❓WHAT HAPPENED: The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) is continuing to label Turning Point USA (TPUSA) as an organization of “Extremism, Hate or Terrorism” following the assassination of its founder, Charlie Kirk, while defending the Antifa movement, recently designated as a terrorist organization.
👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: Charlie Kirk, TPUSA, the ADL, and Antifa.
📍WHEN & WHERE: September 2025, following Kirk’s assassination.
💬KEY QUOTE: “TPUSA was connected to many controversial incidents including problematic comments by TPUSA spokespeople or activists.” – ADL Glossary
🎯IMPACT: The ADL’s partisan actions have sparked calls for federal action against the organization, including the removal of its tax-exempt status.
Turning Point USA (TPUSA) founder Charlie Kirk’s assassination on September 10, 2025, allegedly by radical leftist Tyler Robinson, while engaging students in debate on Utah Valley University’s campus, has not moved the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) to remove his organization from its list of “Extremism, Hate or Terrorism” groups. However, it continues to defend the Antifa movement, which President Donald J. Trump has designated as a terrorist organization, and insists it is generally not violent.
In its glossary entry for TPUSA, labelled under ‘Extremism, Hate or Terrorism,’ the ADL smears the conservative youth organization as promoting “conspiracy theories related to topics such as election fraud and COVID-19,” and alleges individual associated with it “have a history of bigoted statements about the Black community, the LGBTQ community and specifically transgender people, and other minority groups.”
The ADL also says that “white nationalists openly have attended their events” and that “extremists and far-right conspiracy theorists have been featured at the AmericaFest conference and other TPUSA events,” despite a mealy-mouthed disclaimer that “Kirk himself publicly condemned such groups.”
Meanwhile, it claims the Antifa organization is merely a “decentralized, leaderless movement composed of loose collections of groups, networks and individuals,” insisting: “While some extreme actors who claim to be affiliated with antifa do engage in violence or vandalism at rallies and events, this is not the norm.”
“Persistent disinformation campaigns about antifa distort public perception of the movement,” it complains.
The ADL’s obstinate, partisan stance in the wake of Kirk’s assassination has caused conservatives to call for action against it, with Kenny Cody of Human Events writing, “Out in the open, the Anti-Defamation League is labeling conservative activism amongst the youth as extremist, and now the ADL has blood on its hands… Whether it be through congressional action or emanating from the top of the executive branch, the ADL should lose its tax-exempt status and any federal funding to which the group has access.”
ADL on Antifa: They’re not really normally violent or extreme
ADL on TPUSA: They’re an extremist hate group
The ADL is a total joke pic.twitter.com/ddIY2zNAlZ
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) September 29, 2025
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