After the assassination of Charlie Kirk, founder and CEO of Turning Point USA, a groundswell of high school and college students across the country sought to create new chapters in schools. High school chapters are called Club America and college chapters are Turning Point USA. New chapter inquiries have increased to over 130,000 since September 10th. The network itself grew form approximately 500,000 members to over 800,000 members. This is in less than a month.
Locally, a group of students at a high school in Maryland applied to start a chapter:
A local county commissioner posted a picture of the members of the chapter as they were honored at the commissioner’s meeting.
While the response of many was extremely positive, there were a couple of people who thought this was a great opportunity to threaten and intimidate these young people: