Describing Turning Point Action as a “well-funded, hard-right organization with links to Southern Poverty Law Center-identified hard-right extremists and a tremendous amount of influence in conservative politics,” the left-wing SPLC provided multiple examples to justify its classification of Turning Point Action in its report. The organization was particularly critical of Turning Point Founder Charlie Kirk. 

“Kirk accused Democrats of embracing immigration as part of their plot to secure voters, permit crime and enact the ‘great replacement,’” read the report. “He warned his hundreds of thousands of listeners, ‘We native born Americans are being replaced by foreigners.’ He then promised Trump will ‘liberate’ the country from ‘the enemy occupation of the foreigner hordes.’”

Kirk blasted the SPLC’s report in a post on X. 

“The SPLC has added Turning Point to their ridiculous ‘hate group’ list, right next to the KKK and neo-Nazis, a cheap smear from a washed-up org that’s been fleecing scared grandmas for decades,” Kirk said. “They somehow still rake in over $100 million a year peddling their ‘hate map’ nonsense, sitting pretty in their Montgomery ‘Poverty Palace’ while crying about ‘hate’ to line their pockets. Even former staffers called their racket a ‘con.’”

“But it’s 2025, and nobody with a functioning brain buys their garbage anymore,” Kirk added. “The SPLC is a laughingstock, a hollowed-out husk of an organization that’s been exposed as a grift time and time again. They’re not just irrelevant—they’re a cautionary tale of how to torch your own credibility. Maybe someone should take a hard look at where all that ‘nonprofit’ money’s really going?”

Presidential adviser and SpaceX Founder Elon Musk also chimed in, criticizing the SPLC.

“SPLC is a scam organization,” Musk posted.

The left-wing organization also claimed that Kirk’s organization is at the “forefront” of promoting “Christian nationalism” in its explanation as to why it added TPUSA to its list. The specific list that the SPLC placed Turning Point USA on includes chapters of the Ku Klux Klan, as Tyler O’Neil, senior editor of the Daily Signal, pointed out.

“TPUSA is at the forefront of the movement to promote Christian nationalism, the theocratic worldview that the U.S. is a fundamentally Christian country and that Christian values and beliefs should inform the government and wider culture,” read the SPLC’s report.

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Kirk dismissed the SPLC’s categorization of his organization and, like Musk, called the SPLC a “scam.”

“Being on their list is a badge of honor,” Kirk said. “It means they’re terrified that we’re so effective. Keep crying, SPLC—America’s done with your scam.”