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American political commentator, born 1987
BLEXIT traces to two different origins: an original grassroots “Blexit” founded after Philando Castile’s 2016 killing by Me’Lea Connelly that promoted Black economic independence , and a separate cons...
Turning Point USA’s recent public-facing national leadership is centered on the Kirk family, with Erika Kirk named to leadership roles after the 2025 death of founder Charlie Kirk, and the organizatio...
Turning Point USA’s top leadership changed after founder Charlie Kirk was killed on September 10, 2025: multiple outlets report that the organization’s board unanimously elected his widow, Erika Kirk,...
Turning Point USA announced it was “powering” the BLEXIT Foundation on March 13–15, 2023, and directed readers to a TPUSA BLEXIT landing page (press materials and a TPUSA story) . By 2025 the BLEXIT.c...
Candace Owens remains publicly linked to BLEXIT as its founder but her formal operational partnership with Turning Point USA (TPUSA) is contested and in public conflict as of December 2025: contempora...
Candace Owens is repeatedly linked in reporting to the founding and public leadership of BLEXIT, which she helped launch as a conservative “black exit” effort; multiple profiles and organizational pag...
BLEXIT Foundation was co-founded by Candace Owens and Brandon Tatum and in March 2023 the organization announced it had merged with Turning Point USA (TPUSA), which now “powers” BLEXIT and its activit...
Candace Owens’ formal relationship with Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA (TPUSA) is described differently across accounts: some sources say she joined TPUSA as communications director or director of u...
Candace Owens began in private-sector media and marketing before becoming a national conservative figure: she studied journalism at the University of Rhode Island, worked in fashion and then in privat...
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 ...
Publicly available social‑media and content records in the provided sources show multiple on‑camera and podcast appearances that place Candace Owens and Brandon Tatum together in 2024–2025 content: se...
Candace Owens has a documented history of collaborating with Turning Point USA figures and helping organize at least one TPUSA-associated event (the 2018 Young Black Leadership Summit), which supports...
Charlie Kirk has collaborated with prominent Black conservative figures and organizations, most notably Brandon Tatum, Candace Owens, and the BLEXIT movement, through events such as the Young Black Le...
BLEXIT is a contested brand and political project whose name and original grassroots aims (Black economic independence) predate Candace Owens but which she repurposed in 2018–2019 into a conservative ...
No credible reporting in the supplied documents shows a change in the top leadership of the BLEXIT Foundation during 2024–2025; the most consequential organizational shift in the available record occu...
Turning Point USA and its affiliate activity have attracted who credit the group’s network with mentorship and platforms, but there is ; instead, figures like Brandon Tatum, Amir Odom, Jasmine Woodson...
Candace Owens and Brandon Tatum present themselves as co-founders and the strategic leaders of the BLEXIT Foundation — a conservative “urban outreach” nonprofit they launched in 2018 — and have descri...
Turning Point USA announced in March 2023 that it would “power” the BLEXIT Foundation, folding BLEXIT into TPUSA’s organizational infrastructure while saying Candace Owens and Brandon Tatum would rema...
Blexit refers to two related but distinct initiatives: an original Minneapolis-based grassroots movement launched by Me’Lea (Me’La) Connelly in 2016 focused on Black economic independence, and a later...
Candace Owens served as Turning Point USA’s communications director from 2017 until her resignation in 2019, a role she left amid controversy . She co‑founded the BLEXIT Foundation in 2018 with Brando...