How many Turning Point USA events featured Candace Owens as a speaker each year since 2020?

1. What the record shows: individual events and tours, not annual totals

Reporting and TPUSA materials document Owens speaking at specific TPUSA-branded tours and campus events. TPUSA press material promotes Owens on the Live Free Tour spring 2024 ^[3]. Local and campus outlets reported Owens speaking at Clemson on March 4, 2023 ^[1], and at University at Albany/UB and other campuses during TPUSA’s Live Free Tour dates in 2023 ^{[2] [5]}. TPUSA event listings show a March 5, 2024 appearance at University of Tennessee, Knoxville ^[4] and C-SPAN recorded her delivering remarks at a Turning Point Action event in Detroit on June 14, 2024 ^[6]. Those items confirm repeated appearances but are discrete event notices rather than an annual roll-up ^{[3] [1] [4] [6]}.

2. Why a simple year-by-year number is not available in current reporting

Public sources here are a mix of press releases, campus stories and news pieces that name specific dates and tours but do not publish a definitive, centralized list or count of every TPUSA event Owens headlined each year since 2020. TPUSA’s own press releases and event pages highlight tours and some stops ^{[3] [7]} but do not provide a comprehensive yearly tally; independent coverage cites individual campus stops or regional events ^{[1] [2] [8]}. Consequently, available sources do not contain the exact, year-by-year counts you requested (available sources do not mention an annual count).

3. Known pattern: frequent TPUSA association through 2022–2024, then public split in 2025

The historical record shows Owens was TPUSA communications director in 2017–2019 and remained a frequent TPUSA-affiliated speaker on tours and campus events through at least 2023 and into 2024 ^{[9] [3]}. Press coverage documents multiple 2023 campus appearances and a 2024 tour presence ^{[1] [2] [4] [3]}. By late 2025 the relationship is publicly contentious: Owens has publicly clashed with TPUSA leadership and been invited to participate in a TPUSA-hosted livestream responding to her accusations — a dispute heavily covered in December 2025 reporting ^{[10] [11] [12]}. Those sources portray an organization-speaker relationship that evolved from collaboration to confrontation over time ^{[9] [10] [11]}.

4. Conflicting narratives and agendas in the coverage

TPUSA materials present Owens as a principal voice on its tours ^[3], while local campus reporters document both large turnouts and protests at her events ^{[2] [5]}. Independent outlets and opinion pieces sometimes frame Owens as an ongoing TPUSA ally; other outlets emphasize fractures since Charlie Kirk’s death and the 2025 livestream dispute where TPUSA pushed back on Owens’ allegations ^{[9] [11] [12]}. These divergent framings reflect different agendas: TPUSA and allied outlets emphasize recruitment and event promotion ^[3], while critics and some independent outlets highlight controversy and intra-movement conflict ^{[11] [12]}.

5. How you can get the precise counts

A reliable year-by-year count would require compiling primary records: TPUSA event calendars/press archives, Owens’ public schedule, and campus event listings for 2020–2025. The documents provided here give event examples and tour press releases ^{[3] [7] [4]} but do not supply the full dataset needed. If you want, I can: (A) extract and list every TPUSA-linked Owens appearance cited in these sources with dates; or (B) outline the exact records to request from TPUSA, campus chapters, and Owens’ team to construct a definitive year-by-year count (available sources do not mention an existing annual tally).