A professor at the University of Connecticut is encouraging students to protest a conservative event on Tuesday in which Turning Point USA’s Charlie Kirk and Candace Owens are scheduled to speak. Professor Martha Cutter is even encouraging students to reserve tickets and not show up, in order to obstruct the ability of other students to attend the event.
Students and staff from Park City High School in Park City, Utah, were treated by medical professionals last week after one student allegedly pepper sprayed a lecture hall inside the school. The targeted room had been reserved for a Turning Point USA speaking event.
Students at Texas State University are demanding that the Turning Point USA student group on campus be banned from the school in the name of free speech. The university’s student government has agreed to vote on a resolution on Monday, April 8, to decide whether it will censor the conservative group.
Turning Point USA’s Charlie Kirk and Candace Owens were speaking at a Louisiana State University event on Wednesday when a protester jumped on stage and proceeded to shout obscenities, while another protester in the audience shouted “death to white nationalism” at the two conservative pundits, one of whom is black.
Vice President Mike Pence spoke at Turning Point USA’s Midwest Regional Conference on Friday, where he told students and activists that “censorship is the tool of a coward” and that there is a “battle over the closing of the American mind” on college campuses today. Pence added that the Trump administration “will not stand idly by and allow public institutions to violate their students’ constitutional rights.”
A professor from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln compared conservative students to the New Zealand mosque shooter Friday on social media by falsely accusing them of displaying a “white power symbol,” despite the targeted students having not displayed a symbol representing white power.
Three individuals have been arrested for aggravated arson after allegedly setting a dorm room door on fire during the late hours of Friday night at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. Although the motive behind the arson still remains unclear, one of the students living in the targeted dorm room is the president of Tulane’s Turning Point USA chapter, and had recently been “doxed” by leftists seeking to “expose” members of TPUSA and Young American for Liberty (YAL).
Turning Point USA founder and Executive Director Charlie Kirk told Breitbart News that “the cartel of the colleges” is not happy about President Donald Trump’s recent executive order regarding free speech on college campuses, as the “intellectual tyrants” of academia “believe there’s no consequences for them, whatsoever.” Kirk offered his remarks in a Friday interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday requiring colleges and universities to uphold the First Amendment on campus if they want to receive federal research funding.
Students at Georgia Southern University were confronted by school staff and campus police last week while recruiting members for the Turning Point USA student group on campus. Staff told the conservative students that they needed to “fill out paperwork” in order to exercise free speech at the public university, and then proceeded to call the police when the students did not leave the public grounds.
As I write this on Thursday morning, I do so on a day that President Donald Trump is loosening up his right hand to sign what will be a first step against the intolerance of free speech on college campuses.
Turning Point USA’s Charlie Kirk and Candace Owens kicked off their first 2019 Campus Clash event at Utah Valley University on Monday. The duo was greeted by protesters who draped a banner over a balcony that read, “End White Supremacy,” an odd choice of message, given that Owens is black.
Leadership Institute representative Hayden Williams confirmed he will press charges against Zachary Greenberg, the man arrested for allegedly punching the conservative activist in the face at UC Berkeley, in an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity Monday evening.
Police arrested a man on Friday accused of punching a conservative activist in the face on the campus of UC Berkeley, as seen in a viral video last month.
Turning Point USA hosted its first-ever CPAC after party on Thursday night, entitled “AmericaFest” — a culturally political event for young conservatives, featuring special guest appearances and remarks from Donald Trump Jr., Kimberly Guilfoyle, Sen. Ted Cruz, and Rep. Dan Crenshaw.
Conservative student organization Turning Point USA has announced conservative commentator Allie Stuckey as Chairwoman of the organization’s annual Young Women’s Leadership Summit.
Turning Point USA communications director Candace Owens told an audience at CPAC on Friday that “the truth is on our side as conservatives,” and that truth is all conservatives actually need in order to wake up minority communities to understanding that the Democrat Party is the Party of “slavery, Jim Crow laws, racial terrorism, and the KKK.”
Turning Point USA (TPUSA) founder and Executive Director Charlie Kirk told an audience at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on Thursday that “what happens on campus comes to Congress,” and that the fight against socialism will either “make or break Western Civilization.”
The Washington Post covered the violent assault against a conservative activist at UC Berkeley nearly one week after the story first broke, and with a bizarre narrative spin.
Conservative student organization Turning Point USA, which aims to advance support for free markets and limited government, hosted its largest ever Young Latino Leadership Summit over the weekend in Phoenix, Arizona.
Turning Point USA Founder and Executive Director Charlie Kirk visited the UC Berkeley on Tuesday, one week following the violent attack on campus where a conservative activist was punched in the face.
Hundreds of conservative Latino students gathered in Phoenix, Arizona, over the weekend to attend Turning Point USA’s annual Young Latino Leadership Summit.
UC Berkeley responded to the violent incident on its campus caught on video on Tuesday, stating that the school affirming its “commitment to freedom of expression.”
A leftist claiming to be a political science major told conservative student members of TPUSA at the University of Colorado Denver on Wednesday that “communism is the future” and that the conservative students were “fascists” who will one day be “put in re-education camps.”
An employee at UC Berkeley celebrated a conservative activist being punched on campus in a tweet on Wednesday.
A field representative from the Leadership Institute was punched in the face during an alleged attack at the University of California, Berkeley on Tuesday while training student members for Turning Point USA.
Many within the mainstream media have turned a blind eye to Turning Point USA’s 2018 Student Action Summit, which is hosting more than 4,000 students and activists.
Charlie Kirk’s new book, Campus Battlefield, is an excellent resource to gain a better understanding of what is happening on America’s campuses at the hands of progressive administrators, authoritarian professors, and out of control leftist students.
Turning Point USA (TPUSA) founder Charlie Kirk gave a speech at the Phyllis Schlafly Eagles’ 47th Eagle Council Friday, hitting many of the notes of his college campus tours for a more traditional conservative audience.
Former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer revealed that someone put his house for sale on Zillow when he worked at the White House.
Turning Point USA is holding a 4-day High School Leadership Summit in Washington, DC, this week at George Washington University. According to its website, over 700 high school students were invited to attend.
