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Turning Point USA claims to have more than 1,000 chapters in colleges and high schools and has registered thousands of voters since 2012.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/turning-point-usa-mobilizing-young-conservative-vote|title=Turning Point USA Mobilizing Young Conservatives|date=2015-05-11|newspaper=Truth Revolt|access-date=2017-02-19|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.tpusa.com/chapters/chapterdirectory/|title=Chapter Directory {{!}} Turning Point USA|website=tpausa.com|access-date=2016-12-01}}</ref>
Turning Point USA claims to have more than 1,000 chapters in colleges and high schools and has registered thousands of voters since 2012.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/turning-point-usa-mobilizing-young-conservative-vote|title=Turning Point USA Mobilizing Young Conservatives|date=2015-05-11|newspaper=Truth Revolt|access-date=2017-02-19|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.tpusa.com/chapters/chapterdirectory/|title=Chapter Directory {{!}} Turning Point USA|website=tpausa.com|access-date=2016-12-01}}</ref>


According to The [[Chronicle of Higher Education]], Turning Point USA has been involved in influencing [[student government]] elections at a dozen colleges and universities, to combat campus liberalism. <ref>http://www.chronicle.com/article/Inside-a-Stealth-Plan-for/240008</ref><ref>https://trofire.com/2017/05/29/secret-money-funding-conservative-college-groups-order-fight-campus-liberalism/</ref>
According to The [[Chronicle of Higher Education]], Turning Point USA has secretly been involved in influencing [[student government]] elections at a dozen colleges and universities, to combat campus liberalism. <ref>http://www.chronicle.com/article/Inside-a-Stealth-Plan-for/240008</ref><ref>https://trofire.com/2017/05/29/secret-money-funding-conservative-college-groups-order-fight-campus-liberalism/</ref>


==Political positions, alliances, and competitors==
==Political positions, alliances, and competitors==

Revision as of 16:07, 2 June 2017

Turning Point USA is an American conservative [1] or right wing [2] 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded on June 5, 2012 by Wheeling, Illinois high school graduate Charlie Kirk.[3] The organization states its mission is to "identify, educate, train, and organize students to promote fiscal responsibility, free markets and limited government",[4]

Turning Point USA is noted for its Professor Watchlist, which lists college professors it alleges "discriminate against conservative students and advance leftist propaganda in the classroom."[5][6][7][8][9][10]

Their motto is "Big Government Sucks." They are a supporter of national conferences such as Conservative Political Action Conference, and they hold other conferences such as the Young Woman's Leadership Summit, High School Activist Conference and Young Latino's Leadership Conference.[11]

The organization founded Hypeline News in 2016. On their website, TPUSA wrote: "Hypeline News is a young-adult driven social news site that provides fresh and innovative web content, news updates, and entertainment. Our goal is to make important news culturally relevant and digestible for Millennial news consumers." Hypeline News has since been renamed "Turning Point News" [12]

Turning Point USA claims to have more than 1,000 chapters in colleges and high schools and has registered thousands of voters since 2012.[13][14]

According to The Chronicle of Higher Education, Turning Point USA has secretly been involved in influencing student government elections at a dozen colleges and universities, to combat campus liberalism. [15][16]

Political positions, alliances, and competitors

According to the Heartland Institute, Charlie Kirk was asked to join the inner circle of the 2016 Donald Trump Presidential campaign.[17]

TPUSA's allies include Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner, billionaire Foster Friess[18] and Project Veritas.[19][20]

The Heartland Institute has also been a major ally of TPUSA.[21]

Freedom Works is also a major ally of Turning Point.[22]

In 2017, the National Rifle Association is a headline sponsor of TPUSA's women's summit.[23]

Charlie Kirk has disavowed any relationship with alt right groups,[24] although he has been a contributing writer for Breitbart News[25] and TPUSA has shown support for former Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos.[26][27] TPUSA sponsored Mr. Yiannopoulus at University of Colorado and Miami University (OH).[28]

Information about the people involved

Charlie Kirk founded Turning Point USA in 2012, when he was 18 years old.[29] Mr. Kirk claims that his dream was to attend the US Military Academy but lost his slot to a person of a different gender and persuasion.[30] He continued to live in his parents' home until 2015.[31]

Charlie Kirk's father is Robert W. Kirk, the project architect manager for Trump Tower in New York.[32]

In 2016, Charlie Kirk spent two months with Donald Trump's election, "working directly with Eric, Ivanka, and Donald Trump Jr. to move the millennial vote."[33]

Charlie Kirk has compared Turning Point USA to the efforts of MoveOn.org, a progressive 501c4 organization.[34]

Turning Point USA's non-profit board consists of Charlie Kirk (President), William Montgomery (Secretary/Treasurer), and George Hamstra (Director).[35]

According to Bloomberg News, each of Turning Point USA's paid workers is supposed to meet a quota to make at least 1,500 student contacts per semester.[36]

Numerous Turning Point USA affiliated individuals have run for local political offices across the country. Including Kings Park, New York Board of Education member JuanPablo Andrade and successful Bannockburn Elementary School District 106 Board of Education candidate Jake Leahy.[37][38]

TPUSA's advisory council includes Foster Friess, and Ginni Thomas, wife of US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.[39]

In the media

Charlie Kirk has appeared on almost exclusively conservative media outlets, such as Fox News, CNBC, and Fox Business Network. He has also had many other interviews with organizations such as Truth Revolt,[40] Bloomberg Politics[41] and Opportunity Lives.[42] Volunteers will have themes every week, some of the themes include "The Healthcare Games," "Game of Loans," and "iCapitalism."[43]

Finances

Turning Point USA's revenues were $78,890 in 2012, $443,859 in 2013, and $2,052,060 in 2014.[44] Charlie Kirk has stated that TPUSA received $5,000,000 in 2016.[45]

Controversy

At Drake University, Turning Point was denied recognition as an official student organization based on student senate concerns that the organization has "a hateful record," "aggressive marketing" and "an unethical privacy concern."[46]

At Hagerstown Community College, a student's attempt to start a Turning Point group was initially blocked when the school said the organization duplicated an existing group. The student's lawsuit led to the school revising its policy on student organizations, clarifying that school funded groups will be denied if they duplicate existing groups while unfunded groups face no such restriction.[47]

First appearing on November 21, 2016, Turning Point USA also operates a website called Professor Watchlist in order to "expose and document college professors who discriminate against conservative students, promote anti-American values, and advance leftist propaganda in the classroom."[48] The website lists academics who “promote anti-American, leftwing propaganda in the classroom” according to a blog post by Charlie Kirk.[49] Tips are accepted from the public, and over 200 professors are currently listed.[50] The website has been criticized as racist and pro-fascist, using surveillance type propaganda to manipulate ideas of truth, equality, and freedom.[51][52][53] Critics have compared Professor Watchlist to the actions of U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy, who tried to publicly identify American citizens as Communists and Communist sympathizers in the 1950s.[54][55]

In 2016, Turning Point USA at Grand Valley State University filed a lawsuit against the trustees of the school. The complainants asked the court to prohibit enforcement of GVSU's Speech Zone policy and declare it a violation of the students’ 1st and 14th Amendment freedoms.[56]

In December 2016, Politifact reported that TPUSA falsely quoted Nancy Pelosi.[57]

In February 2017, Santa Clara University denied official recognition for TPUSA as a campus organization. The Associated Student Government voted 16 to 10 to deny recognition to TPUSA at the February 2nd senate meeting.[58] As of March 2017, this decision was overturned by the Vice Provost for Student Life, and TPUSA has been recognized as a Registered Student Organization.[59]

In April 2017, conservative candidates at University of Maryland withdrew from student elections after failing to report assistance from TPUSA.[60] In the same month TPUSA also sponsored controversial conservative celebrity Tomi Lahren at East Carolina University.[61][62]

In May 2017, Northern Arizona University criminology professor Luis Fernandez stated that Turning Point USA surveillance of him led to multiple threats. [63] In the Harvard Crimson Harvard Professor Danielle Allen also stated that she was threatened after being targeted by Charlie Kirk and Turning Point USA. [64]

Also in May 2017, DePaul University refused to allow Turning Point to post "Gay Lives Matter" posters on campus. Matt Lamb, a spokesperson for Turning Point, said that the action by DePaul was an infringement of free speech rights. However, a university official, Amy Mynaugh, said that the posters pitted the LBGTQ community against Muslims. [65] [66]

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