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2025 Turning Point USA co-produced a documentary with The Daily Wire called 'Identity Crisis', which scrutinizes gender ideology and societal issues surrounding gender-related topics.
December 2024 AmericaFest held in Phoenix, Arizona with keynote speakers including Donald J. Trump, Ben Shapiro, Charlie Kirk, Tucker Carlson, Patrick Bet-David, Matt Walsh, Riley Gaines, and Cenk Ugyur.
October 15 2024 Díaz-Canel led a pro-Palestinian demonstration in Havana.
2023 Awarded the Collar of the Order of the Aztec Eagle from Mexico, demonstrating international diplomatic relations.
2023 Honored with the First Class of the Order of the Most Ancient Welwitschia mirabilis from Namibia, showcasing his continued international recognition.
2023 Received the Grand Collar of the Order of Prince Henry from Portugal, further establishing his international diplomatic standing.
December 2023 AmericaFest held with 13,000 attendees, featuring keynote speakers including Glenn Beck, Rosanne Barr, Mike Lindell, Kimberly Guilfoyle, Tucker Carlson, and Charlie Kirk.
December 2023 Díaz-Canel condemned the genocide of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, called Israel a terrorist state, and joined a pro-Palestinian demonstration in Havana.
October 2023 A TPUSA crew follows and confronts David Boyles, an English instructor at Arizona State University who was on the Professor Watchlist, resulting in a physical altercation where Boyles was pushed onto concrete after a class about LGBTQ+ youth in pop culture and politics.
April 2023 Turning Point USA's student chapter at San Francisco State University hosted an event featuring Riley Gaines, a former NCAA swimmer speaking about excluding trans women from women's sports. The event resulted in protests, with Gaines claiming she was physically assaulted and barricaded in a classroom by protesters.
April 19 2023 Díaz-Canel was re-elected by the National Assembly for a second five-year term as president, receiving 97.66% support from Assembly members.
March 2023 Charlie Kirk and Candace Owens announce a partnership between Turning Point USA and the BLEXIT Foundation, with BLEXIT incorporating TPUSA's branding and corporate structure.
2022 Turning Point USA partnered with Salem Media Group to release 'Border Battle', a docuseries about America's southern border.
November 2022 Díaz-Canel visited Vladimir Putin in Moscow, where they criticized Western sanctions against Cuba and Russia and opened a monument to Fidel Castro.
July 2022 Neo-Nazis appeared outside TPUSA's Student Action Summit in Tampa, leading to a controversy with The View and subsequent legal communication from TPUSA.
2021 Charlie Kirk founded TPUSA Faith, an organization aimed at recruiting pastors and church leaders to engage in political issues and promote a culture war agenda, with a budget of $6.4 million to engage pastors nationwide
2021 Wichita State University's student court unanimously overturned a student senate decision denying Turning Point USA chapter recognition on campus, ruling the denial unconstitutional.
2021 Turning Point USA announced the creation of Turning Point Academy, an online educational platform designed to provide an 'America-first education' for families, though their initial curriculum development plans with StrongMind were ultimately abandoned.
2021 Charlie Kirk compared Biden's COVID-19 vaccination efforts to an 'Apartheid-style open air hostage situation', while simultaneously advocating against vaccine mandates and passports for healthy young people.
2021 Turning Point USA launched the School Board Watchlist, a website created by Charlie Kirk to 'hold district leaders accountable for dangerous agendas', which publicly lists school board members who have supported mask mandates, COVID-19 vaccination requirements, and specific approaches to teaching about race, gender, and sex.
2021 Turning Point USA Productions' film 'A Long Walk in Socialism' won the Rocky Mountain Emmy Award in the Cultural/Topical documentary category.
2021 Political activist Jack Posobiec joined TPUSA to host the show Human Events Daily.
2021 TPUSA's revenues grew to $55.8 million, a substantial increase from $78,000 in 2013.
2021 TPUSA initiated the School Board Watchlist website, publishing names and photos of school board members who adopted mask mandates or anti-racist curricula.
2021 Turning Point USA launched the School Board Watchlist, a website created by Charlie Kirk to 'hold district leaders accountable for dangerous agendas', which publicly lists school board members who have supported mask mandates, COVID-19 vaccination requirements, and specific approaches to teaching about race, gender, and sex.
December 2021 Turning Point USA launched AmericaFest, a four-day conference featuring conservative speakers like Donald Trump Jr. and Sarah Palin, with country music acts.
September 2021 Turning Point USA launched 'Turning Point Live', a three-hour streaming talk show featuring host John Root and selling 'Save America' merchandise.
August 2021 Turning Point USA distributed a controversial '2021 Investor Prospectus' seeking to raise $43 million, which was criticized for using white nationalist rhetoric and making inflammatory statements about educational institutions.
April 19 2021 Assumed the role of First Secretary of the Communist Party, replacing Raúl Castro and becoming Cuba's first non-Castro leader since the revolution.
March 23 2021 Díaz-Canel successfully defended his PhD thesis titled 'Government Management System Based on Science and Innovation for Sustainable Development in Cuba', obtaining a doctorate in technical sciences.
January 6 2021 Turning Point Action attended the 'Stop the Steal' rally near the White House, which ended in a riot and attack on the U.S. Capitol during the certification of Biden's election win. Kirk later described sending participants as 'bad judgment' and not 'wise'.
January 4 2021 Charlie Kirk announced via tweet that Turning Point Action would send over 80 buses to the January 6 'Stop the Steal' rally in Washington, D.C., ultimately sending seven buses with approximately 350 participants.
2020 Turning Point USA's online audience grew from an average of 83,000 to 111,000.
2020 Turning Point Endowment reported revenues of $16,576,350.
2020 Turning Point USA hosted multiple Trump reelection rallies, some featuring Trump himself and other Trump surrogates.
2020 Charlie Kirk disputed the results of the 2020 presidential election and denied Trump's loss.
2020 Turning Point Action paid teenagers in Arizona, including minors, to create thousands of social media posts promoting Turning Point USA content without disclosing their organizational affiliation during the presidential election campaign.
2020 Served as a keynote speaker on the first day of the Republican National Convention, describing President Donald Trump as the 'bodyguard of western civilization'.
2020 Turning Point Action paid teenagers in Arizona, including minors, to create thousands of social media posts promoting Turning Point USA content without disclosing their organizational affiliation during the presidential election campaign.
October 2020 Charlie Kirk began hosting a daily three-hour radio talk show on conservative Christian radio network Salem Media's 'The Answer' channel.
October 2020 Facebook permanently banned Rally Forge, and Twitter suspended 262 accounts related to the coordinated social media campaign.
September 2020 Turning Point USA's affiliate Turning Point Action was reported to have paid young people in Arizona, including minors, to create thousands of social media posts using TPUSA content on their own and fake accounts without disclosure.
September 2020 Facebook removed 200 accounts, 55 pages, and 76 Instagram accounts linked to Turning Point USA's marketing agency Rally Forge after discovering coordinated social media posting to boost Trump and criticize Joe Biden during the 2020 presidential election.
July 2020 TPUSA attorney Sally Wagenmaker publicly refuted campaign finance irregularity allegations in a ProPublica article, claiming the organization was in full compliance with IRS policies.
July 2020 Bill Montgomery died of complications from COVID-19, ending his involvement with Turning Point USA.
April 2020 Bill Montgomery stepped down from his role as secretary and treasurer of Turning Point USA.
2019 Alex Clark became the host of POPlitics.
2019 Became CEO of Students for Trump.
2019 The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) labeled Turning Point USA as an alt-lite organization and criticized the group for affiliating with far-right and alt-right activists, noting that its leadership and activists had made racist or bigoted comments with links to extremism.
2019 TPUSA reported donor revenues of $28.5 million, with CEO Charlie Kirk receiving compensation of $292,423.

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