How I Got Pulled into Charlie Kirk’s Movement—and Why I Left

How I Got Pulled into Charlie Kirk’s Movement—and Why I Left

Two months before American right-wing activist Charlie Kirk was assassinated on September 13 while addressing an audience at Utah Valley University, twenty-eight-year-old Caroline Stout felt compelled to post a video to her social media accounts. In it, she reflected on her time with Turning Point USA, the non-profit conservative campus organization Kirk co-founded. “I felt strongly that I needed to speak out against the current administration. …