What all 21 college campuses did Charlie Kirk go to to speak
Executive summary
Contemporary reporting documents a wide-ranging Turning Point USA “American Comeback” campus tour tied to Charlie Kirk and, after his death, to the organization he founded, but none of the provided sources publishes a single, verified list of “all 21 college campuses” Kirk spoke at; available coverage names a subset of campuses and confirms that the tour continued with guest speakers after Kirk’s death [1] [2]. The assertion that there were exactly 21 distinct campus stops on a single Charlie Kirk speaking itinerary cannot be confirmed from the supplied reporting; instead, reporters and event pages name roughly a dozen specific stops across multiple articles and event listings [1] [3] [4].
1. What the reporting actually documents: the campuses explicitly named
Contemporary sources repeatedly identify certain campuses as stops connected to Kirk’s “American Comeback” or Turning Point USA tour: Utah Valley University is described as the site of the tour’s kickoff where Kirk was reportedly shot during a “Prove Me Wrong” session [4] [5]; the University of Tennessee–Knoxville hosted a tour event in March 2025 [4]; the University of Minnesota is repeatedly listed as a scheduled stop with event pages documenting TPUSA activity there [6]; the University of Mississippi hosted a Turning Point event tied to the tour [7]; Virginia Tech is cited as a later stop after the tour resumed [2]; and Colorado State University is referenced in tour schedules and memorial planning tied to the itinerary [5]. Additional campuses explicitly named in national reporting as part of the planned fall tour include Utah State University, Montana State University, the University of North Dakota, Indiana University Bloomington, Louisiana State University and the University of Oklahoma [1], while Newsweek and The Hill list Auburn University and the University of California, Berkeley as scheduled concluding stops [3] [1].
2. What the event pages and tour listings add — and where they fall short
Turning Point USA’s and associated event pages contain scattered listings and individual campus event notices (for example, TPUSA and university calendar entries), which corroborate many of the sites named above but do not present a single consolidated “21-campus” roster in the material supplied here [8] [7] [6]. Independent aggregators such as toursetlist and local university calendars reconstruct schedules and note cancellations or substitutions after Kirk’s death, but those reconstructions vary and sometimes repeat the same stops in different contexts, leaving ambiguity about whether a count of 21 distinct campuses is accurate based solely on these sources [5] [8].
3. Why the precise number — “21 campuses” — cannot be confirmed from these sources
Multiple outlets report that Turning Point intended a nationwide campus tour and later continued events with guest speakers and organizational leadership substitutions [9] [2] [1], but none of the provided items publishes a definitive, closed list titled “21 campuses” that can be cross-checked; media stories and university event pages name overlapping but incomplete selections of stops, and at least one local report shows remaining scheduled dates on university calendars without tying them to a compiled national total [10] [6]. Therefore, claiming an exact set of 21 individual college campuses from only these sources would overreach what the reporting supports [8] [5].
4. The most reliable next steps for verifying the full list
To produce a verifiable list of all 21 campuses (if such a list was ever published), the necessary sources would be Turning Point USA’s official archived tour schedule or a contemporaneous TPUSA press release, complete university event records for each date, or a single investigative piece that compiles and corroborates every stop; the supplied TPUSA events page and several university calendars are partial pieces of that puzzle but do not substitute for a single authoritative roster [8] [7] [6]. Absent those, the best-supported roster that can be cited from supplied reporting includes Utah Valley University [4], University of Tennessee–Knoxville [4], University of Minnesota [6], University of Mississippi [7], Virginia Tech [2], Colorado State University [5], Utah State University [1], Montana State University [10], University of North Dakota [1], Indiana University Bloomington [1], Louisiana State University [1], University of Oklahoma [1], Auburn University [3] and the University of California, Berkeley [3] [1]. Reporters and event pages corroborate these named stops, but they do not confirm a complete, numbered list of 21 campuses in the materials provided [1] [5].