The Southern Poverty Regulation Middle’s (SPLC) “Year in Hate and Extremism” report, has named the most important conservative grassroots youth group, Turning Level USA (TPUSA) a “hate group.”
The Southern Poverty Regulation Middle is evaluating the most important conservative grassroots youth group to the Ku Klux Klan, including Turning Level USA to its “hate map” that plots KKK chapters and claims to show “the teams upholding white supremacy in the USA.”
The newest model of the SPLC hate map, launched Thursday, lists Turning Level USA for the primary time, categorizing the group as an “anti-government extremist group.” The hate map additionally consists of PragerU, a nonprofit that makes use of digital media to unfold conservative concepts, placing it in the identical class as Turning Level USA.
TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk joined Laura Ingraham along with his response to the absurd declare.
Laura Ingraham: They’ve labeled Turning Level as a hate group.
Charlie Kirk: Sure.
Laura Ingraham: Coming from a hateful group like them.
Charlie Kirk: It’s a shock it took them so lengthy to get us on the record.
Laura Ingraham: What took you so lengthy, Charlie?
Charlie Kirk: Perceive that they’re actually placing highschool chapters of ours on a hate group subsequent to the KKK and subsequent to neo-nazi teams. We are able to giggle this off. There’s a component to this, do not forget that there was a shooter that went to the Household Analysis Council years in the past, impressed by the SPLC record.
That is them attempting to make us mainly give up at Turning Level USA. We’re going to do the alternative, and our college students are solely going to lean in much more.
However they will’t debate us on our concepts. They can’t have dialogue. They can’t really go on to the deserves of why they’re proper or why we is perhaps flawed.
As a substitute, they need to smear us with the age-old one-liner that you’re a racist or that you’re a hater. They’re lastly realizing the facility of Turning Level USA, which is why they put us on this record.
Laura Ingraham: If you’re efficient, you’re a menace.
Watch:
Charlie Kirk reacts to Turning Level USA being labeled as a “hate group.” @charliekirk11 pic.twitter.com/f5NfzGgJso
— Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) May 27, 2025
Kirk additionally posted a extra detailed response on X.
The SPLC has added Turning Level to their ridiculous “hate group” record, proper subsequent to the KKK and neo-Nazis, an affordable smear from a washed-up org that’s been fleecing scared grandmas for many years. They one way or the other nonetheless rake in over $100 million a yr peddling their “hate map” nonsense, sitting fairly of their Montgomery “Poverty Palace” whereas crying about “hate” to line their pockets. Even former staffers known as their racket a “con.”
Their recreation plan? Scare monetary establishments into debanking us, strain colleges to cancel us, and demonize us so some unhinged lunatic feels justified concentrating on us. Bear in mind the Household Analysis Council? An SPLC-inspired gunman went after them. They’d love nothing greater than to see TPUSA within the crosshairs.
But it surely’s 2025, and no one with a functioning mind buys their rubbish anymore. The SPLC is a laughingstock, a hollowed-out husk of a corporation that’s been uncovered as a grift time and time once more. They’re not simply irrelevant—they’re a cautionary story of the best way to torch your individual credibility. Perhaps somebody ought to take a tough have a look at the place all that “nonprofit” cash’s actually going?
Being on their record is a badge of honor. It means they’re terrified that we’re so efficient. Maintain crying, SPLC—America’s achieved together with your rip-off.
The SPLC has added Turning Level to their ridiculous “hate group” record, proper subsequent to the KKK and neo-Nazis, an affordable smear from a washed-up org that’s been fleecing scared grandmas for many years. They one way or the other nonetheless rake in over $100 million a yr peddling their “hate map”…
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) May 25, 2025