Who is the executive director or board chair of BLEXIT Foundation as of December 2025?
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Executive summary
As of the latest available reporting in the provided sources, multiple organizational pages and news outlets identify Pierre Wilson as BLEXIT’s executive director after the group merged under Turning Point USA in 2023; a 2025 Chronicle report quotes “Pierre Wilson, BLEXIT’s executive director” [1]. Other materials show BLEXIT was co-founded by Candace Owens and Brandon Tatum and later merged with Turning Point USA in 2023, but those sources do not list a board chair by name [2] [3] [4].
1. Who founded BLEXIT and what happened in 2023 — key institutional context
BLEXIT began as multiple, partly competing projects: a 2016 grassroots “Blexit” movement originated with Me’Lea Connelly, while Candace Owens and Brandon Tatum launched a separate BLEXIT Foundation around 2018 to push a conservative, pro–school-choice message and urge Black voters away from the Democratic Party [2] [4]. In March 2023 the BLEXIT Foundation announced it had been “powered by” or merged into Turning Point USA, with TPUSA saying it would support BLEXIT’s brand and leadership following that partnership [3] [5].
2. Executive director named in recent reporting: Pierre Wilson
A November 2025 investigative-style story in The Chronicle identifies Pierre Wilson as “BLEXIT’s executive director” and quotes him directly about recruitment and campus activity [1]. That is the clearest, on‑the‑record attribution to an executive director in the supplied materials [1].
3. What other sources say (and what they do not say) about top leadership
TPUSA and BLEXIT organizational pages and charity profiles emphasize the merger and the founders—Candace Owens and Brandon Tatum—but do not publish an obvious, dated org chart or a named board chair in the provided snippets [3] [6] [7]. A TPUSA statement noted Owens and Tatum would “retain” leadership roles at the time of the 2023 partnership announcement, but that statement does not list an executive director or a board chair by name [5] [3]. Charity database and guide entries describe BLEXIT’s mission and finances but do not, in these excerpts, specify a current executive director or board chair [8] [7].
4. Conflicting or partial evidence and limits of available reporting
The most direct, named assertion available here is Pierre Wilson as executive director in the Chronicle piece [1]. Other credible sources in the dataset—organizational pages, TPUSA releases, nonprofit profiles—document the 2023 merger and founders but do not corroborate or contradict Wilson’s title in their quoted text [3] [6] [7]. Available sources do not mention a named board chair for BLEXIT Foundation in the provided material.
5. Practical takeaway for your December 2025 question
Based solely on the supplied reporting, Pierre Wilson is identified as BLEXIT’s executive director [1]. The sources in this dataset do not provide a named board chair; organizational releases around the 2023 merger emphasize TPUSA’s role and retention of Owens and Tatum in leadership without naming a board chair [3] [5]. If you need legal or formal confirmation (for filing, donation, or reporting purposes), the supplied sources are incomplete: consider checking the most recent IRS Form 990, the BLEXIT/TPUSA official leadership pages, or state nonprofit filings for a definitive list of officers and board members — those documents are not included in the materials provided here (not found in current reporting).
Sources cited: The Chronicle identification of Pierre Wilson as executive director [1]; history of Owens/Tatum founding and 2023 merger with TPUSA [2] [4] [3] [5]; nonprofit profiles and mission descriptions that do not list a board chair in the provided excerpts [8] [7] [6].