Tag: Turning Point Usa
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EDITORIAL: A Colorado campus relents on free speech
The student government at Fort Lewis College in Durango made national news the other day when it voted to block a conservative group from organizing a campus chapter. Then, just last Friday, the Associated Students of Fort Lewis College reversed itself and voted unanimously to let Turning Point USA set up shop after all. “It…
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Fort Lewis College faces backlash from Republicans after denying Turning Point USA chapter
Republican legislators criticized the student government at Durango’s Fort Lewis College for rejecting a proposal to establish a Turning Point USA chapter on campus. Turning Point USA is a nonprofit organization that advocates for conservative issues on high school and college campuses. Its founder, Charlie Kirk, was assassinated during a campus event in Utah in…
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Thousands remember Charlie Kirk at Colorado State University vigil Thursday
Thousands gathered into Colorado State University’s Canvas Stadium Thursday evening to remember the late conservative activist Charlie Kirk. In the first official event hosted by Turning Point USA — the youth advocacy group Kirk founded — since Kirk’s assassination at Utah Valley University last week, supporters, students, and free speech advocates littered a crowd dotted…
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‘Heartbroken’: Colorado political leaders, organizations condemn assassination of Charlie Kirk
Colorado elected officials and political groups expressed grief, outrage and resolve against political violence in reaction to the fatal shooting of conservative organizer and nonprofit leader Charlie Kirk on Wednesday at Utah Valley University. “Today is a really hard day,” said U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert, a Windsor Republican who described Kirk as her friend in…