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BlueWaveNeverEnd

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Wed Sep 24, 2025, 02:49 PM Sep 24

Oklahoma official says all OK high schools will have Turning Point chapters after Charlie Kirk killing [View all]

Oklahoma official says all high schools will have Turning Point chapters after Charlie Kirk killing | Oklahoma | The Guardian https://share.google/J0s2fbSopaNi8hWHU

The state superintendent in Oklahoma announced plans to put Turning Point USA chapters in every high school in the state, saying it would counter “radical leftist teachers unions” and their “woke indoctrination”.

After far-right activist Charlie Kirk was killed on a college campus earlier this month, requests to start chapters of his conservative youth group, Turning Point, at colleges and high schools have surged, the organization has said.

Oklahoma is the first state where the government is getting involved to promote starting these chapters. In a press release on Tuesday, Ryan Walters, the Oklahoma superintendent, detailed how students could start a chapter of “Club America”, the organization’s high school program, by gathering at least three students from the same school and completing a charter agreement. Then, Turning Point will help the club get a teacher sponsor and official recognition, and send materials such as an “activism kit”.



“We will be putting TPUSA on every high school campus in Oklahoma,” Walter said in the press release. “Charlie Kirk inspired a generation to love America, to speak boldly, and to never shy away from debate. Our kids must get involved and active. We will fight back against the liberal propaganda, pushed by the radical left, and the teachers unions. Our fight starts now.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/24/turning-point-oklahoma-high-schools

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Another state to avoid newdeal2 Sep 24 #1
National Religion courtesy of the extremist right wing clerics in government. nt Torchlight Sep 24 #2
I live in red Kansas which is bad enough and south of Wichita not far from Oklahoma...too close these days... wcmagumba Sep 24 #3
Topeka here. MuseRider Sep 24 #16
Okla already is dead last in education Nigrum Cattus Sep 24 #4
This is what you get for replacing critical thought with Fox brain rot. Initech Sep 24 #21
Why do the Sooners have such a hard on for CK? Iris Sep 24 #5
Oklahoma, where the stupid comes sweepin' down the plain Solly Mack Sep 24 #6
Well done! MuseRider Sep 24 #17
:) Solly Mack Sep 24 #23
WTAF is going on w/Oklahoma lately? They're acting like the shitty kid Maru Kitteh Sep 24 #7
I came on to say the same thing. NCDem47 Sep 24 #14
YES! It's the VIGOR of their bowing and scraping that is Maru Kitteh Sep 24 #19
Taxpayer funding for a blatantly partisan organisation ? Even in OK, that spells lawsuits. nt eppur_se_muova Sep 24 #8
I didn't see that Oklahoma would be funding it... SickOfTheOnePct Sep 24 #10
Ryan Walters is a blithering Trump ass kissing jackass who's only in it for the grift. Initech Sep 24 #9
I'm surprised that TlalocW Sep 24 #11
Will they be teaching racism? spanone Sep 24 #12
Many thanks, Oklahoma. Paladin Sep 24 #13
Is Ryan Walters such an inept Superintendent mgardener Sep 24 #15
And this will increase the academic rigor of Oklahoma's schools......how?... Aristus Sep 24 #18
Is OK going to announce that "DUH" is now the officeal state slogan? Ping Tung Sep 24 #20
Oklahoma taxpayers better set aside a shit-ton of their money maxrandb Sep 24 #22
Next semester: "All students of Pigs Knuckle High School will join the Turning Point Chapter." jmowreader Sep 24 #24
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