TPUSA saw unprecedented growth across the country after Charlie Kirk’s murder

A Turning Point USA (TPUSA) field representative in Texas cited the “phenomenal growth” of TPUSA chapters After Charlie Kirk’s murder.

“It’s phenomenal,” Paige Rasmussen said Fox News Digital.

“In such a dark time, we weren’t really sure, you know, ‘What do we do now? Where do we go from here?’ And it became very clear very quickly where we go from here and it’s up and it hasn’t gone down,” Rasmussen said.

Rasmussen covers Lone Star territory for TPUSA.

The field representative’s job is to recruit students and organize events. Some of their responsibilities include administrative tasks. Rasmussen said her job is split between being on campus with students and answering phone calls to make sure events are planned for students.

A Turning Point USA field representative in North Texas cited the “unprecedented growth” of TPUSA chapters following Charlie Kirk’s murder. (The Deseret News via Tess Crowley/AP)

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More on the background of Kirk’s death Students flock to TPUSA chaptersRasmussen reported.

“It just keeps growing and growing,” Rasmussen told Fox News Digital. “I mean, we’re seeing hundreds of thousands of students wanting to join, thousands of chapters starting at the high school and college level.

“So, you know, it’s something that you can’t really explain other than his courage and his belief, and it’s time for students to stand up. And they’re doing such an amazing job with that courage, especially on their college campuses.”

Rasmussen is the president of the university Texas in Tyler, where the university approved a new chapter earlier this month.

“It was pretty quiet for a while, but after Charlie left, we got almost 100 members. So that was really cool,” Reese Cooper, president of the TPUSA chapter at UT-Tyler, told Fox News Digital.

The chapter began in January but was not officially recognized by the university until this month. Cooper said the group struggled to find a faculty advisor to sponsor the organization because of the obvious political implications associated with TPUSA’s conservative politics. Jonathan Roncancio, the chapter’s vice president, said most professors lean more left, and the group hasn’t done enough to get sponsorship from the adviser.

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UT-Tyler officials told Fox News Digital on Sept. 19 that the case applied for enrollment and the university worked with students to streamline the process. The case was approved on October 9.

Reece Cooper started the Turning Point USA chapter in January. (Fox News Digital)

The case eventually found a consultant and was approved after Kirk’s death, which dominated the headlines and Released to TPUSA.

Roncancio added that he noticed an increase in GroupMe chats that included members.

“We had a lot of people join the GroupMe. It went from about 10 people to 120 people overnight, and it was obviously because of the interest in Turning Point. People were seeing it on the news and wanted to know more about it. And so we had more people come and visit us, wondering what we were doing on campus.”

Kirk has toured the country over the past five years to debate culture war issues such as gender ideology, racial divisions, and the quality of Christian and American values ​​in general.

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Kirk, who was killed while speaking at a college event in Utah, leaves behind a wife, Erica, and two young children. Since his death, TPUSA, an organization founded by Kirk, has received an outpouring of support.

“It’s phenomenal,” Paige Rasmussen said of Fox News Digital’s growth. (Fox News Digital)

Rasmussen projects further growth because a Revival is sweeping the countryInspiring young people to stand up for what they believe in.

“I don’t see it diminishing because I don’t think it’s a situation where people just see it online and want to join something that’s popular,” she said.

“I think it’s a renaissance, and this is where students and ordinary people, whether they’re out of school or not, are feeling the conviction in their souls that it’s time to stand up boldly for their values ​​and their beliefs. And so I’m happy to be with these students and I’m happy to help them and be a part of the movement.”

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