Turning Point USA marks one year since Charlie Kirk's assassination at UVU

One year after conservative leader Charlie Kirk was fatally shot on the campus of Utah Valley University, the organization he built returned to that same ground — not to mourn in retreat, but to plant a statue and reclaim the place where violence had tried to write the final word. In the long human story of movements shaped by martyrdom, Thursday night's gathering in Orem, Utah, was an act of deliberate continuity: witnesses to the assassination choosing presence over withdrawal, and memory over silence.