The Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) “Year in Hate and Extremism” report, has named the largest conservative grassroots youth organization, Turning Point USA (TPUSA) a “hate group.”
Per Daily Signal:
The Southern Poverty Law Center is comparing the largest conservative grassroots youth organization to the Ku Klux Klan, adding Turning Point USA to its “hate map” that plots KKK chapters and claims to expose “the groups upholding white supremacy in the United States.”
The latest version of the SPLC hate map, released Thursday, lists Turning Point USA for the first time, categorizing the group as an “anti-government extremist group.” The hate map also includes PragerU, a nonprofit that uses digital media to spread conservative ideas, putting it in the same category as Turning Point USA.
TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk joined Laura Ingraham with his reaction to the absurd claim.
Laura Ingraham: They’ve labeled Turning Point as a hate group.
Charlie Kirk: Yes.
Laura Ingraham: Coming from a hateful group like them.
Charlie Kirk: It’s a surprise it took them so long to get us on the list.
Laura Ingraham: What took you so long, Charlie?
Charlie Kirk: Understand that they’re literally putting high school chapters of ours on a hate group next to the KKK and next to neo-nazi groups. We can laugh this off. There’s an element to this, remember that there was a shooter that went to the Family Research Council years ago, inspired by the SPLC list.
This is them trying to make us basically surrender at Turning Point USA. We’re going to do the opposite, and our students are only going to lean in even more.
But they can’t debate us on our ideas. They cannot have dialogue. They cannot actually go on to the merits of why they are right or why we might be wrong.
Instead, they must smear us with the age-old one-liner that you are a racist or that you are a hater. They’re finally realizing the power of Turning Point USA, which is why they put us on this list.
Laura Ingraham: When you’re effective, you’re a threat.
Watch:
Charlie Kirk reacts to Turning Point USA being labeled as a “hate group.” @charliekirk11 pic.twitter.com/f5NfzGgJso
— Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) May 27, 2025
Kirk also posted a more detailed response on X.
The SPLC has added Turning Point to their ridiculous “hate group” list, right next to the KKK and neo-Nazis, a cheap smear from a washed-up org that’s been fleecing scared grandmas for decades. They somehow still rake in over $100 million a year peddling their “hate map” nonsense, sitting pretty in their Montgomery “Poverty Palace” while crying about “hate” to line their pockets. Even former staffers called their racket a “con.”
Their game plan? Scare financial institutions into debanking us, pressure schools to cancel us, and demonize us so some unhinged lunatic feels justified targeting us. Remember the Family Research Council? An SPLC-inspired gunman went after them. They’d love nothing more than to see TPUSA in the crosshairs.
But it’s 2025, and nobody with a functioning brain buys their garbage anymore. The SPLC is a laughingstock, a hollowed-out husk of an organization that’s been exposed as a grift time and time again. They’re not just irrelevant—they’re a cautionary tale of how to torch your own credibility. Maybe someone should take a hard look at where all that “nonprofit” money’s really going?
Being on their list is a badge of honor. It means they’re terrified that we’re so effective. Keep crying, SPLC—America’s done with your scam.
The SPLC has added Turning Point to their ridiculous “hate group” list, right next to the KKK and neo-Nazis, a cheap smear from a washed-up org that’s been fleecing scared grandmas for decades. They somehow still rake in over $100 million a year peddling their “hate map”…
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) May 25, 2025
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