ADL deleted everything on their site criticizing Turning Point USA as an extremist hate group because of the hysteria and anger of Charles Kirk supporters all the way up to Trump. In fact they deleted over 1,000 entries thanks to pressure by white supremacists such as Trump or their token minority mascots such as Kash Patel.
This doesn't mean TPUSA isn't extremist or white supremacist. If anything, they've gotten worse since Kirk's death. It means they are successfully pressuring supposed watchdogs like ADL to cave in.
It's worth noting Lyrea/Martinez/Verstraete isn't active in far right circles at all anymore. Not for six years, or right after she was widely condemned by NDNs. She's now a realtor in Phoenix.
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https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/10/04/adl-tpusa-extremism-designation/In late September 2025, multiple widely circulated posts (archived) claimed that the Anti-Defamation League included Turning Point USA – the organization co-founded by conservative commentator Charlie Kirk, who was fatally shot Sept. 10, 2025 – in its "Glossary of Extremism and Hate." The claim drew outrage from conservative figures such as Donald Trump Jr. and Elon Musk, whose posts garnered millions of views.
Over the next couple of days, the ADL — a self-described anti-bias and anti-extremism organization particularly focused on combatting antisemitism — took steps to remove various mentions of TPUSA across the organization's site, including the entire Glossary of Extremism and Hate, until it completely removed its page on TPUSA from the site Oct. 1. The Glossary of Extremism and Hate was a collection of more than 1,000 groups, individuals, conspiracy theories, events, concepts and more that the ADL compiled and featured on its site before its removal.
When we first looked into the claim on Sept. 30, the ADL still had the Glossary of Extremism and Hate available on its site, though a search for TPUSA in the glossary yielded no results.
According to the alleged screenshots shared online, the ADL had, at one point, included TPUSA in the glossary. On Sept. 30, the ADL posted on X (archived) that the organization was "moving to retire the Glossary effectively immediately."
We reached out to the ADL seeking information regarding the alleged, earlier designation of TPUSA as an "extremist" group. The ADL didn't answer the question directly but instead responded that it did "not consider TPUSA to be an extremist group," and directed us to learn more at a link to the organization's page on TPUSA (now deleted).
We responded inquiring why the page on TPUSA still belonged to the category "Extremism, Hate or Terrorism" (as seen below) if the ADL did not consider TPUSA to be extremist. Shortly after, the ADL deleted the organization's entire page on TPUSA. We have not, as of this writing, received another response.
(adl.org)
Archived versions of the page reveal the ADL made significant changes in the days leading up to its deletion. For example, an archived version of the page from Sept. 29 read, "Kirk has created a vast platform for extremists and far-right conspiracy theorists." By Sept. 30, this statement was gone from the top key points of the page. Instead, the ADL added the following to the page's key points:
While TPUSA repeatedly has stated that it rejects white supremacist ideology, white nationalists openly have attended their events. Moreover, extremists and far-right conspiracy theorists have been featured at the AmericaFest conference and other TPUSA events. However, it should be noted that Kirk himself publicly condemned such groups, insisting that they did not represent TPUSA and their beliefs.
In a later section, the Sept. 30 version of the page read: "Kirk created a vast platform that was used by numerous extremists and far-right conspiracy theorists" (emphasis added to indicate the change in wording).
The edited version from Sept. 30 also featured new sections, including, "Charlie Kirk: His Murder & Its Aftermath" and "TPUSA, Charlie Kirk and Israel."
On Oct. 1, Kash Patel, head of the FBI, publicly cut ties with the ADL, stating on X (archived), "This FBI won't partner with political fronts masquerading as watchdogs." We reached out to both the FBI and the ADL seeking information regarding any potential role the FBI may have played in the ADL's stance on TPUSA and did not immediately receive a response....
Article on Turning Point USA, the group she's being used by, and its history of white supremacists.
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https://www.huffpost.com/entry/tpusa-college-republican-group-turning-point-has-a-white-supremacy-problem_n_5cd58fdbe4b0796a95dac4f6
College Republican Group Turning Point Has A White Supremacy Problem
A video of a Turning Point USA leader declaring “white power” and flashing a white supremacist sign is just one of many similar incidents for the group.
By Andy Campbell
Turning Point USA, a nationwide organization of student Republicans with more than 1,000 chapters, has an institutional problem with white supremacy and bigotry.
Just after midnight on Friday, the group announced that it had canned its University of Nevada Las Vegas chapter leader, identified as Riley Grisar, after a video surfaced depicting him and a woman on a bed, flashing the white supremacist “OK” sign, declaring “white power” and spouting racial slurs.
“We’re gonna rule the country,” the woman says. “White power, fuck the niggers.”
Turning Point quickly decried the video ? surfaced by the independent outlet It’s Going Down on Thursday night ? as “abhorrent, un-American and disqualifying,” and attempted to distance itself from Gisar’s bigoted commentary.
“TPUSA has a zero-tolerance policy for hate, no matter the medium or how dated the act or comment, and we hold our tens of thousands of students to the highest of standards,” the group stated on Twitter.
However, this isn’t an isolated incident. There’s a demonstrable pattern of extremism and white supremacist ideology in TPUSA’s top ranks.
In March, Vice News reported that Identity Evropa, the violent white nationalist group that helped plan the Unite the Right extremist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017, plotted to infiltrate TPUSA to gain clout among student GOP groups.
It’s not entirely clear how successful the campaign was, though members of Identity Evropa (also known as the American Identity Movement) have very publicly attempted to appeal to the group’s founder, Charlie Kirk, in the past. During one of Kirk’s events in October, an Identity Evropa member used a Q&A period to discuss white ethnostates.
Kirk responded: “You are verging on white nationalism, my friend. I want nothing to do with ethnonationalism or anything like that. I condemn, I disavow completely.”
In an interview with Vice News in March, Kirk acknowledged that he had a problem on his hands.
“Groups like this borrow mainstream political language, mix it with hate, in order to confuse students who are maybe unaware of their intentions,” he said. “It’s a moving target but one TPUSA is committed to identifying and calling out when it’s brought to our attention.”
But while Kirk has repeatedly disavowed white nationalism and bigotry, he has failed to remove the ideology from his group. Just a week prior to that interview, white nationalist Nicholas Fuentes reportedly spoke at Iowa State University on the invite of the school’s TPUSA chapter.
And in April, HuffPost revealed a bevy of racists that TPUSA had hired to fill out its national brass. The group’s former national field director, Crystal Clanton, once texted a colleague: “I HATE BLACK PEOPLE. Like fuck them all . . . I hate blacks. End of story.” Her replacement, 22-year-old Shialee Grooman, tweeted in 2013, “All I get is nigger dick.” The group’s Midwest regional manager, Timon Prax, was forced out for bigoted statements. The list goes on.
More recently, TPUSA’s communications manager and one of its few black employees, Candace Owens, had to backpedal after defending the term “nationalism” by saying that Adolf Hitler would have been a “fine” leader if he would have just stuck around in Germany.
“The problem is he had dreams outside of Germany,” she said. “He wanted to globalize. He wanted everybody to be German.”
Owens stepped down from her position at TPUSA last week, purportedly for unrelated reasons...
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