AmericaFest: Charlie Kirk's Flagship Conference Before and After His Death

Showing 203 AmericaFest videos from Charlie Kirk's video collection.

AmericaFest measures Turning Point USA's own growth as much as it showcases conservative speakers: from roughly 13,000 attendees in Phoenix in 2023 to a claimed 30,000-plus at the 2025 event, held two months after Kirk's assassination. Earlier years followed a consistent formula, Kirk opening with a state-of-the-movement address citing specific generational shifts, falling youth liberal identification, rising homeschooling rates, as evidence the culture was moving conservative faster than official politics reflected.

The 2025 conference became something closer to a memorial with programming attached. Staff who'd traveled with Kirk on his final trip to Asia, including a stop in South Korea just before his death, shared details publicly for the first time; his longtime producer described the years spent building the Charlie Kirk Show and read a passage of scripture about sacrifice producing fruit rather than a standard eulogy. Even the practical business of the conference, sessions on activism training and partner organizations, sat alongside conversations about Erika Kirk's transition into the CEO role and the unresolved trial of the man charged with his murder, giving the event a dual character: a leadership summit that was also, unavoidably, the movement's first major gathering without its founder.