Defiant TPUSA leader won't quit despite chapter facing harassment, hostility after Kirk assassination

PHOENIX — After a drawstring of harassment, intimidation and demolition successful the aftermath of the assassination of Turning Point USA laminitis Charlie Kirk, a person astatine 1 of the organization's assemblage chapters refuses to backmost down.

Amy Rose Lombardo is the lawsuit coordinator for TPUSA's Northern Arizona University chapter. She told Fox News Digital astatine AmericaFest, Turning Point's yearly conference, that she and her chap radical members person faced an onslaught of incivility since Kirk's midday execution during a speaking lawsuit astatine Utah Valley University connected Sept. 10.

"So we person seen a fewer much melodramatic protesting strategies," Lombardo said. "For example, truly the archetypal 1 that we ever got was a pistillate came by the array and dropped disconnected a enactment that was a depiction of Charlie's execution and the comments connected it escaped code and lone a bully Nazi is simply a dormant Nazi."

A graphic drafting fixed to Turning Point USA members astatine Northern Arizona University successful September 2025 shows a idiosyncratic grabbing their cervix and humor spilling out. Photo taken connected an chartless date.  (Courtesy: Rose Lombardo)

That enactment besides depicted humor coming retired of the cervix of a idiosyncratic holding a microphone.

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In a 2nd incident, a pistillate was caught connected camera swiping the contents disconnected of the chapter's array during a tabling event, and past stealing a foam committee depicting Ronald Reagan.

"With the array swiper, to beryllium honorable with you, that idiosyncratic conscionable came retired of nowhere. She was walking backmost from a absorption that usually we wouldn't spot people, but she went and got nutrient astatine immoderate benignant of country connected the other broadside of wherever we were tabling, came around, and you'll perceive successful the video my sister says, 'hey, how's it going?'" Lombardo recalled.

"And she smiles astatine america and swipes the table, and leaves," Lombardo continued.

A pupil astatine Northern Arizona University clears a Turning Point USA array and walks disconnected with a poster successful September 2025.  (Courtesy: @FrontlinesTPUSA)

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Lombardo said the radical contacted the Northern Arizona University Police Department, which prosecuted the offender. Court records bespeak that the array swiper was charged with theft and disorderly conduct, some misdemeanors. 

Lombardo was complimentary of the constabulary section and assemblage medication for the handling of the assorted incidents.

She besides remains undeterred, contempt the hostility.

"To me, Turning Point means truth, and warring for what you judge in," Lombardo said. "Because if we suffer each hope, and we conscionable springiness up connected everything, past there's nary mode that we'd beryllium capable to person a aboriginal successful America."

She described the militance of those who reason Turning Point arsenic motivational, and said that she prays for her opponents due to the fact that she feels severely for them.

Attendees commune during Turning Point USA's AmericaFest 2025, Thursday, Dec. 18, 2025, successful Phoenix. (Jon Cherry/AP)

"I anticipation they find their mode retired of the hatred that they fto tally their lives," she said. "Because astatine the extremity of the day, adjacent though I disagree with those people, and they whitethorn disagree with me, I judge they are conscionable highly misguided, and they person conscionable been lied to."

She encouraged others to measurement up and combat for what they believe.

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"To those radical who are not rather definite if they privation to measurement into the question yet, to those people, I would accidental if you can't bash it, if you won't bash it, past who other will?"

Since Kirk's death, governmental leftists person opposed Turning Point with afloat force, arsenic involvement successful the blimpish enactment has skyrocketed. Other right-leaning groups person besides faced a barrage of hatred.

Charlie Kirk speaks astatine Utah Valley University connected Sept. 10, 2025, successful Orem, Utah, anterior to his assassination. (Trent Nelson/The Salt Lake Tribune/Getty Images)

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In 1 specified incident, a teaching adjunct astatine Illinois State University was caught connected camera flipping a TPUSA table. He had been arrested lone days anterior for a akin act. He was aboriginal arrested by the FBI for allegedly making online threats against President Donald Trump.

Another repetition offender was accused of flipping a TPUSA array astatine the University of Iowa, aft doing the aforesaid to a Young America's Foundation show prior.

Northern Arizona University declined to remark further.