Turning Point USA DBA a Charity

Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA recently added me to their mailing list. I have no idea who sold them my name and address.

A couple of weeks ago, my first mailing offered me a bright red, “We Are Charlie Kirk” wristband and an opportunity to make a donation.

Last week’s mail brought me a small American flag and an impassioned letter from Riley Gaines, former All-American swimmer turned anti-trans-people activist. Her letter invited me to participate in the “Campus Patriotism Project” by signing a tag attached to the flag and returning it so that it can be displayed “with thousands of others from like-minded patriots at one of 4,500+ schools with a Turning Point USA chapter.”

What will these flags inspire? Charlies’s dream—a dream of “inspiring young men and women to get married, start families, and rely on each other the way their great-grandparents did.”

Here is a graphic included with that mailing:

It conveniently overlooks the truth that the next patriotic generation can and should fight to raise both flags. The two flags are not mutually exclusive.

One more thing, which you may note in the lower right-hand corner of that picture: Turning Point USA is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit charitable organization. That apparent fact completely upends my understanding of what it means to be a charity. TPUSA’s tax status, like its partisan rhetoric, baffles me.