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PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — Police arrested at least five people Monday evening during a protest at Portland State University (PSU) against conservative speaker Riley Gaines who spoke at a public event on campus. "On Monday, May 5, 2025, at approximately 7:00 p.m., personnel with PSU’s Campus Public Safety Office requested PPB’s assistance with crowd control outside the Smith Memorial Student Union where an event not affiliated with the university was taking place. Over the course of the next hour-and-a-half, PPB officers arrested five individuals for various crimes. Once these individuals are processed, their names and charges will be disseminated," the...

On May 9, 2025 Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk visited the University of California Riverside as part of his nationwide American Comeback Tour and was enthusiastically greeted by students, faculty, staff and visitors. His presentation began with a hat toss as dozens of iconic Make America Great Again (MAGA) baseball caps were thrown into the audience.

WEST LA FAYETTE, Ind. — A crowd of 3,000 to 4,000 people turned out to hear Turning Point USA founder and CEO Charlie Kirk speak on Thursday at Purdue University, with many eager to ask the conservative commentator a question. Kirk, the 31-year-old founder of the conservative student group, visited West La Fayette as part of his “American Comeback Tour.” The tour included stops this week at Illinois State University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. A campus police officer provided The College Fix with an estimate on attendance near the end of the event. Hundreds of students lined...

Conservatives heaved a sigh of relief when Donald Trump was announced the winner of the presidential election, since most believed the left was going to cheat and steal the election again from him. While there was almost certainly cheating in the U.S. Senate race in Arizona between Kari Lake and no-name, open borders Ruben Gallego, as well as with Arizona’s abortion-till-birth Prop. 139, Trump was allowed to win the state and the six other battleground states. The common wisdom developing is the massive increase in observers watching this election compared to the 2020 and 2022 elections made the difference. Combined...

Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis (R-FL) is said to have turned down an invitation to speak at Turning Point Action (TPA) in West Palm Beach, Florida, this weekend — a move that has conservatives perplexed. Charlie Kirk, the founder of Turning Point USA, shared Posobiec’s tweet, writing, “Too bad!” Cernovich offered a similar sentiment to Bowyer’s. Who told DeSantis to snub Turning Point? Is he afraid they’ll boo him? They wouldn’t. What exactly is the “thinking” going on with his brainiac brain trust of big donor funded advisers? While DeSantis will not be at the event, four other Republican presidential...

One day each month, Charlie Kirk, one of the country’s most influential Republican activists, holds an event called Freedom Night in America at Dream City Church, a Pentecostal megachurch on the outskirts of Phoenix. “I truly believe that God has voted early in this election,” he said on a Wednesday in early October, addressing well over 1,000 people from a stage bathed in red, white and blue lights. “I believe that God voted early on July 13, when he spared the life of Donald Trump.” Kirk was only 18 when he helped found the group Turning Point as a sort...

Former President Donald Trump delivers the keynote address at the Turning Point USA Faith Believers’ Summit.

According to a video posted by Noah Formica, a Field Representative for Turning Point Action in Pennsylvania, a woman openly called for the assassination of President Donald J. Trump, one week after the assassin’s bullet almost took the life of the former POTUS at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. Just met this lady at the York State Fair. She is openly calling for the assassination of President Trump This is the evil we are dealing with in our country. We are in a spiritual battle for our country & @TPAction_ is here to help. CC: @libsoftiktok pic.twitter.com/wpRAjcJUoo — Noah Formica...

For most of the past three decades my favourite American political speech has been Pat Buchanan's keynote speech at the RNC in Houston in 1992. Maybe this recent effort from Tulsi Gabbard is better: "Aloha. What a beautiful sight ........ I feel this sense of hope and inspiration and motivation because you know how serious the task at hand is ...... Our fundamental rights and freedoms, the principles of this great country are under attack ........ We are seeing the fundamental pillars of our democratic republic being undermined ........ It is not up to someone else to fight this battle...

Sometimes an unpleasant image or association perfectly suits a career politician and his legacy.On Tuesday — the fourth day of Turning Point USA’s annual AmericaFest event — Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas got some laughs when he told the audience in Phoenix that President Joe Biden’s aides have adopted special traveling precautions.“Listen, we have a president of the United States [whose] team carries extra pairs of pants with him when he travels in case he has poopy pants,” Cruz said in a clip posted to X by conservative commentator Collin Rugg.“Big and stinky if true,” Rugg wrote in an...

Former President Donald Trump is “the only one we need back in the White House to help save America,” Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview on Saturday.When asked who she thinks will be the Republican nominee in the 2024 presidential race, Greene expressed full support for the former president. Greene notably endorsed Trump on the same day he announced his third presidential bid in November 2022.🚨 BREAKING: Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene endorses President Trump“President Trump has my complete and total endorsement for President in 2024! 🇺🇸” —@RepMTG pic.twitter.com/UQJR8yGJpT— MTG Clips (@MTG_Clips) November 15, 2022“He...

According to the Trafalgar Group poll, attendees at the Turning Point Action Conference in West Palm Beach, Florida, chose Trump at 87.5% among Republican candidates and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis at only 4.3%.DeSantis actually came in third behind businessman Perry Johnson, who garnered 7.8%, despite the conference happening in the governor’s state.About 3,000 attendees responded to the poll, half of the approximate 6,000 total attendees. Half of the attendees were between the ages of 18-21, while the other half were of varying ages.Trump attended the event on Saturday, delivering a lengthy speech that covered a number of different topics. Meanwhile,...

Day One - 7/15/23 - Turning Point Action has become the leading force in the conservative movement. Today's speakers include Charlie Kirk, Tucker Carlson, and President Donald J Trump. Trump at 6:45pm EST

Nobody else polled outside single digits at the West Palm Beach conference. Ron DeSantis came in third. At a Turning Point USA conference, Donald Trump dominated a straw poll. Nearly 86% of attendees for the Tuning Point Action conference in Florida supported the former President. Meanwhile, all other competitors posted in single digits. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, still widely viewed as Trump’s great competitor for the GOP nomination, came in third place. Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, a part-time Longboat Key resident, unapologetically cheered the survey results. “The straw poll demonstrates that President Trump remains the single most dominant...

Join us, and thousands of American Patriots, this July 15 & 16 in West Palm Beach, FL as Turning Point Action brings together the most prominent and influential voices of our generation for an event unlike any other. Speakers - President Donald J. Trump, Tucker Carlson, Charlie Kirk, Dan Bongino, Steve Bannon, more...

President Donald Trump is turning up the heat this summer as he is set to start campaigning in Iowa and speaking at multiple conservative conferences.This week, President Trump is scheduled to travel to Iowa on Wednesday and Thursday, the campaign announced. On Wednesday, May 31, he will appear for an in-studio interview with Simon Conway on 1040 WHO Des Moines, according to the Trump campaign. On Thursday, June 1, he will meet with supporters and grassroots leaders prior to participating in a town hall hosted by Fox News’ Sean Hannity. The town hall will mark the second on-air cable TV...

At least 34 people injured during strikes on eastern city of Pavlohrad Russian shelling has struck warehouses that are believed to be storing ammunition in the eastern Ukrainian city of Pavlohrad in an apparent attempt to slow an expected Ukrainian counter-offensive. The pre-dawn shelling, in the Dnipropetrovsk oblast, injured at least 34 people including three children and damaged dozens of buildings, according to regional administration officials. In a separate attack in the Kherson region in southern Ukraine, one person was killed and three others wounded. Pavlohrad was struck twice during the night, Mykola Lukashuk, head of the Dnipro council, said....

Most cults want to be left alone. The Trans Terrorist Cult wants to get themselves, their mentally ill ideology, and their domestic terrorist activities in front of as many Americans as possible. Unfortunately, it’s working because politicians and law enforcement are absolutely terrified of the cult. Swimmer and pro-woman activist Riley Gaines was assaulted at a TPUSA event at San Francisco State University Thursday night. Videos of the incidents demonstrate just how unhinged and dangerous the Trans Terrorist Cult has become [Language Warning] VIDEO AT LINK.............. As Gaines noted, “The prisoners are running the asylum at SFSU…I was ambushed and...

Violent Antifa protesters are being arrested on the University of California, Davis campus after smashing doors and windows as they attempted to storm a speech by Charlie Kirk sponsored by the school’s Turning Point USA chapter.Antifa activists have been attacking Kirk in the press and on campus in the lead-up to the event, and one of the largest newspapers in the state, the Sacramento Bee, ran a piece Tuesday falsely claiming that Kirk has “called for the lynching of trans people” and calling for the cancellation of his speaking engagement.Charlie Kirk has called for the lynching of trans people, a...

Candace Owens, who had faced criticism for not offering a condemnation of Kanye West’s antisemitic comments, finally addressed the issue on Tuesday, describing statements by the rapper, who she is friends with, as antisemitic, according to JNS. .....