| Founder: | Charlie Kirk |
| Type: | 501(c)(4) organization |
| Abbreviation: | TPAction |
| Tax Id: | 46-4331510 |
| Headquarters: | Phoenix, Arizona |
| Location Country: | United States |
Turning Point Action (TPAction) is an American 501(c)(4) organization and political advocacy group that works directly with voters by providing necessary resources to elect conservative leaders. It was founded in 2019 by Charlie Kirk as the sister organization and political advocacy arm of the 501(c)(3) Turning Point USA.
Leading up to the 2024 United States presidential election, TPAction launched "Chase The Vote", focused on deploying thousands of field organizers in key states to engage with voters through relationship-driven strategies to help elect Donald Trump. The program was dubbed as a "force multiplier" by Brian Hughes, a senior campaign advisor for Trump.
TPAction has hosted many rallies across the country, featuring prominent figures such as Donald Trump, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., JD Vance, Tulsi Gabbard, and others.
In May 2019, it was reported that Kirk was "preparing to unveil" Turning Point Action, a 501(c)(4) entity allowed to campaign against Democrats.[1] While the group is a separate organization from Turning Point USA, Forbes noted that both were founded by Kirk and use common marketing and branding styles.[2]
In July 2019, TPAction acquired leasing rights to web domains and social media platforms of Students for Trump, a youth group founded in 2015 at Campbell University in North Carolina by John Lambert and Ryan Fournier.[3] [4] [5] The Washington Post reported in 2023 that Students for Trump was separating from Turning Point Action after branding/revenue disputes.
In 2024, the Trump campaign partnered with Turning Point Action and other conservative groups to help execute a ground game strategy in key swing states, Arizona, Michigan, and Wisconsin. TPAction's "Chase the Vote" initiative was a new untested campaign tactic directly using outside organizations to lead canvassing efforts to turn out "low propensity right-wing voters", people who had a high chance to vote for Trump but a low chance to actually cast a ballot.[6] [7]
Chase the Vote's strategy was an answer to substantial Republican losses in the 2022 mid-term elections, which was believed to be in part due to Democrats having an edge with early voting. Due to this, embracing early voting instead of trying to reboot the voting habits of Republicans in a single voting cycle was a main element of this strategy. Post election data from Arizona suggests that the strategy succeeded.[8] [9]
Founder Charlie Kirk was assassinated at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, on September 10, 2025, during what would have been a series of events planned by the company. On September 18, 2025, Erika Kirk, the widow of Charlie Kirk and mother of their two children, was unanimously elected as the new CEO and Chair of the Board of Turning Point USA.
Turning Point Action is a 501c(4) non-profit organization which allows for participation in partisan political campaigns and elections.[10] TPAction has campaigned for and hosted political rallies for many conservative politicians ranging from local offices all the way up to presidential candidates. Many prominent politicians are featured speakers/guests at TPAction activism conferences. During the 2024 Presidential election, TPAction executed the largest and most effective ballot chasing operation in the country entitled "Chase the vote".[11]
In October 2020, Facebook permanently banned Arizona based marketing firm Rally Forge for running what some experts likened to a domestic "troll farm" on behalf of Turning Point Action. A month prior the Washington Post reported in a published article that young people in Arizona, some of them minors, were posting Turning Point content on their social media accounts without disclosing their affiliation with Turning Point. The report from Washington Post prompted an investigation by Facebook which ultimately concluded in the removal of 200 accounts and 55 pages on Facebook, as well as 76 Instagram accounts.[12] [13]
Twitter responded to the newspaper's questions by suspending at least 262 accounts for their involvement in "platform manipulation and spam. Facebook and Twitter did not penalize Turning Point because they could not ascertain if Turning Point leadership was aware of the actions being carried out on their behalf by Rally Forge.[14] [15]
Turning Point Action issued a statement saying they wanted to work with Facebook "to rectify any misunderstanding" about their content.[16] "Austin Smith, a field director for Turning Point, told The Washington Post: "This is sincere political activism conducted by real people who passionately hold the beliefs they describe online, not an anonymous troll farm in Russia."[17]
Jake Hoffman, CEO of Rally Forge, said that "dozens of young people have been excited to share their beliefs on social media" and were "using their own personal profiles and sharing their content that reflects their values and beliefs."[18] [19]
On January 4, 2021, Kirk announced in a tweet that Turning Point Action would be sending more than 80 buses to a January 6, 2021, Trump "Stop the Steal" rally near the White House in Washington, D.C, to protest the outcome of the election.[20] [21] They sent seven buses with approximately 350 participants. Turning Point Action also funneled money to several "Stop the Steal" rally speakers, including Kimberly Guilfoyle, but did not organize or take part in the march to the Capitol that erupted in violence.[22] [23] Kirk later deleted the tweet[24] and said on his podcast that it was "bad judgment" and "not wise" to enter the Capitol but not necessarily insurrectionist.[25] A Turning Point Action spokesman later said the group condemns political violence.
TPAction hosted a conference in July 2023 called "ACTCON",[26] it was hosted in West Palm Beach and drew roughly 6,000 attendees.[27] It had several guest speakers including the event headliner Donald Trump and keynote speaker Tucker Carlson. According to the New York Times, the two day event drew roughly a third of the Republican presidential field as speakers.[28] [29]
On July 26, 2024, while addressing the crowd during Turning Point Action's Believers' Summit in West Palm Beach, Donald Trump told his supporters: "Christians, get out and vote, just this time! You won't have to do it anymore. Four more years, you know what, it will be fixed, it will be fine. You won't have to vote anymore, my beautiful Christians."[30] [31]
For the 2024 presidential campaign Turning Point Action launched a "chase the vote" program that saw 1,000 people hired for voter outreach with a focus on younger voters as well as low-propensity Republican voters in all key battleground states, including Arizona, Wisconsin, partially in Michigan and Pennsylvania.[32] [33] [34] Voter turnout operations are typically run by national and state Republican parties or candidates' own campaigns, but in 2024 a Federal Election Commission decision allowed campaigns to coordinate canvassing with outside groups. For Turning Point, that has meant hiring staffers, developing a canvassing app and staffing tables at both on- and off-campus events.[35] In Wisconsin, TPAction combined their canvassing efforts with those of America PAC.[36]
Before the 2024 election TPAction brought Moms for America into their "Chase the Vote" alliance. The partnership's goal was to have Moms for America help promote events. A new app focused on get out the vote tactics (GOTV). The app provided data with insights to key targets to "chase" during the election cycle.[37]
During the 2024 presidential election, Brian Hughes, a senior advisor on the Trump campaign, called TPAction's field program a "force multiplier" that allowed for more efficient deployment of campaign and RNC assets in key battleground states.[38]
Prior to the 2024 presidential election, Charlie Kirk visited around 25 college campuses in the "You're being brainwashed" tour. Trying to stir up more Gen-Z voter turnout, he would engage/debate with students on many different relevant topics. According to Turning Point Action, the tour produced around two billion views on social media.[39] The tour has been praised as having a "critical role" in helping Donald Trump get elected.[40]
In May 2025, TPAction put on a rally for Congressman Rep. Andy Biggs to aid in his bid for Governor of Arizona. Thousands of people attended the rally (many of whom were sporting MAGA hats and T-shirts), which was held in a ballroom of the Arizona Biltmore Resort. Many other Republican lawmakers made appearances to show support including Rep. Burgess Owens (Utah), Rep. Eli Crane (Arizona), Rep. Paul Gosar (Arizona), Lauren Boebert (Colorado) and former Rep. Matt Gaetz (Florida). Before Briggs took the stage to speak, Charlie Kirk opened up with a few words encouraging all who were listening to remember that the very first Trump rally was held in Phoenix back in 2015.[41]
In July 2025, TPAction was asked to help with a citizen organized effort to collect enough local signatures to meet a recall election threshold for council member Julie Spilsbury, a moderate Republican in her second term. This effort included the distribution of anti-Spilsbury material around the city's district 2. After the recall election signature threshold was met and exceeded by citizens signing to recall Julie, the council voted unanimously, including Spilsbury, in favor of the recall election. The recall petition outlined that she was guilty of using her political influence for private gain in three specific votes spanning between 2023 and 2024. These three votes pertained to the use of Biden administration ARPA funds for the conversion of a hotel to a homeless shelter, raising city utility rate structures, and increasing council salaries. Julie was censured by the Republican parties of legislative districts 9 and 10, both stating she is no longer recognized as a part of the Republican Party. Another council member voiced opinion that Spilsbury might be being recalled because she openly supported presidential nominee Kamala Harris.[42]
In November 2025, the Arizona election became nationalized when Spilsbury, one of the national leaders and co-chair of "Republicans for Harris" was recalled from the Mesa district-two seat. She was defeated by Dorean Taylor, a candidate backed by numerous district 2 residents, legislative district 9 and 10 and supported TPAction through their ballot chasing efforts. Spilsbury received heavy criticism from her opponents for her approval of Mesa's 2021 nondiscrimination ordinance, which her opponents said permitted trans women into women's bathrooms and locker rooms. The recall was one of the last campaigns Charlie Kirk was involved in with TPAction before his assassination. Some believed this election was an indicator if Turning Point could still remain a political force after Kirk's passing.[43] [44] [45]
In 2021, Kirk compared Biden's vaccination efforts to an "Apartheid-style open air hostage situation".[46] [47] [48] Text messages sent by Turning Point Action using Twilio automatically enrolled donors under a recurring monthly plan. Kirk's spokesperson said they are not anti-vaxx, reiterating that "the vaccine makes logical sense for millions of Americans" but they should "have the freedom to choose", and Kirk was advocating against vaccine mandates and passports for healthy young people. The same spokesperson said the text messages from Turning Point Action were not approved by Kirk and that the automatic contribution function was added by a vendor.
In April 2024, Arizona state representative Austin Smith, who was an "election integrity warrior" and the TPAction National Field Administrative Director, resigned his TPAction position and quit his state reelection race after he was accused of forging voter signatures on documents he filed for his reelection run.[49] [50]
On April 24, 2024, TPAction COO Tyler Bowyer was indicted on 9 charges in connection with the 2020 Arizona fake electors plot.[51] On May 21, 2024, Bowyer and 10 of his 17 co-defendants pled not guilty after being arraigned in Maricopa County Superior Court.[52] Bowyer was among five people who made their not guilty plea virtually rather than in-person.[53] In May of 2025, Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Sam J. Myers found that prosecutors failed to provide the full text of the Electoral Count Act to the grand jury, which outlines how presidential electoral votes are to be cast and counted. This ruling meant that Attorney General Kris Mayes would have to convene a new grand jury and share the text of the act in its entirety if she wanted to proceed. The ruling was appealed by Mayes in September 2025, that appeal was denied. Arizona Republican Party issued a response to the denied appeal reiterating that the indictment was "politically motivated".[54] [55]
