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Acting US Attorney General Todd Blanche, left, speaks alongside FBI Director Kash Patel during a news conference at the Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice building in Washington on April 21, 2026. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images/AFP)
April 25, 2026, 11:47 am
US accuses Southern Poverty Law Center of defrauding donors with payments to extremist informants
Civil rights group defends its now-defunct program; charges come after FBI cut ties with organization for listing slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s group as extremist
By Collin Binkley, ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and Rebecca Boone
US Vice President JD Vance speaks at a Turning Point USA tour stop at the University of Georgia in Athens, Ga., April 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Erik S. Lesser)
April 15, 2026, 8:10 pm
‘You’re bombing children’: JD Vance heckled over Gaza, Iran at Turning Point event
With criticism of Trump’s Middle East policy now also coming from the right, VP says he ‘understands’ young people don’t support US wars, but deflects blame to Joe Biden
By JTA and AP
Left: Candace Owens appears on her podcast, December 20, 2025. (Screenshot via Candace Owens/YouTube); Right: Tucker Carlson appears on his podcast, December 22, 2025. (Screenshot via Tucker Carlson/YouTube)
December 29, 2025, 3:11 pm
Study shows 2025 spike in anti-Israel, antisemitic rhetoric from Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens
Jewish People Policy Institute uses AI to track references to Israel by two leading right-wing podcasters, finds US Jews very concerned about spike in antisemitism from the right
By Leon Kraiem
US conservative political commentator Ben Shapiro speaks during Turning Point's AmericaFest conference in remembrance of late right-wing political activist Charlie Kirk, in Phoenix, December 18, 2025. (Olivier Touron/AFP)
December 25, 2025, 9:45 am
Ben Shapiro’s desperate stand against right-wing antisemitism is receiving major pushback
Showdown at Turning Point USA convention highlights how Jews and Israel have become fault lines in conservative American politics
By Andrew Lapin
US Vice President JD Vance speaks during Turning Point USA's AmericaFest 2025, December 21, 2025, in Phoenix. (AP/Jon Cherry)
December 22, 2025, 3:12 am
Vance: Almost no Americans are antisemitic, real issue is ‘backlash’ to US policy on Israel
At Turning Point conference, Trump’s VP slams ‘purity tests,’ says movement must be open to all who ‘love America’ amid growing debate on the US right over platforming antisemitism
By AP and ToI Staff
Ben Shapiro speaks during Turning Point USA's AmericaFest 2025, December, 18, 2025, in Phoenix, Arizona. (AP/Jon Cherry)
December 20, 2025, 2:58 pm
MAGA civil war over Israel erupts into the open at Turning Point USA conference
Ben Shapiro attacks conservative leaders for not calling out conspiracy theorists; Steve Bannon: Shapiro a ‘cancer’ who wants US to put Israel’s interests first
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt at the Never is Now conference in New York, March 5, 2024. (courtesy)
October 1, 2025, 2:15 pm
ADL takes down extremism database after criticism over entry on Charlie Kirk’s group
Antisemitism watchdog says Glossary of Extremism and Hate ‘outdated,’ without directly addressing right-wing attacks from Musk and others over inclusion of Turning Point USA
By ToI Staff
Erika Kirk gives a press conference after her husband Charlie was killed, September 12, 2025 (TURNING POINT USA/AFP)
September 13, 2025, 3:01 pm
Charlie Kirk’s widow says her ‘cries will echo around the world like a battle cry’
Wife of prominent conservative activist killed in Utah on Wednesday says she will continue his work: ‘You have no idea the fire that you have ignited within this wife’
By Agencies
Left to right: Tucker Carlson attends the United States Capitol in Washington, DC, on January 20, 2025. (Pool/Getty Images North America/AFP); a photo provided by the New York State Sex Offender Registry shows disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, March 28, 2017. (New York State Sex Offender Registry via AP)
July 13, 2025, 5:04 am
Tucker Carlson suggests Jeffrey Epstein was working for Mossad
Pundit-turned-conspiracy theorist posits that Jerusalem dispatched convicted sex offender as part of blackmail op, demands it come clean; separately takes swipe at dual-citizen IDF vets
By ToI Staff
Handbags are for sale at the Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC 2024, at the National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Maryland, Feb. 23, 2024. (AP Photo/(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
February 26, 2024, 4:43 pm
CPAC denies report Nazis, white supremacists openly attended its annual summit
NBC News claims Conservative Political Action Conference, where Trump gave keynote speech, sees participants peddle far-right, racist ideology
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Screen capture from video of nazi demonstrators outside the Turning Point USA Student Action Summit in Tampa, Florida, July 23, 2022. (Twitter)
July 25, 2022, 12:32 pm
Neo-Nazis rally with swastikas outside Florida conservative youth conference
Turning Point USA Student Action Summit, attended by Trump, says it has no connection with group handing out antisemitic leaflets; Holocaust museum calls incident ‘indefensible’
By ToI Staff
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