Turning Point USA has more than doubled its high school chapters since Charlie Kirk’s assassination

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Joel Abbott

Oct 2, 2025

Some good news in the midst of darkness:

Around half of the 120,000+ requests that Turning Point has received to start chapters have come from high schoolers. That has led to 1,500 chapters already launching as of October 2.

(For perspective, TPUSA reached 1,000 chapters by 2023, with 200 or so chapters added in the last year.)

Club America is the name for the organization's high school chapters, versus the Turning Point name, which is reserved for colleges.

Here is one such Club America chapter that just started in Texas:

Despite the steady growth of TPUSA, starting a chapter at a school requires faculty to sponsor it. Because so many schools don't have a single conservative teacher on staff (or any willing to stick their necks out, at least), many teens have been stuck without a chapter on their own campuses.

It seems Charlie's murder was the turning point for bravery in academia.


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