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TPUSA's Southwest Regional Conference

Charlie Kirk is the Founder and President of Turning Point USA, a national student movement dedicated to identifying, organizing, and empowering young people to promote the principles of free markets and limited government.

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With representation on over 2,000 high school and college campuses nationwide and over 160 full-time staff, Turning Point USA is the largest and fastest-growing conservative youth activist organization in the country. At just 28-years-old, Charlie has appeared on CNBC, Fox News, and FOX Business News over 600 times, is a columnist at Newsweek and The Hill and was named to the Forbes “30 under 30” list. Charlie was also the youngest speaker at the 2016 Republican National Convention and is the author of two books, and his most recent title, “The MAGA Doctrine: The Only Ideas That Will Win the Future” is a #1 Best Seller. Charlie is also the Chairman of <a class="sc-bwzfXH sc-bxivhb jAEiZs sc-htpNat duJkyJ" href="https://trumpstudents.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Students for Trump</a>, which aims to activate one million new college voters on campuses in battleground states in the lead up to the 2020 presidential election.
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In 2019, Charlie was granted an honorary doctorate from Liberty University citing his exceptional leadership and energetic voice for conservatives. His social media reaches over 100 million people per month and according to Axios, he is one of the "top 10 most engaged" Twitter handles in the world, behind only President Trump among conservatives. Charlie is the host of “The Charlie Kirk Show”—which regularly ranks among the top 15 news shows on Apple podcast charts—where Charlie delivers in-depth analysis of the modern political and cultural landscape, mixing in philosophy and history with his signature campus activism along with interviews of some of the most influential people of our time.

Michael Knowles is the celebrated host of “The Michael Knowles Show” at the Daily Wire, “The Book Club” at PragerU, and “Verdict with Ted Cruz.” In 2017, Michael published the #1 national bestselling treatise Reasons to Vote for Democrats, which President Donald Trump hailed as “a great book for your reading enjoyment.” In late 2020, after an appearance guest-hosting “The Rush Limbaugh Program,” it was announced that Michael’s daily podcast would be syndicated to terrestrial radio.

 

Michael has appeared regularly on Fox News Channel and other major networks, and his writing has been featured on the Daily Wire, the American Mind, Fox News, and the Daily Caller. Michael is a graduate of Yale University and has lectured at colleges and universities around the country.

Benny is obsessed with the intersection of politics, and culture. He believes conservatives deserve a better class of internet and sets out day-to-day creating one. Often times, that involves cooking bacon on a machine gun and making some of the internet's most hated videos. Benny has worked at the tip-of-the-spear in viral publishing. He has previously held the position of Viral Politics Editor at BuzzFeed, Viral Politics editor at TheBlaze, Digital Director of National Review; Creative Director of IJR. Previously, Benny served as a reporter for Tucker Carlson’s Daily Caller. Benny joined the TPUSA family in 2019 and currently oversees the Productions Department. Benny is based in Washington D.C. and hails from Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

Alex Clark is a Turning Point USA Contributor, and host of the first ever conservative pop culture daily show: “POPlitics” from Turning Point USA. She covers entertainment news and “pop culture without the propaganda” with a bonus of wit and humor all through a refreshingly right-of-center lens. Alex spent 7 years in pop radio and recently co-hosted a #1 rated syndicated morning show based out of in Indianapolis, IN, before joining Turning Point USA.
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She is an outspoken young conservative who in 2016 was seen on Mark Burnett’s first reality dating show “Coupled” on FOX, where she proudly spoke about navigating the dating scene as someone on the Right. For several years she woke up listeners by discussing the hottest pop culture stories, dating issues, and lifestyle topics through a Conservative lens. Now she has created the “ Cuteservative movement” with POPlitics.

Rob McCoy, the Senior Pastor of Godspeak Calvary Chapel of Thousand Oaks (California), is the son of a conservative Naval officer father and a Republican activist mother. An All-American Water Polo player and a National Finalist Swimmer, he graduated from California State University Fresno with a B.A. in History and received his seminary training from The Mennonite Brethren Biblical Seminary in Fresno, California. Prior to entering the ministry, he was a Divisional Manager with Unilever and an Area Manager with Chesebrough Ponds, Inc. He has served as the Senior Pastor of Godspeak Calvary Chapel of Thousand Oaks for 17 years. He has been a member of the Thousand Oaks City Council since 2015 and is the former Mayor of Thousand Oaks, term starting in December of 2018. He served as a Ventura County Sheriff’s Chaplain for 4 years and on the board of the Conejo Pregnancy Center. He and his wife, Michelle, have been married 28 years and have 5 children and 3 grandchildren

Joe Mitchell is President and Founder of Run GenZ, a 501(c)4 non-
profit organization dedicated to empowering, recruiting, and
mentoring the next generation of young, conservative leaders as
they step up to the plate and run for public office. Joe, originally
elected at the age of 21, serves the citizens of Iowa’s 84th House
District which is located in the southeast region of the state.
On November 3rd, 2020, the constituents of Iowa’s 84 th House
district overwhelmingly supported Joe’s re-election campaign where
he garnered 71.2% of the vote. In the legislature, Joe serves on the
Ways and Means, Judiciary, State Government Committees as well
as the RIFF Budget Sub-Committee.

Ben is the Programs Coalitions Coordinator at the Leadership Institute.

Prior to working at LI, Ben worked in the UK Parliament as a researcher to the Chairman of the Committee for Arms Export Controls; Hon. Chris White MP, and previously as a caseworker for Paul Uppal MP.

Ben grew up in Halesowen, a small industrial town in the UK.  He studied Political Science at the University of Birmingham. While at University, Ben worked at a movie theater to help pay for internship opportunities.

Gabriel grew up in the San Gabriel Valley in California and graduated from Citrus College in 2015. He is currently enrolled at Northwestern California School of Law and hopes to practice Constitutional Law upon passing the California Bar.

Gabriel first became involved in politics in 2009 as a member of the left and eventually joined the Antifa movement. Disillusioned with leftist politics, Gabriel reached out to conservative organizations, in hopes that they would provide an alternative to the left’s extremist views. Finally, a Leadership Institute Regional Field Coordinator contacted him in 2013, and Gabriel began his career in conservative politics.

Ever since working with the Leadership Institute, Gabriel has fought for the rights of conservative students and in 2016 he was named ‘Gentleman of the Year’ by the Network of Enlightened Women. Today, Gabriel speaks at universities across the country and argues in favor of civility over political violence.

Gabriel has appeared on Fox and Friends, the Ingraham Angle, Tucker Carlson Tonight, and Varney &amp; Co. on the Fox Business Network.

Stephen Rowe is a Deputy Director at Leadership Institute where he trains thousands on digital and political technology across the country every year.
Before joining LI, Stephen was the Editor-in-Chief of Hypeline where he executed its start-up, website re-design and achieved over 12 million page views in one calendar year.
Stephen has been listed on multiple 30 under 30 awards. His work has been featured on Fox News, Fox Business, The Blaze, The Daily Caller, The Washington Times, Townhall, Breitbart, and The Daily Wire. Stephen grew up in Montana, the "Treasure State".

Tyson C. Langhofer serves as senior counsel and director of the Center for Academic Freedom with
Alliance Defending Freedom.

Langhofer has represented college students and student organizations throughout the country in defending their freedom of speech, freedom of association, and free exercise of religion. In Young Americas’s Foundation v. Covino, he successfully represented YAF, Ben Shapiro, and California
State University-Los Angeles students in a lawsuit against university administrators for First Amendment violations—when they allowed a mob of professors and students to physically block students from attending Shapiro’s scheduled speech on the campus. In Grace Christian Life v.
Woodson, he successfully represented a religious student group at North Carolina State University in a lawsuit against administrators for violating their First Amendment freedoms when they prevented students from discussing religious topics because they did not acquire the university’s pre-approval.

Before joining ADF, Langhofer was a partner with Stinson Leonard Street LLP, where he worked as a commercial litigation attorney for 15 years and earned Martindale-Hubbell’s AV Preeminent® rating.

Numerous media outlets have interviewed or featured Langhofer, including The Washington Post, The Washington Times, Townhall, The Federalist, and The Daily Wire, among others.

Langhofer earned his Juris Doctor from Regent University School of Law, where he graduated cum laude in 1999. He obtained a B.A. in international business with a minor in economics from Wichita State University in 1996. A member of the bar in Kansas and Arizona, Langhofer is also admitted to practice in numerous federal district courts.

Confirmed Speakers

Turning Point USA would like to thank the following sponsors for their generous support of the 2021 Southwest Regional Conference

Sponsorship Opportunities: Please contact Alex Seavey at alex@tpusa.com to discuss sponsorship opportunities for your business or organization for SWRC 2021.

Lincoln Club Institute

Alliance Defending Freedom

The Atlas Society

FreedomWorks

Run GenZ

2021 Southwest Regional Conference Sponsors

Turning Point USA’s Young Women’s Leadership Summit will be held June 2nd-4th, 2022 in Grapevine, TX. Thousands of female student activists between the ages of 15 and 26 will be invited to attend

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Young Women’s Leadership Summit

Kayleigh is the former White House Press Secretary, serving in the final year of President Donald Trump's administration. Prior to working in the White House, Kayleigh worked as the National Press Secretary for the Trump Campaign and formerly the National Spokesperson for the Republican National Committee. Before joining the RNC, Kayleigh worked as a political commentator at CNN and across cable news.

Kayleigh graduated from Harvard Law School with a Juris Doctor and Georgetown University School of Foreign Services with a degree in international politics. She also studied politics and international relations at Oxford University, St. Edmunds Hall. Kayleigh is a recipient of the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service and the Department of Homeland Security Secretary's Public Service Award. She is the author of the new book For Such a Time as This: My Faith Journey through the White House and Beyond.

Candace Owens is one of the most recognized and influential voices in modern American conservatism. She is a bestselling author, political &amp; cultural commentator, businesswoman and the co-founder and President of the BLEXIT Foundation, a charitable organization dedicated to driving conservative principles into urban minority communities in the United States.

Her New York Times bestselling book ‘Blackout: How Black America can make its second escape from the Democrat Plantation’, released in 2020, achieved bestseller status within the first week and has gone on to sell hundreds of thousands copies across the world.

She launched the BLEXIT Foundation in 2018 with the aim of taking conservative American values into communities that have been worst affected by government dependency, particularly inner-city minority neighborhoods. Since then, BLEXIT Foundation has founded over thirty-five state chapters and hosted tens of thousands of minority Americans at events across the United States.

She is also the host of ‘Candace’ on the Daily Wire, a late night political and cultural show that combines current events with Candace’s signature blend of humor and firebrand analysis. Prior to this, she hosted ‘The Candace Owens Show’ on PragerU, a weekly deep dive podcast with a variety of figures across the political and cultural aisle.

With a combined social media presence of over 11 million followers, hundreds of media interviews, two Congressional committee testimonies, speeches at over 60 American and International Universities as well as speeches at events all across the United States &amp; Europe, she has become known as one of the most strident commentators in the modern political and cultural sphere.

Prior to her entrepreneurial pursuits she was Communications Director for the student advocacy group, Turning Point USA and worked at a private equity firm in Manhattan, serving as Vice-President to their administration. She attended the University of Rhode Island and took executive training courses at the NYU Stern School of Business.

Judge Jeanine Pirro is the host of the consistently highest-rated primetime weekend show, Fox News Channel's Justice with Judge Jeanine. Judge is also a legal commentator, author, champion of victim's rights and former District Attorney and County Judge.
Judge Pirro won a daytime Emmy for her daily syndicated court show "Judge Pirro." As a nationally recognized legal expert Pirro appears on television programs such as "The Today Show " on NBC, "Good Morning America" on ABC, "The Early show" on CBS, "60 Minutes," "48 Hours," "Nightline," "Larry King Live," "The View," "The O'Reilly Factor," and other national television shows. Pirro has been profiled in several magazines including the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, More Magazine, New York Magazine and was even named as one of the world's 50 Most Beautiful People by People Magazine.
Currently, Pirro hosts Fox News Channel's "Justice with Judge Jeanine". Throughout her tenure with Fox News Channel, Pirro has covered breaking news and has reported live on the Aurora theater massacre shooting, the Casey Anthony trial in Orlando Florida, the Drew Peterson trial in Chicago, Illinois, the Newtown, Connecticut school shooting and the George Zimmerman trial in Orlando, Florida. Her opening statement - a commentary on political as well as pressing contemporary issues garner millions of 'hits'. Her strong reasoned opinions, no nonsense analysis, fearlessness and sense of humor make her a sought after and entertaining speaker.
Pirro is the author of four books: "To Punish and Protect: One DA's Fight Against a System That Coddles Criminals," "Sly Fox," "Clever Fox" and her most recent book, which was the subject of the HBO documentary THE JINX, ""He Killed Them All: Robert Durst and My Quest for Justice."
Born in the small upstate New York farming town of Elmira, Pirro graduated from Notre Dame High School in three years, earned a B.A. Magna Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Buffalo, and received her Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from Albany Law School where she was an editor of the law review.

Kimberly Ann Guilfoyle is an American television news personality who also served as an advisor to Donald Trump. Guilfoyle studied at University of California, Davis, and the University of San Francisco and was a prosecuting attorney in San Francisco and Los Angeles, California.

Jenna Ellis is a constitutional law attorney, Special Counsel for the Thomas More Society, Newsmax contributor, and host of “Just The Truth” TV on Real America's Voice and Just The News podcast. She is also the author of “The Legal Basis for a Moral Constitution," which received international acclaim as a vital commentary on American legal philosophy and was showcased at the London Book Fair in 2016. Ms. Ellis served as the senior legal adviser to the Trump 2020 Campaign, a Trump Advisory Board Member, and personal counsel to President Donald J. Trump. A Colorado native and evangelical Christian, she previously taught the legal studies program and founded the award-winning moot court program as a professor at Colorado Christian University. Ms. Ellis holds a B.A. in technical journalism and a J.D. from the University of Richmond T.C. Williams School of Law.

Kat Cammack, the Congresswoman-elect for FL-03, will be the youngest Republican woman serving in the 117th Congress.
Kat is a small business owner with grit, who grew up on a cattle ranch. She is a third generation sandblaster, an alumnus of the United States Naval War College, and was the longtime former Deputy Chief of Staff for Florida's 3rd Congressional District prior to her election.
As the 3rd generation in the family business of monuments and commercial sandblasting, Kat learned early on both the value of hard work and the pressures that small family businesses face, ranging from labor challenges to regulations.
In 2011, her family received the devastating news that they lost their small cattle ranch due to a failed Obama-era program, and they were forced to evict. After being homeless for several months, Kat was motivated by her recent personal experience with the failures of big government. She decided to pull herself up by her bootstraps and became a part of the solution to ensure no other family had to endure what she did due to the failures of Washington.
Kat is married to her husband Matt, a Gainesville native, who is a Firefighter/Paramedic &amp; SWAT Medic. Together, they co-founded a non-profit organization called “The Grit Foundation,” whose mission is to support local law enforcement, veterans, and first responders.

Allie Stuckey is a wife, mom, born-and-raised Texan, podcast host, author, commentator, and speaker. She is passionate about helping women build their worldview upon the truth of God's Word.

Lila Rose is a speaker, writer, podcast host, and human rights activist. Lila founded and serves as president of Live Action, a media and news nonprofit dedicated to ending abortion and inspiring a culture that respects all human life. Live Action’s groundbreaking news coverage and compelling videos reach several million people every week.

Lila is the host of the “The Lila Rose Show,” a podcast that tackles faith, relationships, culture and politics.

Lila’s media appearances include Fox News’ Hannity, Tucker Carlson Tonight, and the Story with Martha Macallum, CNN, BBC, and many other national television and radio programs. Lila’s investigative reporting on the abortion industry has been featured in most major news outlets, including the Atlantic, the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, CBS and ABC Nightline. Lila has written for the Hill, Politico, USA Today, and First Things, among others.

Lila also speaks internationally on faith, family and cultural issues, and has addressed members of the European Parliament and the United Nation’s Commission on the Status of Women. Lila has been named among National Journal’s “25 Most Influential Washington Women Under 35,” and Christianity Today’s “33 under Thirty-Three.”

A native of the San Francisco Bay Area, Lila and her husband reside in Los Angeles.

Find Lila’s podcast at <a class="text-blue underline" contenteditable="plaintext-only" href="http://www.lilaroseshow.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">www.lilaroseshow.com</a>, on Facebook at <a class="text-blue underline" contenteditable="plaintext-only" href="http://facebook.com/lilagracerose" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">facebook.com/lilagracerose</a>, Twitter at <a class="text-blue underline" contenteditable="plaintext-only" href="http://twitter.com/lilagracerose" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">twitter.com/lilagracerose</a>, and Instagram at <a class="text-blue underline" contenteditable="plaintext-only" href="http://instagram.com/lilaroseofficial" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">instagram.com/lilaroseofficial</a>.

Amber Athey is a professional journalist and political commentator. She is currently the Washington Editor of The Spectator, the host of the Unfit to Print podcast, and a Senior Blankley Fellow with the Steamboat Institute. Amber was previously a host of O'Connor &amp; Company on WMAL and was the White House Correspondent for the Daily Caller. Her work has been cited by Fox News, the Washington Post, POLITICO, The Hill, NBC News, Vanity Fair, and the Daily Mail.

Morris earned acclaim for her “laptop from hell” scoops as deputy politics editor at the New York Post, reporting some of the most explosive stories about Biden family corruption prior to the 2020 election. The fallout from her work exposed the machine-like collaboration among Big Tech, the corporate media, the intelligence community, and the Democratic Party to blunt the impact of her stories, thus helping to ensure a Biden win. Undaunted, the “fire-breathing populist” was already taking inspiration from Breitbart News while
working at the Post, so the move in November 2021 to join Breitbart as political editor was a natural one. Her conservative voice, developed early on at the family dinner table in her native Quebec where her parents insisted on conversation -- no TV, no phones – is augmented not only by lessons from her time at the Post, but also from Hannity on the Fox News Channel where she had previously worked as an associate producer. “They taught me that for conservatives in media, there is a different standard, because we’re surrounded by people waiting for us to slip up.” In addition to serving as political editor, Morris heads up Breitbart News special projects that will “pierce the Washington bubble with grassroots reality.

On this episode of "The Spillover" I interviewed Nicole Solas, a Rhode Island mother who was fined over $75,000 and eventually sued, simply for asking what her daughter was learning in school. This mom was willing to do whatever it would take to protect her child from the dangers of Marxist ideology. She explains her journey as she continues to go to great lengths to receive transparency from tax-payer funded institutions that have a responsibility to answer to citizens in their community.

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'You Have a Right to Know What Your Kids are Learning' School Board Sues, Charges Mother Over $75,000 to See Her Daughter's Curriculum 

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On the most recent episode of "The Spillover" I had the opportunity to sit down with Katy Faust, author, activist, and founder of Them Before Us, an organization dedicated to protecting children's rights. 

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WATCH: My Conversation about Defending Children's Rights with the of Founder of Them Before Us 

After reading a Mindy Kaling interview, I burst into tears. The lies that society has told us about children, about IVF. They are so pervasive and heart-wrenching for women who desperately seek to have a child — by natural means. 

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Mindy Kaling: Parents Should Finance Egg Freezing for Collage-Age Daughters Instead of Purchasing Jewelry, Vacations

As we start dropping episodes for Season 3, I thought it would be fun to go down memory lane with the team who work on both The Spillover and POPlitics, and ask them wI phat their FAVORITE two episodes are out of everything that has been published so far.

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The Best Episodes Of The Spillover Ranked By The Employees Who Work On It

Alex Clark is the host of Turning Point USA’s first daily show “POPlitics” on Instagram and all podcasting platforms. She describes the show as pop culture “without the propaganda”

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