Charlie Kirk | Media Matters for America

Charlie Kirk was a right-wing provocateur and founder of Turning Point USA who was fatally shot on September 10, 2025. He had a history of pushing right-wing hoaxes and conspiracy theories.

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After Hamas attack in Israel, right-wing media revert to post-9/11 tropes

10/13/23 10:25 AM EDT
Charlie Kirk: “Buy weapons. Buy ammo. If you go into a public place, bring a gun with you.”

10/12/23 3:48 PM EDT
Charlie Kirk hosts white nationalist writer Steve Sailer to attack minorities

10/11/23 5:52 PM EDT
Charlie Kirk tells audience to keep firearms to use on “activated” terrorist immigrants

10/11/23 2:03 PM EDT
Charlie Kirk: The “vast majority of Muslims” live “in the 1300s” and hold a “medieval worldview”

10/11/23 1:11 PM EDT
Right-wing media use Hamas’ attacks on Israel to fearmonger about immigrants in the United States

10/10/23 5:11 PM EDT
Jim Jordan is racking up right-wing media endorsements for his House speaker campaign

10/06/23 12:53 PM EDT
Media Matters weekly newsletter, October 6

10/06/23 10:53 AM EDT
Charlie Kirk refers to Democrats as “maggots, vermin, and swine”

10/05/23 2:27 PM EDT
Charlie Kirk wants his ally Newt Gingrich to apologize for castigating House Republicans that pushed out McCarthy

10/04/23 2:36 PM EDT
Charlie Kirk: “We lost the messaging war” on the government shutdown

10/03/23 12:56 PM EDT
Charlie Kirk calls Senate appointee Laphonza Butler “the high priestess of the oppression Olympics”

10/02/23 4:37 PM EDT