Dossier
conservative students
Coverage of conservative students in the Nexus archive.
- Erika Kirk urges conservative students not to back down in first school year since Charlie's assassination
Erika Kirk, who took over leadership of Turning Point USA after her husband Charlie Kirk's assassination on Sept. 10, 2025, urged conservative students not to back down in campus activism for the first school year since the event. She challenged them to maintain their movement and uphold courage despite potential hostility from opposing groups at college campuses. Kirk emphasized that the student movement she created by her husband has not been derailed by his assassination.