Charlie Kirk Legacy Fight: TPUSA Divided

The Char­lie Kirk lega­cy fight at TPUSA has explod­ed into pub­lic view as right-wing per­son­al­i­ties feud over the deci­sion to invite Tuck­er Carl­son and oth­er Israel crit­ics to the orga­ni­za­tion’s annu­al Amer­i­caFest con­fer­ence. On 27 Octo­ber 2025, The Bul­wark report­ed that ten­sions Kirk dealt with pri­vate­ly before his mur­der in Sep­tem­ber are now spilling out into bit­ter fac­tion­al war­fare, with TPUSA staffers open­ly defend­ing Carl­son against accu­sa­tions from Jew­ish con­ser­v­a­tives that the orga­ni­za­tion has aban­doned Kirk’s vision. The arti­cle begins:

Short­ly before his mur­der in Sep­tem­ber, Turn­ing Point USA founder Char­lie Kirk was fac­ing a thorny ques­tion: whether or not to invite Tuck­er Carl­son, an increas­ing­ly vocal crit­ic of both Amer­i­ca’s sup­port for Israel and some promi­nent Jew­ish con­ser­v­a­tive donors, to his orga­ni­za­tion’s annu­al Amer­i­caFest con­fer­ence in Phoenix. “Just lost anoth­er huge Jew­ish donor,” Kirk wrote, accord­ing to text mes­sage screen­shots released ear­li­er this month by pod­cast­er Can­dace Owens, which were lat­er con­firmed as real by TPUSA itself. “$2 mil­lion a year because we won’t can­cel Tuck­er.” “Jew­ish donors play into all the stereo­types,” Kirk added in a fol­low-up text mes­sage. Amer­i­caFest is now less than two months away, set to start on Decem­ber 18.

Read more: https://www.thebulwark.com/p/civil-war-over-charlie-kirk-legacy-tucker-carlson-tpusa-right-wing-americafest

Key Points

• TPUSA staffers pub­licly defend­ed Tuck­er Carl­son’s Amer­i­caFest invi­ta­tion by dis­miss­ing con­cerns from Jew­ish con­ser­v­a­tives as attempts by exte­ri­or inter­est groups to carve con­ces­sions from the movement.
• Text mes­sages released by Can­dace Owens and con­firmed by TPUSA revealed Kirk com­plained that Jew­ish donors play into stereo­types after los­ing a two mil­lion dol­lar annu­al donor over refus­ing to can­cel Carlson.
• The clash has pro­duced real-world con­se­quences, with con­ser­v­a­tive pun­dits declar­ing they are done with TPUSA and accus­ing the orga­ni­za­tion of aban­don­ing what Char­lie Kirk created.
• Con­spir­a­cy the­o­ries about Kirk’s death have gone ram­pant, with Can­dace Owens sug­gest­ing the Trump admin­is­tra­tion mur­dered Kirk and con­tribut­ing to the dis­trust and infight­ing play­ing out with­in TPUSA.

Charlie Kirk & the MAGA Movement/Global National Conservative Alliance Connection

Char­lie Kirk’s evo­lu­tion from lib­er­tar­i­an youth activist to a key fig­ure con­nect­ing MAGA pol­i­tics with inter­na­tion­al nation­al­ist move­ments reveals the transna­tion­al char­ac­ter of con­tem­po­rary right-wing pop­ulism. After found­ing Turn­ing Point USA in 2012 with a free-mar­ket focus, Kirk embraced Don­ald Trump’s pop­ulist nation­al­ism in 2016 and reori­ent­ed toward themes of sov­er­eign­ty, immi­gra­tion restric­tion, and Chris­t­ian tra­di­tion­al­ism. By 2022, he had posi­tioned him­self as a bridge between Nation­al Con­ser­vatism’s intel­lec­tu­al elite and grass­roots sup­port­ers, par­tic­u­lar­ly younger voters.

Kirk’s assas­si­na­tion in Sep­tem­ber 2025 demon­strat­ed his exten­sive inter­na­tion­al con­nec­tions. Euro­pean far-right lead­ers imme­di­ate­ly blamed the “hate-mon­ger­ing left” for his death, with Hun­gar­i­an Prime Min­is­ter Vik­tor Orbán claim­ing Kirk’s assas­si­na­tion result­ed from an “inter­na­tion­al hate cam­paign waged by the pro­gres­sive-lib­er­al left.” The Euro­pean Par­lia­ment descend­ed into chaos as far-right MEPs demand­ed a min­ute’s silence, while lead­ers from Ger­many’s AfD, France’s Nation­al Ral­ly, and for­mer British PM Boris John­son issued trib­utes. All these Euro­pean lead­ers rep­re­sent par­ties with­in the Glob­al Nation­al Con­ser­v­a­tive Alliance (GNCA), an ide­o­log­i­cal coali­tion unit­ing right-wing move­ments world­wide under shared prin­ci­ples of nation­al sov­er­eign­ty, cul­tur­al iden­ti­ty, and oppo­si­tion to glob­al institutions.

The Glob­al Nation­al Con­ser­v­a­tive Alliance (GNCA) rep­re­sents a sig­nif­i­cant shift in U.S. con­ser­vatism, mov­ing away from Rea­gan-era ideals toward a more nation­al­ist and pro­tec­tion­ist agen­da. Although Rus­sia ini­tial­ly sought to lead this move­ment, its role has been dimin­ished by the war in Ukraine, allow­ing Hun­gary to take a cen­tral posi­tion as a bridge between Euro­pean and Amer­i­can con­ser­v­a­tives. Many of Trump’s appointees have attend­ed Nation­al Con­ser­vatism Con­fer­ences and CPAC events in Budapest, under­scor­ing the alliance’s grow­ing influ­ence in U.S. pol­i­tics. Oppo­si­tion to “wok­ism” has become a uni­fy­ing ral­ly­ing point, link­ing Amer­i­can MAGA fig­ures, Euro­pean far-right lead­ers, and Russ­ian strate­gists through shared oppo­si­tion to pro­gres­sive iden­ti­ty pol­i­tics.

Exter­nal References:
— How Char­lie Kirk helped shape a con­ser­v­a­tive force for a new gen­er­a­tion — PBS News
— CPAC comes to Europe as alliance between the Trump White House and the inter­na­tion­al right grows — CBS News
— Why MAGA Repub­li­cans Are Obsessed With Vik­tor Orbán — TIME

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