Did any states see large growth or decline in TPUSA chapters between 2020 and 2025?

1. What the core question asks and why existing reporting falls short

The user seeks to know whether any U.S. states saw “large” increases or decreases in TPUSA chapters over a defined period (2020–2025), which requires consistent, comparable state-level chapter counts at two or more points in time; none of the provided documents supply such a dataset, instead offering national totals, promotional claims, inquiry counts, and selective state-focused stories, so a definitive, data-driven yes/no by state is not supportable from these sources alone ^{[1] [2] [8] [3]}.

2. TPUSA’s national growth narrative — big numbers but self-reported

TPUSA materials and allied outlets emphasize rapid national expansion: TPUSA web pages repeatedly cite “900+” or “over 900” college chapters and suggest Club America and other programs exceed 1,000 chapters, while TPUSA statements after Charlie Kirk’s death claim tens of thousands of inquiries and six-figure outreach numbers seeking to launch new chapters, but these are organization-originated figures without accompanying public, state-by-state breakdowns in the selected reporting ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}.

3. State-level anecdotes that hint at concentrated growth — Texas and Maine

Several pieces in the dataset document high-profile state-level activity that implies concentrated expansion: Texas state officials and TPUSA announced an initiative to create “Club America” chapters across Texas high schools and the governor publicly pushed for school cooperation, signaling an intense, state-driven push that could produce rapid chapter growth in Texas if implemented, yet the available reporting describes the policy push rather than verified chapter counts before/after 2020 ^{[5] [6] [9]}. Separately, local reporting in Maine describes at least 20 new TPUSA chapters forming across churches, high schools, and colleges in a short interval after September 2025, which demonstrates localized surges but again occurs outside the 2020–2025 comparative dataset in the materials provided and is anecdotal rather than comprehensive ^[7].

4. Post-2025 surge claims complicate the 2020–2025 comparison

Several sources record a post-September 2025 surge in inquiries and chapter-launch interest—figures like 17,700 college inquiries or claims of 120,000 students reaching out to start chapters are cited by TPUSA-affiliated pages and sympathetic outlets, but those surges largely postdate or fall at the very end of the 2020–2025 window and are self-reported, meaning they cannot be used to credibly map which states saw large changes across the full 2020–2025 interval without external corroboration ^{[4] [3] [10]}.

5. Alternative explanations and caveats

Growth claims should be weighed against the limits of the sources: TPUSA’s own communications and sympathetic outlets give the most detailed tallies and incentives to portray expansion; independent or academic datasets that would allow rigorous state-by-state trend analysis between 2020 and 2025 are not present among the provided materials, and Wikipedia’s entry echoes TPUSA numbers without offering validated state-level breakdowns ^[8]. Population shifts or state demographic changes noted in unrelated population reports do not substitute for chapter counts and thus cannot resolve which states gained or lost chapters ^{[11] [12]}.

6. Bottom line

Available reporting documents clear national-level expansion narratives and high-profile state initiatives (notably Texas) and localized spikes (such as reported launches in Maine in late 2025), but it does not provide verifiable, comparable state-by-state chapter counts spanning 2020–2025; therefore it is not possible, from these sources alone, to assert which states definitively experienced “large” growth or decline in TPUSA chapters during that five-year period ^{[1] [2] [5] [7] [4]}.