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American fiscally conservative political movement
Conservative activist groups and right‑wing commentators have used "RINO" (Republican In Name Only) as a political cudgel against many Republican officeholders since 2010, frequently targeting senator...
Turning Point USA (TPUSA) was founded in 2012 by Charlie Kirk with mentor and businessman Bill (William) Montgomery; Kirk was 18 at the time and soon left college to build the organization . Accounts ...
The provided materials identify key MAGA-era ideologies as ; analysts link these elements to overlaps with recognized hate movements while disputing how uniform or direct that overlap is . Reporting a...
Turning Point USA was founded in 2012 with Charlie Kirk as the public founder and principal leader; multiple accounts say Kirk co-founded the group alongside Bill Montgomery, a conservative mentor and...
Both major U.S. parties — Republicans and Democrats — have played roles in past federal government shutdowns; historical shutdowns occurred under presidents and Congresses controlled by each party at ...
Turning Point USA (TPUSA) is a conservative student-focused nonprofit founded in 2012 by Charlie Kirk (and co‑founded with Bill Montgomery by some accounts) that says its mission is to identify, educa...
Charlie Kirk’s high school years at Wheeling High School are presented by multiple accounts as an influential formative period that reinforced an already self-described identity, provided early opport...
Charlie Kirk's conservatism was forged in a mix of suburban Midwest upbringing, early religious formation, youth civic organizations and targeted encounters with conservative activists and media that ...
Charlie Kirk’s suburban Chicago upbringing, early engagement with conservative media and student leadership, and the mentorship of Tea Party activist Bill Montgomery directly shaped Turning Point USA’...
Conservative outside groups such as the Tea Party movement, FreedomWorks and allied organizations have criticized and targeted Republican senators they view as insufficiently conservative—especially t...
The October 2013 federal shutdown happened because Congress failed to enact appropriations or a continuing resolution before the new fiscal year began on October 1, 2013, producing “a lapse in appropr...
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) was the central policy flashpoint that triggered the 16‑day federal government shutdown in October 2013: House Republicans conditioned funding on defunding or delaying th...
The No Kings protests are presented in the supplied materials as a large, nationwide movement asserting opposition to perceived authoritarianism, with organizers reporting millions of participants acr...
began in 2012 as a campus-focused, pro–free-market youth organization but by 2024 had evolved into a multi‑armed political powerhouse that fused hard-edged culture‑war politics, large-scale electoral ...
Indivisible activists are grassroots, often progressive organizers who use an inside/outside playbook to pressure elected officials and drive a movement agenda; Democrats are a broad political party t...
The IRS improperly pulled certain political nonprofit applications into extra scrutiny beginning around 2010, using names and thematic keywords to flag cases — a practice that produced disproportionat...
The Club for Growth launched a "RINO Watch" project to single out Republican officeholders it says have advanced "anti-growth, anti-freedom or anti-free market policies" and has used that label to hel...
The claim that Charlie Kirk’s rejection from West Point drove his political trajectory is supported by multiple mainstream profiles that present the rejection as a turning point he himself cited when ...
Charlie Kirk’s conservative activism grew out of a suburban, politically engaged upbringing in Prospect Heights, Illinois, where family, faith and early institutional experiences provided both network...
Since 2010 conservative organizations and activists have repeatedly applied the epithet "RINO" to Senate Republicans who deviate from hardline conservative positions; available reporting and advocacy ...