TPUSA Popularity Explodes: 350,000 New Student Signups Nationwide

September 10th, 2025: the tragic day an assassin killed Charlie Kirk — and Andrew Kolvet lost a best friend. Kolvet is both the spokesman for Turning Point USA and the executive producer of The Charlie Kirk Radio Show. Over the past three months, the organization has received a massive outpouring of support.

CBN News saw the evidence up close inside the TPUSA mailroom, filled with crosses, books, letters, and more. "We are getting prayers from so many strangers, so many people we know," Kolvet tells CBN News. "Everybody's reaching out, rooting for us, and that part has been tremendous."

The desert can be a very lonely, quiet, and desolate place — but not for TPUSA. They're headquartered in the desert in the Phoenix area. There's been a lot of hustle, bustle, and growth ever since that horrific day on September 10th. You can see it throughout TPUSA headquarters as they plan for this month's big AMFEST conference. More than 20,000 people are expected this week — a record.

There's other growth as well. College chapters have increased from 900 to 1,400 over the last three months. In their high school "Club America" program, the numbers are even more impressive. Since September, they've gone from 1,200 student groups to 3,100. There are also more than 130,000 inquiries to start new chapters. While Kolvet understands things will naturally change to a degree, he maintains the core essentials will remain the same.

"There's things that work and we know they work," says Kolvet. "The campus tours work. We're going to launch a 'Make Heaven Crowded' TPUSA Faith tour — a revival tour all across the country," he said. "Our role is very simple when it comes to faith. That there has been a lack of leadership in the public sphere from Christians. And that if we seed that ground, you create a vacuum that others are going to fill — and you're not going to like their ideas nearly as much as other Christians and your own."

Turning Point USA was founded by slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk and is now one of the fastest-growing organizations of campus chapters on colleges, universities, and high schools in the country. Since Kirk's assassination in September, college chapters have increased from 900 to 1,400, and their Club America has gone from 1,200 student groups to 3,100.

There are also more than 130,000 inquiries to start new chapters across high schools and colleges. In total, there have been 350,000 new student registrations.