The Heritage Foundation's Prison Data Research and Project 2025 Debates

Showing 12 Heritage Foundation videos from Charlie Kirk's video collection.

This topic covers two distinct ways the Heritage Foundation intersected with political debate during this period. The organization's Oversight Project obtained Wisconsin Department of Corrections records showing that over half of male inmates identifying as transgender women in the state's prison system had been convicted of at least one sexual assault or abuse offense, out of 161 total transgender-identifying inmates, data that fueled broader arguments about prison housing policy and gender identity claims in correctional settings. Separately, Charlie Kirk worked to correct what he described as a widespread misconception that Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation's policy document, represented Donald Trump's actual campaign platform, clarifying at a Denton, Texas event that the document was never adopted by the campaign despite persistent claims linking the two. Kirk used that clarification to pivot into a broader defense of Trump's actual 20-point platform, contrasting it with what he characterized as misleading Project 2025 narratives circulating among voters. Additional videos in this topic cover unrelated campus debates on free speech, the 2024 Republican primary, and commentary on Turning Point USA events that appeared in the same video grouping without a direct Heritage Foundation connection.