Political activist Charlie Kirk announces plans to come to WSU

News Brief by Tracy Simmons | FāVS News

Charlie Kirk, a controversial conservative political activist, announced on Facebook that he’ll be visiting the Washington State University campus this month.

Who is Charlie Kirk?

Kirk, who openly supports Christian nationalism, is the co-founder of Turning Point USA, a nonprofit aimed at promoting free-market principles, limited government and fiscal responsibility among high school and college students through campus activism and educational outreach.

The organization has faced criticism for tactics perceived as divisive, including its “Professor Watchlist,” which seeks to expose professors who, “discriminate against conservative students and advance leftist propaganda in the classroom.” TPUSA also has a School Board Watchlist.

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Kirk is coming to Pullman as part of the The American Comeback Tour, which launched earlier this year. The tour challenges progressive ideologies in academia and promotes conservative viewpoints through public debates and discussions.

His visit to WSU is slated for noon on April 17.

It’s not his first trip to Eastern Washington. He visited a Spokane church in 2022.

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Tracy Simmons

Tracy Simmons is an award-winning journalist specializing in religion reporting and digital entrepreneurship. In her approximate 20 years on the religion beat, Simmons has tucked a notepad in her pocket and found some of her favorite stories aboard cargo ships in New Jersey, on a police chase in Albuquerque, in dusty Texas church bell towers, on the streets of New York and in tent cities in Haiti. Simmons has worked as a multimedia journalist for newspapers across New Mexico, Texas, Connecticut and Washington. She is the executive director of FāVS.News, a digital journalism start-up covering religion news and commentary in Spokane, Washington. She also writes for The Spokesman-Review and national publications. She is a Scholarly Associate Professor of Journalism at Washington State University.

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