As the outpouring of love and support for Turning Point USA co-founder Charlie Kirk continues following his senseless assassination Wednesday, a Minnesota state congressman says TPUSA has received a staggering number of requests to create new chapters.
Eighteen thousand, in fact.
Turning Point USA. pic.twitter.com/LZUdsHk6DB
— Elliott Engen (@elliottengenMN) September 13, 2025
The congressman shared the news to X Saturday:
Minnesota State Representative Elliott Engen shared a screenshot on X reporting that the group has received 18,000 new chapter requests since Erika spoke Friday night.
According to the message, TPUSA previously had 9,000 college chapters and 1,100 high school chapters. “This is the Turning Point,” the message read.
Engen’s post quickly spread across the platform, drawing more than 1.2 million [now up to three million as of this writing] views by Saturday morning.
The surge comes as Turning Point USA has vowed to continue Charlie Kirk’s mission through expanded campus tours, upcoming conferences, and daily broadcasts of "The Charlie Kirk Show."
Obviously, if this turns out to be the case, that is proof that the left has awakened a sleeping giant. The people are tired of being slapped around by extremist politics, violent rhetoric, and outright hate against conservatives that we’re seeing all over the place right now.
As we’ve reported, Kirk’s widow Erika spoke movingly about his death Friday night and vowed that this tragedy would not be the end of the movement—in fact, it would be the opposite:
So I want to tell you that we’ll never surrender. We never will ever, ever.
[..]
…in a world filled with chaos, doubt, and uncertainty, my husband’s voice will remain and it will ring out louder and more clearly than ever.
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HOLY SMOKES: Erika Kirk just vowed to DOUBLE DOWN on Charlie Kirk’s entire vision — “NEVER SURRENDER.”
— Vigilant Fox 🦊 (@VigilantFox) September 13, 2025
They don’t realize what they’ve done.
They’ve awakened a sleeping GIANT.
“I loved knowing that one of his, one of his mottos was never surrender.”
“So I want to tell you… pic.twitter.com/8XWcMsair4
On TPUSA’s website, they continued with that theme Saturday, vowing that “the fight continues.”
THE FIGHT CONTINUES.
Charlie Kirk poured his life into building a movement rooted in faith, freedom, and love of country. He believed America’s future depended on raising up a generation who would NEVER SURRENDER.
That vision is alive and stronger than ever. Prayers are rising, support is pouring in, millions of students are rallying, volunteers are flooding in, and vigils are filling churches and schools across the nation. The fire Charlie lit is burning brighter than ever.
Now the responsibility is ours. We will honor his legacy by pressing forward—not slowing down, not surrendering. This is not a time to preserve what was built. This is the time to fight harder, grow faster, and unleash the true power of the grassroots machine Charlie created.
We will make Charlie proud. We will defend America’s future. And we will not stop until freedom prevails.
It this 18,000 number is verified, it will show that they will have a tremendous number of supporters rallying for the cause. The progressives in this country might end up looking back at Wednesday as the moment their movement hastened its decline into irrelevance.
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