CHARLIE KIRK was the Founder and President of Turning Point USA, a national student movement dedicated to identifying, organizing, and empowering young people to promote the principles of free markets and limited government. With a presence on over 2,000 high school and college campuses nationwide, 250,000 student members, and over 150 full-time staff, Turning Point USA is the largest and fastest growing conservative youth activist organization in the country. He was named to the Forbes ?30 under 30? list and was also the youngest speaker at the 2016 Republican National Convention and was the opening speaker at the 2020 RNC. He was the author of six books including the #1 Amazon and New York Times bestseller, The MAGA Doctrine: The Only Ideas that Will Win the Future, Right Wing Revolution: How to Beat the Woke and Save the West, The College Scam: How America's Universities Are Bankrupting and Brainwashing Away the Future of America's Youth, Time for a Turning Point: Setting a Course Toward Free Markets and Limited Government for Future Generations, Campus Battlefield: How Conservatives Can WIN the Battle on Campus and Why It Matters, and posthumously, Stop, in the Name of God: Why Honoring the Sabbath Will Transform Your Life.

Charlie was also the chairman of Students for Trump, which aims to activate one million new college voters through its more than 350 chapters present on campuses in battleground states in the lead up to the 2020 presidential election. In 2019, Charlie was granted an honorary doctorate from Liberty University citing his exceptional leadership and energetic voice for conservatives. Later that year, Charlie co-founded The Falkirk Center for Faith and Liberty, a Christian think tank working to expand religious liberty and advance conservative principles in the public sphere. Charlie's social media reaches over 100 million people per month and according to Axios he is one of the ?top 10 most engaged? Twitter handles in the world behind only President Trump among conservatives. Charlie was the host of ?The Charlie Kirk Show? which was a top-10 ranked podcast on Apple News charts, and hosted the nationally syndicated radio show which goes by the same name.

Charlie Kirk was assasinated on September 10, 2025, while on stage at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, for a Turning Point USA event, "The American Comeback Tour." He was 31 years old and left behind a wife and two children.

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