Which PACs are officially affiliated with Turning Point USA and who are their registered officers?
Executive summary
Turning Point USA publicly operates or is associated with at least two political action committees: Turning Point PAC (registered May 2, 2022) and an earlier vehicle, Turning Point America (a super PAC registered in 2015 and later terminated), and multiple nonprofit affiliates such as Turning Point Action and Turning Point Endowment are part of its network [1] [2] [3] [4]. The sources supplied identify these committees and their registration status but do not provide the names of registered officers for the PACs in the excerpts available, so this review documents affiliation and registration facts while noting where reporting is silent about officer-level registration details [1] [5] [2].
1. Turning Point’s PAC footprint: the active and the defunct
Federal Election Commission records show a hybrid PAC named TURNING POINT PAC INC., registered May 2, 2022 and listed as active on the FEC site, establishing a clear, formal federal PAC connected to the Turning Point ecosystem [1]. Earlier reporting and FEC records also show TURNING POINT AMERICA PAC INC., a super PAC that was registered in 2015 and later terminated, demonstrating that Turning Point-linked actors have used multiple federal vehicles over time [2]. OpenSecrets maintains profiles for both the Turning Point PAC and Turning Point America that aggregate disclosures and spending data, confirming these committee identities in the campaign finance record [5] [6].
2. Organizational context: where the PACs sit inside the Turning Point network
Turning Point USA operates alongside a family of related entities, including Turning Point Action (a 501(c) involved in partisan organizing) and Turning Point Endowment, which the organization recognizes as affiliates in public profiles and secondary reporting; those nonprofit affiliates have, at times, created or funded political vehicles such as Turning Point PAC [4] [3] [7]. InfluenceWatch and SourceWatch catalog Turning Point’s ecosystem and note that the group has launched multiple arms—student outreach, faith outreach, a 501(c), and federal PAC activity—indicating the PACs sit within a broader strategy of issue advocacy and electoral engagement [3] [8].
3. What the reporting shows — and what it does not — about registered officers
The supplied FEC committee overview confirms TURNING POINT PAC INC.’s registration and status but the extracted snippets in the materials do not include the committee’s treasurer, custodian, or other registered officer names; similarly, the Turning Point America FEC entry notes registration and termination dates without officer names in the provided excerpts [1] [2]. OpenSecrets profiles corroborate the existence and activity of these PACs but the snippets here stop short of listing registered officers or campaign-finance signatories [5] [6]. Because the available reporting in this packet lacks those officer-level details, it is not possible from these sources to authoritatively list the registered officers for the PACs; the FEC committee pages themselves are the canonical place to obtain those names, but the excerpts provided do not contain them [1] [2].
4. Competing narratives and why officer names matter
Advocates and critics alike point to the PACs as evidence of Turning Point’s evolution from campus activism to national electoral operations; critics highlight coordination concerns and partisan activity by affiliates such as Turning Point Action while TPUSA portrays its campus mission and separate nonprofits as the public face of the movement [7] [3]. Identifying registered officers for the PACs matters because officers are the legal filers and points of contact on FEC disclosures; without names from the primary FEC filings or full OpenSecrets entries beyond the supplied snippets, reporting cannot answer the “who” question with precision from this dataset alone [5] [1].
5. Bottom line and recommended next steps for verification
The documentation available here establishes Turning Point PAC (active, registered May 2, 2022) and a prior Turning Point America super PAC (registered 2015; terminated) as formal PACs tied to the Turning Point ecosystem, and it situates those PACs amid other Turning Point affiliates such as Turning Point Action and Turning Point Endowment [1] [2] [3] [4]. However, the specific names of registered officers for these PACs are not present in the supplied excerpts; obtaining the officer names requires consulting the full FEC committee pages or the complete OpenSecrets committee profiles beyond the snippets provided [1] [5]. Reporters and researchers should pull the full FEC filings (committee C00814152 for Turning Point PAC and C00579201 for Turning Point America) for the official treasurer and officer listings to close this gap [1] [2].