In the face of tragedy, Turning Point USA is not backing down.
Just days after the shocking assassination of Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University on September 10, TPUSA has announced that the national campus tour he began will continue — with new names, renewed purpose, and the same unflinching mission to challenge progressive orthodoxy in the heart of academia.
The amended schedule was released Monday, hours before the tour’s first post-tragedy event at Minnesota State University. Taking the stage in Kirk’s place was Daily Wire host Michael Knowles, who has stepped up not just as a speaker, but as a standard-bearer for the movement Kirk helped shape.
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Knowles made clear that the tour will not be a hushed or mournful retreat. Instead, it will be a living tribute to Kirk’s legacy of fearless debate and student engagement — a torch passed, not extinguished. “There will be an empty chair on stage,” Knowles said during an appearance on Fox & Friends First, “and I will give a tribute to Charlie… then we will open up the floor to an open conversation.” It’s a powerful image: the absence of a man whose presence once filled every room he entered, marked not by silence, but by speech.
And the message is unmistakable: this movement will not be silenced.
Wednesday’s event is set to feature Sirius XM’s Megyn Kelly alongside Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin. Later this month, the tour returns to Utah — ground zero of Kirk’s final appearance — with a September 30 stop at Utah State University. That event will feature an impressive conservative lineup: Sen. Mike Lee, Rep. Andy Biggs, former Rep. Jason Chaffetz, and TPUSA’s own Alex Clark.
But the roster doesn’t stop there.
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The continuing schedule includes a who's-who of conservative influencers and thought leaders: Vivek Ramaswamy, Gov. Greg Gianforte, Glenn Beck, Tucker Carlson, Allie Beth Stuckey, Gov. Jeff Landry, actor-turned-activist Rob Schneider, and Christian apologist Frank Turek. Each name underscores the gravity of the moment — and the determination to meet it.
Knowles put it best: “Charlie’s enemies thought they could not only silence him, but silence his movement.” But they were wrong. Because what Charlie Kirk built was never about just one person. It was about a generation — one that refuses to be lectured to, shouted down, or pushed out of the public square.