the local, grassroots to make sure their voices heard and their priorities are not steamrolled by an out-of-touch elected class.”

Politico reports Indiana state House Republicans released a draft congressional map earlier this week that would flip the state's congressional map from a Republican advantage of 7-to-2 to 9-to-0. But the effort has faced resistance from some of the state’s Republicans, including Senate President Pro Tem Rodric Bray, who remains opposed to the plan.

Other opposition comes from state senator Michael Bohacek (R), who announced he would not be supporting Trump's mid-decade redistricting plan after he called Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) a slur. The Republican lawmaker said on his official Facebook page that as a parent of a child with Down Syndrome, he couldn't endorse Trump's plan due to his use of the word.

Despite Republicans having a 40-10 supermajority in the chamber, it has repeatedly rejected Trump’s calls — including by recent vote to adjourn. Around the same time that was happening in mid-November.

Some Indiana Republicans are already getting threats of violence from MAGA elements angered that they are opposing the power grab, with nearly a dozen state lawmakers reporting that they have been the victims of SWAT or doxing attempts.

Read the Politico report at this link.

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Two months after the assassination of MAGA podcaster Charlie Kirk, over 600 people have been targeted by the government with firings, suspensions, investigations and other actions, Reuters reports.

Educators, they note, are the main target, noting that "more than 350 education workers were fired, suspended or investigated in the days following the assassination, including 50 academics and senior university administrators, three high school principals, two cheerleading coaches and a theology instructor."

Reuters reports that "Republican officials publicly threatened to deprive universities and schools of taxpayer funds unless specific critics of Kirk were fired."

One of those people, Lauren Vaughn, a kindergarten assistant in South Carolina, was fired from her job after posting a Kirk quote defending the Second Amendment on social media followed by the now ubiquitous liberal rallying cry for gun control, "thoughts and prayers."

According to a Reuters review of court records, public statements, local media reports and interviews with two dozen people who were fired or otherwise disciplined, Vaughn "was one of more than 600 Americans fired, suspended, placed under investigation or disciplined by employers for comments about Kirk’s September 10 assassination."

At least 15 people were punished for "allegedly invoking 'karma' or 'divine justice,'" they note, "and at least nine others were disciplined for variations on 'good riddance.'"

"Other offending posts appeared to exult in the killing or express hope that other Republican figures would be next," they add.

But others like Vaughn were disciplined for simplycriticizing Kirk's politics, they note.

"This account is the most comprehensive to date of the backlash against Kirk’s critics, tracing how senior officials in President Donald Trump’s administration, local Republican lawmakers and allied influencers mobilized to enforce the Trump movement’s views," Reuters explains.

"The story maps the pro-Trump machinery of retaliation now reshaping American political life, detailing its scale and tactics, ranging from shaming on social media to public pressure on employers and threats to defund institutions," they add.

While Reuters notes that "Americans sometimes lose their jobs after speaking out in heated political moments," the post-Kirk situation was different "because of its reach and its public backing from Trump, Vice President JD Vance and other top government officials."

"It represents a striking about-face for Republicans, who for years castigated the left for what they called 'cancel culture' – the ostracism or punishment of those whose views were deemed unacceptable," they add.

Vaughn is challenging her dismissal in a federal lawsuit filed September 18, seeking reinstatement, they write, but the school district maintains that her post “appeared to endorse Mr. Kirk’s murder or indicate that it was ‘worth’ him losing his life to protect Americans’ constitutional rights.”

Like Vaughn, Julie Strebe, a sheriff’s deputy in Salem, Missouri, lost her job after posting comments on Facebook about the shooting, including, “Empathy is not owed to oppressors.'

"She said her bosses were besieged with calls for her dismissal and that, at one point, a hand-drawn sign appeared across from her home reading, 'Julie Strebe Supports the Assassination of Charles Kirk,'" and has since had to install five surveillance cameras at her house to protect herself.

Reuters notes that "many Republican officials have embraced the punitive campaign," proposing "extraordinary measures," from lifetime social media bans to revoking visas over those they deem to have reveled in Kirk's death.

"Some academics compared the backlash to the 'Red Scare,' the anti-Communist purge that peaked in the 1950s, when officials, labor leaders and Hollywood figures were accused of Communist ties," Reuters notes.

Landon Storrs, a University of Iowa history professor, agrees, saying, "there are very disturbing parallels."

Even Trump loyalist Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) says it has gone too far, warning on his podcast that letting government decide “what speech we like and what we don’t” sets a dangerous precedent. Silencing voices like Jimmy Kimmel's might feel good, he said, but “when it’s used to silence every conservative in America, we will regret it.” BC DEMS GUBMINT EVIL SO THEY WILL USE PWR WE GIVE THEM FOR EVIL, AND WE ARE ALREADY PERSUCUTED VICTIMS OF BIG TECH WOKISM

Far right social media influencers like the X account Libs of TikTokstarted the revenge campaign almost immediately following Kirk's death, Reuters says.

"In the week after the shooting, Libs of TikTok shared the names and profiles of at least 134 people accused of celebrating violence or mocking Kirk’s memory, frequently tagging Trump administration officials including Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Attorney General Pam Bondi. At times, the influencer posted disciplinary actions taken against specific government employees," they write.

The people Reuters has identified may not be accurate, they say, noting that "the tally of more than 600 people punished for criticizing Kirk is likely an undercount. Many companies and government organizations haven’t publicly disclosed terminations or suspensions."

The fallout has led to many peoples' silence, they report, saying, "The retaliation has silenced many voices. Scores of people who posted anti-Kirk comments have since scrubbed or locked their accounts, Reuters found. Others said in interviews that they are pushing back."

One of those, Kimberly Hunt, an HR worker in Arizona who was fired for her Kirk comments, is doing just that.

Hunt says she has raised more than $88,000 from a GoFundMe campaign titled, “Doxxed, Fired, but Not Silenced," saying she wants to use the money to further her education, become a content creator, and keep calling out people like Kirk.

“It’s definitely just emboldened me,” she says.

Not so for Florida Atlantic University associate professor Karen Leader, who was placed on administrative leave for her comments after a former staffer of Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL) shared screenshots of her posts and tagged her employer.

“Whether my career is over or not, I don’t know,” Leader says. “But my life has changed.”

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The Charlie Kirk purge: How 600 Americans were punished in a pro-Trump crackdown

Two months after Charlie Kirk’s assassination, a government-backed campaign has led to firings, suspensions, investigations and other action against more than 600 people. Republican officials have endorsed the punishments, saying that those who glorify violence should be removed from positions of trust.

By Raphael Satter and A.J. Vicens

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Illustration: John Emerson, photo: REUTERS/Go Nakamura

When Lauren Vaughn, a kindergarten assistant in South Carolina, saw reports that right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk had been shot at an event in Utah, she opened Facebook and typed out a quote from Kirk himself.

Gun deaths, Kirk said in 2023, were unfortunate but “worth it” if they preserved “the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given Rights.” Following the quote, Vaughn added: “Thoughts and prayers.”

Vaughn, a 37-year-old Christian who has taken missionary trips to Guatemala, said her call for prayer was sincere. She said she hoped reading Kirk’s words in the context of the shooting might prompt her friends to rethink their opposition to gun control.

“Maybe now they’ll listen,” she recalled thinking.

Social media post by Lauren Vaughn quoting Charlie Kirk

A few days later, Vaughn lost her job. She was one of more than 600 Americans fired, suspended, placed under investigation or disciplined by employers for comments about Kirk’s September 10 assassination, according to a Reuters review of court records, public statements, local media reports and interviews with two dozen people who were fired or otherwise disciplined.

Some were dismissed after celebrating or mocking Kirk’s death. At least 15 people were punished for allegedly invoking “karma” or “divine justice,” and at least nine others were disciplined for variations on “Good riddance.” Other offending posts appeared to exult in the killing or express hope that other Republican figures would be next. “One down, plenty to go,” one said.

Lauren Vaughn, a teacher assistant in South Carolina, was fired after she posted on social media a quote from Charlie Kirk about gun violence. REUTERS/Allison Joyce

Others, like Vaughn, say they simply criticized Kirk’s politics.

In the pro-Kirk camp, at least one academic was put on administrative leave after threatening to “hunt down” those celebrating the assassination.

This account is the most comprehensive to date of the backlash against Kirk’s critics, tracing how senior officials in President Donald Trump’s administration, local Republican lawmakers and allied influencers mobilized to enforce the Trump movement’s views. The story maps the pro-Trump machinery of retaliation now reshaping American political life, detailing its scale and tactics, ranging from shaming on social media to public pressure on employers and threats to defund institutions. Earlier reports by Reuters have documented how Trump has purged the federal government of employees deemed opponents of his agenda and cracked down on law firms defending people in the administration’s crosshairs.

Americans sometimes lose their jobs after speaking out in heated political moments. Twenty-two academics were dismissed in 2020, the year George Floyd was murdered by a Minneapolis police officer, most for comments deemed insensitive, according to the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, a free-speech advocacy group. In 2024, the first full year following the outbreak of the latest Israel-Gaza war, more than 160 people were fired in connection with their pro-Palestinian advocacy, according to Palestine Legal, an organization that protects the civil rights of American supporters of the Palestinian cause.

The backlash over comments about Kirk’s shooting stands apart because of its reach and its public backing from Trump, Vice President JD Vance and other top government officials. It represents a striking about-face for Republicans, who for years castigated the left for what they called “cancel culture” – the ostracism or punishment of those whose views were deemed unacceptable.

Supporters of the firings say that freedom of speech is not freedom from consequence. Standards of behavior should be high for people like doctors, lawyers, teachers or emergency workers who are in positions of public trust, they said.

In a statement, White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson said: “President Trump and the entire Administration will not hesitate to speak the truth – for years, radical leftists have slandered their political opponents as Nazis and Fascists, inspiring left-wing violence. It must end.” She added: “no one understands the dangers of political violence more than President Trump” after he survived two assassination attempts.

Trump compared Kirk to assassinated civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. when posthumously awarding him the Presidential Medal of Freedom. REUTERS/Cheney Orr

Turning Point USA, the youth movement Kirk founded in 2012, said in a statement that it supported the right to free speech, “including that of private employers to determine when a bright line has been crossed and an employee deserves to be terminated.” The organization, however, cautioned that while celebrating or gloating over Kirk’s death was “evil and disqualifying behavior, respectfully disagreeing with his ideas, statements, or values is every American’s right.”

Vaughn is challenging her dismissal in a federal lawsuit filed September 18, seeking reinstatement. As part of the case, she submitted a letter she received from the Spartanburg County School District superintendent that described her remarks as “inflammatory, unprofessional, and inappropriate.” Responding to the lawsuit, the district said Vaughn’s post “appeared to endorse Mr. Kirk’s murder or indicate that it was ‘worth’ him losing his life to protect Americans’ constitutional rights.”

The district declined further comment.

The punishments have often been driven by social media campaigns that circulate screenshots of the offending remarks, along with the names and phone numbers of employers, and appeals such as, “Internet, do your thing.” What typically follows are hundreds of angry or threatening messages, Reuters found. Several individuals who were targeted said in interviews they were inundated with phone calls. One recalled receiving a call every minute for an entire day. At least two said the harassment was so intense they plan to sell their homes.

Julie Strebe, a sheriff’s deputy in Salem, Missouri, lost her job after posting comments on Facebook about the shooting, including “Empathy is not owed to oppressors.” She later said she viewed Kirk as an oppressor because, in her words, he sought to marginalize vulnerable groups and used his platform to rally conservative white Christians behind “racist, sexist, hateful views.” She said her bosses were besieged with calls for her dismissal and that, at one point, a hand-drawn sign appeared across from her home reading, “Julie Strebe Supports the Assassination of Charles Kirk.”

Message posted outside Julie Strebe’s house. Handout via REUTERS

Strebe said she installed five surveillance cameras at her home and now fuels her car only at night to avoid neighbors. Moving from Salem would mean leaving extended family, but she said the small city has grown too hostile to stay. “I just don’t feel like I could ever let my guard down,” she said in an interview. Strebe’s former employer, the Dent County Sheriff’s Office, declined to comment.

Many Republican officials have embraced the punitive campaign. Some have proposed extraordinary measures, including lifetime bans from social media for those deemed to be revelling in Kirk’s death. The U.S. State Department revoked visas for six foreigners who the agency said “celebrated the heinous assassination of Charlie Kirk.” Speaking on a special episode of Kirk’s podcast on September 15, Vice President JD Vance urged his listeners to inflict consequences on those celebrating Kirk’s death.

“Call them out, and, hell, call their employer,” Vance said. Vance’s office pointed Reuters to comments made earlier this year in which the vice president said, “where I draw the line is encouraging violence against political opponents.”

Vice President JD Vance hosts an episode of 'The Charlie Kirk Show' at the White House, following the assassination of the show's namesake. Doug Mills/The New York Times/Pool via REUTERS

Call them out, and, hell, call their employer.

Vice President JD Vance

Some academics compared the backlash to the “Red Scare,” the anti-Communist purge that peaked in the 1950s, when officials, labor leaders and Hollywood figures were accused of Communist ties. Thousands were investigated in a climate of fear that shaped U.S. politics and culture for a generation. There are “very disturbing parallels,” said Landon Storrs, a University of Iowa history professor.

Several prominent Republicans have voiced unease at the clampdown, especially after the Federal Communications Commission openly pressured broadcaster ABC to suspend talk show host Jimmy Kimmel following a monologue in which he suggested that Kirk’s assassin hailed from the political right. Police haven’t fully detailed the findings of their investigation into suspect Tyler Robinson and his motives. Robinson hasn’t entered a plea to the murder and other charges against him.

Republican Senator Ted Cruz warned on his podcast that letting government decide “what speech we like and what we don’t” sets a dangerous precedent. Silencing voices like Kimmel’s might feel good, he said, but “when it’s used to silence every conservative in America, we will regret it.” His spokesperson declined further comment.

Screen capture of Jimmy Kimmel after returning to television on September 23, 2025

‘MASSIVE PURGE OF THESE EVIL PSYCHOS’

The campaign to punish Kirk’s critics began almost immediately.

About 30 minutes after Trump’s announcement that Kirk had died, right-wing influencers mobilized. Among the first was Chaya Raichik, operator of the widely followed Libs of TikTok account, which had posted on X, “THIS IS WAR,” before highlighting a Massachusetts teacher who had written: “Just a reminder, We’re NOT offering sympathy.”

By night’s end, Libs of TikTok had published or reposted the professional details of 37 individuals, often accompanied by commentary such as “absolutely vile,” “Your tax dollars pay her salary,” or “Would you want him teaching your kids?”

“It’s actually terrifying how many of them are teachers, doctors and military members,” Libs of TikTok wrote the next day. “We need a massive purge of these evil psychos who want to kiII all of us for simply having opposing political views.”

In the week after the shooting, Libs of TikTok shared the names and profiles of at least 134 people accused of celebrating violence or mocking Kirk’s memory, frequently tagging Trump administration officials including Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Attorney General Pam Bondi. At times, the influencer posted disciplinary actions taken against specific government employees.

Screenshot of the Libs of TikTok X account on September 10, 2025

“BREAKING: This marine was fired,” Libs of TikTok posted on September 12, a day after calling out a Marine Corps captain. The officer had responded to Kirk’s death by posting an emoji of clinking beer mugs, according to a screenshot the influencer shared with followers. Reuters could not verify the authenticity of the beer-mug post; the captain declined to comment. Libs of TikTok also reported similar disciplinary actions involving an Army Reserve officer and an Army colonel who had commented on the death on social media.

The Pentagon and the Justice Department issued statements condemning celebrations of Kirk’s death but did not address questions about their relationship with Libs of TikTok.

Right-wing influencer Scott Presler began posting screenshots of Kirk commentary, too.

“Take a screenshot of EVERY single person celebrating today,” he told his followers on September 10. “You bet your behind we will make them infamous.” Over the next week, Presler shared posts on X about 70 people who had commented on the killing, and wrote in one message: “Almost every person we’ve posted about – who celebrated Charlie Kirk’s assassination – has been fired.” Presler didn’t respond to requests for comment.

For many on the right, outraged by celebratory reactions from the left, the wave of firings became a form of catharsis.

“It’s good that they are shamed and humiliated and must live with the repercussions for the rest of their lives,” right-wing podcaster Matt Walsh told his audience as he discussed the firings. “It’s good if they wake up every day until they die wishing they had not said what they said.” Asked for comment, Walsh emailed back: “f**k off.”

On YouTube, video blogger and recovery coachJD Delay expressed glee as he read aloud names of those who had lost their jobs over their remarks.

Screen capture of JD Delay on YouTube

“I’m having fun! This is so much fun!” he shouted, raising his hands in excitement. Delay told Reuters that he believes in “accountability and consequences” and that “if you publicly say abhorrent things and get fired from your job, I’m going to laugh at you.”

The punishment campaign sometimes veered off course. In at least five cases, people were wrongly blamed for comments made by others. In another case, a website that drew up a blacklist called “Expose Charlie’s Murderers” vanished after taking in tens of thousands of dollars in cryptocurrency donations. Attempts to identify and seek comment from the site’s creators were unsuccessful.

Several online influencers said they received hundreds – sometimes thousands – of tips from individuals seeking to get Kirk’s detractors fired. Reuters was unable to verify those figures. But at various points, Presler, Libs of TikTok and other right-wing personalities publicly urged tipsters to be patient as they worked through the volume of submissions.

“Can’t keep up with all of you,” Presler wrote on X on September 12. “Post your submissions below & I’ll go through them as I can.”

A day later, the post had drawn more than 2,700 replies.

Scott Presler (R) shared posts on X about dozens of people who had commented on Kirk's killing. REUTERS/Leah Millis

The tally of more than 600 people punished for criticizing Kirk is likely an undercount. Many companies and government organizations haven’t publicly disclosed terminations or suspensions.

Those punished came from at least 45 states and represented a cross-section of society, from soldiers and pilots to doctors, nurses and police officers.

In Michigan, an Office Depot employee was fired after being filmed refusing to print a poster memorializing Kirk. In Ohio, a Starbucks barista lost her job after she was accused of writing an anti-Kirk message on a cup of mint tea.

Reuters couldn’t determine the identities of the Office Depot worker or the barista. Office Depot and Kroger – the grocery store chain that runs the Ohio Starbucks – condemned the anti-Kirk incidents and said the people involved were no longer employees.

Requests to 21 federal agencies – including Homeland Security, Veterans Affairs and the Defense Department – for the number of suspensions or dismissals tied to the Kirk assassination were either ignored or declined. When the Office of the Director of National Intelligence was contacted, its deputy chief of staff responded on social media, accusing Reuters of trying to generate sympathy “for the ghouls who celebrate his death.”

EDUCATORS AMONG THE MAIN TARGETS

Teachers, academics and university administrators were among those most frequently punished for criticizing Kirk. More than 350 education workers were fired, suspended or investigated in the days following the assassination, including 50 academics and senior university administrators, three high school principals, two cheerleading coaches and a theology instructor.

The prominence of educators in the backlash may stem from several factors. As leaders tasked with shaping young minds, teachers have long been cast by some conservatives as ideologues who aim to pull their students left. Their status as taxpayer-funded employees made any perceived partisan commentary especially combustible.

Screen capture of a threatening message received by an individual who posted comments about Kirk’s death. Photos and names pixelated by Reuters.

Additional menacing messages received by the individual. Photo and offensive language pixelated by Reuters.

In interviews and public statements, at least six teachers cited another reason for speaking out: concern over the frequency of gun violence at schools nationwide – and anger at those, like Kirk, who have championed widespread access to firearms.

Vaughn, the South Carolina kindergarten assistant, said that was front of mind when she went to Facebook to quote Kirk’s 2023 remark dismissing some fatal shootings as the price to pay to protect gun rights. Like other teachers across the country, she said she regularly practiced active-shooter drills at her elementary school and saw fear on her five-year-olds’ faces as they learned how to hide from a gunman.

As she defended her post on the day of Kirk’s death, she told a Facebook friend that she felt “no satisfaction” at the assassination. “Just heartbreak for everyone and anyone affected by gun violence and the hope that one day, enough will be enough.” Speaking to Reuters later, she said, “The one thing I want people to know is that my message was out of concern for the kids.”

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Many educators did celebrate Kirk’s death, including a Virginia teacher who wrote, “I hope he suffered through all of it,” and a Texas middle school intern who said the shooting “made me giggle.” Screenshots of both posts were circulated by right-wing influencers. Reuters could not locate the original posts, which may have been deleted or made private. The Virginia teacher was suspended and the Texas intern was fired. Neither could be reached for comment.

While schools that suspended or fired educators cited disruptions to the learning environment, some private employers pointed to a violation of company values or safety concerns as the basis for terminations. Corporations caught up in the backlash gave a variety of explanations: Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian said in a statement some employees’ comments were in “stark contrast” to the company’s values and violated its social media policy, while a United Airlines statement said the company had “zero tolerance for politically motivated violence or any attempt to justify it.”

At least a dozen Kirk critics who took pains to condemn the shooting also found themselves out of jobs or suspended, sometimes after Republican lawmakers got involved.

In the wake of Kirk’s death, Joshua Bregy, a climate scientist at Clemson University in South Carolina, shared another user’s Facebook post that read, in part: “No one should be gunned down – not a school child, not an influencer, not a politician – no one. But am I going to allow people to make a martyr out of a flawed human being whose rhetoric caused notable damage? Not a chance.”

The Clemson College Republicans reposted part of his message, labeling him “ANOTHER leftist professor” and calling for his termination. The post was amplified by right-wing influencers and Republican state lawmakers who threatened to defund the public university unless Bregy was fired.

Clemson initially pledged in a September 12 statement to “stand firmly on the principles of the U.S. Constitution, including the protection of free speech.”

The next day, Trump himself reposted a state lawmaker’s call to “Defund Clemson.” On September 16, after South Carolina’s House speaker and Senate president sent a letter to Clemson’s trustees demanding they “take immediate and appropriate action,” the school fired Bregy. Bregy’s Facebook post was “blatantly unprofessional” and “seriously prejudicial to the university,” Clemson said in a letter informing Bregy he had been dismissed.

Screen captures of social media posts urging Clemson University to fire Josh Bregy

Bregy is suing Clemson in a South Carolina federal court in a bid to be reinstated. His lawyer, Allen Chaney, said the academic would have kept his job “but for the really aggressive, coercive tactics of elected officials in South Carolina.”

Clemson, State House Speaker Murrell Smith and Senate President Thomas Alexander did not respond to requests for comment. Clemson has yet to file a response to Bregy’s suit.

In at least six other cases, Republican officials publicly threatened to deprive universities and schools of taxpayer funds unless specific critics of Kirk were fired.

Chaney, who serves as legal director of the South Carolina chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, said the threats to defund Clemson and others crossed a constitutional line. “The government can’t police speech by pressuring third parties,” he said. Last year, the Supreme Court unanimously held that government officials cannot use their authority to “attempt to coerce” private parties into punishing or suppressing speech they dislike.

The threats to defund schools that resist firing Kirk’s critics were “stunning,” said Paul McGreal, a constitutional law professor at Creighton University Law School in Nebraska. “Government officials are threatening speakers with punishment because they disagree with what they’re saying. These are core First Amendment protections that they’re violating.”

KIRK PRAISED AS CHRIST’S ‘13TH DISCIPLE’

Since Kirk’s assassination, many Republicans have cast him as a saintly champion of free expression. Evangelical figures have likened him to Saint Stephen, revered as Christianity’s first martyr. One Republican lawmaker told Congress “he’d have been the 13th disciple” had he lived in Biblical times. Trump compared Kirk to the ancient Greek philosopher Socrates, slain President Abraham Lincoln and assassinated civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. when posthumously awarding him the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Kirk’s legacy is complicated, however. He gained fame for debating college students as part of his work with Turning Point. Kirk also advocated criminalizing expression – such as pornography – that clashed with his Christian views. When Black football players started kneeling during the national anthem in protest at police brutality, he backed Trump’s call to strip the National Football League of taxpayer subsidies. The White House later said Trump was making a statement, not a proposal.

Kirk repeatedly denigrated minorities, calling transgender people an “abomination,” warning of “prowling Blacks” in cities, accusing wealthy Jews of stoking “hatred against Whites,” and declaring Islam incompatible with Western civilization. He also dismissed Pope Francis as a Marxist.

Some of those who spoke out against Kirk after his death said they were disturbed by the hagiography.

Kimberly Hunt, a human resources worker in Arizona, was fired after posting a critical video message about Kirk. REUTERS/Caitlin O'Hara

“I just felt compelled to remind people who he was and what he stood for,” Kimberly Hunt, a human resources worker in Arizona, said in an interview. She had posted a video captioned, “Save your tears for his victims, not him.”

In the video, Hunt cited Kirk’s record of using derogatory language about transgender people and Muslims, before adding that his children “are better off without him.” Hunt was fired soon after. Her employer, an Arizona construction firm, did not respond to requests for comment.

Hunt told Reuters she understood her words sounded harsh but stood by them. She said they reflected Kirk’s stance in a debate last year that if he had a 10-year-old daughter who was impregnated through rape, “the baby would be delivered.”

The retaliation has silenced many voices. Scores of people who posted anti-Kirk comments have since scrubbed or locked their accounts, Reuters found. Others said in interviews that they are pushing back.

Hunt said she has raised more than $88,000 from a GoFundMe campaign titled, “Doxxed, Fired, but Not Silenced.” She said she wants to use the money to further her education, become a content creator, and keep calling out people like Kirk.

“It’s definitely just emboldened me,” she said.

Screenshot of a threatening message Kimberly Hunt received on Facebook. Photo and offensive language pixelated by Reuters.

At least 19 lawsuits have been filed against employers who punished Kirk critics, state and federal court records show. At least two plaintiffs have succeeded, including an academic in South Dakota who got his teaching job back.

Karen Leader, an associate professor at Florida Atlantic University, took to social media after Kirk’s death to protest a narrative that he “was a shining inspiration to youth and a noncontroversial figure who just wanted to have open and civil dialogue,” she said. “Anyone who’s in higher education knows that it’s not that simple.”

She noted that Turning Point rose to prominence through its Professor Watchlist, a site that encouraged students to report faculty for allegedly holding “radical left” views or being a “terror supporter.”

Kirk had described the Watchlist as an awareness tool, not a blacklist. Those on it have said in interviews, social media posts and public forums that it fostered harassment and intimidation. In 2023, a Turning Point reporter was accused of assaulting an Arizona professor who was on the watchlist after confronting him on camera about his sexuality and shoving him to the ground. The reporter admitted to harassment, assault and disorderly conduct and was ordered to complete a diversion program. A Turning Point cameraman admitted to harassment in the case.

Karen Leader, an associate professor of art history at Florida Atlantic University, was placed on administrative leave after she posted about Kirk on social media. REUTERS/Marco Bello

On September 10, Leader began posting Kirk’s past statements on X. She said she made a mistake by incorrectly accusing Kirk of having uttered an ethnic slur and then deleted it. The rest of her posts she said she stands behind, including one highlighting Kirk’s claim that Black Americans were “better” during Jim Crow.

“None of it was me encouraging violence,” Leader said. “I was sharing evidence.”

Jordan Chamberlain, a former staffer of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, shared screenshots of several of Leader’s posts and tagged her university, asking if it approved of the content. Libs of TikTok shared Leader’s faculty headshot. The university’s president announced she had been put on administrative leave. Her address and phone number appeared online, and menacing messages followed.

A voicemail left in September for associate professor Karen Leader after she posted online about Kirk

In one voicemail reviewed by Reuters, the caller said: “We’re coming to get you. Karen Leader, we know where you work. We’re gonna come to your home as soon as we have your location.” Leader said she has rarely left her apartment since.

She reported the threats to Boca Raton police, which referred the case to campus officers, according to a police report. Florida Atlantic University police said their report could not be released because of an active criminal investigation.

Florida Atlantic University confirmed Leader was one of three academics who were on leave pending investigations. It declined further comment. Chamberlain also didn’t return an email seeking comment.

“Whether my career is over or not, I don’t know,” Leader said. “But my life has changed.”

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Anti-fascist protesters clash with attendees outside Turning Point event at UC Berkeley

Skirmishes led to at least three arrests, as protesters traded jeers with those attending the event — held two months after Charlie Kirk’s assassination.

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Protesters hold signs and chant outside Turning Point USA’s campus tour event at UC Berkeley. Credit: Richard H. Grant for Berkeleyside

Dozens of anti-fascist protesters, some with faces wrapped in keffiyehs, pulled out microphones and noisemakers, crowding in on the people in Jesus shirts and MAGA hats lined up early to catch the final stop of Turning Point USA’s fall campus tour following the assassination of its founder Charlie Kirk at a Utah Valley University event two months ago.

As Kirk’s fans waited to enter Zellerbach Hall on Bancroft Way, some hoping to claim standby tickets, protesters alternated chants: “No Trump, No KKK, no fascist USA” with “antisemites, go home,” and, “Fuck your dead homie,” a reference to Kirk.

Around 5 p.m., a clash quickly broke out on Bancroft Way between the protesters and a man selling Kirk memorial “Freedom” t-shirts. The quick skirmish seemingly ended in the detention by Berkeley police of both the t-shirt vendor and a protester with whom he had fought. (It wasn’t immediately clear what set off the confrontation.)

“I was gay until Charlie Kirk showed me the way!” the vendor yelled.

Berkeley police officers separate two men fighting before the event. Both were taken away by police. Credit: AP/Noah Berger)

A man selling Charlie Kirk memorial “Freedom” t-shirts outside the event is detained by police. Credit: Richard H. Grant for Berkeleyside

A protester blows cigarette smoke at the t-shirt vendor, who was engaged in a shouting match with protesters before the fight began. Credit: Richard H. Grant for Berkeleyside

About a dozen Berkeley police in helmets corralled the crowd, while a number of UCPD officers stood at the ready inside the Zellerbach Hall plaza. Private security guards screened attendees as they entered the plaza. Nearby, two police officers held pepper ball launchers aimed at protesters.

The audience inside Zellerbach Hall, with many people wearing red hats, waits for the program to start. Credit: AP/Godofredo Vásquez

As attendees filed into the event, about 20 UCPD officers wearing riot gear and holding zip ties lined up outside Eshleman Hall — about 100 feet from an ongoing protest that alternated between a dance party vibe and screaming matches between protesters and those lining up for the event. One man in a freedom shirt screamed out, “Spray them, tase them, lock them up,” encouraging police to arrest anti-fascist protesters.

Protesters were also detained by police in the ticketed area outside the event venue.

Law enforcement face off against protesters from across a barrier outside Zellerbach Hall. Credit: Alex N. Gecan

During the speech, a crowd of about 200-300 remained outside the venue, facing off with law enforcement officers with BPD, UCPD and the California Highway Patrol.

The event, held before a packed crowd, many wearing freedom shirts and MAGA hats, wrapped up without disruption shortly before 9 p.m.

The event ended somewhat less dramatically than it began. By the time it began letting out, protesters had surrounded all four exit points, and yelled insults and chants at both the police and attendees. Some attendees screamed back at them as they walked out, but most filed out quickly without making eye contact as officers created a barrier between them and the protesters.

By 9:30 p.m., police seemed to outnumber protesters, and most of the activity had died down. The crowd outside of Yogurt Park was larger than the group still near the venue.

There were three arrests in total as of just after 7 p.m., according to a UC Berkeley spokesperson, two made by Berkeley police officers and one by UC police. Berkeley police spokesperson Byron White said one of the arrests was on suspicion of battery, but did not say what prompted the other arrest. Neither spokesperson shared further information about the arrests.

A protester is detained by police in the ticketed area inside the plaza outside Zellerbach Hall. Credit: AP/Noah Berger

A protester scuffles with a Berkeley police officer before the event as other officers separate two men fighting. Credit: AP/Noah Berger

There were many disagreements among the protesters on the left, some intentionally provoking people coming to see the Turning Point event, and others pleading with each other not to engage. “This is what they want — they want to see fights,” one protester told another.

Early Monday morning, UC police arrested four students on suspicion of felony vandalism, as they allegedly attempted to hang a large cardboard insect on Sather Gate and hung posters advertising a protest of the Turning Point event, highlighting incendiary quotes of Kirk’s.

Kirk was an adversary of the left because of his often overtly racist, misogynist, homophobic and xenophobic messaging, which ranged from calling the Civil Rights Act a “huge mistake” to claiming that birth control creates “bitter young women.”

Protesters face off against police. Credit: AP/Noah Berger

A protester waves a torn-apart Turning Point shirt. Credit: Richard H. Grant for Berkeleyside

Kirk launched Turning Point USA in 2012, aiming to spread conservatism at college and high school campuses. The organization takes aim at what they see as dominant liberal thinking and stymying of conservative students by universities, including keeping a “professor watchlist,” seeking to “expose and document college professors who discriminate against conservative students and advance leftist propaganda.” (Some professors on other campuses have seen an uptick in threats against their safety since Kirk’s death.)

Headline speakers are Rob Schneider and Frank Turek

Kirk was originally scheduled to headline the Berkeley stop, debating students outdoors with his signature “Prove Me Wrong” format.

In his place, Christian apologist and Kirk mentor Frank Turek and comedian Rob Schneider gave addresses. Also speaking were comedian Jobob Taeleifi; Andrew Doyle, author of the book “Free Speech and Why it Matters”; philosopher Peter Boghossian; and John Paul Leon, the president of UC Berkeley’s Turning Point chapter, who came on stage doing a Trump dance.

Turek, who was present when Kirk was assassinated, compared Kirk to Christ, saying he was martyred, and said he’s gotten emails from people in Sweden saying they’ve converted to Christianity because of Kirk’s death.

“The folks here at Berkeley are big into justice,” he said. “There is no justice unless God exists, there are no rights unless God exists.”

Actor and comedian Rob Schneider speaks during the event. Credit:AP/Godofredo Vásquez

Many of the speakers criticized the protests in their remarks, arguing it was demonstrative of an opposition to free speech on the left.

Schneider, who rose to fame via Saturday Night Live and his sidekick roles in Adam Sandler movies, began by thanking “antifa” for their welcome outside and said protesters were coming from a place of emotion rather than reason. “We must be awake, we must be aware, and we must fight for” freedom, he said.

Speaker Andrew Doyle, second from the right, is joined by Schneider, far left, author Frank Turek, center, and Peter Boghossian, right. Credit: AP/Godofredo Vásquez

He also took a swipe at Berkeley. “Berkeley claims to be a liberal town,” he said. “They claim to want affordable housing. They have vacant lots they can build on, but they always get stopped. Why? Because they want affordability, just not in our backyard.”

Schneider’s comments don’t reflect Berkeley’s current housing politics: While the city’s often fraught debates over development once drew national attention, many of its leaders have come to embrace housing construction, and candidates endorsed by Yes-In-My-Backyard advocacy groups hold a majority on the City Council. Housing production has swelled to its highest levels in decades, according to data submitted to state regulators.

Many came from far away to see Turning Point event

Mary Pelican, with her fashion honoring Charlie Kirk. Credit: Richard H. Grant for Berkeleyside

While some Cal students were in attendance, many came from other universities or were non-students excited about the one California event on tour.

A number of people in line for the event Monday said they’d driven as far as five hours because they’re big fans of Kirk. Ella Klosek, 18, said she and her boyfriend had driven from Santa Maria to Sacramento Sunday to stay with family before coming to the event.

Like many of those who spoke to Berkeleyside, she said Kirk’s religious beliefs, not explicitly his politics, drew her to follow his work. She said his “traditional family values” inspired her — “what it looks like to be a godly husband or wife.”

The event was moved indoors for safety reasons, Leon told CalMatters.

He said the chapter’s membership has grown significantly since Kirk’s assassination.

The shooting also prompted UC President James B. Milliken to contact all UC chancellors, urging them to review their events policies and increase security measures.

“Universities are places where civil discussion and debate can and should occur, without the fear or threat of harm,” Milliken wrote.

Assistant Vice Chancellor Dan Mogulof declined to share details on the security plan ahead of Monday’s event, citing “obvious reasons.”

But he said the university’s Major Events policy applied due to the size of the gathering. That policy requires extra preparation by the student group hosting the event — in this case the Berkeley chapter of Turning Point — and triggers increased security. He said it would be several weeks before the total cost of the event to the university can be tallied and shared.

In addition to the protocols outlined in the plan, Turning Point is banning attendees from bringing bags inside the venue.

“UC Berkeley always works to support the rights and ability of all speakers to participate in events hosted by student organizations without regard for their beliefs and perspectives,” Mogulof said.

Monday arrests echo battles over far-right speakers during Trump’s first term

U.S. Army veteran Jefferson Silver, a protester, watches police line up outside the event. Credit: Richard H. Grant for Berkeleyside

Questions around controversial campus events and the university’s role in supporting or derailing them came to a head during the first Trump presidency.

In February 2017, when the Berkeley College Republicans brought far-right speaker Milo Yiannopoulos to Cal, about 150 activists — many identifying as “black bloc” antifa — descended on campus, setting fire to portable lights, throwing Molotov cocktails, and ultimately leading to the cancelation of the event.

The dramatic incident put a target on Cal and the city of Berkeley’s back. Repeated protests by largely non-student, conservative demonstrators overtook city parks and streets. At these events throughout 2017, “alt-right” activists, including members of now-prominent groups like the Proud Boys, duked it out with antifa and other counter-protesters on the left, with many skirmishes turning into bloody brawls and ending in injuries and arrests.

When the Berkeley College Republicans invited Ann Coulter to campus, UC Berkeley initially canceled the engagement, citing safety concerns given the violent protests happening at the school and city, then offered an alternative date.

A protester dressed in an animal costume outside Zellerbach Hall. One group of Bay Area activists described the protest they planned before the event as “our costume dance party for justice.” Credit: Richard H. Grant for Berkeleyside

The student group sued the university in response, claiming the administration was intentionally stifling conservative speech. The lawsuit ended in a settlement in 2018, with Cal agreeing to amend its events policy and pay attorney fees. But that agreement came after another attempt by the Berkeley College Republicans to “test” the university by inviting right-wing personality Ben Shapiro to campus. That event, also at Zellberbach, cost UC Berkeley $600,000 in security costs.

Just a couple of weeks later, Cal spent $800,000 on Yiannopoulos’ return to campus, which Mogulof at the time called “the most expensive photo-op in the university’s history.”

The current Major Events policy requires student or outside event hosts, in this case Turning Point, to pay for the venue rental, insurance, and “basic” but not “extraordinary” security costs.

Another, more recent event at Zellerbach also resulted in protests and cancellation. About 200 pro-Palestine demonstrators shut down a talk by conservative Israeli attorney Ran Bar-Yoshafat in February 2024, which was organized by pro-Israel student groups.

Anti-fascist protesters clash with attendees outside Turning Point event at UC Berkeley

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In a campus full of gold and blue, red hats populated the south side of University of California, Berkeley as over 300 attendees arrived for a speaking event Monday where actor Rob Schneider and speaker and author Frank Turek appeared as featured guests for the Berkeley chapter of the conservative advocacy group Turning Point USA.

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Two months after the fatal shooting of TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University on Sept. 10, the final stop of the controversial college speaking tour happened Monday at UC Berkeley and was met by over 100 protesters looking to voice dissatisfaction about the organization and overall conservative movement.

The event and protests remained relatively peaceful, but multiple people were taken into custody by police. Two of those individuals were in a physical altercation that left one of them bloodied in the face before being separated by Berkeley police and placed into separate vehicles.

The brawl occurred after a protester allegedly threw the merchandise the Kirk supporter was selling onto the floor. As the argument between both men became physical, they began to fight by Bancroft Way. Police created a perimeter around the fight that blocked traffic for several city blocks.

Comedian and actor Rob Schneider responds to a question with panelists Frank Turek, Andrew Doyle, and Peter Boghossian during a Turning Point USA event at Zellerbach Hall on the UC Berkeley campus in Berkeley, Calif., on Monday, Nov. 10, 2025. (Photo by Carlos Avila Gonzalez/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)

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A car later traveled down Bancroft with the sound of loud banging trailing behind it, which spooked many protesters. The vehicle then stopped across from the gathering of over one hundred and proceeded to produce vast amounts of smoke and loud bangs. The vehicle then sped away, a police car in pursuit.

Turning Point USA is a nonprofit conservative advocacy group that has found a foothold across many college campuses. The chapter at UC Berkeley was founded in 2019 and has quickly become a vocal conservative group on a campus known for its largely progressive student body.

Protests against TPUSA's event were organized by several groups. Activists like By Any Means Necessary showed up with megaphones and signs in an attempt to disrupt the event and show the university that they didn't like TPUSA's presence.

UC Berkeley administrators have historically not set limits on what groups can come on to campus to speak. Campus spokesperson Dan Mogulof said the university worked with the school's chapter of Turning Point USA to ensure they could conduct their event safely.

Protesters confront University of California police outside of a Turning Point USA event at the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) on November 10, 2025 in Berkeley, California. The event was the last stop of a tour begun by group founder Charlie California. The event was the last stop of a tour begun by group founder Charlie Kirk that has since served as a series of memorials for Kirk, who was fatally shot at an event in September. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

"UC Berkeley always works to support the rights and ability of all speakers to participate in events hosted by student organizations without regard for their beliefs and perspectives," said Mogulof in an email. "The campus relies on the professional security assessments and recommendations provided by UCPD so that events sponsored by student organizations can be held successfully and safely."

In preparation for the event, the university closed four adjacent buildings as a precaution and created five points of entry and exit that could be monitored by dozens of police and security forces. Private security was joined by law enforcement from the University of California Police Department, Berkeley and San Francisco police departments, the Alameda County Sheriff's Office, and the California Highway Patrol.

Student Anna Martinez found the presence of Turning Point USA advocates disruptive and said she was disappointed to see that a building she needed to enter was blocked due to the event.

"All of these student buildings are closed so a group of conservative speakers can feel safe, when we students don't feel safe when they come here," Martinez said.

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On the day of the event, both protesters and attendees traveled from across the state, with some coming as far as the Central Valley or Lake Tahoe.

Mario Fierro from Visalia said he wanted to show up and support TPUSA because he feels the conservative movement in California has been forgotten about.

"California is a diverse place, but there's still a place for conservative people and conservative values that we uphold," said Fierro. "We come willing, open-armed, willing to converse and willing to engage with the other side and hopefully do everything peaceful."

Grace Fortune, a high school teacher from Lodi, said she wanted to attend the event because she feels TPUSA supports her Christian faith.

"Ever since Charlie Kirk got assassinated, I support them," she said. "There should be clubs for anyone you know that can be proud of what they believe in and not feel ashamed for what they believe in."

Fortune said that the politics were not as important to her as what she said Kirk's Christian message was.

"It was more about the faith in Christ and being proud and courageous about his faith in Christ," she said.

The rest of the night remained relatively free of violence, but the tension between police and protesters was palpable. Police would swap positions in regular intervals and would hold their batons in case protesters broke across the barricade, while other officers waited to the side with empty projectile firearms.

On the opposite side, protesters chanted things like "fascists are not welcome here!" and "hey hey! Ho ho! Fascists have got to go!" directly into the faces of the police officers. They held steady with their chanting and occasionally paused to boo and yell "shame" at the officers.

Protester Christopher Jones decided to show up because the type of speech TPUSA promotes helps fuel hatred and bigotry, he said.

"Do we have free speech? Yes. But that doesn't mean we want hate speech to come to this campus and be full of rhetoric that targets those most vulnerable," said Jones. "It's a mockery to have them come here and say they are nonviolent when their very words create harm across the country."

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Arizona Central reports high school teachers in Pima County are still reeling from online harassment and attacks after their Halloween costumes sparked outrage from Turning Point USA and Republican critics last week. But school officials say the educators wore the “bloody” shirts to advocate for math education, not to mock the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

“These shirts were part of a math-themed Halloween costume meant to represent solving tough math problems,” Vail School District Superintendent John Carruth said in a letter to the school community. “The shirts were never intended to target any person, event, or political issue.”

AZ Central reports the firestorm erupted on Oct. 31, after teachers in the Cienega High School math department were photographed wearing bloodied white T-shirts with the phrase “Problem Solved” in black text. The school district shared a photo of the Halloween costumes on Facebook, which exploded over the internet thanks to lingering tension around Kirk’s murder seven weeks ago.

Turning Point’s online megaphone opened the gates to a blast of criticism and denunciation on X and other social media platforms, according to AZ Central. But the costumes had been used in reference to solving math problems at earlier events in 2024, long before Kirk’s assassination.

“But to leaders at Turning Point USA, Kirk’s political organization, the costumes resembled the white T-shirt Kirk wore when he was shot in the neck at an event in September. That shirt had also been emblazoned with black text, which read ‘FREEDOM.’ It became a symbol for his mourners after he died,” AZ Central reports.

“@vailschools, shut your school down, it's nothing more than a den of vile verminous scum. Shut this place down,” posted one commenter on X the day after Halloween, seemingly without knowing the full context of the image. “At the very least defund it entirely.”

Top elected leaders in the Republican Party also chimed in, with Florida GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis accusing the teachers of “glorifying a murder just because they disagreed with the victim” in a post on X.

Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah), who is himself known for incendiary comments regarding accident and death when victims are Democrats, amplified a post identifying each teacher with their name, phone number and email address.

Arizona state Sen. Jake Hoffman (R-Queen Creek) called the teachers “BLOODTHIRSTY” and “psychopaths” before deleting his post demanding they be fired.

“The fact that this photo was taken so out of context and spread so quickly without doing some simple fact-checking has been really harmful,” said Superintendent Carruth.

But Turning Point spokesman Andrew Kolvet was unwilling to let go of his claim against the teachers despite the shirts also appearing last year.

“It's a very weird costume for teachers in general, but after what happened to Charlie, I'm absolutely floored they wore it again,” Kolvet said on X. “I do not believe for a second that all of them are innocent.”

Read the AZ Central report at this link.

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JESSE WATTERS (CO-HOST): Sometimes when you get hit in the head so hard that you go into a coma, you wake up and people have to reteach you the English language. They have to reintroduce you to your family. That's how I feel like dealing with Democrats.

There are concepts that have kept civilizations thriving for thousands of years: border walls, different bathrooms, asylums. And it's like, we're trying to teach basic things to Democrats and they're not going along with it. It makes me feel like they want civilization to collapse. And civilizations have collapsed. There's no guarantee that the American civilization is going to continue to thrive and survive. If you have people, a faction of this country, dead set on tearing it down by releasing criminals, by destroying gender, by destroying the English language, you will have Rome.

And that's what you're facing with these people. And that's why Charlie Kirk talked about trying to save Western civilization. We're fighting each other. We're not really fighting China, we're kind of fighting Russia. We're really fighting Americans who want to destroy the country.

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“Are you fed up with crime, corruption, and wokeness in your big, blue city?” says RidgeRunner CEO Josh Abbotoy. “Move here”

Larry Bushart Jr. posted trolling memes on a Facebook thread about a vigil for Kirk. He’s been in a Tennessee jail ever since.

The Absurd Prosecution of a Man Who Posted a Charlie Kirk Meme

By the time the cops showed up to arrest him for sharing a derisive meme responding to the killing of Charlie Kirk, Larry Bushart Jr. had posted on Facebook more than 100 times on Sunday alone.

It was past 11 p.m. on September 21, and Bushart, 61, was still up with his wife at their home in Lexington, Tennessee, a small city halfway between Nashville and Memphis. It had been a normal weekend. On Saturday, they went to see a community theater performance of “Arsenic and Old Lace.” The next day, they moved furniture to prepare for a new carpet delivery. And, as he did almost every day, Bushart spent hours on his phone, posting on Facebook a torrent of liberal memes.

Born and raised in West Tennessee, Bushart worked as a police officer and sheriff’s deputy for 24 years, then spent another nine with the Tennessee Department of Correction before retiring from law enforcement last year. His politics made him an outlier among his neighbors. Like many people, he reserved his most strident opinions for the internet. On Facebook, Bushart slammed President Donald Trump and his followers, whom he likened to a cult. He quarreled with vaccine skeptics and fought with election deniers. As things took a darker turn during Trump’s second term, Bushart posted memes decrying the president’s increasingly authoritarian moves. After Kirk’s killing on September 10, Bushart posted furiously, repeatedly, about why the right-wing activist did not deserve to be lionized — and warning about the escalating assault on free speech.

His posts were not limited to his own feed. That Saturday morning, in a Facebook group called “What’s Happening in Perry County,” Bushart spotted a thread about an upcoming candlelight vigil honoring Kirk in the county seat of Linden, a small town some 45 minutes away. He fired off a rapid series of trollish memes. One showed a scene from “The Sopranos.” “Tony, Charlie Kirk died,” Carmela Soprano says. “Who gives a shit,” Tony replies. Another quoted Kash Patel’s press conference after Kirk’s murder, where he said, “I’ll see you at Valhalla,” depicting the FBI director in a Viking costume and holding a rubber chicken. The most vulgar meme appeared to capture the moment Kirk was shot, accompanied by the words, “Release the Epstein Files.”

But it was a more innocuous post that would soon send Bushart’s life spiraling out of control. It was an image he had previously posted to his own feed to little response: a photo of Trump alongside a quote, “We have to get over it.” The meme, which had been circulating for more than a year, drew from remarks Trump made after a January 2024 school shooting in Perry, Iowa. Beneath the quote was a line providing context: “Donald Trump, on the Perry High School mass shooting, one day after.” Above the image were the words “Seems relevant today.”

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If Bushart shared the posts to taunt those mourning Kirk, the reactions on the forum remained relatively mild. “Jeez Larry, take a stress pill or something,” one man commented. “Mow the lawn, get off the computer. A simple, concise statement like ‘I HATE Charlie’ would be sufficient.” Some of Bushart’s posts were received more positively; a meme arguing that “Billionaires fund the class war. Charlie Kirk sold it as a race war” got several likes. The Trump meme, meanwhile, was ignored.

By Sunday evening, however, the posts had gotten the attention of Perry County Sheriff Nick Weems. An avid Facebook user himself, Weems had shared the information about the Kirk vigil on his own page a few days earlier. He had also posted his own emotional response to the news of Kirk’s murder in September, warning ominously about the “evil” in our midst. “Evil could be your neighbor,” he wrote. “Evil could be standing right beside you in the grocery store. It could be your own family member and you never even know it.”

Weems contacted his investigator. Just under an hour later, in Lexington, Bushart wrote a two-line post on Facebook at 7:53 p.m. “Received a visit from Lexington PD regarding my posted memes on ‘What’s Happening in Perry County,’” he wrote. The police had come at the behest of Perry County, he said, but did not elaborate.

If he was concerned, Bushart didn’t show it. He went back to posting. At 9:48 p.m., Bushart shared a meme from a page called Blue Wave 2026, featuring an unhinged-looking Roseanne Barr. “Many maga are claiming that Obama used the pressure of his office and the FCC to get Rosanne cancelled just like Trump did to Kimmel,” it read. “Except Obama wasn’t president in 2018. Care to guess who was?”

It would be his last post that night. At 11:15 p.m., police knocked on his door again. This time there were four officers, one of whom was holding a warrant for his arrest, which had been sent from Perry County. Body camera footage obtained by The Intercept shows police following Bushart inside his house and waiting while he slips on his shoes. Then they handcuff him on his front porch and lead him away.

Arriving at the local jail, the officer with the warrant unfolded the piece of paper. “Just to clarify, this is what they charged you with,” he told Bushart, pointing and reading aloud: “Threatening Mass Violence at a School.”

“At a school?” Bushart said, sounding confused.

But the officer had no further explanation. “I ain’t got a clue,” he said, chuckling. “I just gotta do what I have to do.”

Bushart laughed too. “I’ve been in Facebook jail but now I’m really in it,” he said. He hadn’t committed a crime, he said. “I may have been an asshole but…”

“That’s not illegal,” the officer said.

Bushart was booked at the Perry County Jail in Linden on September 22, just before 2 a.m. He has been there ever since. His bail was set at $2 million — a shocking amount, wildly beyond his financial capacity. Under Tennessee law, Bushart would have to pay at least $210,000 to get out of jail, under onerous conditions. Although his defense attorney has filed a motion asking General Sessions Judge Katerina Moore to reduce his bail on the grounds that he is not a flight risk and does not pose a threat to the community, a hearing on the motion was reset at prosecutors’ request. Bushart’s next court date is not scheduled to take place until December 4.

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Bushart is one of countless people whose lives have been upended due to social media posts shared after Kirk’s death. The murder triggered an extraordinary crackdown on speech, wielded against Americans from every level of government, with the White House and its allies targeting those whose public reactions they considered offensive. Vice President J.D. Vance urged Americans to report people to their employers. At the Pentagon, nearly 300 employees were investigated. And more recently, the State Department revoked the visas of people who spoke ill of Kirk.

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And, under pressure from Republican Sen. Marsha Blackburn, who is running for Tennessee governor, a university fired a theater professor for posting an old article about Kirk’s comments, issuing a statement explaining that the professor had “reshared a post on social media that was insensitive, disrespectful and interpreted by many as propagating justification for unlawful death.”}:

But Bushart’s case is in a class of its own. He is almost certainly the only person who was arrested and held on a serious criminal charge for a Facebook post in the wake of Kirk’s death — a charge that seems clearly divorced from reality. Among those who have heard of it, the case has been met with shock, outrage, and considerable confusion. On TikTok, Reddit, and a “Justice for Larry Bushart” page on Facebook, many see the case as a form of government overreach that puts all Americans in danger. And though the case is undeniably part of the broader assault on free speech sparked by the Kirk assassination, it is also locally rooted: a perfect storm of bad law, overzealous policing, and a political climate that has emboldened law enforcement officials to punish perceived enemies.

At the heart of the controversy is elected Perry County Sheriff Nick Weems. In office since 2015, his previous claim to fame in Tennessee was his response to the 2018 shooting at Parkland High School in Florida, which killed 17 people. In an impassioned open letter, he criticized politicians who failed to protect students, pledging $500 of his own money to install barricade locks on school doors in Perry County. His rallying cry: “Not Our Children!”

More recently, Weems has availed himself of a Tennessee law passed after the Covenant School shooting, which sought harsh new punishments for “recklessly making a threat of mass violence.” The American Civil Liberties Union and other free speech experts cautioned at the time that the language was so broad, “it could potentially criminalize a wide range of adults and children who do not have any intent of actually causing harm or making a threat” — and this is precisely what has happened. The law has ensnared numerous students for social media activity that, by all rational interpretations, are not actually threatening actual violence. Earlier this year, ProPublica and WPLN/Nashville Public Radio reported on a group of middle school cheerleaders who were slapped with criminal charges by the local sheriff for filming a TikTok video in which one girl said, “Put your hands up,” while other girls dropped to the floor.

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After Turning Point USA's Charlie Kirk was fatally shot in Utah on September 10, a long list of Democrats wasted no time forcefully condemning his murder — from former President Joe Biden to ex-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-California) to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York). AOC made it abundantly clear that while she had major disagreements with Kirk politically, that type of violence has no place in U.S. politics.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont), an independent who caucuses with Democrats, spoke out as well — not unlike his quick response to the shooting of Rep. Steve Scalise (R-Louisiana) in 2017. The Vermont senator was quick to condemn the attack and wish Scalise a full recovery.

Regardless, MAGA Republicans ranging from Vice President JD Vance to Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R-Wisconsin) to Fox News' Jesse Watters blamed Democrats for Kirk's assassination. And MAGA websites, including the Charlie Kirk Data Foundation and Cancel The Hate, called for retaliation against anyone who criticized Kirk.

But according to Salon's Russell Payne, sites promising vengeance against Kirk's critics have either been discontinued or shifted their focus.

"Organized right-wing doxxing efforts have evaporated in the month since the killing of Charlie Kirk, the former head of Turning Point USA, leaving questions about where all the data went," Payne explains in an article published on October 23. "In the six weeks since Kirk's death, most of the right-wing efforts to avenge his death — except the ones in the federal government — have closed up shop. The biggest of these would-be organizations is the Charlie Kirk Data Foundation, an anonymously operated social media account and website that claims to have collected tens of thousands of entries on supposed critics of Kirk. Today, however, the site is down, and it has been for weeks."

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Payne notes that the Charlie Kirk Data Foundation's "last update" was "on September 14," while Cancel the Hate has "shuttered."

"As these sites collapsed, other high-profile conservatives who had spent time reporting Kirk's critics returned to their normal activities, like attacking the LGBTQ+ community online and pushing to ban certain types of religious garb in the United States," Payne reports. "The only place where the effort to punish Kirk's critics lives is in the one place it matters most: the federal government. The Trump Administration has launched a widespread effort to attack its perceived political opponents while downplaying violence from right-wing groups and Trump's own supporters. These efforts have spanned multiple agencies, including the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security and the IRS, and have included the revocation of visas for those who criticized the far-right commentator, the firing of military personnel who criticized Kirk and attacks from the president himself."

Jacob Mchangama, founder of The Future of Free Speech, called out the campaign to silence or bully those who disagreed with Kirk politically as anti-First Amendment.

Mchangama told Salon, "If you are able to intimidate people, you can get away with pressuring people into self-censoring — even if the people who are the targets have the First Amendment on their side…. It's also true that a lot of conservative voices who were riled up about the Biden Administration and about censorious cancel culture coming from the left are now gleefully adopting the same tactics and are in favor of supercharging them against people on the left. And more broadly, being in favor of using state power and also purging cultural institutions of ideas they don’t like."

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Turning Point USA's Charlie Kirk at California State University, Northridge in Southern California on March 6, 2025 (Sua Sponte Photography/Shutterstock.com)

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Charlie Kirk never graduated college. He also wrote a book called The College Scam: How America's Universities are Bankrupting and Brainwashing Away the Future of America's Youth.

Nonetheless, after the right-wing activist was killed last month, shot dead aged 31, administrators at the Illinois community college where he enrolled for five semesters fielded calls to both honor Kirk and discipline an employee who criticized his views, records obtained by Raw Story show.

Kirk attended Harper College in Palatine, Illinois, a northwest Chicago suburb, from 2013 to 2014, before dropping out to co-found Turning Point USA, a national student group.

On Sept. 10, Kirk was killed while speaking at a Turning Point event at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah.

In the aftermath, as conservative activists incited a wave of firings of Kirk critics, Harper’s Board of Trustees received an email from “A very concerned Father,” threatening legal action if the school didn’t consider removing an instructor who posted criticism of Kirk.

Another emailer expressed concerns about a nursing student’s posts. The message landed in the inboxes of the school’s president, provost and vice president of diversity, equity and inclusion, records obtained through an Illinois Freedom of Information Act request show.

Eugene Volokh, a First Amendment scholar and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, said such emails could hamper free expression.

People, he said, “may be worried about expressing their views on all sorts of topics … especially if it's a successful attempt to get someone fired or expelled or disciplined.”

Records from Harper also show an alumnus encouraging the school to establish a tribute or memorial to Kirk.

Other emails showed a professor attempting to recruit students to reactivate the school’s Turning Point chapter prior to Kirk’s death, as well as a request by a visitor to the Provost’s Office to “recruit 25 female students” for “a Charlie Kirk type of event,” which the school deflected.

“Harper students want to know that campus is a place where they can safely learn, engage with others and express themselves,” Bryan Wawzenek, a college spokesperson, told Raw Story.

“Our college remains committed to being a place where every individual is treated with dignity and where safety, belonging and civil discourse are paramount.

“In these difficult times, Harper will continue to center our mission and remain focused on fostering care, understanding and opportunity for all.”

‘Certainly not incitement’

On Sept. 15, Harper’s trustees received an email threatening legal action if the college did not investigate and “consider removing” Isaiah Carrington, a Leveraging Equity in Academia through Diversity (LEAD) Faculty Fellow and speech instructor.

A month later, Harper confirmed Carrington was still an employee but declined to comment further.

Carrington declined to comment.

In the email, a “very concerned Father” alleged Carrington posted “derogatory comments and harmful rhetoric that appear to justify violence, such as the assassination of Charlie Kirk, and persistently label[ed] individuals or groups who disagree with his views as Nazis, hate groups, or supporters of hate.”

The emailer’s name was redacted. Screenshots of Carrington’s posts were not included in the public records response.

Jeff Julian, Harper’s chief of staff and vice president of external affairs, suggested the chair of the board, Bill Kelley, reply to the email, saying the message would be forwarded to “college administration for awareness and consideration.”

A Raw Story review of Carrington’s public Facebook posts made clear he did not support Kirk’s murder but called into question Kirk’s past public comments, particularly about children watching public executions, and his history of racist remarks.

In one Sept. 11 post, Carrington shared a link to a Wired article about Kirk’s plans to discredit the Civil Rights Act.

“This is who Charlie Kirk is. I absolutely do not agree with a man being shot to death but I will not allow people to rewrite history,” Carrington wrote.

“Charlie Kirk actively fought against common sense gun laws, and literally said that passing the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was a mistake. If you are mourning the loss of him, then you have to acknowledge that you are also supporting his views. There is no such thing as separating the personal from the political.”

The “concerned father” alleged Carrington’s comments passed the test established in Brandenburg v. Ohio, ruling that inflammatory speech intending to incite illegal action can be restricted.

Volokh disagreed.

“Nothing in [the posts] is constitutionally unprotected,” he said.

“There are some exceptions to First Amendment protection, but none of them are in play here. This is certainly not incitement.”

‘Wrong message’

Another community member emailed Harper about posts criticizing Kirk, this time from a nursing student.

Derek Leiter, dean of Harper's Health Careers Division, encouraged professors to neither respond nor reach out to the student.

“The posts included multiple derogatory remarks, including labeling people who expressed grief over his passing as ‘stupid,’ along with other content that could be interpreted as promoting hate or intolerance,” the emailer wrote.

“As someone who may or may not share the same political beliefs, I found the posts troubling — especially considering that [redacted] provide compassionate, unbiased care to people of all backgrounds and belief systems.”

The emailer claimed the student’s posts “could reflect poorly on the [nursing] program.”

Volokh said it was “not a student's duty” to represent their program in social media posts.

“There can be no obligation, given the First Amendment, for students to refrain from constitutionally protected speech because it’s not inclusive enough,” he said.

While community members have First Amendment rights to report posts, pushes for people to be fired or disciplined for criticizing Kirk are “sad,” said Zach Greenberg, faculty legal defense and student association counsel at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE).

“It absolutely has a chilling effect, and it sends the wrong message on college campuses, which are supposed to be areas where free speech is zenith, where you're the most free to discuss these issues,” Greenberg said.

‘Culturally diverse’

Harper’s President, Avis Proctor, emailed colleagues the day after Kirk’s death, acknowledging the anniversary of Sept. 11 terror attacks and “pain and uncertainty … from reports of increased immigration enforcement in the Chicago area, to the tragic shooting in Utah that claimed the life of Harper alumnus Charlie Kirk.”

“My heart is heavy for his wife and two young children. While perspectives may differ, violence must never be the response to disagreement,” Proctor wrote.

“As an institution of higher education, we strive to foster civil discourse and uphold the dignity of every person. We are strongest when we engage one another with humanity. I am deeply saddened by this senseless act of violence and remain steadfast in our commitment to a safe, inclusive and compassionate society.”

Proctor’s message, titled “Lifting Up Our Shared Humanity Amid Immigration Challenges and Political Violence,” prompted emails of appreciation from staff.

Ilknür Ozgür, a new faculty member in Communication Arts Department, responded to Proctor’s email about ways the department could “uplift the stories” of students who historically “haven't been very socially active,” she told Raw Story.

Ozgür said raids by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have directly affected her students, one giving a recent speech about her uncle becoming “a viral sensation in the worst way possible” when he was wrongfully detained.

ICE took a student into custody at a nearby school, Elgin Community College, in September, making Ozgür “really proud” of her students for still coming to campus.

“It is such a powerful time to be able to hold a safe space for students to learn how to use their voice to create change,” she said.

Wawzenek said Harper students had “express[ed] concern regarding the manner in which immigration enforcement is currently being implemented in the Chicagoland area.”

“These circumstances are causing anxiety for members of the Harper community,” he added. “As such, Harper seeks to support our community with a variety of resources while communicating clearly about guidance for immigration enforcement at the college.”

Ozgür, who also runs a nonprofit, Artstillery, said she would mount a production of “Dirty Turk AKA. Dirty Immigrant” at Harper in March. The piece is based on her family's story of immigrating to Chicago and weaves in narratives from other refugee and migrant families, she said.

As the Trump administration has pulled billions of dollars from universities, some small colleges have kept quiet, Raw Story reported. Ozgür commended Harper for embracing diversity when diversity, equity and inclusion programs are under attack.

Calling Harper “such a rich, culturally diverse campus,” Ozgür said: “With so many college campuses losing their funding based on what they're teaching and what they're doing, I'm so proud of Harper for … not being scared.”

‘A memorial or tribute’

Harper records also show Kirk’s death prompted calls to honor him and inspired interest in events similar to debates he took to campuses across the country.

“Regardless of political views, Charlie was a nationally recognized figure whose impact reached far beyond our campus,” read an email to administrators sent on the evening of Sept. 10.

“As a Harper alumnus, he represented the diversity of thought and the real-world engagement that our institution encourages. In light of his passing, I strongly believe that Harper College should consider establishing a memorial or tribute in his honor.

“Such a gesture would not only acknowledge his connection to our college but also show that Harper respects and remembers its alumni, particularly those who have had a significant impact on public life.”

Wawzenek said: “Harper does not have any plans for a memorial or tribute at this time.”

The school’s Turning Point USA chapter has been reactivated after meeting the required threshold of seven students, Wawzenek said.

Melanie Duchaj, student engagement coordinator, said Steve Gomez, a psychology professor, had been recruiting students to the group prior to Kirk’s death, according to a Sept. 12 email.

Gomez did not respond to a request for comment.

As for the man who visited the Provost's Office to request the school’s help with recruiting female students for a “Charlie Kirk type of event,” Provost Ruth Williams said a staff member “expertly” referred the person to the school’s “Free Speech tables and that if he wanted a room to hold an event he would have to rent it.”

“She also stated we would not recruit students for him,” Williams wrote.

Greenberg said it was important for colleges to remain neutral.

“Although many people may be offended by … Charlie Kirk commentary, it remains fully protected by the First Amendment,” Greenberg said.

“In order to have a more tolerant open society, we should be accepting of a wide array of political viewpoints, including commentary about public figures like Charlie Kirk.”

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The Trump administration is already drawing up a list of targets.

We checked. Sorry, JD Vance.

Split over whether to discipline the offenders or just ignore the whole affair.

Online figures and podcasters have warned of a “satanic world order” and called on their audiences to “fight these demons in culture if we're going to win politically.”

Nota Baloyi is one of several people who lost a visa to visit the U.S. because he spoke ill of Charlie Kirk on social media.

Despite what you may have heard about the renewal of interest in religion in America, we are not experiencing a true revival, at least not yet. Instead, America is closer to a religious revolution, and the difference between revolution and revival is immensely important for the health of our country — and of the Christian church in America.

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A Politico article about a leaked group chat of Young Republican leaders from across the country making racist, homophobic and misogynistic comments includes two people from Arizona, one of whom has documented ties to the white nationalist groyper movement.

The group chat of top officials in Young Republican Federation chapters from across the country, dubbed “RESTOREYR,” was leaked to Politico, which reported on a litany of comments made by participants. Offensive comments included making racist remarks about Black people, talking about putting Democrats in gas chambers, forcibly raping their enemies and more. The chat includes more than 250 slurs and one person saying “I love Hitler,” according to Politico.

One of the members of the chat was Arizona Young Republican Chairman Luke Mosiman, 25, who was alleged to have made racially charged comments about Black people and even floated an idea of linking their opponents in an election over control of the Young Republican National Federation to white supremacist groups — before saying it could backfire because it could result in the Young Republicans they needed to win the elections instead backing their opponent.

The Young Republican National Federation released a statement following the Politico report condemning the comments and calling for those involved to resign “from all positions within their state and local Young Republican organizations.”

In Kansas, the chairman of the state’s Republican Party announced that their Young Republicans chapter, which was involved in the chat leaks, was shut down. And he Arizona Republican Party came out strongly against the “disturbing language” used by Young Republican leaders in a statement released shortly after the story was published Tuesday

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But Mosiman and the Arizona Young Republicans resisted the call that he and Rachel Hope, whose comments in the group chat were also mentioned in Politico’s story, resign. In a written statement released late Wednesday, the group instead cast Mosiman and Hope, who is the organization’s events chair, as victims, saying they “firmly reject any involvement in the ongoing political witch hunt targeting fellow Young Republican members.”

Their statement called it “disheartening” to “witness the double standard” displayed by their opponents within the conservative movement. They also lashed out at critics, saying some have failed to condemn violent texts by Virginia Democratic Attorney General candidate Jay Jones or social media posts celebrating the death of conservative influencer Charlie Kirk, who was killed last month.

However, the group did condemn “Nazi ideology,” though its statement fell short of acknowledging what was said or apologizing for it.

“We express our sincere regret and unequivocally condemn any rhetoric that could be interpreted as sympathetic to Nazi ideology,” the statement says. The lengthy statement also says that the group has concerns over the way the messages were obtained and their validity.

Far-right provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos has claimed online, posting a sworn affidavit, that the chats were leaked by Gavin Wax, a staffer in Trump’s State Department who formerly led the New York Young Republican club, whose own problematic chats were revealed in 2023.

Mosiman has been viewed by some as a rising star in Arizona conservative politics, but he also has close ties with the far-right and had courted controversy long before the group chat.

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In April 2022, U.S. Rep. Paul Gosar was listed as a “special guest” at an event in Tempe scheduled for April 20, a date that is revered by white supremacists and neo-Nazis because it is Adolf Hitler’s birthday.

The event had been organized by the American Populist Union, a white nationalist group that is closely aligned with groypers, the name for a group of young, male white nationalists who strive for their ideas to become a part of the Republican mainstream and are largely followers of white nationalist Nick Fuentes. In 2021, Gosar was the first elected official to speak at Fuentes’ America First Political Action Conference.

After the Mirror reported on Gosar’s promotion and anticipated attendance at the event and spurred national media coverage, Gosar pulled out. His office said he was never planning to attend, even though he promoted it on his social media accounts.

Mosiman attended, and was later featured in photos posted by APU and invideos celebrating APU. Mosiman also follows a number of accounts connected to the groyper movement on his X account.

“Like it or not, Nick Fuentes is becoming a force in the GOP, you all need to understand that,” Mosiman said in a March 2021 tweet. “Stop acting like it’s a few nut cases, it’s not. Ignoring it isn’t working.”

Mosiman went on to say that he wasn’t a Fuentes supporter but he had watched his “Afpac speech” and it “was not bad.”

In that 2021 AFPAC speech, Fuentes called the Jan. 6 insurrection, where seven people died, “lighthearted mischief” and stressed white nationalist talking points. Mosiman was also photographed in September 2021 protesting U.S. Sen. Mark Kelly by the groyper-aligned Arizona College Republicans United. The photograph was posted in Instagram with the caption “CRU executed a protest with Groypers against Senator Mark Kelly.”

Far-right YouTuber John Doyle, one of the featured speakers at the April 2022 APU event, organized a “Stop the Steal” rally in Michigan with Fuentes and has posted highly misogynistic content, such as saying that women shouldn’t be allowed to vote. Doyle, along with other members of APU, were also in attendance at the first 76Fest, which one of its organizers dubbed “Hitler Youth, without the Hitler.”

Mosiman also promoted an event in December 2021 that he called “one of the most based events of the year” which was being put on by Republicans for National Renewal, which has ties to ethno-nationalism, and co-hosted by APU.

That event brought local politicians face to face with a host of far-right extremists, including a number of prominent groypers.

APU has denied ties to white nationalism or knowledge of the significance of the date of its 4/20 event.

TPUSA and Arizona lawmakers

But Mosiman’s involvement in Arizona politics goes beyond the groyper movement.

Online, Mosiman often interacted with many local politicians, and in recent years started coming to the defense of conservative youth organization Turning Point USA.

“I used to be not a huge fan of TPUSA, but after seeing hard working and effective conservatives like (Austin Smith) and (Tyler Bowyer), I changed my mind,” Mosiman wrote on X in 2022, referring to two of the Arizona-based group’s leaders.

Both Smith and Bowyer are listed as members of the advisory team for the Arizona Young Republicans chapter that Mosiman leads. TPUSA did not respond to a request for comment for this story. Neither did Nancy Cottle, Republican state Rep. Matt Gress and GOP state Sen. Jake Hoffman, who were also listed as advisory board members.

The website for the Arizona Young Republicans went offline on Wednesday, but archived snapshots were still online.

“Without a doubt, Turning Point Action had the most meaningful grassroots impact on Arizona,” Mosiman wrote on X on Nov. 11, 2024, shortly after last year’s election. “Hats off to (Tyler Bowyer) and his phenomenal staff.”

Bowyer is the Chief Operating Officer of Turning Point Action, the political action arm of Turning Point USA.

TPUSA has long been a target of the groyper movement ,but in recent years has seen itself move farther to the right and courting controversy for hiring racists.

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e president of the Turning Point USA chapter at the University of Chicago wants repercussions for a faculty member who was arrested for suspected violent crimes on Oct. 3 at an anti-ICE rally.

"Professor Eman Abdelhadi’s history of inflammatory and anti-American rhetoric is deeply concerning. Students deserve a safe and open campus environment where they can express their views without fear of intimidation or retaliation from faculty," Tyler Shasteen told Fox News Digital.

Abdelhadi, an associate professor in the school's Department of Comparative Human Development, was arrested on Oct. 3 and charged with two felony counts of aggravated battery to a government employee and two misdemeanor counts of resisting/obstructing peace stemming from a rally outside the Broadview, Illinois ICE facility.

A mugshot of Eman Adbelhadi from Oct. 3, 2025. (Cook County Sheriff's Office)

UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO CONDEMNS VIOLENCE BUT DODGES QUESTIONS ABOUT PROFESSOR ARRESTED IN ANTI-ICE RIOTS

Rallies, some of which have turned violent, have been ongoing there for weeks.

"Professor Abdelhadi’s statements, which clearly endorse violence, are unacceptable and undermine the safety and well-being of our community," said Shasteen. "I call on the University of Chicago to review her position and ensure accountability for any actions that violate university policy or the law."

Last week, the school condemned violence, but has resisted answering questions about whether Abdhelhadi has been disciplined.

Abdelhadi has been largely silent, too. However, she thanked her supporters on Bluesky early last week.

"Thank you so much everyone for the messages of love and support," she said on the platform. "I feel fortified by your presence in my life and in the world. I keep thinking about all our neighbors and siblings—hundreds in Chicago alone—who’ve been detained into the unknown of horrendous facilities. We owe them resistance."

Police clash with demonstrators during a protest outside an immigrant processing and detention center on Oct. 03, 2025 in Broadview, Illinois. The site has been the target of frequent protests as federal law enforcement agents continue Operation Midway Blitz in the Chicago area, an operation designed to apprehend and deport undocumented immigrants living in the area. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

FAR-LEFT UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PROFESSOR CHARGED WITH VIOLENT FELONIES DURING ANTI-ICE RIOTS IN BROADVIEW

Just a day before her arrest, she accused ICE of "terrorizing our communities" on a far-left podcast.

"I mean, in Broadview, ICE has been setting up shop in our backyard. Just brazenly taking up community resources to terrorize this very same community," she said.

She also put out a call for resistance, and lambasted those who she believes aren't taking extreme enough action.

"At this point, you are either on the side of protecting our neighbors and protecting our community, or you’re on the side of this administration. There is no neutral ground in this moment. There’s no center left. You’re either resisting or you’re complicit," she said.

At the Socialism 2025 conference earlier this year, she also slammed her employer.

"F--- the University of Chicago, it’s evil, you know it’s a colonial landlord. Like, why would I put any of my political energy into this space? I kind of had a little bit of disdain for people who spent their time doing that," she said on a panel during the far-left gathering.

A demonstrator is detained as people protest outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Broadview facility in Chicago, Ill., Oct. 3, 2025. (Jim Vondruska/Reuters)

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"Turns out, I work at one of the biggest employers in the city of Chicago. I work at a place that is a landlord, a healthcare provider, a police force, f--- that s---, but, they are, and a place where I have access to thousands of people that I could potentially organize… actually, this is where I need to build power. That’s possible structural leverage," she said.

The University of Chicago and Abdelhadi did not return comment requests.

Peter D'Abrosca joined Fox News Digital in 2025. Previously, he was a politics reporter at The Tennessee Star.

Follow Peter on X at @pmd_reports. Send story tips to peter.dabrosca@fox.com.

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In the years before he was murdered, Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk had transitioned the group away from its libertarian leanings and toward a dominionist Christian nationalist ideology and agenda. It appears that the group’s current leadership is continuing that shift.

TPUSA Faith, the group’s religious organizing arm, is hosting a “pastor roundtable” featuring two Christian nationalists, Oklahoma state Sen. Dusty Deevers and author and former Trump administration official William Wolfe, according to a flyer Deevers posted on his X account Wednesday. Both men have connections to extreme Christian nationalist Doug Wilson, who has been in the news recently, both for his claim that women should not have the right to vote and for his efforts to strengthen his influence within the Trump administration.

Right Wing Watch noted recently, “Few elected officials can match Oklahoma state Sen. Dusty Deevers in their desire to see the United States turned into a Christian nationalist theocracy.” Deevers calls the separation of church and state “blasphemous.” In a sermon at Wilson’s Idaho church last year, Deevers declared that it is the duty of civil leaders to “submit” to the authority of Christ. He has called on Christian men to “make offensive war on the gates of hell” and “dominionize” the world.

Wolfe is an ardent Christian nationalist who declared in 2023 that "we are getting close" to a point where Christians will have to "heed the call to arms." Wolfe has charged that Democrats are Marxists and “violent revolutionaries” and claimed that “the Democrats hate God, they hate family, they hate marriage, they hate children, they hate our nation." At the far-right National Conservatism conference this year, he called for a “Protestant Christian Political Manhattan Project.”

Wolfe was a visiting fellow at OMB Director Russ Vought’s Center for Renewing America, which identified Christian nationalism as a priority for the Trump administration. Early in Trump’s second term, he celebrated that the administration was being filled with “people who are our guys.” After meeting with Trump in March, Wolfe declared, “This is our land and we've had it really sort of violently taken away from us by radical leftists who are fundamentally steeped in a Marxist worldview that is anti-God, anti-human, anti-family, all those things.” He has been a cheerleader for the Trump regime’s mass deportation agenda.

Deevers and Wolfe, along with theobro Joel Webbon, were among the drafters of a 2023 document called The Statement on Christian Nationalism and the Gospel. It declared that the United States must formally “acknowledge the Lordship of Christ” in all its laws, “abolish abortion,” outlaw marriage equality, and “recapture our national sovereignty from godless, global entities who present a grave threat to civilization.” The statement affirms that “the Christian Nationalist project entails a national recognition of essential Christian orthodoxy” and supports laws against “public blasphemy.”

The TPUSA roundtable is being co-sponsored by the Center for Baptist Leadership and its parent organization American Reformer. The Center for Baptist Leadership, founded by Wolfe, thinks the Southern Baptist Convention is too liberal. The American Reformer is a group backed by venture capitalists that wants to bring the U.S. back into alignment with what they see as its explicitly Protestant Christian heritage. It’s connected to networks of theobros associated in various ways with Wilson; its advisory board is rich with people connected to the hard-right Claremont Institute.

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More than a month has passed since the fatal shooting of MAGA activist and Turning Point USA co-founder Charlie Kirk in Utah, and the murder continues to inspire an abundance of discussion on both the left and the right.

A long list of liberals, progressives, moderate Democrats and right-wing Never Trump conservatives are making it abundantly clear that while they had major disagreements with Kirk, they wholeheartedly condemn the killing. Progressive Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York), for example, was critical of Kirk's politics but is vehement in condemning the attack and saying that progressives need to debate those they disagree with — not resort to violence.

Many in the MAGA movement, however, are blaming Democrats and Never Trumpers for his murder despite the fact they condemned it in no uncertain terms.

In an article published on October 11, The Guardian's Peter Stone warns that MAGA Republicans are using Kirk's murder as a pretext to silence their political opponents.

"Donald Trump and MAGA allies have capitalized on the killing of right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk to expand attacks on liberal groups, donors, Democrats, and others by tarring many critics as the 'enemy within' and 'radical left' in a move that legal scholars and historians call authoritarian and anti-democratic," Stone warns. "Kirk's killing by a lone gunman spurred Trump and top allies to quickly launch conspiratorial charges against a bevy of political foes and an investigation of billionaire liberal donor George Soros. They also threatened legal action against TV network ABC after their late-night star Jimmy Kimmel's suspension over clumsy comments about Kirk ended."

Stone emphasizes that Kirk's murder has "provided cover for a sprawling retribution drive by the president and MAGA world that endangers civil liberties against an array of critics in the media, universities, non-profits and other parts of American civil society, say scholars."

Steven Levitsky, a professor at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts outside Boston and author of the book "How Democracies Die," described MAGA's response to Kirk's murder as an example of "Page 1 in the authoritarian playbook."

Levitsky told The Guardian, "You use political violence as a pretext to go after your political enemies. Some of them have been chomping at the bit to do this. They're going after mainstream opponents and other critics. They're defining unacceptable behavior as broadly as possible….. The goal is to tilt the playing field by going after anybody in civil society who could challenge them. One way to weaken them is to go after the funders using a false pretense by linking them to violence or illegal behavior."

Former federal prosecutor Paul Rosenzweig is highly critical of MAGA's push for a federal racketeering investigation of billionaire Democratic donor George Soros following Kirk's murder.

Rosenzweig told The Guardian, "Trump’s invocation of RICO to investigate Soros is frivolously wrong-headed. It is yet another example of his weaponization of the law to target his enemies."

Russell Muirhead, chairman of the Department of Government at Dartmouth University told The Guardian, "Since Charlie Kirk's murder, President Trump has amplified and extended his penchant for leveling conspiracy charges. The target is 'domestic terrorist organizations,' which seems to include such peaceful pro-democratic anti-communist entities as George Soros' Open Society Foundations. The effect is to describe the entirety of 'the left' as a conspiracy, bent on destroying the country, including the Democratic Party."

Muirhead continued: “The risk here is clear: conspiracy charges convert peaceful political opponents into enemies. Once that is accomplished, they no longer need to be respected or tolerated. They can be folded into shadowy 'domestic terrorism networks' and imprisoned — or worse."

Read Peter Stone's full article for The Guardian at this link.

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More than a month has passed since the fatal shooting of MAGA activist and Turning Point USA co-founder Charlie Kirk in Utah, and the murder continues to inspire an abundance of discussion on both the left and the right.

A long list of liberals, progressives, moderate Democrats and right-wing Never Trump (https://www.alternet.org/2020/11/trump) conservatives are making it abundantly clear that while they had major disagreements with Kirk, they wholeheartedly condemn the killing. Progressive Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York), for example, was critical of Kirk's politics but is vehement in condemning the attack and saying that progressives need to debate those they disagree with — not resort to violence.

Many in the MAGA movement, however, are blaming Democrats and Never Trumpers for his murder despite the fact they condemned it in no uncertain terms.

In an article published on October 11 (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/11/charlie-kirk-trump-maga-allies), The Guardian's Peter Stone warns that MAGA Republicans are using Kirk's murder as a pretext to silence their political opponents.

"Donald Trump and MAGA allies have capitalized on the killing of right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk to expand attacks on liberal groups, donors, Democrats, and others by tarring many critics as the 'enemy within' and 'radical left' in a move that legal scholars and historians call authoritarian and anti-democratic," Stone warns. "Kirk's killing by a lone gunman spurred Trump and top allies to quickly launch conspiratorial charges against a bevy of political foes and an investigation of billionaire liberal donor George Soros. They also threatened legal action against TV network ABC after their late-night star Jimmy Kimmel's suspension over clumsy comments about Kirk ended."

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Stone emphasizes that Kirk's murder has "provided cover for a sprawling retribution drive by the president and MAGA world that endangers civil liberties against an array of critics in the media, universities, non-profits and other parts of American civil society, say scholars."

Steven Levitsky, a professor at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts outside Boston and author of the book "How Democracies Die," described MAGA's response to Kirk's murder as an example of "Page 1 in the authoritarian playbook."

Levitsky told The Guardian, "You use political violence as a pretext to go after your political enemies. Some of them have been chomping at the bit to do this. They're going after mainstream opponents and other critics. They're defining unacceptable behavior as broadly as possible….. The goal is to tilt the playing field by going after anybody in civil society who could challenge them. One way to weaken them is to go after the funders using a false pretense by linking them to violence or illegal behavior."

Former federal prosecutor Paul Rosenzweig is highly critical of MAGA's push for a federal racketeering investigation of billionaire Democratic donor George Soros following Kirk's murder.

Rosenzweig told The Guardian, "Trump’s invocation of RICO to investigate Soros is frivolously wrong-headed. It is yet another example of his weaponization of the law to target his enemies."

Russell Muirhead, chairman of the Department of Government at Dartmouth University told The Guardian, "Since Charlie Kirk's murder, President Trump has amplified and extended his penchant for leveling conspiracy charges. The target is 'domestic terrorist organizations,' which seems to include such peaceful pro-democratic anti-communist entities as George Soros' Open Society Foundations. The effect is to describe the entirety of 'the left' as a conspiracy, bent on destroying the country, including the Democratic Party."

Muirhead continued: “The risk here is clear: conspiracy charges convert peaceful political opponents into enemies. Once that is accomplished, they no longer need to be respected or tolerated. They can be folded into shadowy 'domestic terrorism networks' and imprisoned — or worse."

*Read Peter Stone's full article for The Guardian at this link (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/11/charlie-kirk-trump-maga-allies).

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Angry that Bad Bunny has been chosen to perform at the Super Bowl, Turning Point USA will be hosting (https://www.americanhalftimeshow.com/) an alternate "All-American Halftime Show."

Racist far-right commentator Isabella Moody is desperately trying (https://x.com/IsabellaIsMoody/status/1975666334185976256) to get a position as a host of the "Her Take" podcast.

Sen. Tommy Tuberville responds (https://youtu.be/duo8skBryis?si=aenQc1gS9aeH1bJO&t=222) to those who are upset that "Israel [is] killing all these innocent people in Gaza": "What about the ten thousands Christians that have been killed this year in Nigeria by Islamic terrorists?"

Nick Fuentes declares (https://rumble.com/v7023uy-america-first-ep.-1577.html?start=13065) that "if you're not Catholic, you're going to Hell": "Catholics are Christians, protestants are heretics."

Finally, Joel Webbon says (https://www.youtube.com/live/wWxfE6vQ8HA?si=frakStcYrkdxy-Qh&t=1685) that "if you fire into a crowd of liberals, you've got about a hundred percent chance of hitting exclusively child predators."

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Oct 4, 2025 -

Politics & Policy

MAGA wages campaign to redefine "hate" after Kirk killing

al Axelrod,}:

Zachary Basu}:

Charlie Kirk speaking at a Turning Point USA Believers Summit conference in July 2024.

MAGA activists have launched a crusade against two of the nation's most storied civil rights watchdogs, accusing them of smearing conservatives as extremists.

Why it matters: For decades, the Anti-Defamation League and Southern Poverty Law Center have shaped America's understanding of hate. MAGA leaders — backed by the Trump administration and Elon Musk — are now trying to strip them of that influence.

Zoom in: FBI Director Kash Patel severed ties this week between the bureau and both the ADL and SPLC, the government's decades-long partners in tracking extremist networks, training FBI agents and consulting on hate-crime enforcement.

The rupture followed MAGA outrage that both organizations had listed Charlie Kirk's Turning Point USA in their online resources about hate groups.}:

The ADL accused Kirk's group of drawing "support from anti-Muslim bigots, alt-lite activists and some corners of the white supremacist alt-right," while the SPLC included the group on its "hate map," saying it has ties to "hard-right extremists."}:

Both pages predated Kirk's assassination, which MAGA activists argue was incited by the left's use of charged labels such as "fascist" and "Nazi." The ADL and SPLC both condemned the assassination.

Amid the backlash, the ADL removed its "Glossary of Extremism," saying some of the entries were outdated and were being "intentionally misrepresented and misused."}:

The SPLC kept its page posted, telling Axios: "We remain committed to exposing hate and extremism as we work to equip communities with knowledge and defend the rights and safety of marginalized people."}:

What they're saying: MAGA influencers have accused the groups of embodying the type of hate they were founded to combat.

"They are both part of an ecosystem leveraged by radical left vigilantes to dehumanize conservatives and stoke political violence. They provide the sheen of legitimacy for the left's violent foot soldiers," posted Kirk spokesman Andrew Kolvet.}:

Musk, who previously blamed the ADL for advertisers fleeing X over anti-semitic content, called both organizations "evil" and guilty of inciting Kirk's slaying.}:

"ADL has deep respect for the Federal Bureau of Investigation and law enforcement officers at all levels across the country who work tirelessly every single day to protect all Americans regardless of their ancestry, religion, ethnicity, faith, political affiliation or any other point of difference," the ADL said in a statement.

"In light of an unprecedented surge of antisemitism, we remain more committed than ever to our core purpose to protect the Jewish people."}:

Between the lines: Kirk drew scrutiny for comments about Islam being "incompatible with the West" and warnings about the "great replacement" of whites — rhetoric the watchdogs saw as echoing extremist talking points.

To many conservatives, that rhetoric doesn't merit a "hate" label: Its rejection by the mainstream is evidence that liberal elites are steering America away from what they see as its white Christian foundations.}:

MAGA sees the clash with the ADL and SPLC as less about Kirk than the freedom to debate politics and demographics without being branded hateful.}:

In other words, a movement consumed with fighting "cancel culture" is seeking to redraw the boundaries of permissible speech by targeting the referees.

"Charlie never believed in speech codes, and neither do we," said Jack Posobiec, a MAGA podcaster and longtime Kirk friend who has helped lead the campaigns against the ADL and SPLC.}:

Context: MAGA's backlash to the civil rights groups comes as the number of hate crimes in the past few years hit record levels. Analysts say antisemitic crimes rose again last year.

More than half of hate crimes recorded last year involved attacks motivated by race or ethnicity, the FBI Crime Data Explorer database showed.}:

Black Americans were the most targeted group, followed by Jewish Americans, then gay men, according to the data.}:

What to watch: MAGA's efforts to take down the ADL and SPLC go beyond just government partnerships.

Activists are now pressuring PayPal over its use of ADL and SPLC research to bar "extremists" from its platforms, and Google for prioritizing the groups' resource pages on search.}:

"America will be greater when these hate factories are discredited and disbanded," Posobiec said.}:

Axios' Russell Contreras contributed to this article.

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ADL split marks FBI shift away from targeting right-wing violence, scholars say

FBI director Kash Patel ended the bureau's long-standing partnership with the Anti-Defamation League this week. Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

The FBI's split with the Anti-Defamation League this week is the latest evidence that the Trump administration is moving away from targeting hate groups in favor of investigating what it deems left-wing violence, scholars told Axios.

Why it matters: The ADL had, since at least 1940, worked with law enforcement to combat extremism and antisemitism, which the Trump administration has maintained is still a priority.

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FBI Director Kash Patel ended the bureau's long-standing partnership with the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), the prominent civil rights group that has worked with law enforcement to combat antisemitism and extremism.

Why it matters: His announcement came after the ADL faced right-wing backlash for its web pages on the Christian Identity movement and Turning Point USA, the group founded by slain MAGA activist Charlie Kirk.

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Republicans embrace speech limits

President Trump and MAGA spent years lampooning censorship, discrimination against conservatives, and progressive "cancel culture."

Now in power — and riding an outpouring of grief and fury over Charlie Kirk's tragic killing — they're enforcing speech codes to punish ideological opponents.

Why it matters: Backed by the Trump administration, digital vigilantes are demanding arrests, firings and deportations for anti-Kirk posts and remarks.

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Barbara F. Walter, author of “How Civil Wars Start and How to Stop Them, warned Sunday that democracy in the United States is in decline and President Donald Trump (https://www.alternet.org/2020/11/trump) could create "fake emergencies" to intensify his campaign against his opponents.

Speaking ata podcast onThe Bulwark (https://www.thebulwark.com/p/are-we-really-headed-for-a-second?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=87281&post_id=175224526&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=bg13&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email)posted Sunday morning, Walter said, "I think American democracy is in a really sad place, actually. It's in a place of democratic decline. It's probably likely in the near future to be in a place of economic decline. And these are things that are not going to turn around anytime soon. If you look at the underlying conditions for political violence, the United States, unfortunately, has all of them right now."

She continued: "Political violence tends to happen in countries with weak and declining democracy, especially democracies that are changing rapidly and moving more and more towards autocracy. We call those anocracies, and that's actually the most dangerous place to be. Full, healthy democracies almost never experience political violence."

She added that hardcore autocracies rarely experience political violence, and most of the violence happens in the middle.

"And since January 2025 of this year, America's democracy has declined faster than it ever has in its history. And it's declined faster than democracy in any other advanced industrialized democracy in the world," she added.

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Likening Trump to a "wannabe dictator," Walter said the president could use "fake emergencies" to "clamp down on citizens."

"These types of sort of fake emergencies allow these wannabe dictators to declare a state of emergency, declare martial law, and basically just clamp down on citizens so that citizens aren't allowed to leave their homes," she said.

She added: "There's curfews. Soldiers are now patrolling the streets. There's roadblocks. And this effectively ends democracy. So people were saying, okay, is theCharlie Kirk murder, (https://www.alternet.org/2673981072/) and in particular, the Republican Party's reaction to it, that this is almost a declaration of war by the left. People were worried that that would be that type of situation."

Walter also warned that Trump does not see the American constitution as an impediment.

"I don't think Trump sees the Constitution as an impediment in any way. [Viktor] Orban did not see Hungary's Constitution as an impediment. He simply changed it. Netanyahu doesn't see Israel's Constitution as an impediment. You know, these guys are bullies and strongmen, and they just push their way through and see if anybody stops them," she said.

The analyst noted that following conservative activist Charlie Kirk's murder, many expected a war on the left by the Trump administration, but it didn't play out that way. The administration, she argued, is now looking for a bigger reason to ramp up its efforts to go after its opponents.

"The Trump administration isn't ready to declare a state of emergency and to basically take control of the potential hotspots for opposition. Those hotspots for opposition are going to be America's big cities," she said.

Walter added: "It's hard for most Americans to feel deeply threatened because an outspoken activist on the right was killed. They might be horrified by it. They might desperately wish it never happens again, but they don't feel personally threatened by it. And for people to be willing to give up their rights and freedoms to say, 'okay, martial law is okay with me.' They have to be, they have to truly believe that their and their family safety is threatened. And Charlie Kirk's murder didn't do that. So it's going to have to be something bigger than that," she said, noting that Trump is still trying to "create a situation" where he can "suddenly grab all power."

"That's where you have most of the people who disagree with Trump, feel threatened by Trump. And he doesn't have his soldiers in place there. He started to do that in Washington, D.C., in Los Angeles, and he tried to do that in Chicago. But he's not ready for the moment to sort of pull the trigger," she said.

Asked if this democratic backsliding could lead to a civil war in the U.S., Walter said, "So the main point I want to make is that citizens are much more powerful than they think they are. There's over 330 million of us. You know, think back to your time at school in the schoolyard. You know, everybody's seen bullies operate and and they see what happens when the you know, the kids in the schoolyard, dozens of them, just stand up."

She continued: "Bullies tend to wither. We have 300 and, you know, over 330 million Americans. And if we just in our own separate individual ways, simply just started silently and peacefully resisting, not voluntarily complying when we're told that to do something that's illegal .So there's a whole series of things. And then protest is the greatest tool," she added.

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In an article for the New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/opinion/charlie-kirk-republican-reaction.html)published Sunday, Steven Pinker, a professor of psychology at Harvard University, argued that modern political outrage operates according to what he calls mob logic, a form of communal outrage grounded in shared expectations and social coordination.

Pinker began by describing how theassassination of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk (https://www.alternet.org/2673981072/) elicited an intense wave of symbolic reactions: Kirk was sanctified as a martyr, and dissenters were attacked for failing to show proper devotion.

The response, he contended, aligns with the phenomenon that economist Thomas Schelling and anthropologist John Tooby termed “common knowledge,” in which an event becomes a shared social signal that everyone knows, and everyone knows that everyone knows, and so on.

According to Pinker, communal outrage follows a predictable sequence:

A public attack is framed as targeting a person because of group identity. The story spreads rapidly — sometimes amplified or distorted. The victim becomes a symbolic figure for the group. The incident is treated as an intolerable violation, and doubt or questioning is stigmatized.

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The group then retaliates disproportionately, often targeting perceived enemies regardless of their actual involvement.

Pinker sees the post‑Kirk reaction as a textbook case: political leaders threatened reprisals, agencies pressured media, and public figures called for broad retribution. Meanwhile, private citizens demanded firings and punishments of anyone whose statements deviated from the sanctified narrative.

*The psychologist distinguished communal outrage from calculated revenge. He noted that revenge is targeted, proportional and strategic. Communal outrage, by contrast, solves a coordination dilemma — the problem of how a group acts in concert when multiple strategies exist but only one can succeed. Outrage becomes a focal point: a visible, unanimous act that signals dominance and enforces internal solidarity, he argued.

He identified two coordination problems that outrage resolves:

Dominance contest, when a group that fails to defend a member signals weakness and invites further attacks. A conspicuous rebuttal reasserts status in the face of the audience of rivals.

Internal cohesion, which means Individuals may hesitate to act unless they see others doing so. An outrage incident makes public the moment to unite and act together.

Pinker drew parallels with historical episodes of communal outrage — from the U.S. battleship Maine explosion, to the Reichstag fire, to the Arab Spring, to the reaction sparked by George Floyd’s killing — and notes that the outcomes differ depending on how the incident is framed and how “outrage entrepreneurs” shape the narrative.

"It’s often been pointed out that Mr. Trump (https://www.alternet.org/2020/11/trump) and the MAGA movement have a chronic sense of being disrespected. Mr. Trump fumed for decades about being looked down on by coastal elites, and his pique has grown with each investigation, indictment and impeachment. For many of his followers, these insults merged with a smoldering resentment at the creeping takeover by leftist values in public life, from government mandates to popular entertainment," Pinker wrote.

He added: "Mr. Kirk’s killing is, for all of them, a perfect outrage incident. As an advocate of MAGA willing to take the battle to the enemy, Mr. Kirk was a pre-eminent symbol of the coalition. And his suspected killer, an internet-addled loner with a gun, nonetheless has enough left-adjacent trappings (a transgender partner, some antifascist memes) that he can be mentally fitted into a vast liberal conspiracy. The shooting was an unendurable public offense, which mobilized the coalition to muster its forces, in this case a combination of government muscle and social media shaming mobs, to rectify the affront."

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MSNBC Daily opinion editor Jarvis DeBerry said (https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/maga-debate-charlie-kirk-tennessee-state-university-dei-rcna233698) Tennessee State University security did the right thing when they escorted two uninvited Charlie Kirk wannabes off the HBCU’s campus. (https://www.newschannel5.com/news/state/tennessee/davidson-county/conservative-group-removed-from-tennessee-hbcu-after-unannounced-visit)

Both without permits, the two white men set up a table on the Nashville grounds, taped inflammatory signs to their table and dared Black students to “debate” them in Kirk’s “Prove Me Wrong” style (https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/erika-kirk-named-ceo-turning-point-usa-charlie-kirk-assassination-rcna232191). Students responded instead with jeers, gestures and laughingly bolted away with their signs (https://www.instagram.com/fearlessdebates/reel/DPFUgwzgPOF/) before security intervened and escorted them away, seemingly for their own safety.

“The pair’s provocation was not received well at TSU, which, of course, was the visitors’ point: to be rejected, to characterize the Black students as intolerant of debate and to gloat that they’d won their arguments by virtue of the Black students being intolerant of their presence,” wrote DeBerry, noting the two made a point to record their dismissal (https://www.instagram.com/p/DO9TzdRD4n2/?utm_source=ig_embed&ig_rid=08085aa0-2563-4a93-8b1d-054623016a5f) for MAGA online fans to crucify.

DeBerry said it was unfortunate to see so many people on social media claiming TSU students, should have responded by debating the pair, especially since the men were not looking for debate.

“The proposition that the students should have debated their obnoxious guests reminds me of a theory being promoted in journalism circles some years ago,” said DeBerry, citing requests by editors that opinion writers and columnists sound off in comment sections.

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“[Reporters would] be showing that we’re real people, our editors insisted, and we’d be encouraging similarly civil people to participate, which would help transform the tone of such sections,” said DeBerry. “The guidance was based on the faulty premise that people were in the comments section for a good-faith exchange of ideas — when most were there only to be obnoxious and “pwn” the opposition.”

It was a faulty argument, and foolish to think “folks with such a mindset were interested in debate,” said DeBerry, who described the online exchange as a “waste of time.”

“This is good advice in real life, too,” DeBerry added. “That’s why the students shouldn’t feel any embarrassment or shame in not falling into the ‘debate me’ trap. Because that’s all it is: a trap.”

Real debates are intellectual exercises between people who are factually prepared and open to persuasion, said DeBerry. The ultimate goal is a pursuit of truth, not “owning” the opposition or grandstanding.

“It’s a shame that since Kirk’s death, arguing in bad faith has become characterized as virtuous and edifying. It’s not. And it’s not beneficial to try to rebut people making bad faith arguments because, by definition, people making bad faith arguments can’t be persuaded of anything,” DeBerry said. “No, the students at TSU didn’t owe the so-called debaters any of their time or attention. Like so many HBCU students since Kirk’s death, saying “Leave us alone” is enough.

Read the full MSNBC report at this link (https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/maga-debate-charlie-kirk-tennessee-state-university-dei-rcna233698).

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09/24/2025

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Kyle Mantyla (https://www.peoplefor.org/post_author/kyle-mantyla)

Katherine Kelaidis @ Vox (https://www.vox.com/politics/462486/charlie-kirk-maga-christian-evangelical-martyr-trump): MAGA’s first martyr

The killing of Charlie Kirk could turn the movement into a faith that outlives Donald Trump.

William Bredderman and Aneela Mirchandani @ Mother Jones (https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/09/inside-the-hidden-conservative-network-bankrolling-an-ecosystem-of-right-wing-news-informing-america-john-solomon-war-room/): Inside the Hidden Conservative Network Bankrolling an “Ecosystem” of Right-Wing News

John Solomon’s Informing America set out to create an echo chamber to shape public opinion. It’s working.

The Throckmorton Initiative (https://warrenthrockmorton.substack.com/p/david-barton-appointed-texas-history): David Barton Appointed Texas History Advisor

State Board of Education picks Barton for advice on history.

Jonathan Greco @ KOCO (https://www.koco.com/article/charlie-kirk-turning-point-usa-oklahoma-schools-ryan-walters/68017787): Ryan Walters says every Oklahoma high school will have a Turning Point USA Club America chapter

Turning Point USA, which was co-founded by Charlie Kirk, helps organize and educate students in conservative principles.

Will Neal @ The Daily Beast (https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trumps-justice-department-goon-ed-martin-targets-fbi-agent-who-sued-alex-jones-over-sandy-hook/): Trump Goon Threatens Sandy Hook Hero for Suing Alex Jones

InfoWars founder celebrates after DOJ asks questions about FBI special agent who responded to the Connecticut school shooting.

Matt Ford @ The New Republic (https://newrepublic.com/article/199773/roberts-court-winning-war-american-democracy): The Roberts Court Is Winning Its War on American Democracy

Twenty years ago, Chief Justice John Roberts took the oath of office and ushered in a new era for the Supreme Court. His 2005 confirmation vote marked the transition from the Rehnquist court—where a narrow majority of conservatives and moderates had largely maintained the status quo on abortion, affirmative action, and voting rights—into something much more reactionary.

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Charlie Kirk was a fossil fuel industry plant

Big Oil's money gave Kirk a larger platform to spread baseless climate conspiracy theories—as well as other extremist views.

Emily Atkin

Sep 18, 2025

The term “plant” is often used to describe someone whose success was not solely the result of a grassroots movement, but instead bolstered by powerful corporate interests who secretly poured massive amounts of money into ensuring their fame.

For example: Charlie Kirk was a fossil fuel industry plant. The right-wing activist murdered last week built his massive platform for racism, sexism, transphobia and climate denial in part by using anonymous funding from Big Oil.

Turning Point USA, the group Kirk founded to ignite a culture war on college campuses, has managed to hide much of its funding sources. Roughly half of the group’s $40 million in income in 2020 came from 10 anonymous donors, NBC News reported.

But in 2017, Kirk admitted that some of the group’s anonymous donors “are in the fossil fuel space.” Speaking to The New Yorker’s Jane Mayer, Kirk disclosed that he’d fundraised for TPUSA at the annual meeting of the Independent Petroleum Association of America (IPAA), as well as the 2017 board meeting of the National Mining Association.

In those meetings, Kirk promised oil and gas companies he’d fight “the myth that fossil fuels are dirty,” and target the “leftist professors” on college campuses who “perpetuated” the “myth.”

The meetings “went great,” Kirk told Mayer. The IPAA’s president, Barry Russell, wound up joining TPUSA’s advisory council, where he remains today. (Kirk had said that most advisory council members are also TPUSA donors).

How Kirk tried to re-popularize climate denial

Over the next nine years, Kirk worked to chip away at young Americans’ rising concerns about climate change. He did this by claiming climate science is still debated—and then peddling the conspiracy theory that all climate policies are a Democratic bid for government control.

“A tyrant’s fantasy is to have a massive green economy transition,” he said in 2023. “You can get rid of private property, you can control people’s movements. It’s fundamentally the abolition of civilization as we know it.”

To justify his claim that climate science is unsettled, Kirk would often cite “experts” who downplay the seriousness of planetary heating. For example, in 2023, Kirk claimed climate science is “debated” because “a Nobel prize winning scientist recently came out and said there is no real climate crisis.” Kirk also cited the opinions of John Coleman, the now-deceased founder of the Weather Channel, as evidence that climate change is a hoax.

But the experts Kirk cited were almost always unqualified. For example, Coleman was a meteorologist, not a climate scientist, and his claims were frequently debunked by publishing climate scientists. The Nobel-Prize-winning scientist Kirk referenced, John Clauser, is not a climate scientist, and won the Nobel for physics in the 1970s. No other Nobel Prize-winning physicist denies mainstream climate science; in fact, some of them are climate scientists themselves.

Coincidentally, Kirk never considered the opinions of publishing climate scientists to be credible. Instead, he reflexively dismissed their warnings as "garbage … designed for one thing: power and control.”

A YouTube caption for one of Kirk’s videos calls climate change “nonsense” and “boulder dash” [sic]

Kirk’s final climate segment

Kirk’s continued to frame climate change as a conspiracy in an interview with Trump’s Secretary of Energy Chris Wright three weeks before his death.

In the interview, Kirk and Wright spoke about the Department of Energy’s recently-released 151-page report claiming climate change is not a serious problem. That report was put together by five contrarian scientists personally recruited by Wright, a former fracking executive.

Kirk praised the report, and dismissed all criticism against it as politically motivated. “We think this is all politicized,” Kirk said. “This is driven towards a environmentalist agenda that is trying to weaken American energy dominance.”

Wright agreed, and said all the critics of his climate report only took issue with who wrote it—not the data within it. “They want to impugn the writers or impugn the way we reference people,” Wright said. “They want to find little things. What we want to talk about is the data.”

This, however, was objectively false. The data within Wright’s report was meticulously criticized by 85 publishing climate scientists, who issued a 439-page rebuttal pointing out various misrepresentations, messy citations, cherry-picking, and factual errors. In addition, many of the scientists cited in Wright’s report complained that their data was misrepresented, and explained their complaints in detail.

Perhaps the most mind-boggling part of Kirk’s final climate interview, however, was the argument he used to claim there can be no such thing as a scientific consensus about climate change.

”Science does not have consensus,” he said. “This is a very important thing. Right? Science says nothing. Scientists say things. Okay? Science never talks. Science is silent. This is a good thing that could apply to everything.”

Kirk was certainly correct that scientists say things. But over the course of his life, Kirk was set on ignoring most of them. For example, the vast majority of publishing climate scientists have been saying the same thing over and over for decades: That heat-trapping pollution from fossil fuels, industrial agriculture, and deforestation is steadily raising the average temperature of the planet—and that the warming poses an existential threat to human, animal and plant life.

Kirk ignored those scientists for a simple reason: Because listening to them would mean accepting that fossil fuels harm people. Neither Kirk nor his donors could accept that reality.

The inseparable connection between climate denial and right-wing extremism

The point of this newsletter is not to claim that Kirk was paid by the fossil fuel industry to say things he didn’t believe about climate change. I think most online political commentators genuinely believe what they’re saying, no matter who they’re funded by.

The point is to reinforce what has been true for decades: the fossil fuel industry is behind most of the climate disinformation you see and hear today.

Big Oil has spent billions sowing doubt about the reality and severity of climate change. They’ve done this for one reason: Solving climate change would require using less of their product, and using less of their product would hurt their bottom line.

Pretty much everyone with a massive following who spreads climate denial derives money or power from fossil fuels. The sooner everyone understands that, the better.

The other point here is to remind everyone about the inseparable connection between climate denial and other types of right-wing extremism. Often, you’ll hear climate activists debate whether it’s a good idea to get involved in larger movements for justice, or whether it’s better to just “stay in their lane” of climate policy.

The opposition to climate action is not having that debate. Instead, they are funding right-wing extremists who say things like the Civil Rights Act was "huge mistake;” that Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was "a diversity hire;" that trans people are responsible for inflation; and that Taylor Swift should "submit to [her] husband." As long as “climate change is fake” is part of that rhetoric, they don’t care what the rest of it looks like.

Racism, sexism, and transphobia is being used to build the climate denier base. If you want climate action, you can’t pick and choose which you fight back against.

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In their quest for retribution for the slaying of far-right podcaster Charlie Kirk, MAGA is "dragging their allies in government down a rabbit hole of online conspiracy theories," according to an Axios (https://www.axios.com/2025/09/24/maga-conspiracies-charlie-kirk-shooting-trump)report.

Following the FBI's failure (https://www.alternet.org/charlie-kirk-killer-left-wing/) to connect Kirk's killer to any left-wing movement or ideology, MAGA, says Axios, is "hungry for a crackdown."

The problem is, Axios says, "its enemy (https://www.alternet.org/the-ugly-aftermath-of-charlie-kirk-s/) is ill-defined, and its definition of success is wholly unclear. A lack of answers from the Trump (https://www.alternet.org/2020/11/trump) administration could leave vast swathes of the base deeply disappointed."

In their desperation for someone or something to point their fingers at, "theories about sprawling 'leftist' networks, accomplices at the scene of Kirk's slaying in Utah, or overseas involvement are being treated as live leads — even in the absence of hard evidence," Axios explains.

One of those conspiracy theories is that Kirk's alleged assassin Tyler Robinson (https://www.alternet.org/tyler-robinson-die-laughing/) didn't act alone, despite any evidence of any accomplice(s). Another focuses on Robinson'stext messages (https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c99g1e0z2ero) with his roommate and alleged partner and friends, which conspiracy theorists allege were staged to clear others of any connection to knowledge of the shooting before it happened.

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Experts told NBC News (https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-administration-says-will-target-far-left-groups-kirks-assassinat-rcna231605) that "the Trump administration appears to be using Kirk’s assassination as an excuse to crack down on left-wing people and groups."

"You've got to get to the bottom of these groups, you've got to get to the bottom of antifa, you've got to see if there's any connections to Butler," said "War Room" host and President Donald Trump's first term chief White House strategist Steve Bannon (https://www.alternet.org/steve-bannon-trump-cabinet/), referring to the 2024 assassination attempt Trump in Pennsylvania.'

"We've got a whole lot of work to do, and no, I'm not buying the script that was in thetext messages (https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/16/us/text-message-tyler-robinson-roomate-vis)," he added.

Axios says that Trump's recent crackdown on the nonexistent antifa — a portmanteau for "Anti Fascist" — is also driving the conspiracy theories, despite the fact that experts say Robinson was anything but an anti-fascist even if he did write "Hey fascist! Catch!" on a bullet casing. (https://www.alternet.org/2673989223/)

"Robinson is not a central-casting, rabble-rousing, far-left activist. He sounds about as far as you can get from antifa. He drove a Dodge Challenger, for goodness' sake,"quipped (https://www.alternet.org/kirk-robinson-antifa/)the Daily Beast's David Gardner in an op-ed.

Another suggestion Axios calls "baseless" is that Israel was involved in Kirk's killing, leading to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to release avideo (https://youtu.be/PMoUCszF7lo)debunking it, calling it a "monstrous lie." VID]

"Conspiracy theories are an inevitable part of any assassination," Axios says. "But with MAGA's grip on the Trump administration, unproven speculation is being elevated into official policy."

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Kyle Mantyla (https://www.peoplefor.org/post_author/kyle-mantyla)

Jim Garlow says (https://myemail.constantcontact.com/My-Analysis-of-and-My-Emotions-Felt-at-Charlie-Kirk-s-Memorial-Service.html?soid=1132914594688&aid=R_EhkE-bKSQ) that Charlie Kirk's memorial service "will go down in history as one of America’s – and maybe the world’s – most significant days."

Tony Perkins, on the other hand, was (https://youtu.be/hMmlz_M8LHU?si=E8p4IXu_hhoSyLLF&t=172) "troubled by a few of the speeches" at Kirk's memorial service because some of the speakers seemed to be delivering "a political Gospel."

Indiana Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith believes (https://www.youtube.com/live/Uo-94YH66h0?si=mjPItj3Co05TEbvh&t=3220) that Kirk is now in Heaven "getting handshakes from Moses."

Tim Barton claims (https://www.buzzsprout.com/2077254/episodes/17890125?t=287) that Democrats who refused to vote for a House resolution (https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/09/19/congress/house-approves-kirk-resolution-00572967) honoring Kirk were "choosing the side of the devil."

Joel Webbon thinks (https://www.youtube.com/live/VJECfEtN_tY?si=wzLhlayGSMPQ3ygx&t=4472) that Erika Kirk's decision to forgive (https://www.npr.org/2025/09/21/nx-s1-5549416/erika-kirk-speech-charlie-memorial-trump-robinson) her husband's killer shows "why you can't have women in leadership."

Finally, in the wake of Kirk's murder, Andrew Isker wants (https://www.youtube.com/live/uB3Bu_p2PZ8?si=VFGVnTfbiQ-zmQ5F&t=5716) to see "a maximum amount of force is wielded against the left in this country to such an extent that even I might get uncomfortable": "If I start to be uncomfortable, then it's like, okay, we are on the right track."

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Kyle Mantyla (https://www.peoplefor.org/post_author/kyle-mantyla)

Carol Leonnig and Ken Dilanian @ MSNBC (https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/tom-homan-cash-contracts-trump-doj-investigation-rcna232568): Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down.

The FBI and Justice officials closed the investigation, which a Justice Department appointee had called a “deep state” probe in early 2025.

J Oliver Conroy @ The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/20/charlie-kirk-martyr-christian-nationalist-movement): ‘The devil is not gonna win’: how Charlie Kirk became a Christian nationalist martyr

The rightwing pundit’s meteoric career was in some ways a microcosm of the rise of Trump-era Christian nationalism.

Sanjana Karanth and Li Zhou @ HuffPost (https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-charlie-kirk-memorial-speech_n_68d08e62e4b00815ca12d012): Trump Proudly Separates Himself From Charlie Kirk As A Certified Hater

The president unabashedly said that he views his opponents very differently from how the conservative activist did.

Jack Jenkins @ Religion News Service (https://religionnews.com/2025/09/22/at-charlie-kirk-memorial-religion-politics-and-antagonism-toward-liberals-combine/): At Charlie Kirk's memorial, religion, politics and antagonism toward liberals combine

A who’s who of right-wing figures, conservative dignitaries, Trump administration officials and Trump himself regaled a sprawling crowd of tens of thousands with speeches that mixed religious appeals with personal remembrances of Kirk.

Robert McCoy @ The New Republic (https://newrepublic.com/post/200727/stephen-miller-charlie-kirk-tribute): Stephen Miller’s Charlie Kirk Tribute Was as Sinister as It Gets

Donald Trump’s adviser used the Charlie Kirk memorial to warn of the “wickedness” of “our enemies.”

GPAHE (https://globalextremism.org/post/kirks-murder-sparks-calls-for-civil-war-and-violent-retribution/): Charlie Kirk’s Murder Sparks Calls for Civil War And Violent Retribution Against Political Opponents

The murder of Charlie Kirk on the Utah Valley University campus has ratcheted up political tension at home and abroad. Kirk, a far-right commentator and founder of Turning Point USA (TPUSA), was fatally shot on September 10, 2025, while holding a question-and-answer session at an outdoor amphitheater. Kirk’s assassination, captured on video and rapidly disseminated online, has been weaponized by far-right activists, politicians, and extremist groups, many of whom are calling for retaliation and violent retribution. Some of those demanding action have millions of followers.

Sophia Tesfaye @ Salon (https://www.salon.com/2025/09/22/meet-the-white-house-reporter-egging-on-trumps-crackdown/): Meet the White House reporter egging on Trump’s crackdown

Brian Glenn, Trump’s favorite correspondent, is on a crusade to crush free speech.

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President Donald Trump (https://www.alternet.org/2020/11/trump) may have rode the MAGA wave to the presidency twice and been the face of the movement, but one commentator is arguing that Trump may have been replaced as its de facto leader.

In a Monday op-ed for the Daily Beast (https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-maga-movement-is-gearing-up-to-dump-donald-trump-heres-his-replacement/), columnist Michael Rothkopf wrote that Trump had been usurped as the face of the MAGA movement following Sunday's memorial service for slain far-right activist Charlie Kirk (https://www.alternet.org/2673981072/). He observed that Trump was remarkably "not the center of attention" at the event, and "seemed almost out of place" given how his brash remarks collided with the somber nature of the ceremonies.

According to Rothkopf, the centerpieces of Kirk's funeral were his wife, Erika (who has assumed the role of leadership following her husband's murder) and Vice President JD Vance. But the Daily Beast columnist noted that in MAGA's next phase as an explicitly Christian nationalist movement, its central figure may be Jesus.

"On the face of it, it's hard to object to such a shift," Rothkopf wrote. "Clearly, such a move would be a big step up, a transition from one of the worst of men, a living catalogue of vices who has been supported his entire life by the wages of sin, to a deity, the epitome of virtue."

"But there are deeply troubling elements to this trend. First, of course, is the fact that not all Americans are Christian or even religious, and that one of the principles on which this country was founded was the separation of church and state," he continued. "Also troubling is the degree to which so many televangelists in America have themselves become corrupted by money and power. Nothing illustrates this fact so well as their embrace of as corrupt a person as Trump as an agent of a Higher Power, a quasi-religious figure himself."

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Rothkopf posited that given Trump's rise and his popularity with evangelical Christians, there is an element of "hucksterism and con-artistry" inherent among "prominent church leaders" who support Trump. He further asserted that evangelicals may be replacing "one type of hypocritical con with another," and that the essence of the MAGA movement is still one that pits righteous believers against sinful non-believers.

"Taking us from an America divided by politics to one divided by religion — into virtuous true believers and those who are destined for Hell — is not exactly progress," he wrote. "Further, putting a new face on this movement, even if it is the face of Jesus himself, will not exactly divest it of other elements like racism or misogyny. Certainly, studying the work of the man whose life was celebrated — and the fact that it was celebrated — on Sunday demonstrates this clearly."

Click here (https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-maga-movement-is-gearing-up-to-dump-donald-trump-heres-his-replacement/) to read Rothkopf's op-ed in full (subscription required).

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an 9 25

Florida Attorney General (https://www.alternet.org/trump-court-legal/)James Uthmeier (R) has announced the launch of a new tool for members of the public to report “acts or threats of political violence" as well as social media posts of public school teachers, according to the Tampa Bay Times. (https://www.tampabay.com/news/education/2025/09/23/florida-ag-launches-public-reporting-tool-teacher-social-media-posts/)

Uthmeier, chairman of the ironically named far-right "Florida Freedom Fund" political action committee associated with Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL), has the backing of Florida Education Commissioner Anastasios Kamoutsas, who, recently sent a letter to public school superintendents threatening teachers (https://www.alternet.org/florida-charlie-kirk/) who publicly express negative opinions about deceased far-right activist Charlie Kirk (https://www.alternet.org/2673981072/).

In a statement attached to Uthmeier's announcement, Kamoutsas said that “any educator who makes vile, despicable comments celebrating and encouraging violence in schools will be investigated and held accountable.”

According to The Tallahassee Democrat (https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/local/state/2025/09/22/florida-attorney-general-introduces-portal-to-report-violent-spehttps://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/local/state/2025/09/22/florida-attorney-general-introduces-portal-to-report-violent-speech/86290406007/ech/86290406007/), Uthmeier said that "while the First Amendment will be upheld, threats of violence (https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/local/state/2025/09/22/florida-attorney-general-introduces-portal-to-report-violent-spehttps://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/local/state/2025/09/22/florida-attorney-general-introduces-portal-to-report-violent-speech/86290406007/ech/86290406007/) won’t be tolerated."

In the wake of Kirk's death, several Florida public school teachers have lost their jobs and status or been put on leave, including Karen Leader, an associate art history professor at Florida Atlantic University, placed on leave for posting about the right-wing podcaster's history of hate speech. (https://hyperallergic.com/1043397/art-history-professor-placed-on-leave-over-charlie-kirk-posts/)

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A retired University of Florida professor lost his honorary title after posting about Kirk (https://www.tampabay.com/news/education/2025/09/20/retired-uf-professor-loses-honorary-title-over-charlie-kirk-post/), “I did not want him to die. I reserve that wish for Trump (https://www.alternet.org/2020/11/trump)," and other professors' posts are under investigation by the state along with teachers at several K-12 schools throughout the state.

“I didn’t say anything or do anything that encouraged violence at all,” Leader told Hyperallergic. (https://hyperallergic.com/1043397/art-history-professor-placed-on-leave-over-charlie-kirk-posts/)“I did not say or do anything that celebrated his death, that said he deserved it, that in any way, shape or form, condoned violence.”

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NBC News reports the federal investigation into the assassination of MAGA activist Charlie Kirk has yet to uncover a link between alleged shooter Tyler Robinson and the left-wing groups that President Donald Trump (https://www.alternet.org/2020/11/trump) and his administration have pledged to prosecute.

“Every indication so far is that this was one guy who did one really bad thing because he found Kirk’s ideology personally offensive,” an anonymous source familiar with the investigation told NBC.

Two other anonymous sources familiar with the investigation told NBC it may not even be easy to charge Robinson at the federal level for the alleged assassination, considering Robinson, a Utah resident, did not travel from out of state to allegedly commit the murder. Kirk was shot during an open campus debate at Utah Valley University.

Additionally, Kirk is not a federal officer or elected official, which NBC reports further complicates categorizing the investigation as a federal matter.

Robinson is currently facing state charges, chiefly for aggravated murder and obstruction of justice, among others. State prosecutors are seeking the death penalty.

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Officially, Trump’s Department of Justice offered no comment on the issue.

“The investigation is ongoing and beyond that we decline to comment,” a spokesperson told NBC.

Thomas Brzozowski, former Justice Department’s counsel for domestic terrorism, told NBC News that while Kirk’s assassination appears to meet the definition of domestic terrorism, identifying a federal charge to bring against the shooter may prove a challenge.

“As is always the case, the FBI needs a federal hook to initiate an investigation,” Brzozowski said, adding that currently the FBI is “acting in an assistance to state authorities’ capacity.”

Prosecutors can seek a sentencing enhancement after conviction.

Despite the current absence of evidence linking the suspect to left-wing groups, White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller was quick to demonize such organizations, calling them a “vast domestic terror movement (https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/stephen-miller-vengeance-charlie-kirk-murder-rcna231329).”

“With God as my witness, we are going to use every resource we have at the Department of Justice, Homeland Security and throughout this government to identify, disrupt, dismantle and destroy these networks and make America safe again for the American people,” Miller said, according to NBC. “It will happen, and we will do it in Charlie’s name.”

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Far-right MAGA pundit Candace Owens is claiming (https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/candace-owens-fallout-with-charlie-kirk-pastor-rob-mccoy-hits-back-over-conspiracy-theories-101758069311143.html) that Turning Point USA's Charlie Kirk was getting ready to convert to Catholicism (https://www.alternet.org/candace-owens-kirk-bulwark-2674009532/) near the end of his life, but evangelical Christian fundamentalists are denying that claim. And reporters Sam Stein and Will Sommer appeared skeptical about that alleged conversion during a conversation for the conservative website The Bulwark.

Kirk, who was 31 when he was fatally shot in Utah, was closely identified with evangelical Christian nationalism. And The Guardian's J. Oliver Conroy, in an article published on September 20 (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/20/charlie-kirk-martyr-christian-nationalist-movement), reports that Christian nationalists are "positioning Charlie Kirk as a martyr for their movement."

After Kirk's murder, his widow, Erika Kirk, posted, on Instagram, that the "world is evil" and declared, "They have no idea what they just ignited within this wife."

Author Jeff Sharlet, known for his writings on Christian nationalism, discussed Erika Kirk's comments with The Guardian — warning, "That's holy war, that's accelerationism, and it's incredibly powerful."

Conroy notes some of the other things far-right Christian nationalists have been saying since Kirk's death.

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In a video, megachurch pastor Matt Tuggle said of Kirk's murder, "If your pastor isn't telling you the left believes (in an) evil demonic belief system, you are in the wrong church."

Sean Feucht, a Christian nationalist pastor who worked with Kirk, said, "We know that the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church. The devil is not gonna win. The forces want us to be silent; they want us to shut up.… We need to be more bold."

Conroy describes Christian nationalism as "the belief that the U.S. is and should be an explicitly Christian nation."

"Kirk had been an evangelical Christian since childhood but earlier in his career, expressed reluctance at politicizing his religious views," Conroy explains. "That changed during the peak of the early pandemic, when Kirk made the acquaintance of several charismatic megachurch pastors protesting church lockdowns. He began to traffic in ideas influenced by the (New Apostolic Reformation),including the seven-mountain mandate. Turning Point USA also began to forge partnerships with churches."

*Read J. Oliver Conroy's full article for The Guardian at this link (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/20/charlie-kirk-martyr-christian-nationalist-movement).

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Billionaire Bill Ackman convened stormy Israel ‘intervention’ with Charlie Kirk, sources say - The Grayzone (https://thegrayzone.com/2025/09/15/bill-ackman-israel-intervention-charlie-kirk/)

billionaire Bill Ackman convened stormy Israel ‘intervention’ with Charlie Kirk, sources say

Max Blumenthal (https://thegrayzone.com/author/max-blumenthal/)·September 15, 2025

A month before Charlie Kirk’s killing, billionaire pro-Israel moneyman Bill Ackman arranged an intervention in the Hamptons during which sources say he and others “hammered” Kirk for the conservative leader’s growing criticism of Israeli influence in Washington. Kirk came away fretting about Israeli “blackmail,” sources say, as he contemplated a Catholic conversion.

On September 11, one day after the assassination of Charlie Kirk, billionaire pro-Israel moneyman Bill Ackman took to Twitter/X to trumpet his relationship (https://x.com/BillAckman/status/1965999123456242166) with the late conservative operative. “I feel incredibly privileged to have spent a day and shared a meal with @charliekirk11 this summer. He was a giant of a man.”

The Grayzone has spoken to five people with intimate knowledge of Kirk’s meeting with Ackman, which was held in early August. According to one source, Kirk was left upset after the gathering turned into an “intervention” where he was “hammered” for his increasingly skeptical views on the US special relationship with Israel, and for platforming prominent conservative critics of Israel at his TPUSA events.

Since publishing this report, The Grayzone has learned from one attendee of the Hamptons event that Ackman convened the influencers under the auspices of a discussion about Zohran Mamdani and the supposed threat he posed to the West if elected mayor of New York. But the meeting went off the rails when Ackman personally confronted Kirk about his views on Israel. The public face of UK Lawyers for Israel, Natasha Hausdorff, joined in the argument, and began “screaming” at Kirk, according to the attendee.

When his hosts presented him with a detailed list of every offense he supposedly committed against Israel, Kirk was “horrified,” said one person. Ackman also allegedly demanded Kirk rescind his invitation for Tucker Carlson to speak at his upcoming America Fest 2025 (https://www.amfest.com/?gl=1ae41ohgcl_auMjgwMzM3NTc1LjE3NTc2NzgzMTE.gaMjQ4MzUzNjg4LjE3NTc2NzgzMTE.ga_7SZC1SVE72*czE3NTc5NDYyNjYkbzIkZzEkdDE3NTc5NDYyNjYkajYwJGwwJGgw) in December.

“The whole thing was a disaster,” said an attendee.

The Grayzone reported on September 12, citing a longtime associate of Kirk, that Netanyahu had offered to organize a massive infusion of pro-Israel money into TPUSA, and that Kirk refused. Another longtime friend of Kirk has told The Grayzone that the conservative activist also rejected an offer Netanyahu delivered (https://x.com/netanyahu/status/1965888327938158764) two weeks before his death to meet with him in Jerusalem.

Kirk, according to one person with inside knowledge of the meeting with Ackman, said he left feeling as though he’d been subjected to “blackmail.”

In a series of text messages with The Grayzone, Ackman described these account of his meeting with Kirk as “totally false.” He pledged to release a public statement providing his own account of the event, but refused The Grayzone’s request for clarification or further details. He would not accept phone calls from this reporter.

“I think I can easily put this to bed,” Ackman promised, “I have receipts as they say.” He did not abide when asked to provide the so-called “receipts.”

In an apparent bid to reinforce the pro-Israel tone at the Hamptons meeting, Ackman hosted a coterie of pro-Israel operatives and conservative influencers at the off-the-record engagement. One was Instagram influencer Xaviaer DuRousseau (https://www.instagram.com/p/DOjM5iEgAlU/) of Prager U.

Reached by phone by The Grayzone, DuRousseau sounded flustered when asked about his presence at the meeting. He repeatedly demanded to know how this reporter obtained his number, and eventually hung up, refusing to answer questions about the event.

Several Instagram posts by DuRousseau show him and his friend, conservative influencer Emily Wilson, in the Hamptons on August 8 outside Topping Rose House (https://www.reservations.com/hotel/topping-rose-house-bridgehampton-us-171351275?googleCampaignId=22509406475&googleAdGroupId=176267471022&googleAdId=750382638467&keyword=topping%20rose%20house&matchType=b&googleKeywordId=&adExtensionId=&network=g&adPosition=&deviceType=c&physicalLocation=9007595&interestLocation=&targetId=kwd-51060753938&placement=&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=22509406475&gbraid=0AAAAA9ud1S8fHVELHUnAa6jjpo629Lc0m&gclid=Cj0KCQjw8p7GBhCjARIsAEhghZ12nt-huKHyPJJDl9APRHx8RJbiYhjdOyPUcMWULBdEuNWzybt2S_IaAnaIEALw_wcB), a posh hotel and restaurant in Bridgehampton, New York.

Two weeks after the meeting, DeRousseau was reportedly junketed (https://spotlight.ebu.ch/p/the-new-front-of-war-inside-israels) on an all-expenses-paid trip by the Israeli government to visit a Gaza Humanitarian Foundation “aid” hub guarded by the IDF on the Gaza frontier. There, he recorded an Instagram video (https://www.instagram.com/p/DNqJFgoR5jW/?hl=en) denying that the population of the besieged Gaza Strip was experiencing a famine.

The Grayzone received a similarly agitated response from Wilson, known online as Emily Saves America (https://www.instagram.com/emilysavesamerica/?hl=en). Following a phone call and exchange of text messages in which this reporter asked her numerous times about her attendance of the meeting in the Hamptons, Wilson refused to comment. Instagram photos place her in the Hamptons at the same time as DuRousseau.

CJ Pearson, a leading youth coordinator for the Republican National Committee, immediately referred The Grayzone to his communications director when asked if he attended the Hamptons gathering.

The strong-arm tactics of the pro-Israel billionaires who helped fuel the growth of TPUSA were said to have contributed to Kirk’s alienation with evangelical Christianity, which emphasizes uncritical support for Israel as a bedrock principle. Several sources with access to Kirk said he had begun attending Catholic mass with his wife, Erika, and was considering a conversion before his death.

Bree Solsdadt, a Catholic Twitter/X influencer, has publicly corroborated (https://x.com/BreeSolstad/status/1965930957858578917) this account of Kirk’s religious realignment. Kirk’s friend, the podcaster and former TPUSA personality Candace Owens, also alluded to the shift when she reflected that he was undergoing a “spiritual transformation” before his death.

Israel-centric influencer summit in the Hamptons

The Grayzone has obtained a partial list of attendees alleged to have been in attendance at the Bridgehampton meeting convened by Ackman this August. They include:

Seth Dillon – Dillion is the CEO of Babylon Bee, the conservative answer to the liberal The Onion satire outlet. Dillon and his crew have derisively mocked famine-stricken Palestinians (https://babylonbee.com/news/gaza-said-to-be-starving-but-not-release-the-hostages-starving) and their supporters in the West, since Israel’s slash-and-burn campaign began in the besieged Gaza Strip. An evangelical Christian with Jewish heritage, he has claimed (https://x.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1879713933239755219), “I did not cease having Ashkenazi blood when I put my faith in Jesus Christ (also a Jew).” Dillon did not answer calls from The Grayzone.

Xaviaer DuRousseau – DuRousseau is employed by Prager U, the premier right-wing “edu-tainment” hub targeting the minds of American youth. His boss, Marissa Streit, is a veteran of the Israeli army’s Unit 8200 (https://clubz.swoogo.com/nationalconference24/speaker/908837/marissa-streit) cyber-spying division. A Black self-described former progressive, DuRousseau now appears firmly in the pocket of right-wing Zionist forces. During his Israeli government-funded visit to a Gaza Humanitarian Foundation “aid” hub inside Gaza, DuRousseau falsely claimed the United Nations and Hamas were to blame for the hunger sweeping the local population. “If I were Israel, I wouldn’t even provide matching socks to Gaza, but here’s all the aid that y’all claim doesn’t exist,” he said in an Instagram video filmed in front of boxes of aid blocked from entering Gaza. “Instead of Hamas distributing the ramen noodles,” DuRousseau continued, “their leaders are eating it all and that’s why they’re on Ozempic.”

A post shared by Xaviaer DuRousseau 𓀀 (@xaviaer) (https://www.instagram.com/reel/DNqJFgoR5jW/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading)

DuRousseau vigorously defended (https://www.tiktok.com/@xaviaer/video/7429414824867532075) his close friend, podcaster Emily Wilson, after she stated that “if everyone in the state [of Alabama]” wanted the return of chattel slavery, “go ahead, why do I give a shit?”

Emily Wilson aka Emily Saves America– Wilson is a Los Angeles-based self-described libertarian podcaster and social media influencer with over 500,000 followers on Instagram. On September 9, she recalled (https://x.com/emilysavesusa/status/1965574083635990675) on Twitter/X how “a HUGE black guy” robbed her when she was 13. “I hate to say it but things like that just change the way you see certain people. After that I always thought, ‘oh, you guys just hate me,’” she reflected. This month, she and DuRousseau recorded apodcast (https://youtu.be/vrYQkHd-H_o?si=03ngMW1tl9T_sF79&t=1717) in which they framed pro-Palestine activist Greta Thunberg’s hairstyle as evidence of her being “slow and short bus.”

“I don’t hang out with anyone really less attractive than me,” Wilson stated in a separate appearance (https://www.tiktok.com/@thejamiekennedy/video/7238791910251351342).

Arynne Wexler – A former Goldman Sachs trader seeking cachet in the world of online influencers, Wexler is a vociferously Zionist, self-described (https://x.com/ArynneWexler) “non-lib girl in a crazylib world.” In an interview with pro-Israel podcaster Dave Rubin, Wexlerargued (https://youtu.be/ZNYzu2X6jKU) that “we need to bring bullying back” to enforce social norms, crack down on conspiracy theories, and stop the rise of antisemitism. Wexler has praised (https://x.com/search?q=from%3Aarynnewexler%20billackman&src=typed_query&f=live) Ackman’s pro-Israel activism on multiple occasions. She did not answer calls from The Grayzone.

Natasha Hausdorff – The legal director of Zionist advocacy group UK Lawyers for Israel, Hausdorff is arguably the best-known figure associated with the organization. She was described in one headline (https://www.israelhayom.com/2024/07/03/natasha-hausdorff-the-british-attorney-who-fights-israels-wars-and-sounds-alarm-on-a-uk-labour-government/) by Israel’s most widely-read newspaper, the Adelson-owned Israel Hayom, as “the British attorney who fights Israel’s wars.”

Nate Friedman – Friedman is a young ultra-Zionist influencer (https://x.com/NateFriedman97/highlights) best known for New York City man-on-the-street confrontations with Palestine solidarity activists, whom he’s accused of being paid protesters.

Ory Rinat – Rinat was the formerSpecial Media Advisor (https://youtu.be/UMN3nBHGU6A) to Jared Kushner, the Trump son-in-law and advisor, before moving on to serve as White House chief digital officer during Trump’s first term. A Jewish pro-Israel operative said to have close ties Netanyahu’s government, Rinat now serves as CEO of Urban Legend, a PR firm which commands “an army of 700 social media influencers who command varying degrees of allegiance from audiences that collectively number in the tens of millions,” according to Wired (https://www.wired.com/story/meet-the-lobbyist-next-door/).

CJ Pearson – The chair of the Republican National Committee’s Youth Advisory Council, Pearson appeared in photos in the Hamptons alongside Wilson and DeRousseau. The Grayzone is awaiting further information from Pearson’s communications director.

CJ Pearson (left) with Emily Wilson, Xavaier DeRousseau, and an unknown person in the Hamptons

Bill Ackman’s war

As The Grayzone reported (https://thegrayzone.com/2025/09/12/charlie-kirk-netanyahu-israel-assassination/) on September 12, Kirk was besieged with angry calls and messages from pro-Israel donors to his organization following TPUSA’s Student Action Summit this July in Tampa, Florida. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had also phoned him, according to a longtime friend of Kirk, and offered to orchestrate a massive infusion of pro-Israel money into his organization.

A longtime friend of Kirk told The Grayzone the mounting pressure had left him “angry” and “frightened.”

Kirk vented about the pro-Israel intimidation campaign in an August 6 discussion with Megyn Kelly, a former Fox News host who was also growing more critical of Israeli influence in Washington.

“It’s all of the sudden, ‘Oh, Charlie: he’s no longer with us.’ Wait a second—what does ‘with us’ mean, exactly? I’m an American, okay? I represent this country,” Kirkcomplained (https://youtu.be/1WuOtvdV5W0).

“The more that you guys privately and publicly call our character into question—which is not isolated, it would be one thing if it were just one text, or two texts; it is dozens of texts—then we start to say, ‘whoa, hold the boat here,’” Kirk continued. “To be fair, some really good Jewish friends say, ‘that’s not all of us’… But these are leaders here. These are stakeholders.”

He went on: “I have less ability… to criticize the Israeli government than actual Israelis do. And that’s really, really weird.”

Kirk delivered his comments around the same time as the tumultuous meeting in the Hamptons with Ackman and the crew of pro-Israel influencers.

A month earlier, Kirk had opened the stage at his TPUSA Student Action Summit for a cathartic outpouring of frustration and rage about Israel’s political hammerlock on the Trump administration. At the conference, speakers from Carlson andKelly (https://youtu.be/ccRNaLGavf8) to the anti-Zionist Jewish comedian Dave Smith (https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/1944563714126176300/video/1) slammed Israel’s blood-soaked assault on the besieged Gaza Strip, branded Jeffrey Epstein as an Israeli intelligence asset, and openly taunted Zionist billionaires like Ackman for “getting away with scams” despite having “no actual skills.”

The mockery by Carlson was particularly galling for Ackman. One day after TPUSA’s conference, Ackman staged a 4,000 word Twitter/X meltdown (https://x.com/BillAckman/status/1944245408751894631) defending his financial acumen, while insisting that he earned his vast fortune because, “I inherited good genes.”

In fact, the 59-year-old manager of the Pershing Square Capital hedge fund had presided over a precipitous decline in his own personal fortune through a series of bad bets. Between 2015 and 2018, amid a bull market, Ackman’s fund tallied embarrassingly negative returns (https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/05/how-bill-ackmans-hedge-fund-empire-crumbled-in-less-than-three-years.html) that cost him an eye-popping $12 billion in losses. His“holy war” (https://youtu.be/z-jrALajXrI) to short the multi-level marketing company Herbalife backfired, resulting in a devastating squeeze that cost him (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-15/ackman-touts-his-psychological-short-as-herbalife-shares-sink?utm_medium=cpc_search&utm_campaign=NB_ACQ_DSAXX_DSAXXXXXXXXXX_EVG_XXXX_XXX_COUSA_EN_EN_X_BLOM_GO_SE_XXX_XXXXXXXXXX&gclsrc=aw.ds&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=22916410014&gbraid=0AAAAAD9e5yr_ThvoEPI3xOohfIWdQs-Pk&gclid=Cj0KCQjw8p7GBhCjARIsAEhghZ1QGfcfgiUKxdL07hKZzSDchgCwjrwvSNU8z2it5yGLq2H9huK7PNYaAuPBEALw_wcB&embedded-checkout=true) heavily. Ackman’s financial mishaps forced him to slash one fifth of his staff in 2018.

The billionaire also took issue with Carlson’s contention that he had been part of convicted sex offender and late Zionist financier Jeffrey Epstein’s “constellation of people.” Yet Carlson’s remarks were grounded in fact. Indeed, Ackman’s wife, the celebrity Israeli designer Neri Oxman, had gifted an artistic orb to Epstein after he plowed $125,000 in donations into her Media Lab at MIT. She was invited to lunch with Epstein on several occasions, according to the Boston Globe (https://archive.is/nJLS8), and complied with MIT’s requirement to keep her gift to Epstein confidential.

Ackman has significantly elevated his public profile by leading fellow Zionist billionaires in a ruthless crackdown on post-October 7 Palestine solidarity activism in the US. By leveraging his fortune, Ackman helped dislodge (https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/12/14/bill-ackman-university-presidents-antisemitism-00131902) the political scientist Claudine Gay as president of Harvard University, his alma mater, accusing (https://www.theguardian.com/education/2024/jan/03/bill-ackman-billionaire-attacks-claudine-gay-harvard-twitter-x) her of adopting an insufficiently draconian policy toward students protesting Israel’s assault on Gaza.

After weeks of pummeling from Ackman, GOP members of Congress, and pro-Israel media, Gay finally quit when conservative activists (https://manhattan.institute/article/how-we-squeezed-harvard-to-push-claudine-gay-out) produced evidence that she had plagiarized in her academic writing. While Ackman claimed victory, he howled with indignation (https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/jan/11/bill-ackman-wife-plagiarism) when Business Insider returned the favor with a detailed article (https://www.businessinsider.com/neri-oxman-plagiarize-wikipedia-mit-dissertation-2024-1) which documented multiple cases of plagiarism by his own wife, the designer Oxman. According to the outlet, Oxman “stole sentences and whole paragraphs from Wikipedia, other scholars and technical documents in her academic writing.”

Ackman responded by announcing (https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/05/us/plagiarism-bill-ackman-neri-oxman-claudine-gay-harvard.html) that he would fund a plagiarism review of every MIT faculty member. He also delivered a 77-page lawsuit threat (https://nypost.com/2024/02/23/business/bill-ackman-demands-business-insider-retract-plagiarist-wife-story/) to Axel Springer, the publisher of Business Insider, accusing them of publishing claims “designed to cause her harm, principally because the reporters do not like me, my support for Israel, and my advocacy.” He quickly dropped the lawsuit, however, claiming he did so because Springer is “an important advocate against antisemitism.”

In May 2024, the Washington Post revealed (https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/05/16/business-leaders-chat-group-eric-adams-columbia-protesters/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter) Ackman as a leading member of a Whatsapp group of 50 ultra-wealthy Zionists coordinating counterinsurgency-style actions against student anti-genocide protesters at Columbia University.

According to the report, the millionaire cabal sought to buy off Black celebrities as propaganda puppets and dangled bribes before New York City Mayor Eric Adams to deploy the NYPD against student protesters. “Some members also offered to pay for private investigators to assist New York police in handling the protests, the chat log shows — an offer a member of the group reported in the chat that Adams accepted,” the Post reported.

This June 14, as Israel reeled at the Iranian response to its unprovoked assault days earlier, Ackman launched his next campaign: “@Israel (https://x.com/Israel) needs our help to destroy Iran’s nuclear threat to the world…” the hedge funder declared (https://x.com/BillAckman/status/1934061205355888962) on Twitter. “Israel does not have the equipment and armaments to complete the job. We do, and it does not require boots on the ground.”

Multiple sources, including a Trump administration official, have revealed to The Grayzone that Kirk personally visited Trump inside the White House to lobby him against attacking Iran. Trump “roared” at Kirk, one said, and shut down the conversation.

A month later, Kirk allowed the simmering rage within the conservative grassroots over Israel’s stranglehold on Washington to pour out at his TPUSA summit. Soon after, he was summoned to the Hamptons for a face-to-face with one of Netanyahu’s most influential allies in the US. Before Ackman and a cast of avaricious young influencers under Israel’s sway, he defied the billionaire power broker, then returned home to prepare for what would be his final speaking tour.

Following Kirk’s killing, Ackman ponied up a $1 million payout for anyone who provided information leading the capture of the shooter. That money may wind up (https://x.com/BillAckman/status/1966888959130431969) with the father of the suspect, Tyler Robinson, who reportedly turned him in.

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