US EditionErika Kirk gives emotional first remarks after Charlie Kirk assassination: ‘My husband laid down his life for me, for our nation, for our children’
Erika Kirk pledged to expand Turning Point USA after her husband's assassination, noting a surge of 18,000 new chapter requests within 24 hours, signaling growing support for the movement.
- On September 10 at Utah Valley University, Charlie Kirk, 31, founder and CEO of Turning Point USA, was fatally shot while speaking and later died at a local hospital.
- After a 33-hour manhunt, authorities arrested Tyler Robinson, 22, following family identification, and charged him with aggravated murder and related offenses; formal charges are expected next week.
- Investigators recovered a Mauser.30-caliber, bolt-action rifle found in a towel along the fleeing path and said the fatal shot came from the roof of another building, with engraved bullet casings bearing anti-fascist slogans left at the scene.
- In her address three days after the killing, Erika Kirk vowed to carry on her husband's work, stating `If you thought my husband's mission was powerful before, you have no idea`, and thanked law enforcement, President Trump, and Vice President J.D. Vance.
- Vice President J.D. Vance and Second Lady Usha Vance accompanied Kirk's casket aboard Air Force Two to Phoenix, while nationwide vigils and calls for calmer rhetoric followed and President Donald Trump spoke on prosecution and funeral plans.
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The mainstreaming of leftist violence
In the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, Democratic lawmakers and commentators found themselves in a quandary. On the one hand, most of them loathed Kirk. On the other, many felt that they should try to hold the line condemning the shooting through the throat of a young husband and father at an American university. These so-called ‘anti-fascists’ started behaving like nothing so much as the fascists they were searching for The New York Time…
Casper high school students leading charge to organize local Turning Point chapters
CASPER, Wyo. — Fueled by a passion for civic engagement among soon-to-be voters and motivated by the assassination of conservative activist and Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, some Casper students are preparing to bring the political activism organization to their own high schools. Turning Point USA and its high school program, Club America, oversee hundreds of high school–level chapters. The organization says that over 1,000 high school…
Battenfeld: Erika Kirk’s Turning Point USA struggling to stay on track
The new CEO Erika Kirk is the most powerful force in the movement right now who knows what made her husband tick and is capable of rallying more people to her side. But she is also coming under increasing scrutiny.
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