In a March 2022 email SFOF President Derek Kreifels passes along opposition information on Democratic and climate-focused rival treasurer group called "For the Long Term."
Never before published materials, including meeting agendas, internal communications and advocacy letters, pull back the curtain on a little-known, yet highly influential organization of state financial officers coordinating an attack on climate financing.
A copy of a speech given by Ed Fuelner on the origin and history of CNP, during CNP's 40th anniversary event CNP in Naples, FL, on May 21 2021. Fuelner was a CNP founder and is the former head of the Heritage Foundation.
April 2020 membership directory from the secretive Council for National Policy--naming hundreds of CNP members, which the organization does not make public.
Published: November 1 2020
Investigation Series
Turning Point USA and the Culture War Fight in Education
Photo of Charlie Kirk at the "Rally to Protect Our Elections" hosted by Turning Point Action in July 2021. Photo by Gage Skidmore
The "School Board Watchlist" goes live as protests have turned increasingly violent and ugly. TPUSA CEO Charlie Kirk calls school board members "parasites."
Turning Point Academy will launch later this year, training thousands of K-12 teachers to teach a TPUSA curriculum, bringing the culture war to the kindergarten
Kirk, speaking on his radio show in June 2021:
“Similar to a virus that was in our country before we realized it, these school boards were infected by parasites who wish to teach your children a series of ideologies that are so harmful to who we are as Americans.”
This 2019 filing was filed in May 2021 due to the group using a non-calendar-year tax period for its accounting. The group's revenue has ballooned from $2m in 2015 to almost $40m in 2020.
During this period, TPUSA and its CEO Charlie Kirk developed a close and mutually beneficial relationship with the Trump family. Kirk published a book called The MAGA Doctrine, and Trump family members including Donald Trump were frequent guest speakers at TPUSA events.