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Liberals launch effort to counter Turning Point USA on college campuses
The Hill ^ | April 21, 2026 | Lexi Lonas Cochran

Posted on 04/21/2026 5:09:19 PM PDT by DoodleBob

A liberal group is looking to counter the influence of conservative Turning Point USA on college campuses by launching its own club that invites students to fight back against “authoritarianism” and “corporate greed.”

More Perfect University (MPUniversity), founded by the liberal media group “More Perfect Union,” made its big launch on Monday, saying students in all 50 states joined MPUniversity in the six days leading up to it.

The launch featured a livestream and interview with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), whose advisors founded More Perfect Union.

“Mainstream media, politicians, and universities are bowing down to the 1%. We’re organizing on college campuses to fight corporate greed and build student power,” MPUniversity said in a post on X.

The group will do on-campus events and debates while creating an online community through discord and email. It will train students on online advocacy, including videos and podcasts.

“Young Americans are among those most threatened by AI, climate change, and an economic and political system dominated by billionaires. That is why, now more than ever, it is critical for young people to organize and get involved in the political process,” Sanders said in a post on X.

More Perfect Union says it reaches around 50 million people a month, according to The Washington Post, and that 1 in 10 of those who watch its YouTube channel are under the age of 25.

MPUnviersity has a big task ahead as Turning Point USA has chapters on more 800 campuses and said it saw a surge in interest last year after its founder, Charlie Kirk, was assassinated during a campus event. The conservative group officially began in 2012.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
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Nothing screams “Join our club!” to GenZers more than this image.


1 posted on 04/21/2026 5:09:19 PM PDT by DoodleBob
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To: DoodleBob

Wait, what? Colleges ARE the counter to TPUSA.


2 posted on 04/21/2026 5:11:41 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all. )
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To: DoodleBob

the faculty?


3 posted on 04/21/2026 5:11:58 PM PDT by sopo
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To: Texas Eagle

Exactly.


4 posted on 04/21/2026 5:13:21 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: Texas Eagle

Or rather TPUSA is the counter to the massive takeover of colleges by leftist radicals? But get what you mean and agree.


5 posted on 04/21/2026 5:13:46 PM PDT by piytar (NEVER FORGET Ashli Babbitt, Rosanne Boyland, Corey Comperatore, Iryna Zarutska, and Charlie Kirk!)
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To: DoodleBob

They already have so many liberal groups there, but they need yet another.


6 posted on 04/21/2026 5:16:00 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: DoodleBob

This is guaranteed to fail, just like liberal talk radio failed. Debate, like talk radio, is a cerebral activity. You have to confront ideas dispassionately and logically, or you risk looking like a fool. Liberals can’t do that because they don’t think, they emote.


7 posted on 04/21/2026 5:17:08 PM PDT by rottndog (Did you know there are more airplanes in the ocean than submarines in the sky?)
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To: DoodleBob
They already did that with a bullet.

TPUSA is in the zombie stage without Charlie.

Charlie Kirk was TPUSA.

8 posted on 04/21/2026 5:19:11 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (If it ain't fun, you ain't doin' it right.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I suppose you getting off your backside and actually doing something is completely out of the question.

L


9 posted on 04/21/2026 5:21:31 PM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: DoodleBob

smells like air america


10 posted on 04/21/2026 5:22:02 PM PDT by joshua c
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To: DoodleBob

Guy looks like a loser INCEL. Or gay.


11 posted on 04/21/2026 5:30:47 PM PDT by fidelis (Ecce Crucem Domini! Fugite partes adversae! Vicit Leo de tribu Juda, Radix David! Alleluia!)
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I suppose you getting off your backside and actually doing something is completely out of the question.

Well, look at you, Miss Smarmy!

I'm no Charlie Kirk, and neither are you, and neither is Erika.

Some people are irreplaceable. That's why Netanyahu had him killed.

Tyler Robinson is just a patsy, and it's becoming more obvious by the day.

12 posted on 04/21/2026 5:32:33 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (If it ain't fun, you ain't doin' it right.)
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To: fidelis

He has a mullet.


13 posted on 04/21/2026 5:33:50 PM PDT by OldHarbor
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To: DoodleBob

Reads like a Union or welding company. Either way UCK!


14 posted on 04/21/2026 5:39:51 PM PDT by existentially_kuffer
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

So, why did Bibi have him killed, as you say?


15 posted on 04/21/2026 5:46:44 PM PDT by vivenne (7Come to think of it. Fact.)
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To: joshua c

>>>smells like air america

Way back machine, lol.


16 posted on 04/21/2026 5:50:13 PM PDT by existentially_kuffer
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"...fight back against “authoritarianism” and “corporate greed”..."


17 posted on 04/21/2026 5:53:21 PM PDT by rlmorel (Factio Communistica Sinensis Delenda Est)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“ That’s why Netanyahu had him killed.”

You’re insane. Barking, gibbering, howling, sh** house rat crazy.

L


18 posted on 04/21/2026 5:56:30 PM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: Lurker

Tonight on Newsmax two contributors, Blaine Holt and Robert O’Neill, didn’t think Tyler Robinson is guilty. They agree with Candace!

He confessed to his parents and his furry boy toy.


19 posted on 04/21/2026 6:03:33 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam ( "Trouble knocked at the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away". - B. Franklin)
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To: MayflowerMadam

Slight correction—we have been TOLD that he confessed to his parents and boy toy. I still think he did it, but I’m willing to entertain other theories.


20 posted on 04/21/2026 6:05:44 PM PDT by LexRex in TN ("A republic, if you can keep it.......")
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